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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you. Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the straded beer of normalcy here. It is a

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Week Friday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you ready to dial it up for

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Speaker 1: the next three hours as it is OVL Mailbag Friday.

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Speaker 1: Any question you have on your mind about this team,

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Speaker 1: the league, a player, the roster, a coach, the other

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Speaker 1: team on Sunday, fire it off at will. Steve and

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Speaker 1: I are taking all comers. As al Pacino said in Scarface,

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Speaker 1: we can take your bullets. We are ready for anything.

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Speaker 1: So hit us up on the tweet sheet at one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live or hey, give us a call eight O

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty two five fifty. As usual, the

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Speaker 1: Friday docket is jammed. Greg Cosell making his weekly visit

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Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films in about an hour and

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes time. We'll also hear the lowdown from one

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Speaker 1: less than two hours, so be sure to stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for Zoe. He had some interesting tweets about his Thanksgiving plates, Steve,

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Speaker 1: So we'll be diving into that because I thought it

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Speaker 1: was funny he was putting out on Instagram how he

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Speaker 1: just say his plate was liberally filled with oodles of

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Speaker 1: goodies yesterday. And we'll also hear from Chargers reporter Haley

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Speaker 1: Ellwood along with our colleague Matty Glab in the reporters

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Speaker 1: segment that comes your way every Friday here on the show, Steve,

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Speaker 1: how is your Thanksgiving good? You're very low key as

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Speaker 1: you might have managed. Did you have to unbutton the pants? No,

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Speaker 1: we didn't. Actually we are, uh celebrating tomorrow and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah we had really yeah? Yeah? For was this

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Speaker 1: for travel purposes? For quarantine, family family obligation kind of

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Speaker 1: get together a little. So what did you eat yesterday? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Just nothing? Nothing special? Okay, nothing special. We had good food,

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying it wasn't a feast.

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Speaker 1: It was just me, my wife and our youngest son.

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Speaker 1: day for you guys. Yeah, very look very well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: All right. Well we did okay. And I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to you, on Wednesday, we had three pies in the

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Speaker 1: I I did everything I could possibly do to gain weight,

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Speaker 1: You didn't have a neck anymore. Right, I would wait

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Speaker 1: I was like a coal fired engine. You're eating with

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Speaker 1: I'm just shoveling it in. I couldn't. I couldn't hold

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Speaker 1: zipped up to his neck now just in total intense.

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Speaker 1: It's long sleeves. Yeah, yeah, it's not good. That's not healthy.

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Speaker 1: upon side of the sun. I can't do anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I would lose. This is the truth. I just sweat

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Speaker 1: an out of shape thing, Steve, It's it is, But

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Speaker 1: know how many pounds he gained yesterday? What? Just take

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Speaker 1: former offensive line who can really put on I could

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Speaker 1: so myself. I've had five or five or six or

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Speaker 1: I've had a day where I get up and I'm

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Speaker 1: you know, buck buck eighty nine, buck ninety and then

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Speaker 1: So I've had one of those books. But that's when

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Speaker 1: and you're full, and you take any ways. So if

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Speaker 1: he's doing that, he's got to be at least double

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Speaker 1: did you gotta be ten pounds plus? Right? Fourteen point

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Speaker 1: eight pounds? Fourteen point eight that's hard to do, bro.

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Speaker 1: That is that's that's that's not enjoying yourself. That's work.

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Speaker 1: That's a job. That's to day's work. Fourteen point eight.

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Speaker 1: Rusty Jones was on him hard. It was a battle

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Speaker 1: He's not the only one that's ever done. I mean,

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Speaker 1: of share the limelight with Adam Feeland. They were kind

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Speaker 1: of like one A receivers, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: in terms of target share all that stuff. There's a

426
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Speaker 1: ton of things that moving parts when you talk about

427
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Speaker 1: it like the way in the way you are and

428
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Speaker 1: the way he was talking about it. It's not only

429
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Speaker 1: Adam Feeland. It's also about Mike Zimmer and it's also

430
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Speaker 1: about Kirk Cousins. It's about the entire offense, how they

431
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Speaker 1: matched up, what their offensive line was like, what their

432
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Speaker 1: philosophy was, and you get an offense like this, and

433
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Speaker 1: certainly Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, John Brown, Dave Davis, they

434
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Speaker 1: are benefiting, if you can say it in this way.

435
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Speaker 1: They're benefiting personally from a team doesn't run the ball

436
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Speaker 1: all that well, and because they don't run it well,

437
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: they don't run it that often. So they have forced

438
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Speaker 1: them to be very productive and ask them to really

439
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Speaker 1: carry the load offensively. They put it on Josh Allen's

440
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Speaker 1: shoulders and ostensibly also on the receivers to keep make

441
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Speaker 1: this thing go. So they're getting a lot of opportunities

442
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Speaker 1: than in a normal year. You're not going to get

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Speaker 1: that many. Uh. Certainly, there's nothing here happening here in

444
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Speaker 1: Buffalo that Steph Diggs could even begin to complain about.

445
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is all going gold for them. They're

446
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Speaker 1: seven and three, They got they should be eight and two.

447
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Speaker 1: Hail Mary. He's getting more targets than anybody. He's getting

448
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Speaker 1: he's getting a chance to contribute more than anybody, his

449
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: numbers being called more than anybody, and he's coming through

450
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Speaker 1: and he has come through on a number of occasions.

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Speaker 1: It's certainly I think also before that, even I think

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Speaker 1: he appreciates the culture that they're building here. I think

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Speaker 1: he likes this locker room. I think he likes the program.

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Speaker 1: He likes a head coach, certainly, the quarterback, all of

455
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Speaker 1: that stuff. So yeah, there's nothing here for Steph Diggs

456
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Speaker 1: not to be happy about in the in the way

457
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Speaker 1: he's being used. So here is Stefan Diggs commenting on

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Speaker 1: his production this season. When I say it's me versus meum,

459
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Speaker 1: I never really look at my past situation just because

460
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Speaker 1: whatever cards you were dead at the time, where your

461
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Speaker 1: cards and you had to play on. Well, um, with

462
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Speaker 1: my new situation, you know what I'm saying, we got

463
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Speaker 1: a different kind offense than I was in before. You

464
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying with those records that are in place,

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for those guys. You know, I don't I don't

467
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Speaker 1: think the rules, whether they're broken or not. I'm of

468
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Speaker 1: course I'm gonna be thankful, but I'm chasing something much

469
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Speaker 1: bigger than that. I'm chasing. I'm chasing greatness. I want

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Speaker 1: to be great each and every day child myself, even

471
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Speaker 1: each and every day and practice and in waiting room

472
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Speaker 1: and just trying to get better. So stuff like that's

473
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Speaker 1: going to come with your grind and what's your commitment

474
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Speaker 1: to your craft. So I'm not really necessarily thinking about

475
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff because, like I said, that chip's

476
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Speaker 1: gonna fall kind of where they lay, and I just

477
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Speaker 1: kind of want to take whatever blessing comes. But I'm

478
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Speaker 1: chasing something bigger than me, and my team is chasing

479
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Speaker 1: something bigger than that, an individual success. And I feel

480
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Speaker 1: like individual success would take care of yourself as far

481
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Speaker 1: as like when you when you're goal oriented and all

482
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Speaker 1: your teammates are pushing for you and the guys around

483
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Speaker 1: you want the best for you, all that stuff is

484
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Speaker 1: gonna take care of yourself. We're chasing something much bigger

485
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Speaker 1: than that. That's as winning nisan every week. You know,

486
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Speaker 1: everybody got the big thing on the wall, but that's

487
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Speaker 1: whinning nisan every week. Yeah, so you know it's he's

488
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Speaker 1: saying all the right things. He's in a good place.

489
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Speaker 1: There's not enough us complaining about. As you said, um,

490
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Speaker 1: it could not have gone better for him, and making

491
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Speaker 1: this transition to this roster. His productions off the charts.

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Speaker 1: He's not only making he's not only producing, he's making

493
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Speaker 1: clutch plays as we saw, you know, just last week

494
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Speaker 1: in Arizona with thirty four seconds left. I mean, if

495
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Speaker 1: the Hail Mary doesn't happen, that's all anybody's talking about

496
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Speaker 1: this week. That play, that scoring play on that drive.

497
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been encouraging and he's very high in

498
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl voting. Stefen Diggs has never made a

499
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, has never made it to the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: in his career. I think he's got a really good

501
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Speaker 1: shot this year. That's a hardcase. That's a hard position

502
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Speaker 1: to get in. It only take three per conference, So

503
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Speaker 1: it's a hard position to get to the Pro Bowl

504
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Speaker 1: because you're talking about a league that throws it all

505
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Speaker 1: over the yard and every team has got three or

506
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Speaker 1: four guys that are getting a lot of chances. It

507
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Speaker 1: probably helps. DeAndre Hopkins is in the NFC now, so

508
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: that helps. Yeah, no doubt it does, but he's been

509
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Speaker 1: at the top of the list almost the entire season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how anyone could deny Stefan Diggs going

511
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Speaker 1: to his first Pro Pro Bowl. Voting started here in

512
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Speaker 1: the last week or so as well, so yeah, those

513
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Speaker 1: numbers are starting going. Bills have got a lot of

514
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Speaker 1: players in the top five of their positions, so that's

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Speaker 1: kind of nice to see. Yeah. Josh Allen also commented

516
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Speaker 1: on the chemistry that he's been able to establish with

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. So here's Josh on how that has materialized

518
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Speaker 1: through the course of the season. Typically, you're thinking of

519
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Speaker 1: a guy that you know, was portrayed by the media

520
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Speaker 1: as a as a diva and this and that, and

521
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Speaker 1: didn't really know what to expect. But you know, he

522
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Speaker 1: was there on time in the workout drills with us,

523
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Speaker 1: going through you know, everything that we were going through

524
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Speaker 1: trying to learn. Um. Then after when we go out

525
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Speaker 1: to dinner, he wanted to be there and he was there, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it surprised me just with how much

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Speaker 1: of a team guy he was at the start, you know,

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Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice his time to hang out with us

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Speaker 1: and and do things like that, which I'm sure not

530
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Speaker 1: a lot of people would do in his situation. But

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Speaker 1: he's been a great addition to this team. Um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't say enough about him, what he's meant to

533
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Speaker 1: the team won the offense, and then just on and

534
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Speaker 1: off the field, just you know, he's a great guy

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Speaker 1: to talk to and um, you know, I consider him

536
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Speaker 1: a good friend. So again, the relationship building went swimmingly

537
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Speaker 1: as well. You know, these guys were playing Call of

538
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Speaker 1: Duty together after the trade happened like a couple of

539
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: days later, like just getting on because that was like

540
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: the middle of the well, not the middle. It was

541
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Speaker 1: the start of the pandemic isolationism that we all experienced.

