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Speaker 1: that you can beat one on one with one of

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Speaker 1: your guys, that's what you do. You send your guy

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Speaker 1: right after that guy. You try and isolate him and

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Speaker 1: get the pressure that way, because if you, if you

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Speaker 1: do try and beat Philip Rivers with an extra rusher,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have a plan for you. Also on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Tiffany Daniels on defense, I would consider

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Speaker 1: blitzing the quarterback as the defense stands now that cannot

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Speaker 1: get to the quarterback rushing just for and she's is

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Speaker 1: that your Is that a phantom account by you? This

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Speaker 1: Tiffy Okay, I'm on offense and she says on offense.

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Speaker 1: I take it for granted that Tiffany danils a girl

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be. I don't want to overstep

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Speaker 1: my bat on offense, I would be searching the league

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Speaker 1: for available alignement aside from Dawkins. Now she thinks Dion

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Speaker 1: Dawkins had a pretty good game last week. And and

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Speaker 1: I see that both of the offensive line and send

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Speaker 1: extra pressure. And that's what what are your two fixes?

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Speaker 1: You never told us would you would do offense? Defense?

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Speaker 1: Would you fix with I think first step? We're talking

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Speaker 1: about this and that these are I think gals either

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the first step. This week, I hit

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Speaker 1: my opinion and I flipped the switch on the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And then along with that, there's a couple of other

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Speaker 1: things I do. I you know, you got to change

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Speaker 1: the game plan completely. I got you gotta simplified, help

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Speaker 1: him out if you can. And that another thing I

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Speaker 1: would also do, and the game plan that for me,

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Speaker 1: I would flip the switch to Josh Allen. I would go,

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Speaker 1: no huddle, hurry up to take the starch out of

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Speaker 1: the pass rush if you can stay on the field.

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Speaker 1: And this is my experience from when I played. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna go hurry up with the rookie quarterback and you

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Speaker 1: bet you, you bet you, you bet you, And I

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Speaker 1: would have a menu of about a limited menu, a

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Speaker 1: limited menu of plays with a whole ton of personnel

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Speaker 1: and shifts and motions with just a few plays. That way,

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Speaker 1: it looks complicated to the defense, it's not complicated for

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Speaker 1: your quarterback. And you go and you go fast. And

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Speaker 1: the reason you go fast is if you can get

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Speaker 1: your one first down and you go fast, and they

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Speaker 1: have trouble substituting their defensive line in that negates their

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Speaker 1: pass rush. Their pass rush gets gassed. You saw it.

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Speaker 1: You saw it on the Monday night games last night

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Speaker 1: when the Jets and the and the Detroit Lions. You

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Speaker 1: saw it in the early game as well. If you

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Speaker 1: can stay on the field with your with your no huddle,

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Speaker 1: quick paced offense, the pass rush gets gassed in a hurry,

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Speaker 1: that helps your offensive. What about defense defense, I'm with everybody.

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Speaker 1: You gotta find a way to get to Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: You gotta find a way to do it. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether it's exotic zone blitzes, confusing the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: You got to get a guy to win the pass

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Speaker 1: rush one on one, but you've got to find a

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Speaker 1: way to get pressure. I think their run defense is

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Speaker 1: really one of the bright spots for their defense. Last week.

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Speaker 1: They held them in seventy five yards rushing. Now, granted,

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Speaker 1: when you've got Joe Flacco and the wide receiver's playing

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Speaker 1: the way they were last week and their offensive line

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Speaker 1: was pass protecting, well, they're not gonna try and run it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what, the run defense last week

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Speaker 1: showed flashes of being really good, and I think you'll

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Speaker 1: lean on it. So maybe you do. Darem to run

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Speaker 1: the football a little bit if you're the Bills, get

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers to hand the football off by playing like

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Speaker 1: five in the box and then crashing in either way.

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Speaker 1: That's what you got to pressure Philip Rivers if it's

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Speaker 1: a down at passing down. But I think you invite

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Speaker 1: them to run the football and then snuff them out

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Speaker 1: that way. That's what I do. Let's hear from you.

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Speaker 1: What do you think you're fix on offense? You're fixed

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Speaker 1: on defense? And again it's not a cure all, not

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Speaker 1: a fix. It would you make the Bills win fifteen

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Speaker 1: in a row, but a fix for this week because

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Speaker 1: let's face it, they are desperate now after that performance

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Speaker 1: last week. The quarterback question, a lot of you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about that. Sean McDermott did not want to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Yesterday. The Bills head coach met with

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Speaker 1: the media yesterday and he was asked if Nathan Petermant

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Speaker 1: is still under consideration or and what he will do

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback spot. Here's what the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Bills had to say. Well, I think we all,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the tape and what I've looked

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Speaker 1: at to this point and through it a couple of

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Speaker 1: times already, we all have to do our job better,

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Speaker 1: whether it's the quarterback position, my position, just to name

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Speaker 1: two of them, but you could go around our team

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Speaker 1: and say in all three phases we didn't play well

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Speaker 1: enough to win, to win the football game, not even close.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of feedback important, important and valuable feedback

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Speaker 1: to us early in the season, which is which is

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Speaker 1: important and valuable for us as we move forward, allows

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Speaker 1: us to be decisive in some areas and go forward

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Speaker 1: with a great learning opportunity for our young football team.

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Speaker 1: McDermot not ready to address the quarterback issue really at all. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: hasn't talked today, doesn't have any media schedule for today.

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Speaker 1: I want to anticipate based on what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the last several weeks, and let's face it, they've had

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Speaker 1: quarterback decisions to announce over the last several weeks. I

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Speaker 1: would anticipate an announcement tomorrow morning before McDermott hits the

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Speaker 1: podium for the media news conference pre practice. I think

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Speaker 1: it's probably ten thirty eleven thirty tomorrow morning when McDermot

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Speaker 1: will meet the media. I would anticipate we'll find out

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Speaker 1: at that point who starts at quarterback on side. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's not like yeah I had I would send

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Speaker 1: thinks so too, because I think it's been his way

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Speaker 1: of doing business that he doesn't. He knows that if

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Speaker 1: he holds out on the quarterback decision in the media,

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Speaker 1: it'll become a distraction to his players because he you know,

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Speaker 1: they the media has access to the players, and they'll

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Speaker 1: have to they'll have to dodge the question themselves. And

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Speaker 1: if somebody doesn't dodge it or lets the cat out

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Speaker 1: of the bag, all of a sudden, it's a big distraction.

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Speaker 1: That it's a big issue, and it blows up where

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Speaker 1: everybody's saying, hey, one of your players, let the announcement

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Speaker 1: out there. Who's gonna start. He didn't want any of that,

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Speaker 1: So he'll announce it before any of the players will

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to have to dodge the question or

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Speaker 1: or or state an opinion about it one way or

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Speaker 1: the other, before the announcement has been made. So I

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Speaker 1: would say that he probably is going to announce it,

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Speaker 1: if merely for the fact that the longer he waits,

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Speaker 1: the bigger that elephant in the room gets and his

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Speaker 1: players will start to have to deal with it. Let's

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Speaker 1: call from Mark in Jersey City. Hello, Mark ahead, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air with this. I'll get a boy. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's so easy. I mean, it's it's pretty much sitting

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Speaker 1: duck on a for the quarterback change. And it just

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Speaker 1: from any standpoint, whether it's just to flip a field,

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Speaker 1: get a couple of first downs where you're just taking

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Speaker 1: some time to have your defense settle in, if they've

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Speaker 1: gotten a three and out where they didn't even have

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Speaker 1: a chance to get a drink at Gatorade, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just looking at it barely subsistence level, let alone scoring points,

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Speaker 1: which should always look at it from. But yeah, so

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Speaker 1: for that's for defense and offense, the quarterback it helps

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Speaker 1: both in my opinion, because I don't think it's a

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're at the point we should be

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Speaker 1: talking about Nathan Peterman at all. I think you should

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Speaker 1: be talked about as somebody who cuts. That's how bad

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Speaker 1: he's played. He should be he could, he should be released. Well,

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Speaker 1: how does that help? I mean, you might feel better

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Speaker 1: from a punishment standpoint, but how does that help to

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Speaker 1: release him? He does you no good? He does you know?

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Speaker 1: You got somebody ready? Yeah, who's gonna who's gonna take

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Speaker 1: his spot in this offense? If if if Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: gets dinged once and has a concussion. You're gonna put

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Speaker 1: Logan Amason to finish the game against the LA Chargers

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Speaker 1: from like in this halfway through the first quarter. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: Derek Anderson, Matt Moore, one of those guys. But something

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys, this team looks awefully

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Speaker 1: under physically prepared. I'm not questioning the effort, but physically,

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Speaker 1: in particularly early in games, they don't look physically ready

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Speaker 1: to play. Are we talking about last year plus this

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Speaker 1: year plus one game or what are we talking about

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Speaker 1: Sunday one game? With the with the preseason, with the preseason. Um,

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Speaker 1: all the renovations are going on there, with the weight

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Speaker 1: room cut down so small, has that affected them anyway

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Speaker 1: in the Yeah, they just don't look physically up to

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Speaker 1: it early. I don't think so. Yeah, I get what

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Speaker 1: you're saying. Mark slow starts to all the preseason games, Um,

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Speaker 1: with the exception first one. Yeah, with the exception of

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Speaker 1: the very first drive of this preseason. Um, don't don't

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Speaker 1: throw one big blanket over everything you see. And I don't.

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Speaker 1: And and certainly the game last week will cause you

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Speaker 1: to do that. And we started to look back and

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Speaker 1: start to question every I And that's and that's what listen,

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Speaker 1: that's what that's what you all. You always do, everybody

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Speaker 1: always does. It's natural to go back and start questioning

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Speaker 1: everything when you have a performance like you did last week.

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Speaker 1: But you got to know this, this is still the

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Speaker 1: same coaching staff, still the same program that pulled a

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Speaker 1: lot out of a roster last year and got it,

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Speaker 1: got it to the point where they got into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Don't lose faith over one really poor performance. They're not

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Speaker 1: losing faith in it and not in them themselves. And

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Speaker 1: it does remain to be seen as to whether the

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Speaker 1: new changes, and listen, this is a very renovated roster,

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Speaker 1: even from a year ago, from eight nine months ago,

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Speaker 1: it's a very renovated roster. So there's a lot we

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Speaker 1: do have to find out about. Not all the changes

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Speaker 1: are going to be positive, it looks like at this point,

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Speaker 1: but you can't take that for granted yet. And some

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Speaker 1: of the things that we're weaknesses last year could be

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Speaker 1: strength this year. We don't know, but it's too early

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Speaker 1: to call. And I know that you're you know, you're

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Speaker 1: you're doubting as to whether Nathan Peterman should even be

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Speaker 1: on the team. Well, you know, pump the brakes on that.

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Speaker 1: It's certainly not good for him, but you can't chuck

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Speaker 1: him out of the building. But I have an answer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have six who can You've got, you've made,

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Speaker 1: You've made your like it or not. He guys on

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Speaker 1: the team and they need him to go forward because

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Speaker 1: they need at least a backup quarterback who can call

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Speaker 1: a play. We're gonna take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna shift focus a little bit and talk about

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Speaker 1: the Jets. A very impressive Monday night Opening Day victory

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Speaker 1: for the New York Jets, finish meat out of the

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Speaker 1: New York Daily News. Will discuss with US Sam Darnold

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Speaker 1: and that Jets defense would look silent. Also, Steve and

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Speaker 1: how are you? We're well? Yeah, that was impressive. And

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00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you a little inside baseball story here.

639
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game at home. Steve, my partner, watching

640
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: the game from his home. Darnald throws that interception, and

641
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: Steve text me Murph Sam Darnald, and both of us

642
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: had the same reaction like wow and work. I No, No,

643
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to say, we're both kind of giggling

644
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: a little bit. What a start, What a what a

645
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: recovery for Sam Donald. I've never seen anything like that

646
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, I've never seen the I don't

647
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: know if it's ever happened, but you know, I'll pick

648
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: six on your first play, you know, let alone. You know,

649
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 1: in that environment, you know a very you know, coveted player.

650
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: And for him to respond like that speaks volumes about

651
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: just kind of what his makeup is all about. And

652
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,239
Speaker 1: if you've been around him for this offseason like I have,

653
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, I was frankly stunned that he threw that pass,

654
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: just because it didn't look like he was fully confident

655
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: in making this row before he let it go. And

656
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: then and you know, just to see him unraveled for

657
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: that brief moment was a little bit surprising, just because

658
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: I had not seen any of that this spring in summer.

659
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: And then what you saw the rest of the game is,

660
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, the typical poise Sam Darnold that at least

661
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: I saw in the offseason, and he's got a tremendous

662
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: future ahead of him. I think you can honestly chalk

663
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: that first pass up the nerves. He admitted that he

664
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: was nervous, uh, you know, entering the huddle and making

665
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: that first pass. But it's probably in a weird way

666
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: because of the way the game unfolded, and you know,

667
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: it ultimately turned out to be a laugher, but because

668
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: of the dynamics of this game, that play was in

669
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: a weird way, really helped him and calmed him down.

670
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: And in some ways, Galvin I the team because they obviously,

671
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, were operating on all cylinders on offense, defense,

672
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: and special teams. Yeah, and that's one of the things

673
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: I wanted it right. You wrote it in an article

674
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: this morning. I thought you were right on the money.

675
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: This game was more. It was about more than just

676
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold and bouncing back from that pick say, it

677
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: was about the entire team really playing with an emotional

678
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: level that that it has not been associated with that

679
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: team in recent years. Yeah. And that's a great point, Steve,

680
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: because typically, at least over these last two years, when

681
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: they went on the road, they were flat and they

682
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: came out flat over these couple years, these last two years,

683
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: and it was it was a head scratcher because they

684
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: would have big wins at home and they would follow

685
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: that up with a dud on the road. That wasn't

686
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: the case yesterday. And you know, well, we're going to

687
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: talk about Sam Darnold, of course, because that's what we do,

688
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: right we talk about high drafted quarterbacks like you guys,

689
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure are talking about Josh Allen. But but the

690
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: reality is that last night, you know, he was an

691
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: important part of the story, of course, and clearly the

692
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: most talked about the element of this game prior to kickoff.

693
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: But when the game was over, you really do have

694
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: to credit this defense that had five interceptions. They were

695
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: a faster flowing defense than I have seen since Todd

696
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: Bowls took over. Really, uh, you know, an anticipatory defense,

697
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: a defense that did a lot of preparation, and it

698
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: seemed to confuse Matthew Stafford from start to finish. And

699
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: by the end of the game you had players like

700
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 1: Darren Lee and Jamal Adams saying that you know, they

701
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: knew what the plays were. They were calling out the

702
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: plays before the snap, and that's never a good thing

703
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: if you're you're an opposing offense. And then and then

704
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: the other element and Steve, I know you can appreciate this.

705
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: The special teams was absolutely terrific. Andre Roberts did so

706
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: much for that team and got so much hidden yardage

707
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: in a good way to help Sam Darnold in that offense.

708
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: After that pick six, later in the first quarter, he

709
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: had a forty three yard punt return that really set

710
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: up a short field for the Jets to ultimately score

711
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: their first down, first touchdown, I should say. And then

712
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: later in the game he had had seventy play yard

713
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: punt return for a touchdown. Special teams doesn't get talked

714
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: about that much, but yesterday you can see the value

715
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: that special teams can have on any team, but certainly

716
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: on a team that is starting a rookie quarterback. Yeah,

717
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: and I agree with you one of the things, and

718
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: I remember when you said that about you know they're

719
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: chipping in. Special teams can help with field position. But

720
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: when your team is playing well on offense and defense,

721
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: and then when special teams chips in something like a

722
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,959
Speaker 1: feel like a big return, not even for a touchdown,

723
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: but just to change the field it is, it gives you.

724
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: That is the one capper to a team's emotional game,

725
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: that gives you the feeling like you are invincible that night,

726
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: You're clicking on everything. When you're special team's chips in

727
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: on top of a good defensive performance, on top of

728
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: a turnover, and then on top of an offense that's

729
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: scoring on every drive, man, oh man, you're not going

730
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: to get beat that night. And that's that really permeates

731
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: the whole attitude of the team. And I think I

732
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,239
Speaker 1: saw that with the Jets last night. Yeah, And it

733
00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: was interesting only because entering this offseason, really the last

734
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: couple of years and maybe all three years of top

735
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: Bull's tenure, the Jets have really had issues on special teams,

736
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: specifically in the putter return game. They really haven't had

737
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: that one player that can not only be reliable and shorthanded,

738
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: but that can help flip the field, and there were

739
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: questions about that. This offseason, they drafted Trenton Cannon in

740
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: a late round running back who would return kicks in college,

741
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: but never punts. They tried him out and they were

742
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: hoping that he would be their primary punt returner, but

743
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: he just couldn't hold on to the ball in the preseason,

744
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: so they turned back to Andre Roberts, who's a guy

745
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: who doesn't get discussed much. He's been around the league.

746
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: He's a he's a he's a reliable veteran, but not

747
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: somebody who necessarily jumps off the page. But when you

748
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: get a guy like that playing like he did yesterday,

749
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: like you said, it really adds to the snowball effect

750
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: because not only is your offense playing well your defense

751
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: playing well, but when you get that third element to contribute,

752
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: that's why you have quarters like you had last night

753
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: when the Jets rattled off thirty one straight points in

754
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: that third quarter line with Minish out of the New

755
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: York Gay they knew was talking about the Jets win yesterday.

756
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: I want to get back to darn Old Minichhe but

757
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: a question about the Jets defense. Did the setup change?

758
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: I know Casey Rodgers has been the coordinator for a

759
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: couple of years, but did something changes for his defensive

760
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: play calling? His Todd Bowls still involved as he has

761
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: been in the last few years. Yeah, it's a collaborative effort. Look,

762
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: if you ask, depending on who you ask, who get

763
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: different answers. The reality of the situation and that Casey

764
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: Rodgers does call the plays. Todd Bowles does have veto power.

765
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: But again, it's more of a collaborative discussion in game.

766
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: So when they put the game plan together, it's a

767
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: it's a two man effort, and that really has been

768
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: the case for the last several years. So I don't

769
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: think there's been a change in that respect. I just

770
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: think that you've got more talented players. Frankly, I know

771
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: it's simple, that's a simplified answer. But you've got younger,

772
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: more athletic players, and if they are prepared like they

773
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: were less, we are less like they were last night.