542
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Speaker 1: So there was no way for those guys to catch

543
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: up in any other way, at least at that point

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Speaker 1: in time. And so that's how they kind of connected

545
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Speaker 1: early on. And then you hear from Josh how it

546
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Speaker 1: Morphton developed even further from there. The last thing I

547
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Speaker 1: say for head a break. He had some other questions,

548
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Speaker 1: some other answers to questions the other day that I

549
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Speaker 1: thought were really interesting, and he got into something I

550
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Speaker 1: thought was really important, and he kind of talked about

551
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Speaker 1: how the conversations that he has we all, you know,

552
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: we talked about how many reps these guys are getting.

553
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: And it's important, no question, but you always think about

554
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: let's go out and you get out there and all

555
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: get the snap as a quarterback, and I'll throw you

556
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Speaker 1: that route, and I'll throw you this route, and I'll

557
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: throw you this other route, and let's keep doing that

558
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: and keep doing that. One thing he got to that

559
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: was really important and really insightful for him was the

560
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Speaker 1: conversations that Josh and he and Josh and Cole Beasley

561
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Speaker 1: and Ole Beasley and Stefan Diggs and John Brown. And

562
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Speaker 1: it's the conversations that you have about the routes that

563
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Speaker 1: you run that lead to the extra level of chemistry

564
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Speaker 1: between you and the quarterback because when you can you

565
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Speaker 1: have the intelligence and the ability to communicate with your quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I was thinking, Here's why I did that

567
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Speaker 1: little thing there. And he mentioned that the interception against

568
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Speaker 1: New England, because that was totally me and that was

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Speaker 1: at the top of a route where he should have

570
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Speaker 1: come back instead of pivoted out, and Josh trusted him

571
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Speaker 1: and already thrown the football. Yeah, but the conversations you

572
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Speaker 1: have about that go a long long way towards I

573
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: think those get lost and your ability to feel comfortable

574
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Speaker 1: with somebody to have a conversation about what you're thinking

575
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: goes a long way. And I think that's really one

576
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Speaker 1: of the things that's taken this to a new level

577
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Speaker 1: for Cole Beasley, John Brown and step Did. I think

578
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Speaker 1: the conversations get a lot easier when you realize that

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Speaker 1: that other person wants the same thing that you do.

580
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Speaker 1: And I think when Josh was not perfect on certain

581
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Speaker 1: passes in the time that they did get on the

582
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Speaker 1: field and said, hey, let's run that again. I want

583
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Speaker 1: my ball placement to be perfect. That sends a message

584
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Speaker 1: to a receiver. A guy that's is dedicated to his

585
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: craft is to find like, hey, this guy wants to

586
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Speaker 1: be perfect too. There's plenty you can get behind that.

587
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: So now I feel even more comfortable coming to him

588
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: to talk about how to perfect things because I know

589
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: being perfect matters to him. It makes a difference. Story

590
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: after story after story about truly great quarterbacks who who

591
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: didn't take the blame for anything. Right, Listen, you gotta

592
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: do this. I want you to come out of that.

593
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: If there was an incomplete pass. He's talking to you

594
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: about what you need to do better and do wrong.

595
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Speaker 1: I played with a quarterback, and this quarterback here in Buffalo,

596
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Are the guys that go, ah, that was me.

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00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: I's a bad throw. You know, even his bad throws

598
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: are even mistakes made by some quarterbacks don't get called

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00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: that because they don't want to hear it. The best

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Speaker 1: ones that you know. I get what you're doing. I

601
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Speaker 1: thought that was on me. I'll change it up. So

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Speaker 1: Josh seems to be in that spot too. We've seen,

603
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: we've heard it time and time again where he says,

604
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Speaker 1: I gotta be better, I gotta do this, and you

605
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: gotta think. On an interpersonal level, he's coming up in

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Speaker 1: those conversations going no, now you did the right thing.

607
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: That was me. And when your quarterbacks doing that, he'll

608
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: have receiving corps that's out there really really trying hard

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Speaker 1: to get open for him. Break time for us, But

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll hit the obl fan mail bag.

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Speaker 1: But if you have a question for us and you

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Speaker 1: Eighth three five fifty Steven here, Steve and I here

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Speaker 1: to answer any and all of your questions about the team,

615
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: the roster, of the league, whatever. We could even talk

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Speaker 1: about the Ravens and the Browns who are still dealing

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Speaker 1: with some COVID issues. It's getting a little nutty out there,

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Speaker 1: Live Friday edition, which means the mail bag is open

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Speaker 1: and ready for you to submit any and all questions

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Speaker 1: that you may have about the team, the roster, the

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00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: coaching staff, the league, the COVID protocols which have been

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Speaker 1: further enhanced as we will see this weekend. We saw

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Speaker 1: some of it yesterday, although not with one hundred percent efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Players when not playing in the game on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: are supposed to all wear masks. I don't know about you, Steve,

630
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Speaker 1: I didn't see that wasn't a uniform thing across the board. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was hitting miss, I thought, which is going to

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Speaker 1: be a tougher and tougher thing to police. I think

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Speaker 1: there was actually one sideline shot during the Lions game

634
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Speaker 1: with the Texans where I can't remember if it was

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Speaker 1: I want to say it was Karrion Johnson came off

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Speaker 1: the field after he fumbled, and he's sitting there on

637
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: the bench and one of the assistant coaches actually walks

638
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: over to him with a mask and says, hey, here's

639
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: your mask, and he's like, no, I'm good, and he

640
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: gets up and he walks down to the other end

641
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 1: of the bench. I don't know if maybe he's going

642
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: to get a cup of water or something he's gonna drink.

643
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: Don't want to put a mask on right away, but

644
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be easier said than done,

645
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,959
Speaker 1: because coaches got enough things they got to worry about

646
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: during a game. They can't worry about whether this guy's

647
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: got a mask on or not. It's just I don't know.

648
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: I mean, you got it, you should do it. That's

649
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: not something the coaches are gonna do. It's it's the

650
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: training staff and the medical staff and the equipment strength

651
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: conditioning staff, the equipment staff. They've got guys who can

652
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: worry about that stuff, and they still got to deal

653
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: with the player's desired or lack thereof to put one on.

654
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: It be a tough. I think it's gonna be tough

655
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: to get it, especially when a guy's disgusted coming off

656
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: the field and doesn't want to be debothered with it. Yeah,

657
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: but in any event, OBL mailbag open and ready for

658
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: your questions, and we're gonna lead off today with Nick

659
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: T who says Josh has been good all year, but

660
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: outside of the Seattle game, he hasn't been at that

661
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: MVP level since Week four. From an XS and o's perspective,

662
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: has there been any pattern to what defenses have been

663
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: doing to try to slow him down more zone own,

664
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: more blitz is, disguising coverages, etc. Question mark MVP level.

665
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: I guess that's a matter of opinion in terms of

666
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: what they believe that is. Oh, it was pretty darn

667
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: good last week or in the last game. Yeah, as

668
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: we're watching some of the highlights, he was really good.

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00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: I get it, though, I think perfect. I don't think

670
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: there's a magic wand that says this is why they

671
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: he hasn't been as good as he has been. I

672
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: don't think there's one reason. I think there's like three

673
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: or four really solid reasons. And they may take turns

674
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: in one game, or they may take turns week to week.

675
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: One reason they haven't been as good as John Brown's

676
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: been in and out of the lineup. The second reason

677
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: is teams are starting to learn what they can and

678
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: can't do against this team. They certainly teams certainly believe

679
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: or don't believe the Bills can run it, and or

680
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: they do believe they can stop the Bills run, and

681
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: that means they can focus on what Josh Allen's doing

682
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: back there and come up with all kinds of you know, plans,

683
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: a lot of plans, uh, different types of plans and

684
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: unpredictable things to get in his skull and make it

685
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: tough on him. Certainly, I think you've seen teams mill

686
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: around at the line of scrimmage and not give him

687
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: a look at what he's you know, a pre snap

688
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: look and all of that. But for the most part,

689
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: it's an offense that's clicked, and more more than clicked,

690
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: it's revved at times, and defenses are struggling to do it.

691
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: But they do know this, and more and more so

692
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: they're they're forcing the Bills to say, we don't believe

693
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna run it, and even if you do try

694
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: and run it, you're not going to be successful doing it.

695
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna make it tough on you

696
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: to find Steff Diggs. We're gonna make it a tough

697
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: on you to find John Brown and those kind of guys.

698
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: So I think it's a number of issues, not just one.

699
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: And now with Brown out, who you think picks up

700
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: the slack. I mean, Gabe Davis is obviously in that equation,

701
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: but they've used other guys too, I mean, Isaiah McKenzie.

702
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: They like putting Andre Roberts on the field when they're

703
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: down with John Brown out. I mean, Andre Roberts was

704
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: getting some good early action in that Tennessee game, and

705
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: of course, you know the first pass is behind him

706
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: and bounces off his hand and ends up being intercepted.