774
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: This is going to be an extremely tough defense. Now

775
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: that being said, they did have all offseason to look

776
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: at linespe and you know, I know that people want

777
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: to say, well, you know, they had a great week

778
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: of preparation. The reality is, for the Jets, for the lines,

779
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: for the Bills, for everybody, you're preparing for that week

780
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: one opponent much longer than that one week before the game,

781
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: so they had ample time to prepare. They did a

782
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: really good job in communicating on the defensive end, and

783
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: that had been an issue in the past, even last

784
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: year when he had the two young rookie safeties and

785
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams and Marcus May who didn't play last night,

786
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: but last year May and Adams were very talented players,

787
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: but there was some kind of disconnect where you didn't

788
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: have that open line of communication pre snap. And yesterday,

789
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: just judging by what I heard from talking to some

790
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: of the defensive players, there were guys who picked up

791
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: stuff in their film study that were willing to share

792
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: that in the moment on the field before the snap.

793
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: And when you have that open line of communication, that really,

794
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, is half the battle, maybe even more than

795
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: half the battle, probably seventy the battle before the snap

796
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: has even taken. If you're prepared, you're gonna do good things,

797
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, after the snap, and you clearly saw that

798
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: with this defense. But you know, they confused, like I

799
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,479
Speaker 1: said earlier, they confused Matt Stafford so thoroughly it looked

800
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: like Stafford was the guy making his first NFL starting,

801
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: not Sam Donald. Yeah, and I won Donald question before

802
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: we let you domination, And you tweeted this, and it's

803
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: got me thinking, you said, I believe this from the beginning.

804
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: The Jets trade to move up from six to three

805
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: in the draft this year will ultimately go down as

806
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: the single best decision in franchise history. That's saying a lot.

807
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: You go on to say, it's never been about hype

808
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: with Donald, It's been about seeing the signs. What do

809
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: you have in mind there? What are you what are

810
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: you talking about there? Well, look, it's easy to say

811
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: people like Sam Donald, you know, four or five months ago,

812
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: because he was the number three overall pick, just like

813
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez was a number five overall pick. Gino Smith

814
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: was a starter as a as a rookie right out

815
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: of the shoot. But it's not really about the stats

816
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: because if you look at the numbers. Yeah, Look, he

817
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: had a high passer rating one hundred and sixteen or so.

818
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: He's extremely efficient sixteen to twenty one, So what that's

819
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: seventy five, sevent and and really even higher if you

820
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 1: take away that pick anythrough for less than two hundred yards.

821
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: So those suffers are good, they're not otherworldly. It's the

822
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: throws that he makes in these games and the throws

823
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: that he's made in the preseason and in practice. He

824
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: made two incredible throws and one is probably not even

825
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: remembered yesterday. One was on a third and six that

826
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: set up their first touchdown. He escaped pressure. He's got

827
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: this innate ability to feel the pressure. He escaped the pocket,

828
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: rolled right through kind of across his body to Quincy

829
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: Aumal for a first down. And then another one he

830
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: rolled right, had a twenty yard completion the trail prior

831
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: to set up a touchdown after the Lions had tied

832
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: the game at seventeen early in the third quarter. It's

833
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: just the decisions that he makes, you know, not the

834
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: first the first decision notwithstanding, but typically the decisions that

835
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: he has made to this point, plus the arm talent

836
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: and the ability to be mobile and throw on the

837
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: move so accurately. Those are the signs. I mean, a

838
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: lot of people want to talk about hype and that'll

839
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: grab their headlines, but the reality is, if you if

840
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: you look at the plays that he's made, he is

841
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: shown to people that he can be a very good

842
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: player in this league. I don't, you know, I don't

843
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen fifteen years down the road,

844
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: but if things start trending in the way that they're trending,

845
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: his physical skills copied with his mental makeup. You know,

846
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: the scene after the game, which not many, very many

847
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: people saw that I thought was very telling, was after

848
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: the game, he comes out of the locker room, he

849
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: showered up, he's talked to the media, his parents are

850
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: waiting for him. His mom's got tears in her eyes.

851
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: Dad's smiling here to hear, and you know, he's kind

852
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: of like a little smile on his face. But it's

853
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: not what you think a typical twenty one year old

854
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: who just won his first NFL game. It's not it's

855
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: not how you think that type of person would react.

856
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: If it were me, I'd be I'd be jumping off

857
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: the walls. I'd be Guinny but he's so composed, and

858
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: I think it's because he's having fun. But he's got

859
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: this great work ethic. Football matters to him, His job

860
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: matters to him. His dad and his mom were working

861
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: class people. They took the first flight out of Detroit

862
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: to get back to the West coast to get back

863
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: to work. Today, it's just kind of his makeup. And

864
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: those are signs that NFL teams try to find one.

865
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: They're searching for a quarterback in the draft process, and

866
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: it's such an indefinable quality, it's such an intangible you

867
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: don't know what this guy's ultimately going to be until

868
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: you put him in that type of situation. You can

869
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: watch him on tape and look, the tape looks great

870
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: at USC. But these other elements to who Sam Donold

871
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: is I think will serve him extremely well. Because the

872
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: physical gifts are there. The fact that he's got that

873
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: mental makeup to be a great player and to put

874
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: in the time and the effort to make him a

875
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: great player, I think will ultimately make him a great player.

876
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: And one more question, very brief and I don't need

877
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: a long answer to this, but the Bills won't see

878
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: the Jets for two months, two months from today, they

879
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: travel down to the Metal Ends to play them. Is

880
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: what we saw from the Jets last night? Sustainable? What

881
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 1: do you think, Well, they're not going to drop nearly

882
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: fifty points a game, so I don't know if you're

883
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: going to see that type of effort. But what I

884
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: will see, and what I will be surprised if I

885
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: don't see, is a team that gives maximum effort, a

886
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: team that's going to be competitive, and if their quarterback

887
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: can take strides in the right direction, this is a

888
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: team that legitimately, uh you know, has a chance to

889
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: make some noise, if not in two thousand and eighteen,

890
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: certainly in two thousand and nineteen and beyond. Thanks Veniche,

891
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: good talking with you. Thank you very much. Thanks guys,

892
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: Take care. Deniche Met, a New York Daily News NFL

893
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: columnists beat reporter for the Jets. On last night's Jets victory,

894
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: joined to sign the Subway Fresh Day Cortline, presented by

895
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned and operated. Maybe

896
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: the bills will be competitive within two months, I would think. So,

897
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: all right, they'll get themselves trained around by today. Yeah,

898
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're on the road to the Bills are.

899
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: You know, they're working hard at getting better there. They've

900
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: got to work hard to keep from being, um, you know,

901
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: embarrassed like they were Sunday. I mean, that's there, and

902
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good motivation. I mean that you do

903
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: not want to go through another game like that. So

904
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: those guys are working really hard. But you got to

905
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: tip your hats to what the Jets did in that game. Uh,

906
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: and certainly that was af You got to admit, even

907
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: Bills fans who see the Jets twice a year and

908
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: kind of watched them out of the side of their

909
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: you know there, you know, off the side keeping track

910
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: of them every week. You uh, you gotta know that

911
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: that game they saw last night and I watched it. Um,

912
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: that's a different Jet team than we've seen in the

913
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: recent years. I'm not saying it's transformed or anything like that,

914
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: but they put together a really nice performance. As good

915
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: as the Jet was performance was last night, that's as

916
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: poor as the Bills played on their opening game. I

917
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: mean it's just a reverse op reverse week to weekly,

918
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: and it is a week to weekly two months until

919
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: the Bills go up against the Jets. So I want

920
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: to talk more about about Sam Tarnel. When we returned

921
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: as well, Steve and I got a lot more to

922
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: say about everything. Bills Jets. You're welcome to join us. Also,

923
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: it is One Bill's Life presented by a lot of

924
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: health from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

925
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Life, John Murphy, Steve Taster

926
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: time now for milestones presented by Reeds Jewelers, the official

927
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: Jeweler or the Buffalo Bills. Did you know this? You

928
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: may know this. Tremaine Edmonds started last Sunday against Baltimore,

929
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: the youngest starting NFL linebacker on opening day in the

930
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowl era, age twenty years old. We know he

931
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: had the birthday when he was nineteen when they drafted him.

932
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: Birthday about a week later. At age twenty, Tremaine Edmonds

933
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: was the youngest starting NFL linebacker on opening day in

934
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era, which goes back to the league sixties,

935
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: some fifty years ago. Hopefully that'll be a tidbit on

936
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: the end of a really illustrious career. Yeah, that's something

937
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: they'll say at the All of Fames. He winds up

938
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: his seventeen year career. One thing about Donald I'd like

939
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: to say. And I don't know as a Bills fan,

940
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: and I you know, I guess I don't qualify as

941
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: a Bills fan. But you don't necessarily have to root

942
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold to fail. I don't think to feel

943
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 1: good as a Bills fan. I hear people talking about

944
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: oh no, like it's they dread No Jets have a

945
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 1: quarterback Darnald Ooh, I feared this might happen all along. Look,

946
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: the Bills have their quarterback too, and we haven't seen

947
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: him yet, Josh Allen. They can both be good. They

948
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: might both be good. The Bills like Sam Darnold and

949
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: they didn't get to him. He went third over all,

950
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: the Bills went seventh overall and got the next best

951
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: guy I think in the draft and Josh Allen. But

952
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: when fans get all caught up in what you know

953
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: brand you know any of these quarterbacks are doing, you

954
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: know darn Old or any of these guys, I just

955
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous. It's wasted energy. That's all I want

956
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: to say to you. Yeah, and think about it if

957
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: if the Jets have their guy and the Bills have

958
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: their guy, that could be fun. You remember what it

959
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: was like with Jim Kelly and Dan Marina. That was

960
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Yeah, and I was in the

961
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: middle of it. And yeah, you do go through weeks

962
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: where you're gonna face Dan Marino and you got this

963
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: this pit in your stomach and you're going but you know, well,

964
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: we had a pretty good record against that guy, and

965
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: he's one of the great ones of all time. I mean,

966
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: would you want it any different? Do you wish somebody

967
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: else said drafted Marino and you didn't see him twice

968
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: a year? I don't think so, right, I mean, you

969
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: got a chance to you know, you almost you had

970
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: this love hate relationship with him where you know, you

971
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: kind of love that you get to see him twice

972
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: a year. You hate it when he plays well against you,

973
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: but you love it when he plays well against you

974
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: and you still beat him, you know. I mean that's uh.

975
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to beat good quarterbacks wherever you're a

976
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: if your team's good, you're gonna have to beat good quarterbacks,

977
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: and you may as well get a chance to see

978
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: those guys. You want to see the best players in

979
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: the league. You want them in your division, and you

980
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: want to be able to beat him, and that's that's

981
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 1: the goal. So I think, yeah, I'm with you, Murphy.

982
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 1: I don't that that doesn't scare me. When other teams

983
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: get good, you've got to be good in anyway. Yeah, Hey,

984
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about what two moves would you make one

985
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,959
Speaker 1: on offense, one on defense to fix the Bills this week.

986
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: Not for the season, not a cure all, but to

987
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: fix the Bills this week. Quick call here from Steve

988
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Hello, Steve, Welcome, go ahead, you're on the air. Hi, guys,

989
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Thank you, Steve. You know

990
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: it's it's like I got nothing to say in the

991
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: next couple of times. Thanks for calling. No, don't you're there.

992
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: But if you guys, I knew it. But you know what,

993
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: it's like, what Steve, what you just said about Kelly

994
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: and Marino is thinking the same thing. It's great that

995
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good. I don't know what they're thinking

996
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: about in Cleveland today after that. I think they were

997
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: happy at the first interception, but after that, it's like, wow,

998
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: look at Darnold. My comment is just this, you have

999
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: a you have a Maserati, You've got a guy in

1000
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: the garage, and I think sometimes when you're too close

1001
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: to it, they think too much. This guy is a

1002
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: big boy, play football his whole life. Like John was

1003
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: talking about that earlier. This guy's gotta go. Alan's got

1004
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: to be the guy. He's not gonna be. They pay

1005
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: big money. He's an adult. In any other business, you

1006
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: bring out the guy that's confident, not just the confident.

1007
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: And unfortunately Peterman and my last comment on an end

1008
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: is that he's good in practice. He's shown that he's

1009
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: but you've got to have the guy that's got the

1010
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: fire in his belly. As far as offense and defense,

1011
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: just what you said, John, pressure the quarterback, pressure rivers

1012
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: on the defense, and put Allen in the start. And

1013
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: that's all I've got to say. And have a great day. Guy.

1014
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: You did well, Steve, you said you had nothing to say,

1015
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: but you did well. Yeah, you jumped out and that's

1016
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: and that's the I think the overriding sentiment. I mean

1017
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people just want to see Josh Allen,

1018
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: particularly given last night's performance by Sam Darnald. It gives

1019
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: him some optimism that a young guy can go out

1020
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: and be successful. That doesn't mean that the Jets roster

1021
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: is gonna mimic what mimic or the Bills roster's gonna

1022
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,479
Speaker 1: mimic what the Jets were able to do around Sam

1023
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: Darnald last night. Either there're two different teams. But it

1024
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you have to. I mean, you're trying

1025
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: to win this game this week, and uh, putting a

1026
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: guy in there that's physically gifted makes a lot of

1027
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: sense to a lot of people. And uh, you know,

1028
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: certainly if um, you know, there's that that mentality, you

1029
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: get back to how they're gonna make this decision. You know,

1030
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: if they they don't have to explain anything, if they're

1031
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: gonna make the switch from Josh Allen to Nathan Peterman,

1032
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna say, hey, everybody's gonna say, okay.

1033
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: You know, some people are gonna say, hey, it's about time,

1034
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: or some people are gonna say, hey, no dub. But

1035
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: others are gonna say others are gonna say others are

1036
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,959
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, you're gonna get this young guy killed.

1037
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: You're gonna get him. You know, you're gonna damage his

1038
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: Psyche's not gonna be successful. There's no way this kid's

1039
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and have a game like Sam

1040
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: Darnold did because the team around him isn't that good.

1041
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: You're you're taking a huge risk starting Josh Allen, and

1042
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that everybody may be right. But that's

1043
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 1: the question that lays before this team, particularly after the

1044
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: egg that they laid on opening Day. I think that

1045
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: performance changes the conversation about what this team's about this season.

1046
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: I agree. We're gonna talk a little bit about Bill's

1047
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: history when we come back for the next hour. We're

1048
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: gonna talk to one of the important figures in franchise

1049
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: history and one of the most fun players that's ever

1050
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: been around here, Stevie Johnson coming back to be the

1051
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: leader of the charge for the Bills this Sunday. We'll

1052
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: talk with Stephen when we come back for hour or

1053
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: two of the show. Come on back for that One

1054
00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio,

1055
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: Hills Radio Network. Sports date and off day for Bills

1056
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: players today. They returned to practice tomorrow to get ready

1057
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: for the home open, and we still don't know who'll

1058
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: get the start a quarterback for the Bills on Sunday

1059
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: against the Chargers. Head coach Sean McDermott not ready to

1060
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: say which way he's leaning when he met the media

1061
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: late yesterday. The Bills did sign defensive end Nate Orchard

1062
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: to a one year deal late yesterday, twenty five years

1063
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: of age, former second round pick of the Browns in

1064
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, released by the club on cutdown day in September.

1065
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: Orchard is a outside linebacker defensive end. The Bill is

1066
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: likely to use him at defensive end. Look at the Bills,

1067
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: We'll give your help in their pass rush. To make

1068
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: groom on the roster for Orchard, the Bills released the

1069
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: Dolphus Washington, Buffalo's third round pick in twenty sixteen, played

1070
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: in thirty one games for the Bills over three seasons,

1071
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: twenty one starts he got in thirty two snaps. Last

1072
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: Sunday in Baltimore, New England, Patriots are giving wide receiver

1073
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: Corey Coleman another shot. The Patriot he'd signed the former

1074
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: first round to a one year contract. Coleman visited the

1075
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: Patriots yesterday, was scheduled to take a trip to Philadelphia Tuesday.

1076
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: New England did not let him get out of town

1077
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: training camp. Coleman was traded from Cleveland to Buffalo for

1078
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick in twenty twenty, but the Bills

1079
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: cut him on the final cutdown day. Jets rookie Sam

1080
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: Darnold made history last night. One play, first play, his

1081
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: first NFL passed through a pick six, an interception returned

1082
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards for a touchdown. Darn Old hank hung

1083
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: in there, though, as he came back and led the

1084
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: Jets to a forty eighth seventeen victory at Ford Field

1085
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: over the Detroit Lions. The Jets had a franchise record

1086
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: for most points scored in a road game forty eight.

1087
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: Last night, John Gruden's returned to the sideline following nine

1088
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: years in ESPN's broadcast booth left much to be desired.

1089
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,959
Speaker 1: The Rams beat the Raiders thirty three to thirteen before

1090
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: an announced crout of fifty three thousand at Oakland Coliseum,

1091
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers his status for the next game for

1092
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers as they faced Minnesota the Sunday

1093
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: still up in the air. Packers coach Mike McCarthy said

1094
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: he cannot say anything sific about his starting quarterbacks knee

1095
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: injury or his availability for a week two Savers wrapped

1096
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: up the prospects Challenge with a ten two winter for Pittsburgh.

1097
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: Last night they finished with two wins and one loss

1098
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: in the Prospect's Challenge. That is the update from One

1099
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker around the air

1100
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: until three o'clock this afternoon. Bills try to get it

1101
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: right this Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers one o'clock

1102
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: kickoff a new era field and just for kickoff, you'll

1103
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: get a chance to welcome home one of the all

1104
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: time favorites for Bills fans. He played wide receiver for

1105
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and for the Chargers. Built seventh round

1106
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: pick in two thousand and eight. Happy to have Stevie

1107
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: Johnson on the line with the Stevie, John Murphy and

1108
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here in Buffalo. How are you good to

1109
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: hear from you? Hey? What's up? John? Steve was going on,

1110
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: how you doing? Man? Man's good to hear you guys. Hey,

1111
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: what did it take for you to come back here

1112
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: and be the leader of the charge And when did

1113
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: they approach you? And why did you agree? Why do

1114
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: you want to do this? Well, you know it just

1115
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: took it just took a phone cost In the text

1116
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: message and you know, I'm always was to be a

1117
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: part of you know, a city, of an organization that

1118
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: I've put my heart into, you know, So that's that's

1119
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: pretty much what it was, you know, once they act,

1120
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: and obviously I was ready for it. If you've been

1121
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo, Stevie since uh, your last here year

1122
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: here five years ago, No, I haven't been back. So

1123
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm looking looking forward to being in that in that

1124
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: vibe again. You know, I miss it. I missed the

1125
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: loan flights. Now, it used to be it used to

1126
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: be a time where you know, I would I would

1127
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: dread having to get on the flight for five five hours.