707
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: But I know they think a lot of Gabe Davis

708
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: and Andre Roberts as blocking receivers as well. Those are

709
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: probably your two best blocking receivers. So if you have

710
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,919
Speaker 1: any interest in providing a boost to your run game

711
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: and you're out on the edges, can't hurt. They have

712
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: those two receivers on the field a little bit more.

713
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: If you want to run it, it's it's chargers. Here's

714
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: the thing, no John Brown. That means somebody's gonna be at,

715
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, invite it up. Is it gonna be Duke

716
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: or is it gonna be Well, Kumero's been up for

717
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones, but it looks like Jones is going to

718
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup, so it will be a

719
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: true receiver. First question. Yeah, I think Kumero has been

720
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: up because he can run. Bet he runs better than Duke,

721
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: so he's better at covering kicks and punts. So you

722
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: understand the logic there. Now we're going, presumably exclusively for

723
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: avoid at receiver, and I think it'll give you more

724
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: of a true measure as to which receiver they think

725
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: is more likely to help them, whether they think that's

726
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: Kumaro or Duke Williams. And it could just be opponent's

727
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: specific for this week. It could change next week if

728
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: God forbid. John Brown's out for an extended period of time,

729
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: and we don't know that at this point. We just

730
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: know he's out for this week. But yeah, I mean,

731
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: I think they use Isaiah McKenzie and Gabriel Davis in

732
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: very very different ways, but one could end up helping

733
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: more than the other based on play calling, game plan, etc.

734
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's an easy answer, right, And

735
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: I don't know it's one answer. Yeah, it'll be interesting

736
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: to see if Kumarro stays up and they bring Duke

737
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Williams up as well. I don't know, because Taiwan Jones

738
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: has been practicing this week, so I'm thinking, all right,

739
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna be available. He's gonna playum, you know, unless

740
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: they want to wait one more week on the hamstring,

741
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: and you know, then it's a different conversation you think

742
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: about it. They playing against the the LA Chargers, who

743
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: have given a block kick each of the last three

744
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: weeks or something like. They love you might want to

745
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: have the veteran out there are guys who plus with

746
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: him a little, with a little bit of freshness in

747
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: his step. It is not good. I mean, I've been

748
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: watching some of that Chargers film. Who Yeah, that's special

749
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: Teams unit is having problems. Yeah, so we'll see Steve.

750
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: I mean they even had at the end of the

751
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: game last week against the Jets, they take the intentional

752
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: safety and the punter doesn't run out the clock. He

753
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: goes down with a second left on the clock. They

754
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: have to free kick it to the Jets up six.

755
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: I mean, they gave the Jets another chance to win

756
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: the game because they couldn't execute an intentional safety. As

757
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: that's horrible. As as much of a long shot as

758
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: that is, it's still something you shouldn't have to do.

759
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: Like game over, take the safety, but run out the clock.

760
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: Games should be over. I couldn't believe that. Yeah, that's crazy.

761
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: I could execute that. I could run around for a

762
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 1: little bit then kill the clock. I mean, oh my god,

763
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 1: I get it. You don't want to coach a guy

764
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: on how to take a breath, but there are details

765
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: you need to touch on as a coach. You guys, say, listen,

766
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: remember you got to run out the clock here. Now,

767
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: don't just step out of the end zone. Don't just

768
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: go down. Yeah, and that didn't. And the week before

769
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, they they get a third down stop,

770
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: they forced the Dolphins to line up for a field goal,

771
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: they jump off sides, they get a fresh set of

772
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: downs and two to score as a touchdown. Right, And

773
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 1: then on the next possession they had another snaff food

774
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: they got the punt blocked led to one. So the

775
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: first two touchdowns Miami scored. It was because the special teams.

776
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: Wasn't even a call block. It was just a guy

777
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: miss with whiffed. He just whiffed. It was like a

778
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: four four man rush and the guy comes through. Yeah,

779
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: and I read in one of the LA reports this

780
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: week and we had we only had they tweaked their

781
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: cut staff. Well they tweaked the staff. But you know,

782
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: we had Tom Tolesco, the GM of the Chargers, on

783
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: the show earlier this week. We had him on Wednesday

784
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: and we asked him briefly about the special team stuff.

785
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: And you know, he, much like Anthony Lynn, the head coach,

786
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: said we had to make a change, we had to

787
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: change something here to get course corrected. But he also

788
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: had a punter, a kicker, and a long snapper all

789
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: in for tryouts this week. Yeah, they're they're beating the

790
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: bushes right now. Now tell them. We'll get into this

791
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: in the next segment because we're at a time right now.

792
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: But I'm curious to know from you mid season changing

793
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: one or even two of those spots, I don't know,

794
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: you must think it's really bad if you're comfortable with

795
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 1: the transition to a new long snapper, a new punter,

796
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: or a new kick, a kicker, okay, whatever, But and

797
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: you're three and seven, so maybe it doesn't matter. I

798
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: get it, But that's I mean, I've heard you say

799
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: that's not just an easy thing where you flip a

800
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: switch with two new guys in the operation and all

801
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's butter. I mean, that doesn't happen.

802
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: We can talk about it after the break, because there's

803
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: a lot there depends I and I don't know that

804
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: they're and obviously they're not signing any guys in time

805
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: for this week's game, but they're looking. They've got three wins,

806
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: seven losses, and they're probably thinking it ain't gonna make

807
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: it with because there's nine teams with six wins at least,

808
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: So they're thinking, all right, listen, what would happen if

809
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: we could really send a message here, or let's get

810
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: this fixed now so we're not still dealing with it

811
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: next season. Yeah, but you're still gonna have guys. You're

812
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: still gonna try and get better next year too. So

813
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: I think it's listening. We got guys that are laying

814
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: down or not doing it. Let's let's chuck a couple

815
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: of guys to the curb. Let's see if that spices

816
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: things up a little bit. If from George, the three

817
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: guys here your neck. Yeah, all right, break time for us.

818
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about that more as the Chargers look

819
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: like they have a disadvantage going into this game with

820
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: the Bills in the special teams phase of the game,

821
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: and I don't know that they can get it fixed

822
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: in a week's time. It's been a persistent problem for

823
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: them and the Bills might be able to take advantage

824
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: back in a flash. Here on one Bills Live presented

825
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown,

826
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker won Bills Live. We were talking about how

827
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers are trying to right the ship in the

828
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: special team's phase of their game hasn't gone well. Three

829
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: puns blocked in the last four games. They've had other

830
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: misques and multiple penalties. There's a lot in that. Yeah,

831
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: And this week they tried out a new kicker, a

832
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: new long snapper, a new punter, and they tweaked their

833
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: staff and the special teams coordinator has been moved to

834
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: offense to assistant to assistant offense, and then the assistant

835
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: special teams guy's been elevated to the coordinator and now

836
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: they're trying out kickers, punish long snappers a couple of things.

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00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: One even an established head coach if he which Anthon

838
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: Lynzon his fourth year, if he's doing this, he's sending

839
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: a message to the locker room about listening. Guys. This

840
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 1: is not acceptable. We're making some changes, the coaching staff

841
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 1: changes because that really that will resonate with the players.

842
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: When coaches start getting moved around, players are gonna go woo.

843
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: And not only that, we should mention this. George Stewart,

844
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: who was the special teams coach that was demoted, sure

845
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: was a coaching mentor to Anthony Lynn. Like he was

846
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: a guy that helped Anthony Lynn get his shot to

847
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: coach in this league as an assistant. So imagine how

848
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: hard that was for Anthony Lynn to tell his mentor, hey,

849
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: we gotta make a change here. And also the players

850
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 1: will see that. You know, there's three players that they've

851
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 1: been kind of hitting the road with for twelve weeks,

852
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: the kicker, punter, long snapper who may not be there

853
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: or who are on thin ice. Now. Having said that,

854
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: that's a good message for a head coach to send.

855
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: It's also a head coach who is trying to do

856
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: some tangible things to show fans and his owner that

857
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: he has not lost it, that he is not like

858
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: going down with his ship, that he is working to

859
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: correct all the things. Smart coaches change things when they

860
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: don't work, and they do it fast. And Anthony Lynn

861
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: is doing that right now. That doesn't mean and I'm

862
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 1: not saying he's in desperation mode trying to save his job.

863
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, Smart coaches make changes without hesitation.

864
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: Let's take this a step further. Change. You gotta make

865
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: a change to try to make it better. What is

866
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: the likelihood though, that it just magically gets better this week?

867
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: That's not depends on what the problem was. Well, right,

868
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: if you got bad players, that's on the coach. They

869
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: have a lot of young players on special teams who

870
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: are learning on the fly. They've lost some veteran special

871
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: teamers to free agency, they didn't bring some of them back,

872
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: and they've got a lot of youth and they you know,

873
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: Eckler's been out of lineup for a while. I mean,

874
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: they haven't been hitting on all cylinders yet, but Joe,

875
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, Justin Herbert has been knocking it out of

876
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: the park. What are you doing over there? Um? You know,

877
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you got a quarterback playing like that?

878
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: And you've got a talented defense like you've got, and

879
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: certainly you've got some injuries that have that have derailed

880
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: you a little bit. But man, oh man, that last

881
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 1: little bit that they can't find that gets them from

882
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 1: six and four down to three seven games, it's costing

883
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: them games in a big way. And you know those

884
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: are And I don't have a problem with taking drastic

885
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: measures to fix it, like replacing players outright, shuffling your

886
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: staff midseason, which, by the way, that's very rare, that's

887
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 1: really rare. I think they feel like it's not just luck. Yeah,

888
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I just don't know that.

889
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure the assistant special team's coach who's

890
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: now the special team's coordinator, along with an offensive assistant

891
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: who was named the assistant special team's coach to replace

892
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: the guy that took on the head roll there, I'm

893
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: sure they're going to have different things to try to

894
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: make things easier for the young players to execute in

895
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: that phase of the game. I'm just not convinced that

896
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: it's going to all get better in one week here

897
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: number one and then number two. Every other team that's

898
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: playing them smells blood in the water. And so all

899
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: you need to do on Sunday, as I see it,

900
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: and again this could be easier said than done, is

901
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: be aggressive, because all it's gonna take with that group

902
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: is one misq, one misq and where's the psyche go?