1128
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: But now you know, I can't wait to see out

1129
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: there and smell the air and be around that that

1130
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: exective Bob. What was one of the what I think

1131
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: back to your time here in Buffalo, what were some

1132
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: of the good times that you had. I mean, you're

1133
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: you're associated with the team that it couldn't get into

1134
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs and all of that, but you had some

1135
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: moments that were pretty unforgettable. Yeah, I mean I had

1136
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: some pretty good moments, you know, I have some good

1137
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: in I had some bad moments, you know, Um, but

1138
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: things on the field. You know, we see it, we

1139
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: dang there see it every day and we go see

1140
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: it more and more of the season and hopefully more

1141
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: and more with the Bills. But um, you know, the

1142
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: main thing was just the relationship that you built, um

1143
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: through through that profession, you know, through those teams, And

1144
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: that's the that's the main thing that I think about now,

1145
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm as I'm not playing in the

1146
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: league anymore. What do you do, Stevie? How do you

1147
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: keep busy these days? Well, I mean, aside from my

1148
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: endless grind to develop an eight pack without flexing, I'm

1149
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: just I'm just attaining knowledge and wisdom throughout the days, man,

1150
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: and supporting my wife. You know. Now now she can

1151
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: she can do all the things that she wanted with

1152
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: a clear mind, you know. And and I'm here, you know,

1153
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: to showing that support. So I'm just enjoying joining my

1154
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: day to day right now, you know, um. And and

1155
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: that's that's how it's going for me, you know, very peaceful.

1156
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: What did you think, I mean, because you've been through

1157
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: some ups and downs, just like all football players have.

1158
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 1: What did you think when you saw the Bills? Uh,

1159
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: get lumped up pretty good? On opening weekend. Yeah, I

1160
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: just thought it tough. It was tough, um situation to

1161
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: be in, you know, um, I mean they went out

1162
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: there and play it well. To tell me, what was

1163
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: your take on it? Thought, all right, listen, I get

1164
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: to really study. I didn't get to really watch the

1165
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: game and study the film. I just seen clips of

1166
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: the game. You know you've seen it, Stevins. It starts

1167
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: to go bad. It gets a little worse. You try

1168
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: and climb out of it, and the extra effort you

1169
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: put into climbing out of it goes bad and goes worse.

1170
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: So it started to spiral sideways. Plus they were playing

1171
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: in a rainstorm as well, so nobody could and nothing

1172
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: felt nor either. So it's just one of those plays

1173
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: that it's one of those games that for me, h,

1174
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: it got off to a rough start a little bit.

1175
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a rhythm. And then when they tried

1176
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: to press a little bit and play a little harder,

1177
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: do some extra things, those went worse than the original.

1178
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: And then uh, and then all of a sudden, you wait,

1179
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: you look up and it's thirty to thirty to nothing. Yeah,

1180
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to identify what we wanted to

1181
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: do it seems like you know, um like like yourself,

1182
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: special teams Ace. You know that we need to play

1183
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: and it's time. Offense didn't do nothing. We know we

1184
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 1: got tasks out there and he might make this play.

1185
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, you got to develop.

1186
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: We got to develop our archetypes for our offense. You know,

1187
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: our quarterback. Now, I got to know, Okay, this guy

1188
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: can create space. This guy is good for throwing it.

1189
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is we just got to

1190
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: develop that that that name, and that identity individually and

1191
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: through groups. It's what I was what I was seeing

1192
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: through the clips. You know, I can't give a hundred

1193
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: percent opinion on it because I didn't watch it play

1194
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 1: by play like you guys did, but just from what

1195
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: I was looking at and then you know, McCoy did

1196
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: tried to do something. I've seen the clip that was

1197
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: like the only thing. But it's gotta be more. We

1198
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: got to feed the horse, I said. Stevie Johnson, our guest,

1199
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: former Bills wide receiver, coming back to be the leader

1200
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: of the Charge Sunday before the Bills kicking off against

1201
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Stevie, your career, you developed into kind of

1202
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: an archetype as you call it. You know, you came

1203
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: here as a seventh rounder, You had your your way

1204
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: into the lineup. You had a couple of head coaches

1205
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: the first few years, and then Chan Gailey shows up

1206
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick gets made the starting quarterback and everything

1207
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: sort of changed. You became the focal point of the

1208
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: Buffalo passing offense. Can you talk about the role those

1209
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: two played in your development, both the Chan Gailey and

1210
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick. Uh, yeah, it was, it was. It was

1211
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 1: definitely a blessing for myself, you know, um being able

1212
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: to play under under coach Gaily and being able to

1213
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: play with a quarterback like Fitzpatrick who who who works

1214
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: with his what he has basically like with myself, wasn't

1215
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: the speed stir you feel me? And coach knew that.

1216
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: But he knew I can create space within a certain radius,

1217
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, so he gave me. He gave me opportunities

1218
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: throughout play to bend the rules a bit and fit.

1219
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: And Fitzpatrick was the type of quarterback that it wasn't

1220
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: straight okay, if he told you to run three yards

1221
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: and run in it wasn't he wasn't just going to

1222
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: stick on that. He just say, Okay, I know he's

1223
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: got this type of archetype, so let me slide to

1224
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: the left just a little bit, just to wait half

1225
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: a second. Boom, Now I'm gona throw it. Now we

1226
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: got that hole right there. You know, um he you

1227
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You just developed certain things, and

1228
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: the coach was so free with letting us um do

1229
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: that on offense. It gave me. It gave me success.

1230
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I obviously we wanted more. I

1231
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: wanted to we wanted to end the playoff drop. But

1232
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: just to answer that question, it gave me success. And

1233
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: I think that's what the guys got to do. Now.

1234
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: They just got to get hit with each other and

1235
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: understand each other's archetype and and go off of that,

1236
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, and and and just play ball. Yeah. How

1237
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: much of what you and Fitz had going on was

1238
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, improvisation just kind of making it up as

1239
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: you go along. Um, I can't say all of it was,

1240
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: because you know, coach coach called the plays, and the

1241
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: plays was and the plays was great, and then it

1242
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: was down to us in the middle of in the

1243
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: middle of that play, to make it work, you know.

1244
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: So it's not it was it was fifty fifty. It

1245
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: was a fifty fifty thing. You know. Well, if it's

1246
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: a place they go for the teen yards to do

1247
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: that in, then okay, maybe off coverage and you're running

1248
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: up in the cushion is still there and you can

1249
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 1: do that fifteen yards. But with the if you know

1250
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: that this outside linebacker is zooming in and you know,

1251
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: the fifth he leaned to the right a little bit,

1252
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: and I might break it off that thirteam, so the

1253
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: timing will still be there because he's getting pressured. But

1254
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: I guess it's what I'm seeing is they don't have

1255
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: that chemistry to know, Okay, this guy may break it

1256
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: off a little bit and I know that and boom

1257
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: would be connect. You know. It's it's it's certain things

1258
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: that's within the within the play that you can't coach,

1259
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: and that's where the guy's got to come in and

1260
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: do that. And me and fits Um, we weren't the

1261
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: best at it, but we did it well, you know

1262
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: in most times. Yeah, And I agree with you, there's

1263
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: a there's a lot of room for improvisation the NFL,

1264
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: particularly if you've got to rapport with a quarterback and

1265
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: he trusts you to get And it's about timing too.

1266
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you called us round. It doesn't matter where

1267
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: you run, but if you're in the right spot at

1268
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: the right time and he throws it, hey man, that's

1269
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: that's the place. And I knew that. I knew that

1270
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: could watch you play and I knew that's how you

1271
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: did things and and um you made it work. And

1272
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: with your quarterback the way fitz plays and way still playing,

1273
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: it looks like, um, that's a that's a good thing.

1274
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: Talk to us. You heard about fitzing this day yesterday.

1275
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on fits? Um, it's the same,

1276
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: it's the same. You know, I never had nothing, nothing

1277
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: ill to say say about Fitz. He's the He's the

1278
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: guy that's going to give you opportunity. You know, that's

1279
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: the guy that gave me opportunity. Um, I played with

1280
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: multiple quarterbacks and and and he's and he's one of

1281
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks that's going to get get his chance. And

1282
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna hey, hey, I'm gonna need you to run.

1283
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: You know him for running fast. Okay, well let me

1284
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: see you get back this guy. I'm I'm gonna let

1285
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: it go for you, I take that shot that hitting

1286
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: the chest, I mean in the chann or whatnot. But

1287
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let it go and let's see and he

1288
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: gonna have fun when he gonna do that, you know

1289
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And that's that's what that's what type

1290
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 1: of quarterback that he is. And I think you know,

1291
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna speak on no quarterback situation over there,

1292
00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: but you know he's in a good spot. He's in

1293
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: a good spot and that's the that's that's what you

1294
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: need in your quarterback. As in these type of situations

1295
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: with Steve. With Stevie Johnson, former Bills receiver coming back

1296
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: to be the leader of the charge, it seemed like, Stevie,

1297
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: you have a lot of fun during your time here

1298
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and part of it was the T shirts.

1299
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: Uh you know, white so serious, Happy New Year, et cetera.

1300
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: Where did you come up with that idea? And uh,

1301
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: what did you think as you look back on that,

1302
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: what was going on there? What were you trying to say?

1303
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: What was why did you use T shirts as a

1304
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: means of expression back then? Um, you know it's it

1305
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: started off with initially, it started off with me watching

1306
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: these guys growing up, and every time they scored tous

1307
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: down they did something. You know, this before I was

1308
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so I always wanted to do celebration.

1309
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to half fun like I've seen them do

1310
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: you know. So when I got into the league, Um,

1311
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, I tried to have fun with it. And

1312
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 1: then with the whole white so serious. That was because

1313
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: I was going against my you know, um my receiving

1314
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: idols at the time, and you know they were doing

1315
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: Batman and Robins, so I had to do the joker. Yeah,

1316
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: and then then then you know, everything goes goes on.

1317
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: But it is just you know, saying Happy New Year's

1318
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: listening up on that thing. It's just about about having fun.

1319
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: At the ends of the day, I want to look

1320
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: back and say, yeah, yeah I did that, and um

1321
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: and I was smiling. I was having fun with it.

1322
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: You know. They wouldn't know anything else, like the numbers

1323
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: and all that. They just know that this dude, he

1324
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: had passion, He played hard, and he had fun with it.

1325
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun to watch.

1326
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: It was fun. I'm sure for your teammates too. You

1327
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: must have felt like you were sort of the uh

1328
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: you know, the morale guys sometimes doing those doing those

1329
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: moves and uh, you know, pretending to shoot the shotgun

1330
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: in New England and Foxborough at that time, you must

1331
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: have felt like you were entertaining your teammates as well. Yeah,

1332
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: I mean the things things happened. Things happened in that

1333
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: situation was I was on the sideline talking to Donald

1334
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: Jones about a play that was going on in New

1335
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: England and scoring or whatnot, and they shot off the

1336
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 1: gun and I'm I low key, I got spooked. I jumped.

1337
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: I hold up, man, they all goods our ears. Okay,

1338
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: let's see what Let's see what happened is next series.

1339
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: So we went out there and I was, uh, and

1340
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to score and put it up there,

1341
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: and I went over there and did that. It was

1342
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, you can't asks for certain things like that,

1343
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying for me to but that

1344
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: happened to me to get up next series like, Okay,

1345
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show them. I'm trying to put them grim something.

1346
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: And I ended up getting the opportunity to do it.

1347
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a blessing for myself and

1348
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: just to be able to do those type of things.

1349
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: And there was no ill will none, None of it

1350
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: was really ill will. Even like the practical Birds thing.

1351
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he was gonna he was gonna

1352
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: come back. It was like a rivalry Jets Bills saying,

1353
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, he gonna come back and do something, and

1354
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: we gonna make it, you know what I'm saying. But

1355
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: I guess it went a little less, but it is

1356
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: what it is. We did what we did and saw good.

1357
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: Talk to us a little bit about what your advice

1358
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: is for a team like the Bills who started the

1359
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: season with a little bit of expectation within the locker room.

1360
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you always, you know how it is in

1361
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,439
Speaker 1: the locker room. You always feel like you're gonna play

1362
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: well and then to go out and do that do

1363
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: what they did on on week one of the seasons.

1364
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: What's your advice to the locker room of the Bills

1365
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: and how handle the rest of the way. Man, Just

1366
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: play ball. Man, go out there and play ball. We

1367
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: know to plays, but go out there and beat that

1368
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: guy in front of you and communicate with your with

1369
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: your with your teammates. That's I mean, that's that's about it.

1370
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: Start off. You can start off seating into McCoy and

1371
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: things will open up after that. You know. Um, that

1372
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: way we're gonna have to force uh force passes with

1373
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: long developing routes, et cetera. You know we can start

1374
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: hitting hit them quick. You know, I don't know, just

1375
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: play ball. I gotta do that, Stevie. Um, are you

1376
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: bringing family back for the leader of the charges this Sunday?

1377
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: Bringing your kids back to see who's got a son

1378
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: and a daughter? Right? Yeah? I got I got two.

1379
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: I got two girls and a boy. And you know

1380
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: they're excited to come back. And my youngest me is

1381
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: she talking about, oh I missed New York. She was

1382
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: so young, like how do you even you even know

1383
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: about anything? But she see the pictures of her and

1384
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: us planning in the snow and by the lake and

1385
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: all that. So she's excited. My son he excited to

1386
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: get back and back out there. Maya same same way.

1387
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: I just want them to feel that vibe that I

1388
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: that I felt every every Sunday. You know, are there? Um,

1389
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: this is gonna be It's gonna be good for them

1390
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: to experience. And you know, myself also want one more,

1391
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: to get one more time. Yeah, well, it's the vibe

1392
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: is gonna be there. You always were good at bringing

1393
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: the vibe. Stevie. Good to talk with you today. We

1394
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you Sunday. Thanks you for spending

1395
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: a few minutes with us. We appreciate it absolutely. It's

1396
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: all good. I'll see y'all later. We'll see It's man.

1397
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: Stevie Johnson, former Bills wide receiver drafted by the Bills

1398
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: in the seventh round in O eight and uh I

1399
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: looked it up eighth all time in receptions in Buffalo

1400
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: Bill's history. Stevie joined us on the Subway Fresh Take

1401
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: Hotline and Subway Eat Fresh. He was. He was a

1402
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: lot of fun, Steve. I know you didn't. You're passed

1403
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: it and crossed that often he was. You were well

1404
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: gone from the league when he played, but he was

1405
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: an awful lot of fun to have around. I'll tell

1406
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: you that. Yeah. He was one of those guys that

1407
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: win or lose didn't carry. I played with guys and

1408
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: coaches who coached that way, who listen, if you're not

1409
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: having fun, you're not doing it right. And I think

1410
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: it's you have to tip your hat to those guys.

1411
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,960
Speaker 1: It's not always easy to do that in a game

1412
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: that's so physically demanding. Seventh eighth all time in receptions,

1413
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: three hundred one catches and seventy one games, twelve point

1414
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: seven yards per reception. Stevie Johnson was, as I said,

1415
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. He had twenty eight career touchdowns

1416
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: for the Bills, played a little bit for the Niners,

1417
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: played a little bit for the Chargers. In fact, his

1418
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: career ended with the then San Diego Chargers just a

1419
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Looking forward to seeing him Sunday,

1420
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: looking forward to the game the Bill trying to rebound

1421
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And if it were up to you, what

1422
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: two things would you ask the Bills to do this Sunday?

1423
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: One on offense, one on defense. I said, I would

1424
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: ask them to change quarterbacks. Go to Josh Allen, I said,

1425
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: I would blitzmore on defense. But what do you think?

1426
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three oh five fifty

1427
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1428
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 1: Let's take a call from Todd in Virginia. Although Todd,

1429
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Hey guys, thanks for

1430
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: taking my call. Um, So, what I really wanted to

1431
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: talk about is the inactive list that they had this

1432
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: past Sunday. I think it's easy to kind of look

1433
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 1: back and say it was a mistake not activating Vonte Davis. However,

1434
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: I'll I'll say I think it was a mistake even

1435
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: before you saw what happened. So if you're gonna take

1436
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 1: if you're gonna put someone on, you gotta take someone off.

1437
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: So this is why I wanted to ask Steve, because

1438
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: I really don't see a lot out of Taiwan Jones.

1439
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: I don't think he adds much to the to the

1440
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: whole game. Uh, He's not like he's gonna come in

1441
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: and play running back, and without offending Taiwan, he seems

1442
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: to be the first guy to miss um. So obviously

1443
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 1: special teams is important, But couldn't you have a wide

1444
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: receiver that's gonna do something possibly in the game, or

1445
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: an extra quarterback being that guy who's gonna go down

1446
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: and cover punts. Yeah? Right, And that's and that's a

1447
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: a good question because that's what you're looking at. I mean,

1448
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: if you take Vante Davis off the field and put

1449
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: tar On Johnson in that elevates like Ryan Lewis Laffi

1450
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: had pits one of those guys. And then on the

1451
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: and that on the offensive side of the football, you

1452
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: go one down on the running backs or you activate

1453
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: both those guys. Uh. And on the running back side,

1454
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: you take one of the guys off. And that that

1455
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: comes down to Taiwan Jones. And I see what you're saying.

1456
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. You're right, it's about special teams. Taiwan

1457
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: Jones isn't gonna play Why is gonna play running back

1458
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: for the Bills. He's gonna play special teams. And that's

1459
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: why he's out there. Uh. And until that changed, and

1460
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: you can bet two that uh, Danny Crossman is lobbying

1461
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: hard to make sure he's out there because he's got

1462
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: to replace him with somebody. And you don't want to

1463
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: give up a big play on special teams, no doubt.

1464
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: But that's always a balancing act. H. Four running backs

1465
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: is a lot to go into the game with, well,

1466
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: five with you if you count, if you count de

1467
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: Marco H. That's a lot to have on your running

1468
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: backs thing. And if you can And they did get

1469
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: stung a little bit when when Taren Johnson came off

1470
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: the field with an elbow and he was gone for

1471
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: a while before he came back and then he was out.

1472
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: So I think when you get caught in an injury,

1473
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 1: you're always you. That's why these coaches, you know, that's

1474
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: why they they struggle with who to activate and who

1475
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: to deactivate. And I think when they came down to it,

1476
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: and the reason they deactivated Vonte Davis was the fact

1477
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: that they didn't think he was gonna be He couldn't

1478
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: contribute any other way than on defense. And if he

1479
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play defense, and you got a complete hole

1480
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 1: right at that spot until a guy gets hurt. So

1481
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,439
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, Todd, you you might bring up

1482
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: a good point, and it is always a balance. They

1483
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: deactivated Vonte Davis, they activated Taiwan Jones. They had five

1484
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: running backs, only four of which saw the field in

1485
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: the game. As a running back, Marcus Murphy contributed as

1486
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,640
Speaker 1: a special teams player and as a return guy. He

1487
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: played extremely well. Vonte Davis was off the team didn't play. Yeah,

1488
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:04,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd go, I'd go, I don't

1489
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: know what's that gonna do. I mean, it's not going

1490
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: to change the outcome of that game, no question, And

1491
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 1: I guess it's a legitimate question as to whether you

1492
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: think that you know you're gonna keep a special team's guy.

1493
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: But come on, well, I mean, what's that going to

1494
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: change in the outcome of the forty seven or three game.

1495
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: Let's say, what are you look at to fix offense defense?

1496
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know what you think.

1497
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: Burry on the line from Amhurst. Go ahead, Barry, Welcome

1498
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: to the show. Thanks guys, I appreciate that. Listen, if

1499
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: you're going to keep credibility, forget about the fans, if

1500
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep credibility in the locker room as a coach,

1501
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't understand and how you could possibly even think

1502
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: about starting Peterman Well very and I'm not disagree with you,

1503
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 1: but I wonder how do you know that? How do

1504
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: you know the way the locker room feels, Because no,

1505
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how the locker room feels. You Steve

1506
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: would know that a hundred times better than me. I

1507
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 1: don't know that. But I don't know how anybody can say, hey,

1508
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: the locker room wants Josh or the locker room once people.

1509
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 1: I know people in general, and I've been watching the

1510
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: Bulls for fifty years. No, no, no, you said the

1511
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: locker room though, and I'm not trying to challenge your Barry. Barry,

1512
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,639
Speaker 1: I think you're making an interesting point, But I don't

1513
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: know that we know, or you or anybody knows what

1514
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: those players think and what they think would be credible

1515
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 1: credible move. Let me ask you this, Barry, and seriously,

1516
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: what yeah say say the locker room is either way,

1517
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: either they're all for Josh or all for Peterman or whatever.

1518
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: How do you think how much of that do you

1519
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: think goes into the decision? You think that's like one

1520
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the decision. I think it has to

1521
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: do a lot with the fact that if you're saying,

1522
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: I'm going to put out as a coach the best,

1523
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 1: e loving players on both sides of the ball that

1524
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: give us the best chance to win. You you're a

1525
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,439
Speaker 1: former player for a long time and a pro Bowl player.

1526
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 1: You know better than anybody with that locker room thinks

1527
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: and feels, and you, I would think as a player,

1528
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: no better than anybody who you think and who you're

1529
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: teammates think gives you a better chance to win. I just,

1530
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: in my opinion, don't see how he can keep a

1531
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: face on and put it and say we are going

1532
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 1: to start Taterman over Alan when it appears to everybody

1533
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: that Alan gives you the better chance to win the game.

1534
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: And as far as the defensive side of the ball,

1535
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: nobody agrees with you more than I do. Job. If

1536
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,520
Speaker 1: they don't start to put some heat on the quarterback

1537
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: at some point, they didn't do it in preseason, they

1538
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 1: didn't do it Sunday. If they leave these quarterbacks back

1539
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: there six or seven seconds to throw the ball, I

1540
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: don't care. If you have four verses back there in

1541
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: the secondary, They're going to find a way to get open.

1542
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: So Fraser, in my opinion, has to find a way

1543
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: to dial up a blitz in some way, shape or

1544
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: form to put some heat on Rivers and every quarterback

1545
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 1: from here on out. That's my thoughts. Joel Okay and

1546
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: Barry may bring up some good points. And there's no

1547
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: question that the players do have a voice in who

1548
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: they believe should be the guy. And I don't know

1549
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: that it's unanimous. Yeah, I don't know who What that

1550
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: point is? What is that voice saying today? And that's

1551
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: the point I was. If it is listen, if it

1552
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: is unanimous, if the players all think the same thing,

1553
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 1: you can bet your bottom dollar that the coaching staff agrees.

1554
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: You can bet that. Now, if there's some dissension, if

1555
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: there's some players are I don't know, I don't think

1556
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 1: he's ready. I don't know yet. If there's some of that,

1557
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 1: then then that's where we're at, you know, that's where

1558
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: that gives you a different conversation. But you're right if

1559
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: if the players in the locker room, and I remember

1560
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: being a player, and Barry from Amherst brings it up,

1561
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: the players in the locker room have an opinion about

1562
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: who gives them the best chance and why. But can

1563
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: I say this, it's an opinion. It's not an election here.

1564
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,720
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Sean McDermott and every coach in

1565
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: the league gets paid to make that call. Oh and

1566
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: it's not just taking a pall on the locker room

1567
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 1: we started. That's not the point. The point is this,

1568
01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 1: the players developed their opinion the same way the coaches do,

1569
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: and you can bet. My point is, if you can

1570
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: bet if the players all feel this way, the coaching

1571
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: staff feels it too. And the only thing standing in

1572
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,679
Speaker 1: the way of the coaching staff putting that guy out

1573
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: there is is selling it to whoever they got to

1574
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: sell to. They're they're gonna make that decision. There may

1575
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 1: be an ownership issue or somebody above them that says, hey, guys,

1576
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: I really want to see this guy all that stuff,

1577
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,599
Speaker 1: but that doesn't exist in this building. If the players

1578
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:27,600
Speaker 1: believe it, you can bet the coaches are in the

1579
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 1: exact same spot and there. They don't have to be,

1580
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you they will be because everybody in

1581
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: that locker room sees the same thing. Okay, the players

1582
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: are in the film room with the coaches, They hear

1583
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: the coaches, They know what the coaches think, and they

1584
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: see it on the field. They play with a guy,

1585
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: they see the same thing. This is you can't escape it.

1586
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 1: That's why I tell people, if the acid test is

1587
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: whether a guy is a good guy or a bad guy,

1588
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: is in the locker room, if his teammates love him,

1589
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: you can bet he's a good guy because you cannot

1590
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 1: hide it in the locker room. To Barry's point though above,

1591
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm getting to, the players formulate their

1592
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:07,839
Speaker 1: opinion in a place where you can't hide the truth.

1593
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: That's where the coaches are too. They're all going to

1594
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: get to the same conclusion together. I'm telling you the

1595
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: Bury's point. They we Bury me you. I don't think

1596
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: all of us. We don't know how the locker room feels.

1597
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: There may be someone there who think, Hey, I like

1598
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: Josh and he's got a lot of promise, and it's

1599
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: going to be a great quarterback. We got a better

1600
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:29,880
Speaker 1: chance to win it with Nathan Peterman. There may be

1601
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: players in there who feel that way. They may never

1602
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: express that publicly, but there may be guys who feel that,

1603
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 1: but you can bet they express it privately in the

1604
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 1: locker room. Yeah. And that's the thing too. I think

1605
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 1: when you get to that that when you get into

1606
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:43,559
Speaker 1: a debate, if there's a debate in the locker room

1607
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: about Gosh, I don't know, this guy's a little better,

1608
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: this guy's a little better, They're not gonna be so

1609
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: sold out on their opinion as to discount the other side.

1610
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is, because they know both

1611
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 1: sides personally and professionally. You know they're gonna be rooting

1612
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: for both guys to play well. So when you get

1613
01:14:58,080 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: down to the debate and he does come down to

1614
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: I doubt, and it rarely gets to the point where

1615
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: you'd have a divided locker room over a quarterback. I

1616
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: think that's very rare. I'm not saying it never happens.

1617
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: I think it's rare, and I think right it's rare.

1618
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 1: Though you're talking about once in a you know me too.

1619
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:18,439
Speaker 1: You know you're talking about Flutie Johnson, right, Okay, it

1620
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: happened once in the and since eighty six when I

1621
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: got here, and whenever you started covering this guy's or

1622
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 1: being a fan of it, it's happened once. I just

1623
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: don't think it happens that often. And I think in

1624
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: that case, you know, the coaching staff obviously has the

1625
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: final say yeah. I think everybody's gonna get on the

1626
01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: same page, even if they don't agree with it early

1627
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,719
Speaker 1: in the week. If they're gonna make that call, everybody's

1628
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: gonna throw their weight behind that guy because they want

1629
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: the best outcome. Sure, and that's the way it's gonna be.

1630
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: We did yesterday the poll on who would you start

1631
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback? I think it was eighty nine percent at

1632
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: the end of the day said they would start Josh Allen.

1633
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: That's not the poll we're doing today. I understand people

1634
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: want to talk about quarterbacks, but I am not have

1635
01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: a problem, but I'd like people, listeners, participants in the show.

1636
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 1: There are there issues. What would you fix on offense?

1637
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: I said, I'd change quarterbacks, that would be my first move.

1638
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: What would you fix on offense? What would you fix

1639
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: on defense for this game? Not the cure all, not

1640
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: the you know, the answer to everything, but what the

1641
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: first thing you would do on offensive defense? What would

1642
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: it be? Let's talk more about that when we come back.

1643
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. One Bill's Life presented by Collada

1644
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1645
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: How are you doing today? I hope you're doing all

1646
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: right this Tuesday. The weather here in Orchard Park is

1647
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 1: kind of cloudy, kind of cool. I think he's going

1648
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 1: to warm up, Steve. I looked at the Sunday forecast.

1649
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: Is going to be eighty two degrees and cloudy. Really

1650
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: no real rain threat on Sunday, but we'll see. We

1651
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 1: got a few days until then. I'm looking forward to

1652
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 1: Will it be Indian summer when it gets nice again?

1653
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: Or would be too soon? Is it too soon for that?

1654
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 1: I hope that soon. It hasn't even gotten cold yet.

1655
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: It feels cold. The last few days, doesn't it. I've

1656
01:16:57,560 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 1: been cold since since, well, you were in the rain

1657
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: all day Sunday, you weren't cold, then I'm still cold

1658
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: from the rain. I was gonna say ivan cold since Sunday.

1659
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 1: I really had that. It was bad. We got like

1660
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 1: the pullovers on. I mean, come on, Mansen, this is

1661
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: the kind of weather that's great though. I mean the

1662
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: early fall, late summer, when you get eighty degree days

1663
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: and sixty degree nights, that's what I want. I don't

1664
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: want this fifty five degree Ballooney, Seriously, Oh come on,

1665
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:24,679
Speaker 1: I don't want this. I wanted wine and it's nice good.

1666
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 1: I'm trying to whine about things other than the bills

1667
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: performance Sunday. I'm trying to find other things to whine about.

1668
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:33,560
Speaker 1: It's sort of misdirected. I know, I know you're you're projecting.

1669
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 1: Our Twitter question today is also our phone question. We'd

1670
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: like to know from you. What do you think what

1671
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: is your fix for the bills on offense and on defense?

1672
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: One thing on each side of the ball. And again

1673
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: we don't anticipate you got to cure all but something

1674
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: that can't be done this week? Do you make things better?

1675
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: You want to reach a few up. The cheat there, buddy,

1676
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: buff and ninety two offense is the obvious start. Alan

1677
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: defenses have to respect his arm strength, and unlike Peterman

1678
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 1: who struggles throwing to the sidelines, I think Alan, who

1679
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: was the ball, moves better in the pocket. On d

1680
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: I would like to see a little more blitzing while

1681
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,640
Speaker 1: hitting the wide receivers at the line of scrimmage, a

1682
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: little more physical contact on the outside. That's interesting too.

1683
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: I mean you can start worrying about the techniques that

1684
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: corners are using, maybe not getting given guys free releases

1685
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: down the field. But yeah, it all starts with the

1686
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: pressure upfront defensively for me, and I'm kind of I

1687
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 1: kind of agree with that one. So um and I

1688
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be hard to get away from the

1689
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 1: quarterback question on offense. I think it's just it's just

1690
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: too obvious. It's obvious and it's easy, right. Well, yeah,

1691
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: you disrupt the less less. I mean you're thinking about

1692
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, you think talking about the offensive line. What

1693
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: are you gonna do. You're gonna move Groy to a guard,

1694
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: take one of the guards out, throw Bodine in. Are

1695
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: you're gonna start whyatt teller all of the sudden, is

1696
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: he good enough to go? Or a you're gonna do?

1697
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: Or what else? What else are you gonna do? You're

1698
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: gonna move those guys around your rosters, you know, limited

1699
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,040
Speaker 1: by the seven, eight nine guys you've got on it,

1700
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 1: and you did that all through the preseason to get

1701
01:18:57,120 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: to this point anyway, So you just gotta I think

1702
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: you just kind of kind of of fire into those

1703
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: guys and get them to play better. What fix on

1704
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:04,760
Speaker 1: offense and defense? They get the Bills back on track.

1705
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:08,600
Speaker 1: Nathan Garnett tweets this in better offensive scheme for a

1706
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: line that cannot pass, block and a young quarterback. I

1707
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 1: love what Chicago's offense look like. Make d linemen think

1708
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 1: therefore slowing them down on defense, they need to blitz more.

1709
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 1: If our secondary is any good, they should hold up.

1710
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: They got to look at the offensive scheme, Steve, and

1711
01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: they may have to look at it if they make

1712
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, which they may have to look at it

1713
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 1: pretty radically. How to listen if they're not saying dumb

1714
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: it down. I won't use that phrase, but they're gonna

1715
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 1: have to, you would think, make it simpler and smaller

1716
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:34,479
Speaker 1: for jacks. They got to look at if they don't

1717
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 1: make the quarterback change, Yeah, they gotta look at it, right,

1718
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: I mean they gotta do something different. I mean they

1719
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,720
Speaker 1: really got to do something different. Now you can say too,

1720
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: they got to play better. Is different, you know. I

1721
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 1: mean that's yeah, of course. And I don't say chuck

1722
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: everything they were doing or trying to do to the curb,

1723
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: but they certainly got to take a different tack and

1724
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: they got to get a different level of production out

1725
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: of everybody on the offense. And that starts with the

1726
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: coaching staff and communicating with these guys a little something

1727
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: different than they've been doing. I was disappointed. Mark Gone

1728
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 1: wrote about it in the Buffalo News. I don't know

1729
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: if it was last night or today, about the run

1730
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: pass mix and they fell behind, they had to throw.

1731
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: I get that. Chris Brown talked about it with us

1732
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 1: yesterday about you know, the formations, and I was disappointed

1733
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: not that they didn't run more, but that they didn't

1734
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: show the variety of formations and personnel packages that anticipated

1735
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: we would see. I think it was easy for the

1736
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens defense to say, oh, there they are again.

1737
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 1: Eleven personnel, twelve personnel. We kind of know what's coming here.

1738
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: And yes they did throw it too often, as was

1739
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: documented by Mark On but even while the game was

1740
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 1: still an issue. But I was disappointed that they didn't

1741
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: run more and they didn't run out of different formations,

1742
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: spread it out and run. That's like that's been the key, right.

1743
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: I think they could have done more that in this game. Look,

1744
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: there's a million things. You know, when it doesn't work,

1745
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: everything's like to change everything now and after the fact.

1746
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: But you go with what you you know, you take

1747
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,720
Speaker 1: your best guess, particularly on opening day, and you go

1748
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 1: try and execute it. And you know the players will

1749
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 1: be the first to tell you they didn't. They didn't

1750
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: get it done and they got to do better. Call

1751
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 1: here from Dan and Cheek Dowaga. Hello, Dan, welcome to

1752
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 1: the show. I fellas hope you're having a good day today. Yeah.

1753
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,600
Speaker 1: I got a couple of questions about the offseason acquisitions

1754
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: that Bills made, namely McCarron and Coleman. Yeah. McCarron, I

1755
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: don't understand what the purpose of bringing men was and

1756
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: if he was that bad that they had to let

1757
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: him go. They didn't let him go, Dan, they traded

1758
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 1: him Well, they traded him for less than what they

1759
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: they acquired him for, didn't they. They know, Actually they

1760
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: got him for a No, they got him off the

1761
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: free agent market. They signed him, and then he was

1762
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,799
Speaker 1: he was a street free agent, and then they traded

1763
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: him for a fifth fifth rounder. Yeah, that I believe

1764
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:53,799
Speaker 1: that's correct. But wasn't that they needed their in desperate

1765
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:58,800
Speaker 1: need of a backup quarterback. And he must have really

1766
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 1: been horrid pick. But you might have. Did you see him?

1767
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 1: Danny wasn't great in preseason. Andy got hurt, which limited

1768
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:09,720
Speaker 1: the number of snaps he got. Yeah, but um McDermott

1769
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: doesn't care how bad Peterman looks. He still leaves him

1770
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:15,880
Speaker 1: in the game. Well, no, he didn't. But here's the

1771
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:17,600
Speaker 1: thing too, Dan, I mean, I get it you're a

1772
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: little frustrated with the quarterback situation, the fact that we

1773
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: only have two guys to choose from and quarterback. Go

1774
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: ahead about Coleman, now, I would when I heard Murph

1775
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: say that the Patriots picked him up. Now once again,

1776
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 1: this guy, we arguably have the worst receivers in the league.

1777
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: That's what everybody's saying. Anyway, again, Dan, that guy and

1778
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna kind of short circuit. You're here for

1779
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: the benefit of the time. Corey Coleman got a ton

1780
01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: of chances in preseason. He was on the field for

1781
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: most of the last two games, each of the last

1782
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 1: two games, and didn't do anything. What are they supposed

1783
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:56,560
Speaker 1: to do? You know, what are they supposed to do

1784
01:22:56,640 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: with him? So now once again they're paying these guys

1785
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: that a team, well they're not paying Coleman, which is

1786
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: ultimately that's that's why they're in this predictament. We all

1787
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: know that, because they're over fifty million dollars and dead

1788
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: cap money, and that's that's a tough hand to deal

1789
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: with because well, yeah, but and they're dealing with it

1790
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 1: this year, they won't deal with it at all next year. Yeah.

1791
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: I don't care how much dead cap they have really,

1792
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't impact what happened Sunday this past Sunday.

1793
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 1: I don't think. Well, they have basically no talent on

1794
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: this roster. They have McCoy on offense, and now they're

1795
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,520
Speaker 1: changing he should change his name from McCoy to decoy

1796
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 1: because even he wasn't even part of the game the

1797
01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 1: game plan apparently, and he's your best offensive player. I

1798
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: don't think there's any doubt about that. Okay, all right, Dan,

1799
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I don't agree with the

1800
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 1: whole lot of it, but and I get the frustration.

1801
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 1: I know it was an awful game Sunday. It was

1802
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: a terrible game. Yeah, And it doesn't And Dan, you're

1803
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: you're indicative of where everybody's at at some point after

1804
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:56,880
Speaker 1: that game. Maybe some people are over it now, some

1805
01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: people are still dealing with it. That you start to

1806
01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: question all the stuff they did, Like three months ago,

1807
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 1: four months ago, five months ago, you questioned their draft tactics,

1808
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 1: and you question, you know, the problems that they were facing.

1809
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: One is that they were limited in their money they

1810
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:14,719
Speaker 1: could spend in free agency. Where they spent that money,

1811
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: the guys they got it went out and got You know,

1812
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: you can question all of that stuff when you have

1813
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: a game like like you did last Sunday. But don't

1814
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: forget I mean, there was a lot of good, thoughtful

1815
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: processes that went in and a lot of good questions

1816
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 1: and and they made a lot of the right choices

1817
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: given the table that was in front of them and

1818
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 1: their assets they had to spend in the off season.