903
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: Here we go again? Oh boy, we don't have our

904
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: ducks in a row. Again, We're gonna have a problem.

905
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: And then the confidence wanes, people start trying to cover

906
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: for other guys, and you have assignment issues and god

907
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: knows what else. So if i'd the bills, man, I

908
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: am putting the foot on the putting the foot to

909
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: the floor on the gas pedal and just coming after

910
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, you might want to, you know, try

911
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: something on a kickoff return or whatever. I mean, here's

912
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: the thing though, I mean, you don't want to when

913
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: you're playing Well, you got Andre Roberts back there. You're

914
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. You don't have to reinvent them.

915
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: We're not going to reverse the ball out of his

916
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: hands and put it in somebody else's hands. Although and

917
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: you got Isaiah McKenzie on an end a round or

918
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: something like that. I get that, But on a punt team, well, yeah,

919
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: there's no real need to do that. You got to

920
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: alert your guys and you got to pick out the

921
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: guys on the Sandy or the LA roster that are

922
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: not playing well and capitalize on it. You gotta show

923
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: your guys who those guys are and get after him,

924
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: take advantage of them. If they've got some guys that

925
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: are playing well, you focus your efforts on those guys

926
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: because the guys that are playing bad you don't care about,

927
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: you know. So there's a lot of ways to slice it.

928
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: Keith Burns is going to be the special teams coordinator

929
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: for saying it for LA. George Stewart has been in

930
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: the league since it's thirty two years in the league. Yes,

931
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: I was. He was in the league ten years when

932
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: I was playing, so he's been around a long time.

933
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 1: So it's I think this will really send a message

934
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: through the locker room. I don't know that about the

935
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: leadership on the Chargers roster, and you certainly got a

936
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: tyrode there has been through a couple of things that

937
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: have been around the block in the league and some

938
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: other guys too. But for young special teams players, How

939
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: do you handle a newest coach who's a new face

940
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: at the front of the room, A new guy in

941
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: your ear on game day, a new guy installing his

942
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: game plan, a new you know, either new techniques or

943
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: tweaked thought processes. It's it's a big challenge. It's a

944
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: big challenge for guys who are young. It'll certainly be

945
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on in Sunday's game. Break

946
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: time for us, but when we return, more of your

947
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: questions in the OBL mail bag. Fire them off if

948
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: you've got them, or give us a call. Eight O

949
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

950
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: two five fifty open line for you there and then

951
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: coming up in about twenty five minutes time, we'll be

952
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: one Greg ko Sell, senior producer NFL Films and also

953
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: co host of ESPN's NFL Matchup Show. We'll be talking

954
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: to him about Sunday's game as well in about twenty

955
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: five minutes back in a flash here on One Bill's Line,

956
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:49,760
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills

957
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: Radio Network, Sports Update, Your sports Update from One Bill's Drive.

958
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: Cody Ford declared out for this season. After suffering a

959
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: knee injury in practice this week, NFL Network see and

960
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: Rappaport reported that it's a torn meniscus that will require

961
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 1: surgery with a three to four month recovery time. Meanwhile,

962
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: wide receiver John Brown declared out for Sunday's game by

963
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: hit coach Sean McDermott this morning with an ankle injury

964
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: suffered back in Week ten at Arizona. As for Buffalo's

965
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: offensive line, McDermott also confirmed that Mitch Morse will start

966
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: at center on Sunday against the Chargers. For the Chargers,

967
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: Brian Bulaga offensive tackle non participant in practice on Thursday.

968
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: Fellow starters on defense Melvin Ingram and Casey Hayward have

969
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: not practiced all week, making them question marks for Sunday's game.

970
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: We'll see what their level of participation is in practice

971
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: for that team today. More COVID outbreaks in Baltimore and

972
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: Sunday's game between the Ravens and Steelers could be in jeopardy.

973
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: The latest Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson testing positive. He was

974
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: one of four players who had a positive test on Thursday.

975
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: This follows a handful of other players along four staffers

976
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: who went on the reserve COVID list earlier in the week.

977
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: The NFL will continue to monitor the developments, but as

978
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 1: of now, the game is still on as scheduled for Sunday.

979
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: It was originally supposed to be played Thanksgiving night. Denver

980
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: Broncos dealing with another COVID nineteen issue. The team canceling

981
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: practice following news of a player and two staff members

982
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: testing positive. It's the third time the team has had

983
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: to cancel practice due to COVID nineteen issues. Denver at

984
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: four and six, is supposed to host the Saints on Sunday.

985
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals will be playing a game without Larry

986
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald for the first time since twenty fourteen when they

987
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: face the Patriots on Sunday. The future Hall of famer

988
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen, and the Cleveland Browns announced

989
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving that another player tested positive on their roster

990
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: for COVID, making it the third player in less than

991
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: a week for that franchise. The Browns are scheduled to

992
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: play Jacksonville this weekend. That is your sports update, which

993
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: sounded more like a medical update. Steve. Everything that I

994
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: read there with the exception of the Bill's Chargers injury

995
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: updates was COVID related. And I think this is something

996
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: that we had feared or had apprehension about, seeing, you know,

997
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: the infection rates spiking across the country. I think we

998
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: felt like the law of averages was eventually going to

999
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 1: catch up with these football teams, and in many cases

1000
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: it has. Yeah, and the head coaches and organizations are

1001
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: doing two things. They're certainly trying to get their guys

1002
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: ready to play a football game. The other thing they're

1003
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: trying to do is get them to stay away from

1004
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: anybody outside the buildings. It's football and COVID. Embrace one

1005
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: and stay away from the other. I found it interesting

1006
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: that as soon as Lamar Jackson tested positive, a lot

1007
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: of the national reporters came out and said, ah, I

1008
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: don't know how you can play this game. Now, how

1009
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: the heck can you play this game? Blah blah blah.

1010
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: Four more players. I said, well, hold on a second,

1011
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: I said, this is why the league put a sixteen

1012
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: man practice squad in place for this exact reason. Like,

1013
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 1: does it suck that the Ravens aren't gonna have Lamar Jackson? Hell?

1014
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. But the Patriots went and played the

1015
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: Chiefs without Cam Newton the chief It hasn't happened before

1016
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: they played the Chiefs. Yeah, well they got to play

1017
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: the undefeated Steelers, so you know. And on top of that,

1018
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: Trace McSorley, one of their backup quarterbacks, is still on

1019
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: the COVID reserve list from late last week or earlier

1020
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: this week. Sorry. So they got RG three and they've

1021
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: got Tyler Huntley as the only quarterbacks available to play.

1022
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley incidentally was Zach Moss's high school teammate and

1023
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: college teammate at Utah. He was a quarterback. So those

1024
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: are your two available quarterbacks for the Ravens, and I

1025
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: think they should consider themselves fortunate they still have two,

1026
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: because if one guy in the quarterback room tests positive,

1027
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: you are lucky as luck can have it. Did not

1028
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: even have those guy as a as an exposure risk

1029
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: due to close proximity. Is it fair that the Ravens

1030
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: gotta get it put through this? No? Does anybody care? No?

1031
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: I mean that nobody outside of nobody outside of the

1032
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: locker room Baltimore cares. I'm certainly. I mean now, and

1033
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: you got you know, social media is what it is

1034
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,959
Speaker 1: but they found that one of their staff members didn't

1035
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: follow protocols and that's right, and that's what led to this,

1036
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: and well, there you go. Nobody feels sorry for you

1037
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: if you're not gonna, you know, wear your mask or

1038
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: not come into it's not socially distanced in it. Yeah,

1039
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: that it's crazy. So that kind of thing. It'll be

1040
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: interesting to see how far the league pushes that. I've

1041
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: said up until well now I mean it half a

1042
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: changed quickly. I thought last week, man, the league was

1043
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: doing a good job. Last week was the last bye

1044
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: weeks and I thought, Okay, now they've got a chance

1045
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: to to hit it because nobody else is going to

1046
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: be outside their buildings and all that and say a

1047
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,919
Speaker 1: little did I know? Well yeah, but I still think

1048
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: Steve and Lamar Jackson is the perfect example for this.

1049
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: And maybe the team isn't in the way they're playing

1050
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: right now because they've dropped I think two in a row.

1051
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: They're six and four. They're reeling a little bit. Now

1052
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: they got to play the undefeated Steelers without Lamar, and

1053
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: you think about a perfect example here. It's like a

1054
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: team like the Steelers, like, let's just think about this

1055
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: for a second rolling, you know ten and oh, unstoppable,

1056
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: just steamrolling everybody. What happens if it's Roethlisberger that gets COVID,

1057
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: can't play like he turns up COVID positive on a Friday,

1058
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: can't play Sunday and might even miss the next week's game. Yeah,

1059
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: like now all now listen the way they've been treated

1060
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: the Steeler. But you think that anybody is gonna say

1061
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: boo about Steeler fans? No, no, but okay, and maybe

1062
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: and again maybe my examples are not good. But what

1063
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: if you got a team, one of these five or

1064
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: six teams in the AFC who have six wins right now,

1065
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: fighting for playoff position, and you lose your quarterback? I mean,

1066
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: man like you could really it could topple your season,

1067
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: your postseason chances yet goes down if Miami had loses

1068
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: two or fits or both. I mean it's tight in

1069
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: the AC right now. It's one of those six wins

1070
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: teams to lose an important player. I mean, it's gonna

1071
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: be you figured out what happened. We didn't know all

1072
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: these teams in the AFC we're gonna play so well.

1073
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, you know that's what you were looking at.