1819
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: The thing that got him, I think more than anything

1820
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 1: this offseason, and it speaks a little bit to what

1821
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: you were talking about. The Eric Wood injury and the

1822
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: Richie incognito retirement caught him a little bit off guard.

1823
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: I think I got it that happened, you know there

1824
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: but in the you know, just before free agency. But

1825
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 1: they didn't they had another hole to fill or whatever

1826
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: holes you think they had to fill to begin with.

1827
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: They had another hole to fill or two holes to

1828
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: fill in their offensive line, and the exact same assets

1829
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: to fill all the rest of the holes. And those

1830
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: two they you know, all of a sudden, they're spread

1831
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 1: a little bit thinner, way thinner than they thought they

1832
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: were going to be spread in the off season coming

1833
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: into this offseason, and so they get caught a little

1834
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: bit on where they went out and they signed Russ Bodine.

1835
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: Can I all of that? I mean, so they got

1836
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,560
Speaker 1: three words for you, go oh and one there and

1837
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 1: one you don't have to go back and just buy

1838
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 1: everything that happened in the off season. We know how

1839
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: they got where they're at. They're in one, they're not

1840
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 1: in fifteen. Yeah, you caught me doing the exact same thing.

1841
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: I started going back and going through every decision they

1842
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: off season. Don't you see how it plays out a

1843
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm looking for perspective here. I'm looking forward

1844
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: from you. You're the one who's in there yesterday saying,

1845
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, the players look ahead. You know, let's look

1846
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: ahead a little bit there. O and one, how do

1847
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: you fix what went wrong? How do you fix one

1848
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: went wrong this past Sunday? You don't have to go

1849
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: back and litigate every decision they made. And that's you're right,

1850
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what but that you know, that's where

1851
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: you know, you get a guy like calling in and

1852
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: that's what they start to do. And I started to

1853
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:04,679
Speaker 1: go to that roo. You got sucked right into it.

1854
01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:07,040
Speaker 1: They got me, They got me. Every time you try

1855
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 1: to get out, they keep pulling it back in. It's

1856
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be that white. Until they were rough

1857
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: it was. It wasn't like a twenty to seventeen. It

1858
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: was an awful, terrible and when that puts you in

1859
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: a bad spot. And one, my man, all right, oh

1860
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: on one, I'm with you. We got Peter King coming

1861
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 1: up at the top of the are. We got a

1862
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: lot more to talk about. We want to hear from

1863
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: you what fixed you got for the Bills on offense

1864
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 1: and on defense. Give us a call or tweet it

1865
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 1: in as we go to break time. Now to honor

1866
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: the AD Pro Sports high school coaches of the week,

1867
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: we've got one from Section six in Buffalo. One from

1868
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: Section five. In Section six, Russ Nixon, head coach at

1869
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:45,400
Speaker 1: Niagar Wheatfield, led his team to a second straight shutout

1870
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:48,759
Speaker 1: as the Falcons beat Frontier nineteen to nothing. Russ Nixon's

1871
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 1: been on the Wheatfield staff for six seasons. He's been

1872
01:26:51,080 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 1: the head coach since two thy sixteen. Russ Nixon the

1873
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: head coach sections at Niagar Wheatfield. The Section six high

1874
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 1: School Coach of the Week. In Section five, it is

1875
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 1: Bobby bait Set McQuaid. McQuaid fell behind seventeen to nothing,

1876
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: but Raley to be Kensius forty two to thirty seven.

1877
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: McQuaid now two and oh on the season. Congratulations coach

1878
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: Bobby Bates of McQuaid the Section five high School Coach

1879
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,920
Speaker 1: of the week. Brought to you by AD Pro Sports.

1880
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 1: We got more. Steve and I coming back One Bill's

1881
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

1882
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: back One goes live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker on a

1883
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. We'll be all about the Chargers starting tomorrow,

1884
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,639
Speaker 1: Steve god Good shows coming up later in the week,

1885
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,639
Speaker 1: to Thurman. Thomas gonna join us on Thursday. Tom Talesco,

1886
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 1: the general manager of the Chargers, will join us on Thursday. He,

1887
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Speaker 1: of course, um is Western New York native, our usual

1888
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:52,719
Speaker 1: Friday lineup. I can I'm just kind of looking ahead.

1889
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 1: I can see the week developing. We'll be We'll be

1890
01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: good tomorrow. I mean we're good today, we'll be better tomorrow. Though,

1891
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: if we look ahead. I'm taking your advice that resonated

1892
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:03,960
Speaker 1: yesterday when you said look ahead, it's the next one.

1893
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: Here's the thing when we just got caught, I got

1894
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: caught last segment, getting going back down, you know, and

1895
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: you start going backwards about oh, they made this mistake,

1896
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: they made this mistake. They didn't draft this guy, they

1897
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: didn't draft that guy, they didn't trade for this guy,

1898
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: that didn't sign this guy. Here's the thing. When you

1899
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: go down that road, you start going down like like

1900
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: you believe Brandon McBean and Brandon McBean, what are we saying,

1901
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott and the rest of the

1902
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: and the way they've revamped the organization, the tack that

1903
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: they've taken last year at the beginning of the year,

1904
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,600
Speaker 1: when they cleanse the roster this last offseason, when they

1905
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: cleanse the roster more when they get this thing going,

1906
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: that they're not the right guys. That's where you're going.

1907
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: When you start going back and saying, hey, they made

1908
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: this mistake, and there's no question that everything they've done

1909
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: isn't gonna turn out to be sunshine and Roses. They're

1910
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: gonna be some guys they take a pick that they

1911
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 1: pick or that they choose, or some decisions they make,

1912
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna be wrong. It's it's the way it is.

1913
01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:57,600
Speaker 1: But by going back down that road, you're trying to

1914
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 1: tell me and convince me in some way that they're

1915
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 1: not on the right track, or that they're not the

1916
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,800
Speaker 1: right guys to finish what they started, that they're not

1917
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: going to take this team to where it goes. That

1918
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 1: means competing every year for a playoff spot and maybe

1919
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: once in a while being good enough to go deep

1920
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and giving yourself a chance at the

1921
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:17,880
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy. I'm not anywhere near that. I think this

1922
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: is exactly the crew that can do that. I think

1923
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 1: this is something different than we've seen here in Buffalo

1924
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: for the last gush going on twenty years. This is

1925
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: a crew from top to bottom, starting with the family

1926
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: who owns the team, all the way down to the

1927
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: guys who wash the socks. This is a crew that

1928
01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: is on the right track. Now, there's gonna be some

1929
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 1: dark days. They were was a dark day last Sunday.

1930
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:44,640
Speaker 1: There may be more of those ahead. But when you

1931
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 1: start going back and start rehashing all the stuff that

1932
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: how they got to this point and the mistakes they

1933
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: made and things that didn't happen right, you're telling me

1934
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: that you don't believe they're on the right the right path.

1935
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I think they are. And that's

1936
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,920
Speaker 1: that's why, you know, that's why i'm you know, I'm

1937
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 1: kind of sitting here. I think, you know, I'm not

1938
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: think about let's try and win this game. And one, yeah,

1939
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 1: try and win this game. Think about the Chargers. With

1940
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: the guys you got in the rock room, you got

1941
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,160
Speaker 1: they're all there for a reason. You picked them. You

1942
01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 1: had other guys to choose from these are the guys

1943
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: you picked. This is how you got here, and let's go.

1944
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: Let's go. And I know the guys in the locker

1945
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 1: room were thinking that same thing. They're saying, let's go,

1946
01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 1: give me a chance, and they're gonna try, and they're

1947
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: gonna try and redeem themselves from the performance they put

1948
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:28,800
Speaker 1: out last week. All Right, we take a break here.

1949
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Speaker 1: Peter King from Football Morning in America, NBC Sports and

1950
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:34,840
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk standing by to join us after the

1951
01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:37,120
Speaker 1: top of the hour. His perspective on the Bills where

1952
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 1: they're at, his perspective on the rest of the NFL.

1953
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: Coming up next after the top of the hour, One

1954
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: Bill's Life presented by Collata Health from One Bill's Drive,

1955
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills Radio Network Sports

1956
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,800
Speaker 1: up date. Off day for Bills players getting back to

1957
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: practice smart to get ready for the home opener coming

1958
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 1: up on Sunday. We still don't know who'll get to

1959
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: start a quarterback for the Bills against Los Angeles. Head

1960
01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:10,960
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott not ready to make an announcement yesterday

1961
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: when he met the media. The Bills didn't make one

1962
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 1: move last night. They signed defensive end Nate Orchard to

1963
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 1: a one year deal. A former second round pick of

1964
01:31:17,479 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns in two fifteen, He's twenty five years old.

1965
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 1: Orchard was released by the club and the final cuts

1966
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: at the beginning of September. He's sixty three two hundred

1967
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: and fifty five pounds, likely to help the Bills with

1968
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:31,559
Speaker 1: their pass rush issues. Three seasons with the Browns, Orchard

1969
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: appeared in thirty four games, eleven starts, sixty five tackles,

1970
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:37,599
Speaker 1: five sacks, four pass breakups, and a couple of force

1971
01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 1: fumbles one interception. As well. To make room out the

1972
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 1: roster for Nate Orchard, the Bills released Adolphus Washington, Buffalo's

1973
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: third round pick in two sixteen. He played thirty one

1974
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:48,799
Speaker 1: games for the Bills over three seasons, twenty one starts,

1975
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 1: got in thirty two snaps. Last Sunday in Baltimore, Corey Coleman,

1976
01:31:53,880 --> 01:31:56,360
Speaker 1: former Bills wide receiver this past training camp, gets another

1977
01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 1: shot the Patriots, signing the former first round pick to

1978
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: a one year deal. Coleman visited the Patriots yesterday and

1979
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:05,400
Speaker 1: was going to move on to visit Philadelphia today. He

1980
01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 1: did not the Patriots and not let him get out

1981
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 1: of town. Patriots in desperate needed help at the receiving position,

1982
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:12,560
Speaker 1: so Corey Coleman, who spent a couple of weeks of

1983
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 1: training camp with the Bills, and the Bills that traded

1984
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick for him in twenty twenty. He's

1985
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,920
Speaker 1: now with a new England Patriots. Sam Donald made history

1986
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: last night. The youngest quarterback in the modern era started

1987
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:25,680
Speaker 1: season opener, and there was a lot going on. In

1988
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: his first NFL passed, Donald threw a pick six to

1989
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:31,719
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions safety Condre Diggs. Then he came back. Donald

1990
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 1: came back and led the Jets to a forty eight

1991
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: seventeen victory at Ford Field over the Detroit Lions. John

1992
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: Gruden's returned to the sideline wound up at a loss

1993
01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:42,559
Speaker 1: last night as his Raiders fell to the Los Angeles

1994
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: Rams thirty three to thirteen at Oakland Coliseum. No word

1995
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: yet on Aaron Rodgers whether he will be able to

1996
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: start on Sunday against the Vikings. Rogers says he will,

1997
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 1: but the Viking or the Packers are not yet saying.

1998
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:57,439
Speaker 1: And that is the update from One Bills Drive. John Murphy,

1999
01:32:57,600 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming to you from our One Buffalo studio

2000
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 1: as the Bills get set to play the Los Angeles Chargers.

2001
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: A week of NFL wound up with those two Monday

2002
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 1: night football games last night and joining us on the

2003
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 1: Subway fresh take Hutline to wrap it up. Happy to

2004
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: have NBC sports columnists from Pro Football Talk. He's covered

2005
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:15,759
Speaker 1: the NFL for three decades. He's the author of Football

2006
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 1: Morning in America. Now. Happy to have Peter King on

2007
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 1: the line. Hello, Peter, Welcome to the show, John Steve.

2008
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Doing good? You're doing as best

2009
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 1: as could be expected. We're muddling through this week and

2010
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 1: I tell people, Pete, to do you like the players,

2011
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: do think about the next one, not the last one? Yeah? Yeah,

2012
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 1: Well if you think about the last one, you'll permably

2013
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 1: sink into a severe depression. Oh yeah, you should think

2014
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 1: about the next floor. Hey, Peter, let me ask you

2015
01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 1: the question that we're asking our listeners on Twitter today.

2016
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: If there was one I'm not talking about a cure all,

2017
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 1: but if there was one fix for the offense, one

2018
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: fix for the Buffalo defense, what do you think to

2019
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: win this game on Sunday, not to win fifteen in

2020
01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: a row. Here, what would you do for the Bills.

2021
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:57,639
Speaker 1: What would you do the one thing on offense, one

2022
01:33:57,640 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 1: on defense to maybe help turn things around starting this week,

2023
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: and it can be quarterback change if you feel that way. Yeah,

2024
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I understand, and I wrote my column

2025
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:11,599
Speaker 1: yesterday that you know, if I were if I were

2026
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:13,840
Speaker 1: a Bills fan, I'd be calling a switchboard and say

2027
01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: signed Kaepernick. And I know nobody's nobody's gonna want to

2028
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 1: hear that, and there will be this predictable we'll drop

2029
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: our season, take it to all that other stuff. But

2030
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 1: this is to me, I mean, the Bills are sort

2031
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:35,240
Speaker 1: of on the verge of twenty seventeen being an outlier

2032
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:40,719
Speaker 1: and not a predictor of the future. You know, if

2033
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 1: if they don't, if they don't really play significantly better,

2034
01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about winning this week. And that's

2035
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,240
Speaker 1: so to me. I think you almost want to do

2036
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 1: something that is what I my co almost revolutionary, you know,

2037
01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:00,799
Speaker 1: like signing Kaepernick and getting them ready to play. Doughty

2038
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,200
Speaker 1: can get ready to play for this week. When getting

2039
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,320
Speaker 1: him ready to play pretty soon, I think I agree

2040
01:35:06,400 --> 01:35:08,800
Speaker 1: with you don't want to put Josh Allen in a

2041
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:12,040
Speaker 1: before his ready b before he can be protected. So

2042
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 1: I get that, but I also think it is an

2043
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: absolute debacle to put Nathan Peterman out there again. Um,

2044
01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:23,320
Speaker 1: you know enough with Nathan Peterman, You've seen him in

2045
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:30,200
Speaker 1: two situations. Just really handle it horrendously on the defensive

2046
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,599
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think what I would really

2047
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:36,799
Speaker 1: want to do is probably bring more pressure at Philip

2048
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:42,000
Speaker 1: Rivers on Sunday, or try to bring more pressure, and

2049
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you can, I think that

2050
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:48,599
Speaker 1: immediately gives you a better chance to at least try

2051
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 1: to force some turnovers and try to do a better

2052
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 1: job in disrupting the opposing passing game than they did

2053
01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:59,759
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, and we agree with most of them.

2054
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:01,800
Speaker 1: The people who have been responding to the show said

2055
01:36:01,840 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 1: the same thing. Flip the switch at quarterback and then

2056
01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 1: try and find a way to pressure Philip Rivers for

2057
01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers this week. Those would be the two main

2058
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,840
Speaker 1: focused focal points. And one of the things too, I

2059
01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you about was we've seen other

2060
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 1: teams begin or have horrific losses and kind of you know,

2061
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 1: and bounce back. I mean, and it's been interesting to

2062
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: watch the dynamics here in this building here in Buffalo.

2063
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 1: That and I said it, We've seen it, Murph and

2064
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:36,719
Speaker 1: I walking around. I'm pretty impressed with how this team

2065
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:39,760
Speaker 1: handled a really horrific loss, really the first one of

2066
01:36:39,800 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: the Sean McDermott era. They got beat last year a

2067
01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:44,840
Speaker 1: couple of times, but I think this was as bad

2068
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,679
Speaker 1: a loss as they've suffered, and it's been pretty impressive

2069
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,720
Speaker 1: to see them get back to work. Yeah, I mean,

2070
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:56,080
Speaker 1: if you believe in the team that you have, I mean, honestly,

2071
01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,880
Speaker 1: and again I wasn't around, I didn't see I didn't

2072
01:36:59,880 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: know how aj McCarron wasn't the building or anything like that.

2073
01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 1: But to me now that looks really like a knee

2074
01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 1: jerk trade because what they wouldn't give for a guy

2075
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: who knew their offense right now, just so that you

2076
01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:17,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to put Peterman out there again? That would

2077
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 1: that would be That would be like the first thing

2078
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: that I would be thinking in retrospect if you're thinking

2079
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 1: about decisions that you've made, you know, was this really

2080
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:32,720
Speaker 1: a smart decision to let go of McCarron. But I mean,

2081
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: I think obviously, if that's the attitude around the building,

2082
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 1: you know that everybody's handling it well and saying, hey,

2083
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:41,839
Speaker 1: it was awful, but it was only one game. Then

2084
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: that speaks to the fact that they believe in what

2085
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,800
Speaker 1: they're doing, and they believe in what they're doing is right.

2086
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm sorry from the outside. If you

2087
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 1: put Nathan Peterman at starting quarterback in your home opener,

2088
01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody walks in the stadium Sunday

2089
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:00,000
Speaker 1: is going to have any hope. Peter, I want to

2090
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,880
Speaker 1: ask you about your I don't want to dwell on

2091
01:38:01,920 --> 01:38:03,600
Speaker 1: the Bills. There's enough going on on the league. But

2092
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 1: your solution to look at the Colin Kaepernick. Let's put

2093
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 1: the anthem protests aside for for the rest of the discussion.

2094
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: Can how can Kaepernick help? He hasn't played in so

2095
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,760
Speaker 1: long now, Can he help a team? Can he help

2096
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:19,759
Speaker 1: the Bills? It's a great I can't answer the question.

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Speaker 1: All I know is that you know, he's twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old, and he has more experience than anybody else

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Speaker 1: on the street right now at at eluding a rush,

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Speaker 1: playing better than clearly better than Nathan Peterman, and being

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Speaker 1: able to play the kind of football that while the

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Speaker 1: offensive line is getting uh you know, hopefully anyway getting better,

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Speaker 1: um making plays on the run. I mean, look, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's six years ago. That's a long time ago. But

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Speaker 1: six years ago he played the best on playoff game

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Speaker 1: in NFL history in terms of passing and running. He

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Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and whatever, one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: against the Green Bay Packers. And I'm not saying he

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Speaker 1: shows them and does that, but I am saying that

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Speaker 1: these are desperate times require call for desperate measures. And

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Speaker 1: and I just think right now, to you know, if you,

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Speaker 1: if you want to say to your team, and you

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Speaker 1: want to say to your fans, everybody always says, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're doing everything we can to try to win. Are

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Speaker 1: you really? I mean, are you taking are you doing

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01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: everything that you can to win? Uh? If you? And

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Speaker 1: again I'm not saying it absolutely has to be Kaevernick,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying, I think they got to do something

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Speaker 1: really really uh what's the right word. I think they've

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Speaker 1: got to do something really beyond the pale, you know,

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01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: to try to show the show some some real effort

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Speaker 1: that they're trying to do everything they can to win. Yeah, Pete,

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Speaker 1: And before we as we move on, I just I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that that's a and I agree, but One of

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Speaker 1: the things I was going to ask you too about

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Speaker 1: was something you wrote about in your article. And I

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Speaker 1: don't want to change the subject from the Bills, but

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Speaker 1: I've been yeah, I've been I've been begging, I've been waiting.

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Speaker 1: I read your article You're Football in America, Football Morning

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Speaker 1: in America. And one of the great stories this last

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Speaker 1: weekend was Ryan Fitzpatrick of the of the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers doing what he did I and I read that

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Speaker 1: what he said, and it was really telling a lot,

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Speaker 1: even for the Buffalo Bills situation here, and you quoted

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Speaker 1: him and let me I'm just gonna read this quote

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01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: from your article. I know, I'm sure you'll remember it. It

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Speaker 1: It says, and this is what Ryan Fitzpatrick said. I'm

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01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 1: realistic about how hard this game is. I've thrown six

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Speaker 1: touchdown in a game. I've thrown six interceptions in a game.

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Speaker 1: How do you come back from those? This game is

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01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:54,479
Speaker 1: week to week proposition, and you any better understand that.

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Speaker 1: I'll go home tonight and we'll foot feel good about

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01:40:57,120 --> 01:40:59,840
Speaker 1: this one because it's a big accomplishment beating the Saints here.

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Speaker 1: But then I'll get ready for the next one because

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01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: the next one will be all that matters. That. That

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01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:08,080
Speaker 1: was really profound that Ryan Fitzpatrick, after having a game

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01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 1: like he did on opening day for Tampa Bay in

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01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:13,400
Speaker 1: New Orleans, said that about this being a week to

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Speaker 1: week league and how it's it's nice to have a

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01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:19,599
Speaker 1: game like that, but as soon as the day's over,

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Speaker 1: it's the next one that matters. Yeah. I've always really

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Speaker 1: liked Ryan, and you guys know him obviously because he

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Speaker 1: was there. I've always really liked him because he's one

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Speaker 1: of the most pregnant, pragmatic people I've met covering football.

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01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I have always liked

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01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:43,800
Speaker 1: about him is that if he's the backup, okay, he

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Speaker 1: gets it, He's okay with that, and he's going to

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Speaker 1: be a darn good backup. But you know, if he

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Speaker 1: is the starter, you know, like he said, I truly

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01:41:56,479 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: believe I can do this every single game I play.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that is I don't think that

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01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: is you know. I think that is the optimism that

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01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,360
Speaker 1: a quarterback should have, that if he's got really good weapons,

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01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:17,519
Speaker 1: then he can be protected. Why can't he have a

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Speaker 1: day like that? Why can't he throw for four hundred yards?

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Speaker 1: You know in a weather controlled environment would I would

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01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: want my quarterback to feel that way. But you also

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01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:30,720
Speaker 1: have to have the understanding that you're going to have

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Speaker 1: some awful days too, And I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons I like him so much. I like his

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Speaker 1: optimism and I like his approach, but I also like

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Speaker 1: the fact that he knows that the only thing that

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Speaker 1: matters is the next game. With Peter King, NBC Sports

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Speaker 1: columnists from Football Morning in America and you can read

2175
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,800
Speaker 1: it on Mondays at Pro Football Talk dot com. The

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01:42:52,880 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: Quarterback Story of the Week Peter obviously took place at

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Speaker 1: lambeau Field, and you were all over. You went up

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Speaker 1: what last week and talk to Aaron Rodgers about his

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Speaker 1: and he paid dividends. What an amazing game. You call

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Speaker 1: it the best game of his career, which there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of candidates for that. Well, I mean, he's played

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Speaker 1: better football games for four quarters, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: But you combine it with the fact that he was

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Speaker 1: hurt basically playing on one like along with the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know, this is the first time in the

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Speaker 1: one hundred year history of the Green Bay Packers that

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Speaker 1: they've been behind to start the fourth quarter by seventeen

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Speaker 1: or more and gone on to win the game. They

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Speaker 1: had had one hundred, one hundred and eleven losses previously

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Speaker 1: when they had been behind by seventeen or more entering

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and so I just think of that

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Speaker 1: and I say, essentially, okay, look, the one thing about

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers that you know is that he's going to

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01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: walk in the huddle, look at everybody. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: how much time has left, with the score is, and

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Speaker 1: he's going to say, hey, look, we got a chance

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Speaker 1: to win. Just do your job. Basically, he believes in

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Speaker 1: the Belichickism, and I think that's what he did. The

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Speaker 1: coolest thing that I think happened near the end of

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Speaker 1: this game is that everybody is around congratulating him. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is saying, hey, listen, this was an incredible game and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff and cops that he and Aaron Rodgers

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01:44:21,280 --> 01:44:24,280
Speaker 1: was happy. But he's looking at everybody like in the

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01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 1: expression from Aaron is hey, what did you expect? You

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01:44:29,439 --> 01:44:31,840
Speaker 1: know we had three or four series left, We know

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01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:34,839
Speaker 1: we could score on these guys. Give me the protection

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01:44:34,880 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 1: and we're going to make these plays happening. So he's

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01:44:38,320 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 1: just I just think he's remarkable. I think that the

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Speaker 1: long path down the right side into the corner of

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Speaker 1: the ends us at Geronimo Allison, which he threw. If

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01:44:46,800 --> 01:44:50,479
Speaker 1: you watched the replay, he threw that ball without being

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01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: able to stride normally because of his need. So not

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01:44:54,200 --> 01:44:57,639
Speaker 1: only does he show an absolute strike that traveled fifty

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01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:59,800
Speaker 1: two yards in the air, but he did it on

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Speaker 1: one like um. That's why I thought it was the

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01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:04,120
Speaker 1: best game of his life. And Peter, I gotta say,

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01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the piece you did on NBC and

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01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:08,559
Speaker 1: then you recounted it in Football Morning in America about

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01:45:08,960 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: the special I didn't know it existed, the special relationship

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Speaker 1: between Aaron Rodgers and not his predecessor at quarterback, but

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01:45:14,600 --> 01:45:18,840
Speaker 1: Bart Starr. It's an amazing story. Well they're separated by

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01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:22,400
Speaker 1: fifty years, and it's amazing that you know a lot

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01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 1: of players in the NFL and it's not their fault,

2224
01:45:26,560 --> 01:45:30,599
Speaker 1: but they got everything they can handle to to just

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01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:33,360
Speaker 1: keep going and to make the team and to try

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01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 1: to be good. They're not really concerned who played on

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01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 1: the team six a half century ago. But Rogers got

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01:45:40,040 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 1: to no star early on when he was with the

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Speaker 1: Packers and when he was going through his when Farr

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01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:48,960
Speaker 1: was trying to decide am I coming back? Am I not?

2231
01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:51,479
Speaker 1: When Farve almost tried to force his way back on

2232
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:54,000
Speaker 1: the team in two thousand and eight, to get a

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01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 1: letter every week from Bart Starr and his wife Cherry,

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01:45:57,120 --> 01:46:01,920
Speaker 1: basically saying to them, Hey, hang in there. You know

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01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 1: that you're good enough to do this, and you're gonna

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01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:07,240
Speaker 1: get your chance to do this. Hang in there. And

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that that Rogers really appreciates

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01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,719
Speaker 1: them that he'll never forget. And honestly, that's the reason

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01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:17,160
Speaker 1: why Aaron Rodgers agreed to do this story with me,

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Speaker 1: because he wanted to pay tribute to Star the same

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01:46:22,240 --> 01:46:25,640
Speaker 1: way that when we contacted Star and his family, he

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01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,320
Speaker 1: wanted to pay tribute to Rogers. So it was kind

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01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:30,840
Speaker 1: of a cool thing. It was one of those things

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01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 1: sitting sitting with Bart Starr in Birmingham, Alabama, a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I mean, I mean, hey, when I'm

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01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 1: ten years old, I'm watching the Packers like every kid

2247
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:43,240
Speaker 1: in America, and I'm thinking to myself, oh my god,

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01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:47,000
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers are gods. And so it was

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Speaker 1: kind of cool to be able to hang around with Starr,

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Speaker 1: even though he's really not in very good shape these days. Yeah, Pete,

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01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:56,600
Speaker 1: as we go to look around the league, there's so

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01:46:56,680 --> 01:46:59,360
Speaker 1: much happening on opening weekend, and it's also fresh and

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01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 1: new this and new season. What did you think about

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01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 1: the fact that all every one of the new head

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Speaker 1: coaches with their team got beat on opening weekend? Do

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Speaker 1: you think there's anything too that. No. I think it's

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01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:16,760
Speaker 1: kind of a coincidence. But I do think the one

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01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 1: thing when you look at new coaches, why didn't the

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Speaker 1: coaches get hired? The vast majority of new coaches go

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Speaker 1: somewhere where they don't have a quarterback. So the only

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Speaker 1: one out of all those games that shocked me, and

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Speaker 1: I mean shocked me, was the game last night where

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Speaker 1: where Matthew Stafford was awful through five picks and matt

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01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 1: Patricia really looked like a fish out of water on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines for Detroit to give up forty eight points

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Speaker 1: to the New York Jets. I mean that was a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in his first start. Yeah, I mean, it

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01:47:49,160 --> 01:47:52,040
Speaker 1: was just that was stunning. But you know that wasn't

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01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:54,800
Speaker 1: just the defense. I mean that was that was an

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01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:57,639
Speaker 1: awful game. On special teams in the offense was terrible.

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01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:01,640
Speaker 1: It could not have gone any worse for Matt Patricia

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01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:04,000
Speaker 1: because it wasn't like a breakdown of one part of

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01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,839
Speaker 1: his team. It'd be one thing if the offense stunk

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01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:10,439
Speaker 1: and the defense played pretty well and special teams play well.

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01:48:10,600 --> 01:48:15,120
Speaker 1: They all were terrible, and so that they have they

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01:48:15,200 --> 01:48:17,559
Speaker 1: have to have, even as bad as it was for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, they have to feel like the opening day

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01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:25,000
Speaker 1: for them, that that had to be the worst opening

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01:48:25,080 --> 01:48:27,200
Speaker 1: day anybody has in the league. Yeah, so you tweeted

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01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: that out last night, Peter, Right before I went to bed,

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01:48:28,960 --> 01:48:30,719
Speaker 1: I saw that and I thought, I feel a little

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01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:37,000
Speaker 1: bit better. Then the lines were worse than the bell, right. Hey, Peter,

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01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 1: thanks for this. It's always great to talk to you.

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01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:40,639
Speaker 1: We look forward to getting together with the next Tuesday.

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01:48:40,640 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thanks a lot, guys, Take care of

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01:48:43,200 --> 01:48:46,559
Speaker 1: Peter King, NBC Sports Countnists. He writes Football Morning in America.

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01:48:46,600 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: You can catch it at Pro Football Talk dot com.

2288
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:50,880
Speaker 1: He's been around the league for thirty years and more

2289
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 1: covering NFL stuff, and he joined us on the Subway

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Speaker 1: First Day Countline presented by Subway Restaurants proud to be

2291
01:48:56,280 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: locally owned and operated perspective, that's what we're looking for, Steve.

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01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: You could argue that, as he did on a pretty

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01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:06,720
Speaker 1: interesting tweet. He said, Lions performance is worst of Week one,

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Speaker 1: worse than Buffalo's, Detroit's home, Detroit's got a quarterback, Detroit

2295
01:49:10,320 --> 01:49:13,280
Speaker 1: should beginning to boost from a new coach. And then

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01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:16,800
Speaker 1: he said, this is interesting, Matt Patricia's mentor, Belichick would

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01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: fire a couple of players in the wake up a

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01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:21,120
Speaker 1: game like this. Will he next two home games for

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01:49:21,160 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 1: Detroit New England in Green Bay? I don't want to

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01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:25,679
Speaker 1: see anybody get fired. And I know the Bills played awful.

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01:49:25,800 --> 01:49:27,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a pretty compelling argument that the

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Speaker 1: Lions were worse than Buffalo. Wow, we've seen Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: makes some roster changes after games. He just, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't change today with the receiver. Yeah, I don't know that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well he signed a guy. Um, well, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. If you signed somebody, now you

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01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:48,080
Speaker 1: got to cut somebody. So yeah, you're right, But I

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01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: don't know that Matt Patricia's gonna go that far. But

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Speaker 1: what about bad? What about Peter's perspective? On the Bills

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01:49:56,280 --> 01:49:59,600
Speaker 1: and on the quarterback. I mean, it sounded like he

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01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 1: doesn't really want to see Josh get they started. He's

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01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:05,120
Speaker 1: talking about Kaepernick. I don't know if it's going to

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01:50:05,160 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 1: go that way, but you know, he said move on

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Speaker 1: to quarterback. I'm inclined to agree as far as the

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01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:14,200
Speaker 1: two things we want to see happen, and that's in defense. Yeah,

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01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:16,840
Speaker 1: but that's that's also the case where you know you

2317
01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 1: got people outside looking in at your team, and well,

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01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:23,479
Speaker 1: that may be exactly what they do. They may move

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01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:26,240
Speaker 1: on from from Peterman and and make the switch at

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01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:28,920
Speaker 1: quarterback and give Josh Allen a chance to play. It

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01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 1: could be uh that they are too And we haven't

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01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 1: talked to Brandon being and haven't got any word at all.

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01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:37,320
Speaker 1: Although this stuff is never a secret, if the Bills

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01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:39,160
Speaker 1: are reaching out in any way, shape or form on

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01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:41,479
Speaker 1: the quarterback market trying to find out if there's a

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01:50:41,520 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: guy out there they like. Uh, some people are saying,

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01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:46,439
Speaker 1: you know, Matt Moore, guys like that. But those are

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01:50:46,479 --> 01:50:48,280
Speaker 1: the guys you're talking about. They're not gonna be household

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01:50:48,400 --> 01:50:51,800
Speaker 1: names and they're certainly not going to come in and

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01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:54,840
Speaker 1: play better. I don't even think you'd expecting to play

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01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:58,679
Speaker 1: better than Nate Peterman did last Sunday and not even

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01:50:58,720 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 1: within a month. So what are we talking about by

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01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:05,880
Speaker 1: that time? Josh Allen's going to be your starter anyway,

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01:51:05,960 --> 01:51:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean, right, if you go oh and five and six,

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01:51:09,200 --> 01:51:12,120
Speaker 1: oh and seven, what are we talking about. I don't

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01:51:12,160 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: expect that to happen. But you know, bringing in a

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01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: quarterback at this stage, that's what you're looking at. You're

2338
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 1: looking at a guy that's not going to be able

2339
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: to play at least for three or four weeks. A tweet,

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01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:23,800
Speaker 1: interesting tweet from Bob Fuller. He says, hey, when will

2341
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:27,160
Speaker 1: we see coach's decision about a quarterback for Sunday? Earlier

2342
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: the better, right, so they can they can have a good,

2343
01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:32,000
Speaker 1: solid week of practice. Yeah, I'm anticipating we're gonna know

2344
01:51:32,120 --> 01:51:34,840
Speaker 1: by first thing in the morning who mcdermot's going with,

2345
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:37,840
Speaker 1: don't you think I imagine? And yeah, because once they

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01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 1: start practicing, it'll be out. Yeah, I mean they won't

2347
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:43,880
Speaker 1: be able to hide it very much. So yeah, that's

2348
01:51:44,320 --> 01:51:46,759
Speaker 1: you'll you'll get it within the next twenty four forty

2349
01:51:46,760 --> 01:51:49,920
Speaker 1: eight hours for sure. All Right, we can wait. Practice

2350
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 1: week starts tomorrow right, they haven't lost anything yet. Well,

2351
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: I don't know from you what one fix you would

2352
01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 1: give for the Bills on offense, one fix on defense

2353
01:51:56,600 --> 01:51:58,360
Speaker 1: they can get them back on track. Not they can

2354
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:01,400
Speaker 1: save the season or go fifteen and one, but one thing.

2355
01:52:01,600 --> 01:52:03,720
Speaker 1: What would you do on offense and defense that can

2356
01:52:03,720 --> 01:52:05,720
Speaker 1: get them back on track for this week? What can

2357
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:07,639
Speaker 1: they do this week? Give us a call eight three

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01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:10,840
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

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01:52:10,880 --> 01:52:13,200
Speaker 1: five fifty or on Twitter at one Bills Live. Steve

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01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 1: and I'm back with more One Bills Live from One

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01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:31,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show,

2362
01:52:31,800 --> 01:52:34,200
Speaker 1: the Big Show. We gotta make show tomorrow, Big Show Thursday,

2363
01:52:34,240 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 1: and one on Friday as well. We will turn the

2364
01:52:36,080 --> 01:52:39,439
Speaker 1: focus to the Los Angeles Chargers coming up probably on

2365
01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:41,599
Speaker 1: tomorrow show. As the Bills get back to practice, players

2366
01:52:41,600 --> 01:52:43,680
Speaker 1: get back to practice, they kind of the game plan

2367
01:52:43,840 --> 01:52:48,040
Speaker 1: day for the coaching staff. Hey, inside the numbers numbers

2368
01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 1: from Sunday's game were pretty pathetic, but it's signed for

2369
01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:53,479
Speaker 1: New York Lottero Inside the numbers, take a break from

2370
01:52:53,479 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: the expected play scratch off games from the New York Lottery.

2371
01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Murphy a game high one hundred and sixty five

2372
01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: total kick return yards for Bills against the Ravens, including

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01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:03,600
Speaker 1: a forty nine yard return in the fourth quarter. That

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01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: is inside the numbers presented by New York Lottery. As

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01:53:07,560 --> 01:53:09,840
Speaker 1: my friend and partner here Steve Tasker pointed out on

2376
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 1: the show yesterday, if you're leading the league in kick

2377
01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:15,479
Speaker 1: return yardage, you probably got a problem. You're probably returning

2378
01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:18,040
Speaker 1: too many kicks. And that's what happened Sunday, right And

2379
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:20,800
Speaker 1: the best team and notoriously, and I've said is before too.

2380
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I said yesterday, but the best

2381
01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:26,160
Speaker 1: teams on the best kickoff return teams are the ones

2382
01:53:26,240 --> 01:53:29,600
Speaker 1: that have the most reps. It's just the way it is.