1074
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: When you started this season like this with this on

1075
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: the table, it's not going it's not going away. It's

1076
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: gonna get worse and you're gonna have to deal with it.

1077
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: And the teams that deal with COVID on top of

1078
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: everything else they got to deal with anyway. And usually

1079
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: in every year, uh, the ones to deal with the

1080
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: best are going to have the best outcome. And that

1081
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: could mean a team like the New England Patriots climbed

1082
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: back into it because everybody else falls off because they

1083
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: lose their quarterback. You know, two or three teams could

1084
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: happen to Ye or you know, Minnesota loses Dalvin Cook,

1085
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: like right, right, right, yeah, I mean just anything could

1086
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: happen in any given week. You know, we always talk

1087
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: about it, how it's a week to week league to

1088
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: begin with, with all the different things that can change

1089
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: due to injury. Now you throw on the COVID element

1090
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: to that, and all bets are off. Like I mean,

1091
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers are probably the only team that is truly

1092
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: safe right now because they can sustain a couple of

1093
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: losses and still be okay. There's some of these teams

1094
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: that are in that Chiefs window of the race. I mean,

1095
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: the margin for error. I mean, you said it this

1096
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: week on the show. It's razor thin. You're talking about

1097
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: a two percent difference. You throw COVID into the pot,

1098
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, it could chemical reaction. And that's

1099
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: the thing too. Here's the thing. I'm just using them

1100
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: as an example. Nobody, you know, the Detroit Lions struggling

1101
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: like they are and they get COVID. This like everybody's

1102
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: like whatever, yeah, even their fans, like it's just a

1103
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: better draft pick. Cincinnati Bengers, we lost Joe Burrow. We

1104
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,959
Speaker 1: lost Joe Burrow. You know what, let's just get another

1105
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: guy to help him. Let's you know, it'll help our

1106
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: draft position. But you get a team like Pittsburgh or

1107
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: or Kansas City Seattle. You remember what happened earlier in

1108
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: the season when I mean people in Kansas City were

1109
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: ready to jump off bridges when they saw that Pat Mahomes.

1110
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes had shaken the hand as to find Gilmour

1111
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: after the game, and two days later, Gilmore turns up positive.

1112
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: People were freaking out in Kansas City, right, freaking out.

1113
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, but it's all on the table though, It's

1114
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: just and it could happen to it could happen to

1115
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: the Bills, Josh Allen, It could happen to anybody, and

1116
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: every team's gonna be affected by it. And the head coaches,

1117
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You talk about the pressure being

1118
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: on getting these guys to line up and you know,

1119
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: you get these It was like when when I played,

1120
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: you opened the doors and every they go home. It's

1121
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: like trying to herd cats. After that, they ain't listening. Yeah,

1122
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I I'm trying to put myself in the

1123
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: shoes of a head coach, you know, like coach mccuram

1124
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: or anybody else in the league dealing with this, like

1125
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: just the the amount of agonizing because you know, it's

1126
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: like it's like when you got teenage kids and they're

1127
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: out driving on a Friday night, Like you don't know

1128
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: where they are exactly, you don't know what kind of

1129
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: road they're driving. One you're worry about. It's stuff you

1130
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: can't really control. You're trusting, you know, your kids to

1131
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: make good decisions. The coaches are kind of doing the

1132
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: same thing here with these players, and oh my gosh,

1133
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: like they probably like on a on a Friday after practice,

1134
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody's showered and getting ready to leave.

1135
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine it's got to be like wanting to

1136
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: wrap up everybody in bubble wrap, you know what, Just

1137
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: rapp them in bubble rapp and then send them home,

1138
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: just preferably by hand. Handcuff him into the locker, leave

1139
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: him there for the weekend, right, Hi, hire a delivery

1140
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: company to throw them in the back of the truck

1141
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: and get him straight home. I know this. I'm now,

1142
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: I'm at a different stage in my life. Yeah, it's

1143
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: not a big deal for me to hang in the house,

1144
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, because I can do that. I don't know

1145
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: when I was twenty men in my mid twenties, late twenties. Listen,

1146
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: I gotta get out. You know, it's hard. It's hard

1147
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: to do, man, and that these coat you know, these

1148
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: guys are Yeah, they got money, they got free time.

1149
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: Of course. Now you know, with most of this being

1150
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: an orange coat in orange zone here, a lot of

1151
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: things are closed down anyway. I get it. But man, man,

1152
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: and that is not only just them. Player could be

1153
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: doing it now it becomes their wife, their girlfriend, play

1154
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: date with the kids. Yeah, keeping the pods small and

1155
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: now you're cat you knows. So coaches are probably thinking

1156
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: about that. Oh, these guys keeping their pods small. Well,

1157
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: it's the coaches too, because the coaches are Yeah, they're

1158
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: the ones with the kind of the more astabut the

1159
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: older they might even have kids and they got kids. Yeah,

1160
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: the kids are coming in and out of the house.

1161
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: Not too many people in eree County are going to

1162
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: school right now. But yeah, it's all the stuff your

1163
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: post office put your mailman everybody. I mean, you're like

1164
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: spraying your mail down. I was at the beginning. I

1165
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: was at the beginning groceries with wipes, you remember where

1166
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: we were doing that. What happened? It happened me again.

1167
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: Somebody took my mailbox out. Oh jeez, scattering about one

1168
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: hundred pieces across my driveway. You can you know how

1169
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: about that? Coming home? You drive them? Like what else

1170
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna happen in twenty twenty. It's like it's like

1171
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: the second time this year the snow plows taking out mine.

1172
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: It's what they did it twice in a four year period.

1173
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm just like, come on, guys, I know it happened.

1174
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of part of homeownership. It had

1175
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: the best part. It had to be the backup driver

1176
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: that week because he took out mine, my neighbors. The

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: one after that, he wasn't watching the kind on a curve.

1178
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: We're on a curve too. But yeah, it's crusher. Oh well, yeah,

1179
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna really. I mean, believe me, I lose

1180
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: the league for the job they've done to this point.

1181
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: But I just don't see it getting any easier between

1182
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: now and the end of the year. On December thirty first,

1183
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: it'll be a Thursday, the mail will be going out.

1184
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, if if it's a if

1185
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: they if we get a snowstorm on the last day

1186
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, every snowplow should just take out every

1187
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: mailbox just to say thanks for thanks for nothing twenty twenty,

1188
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 1: just as it's one last kick in the butt right

1189
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: for all of us. Everybody's got new mailboxes here, Rado.

1190
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to punt twenty twenty, and like August right,

1191
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: everybody was ready to pay. That's what's gonna happen last

1192
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: day of the year. Every snowplow is gonna clip every

1193
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: single mailbox on their roads, just as just as one

1194
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: little kiss goodbye from twenty twenty. Yeah, all right, we

1195
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: have to take a break because when we come back,

1196
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: we've got senior producer from NFL Films, One Greg co Sell,

1197
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: making his weekly visit to talk with us about the

1198
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: Bill's upcoming matchup here with the Chargers and his thoughts

1199
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: on the high flying Justin Herbert to get his take

1200
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: on him, along with a lot of other aspects of

1201
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: this game coming up next here on One Bill's Live,

1202
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:39,439
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown,

1203
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live Friday Edition, and Friday's Mean

1204
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: One Thing. Our weekly visit from the senior producer for

1205
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: NFL Films and also the co host of the ESPN

1206
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup Show, one Greg co Sell, joining us to

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01:04:55,520 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: talk Bills Chargers on Sunday. Greg, your Thanksgiving. You have

1208
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: a good holiday meal there, you're stuffed. You know. I

1209
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: didn't overdo it this year. I was pretty good for you,

1210
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,880
Speaker 1: proud of myself, so it wasn't too bad. But it

1211
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: was the first Thanksgiving where I did not come into

1212
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: the office and I can't remember how long. I actually

1213
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: watch tape at home for about five to six hours

1214
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: in the morning yesterday, but did not come in the

1215
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: office and felt kind of good not to do that.

1216
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: If you're watching five six hours of tape on Thanksgiving

1217
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: at your home, you're a goner. I know you're an

1218
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: absolute gone. If I've been a goner for a long

1219
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: people who know me know that I'm a little nuts. Well,

1220
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: the Bills, the Bills have got the Chargers coming up.

1221
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think about this matchup

1222
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: that by this time of the season, obviously and the

1223
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: Bills coming off of buy, they're gonna be a little

1224
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: healthier without the notable absences. What do you think? Well,

1225
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: I think the thirty thousand feet view, the macro view

1226
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: is that you have to be careful with this offense

1227
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: with the Chargers because justin Herbert we can talk in

1228
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: a little more detail, but that this offense puts up points.

1229
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: Herbert's been really, really good and you just can't look

1230
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 1: at their record and go, oh, they're not a very

1231
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: good team because they score and you know, unless something changes,

1232
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: and you never know. Every week is different, Steve, as

1233
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: you know in the NFL, but just based on track

1234
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: record since Herbert became the starter of a week two,

1235
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: this team puts up some points. So you know, you

1236
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: can't just think that, oh, they're bad and we're gonna

1237
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: go in and we're gonna be the bad team because

1238
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo is gonna have to score some points. Yeah, and

1239
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: then Greg, it kind of sticks out here some of

1240
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: the shortcomings they've had in special teams. I mean, two

1241
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: weeks ago it was the main reason that Miami got

1242
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: fourteen points on the board rather quickly against them, and

1243
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: last week it persisted. I think it's three block punts

1244
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: in the last four games. But do you see this

1245
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: more as just missed assignments and poor execution or is

1246
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: there some schematic there that you think they're getting victimized

1247
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: by with respect to the opponent. You know, Chris, I'm

1248
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: not a special team experts, so that's a tough question

1249
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: for me to answer. But I will say this, when

1250
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: you're scoring the way they're scoring, special teams in defense

1251
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 1: are your problem because when you score, and I don't

1252
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: know what they're averaging since Herbert became the quarterback, but

1253
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: they do score, They put points on the board. They

1254
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: put enough points on the board to win literally every week,

1255
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: and they don't win every week obviously, they rarely win.

1256
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: So special teams is a killer look Steve knows this

1257
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: better than I. I'm not the special teams expert here,

1258
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 1: but if you're not comfortable with your special teams, then

1259
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 1: all you're hoping, right Steves, they don't make a mistake.

1260
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: You don't have to have big plays, you don't have

1261
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: to have game changing plays, but you just can't make mistakes. Yeah.

1262
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: I think the big culture in the NFL right now

1263
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Speaker 1: is that's what it is. As long as you don't

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01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: make a mistake. It's hard for the particularly since they

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01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: started de emphasizing like kickoffs and it's de emphasizing you know,

1266
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: field goals and extra points, that kind of as long

1267
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,919
Speaker 1: as you don't make the make catastrophic mistake, you're gonna

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01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 1: be fine, and it's hard. The one thing I think

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01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: the league is going to and you'll have teams doing it,

1270
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: is on kickoff more so than punt. But if you

1271
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: can't protect the punter, you're that's the first special team

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01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: you put in. That's the one catastrophic thing you have

1273
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: to watch out for every week. But I think more teams,

1274
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: more and more are leaning on their coverage. Teams who

1275
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: score a lot, they cover a lot of kicks, and

1276
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: they're more confident that if they can drop a kickoff

1277
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line outside the numbers, they're going

1278
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: to get the guy inside the twenty and that's an

1279
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: extra first down that they're the opposing offense has to

1280
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,759
Speaker 1: get before they can score. So I think more teams

1281
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 1: are starting to so kickoffs are making a little bit

1282
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,679
Speaker 1: of resurgence. I don't know if it'll last, but you're right.

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01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: Special teams now are about avoiding a catastrophic mistake, not

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01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: really doing something special. Yeah, and especially if you have

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01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: an offense that puts up points. That's the last thing

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01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: you want to have happened, Chris, is is your special

1287
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: teams change the game. And that's unfortunately what's happened. If

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01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: you're a Chargers and it is obviously that's what's been

1289
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: happening to them. What do you make of the Charger's

1290
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 1: ability to stretch the field use the deep passing game.

1291
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: Herbert has been extraordinarily accurate in this area, and now

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01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm kind of thinking that, you know, it's a one

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01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: two combination now if Eckler can come back and play,

1294
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: because now you've got a lot of soft spots and

1295
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: areas underneath where Eckler really excels. After the catch out

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 1: of the backfield. I mean, that's his bread and butter

1297
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: in there underneath. So if you've got guys stretching the

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01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: field like they are and Herbert hitting on those plays,

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01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: I gotta believe they're going to be opportunities underneath for

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01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: Eckler if he comes back this week. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really interesting watching this offense. I've watched every game

1302
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: because Herbert's become a must watch every week, so I've

1303
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 1: seen every game that he started, and in pretty good detail.

1304
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 1: They don't really have that good an offensive line. That's

1305
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: the interesting thing. They've really struggled at the tackle position

1306
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:59,120
Speaker 1: this year, yet Herbert's been able to weather that storm

1307
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: and they do attack down the field. There were shot

1308
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: play offense, and one thing about Herbert, we're just seeing

1309
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 1: that touchdown to Mike Williams, which is a really good example.

1310
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: There were two things when he came out of Oregon

1311
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: that had a lot of people potentially concerned, myself included,

1312
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,759
Speaker 1: because I actually watched over his final two years in college,

1313
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 1: about eighteen games. I was concerned about his sense of

1314
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 1: anticipation and timing, and his ball placement was not always

1315
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: consistently accurate. Well, the Chargers have done a really good

1316
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: job with the anticipation part what they do with their

1317
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: past game concepts. There's not a lot of pure anticipation throws,

1318
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: but the ball placement has been very good for the

1319
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: most part, much better than it was in college and

1320
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 1: particularly Chris as you mentioned on the deep ball. There

1321
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: are shot play offense. They take shots. I think Tyrone Johnson,

1322
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: what does he have three receptions for about one hundred

1323
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: and seventy yards something like that. I mean, they take

1324
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: their shots and he hits those. Yeah. The defensive coordinator

1325
01:10:56,880 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: of the Chargers is a guy who's been a head coach.

1326
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: It's Gus Bradley. Bradley, Yeah, so he and he cut

1327
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: his teeth on the Seahawks and the Seattle Seahawks and

1328
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: their World Championship winning defense. How does this defense compare

1329
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: to that one? Is the same as a philosophy still there?

1330
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: What has how has he evolved since he was the

1331
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 1: coordinator for the Seahawks. You know, it's a great question

1332
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: because to me, and again you know, I'm not a player,

1333
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:26,879
Speaker 1: I'm not a coach with every knowing every single tweak.

1334
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're a tactically difficult defense to

1335
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: play against. I think you know what you're going to get.

1336
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: You get a lot of Cover three, you get some

1337
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 1: split safety. Obviously every team plays man, they play some

1338
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: Cover one. But I don't view them as a tactically

1339
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: difficult defense to play against. What the question is, can

1340
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 1: can you protect? Because I believe both is back. They

1341
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: have Ingram. I think he's he's due to play correct.

1342
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 1: I know every week it seems like he's on the

1343
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: injury or Thursday and Thursday, but we don't Yeah, we

1344
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: don't know. He seems like a question mark, but we'll see. Yeah.

1345
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think boss back. So the key

1346
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 1: is to protect. They're a defense that's built on the

1347
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: ability to rush with four. They don't blitz a ton. Uh.

1348
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: They play the rookie linebacker Kenneth Murray, who's been up

1349
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: and down a bit in terms of his understanding and

1350
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: recognition as a really high level athlete. But he's he's

1351
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: struggled a bit at times. So you kind of know

1352
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: what you're going to get. And I think that from

1353
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 1: the standpoint of the Bill's offense and their coaching staff

1354
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 1: and Brian Dable and what they wanted scheme, I think

1355
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:37,759
Speaker 1: they'll have a very good feel of how to attack

1356
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: this defense, particularly the coverage part. Yeah, I was gonna

1357
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:45,679
Speaker 1: ask what about their coverage Casey Hayward, Michael Davis and uh,

1358
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: you know send behind them, They've got to Van Campbell. Yeah,

1359
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: Campbell's the become the slack corner because they traded Desmond

1360
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 1: King earlier in the year and he fell out of

1361
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: favor there. Um, you know, like I said, they played

1362
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: predominantly single high. Add Early is a second year man.

1363
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: He's the post safety. Jenkins, who played post safety a

1364
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: year ago, has now become the box safety and I

1365
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: kind of like Jenkins, but and Annerlie is a very

1366
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: very good athlete. But their young players still finding their way.

1367
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: So we'll see who plays opposite Davis if Haywood does

1368
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 1: not go, Because, like I said, Campbell has been the

1369
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: slot corner of the last oh three to four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Breaking it down to specific downs in the series, Greg,

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Speaker 1: we know that Keenan Allen leads the league I think

1372
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Speaker 1: in third down receptions with twenty five, So the numbers

1373
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:41,719
Speaker 1: alone would indicate Herbert's looking for him and understandably why.

1374
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: But what have you seen from them on third downs?

1375
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: And is it strictly look for Keenan Allen first and

1376
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: if not, try to make something happen. Like I'm just

1377
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: curious what you've seen from them on third down knowing

1378
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 1: the propensity to go to Allen as much as they have, well,

1379
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: they certainly go to Allen. And Alan is a good

1380
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 1: route runner. He's in the conversation. When you start talking

1381
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 1: about route runners, you know, you start thinking of Stefan Diggs,

1382
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: you start thinking of Alan, you think of Davante Adam,

1383
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: guys who are just really, really good route runners. And

1384
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: by the way, the play we just saw was an

1385
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:20,719
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous throw by Justin Herbert. But Alan is so

1386
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: good and Steve knows exactly what I'm talking about at

1387
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: playing off the leverage of defenders, and obviously in zones

1388
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: you look for voids when you have men, you're trying

1389
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: to set up defenders. Particularly on short routes. He runs

1390
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: a lot of slams. He runs a lot of pivot routes,

1391
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: whip routes. You know, the kinds of throws where when

1392
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: it's third and six, he might only get eight, but

1393
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 1: that's the first down, and those those plays may not

1394
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:47,719
Speaker 1: make the highlights, but those are the important plays in games.

1395
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:49,759
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's an area in which Herbert's

1396
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: been very good this year, which a lot of people

1397
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 1: were uncertain coming out. Like I said, the accuracy was

1398
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 1: a question mark, but he's made those throws and Alan

1399
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: is so good on those drives, sustaining kind of routes

1400
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: that are absolutely critical for offenses. We've seen justin Herbert

1401
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: us Keenan Allen a lot in the passing game go

1402
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: to him his favorite target. Now he gets there's a

1403
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: chance and if it and we're just gonna go over

1404
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,720
Speaker 1: the assumption that maybe Eckler is gonna play. And I've

1405
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: been looking for maybe a comparable around the league, and

1406
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: maybe the best comparable and I think maybe maybe McCaffrey

1407
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: in Carolina. The way they use Eckler because he does everything,

1408
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: they leave him on the field, and maybe the best

1409
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 1: scenario is the best comparisons the fact that they're both hurt,

1410
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: but but Eckler could get back on the field, And

1411
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:41,639
Speaker 1: how does that change things for them? Well, it changes

1412
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 1: things because he's really good as a detached receiver and

1413
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: they don't have him back since he got hurt. Who's

1414
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: a detached receiver now obviously that doesn't mean he's not

1415
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 1: gonna line up in the backfield and run the ball.