2383
01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:31,880
Speaker 1: And Adam and the Bills had a lot of reps. Hey,

2384
01:53:31,920 --> 01:53:34,240
Speaker 1: we want to talk to you about the moving forward

2385
01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:35,880
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, and we'll get to that. We'll

2386
01:53:35,880 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: get to more phone calls and more of your tweets

2387
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:40,679
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet. I do think Stephen I mentioned

2388
01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:42,160
Speaker 1: it during the update, We mentioned it at the top

2389
01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:44,680
Speaker 1: of the show. I do think Nate Orchard is going

2390
01:53:44,760 --> 01:53:47,880
Speaker 1: to have something to say about the Bills pass rush

2391
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:51,400
Speaker 1: anticipating he'll be in the lineup this week against the Chargers.

2392
01:53:51,400 --> 01:53:53,920
Speaker 1: You know, sick him, go get him, Go get Philip Rivers.

2393
01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:56,000
Speaker 1: He's a capable pass rusher and I think he has

2394
01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:58,360
Speaker 1: a lot to offer. I thought that, and you know,

2395
01:53:58,400 --> 01:53:59,920
Speaker 1: I knew. I saw him at the Senior Bowl back

2396
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:03,200
Speaker 1: and twenty fifteen. Impressed by him there and his second

2397
01:54:03,240 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 1: round pick of the Browns. He had a role to

2398
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:09,439
Speaker 1: play and that circus of hard knocks that the Browns

2399
01:54:09,439 --> 01:54:11,880
Speaker 1: got themselves involved in over the last month, and then

2400
01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:13,599
Speaker 1: he was released. But I do think this guy has

2401
01:54:13,960 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: has something to offer the Bills. I like his length,

2402
01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 1: I like his athleticism, I like the way he plays,

2403
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to see him in Bills uniform

2404
01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:21,559
Speaker 1: this week. Well here's one of the things that I

2405
01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:23,679
Speaker 1: look at too. When you see a team that's got

2406
01:54:23,760 --> 01:54:26,760
Speaker 1: a great pass rush or a team that's very deep

2407
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:31,679
Speaker 1: on their defensive front, those are the teams whose waiver

2408
01:54:31,760 --> 01:54:35,080
Speaker 1: wire you watch because they cut some pretty good guys.

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01:54:35,680 --> 01:54:37,760
Speaker 1: Teams used to when when we were playing, when this

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01:54:37,920 --> 01:54:39,840
Speaker 1: franchise had teams that were going to the Super Bowl

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01:54:39,880 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 1: in every year, and they had a coaching staff that

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01:54:44,040 --> 01:54:48,400
Speaker 1: didn't like young players didn't play young players. There were

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01:54:48,440 --> 01:54:51,480
Speaker 1: a lot of really good football players who got released

2414
01:54:51,520 --> 01:54:54,920
Speaker 1: from this organization back in the day who went on

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01:54:54,960 --> 01:54:57,600
Speaker 1: to have really good careers in other places just because

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01:54:57,600 --> 01:54:59,240
Speaker 1: it was too hard a roster to make. And I'm

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01:54:59,240 --> 01:55:01,760
Speaker 1: saying Jordan, remember Brian Jordan. I'm not. I'm not saying that.

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01:55:01,920 --> 01:55:03,880
Speaker 1: Were you thinking of him? No, I'm not. I'm not

2419
01:55:03,920 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 1: talking about the saying that the Browns have this great

2420
01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:08,640
Speaker 1: team and they're impossible, but they do have a really

2421
01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 1: nice defensive front. Yeah, and they got a couple of

2422
01:55:11,280 --> 01:55:14,320
Speaker 1: high draft picks in there. So those are the kind

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01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 1: of teams you kind of watch closely when they're getting

2424
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: rid of some players at a strong position for him,

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01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:22,960
Speaker 1: Is it Brian Jordan who the Bills drafted out of

2426
01:55:23,040 --> 01:55:26,520
Speaker 1: Richmond and two sport athletes. Yeah, and went and played baseball,

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01:55:26,560 --> 01:55:28,080
Speaker 1: But he was a good football player for the Falcons

2428
01:55:28,080 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 1: when he got released from here. He played good for

2429
01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:32,240
Speaker 1: the Falcons and he went in and played Major League

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01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:34,480
Speaker 1: baseball as well. Um, there's this too, and we had

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01:55:34,480 --> 01:55:37,120
Speaker 1: a caller reference this. Corey Coleman did sign a one

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01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:39,080
Speaker 1: one year deal with the New England Patriots. Today, the

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01:55:39,080 --> 01:55:41,560
Speaker 1: Bills just cut him on cutdown Day? Did anybody see

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01:55:41,560 --> 01:55:44,040
Speaker 1: anything from Corey Coleman in his stint with the Bills

2435
01:55:44,040 --> 01:55:45,680
Speaker 1: that would lead you to believe he could help or

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01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:48,520
Speaker 1: contribute here? Um, Yes, he has speed, Yes, he was

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01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:50,960
Speaker 1: the fifteenth overall pick. Didn't do anything here? What are

2438
01:55:50,960 --> 01:55:53,120
Speaker 1: the Bills supposed to do? Wait? Wait? Wait down him?

2439
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 1: The fact that he signs with the Patriots. I know

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01:55:55,800 --> 01:55:58,960
Speaker 1: Rankles people like well, the Patriots like him. Well, okay,

2441
01:55:59,120 --> 01:56:00,919
Speaker 1: see what you can do in the Patriots and Patriots

2442
01:56:01,080 --> 01:56:03,320
Speaker 1: paid pretty good money to Mike gillis lee two and

2443
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:05,280
Speaker 1: cut him a year later. You know they don't They're

2444
01:56:05,320 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: not flawless. Now, maybe listen, Corey Coleman may go play

2445
01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:11,800
Speaker 1: and have a nice little year for Patriots. He may

2446
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:15,040
Speaker 1: play well for him And if and if Tom Brady

2447
01:56:15,080 --> 01:56:17,280
Speaker 1: was playing for the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, they wouldn't

2448
01:56:17,280 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: have gotten beat forty seven to three. I don't like

2449
01:56:20,120 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 1: the operating out of fear. Well, we can't cut this

2450
01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 1: guy because the Patriots might ken. I don't like operating

2451
01:56:26,040 --> 01:56:28,400
Speaker 1: or even looking at things out of fear like, well,

2452
01:56:28,440 --> 01:56:30,400
Speaker 1: what if Sam Donald turns out to be a good player?

2453
01:56:30,440 --> 01:56:32,720
Speaker 1: What if? What if he was a third pick the

2454
01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:35,360
Speaker 1: Bills at the seventh. What if Donald was a good player?

2455
01:56:35,360 --> 01:56:37,960
Speaker 1: What is it? I don't know how that solves anything.

2456
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:40,400
Speaker 1: To think about things in terms of fear or what

2457
01:56:40,520 --> 01:56:42,480
Speaker 1: might happen. We want to know this. How do you

2458
01:56:42,520 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 1: fix it this week? What is one fix on offense,

2459
01:56:45,200 --> 01:56:47,240
Speaker 1: one fix on defense? It can get the Bills back

2460
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:49,360
Speaker 1: on track. You can tweet it in at one Bills

2461
01:56:49,400 --> 01:56:51,080
Speaker 1: five or call us at eight oh three oh five

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01:56:51,120 --> 01:56:53,920
Speaker 1: fifty and toll free one eight eight five fifty two

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01:56:53,920 --> 01:56:56,440
Speaker 1: five fifty. Well, why are you laughing? We pound the

2464
01:56:56,480 --> 01:57:00,280
Speaker 1: table for emphasis. What can we do? We do week week?

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01:57:00,320 --> 01:57:01,960
Speaker 1: It's a week to week league. They got to fix

2466
01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:03,840
Speaker 1: it this week. They're not going to solve all their

2467
01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,240
Speaker 1: problems this week. I understand that I've got to get better, though.

2468
01:57:06,240 --> 01:57:09,880
Speaker 1: There's turn it around this week and they and I

2469
01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:12,720
Speaker 1: think that's I have no doubt that they're gonna play

2470
01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 1: better than they did last week, but they're gonna have

2471
01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:18,280
Speaker 1: to play a lot better, significantly better to win. Um,

2472
01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:21,120
Speaker 1: don't forget. You got a team and the Charges that

2473
01:57:21,160 --> 01:57:24,120
Speaker 1: are walking into New air Field and they lost last

2474
01:57:24,160 --> 01:57:27,200
Speaker 1: week two in a season where they had high expectations

2475
01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:29,560
Speaker 1: of getting off to a faster start than they did

2476
01:57:29,560 --> 01:57:31,520
Speaker 1: a year ago, and they got lumped up by the

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01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs in their home stadium that was full

2478
01:57:34,720 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: of Chiefs fans. Um, they're probably ready to get on

2479
01:57:37,840 --> 01:57:40,840
Speaker 1: the road, the Chargers are. So you've got a whole

2480
01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:45,840
Speaker 1: new set of problems, and you've got your own issues

2481
01:57:45,840 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: in the houses. You want to get right before you

2482
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: take the field against them. So it's it's all about

2483
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:52,840
Speaker 1: this week. You can't get caught up in the what

2484
01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:55,440
Speaker 1: ifs and what could have been. So you gotta go

2485
01:57:55,480 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 1: with what you got and you can say you know

2486
01:57:59,280 --> 01:58:01,400
Speaker 1: you can you can hold the rip chord if you want, say,

2487
01:58:01,440 --> 01:58:03,280
Speaker 1: hey they made you know, this is a bad team

2488
01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:05,320
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna cheer for him. They made all

2489
01:58:05,440 --> 01:58:08,320
Speaker 1: whatever mistakes you want to choose, you know, but hey,

2490
01:58:08,360 --> 01:58:10,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and win, and they're gonna believe they

2491
01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:13,400
Speaker 1: can win if they go out um and play better

2492
01:58:13,440 --> 01:58:15,280
Speaker 1: than they did. So, I mean they're gonna believe they're

2493
01:58:15,280 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 1: gonna win. I'm telling you right now. The guys that

2494
01:58:17,520 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: come out the tunnel on opening day for the Buffalo Bill,

2495
01:58:19,280 --> 01:58:21,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna believe they're gonna win. That game this Sunday,

2496
01:58:22,040 --> 01:58:25,840
Speaker 1: And Uh, the question is which you guy's gonna show up?

2497
01:58:25,920 --> 01:58:29,360
Speaker 1: You know, you know who's gonna who's gonna start at quarterback? Uh?

2498
01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:31,800
Speaker 1: Is the defense gonna get be able to get pressure

2499
01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 1: in a in a home crowd, with the home crowd

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01:58:33,920 --> 01:58:36,880
Speaker 1: helping him when they're allowed? Um? Are they gonna be

2501
01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:39,080
Speaker 1: able to generate some turnovers like they did a year

2502
01:58:39,120 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 1: ago with his secondary? Is the upgraded defensive front gonna

2503
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:45,800
Speaker 1: play a little bit better? U Is Nate Orchard gonna

2504
01:58:45,800 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: come in and give them a little juice on the

2505
01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:50,840
Speaker 1: on the edge. So there's some things and you know

2506
01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:54,680
Speaker 1: this this game last week, you and I talked about

2507
01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:59,080
Speaker 1: this a little bit yesterday. I was surprised. I was

2508
01:58:59,200 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised about Jerry Hughes and his ability to get pressure.

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01:59:03,120 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 1: He missed a sack early in the game. He came

2510
01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: beat a double team to go get it and get

2511
01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:12,720
Speaker 1: a sacond. Joe Flacco, you know, bent him. He went

2512
01:59:12,760 --> 01:59:15,280
Speaker 1: over the top of Flacco. Flacco got tackled ultimately by

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01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:22,080
Speaker 1: um By Edmonds. But it was Jerry Hughes had a

2514
01:59:22,080 --> 01:59:24,600
Speaker 1: pretty good productive day getting some pressure. They started to

2515
01:59:24,600 --> 01:59:27,720
Speaker 1: have to double team him pretty pretty regularly anymore, and

2516
01:59:28,240 --> 01:59:30,560
Speaker 1: they need more from guys. Let's take a phone call

2517
01:59:30,600 --> 01:59:33,080
Speaker 1: while you're fixed for the bills. How about Nathan and

2518
01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:35,520
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry Aaron and Oregon? Aaron, go ahead, you're

2519
01:59:35,560 --> 01:59:38,320
Speaker 1: on the air. Oh hey, guys, Hey, do you mind

2520
01:59:38,320 --> 01:59:40,680
Speaker 1: if I get see the little thank you before I

2521
01:59:40,720 --> 01:59:43,600
Speaker 1: start in on my sixes? I would mind? No, go ahead?

2522
01:59:43,680 --> 01:59:48,400
Speaker 1: Wouldn't mind? Go ahead? From three thousand miles away, I

2523
01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:54,880
Speaker 1: was skinny, white kid playing football, and I modeled myself

2524
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:57,560
Speaker 1: to do after Steve and Mark Kelso because they were

2525
01:59:57,600 --> 02:00:00,240
Speaker 1: the only guys that kind of looked like me, and

2526
02:00:00,240 --> 02:00:02,240
Speaker 1: and I could think, hey, maybe I'll be like them.

2527
02:00:02,280 --> 02:00:05,440
Speaker 1: But I was slow and uh, you know, didn't have

2528
02:00:05,440 --> 02:00:08,920
Speaker 1: any coordinations, so that didn't work out. But but I was,

2529
02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, looking up to them and modeling myself after them.

2530
02:00:12,320 --> 02:00:15,840
Speaker 1: So thank you, Steve. I appreciate that. I'm flattered what

2531
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:21,280
Speaker 1: else you got? But anyway, I don't know if if

2532
02:00:21,280 --> 02:00:24,960
Speaker 1: there is any fix right now, But um, what I

2533
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,120
Speaker 1: don't want to do is put Josh Allen in there

2534
02:00:27,280 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 1: and and have it be ej Manuel two point zero

2535
02:00:29,880 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 1: and have him regress or get killed or anything like that.

2536
02:00:35,120 --> 02:00:38,240
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think if we can somehow

2537
02:00:38,280 --> 02:00:41,720
Speaker 1: shore up the offensive line, but who's out there, or

2538
02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 1: if we can sign somebody like mattin Moore, maybe a

2539
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:48,560
Speaker 1: big body like Cardinal Jones that can take some punishment, um,

2540
02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:51,720
Speaker 1: something like that. But I just don't want to short

2541
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 1: term hurt or Josh allen future for you know, well

2542
02:00:58,280 --> 02:01:01,880
Speaker 1: that kind of sounds like surrender. Yeah, Oh, I don't know.

2543
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:06,480
Speaker 1: I just don't want. I just don't want Josh Allen

2544
02:01:06,520 --> 02:01:09,600
Speaker 1: to not pound out because of a short Well, don't

2545
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:11,400
Speaker 1: be afraid to let him, give him a chance to try,

2546
02:01:11,440 --> 02:01:15,640
Speaker 1: even in a team that's maybe not fully loaded around him.

2547
02:01:15,840 --> 02:01:17,760
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to put him out there because he's

2548
02:01:17,760 --> 02:01:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna help some people around him play better. If he

2549
02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:23,040
Speaker 1: is that guy, if you do make that switch at quarterback,

2550
02:01:23,080 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 1: if he is the right kind of guy, and if

2551
02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:26,040
Speaker 1: he isn't going to be the guy that leads this

2552
02:01:26,120 --> 02:01:28,440
Speaker 1: franchise to where everybody has hopes and dreams of them

2553
02:01:28,440 --> 02:01:31,480
Speaker 1: being led to, he's gonna be okay. And I'll tell

2554
02:01:31,480 --> 02:01:34,640
Speaker 1: you another thing too. I think this organism, this coaching staff,

2555
02:01:34,640 --> 02:01:36,360
Speaker 1: and this group of people they have in that in

2556
02:01:36,360 --> 02:01:38,360
Speaker 1: the locker room are going to be exactly the right

2557
02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:43,400
Speaker 1: type of create the right type of environment to support

2558
02:01:43,440 --> 02:01:45,200
Speaker 1: a guy like Josh Allen, and they're going to be

2559
02:01:45,240 --> 02:01:47,520
Speaker 1: the right kind of group to support Nate Peterman if

2560
02:01:47,560 --> 02:01:49,840
Speaker 1: they do, indeed put him back out there, They're gonna

2561
02:01:49,880 --> 02:01:53,839
Speaker 1: make sure that whoever's taking snaps out there has everything

2562
02:01:53,920 --> 02:01:58,080
Speaker 1: they need to be successful, including Listen, let's face it,

2563
02:01:58,120 --> 02:02:00,200
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen goes out there and throws five picks

2564
02:02:00,200 --> 02:02:03,040
Speaker 1: in the first half, they got to throw him back

2565
02:02:03,040 --> 02:02:05,120
Speaker 1: out there. They can't pull him back off. They can't,

2566
02:02:05,160 --> 02:02:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, they got to support him and say just

2567
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:08,360
Speaker 1: get him to the point where he says he it

2568
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You gotta learn from those five interceptions. You're

2569
02:02:11,560 --> 02:02:13,240
Speaker 1: gonna go back out there, and you're gonna stand up,

2570
02:02:13,240 --> 02:02:15,400
Speaker 1: and you're gonna learn, and you're gonna throw better. And

2571
02:02:15,440 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna start throwing a lot of interceptions, just a

2572
02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:19,320
Speaker 1: few touchdowns, and then he's gonna start to throw more

2573
02:02:19,320 --> 02:02:22,080
Speaker 1: touchdowns with a lot of interceptions. Then he's gonna throw

2574
02:02:22,120 --> 02:02:24,600
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdowns with a lot of interceptions, and

2575
02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:26,720
Speaker 1: then he's gonna throw more touchdowns and just a few

2576
02:02:26,800 --> 02:02:30,000
Speaker 1: less interceptions, and that's what's gonna happen, it's just gonna

2577
02:02:30,040 --> 02:02:32,040
Speaker 1: go that direction. He'll get out there, but he's got

2578
02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:34,480
Speaker 1: to start throwing it. He's got to start looking at defenses.

2579
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:36,160
Speaker 1: And if he is the guy that you put out

2580
02:02:36,200 --> 02:02:38,880
Speaker 1: there this Sunday, it's gonna be just the start. He's

2581
02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:41,160
Speaker 1: not gonna come out and light it up. There's gonna

2582
02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:44,080
Speaker 1: be struggles, and you've got to be there when he

2583
02:02:44,120 --> 02:02:47,160
Speaker 1: does struggle and say listen, it doesn't matter, just get better,

2584
02:02:47,640 --> 02:02:49,880
Speaker 1: and they gotta He's got to be confident knowing that

2585
02:02:49,920 --> 02:02:52,960
Speaker 1: if he does mess it up bad like Nate Peterman did,

2586
02:02:53,200 --> 02:02:55,840
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get a quick hook. So you gotta

2587
02:02:55,880 --> 02:02:57,400
Speaker 1: be ready when you go. If you do go to

2588
02:02:57,480 --> 02:03:01,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, there's no going back, no matter how bad

2589
02:03:01,960 --> 02:03:04,920
Speaker 1: it gets, no matter how bad the team plays around him.

2590
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: He's in. Tell me why and he stays in because

2591
02:03:08,280 --> 02:03:09,800
Speaker 1: if you pull him out, then what are you gonna do?

2592
02:03:09,960 --> 02:03:12,800
Speaker 1: Put Nath Peter in back in. He's worse. He's gonna

2593
02:03:12,800 --> 02:03:15,320
Speaker 1: be worse than Allen is. I mean, there's once you

2594
02:03:15,440 --> 02:03:18,080
Speaker 1: put Josh Allen in, you're going down the road where

2595
02:03:18,120 --> 02:03:21,200
Speaker 1: it's about his development, and that means you're gonna go

2596
02:03:21,240 --> 02:03:24,000
Speaker 1: through some dark days with a rookie quarterback. You think,

2597
02:03:24,120 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 1: you think Sam Darnold has seen the worst of it yet, No,

2598
02:03:28,800 --> 02:03:31,960
Speaker 1: not even close, not even close. And you gotta be

2599
02:03:32,000 --> 02:03:34,520
Speaker 1: willing to and hopefully it'll be a roller coaster with

2600
02:03:34,640 --> 02:03:36,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That's the best you can hope for, because

2601
02:03:36,960 --> 02:03:39,000
Speaker 1: he's gotta go in. He's gonna have a great moment,

2602
02:03:39,080 --> 02:03:41,160
Speaker 1: a great two moments, and then he's gonna have three

2603
02:03:41,200 --> 02:03:43,360
Speaker 1: bad ones, and then it'll be three good ones and

2604
02:03:43,400 --> 02:03:45,320
Speaker 1: two bad ones and then a bunch of good ones

2605
02:03:45,320 --> 02:03:47,080
Speaker 1: and maybe one bad and it's gonna go like that,

2606
02:03:47,280 --> 02:03:49,920
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have bad moments. But once you

2607
02:03:50,000 --> 02:03:54,120
Speaker 1: go to Josh Allen, in my mind, you can't go back.

2608
02:03:54,360 --> 02:03:57,560
Speaker 1: There is no going back. I think about that. There

2609
02:03:57,640 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 1: is no going back, because once you got to think

2610
02:04:00,240 --> 02:04:02,360
Speaker 1: about once you think about it, I think about it.

2611
02:04:02,440 --> 02:04:07,840
Speaker 1: Once you flip it back the other way. Murph. Now

2612
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 1: you pull the rip cord on the guy who had

2613
02:04:10,520 --> 02:04:12,040
Speaker 1: you knew it was gonna be tough, and now you're

2614
02:04:12,040 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 1: gonna bail on him. You can't bail out on this guy.

2615
02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:17,680
Speaker 1: You can bail out on Nate Peterman. You've given him

2616
02:04:17,720 --> 02:04:19,280
Speaker 1: a couple of games a couple of bad start. You

2617
02:04:19,280 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 1: didn't have any hoping, you got nothing invested in him.

2618
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:24,040
Speaker 1: You got it all invested in that guy in seventeen.

2619
02:04:24,400 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 1: You got it all invested in him. You got to

2620
02:04:26,560 --> 02:04:29,080
Speaker 1: ride it out with him. There is no pulling him out.

2621
02:04:29,320 --> 02:04:31,200
Speaker 1: So once you make that switch, and there might be

2622
02:04:31,400 --> 02:04:34,400
Speaker 1: an example of how that worked. A rookie started then

2623
02:04:34,600 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 1: wasn't succeeding. They pulled him out and put him back

2624
02:04:37,080 --> 02:04:39,040
Speaker 1: in later. And that's gotta to me, has got to

2625
02:04:39,080 --> 02:04:41,920
Speaker 1: be the big hesitation because once you put him in there,

2626
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:43,560
Speaker 1: what do you get if you pull him out after

2627
02:04:43,560 --> 02:04:47,520
Speaker 1: a half put him in two weeks later? Forget it.

2628
02:04:47,880 --> 02:04:50,360
Speaker 1: I gotta think about. I mean, you're in disagreeing. Here's

2629
02:04:50,360 --> 02:04:53,360
Speaker 1: the thing about you start making decisions like this, You've

2630
02:04:53,400 --> 02:04:56,120
Speaker 1: got to shovel in your hand, and you got to

2631
02:04:56,200 --> 02:04:59,000
Speaker 1: make sure that the whole you're digging, you you know

2632
02:04:59,080 --> 02:05:01,480
Speaker 1: that there's a bottom there, because if you don't, if

2633
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:03,960
Speaker 1: you put him in there and you pull him back out,

2634
02:05:04,360 --> 02:05:06,880
Speaker 1: you're digging him deeper and deeper hole. You're going in

2635
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:09,520
Speaker 1: a deeper and deeper and deeper and there's no getting

2636
02:05:09,520 --> 02:05:11,360
Speaker 1: out of that. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. But

2637
02:05:11,480 --> 02:05:13,000
Speaker 1: let me think right now, it feels like if you

2638
02:05:13,120 --> 02:05:17,600
Speaker 1: bench Peterman, you're you're stop you stop digging, right, you're

2639
02:05:17,640 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 1: getting into a hole. You have this young quarter fifth

2640
02:05:19,800 --> 02:05:21,680
Speaker 1: round pick. He's not really that good. You just he's

2641
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:24,760
Speaker 1: kind of a placeholder until you're young guys ready, Well, okay,

2642
02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:27,560
Speaker 1: now we're now he's not good enough. Peterman is not

2643
02:05:27,600 --> 02:05:32,760
Speaker 1: good enough. So we're gonna stop digging that hole for ourselves. Well, okay,

2644
02:05:32,880 --> 02:05:36,920
Speaker 1: but if you put if you put Josh Allen in

2645
02:05:38,600 --> 02:05:42,480
Speaker 1: and you pull him out, you're digging. You're digging a

2646
02:05:42,600 --> 02:05:45,880
Speaker 1: deeper you are digging a deeper hole. Done with Josh Allen.

2647
02:05:45,920 --> 02:05:47,680
Speaker 1: If you have to put him out, well, here's the thing.

2648
02:05:47,840 --> 02:05:50,400
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying. Unless here's the thing. If

2649
02:05:50,400 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna put him in there, you're gonna say, Okay,

2650
02:05:51,920 --> 02:05:53,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna put him in there, but we're not gonna

2651
02:05:53,680 --> 02:05:55,160
Speaker 1: let it go back from We're gonna pull him out.

2652
02:05:55,160 --> 02:05:57,160
Speaker 1: And maybe do you got to prepare him for that?

2653
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: You gotta because it can't be. Okay, you're our guy,

2654
02:06:00,520 --> 02:06:02,440
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're good. Here we go, let's go.

2655
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:04,600
Speaker 1: And then two quarters two and a half quarters later

2656
02:06:04,600 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 1: he's sitting back beside you. I mean, that's nuts. I

2657
02:06:07,960 --> 02:06:10,080
Speaker 1: gotta think about that. Here's Mark and Hamberg. Come on, Mark,

2658
02:06:10,120 --> 02:06:12,800
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hi, Hi, I was calling. I

2659
02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:16,200
Speaker 1: was just wondering, why wouldn't they go to our receiving

2660
02:06:16,240 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 1: corps not good our lines, Like, why wouldn't you play

2661
02:06:19,280 --> 02:06:22,360
Speaker 1: like two tight ends, keep a tight end in or

2662
02:06:22,400 --> 02:06:25,440
Speaker 1: may go fullback to help protect a quarterback given more time?

2663
02:06:25,520 --> 02:06:28,880
Speaker 1: And yeah, they played. Absolutely they played a lot of

2664
02:06:29,560 --> 02:06:31,600
Speaker 1: You're right, Mark, They've got to do all kinds of that.

2665
02:06:31,640 --> 02:06:33,560
Speaker 1: They got to keep backs into help. They gotta keep

2666
02:06:33,560 --> 02:06:35,640
Speaker 1: tight ends into help. They got a chip block, They

2667
02:06:35,680 --> 02:06:37,880
Speaker 1: got to do everything they can possibly do to protect

2668
02:06:37,880 --> 02:06:40,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback. You're right, and they will, uh if they

2669
02:06:41,120 --> 02:06:44,240
Speaker 1: they they're gonna have to do that now. Absolutely, they're

2670
02:06:44,280 --> 02:06:46,880
Speaker 1: gonna tinker with the protection all the way to try

2671
02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:49,720
Speaker 1: and keep the quarterback on his feet. There's no excuse

2672
02:06:49,760 --> 02:06:52,360
Speaker 1: for them not to. So they're going to tweet sheet

2673
02:06:52,520 --> 02:06:56,680
Speaker 1: from Octominia. This is why this tweet. This tweet has

2674
02:06:56,720 --> 02:06:59,760
Speaker 1: made it. I agree with Murph Allen is a seventh.

2675
02:07:00,120 --> 02:07:03,400
Speaker 1: He's a big boy. Also, offensively, get our top offensive weapon.

2676
02:07:03,440 --> 02:07:06,480
Speaker 1: Shady and Benjamin involved early. Not so worried about the defense.

2677
02:07:06,480 --> 02:07:08,040
Speaker 1: They will find their groove. But more of a pass

2678
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:12,920
Speaker 1: rush would be nice. Hashtag big hashtag it's only one game. Yeah,

2679
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:17,080
Speaker 1: listen autumni at eighty four. That's that's a well thought

2680
02:07:17,080 --> 02:07:21,240
Speaker 1: out tweet, very logical and has a lot of perspective.

2681
02:07:23,080 --> 02:07:24,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how that made it on our show.

2682
02:07:25,880 --> 02:07:27,400
Speaker 1: How did you say? How did you? How did you

2683
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:29,440
Speaker 1: sneak through all the other tweet process? How did you

2684
02:07:29,440 --> 02:07:31,360
Speaker 1: get through all the other tweets? How did you get

2685
02:07:31,400 --> 02:07:35,080
Speaker 1: through my rant about pulling Josh Allen out again? It's right,

2686
02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 1: He's right. Here's a he or she. Here's a thought

2687
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:41,200
Speaker 1: provoking tweet from Bill's cave. Dave put Bodine in its center?

2688
02:07:41,240 --> 02:07:44,440
Speaker 1: Have Groy replaced du Costs? Stop having the secondary place

2689
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,440
Speaker 1: so lose a couple of solutions. Bodine the center, Groy

2690
02:07:47,560 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: goes to guard replace du Costs. Maybe maybe I think

2691
02:07:51,520 --> 02:07:54,080
Speaker 1: about that. Stop having the secondary place so loose. They

2692
02:07:54,080 --> 02:07:56,320
Speaker 1: gotta play better loose, not loose. They're gonna you know,

2693
02:07:56,320 --> 02:07:58,680
Speaker 1: they're primarily his own team. Maybe they need to man

2694
02:07:58,760 --> 02:08:00,920
Speaker 1: up a little bit. And in terms of man defense

2695
02:08:00,960 --> 02:08:09,000
Speaker 1: and rush the passer, what do you think yeah, yeah, yeah,

2696
02:08:09,080 --> 02:08:12,839
Speaker 1: rush the passer. I'm all for that for our defense. Yeah,

2697
02:08:12,880 --> 02:08:15,839
Speaker 1: and I'm all for protecting our passer as an offense.

2698
02:08:16,600 --> 02:08:19,280
Speaker 1: One more call of Seeback and as people look for solutions,

2699
02:08:19,320 --> 02:08:21,400
Speaker 1: Phil and north Town, I want to I feel go ahead,

2700
02:08:21,400 --> 02:08:23,720
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Thanks for taking my call, John,

2701
02:08:23,720 --> 02:08:26,160
Speaker 1: And I really wanted to say I enjoyed the earlier

2702
02:08:26,200 --> 02:08:28,400
Speaker 1: segment where Peter King very much. Oh yeah, Peter's with

2703
02:08:28,520 --> 02:08:31,520
Speaker 1: us every Tuesday, and I catch him on his Tuesday

2704
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:35,080
Speaker 1: morning show on PFT Live and he was very adamant

2705
02:08:35,080 --> 02:08:37,880
Speaker 1: about Nathan Peterman not playing or I don't think he

2706
02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: would have ever suggested Colin Kaepernick. But the last caller

2707
02:08:41,880 --> 02:08:47,400
Speaker 1: just said the thing about the fullback and the extra alignment.

2708
02:08:47,400 --> 02:08:50,200
Speaker 1: But nobody's talking about our defensive backs now. If Terren

2709
02:08:50,280 --> 02:08:53,120
Speaker 1: Johnson can't place lock corner, is there any chance they

2710
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,600
Speaker 1: could move Micah hide this lock corner and put Raffy

2711
02:08:55,680 --> 02:08:58,440
Speaker 1: Bush back there to safety because I think he struggled

2712
02:08:58,440 --> 02:09:00,960
Speaker 1: that when he replaced Johnson after he got hurt, because

2713
02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:04,560
Speaker 1: he's really a safety. I mean, they really need That's

2714
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:07,000
Speaker 1: where we were really getting burned because they have no

2715
02:09:07,040 --> 02:09:10,080
Speaker 1: confidence in Philip Gaines I'd like to see Vonte Davis

2716
02:09:10,080 --> 02:09:12,400
Speaker 1: out there, but I think Ryan Lewis might make an

2717
02:09:12,440 --> 02:09:15,800
Speaker 1: appearance on the field this week. I think our defensive

2718
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:18,000
Speaker 1: backs really led us down in the second half when

2719
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:20,640
Speaker 1: the game was really out of hand. I understand, but

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Speaker 1: they were John Brown standing there in the back of

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Speaker 1: the end zone, Michael Heids looking at him. What happened

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Speaker 1: on that play? I mean, I just really think our

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Speaker 1: defensive backs, I think they might have been thinking that

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Speaker 1: Vante Davis was going to help him with all his experience,

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Speaker 1: even and I really think they let us down in

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Speaker 1: that game against Baltimore. And there's no way that Nathan

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Speaker 1: Peterman is walking out of Ralph Wilson State if he

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Speaker 1: starts and goes three and out on the first series.

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Speaker 1: Bill Banks, you're making a good point about the defensive

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Speaker 1: back and they are at a quant if if tarn

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Speaker 1: Johnson is out, they need a slot corner. I mean

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Speaker 1: they had before, yeah he has, and but here's they

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Speaker 1: put themselves, And maybe a week's preparation would change that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they would put Bush at safety and Mica hide

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Speaker 1: down in the slot corner. They might do that, but

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Speaker 1: they got caught in the game with an injury and

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Speaker 1: had they covered up as best they could, and they

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Speaker 1: had that was probably their plan going in. They said, listen,

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Speaker 1: if if we have an injury here, you're going here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna move here. That's always in place. That may

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Speaker 1: change week to week if they have a week to prepare,

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Speaker 1: without thinking, tarn Johnson, maybe question mark, they'll have a

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Speaker 1: plan in place. But you're right, it's an issue. The

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Speaker 1: fact that Vonte Davis wasn't active, I think raised a

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Speaker 1: lot of eyebrows, and I think, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we've ever gotten the real reason why. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent. Maybe they just weren't happy

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Speaker 1: with the way he's bounced back from his growing surgery

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Speaker 1: after last year. Who knows, but during training camp he

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Speaker 1: was still working in and out at that left corner position.

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Speaker 1: So I think the fact that he's still on the

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Speaker 1: team means they've got plans for him to play at

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Speaker 1: some point. He's just not ready. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's the case or not. We haven't been told

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Speaker 1: definitively that's the case. But to the caller, Phil, you're right,

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Speaker 1: I think the DBS, I don't I'm not questioning their

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Speaker 1: effort or any of that. But they were planning against

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Speaker 1: a really good quarterback with three really brand new good

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Speaker 1: receivers who they didn't have much film on, and they

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Speaker 1: had a bad game just like everybody else. But I

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Speaker 1: think you can expect them to play better as you

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Speaker 1: go on, and they're gonna have to have a new plan.

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Speaker 1: You're right if and Terren Johnson's the key and his injury,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to come up with a plan for

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Speaker 1: the slot corner. It's one Bill's line from One Bill's driving.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned? Presented

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Speaker 1: alarm at home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We

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Speaker 1: had Miniche Meta on the show. He covers the Jets

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Speaker 1: for the New York Daily News. He was there last

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Speaker 1: night of four field and an amazing Jets victory and

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Speaker 1: sam Donold's performance, and Chemida had some thoughts on what

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Speaker 1: Darnold did last night in his NFL debut. I was

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Speaker 1: frankly stunned that he threw that pass just because it

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Speaker 1: didn't look like he was fully confident in making the

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Speaker 1: throw before he let it go. And then and you know,

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Speaker 1: just to see him unraveled for that brief moment was

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Speaker 1: a little bit surprising, just because I had not seen

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Speaker 1: any of that this spring in summer. And then what

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Speaker 1: you saw the rest of the game is, you know,

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Speaker 1: the typical poise Sam Darnold that at least I saw

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Speaker 1: in the offseason, and he's got a tremendous future ahead

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Speaker 1: of him. I say, you can honestly chalk that first

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Speaker 1: pass up the nerves. He admitted that he was nervous,

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Speaker 1: you know, entering the huddle and making that first pass.

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Speaker 1: But because of the dynamics of this game, well that

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Speaker 1: plays in a weird way, really helped him and calmed

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Speaker 1: him down and in some ways galvanized the team. That's

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Speaker 1: venish Meida. We had Stevie Johnson on the show as well.

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Speaker 1: Former Bills was here coming back to me, the leader

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Speaker 1: of the Charge. Here's what he had to say about that. No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't been back, so I'm looking looking forward to

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Speaker 1: being in in that vibe again. You know, I miss it.

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Speaker 1: I missed the loan flights. Now I used to be

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Speaker 1: and It used to be a time where you know,

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Speaker 1: I would I would dread having to get on the

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Speaker 1: flight for five five hours. But now you know, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to be out there and smell the air

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Speaker 1: and be around that and that effective body, smell the

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Speaker 1: air of Orchard Park. That's what Stevie misses. He was

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Speaker 1: fun to talk to you today. There you go. Yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we want to thank our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colton, Neck,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Honalder, Kelly Rude, JJ Territo, Kevin Cartis, James Roebel,

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Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. Good show tomorrow. We will fully

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Speaker 1: turn the page tomorrow. Right, we'll start talking about chargers tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: If you say so, man, I'm with you. Let's go

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Speaker 1: do it. Tomorrow, twelve noon to three pm. We're back

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