1416
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: And he's also very good as an offset back running routes,

1417
01:15:55,439 --> 01:16:00,759
Speaker 1: but he's really poses problems for defenses as at as receiver,

1418
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: meaning split from the formation. And what that does a

1419
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: lot is that gives the quarterback a lot of pre

1420
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: snap information because then you have you'll see how the

1421
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 1: defense plays that if, for instance, he's let's say he's

1422
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: detached outside of Keenan Allen and it's it's twins to

1423
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,800
Speaker 1: whatever side and Allen's and the slot nicholers detached. If

1424
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 1: a corner stays over Echoler, you probably have a pretty

1425
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:26,559
Speaker 1: good sense pre snap you're gonna play his own. If

1426
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: they put a linebacker out on him or put a

1427
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: safety out on him, you might have a pretty good

1428
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: sense pre snap that it's man coverage. And what you're

1429
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,560
Speaker 1: trying to do in this league is give your quarterback

1430
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:40,799
Speaker 1: as much pre snap information as possible because the really

1431
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks and the really good schemers, and I think

1432
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 1: Shane Steichen has done a really good job with this

1433
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: offense for the Chargers. The really good ones do that

1434
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 1: to help their quarterbacks, and that's critical for a quarterback.

1435
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 1: A lot of eleven personnel for them, much like the

1436
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: rest of the league. Greg, But with their usage of twelve,

1437
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: twenty one, even a little bit of twenty two here

1438
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 1: and there. Do you anticipate that changing at all with

1439
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: Eckler coming back with respect to the run game. My

1440
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: guess is because he had he had a hamstring, right,

1441
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: a bad horn hamstring. Yeah, you know again, he'll be

1442
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 1: back for sure, but I don't know if he's playing

1443
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: seventy snaps, I don't think it'll change a whole lot

1444
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: what they do. You know, they've got a lot of

1445
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: players who have become sort of matchup players. We talked

1446
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: about Johnson, who they use at times as a vertical

1447
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: receiver for specific plays. They've got the six seven six

1448
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 1: eight tight end Parum who they've used in the red zone.

1449
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: I think he has three or four touchdowns on specifically

1450
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: designed plays that they use when they get in the

1451
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: high red zone. So they've got specific players for specific

1452
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: things that they use. Really well. So, you know, Ekeler's back,

1453
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: but I don't think that will dramatically change their approach

1454
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: to offense. Yeah, let's flipping around to the Buffalo Bills.

1455
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: Coming off there bye week. They're gonna get Mitch Morse

1456
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:07,719
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. Cody Ford is out of the lineup.

1457
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: We don't know what the starting five are gonna look

1458
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 1: like for the Buffalo Bills. What are your thoughts as

1459
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: to how what's your best guest as to how that's

1460
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:20,640
Speaker 1: gonna look. Well, I don't know the answer to that.

1461
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: I mean, look, obviously they've been practicing this week. It's

1462
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: a different world where you're not out there at practice,

1463
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, seeing who's who's doing what. But but we

1464
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:30,720
Speaker 1: talked about this last week leading into the bye I'm

1465
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: going to be very, very curious to see what their

1466
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: approaches in this game, to see if they are going

1467
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: to truly try to run the football. And when I

1468
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: say run the football, we know they're not going to

1469
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: run at forty times. We know that, But I'm just

1470
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Speaker 1: curious to see if it's something that they commit to

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01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:49,719
Speaker 1: a little more. No matter how well Josh Allen has played,

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01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 1: and I think he's played really, really well, given that

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01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 1: he's in his third year and given what they've asked

1474
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: him to do, I just think it's really hard for

1475
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:01,799
Speaker 1: any quarterback to have to drive back by choice forty

1476
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 1: forty five times every single week. That's just hard to me.

1477
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: You know, you said, we're seeing that even in Seattle,

1478
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:09,640
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson's been doing this a long time and

1479
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: is a great player. It's just a tough deal. So

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01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm just really curious to see where they stand with

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01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: their run game now that they've had a week of

1482
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: reassessment and reevaluation where they've studied their team in great detail,

1483
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: they've done all the self scouting. I'm anxious to see

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01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: how they come out. Yeah, I mean coach McDermott did

1485
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 1: say coming out of the by they felt they came

1486
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: up with some good answers with respect to their run game.

1487
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, Greg, I mean, you can

1488
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 1: look at numbers all you want. I mean, you see

1489
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: that the Chargers are ranked fifteenth against the run. Is

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01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: that an accurate figure? And what do you what do

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01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: you make of their run front? I think they have

1492
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,719
Speaker 1: a good d line. I think it's the linebacking unit

1493
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,759
Speaker 1: that's a question mark. I mean, I think Kaiser White

1494
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 1: is out because I think he's on COVID. So Murray

1495
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: has struggled at times as a rookie. I imagine it'll

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01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: be Perriman who takes white spot. He's he's more of

1497
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: a run defender than an athlete, and so he hasn't

1498
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,640
Speaker 1: played as much because he does not play normally in

1499
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,759
Speaker 1: their nickel, but he probably will play in their nickel.

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01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: I assume now that White is out. You know, I

1501
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: think I wouldn't be surprised, and this is just me talking.

1502
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: I could be dead wrong. I wouldn't be surprised to

1503
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 1: see Zack Moss start to get more carries, because the

1504
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: one thing about Moss he's certainly not as explosive as Singletary.

1505
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 1: But I think he's a grinder. I think he's a

1506
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:35,240
Speaker 1: competitive runner. I think he's the kind of runner that

1507
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: allows you to stay on schedule, stay ahead of the sticks.

1508
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: I'm just I just have a sense that he'd be

1509
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: the guy that they might want to feature a little

1510
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: bit more. As we take our eyes off the Bill's

1511
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: Chargers for a minute, move around the league. What did

1512
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:55,679
Speaker 1: you think about Tatonga Voloa getting benched in the Denver game,

1513
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,759
Speaker 1: and then now that now the Dolphins faced the Jets,

1514
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:04,559
Speaker 1: it seemingly Sam Darnold back in the saddle. Yeah. Again,

1515
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, the two are things that I don't have

1516
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 1: a great response to him getting benched. You know, there's

1517
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,640
Speaker 1: two sides to that, and they both make sense. You know,

1518
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:16,719
Speaker 1: they're in the playoff hunt, they're theoretically in the division hunt.

1519
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: They're trying to win a football game. On the other hand,

1520
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: you could take the opposite and say, well, the first

1521
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,559
Speaker 1: time that two of faces adversity, why do you pull him?

1522
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:27,000
Speaker 1: I understand both. But in that game, VIC fan Joe

1523
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: has been doing this a long time, and Two was

1524
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: a very timing rhythm based player. VIC knew that he

1525
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:35,799
Speaker 1: took away a lot of the throws that were timing

1526
01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 1: rhythm based. He made Two I have to sort of

1527
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: play faster mentally because it was sort of faster physically

1528
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,160
Speaker 1: really because he would drop back, hit that back foot

1529
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: and he couldn't throw the ball. There was nowhere to

1530
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: throw it because they took away those timing throws. So

1531
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,799
Speaker 1: he started to play faster physically but slower mentally because

1532
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: he just didn't know where to go. So he struggled

1533
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:02,640
Speaker 1: in that game out That will probably come with experience,

1534
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: but this was his first game in which, hey, it

1535
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: wasn't quite so simple. And then an interesting game on

1536
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 1: the slate is Colts Titans the rematch from just two

1537
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah, do you see the Titans changing much

1538
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: in light of how the last game went. I don't

1539
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: think the Titans change a whole lot week to week,

1540
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:29,840
Speaker 1: certainly on offense. We know they're going to give the

1541
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 1: ball to Henry. By the way, they did rush for

1542
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: one fifty seven against the Colts in that game, the

1543
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: most the Colts have given up all year. The Titans

1544
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: are going to give the ball to Derek Henry. That's

1545
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: not a scoop. We know that. The big thing was

1546
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: that Tannehill played much better last week because the Titans

1547
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: are very defined in what they do in the past game.

1548
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: Much of it works off play action, and Tannehill made

1549
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 1: some really good secondary throws where he went to secondary

1550
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: receivers because they have staples that everybody knows and you've

1551
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,680
Speaker 1: got to be able to work off those. So he

1552
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: played well. They'll have to do that again this week.

1553
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: It'll be real interesting because we know Defarres Buckner is

1554
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: going to be out and he's a man inside, so

1555
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: we'll see who they play inside. My guess is you'll

1556
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: see Lewis play number ninety four a lot inside and

1557
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 1: He's had a really good year for them as a

1558
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 1: rotational D lineman, so he'll probably get a lot more snaps,

1559
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: but we know Tennessee will give the ball to Derrick

1560
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: Henry Well. Last one I've got for you last, I

1561
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: want to ask you about this game that I saw

1562
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: last I think it was last Monday night, or maybe

1563
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: it was Sunday night. I can't remember the Chiefs Raiders game. Yeah,

1564
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:38,880
Speaker 1: I thought Derek Carr played as good a game as

1565
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: I've seen him play, maybe in his entire career. It

1566
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: was in the loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. I

1567
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 1: think he was betrayed by some drops in that game,

1568
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 1: but I thought he could not have played a better game.

1569
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: I don't and I haven't heard anybody else say too

1570
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: much about that. And I was wondering if you'd seen

1571
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 1: film and what you thought of that. I did. I did,

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01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: And I think Derek is playing at a pretty high

1573
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: level this year. I think you know Gruden's offense, there's

1574
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of terminology, there's a lot to learn, there's

1575
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: a lot of adjustments, there's a lot of alerts. There's

1576
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 1: a lot going on, and it's very worthy and it

1577
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:16,600
Speaker 1: takes time. And I think Derek Carr's settling in a

1578
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 1: bit now. He's doing more the line of scrimmage. He's

1579
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 1: clearly more comfortable because at its core, Steve, this is

1580
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: an offense that wants to run the ball and create

1581
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 1: explosive plays off that they're one of the few teams

1582
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 1: in the league that plays with three wide receivers on

1583
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: less than fifty percent of their snaps. They are a

1584
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: base personnel offense, and car is now getting very comfortable.

1585
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: And I think the whole plan, the whole approach, and

1586
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 1: how you play within that system, and it takes time.

1587
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of coaches will tell you

1588
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 1: it takes a quarterback four years in one system to

1589
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: really become comfortable. And I think you see that a lot.

1590
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 1: You know, no one wants to talk about that because

1591
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 1: of social media. Everything has to happen right now, but

1592
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: that's not the way it works. Yeah, yeah, Well, Greg,

1593
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: thanks for the insight as always, not only with this

1594
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, but on a couple of the other

1595
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: games going on around the league this week. We appreciate it,

1596
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: and we'll catch you on the ESPN NFL Matchup Show

1597
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: this weekend. Thanks for the time enjoy the weekend. Appreciate it, guys,

1598
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, have a great weekend. All right. That's

1599
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: Greg co Sell, senior producer NFL Films and also on

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01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: the ESPN NFL Matchup Show every Saturday and Sunday morning

1601
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: on ESPN and ESPN two. And he's right about Herbert.

1602
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some throws that he's sticking in some

1603
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 1: tight windows. That one that we saw in the highlight

1604
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 1: reel that we've been playing here on MSG all week.

1605
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: You just missed getting defended by the Jets. Yeah, there's

1606
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: two Jets defenders after that play, they both looked at

1607
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:48,600
Speaker 1: each other and then they looked back at Herbert, and

1608
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: then they looked at each other again, like how did

1609
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 1: he get that ball in there? I'm right there. Look

1610
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: look at the slap slap hands like a stopping that.

1611
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 1: How did that get there? That is just Yeah. The

1612
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 1: Jet defenders, the ball comes in, Keenan Allen catches it.

1613
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 1: They're both standing right there. They look at each other

1614
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:09,720
Speaker 1: and they just slap hands like they seriously high five

1615
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: each like, bro, we ain't beating that. That's pretty amazing.

1616
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,879
Speaker 1: That's that is like next level yeah passing, And Herbert

1617
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: was running towards it and did the side arm whip

1618
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: and spun it good. But it was a fast ball.

1619
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 1: It got there in a big hurry, and those guys

1620
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 1: had they had no chance. The Bill's injury report is

1621
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 1: out and it's nothing that we don't know. Cody Ford

1622
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: and John Brown the only players listed as out. Everybody

1623
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:38,679
Speaker 1: else looks to be healthy and ready to go coming

1624
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: off the buy for Sunday's game. Obviously, they will be

1625
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: without Matt Milano for one more game. At least, we

1626
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:49,439
Speaker 1: don't know what his condition is. His status is in

1627
01:26:49,560 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: terms of how close he is to a return. We

1628
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 1: just know that after this week the third game missed

1629
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: on IR, he's eligible to return if they deem him

1630
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: healthy enough to do so. So will have to just

1631
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:03,960
Speaker 1: wait and see next week on that. But shortlist in

1632
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 1: terms of who's out, so I guess that's good news

1633
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: in terms of availability. The coaches will have to make

1634
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 1: some decisions as to who the other five inactives are

1635
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: going to be on Sunday against the Chargers. Break time

1636
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: for us, but when we come back, we dip back

1637
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,800
Speaker 1: into the obl mail bag to see what questions you

1638
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 1: have for us. If you have one, you haven't fired

1639
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,240
Speaker 1: it off yet, please do so. We're happy to answer

1640
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: it eight O three five fifty to number tow call.

1641
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:27,679
Speaker 1: If you want to ask it live, that's another option

1642
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 1: for you. Steve and I back in a sec here

1643
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

1644
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker Review.

1645
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,439
Speaker 1: Closing up our number two of the program. We've got

1646
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander on the way in the next hour, and

1647
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: we also have an open phone line for you at

1648
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: eight O three five in the event that you've got

1649
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: a question for the OBL mail bag today, and we

1650
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:09,840
Speaker 1: will lead off on the line with Mike in Williamsport. Mike,

1651
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live.

1652
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi, Chris and Steve. First, I

1653
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 1: want to send it congratulations out to Steve Tasker. I

1654
01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: think you got it this year for the Hall of Fame.

1655
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: Thanks Mike, thanks for yep, thanks for the shout out. Yep,

1656
01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: no problem. The question is, since John Brown's listed as

1657
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: out for the Sunday's game, a good possibility that they

1658
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 1: could activate Isaiah Hodgens into the lineup. Yeah, I'm not

1659
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: anticipating that. And here's why he's been out at practice

1660
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 1: the last several weeks. This week was the first week

1661
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: he had a helmet on, and that was on Wednesday.

1662
01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:00,720
Speaker 1: And then our colleague Maddie lab who was out of

1663
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday and reporting for US, said there was

1664
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: he was not practicing on Thursday. So I don't know

1665
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 1: what happened between Wednesday and Thursday, and coach McDermott was

1666
01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:14,639
Speaker 1: not asked to follow up on it today about it,

1667
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,440
Speaker 1: I would tend to think that is not a possibility.

1668
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: He is still on IR. They are now. They would

1669
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: have until Saturday to to list him and take him

1670
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: off at you know IR and activate him. And they

1671
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:30,880
Speaker 1: do have an open spot on the roster. They have

1672
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 1: fifty two players active right now, although now actually they

1673
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 1: might not now because they brought guys off COVID this week,

1674
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 1: so I'll have to double check that. And they're gonna

1675
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 1: take Cody Ford off the active right will take Cody

1676
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 1: Ford off, so they'll probably be back down and have

1677
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: an open spot. I just don't anticipate that Isaiah Hodgins

1678
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy to add there at

1679
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 1: the receiver position. Steve and I were talking about this

1680
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: earlier and we're kind of the opinion that it's probably

1681
01:29:58,080 --> 01:30:01,720
Speaker 1: Duke Williams or Jay Kumerou. Taiwan Jones is healthy now,

1682
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 1: so you would assume he's back on special teams, which

1683
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 1: would remove the need for Kumarro on special teams, where

1684
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:10,800
Speaker 1: he's played in each of the last two games. So

1685
01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:13,960
Speaker 1: then it becomes strictly a question of who gives you

1686
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 1: the most as the team's sixth wide receiver this week.

1687
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:20,559
Speaker 1: Is it Duke Williams do you feel you need a

1688
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 1: physical presence out there? Or is it Kumero who can

1689
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 1: really run and has size as well. So it'd be

1690
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:30,040
Speaker 1: an interesting thing for them to weigh out and decide upon.

1691
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:32,680
Speaker 1: Or Hey, they may just go five receivers, although I

1692
01:30:32,720 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 1: don't anticipate that. Every game this season they've had six

1693
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 1: receivers dressed, so I would expect they pick one of

1694
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: those two guys to dress for Sunday. Yeah, and it's

1695
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 1: with Cody Ford being down. I mean, you look down

1696
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 1: at their practice squad and the guys available, it's gonna

1697
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 1: have to be if they're gonna bring up a guy

1698
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:54,879
Speaker 1: to go with eight offensive lineman's gonna be Jonathan Harrison

1699
01:30:57,439 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 1: or Trey Adams. Who's a tackle. It's probably Harris's, probably Harrison,

1700
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: probably Harrison. So they're gonna feel you need it. They're

1701
01:31:03,840 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: not gonna. I don't think they'll go light at offensive line.

1702
01:31:07,600 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: I would think not giving you see them doing a

1703
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:12,960
Speaker 1: practice squad call up. Jonathan Harrison hasn't been called up

1704
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,639
Speaker 1: once this year, and you get two call ups on

1705
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:19,599
Speaker 1: each player on your practice squad without any without having

1706
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 1: to expose him to waivers after you send him back

1707
01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 1: down after the game week. So right, and that is

1708
01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 1: an option, and they may do something different just for

1709
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 1: this first week that Cody Ford's out, and you know,

1710
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:35,640
Speaker 1: they may bring Kumero up and Taiwan Jones up and

1711
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: try and get a real advantage on special teams, maybe

1712
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:42,479
Speaker 1: really take advantage of it. We'll see. I don't know,

1713
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 1: but they're they're gonna have to do something. Yeah, I

1714
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:47,840
Speaker 1: would be inclined to think it is Kumaro because he

1715
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 1: gives you more on specialty six receivers not getting a

1716
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 1: lot of run right on offense anyway, So at least

1717
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,000
Speaker 1: have him serve you in some capacity, contribute at a

1718
01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 1: spot where you're going to contribute with. It's not gonna

1719
01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: be offense or defense, but you can really you know,

1720
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: take which also may and I couldn't tell you this,

1721
01:32:04,040 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 1: but here's what happens. You get a guy like Krumero,

1722
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: he can play all four of the main special teams punt,

1723
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 1: punt return, kickoff, kickoff return, and that means if you

1724
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:16,759
Speaker 1: get Taiwan Jones back, he does the same punt, punt return, kickoff,

1725
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 1: kickoff return, which means you could have like a t. J.

1726
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: Yelden be up and not have to play special teams.

1727
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 1: You could bring up another linebacker who doesn't play really

1728
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:30,679
Speaker 1: good on special teams. It's pretty good linebacker. You bring him.

1729
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 1: Same thing with a defensive back, same thing with tight end.

1730
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: You could activate Lee Smith this week for helping the

1731
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 1: running game, knowing that your special teams are gonna be

1732
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, covered by and Lee Smith wouldn't have to

1733
01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 1: play special teams. It's interesting that you mentioned Lee Smith

1734
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:51,559
Speaker 1: because from Rachel and the OBL fan mailback says, what

1735
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 1: do you think the offensive script will look like this week?

1736
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:55,760
Speaker 1: Do you think we just rely on Josh to air

1737
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,599
Speaker 1: it out? If not, how can we get our running

1738
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: backs more involved? One way, is with twelve personnel, and

1739
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:05,840
Speaker 1: Lee Smith would fit the bill there. But I'm just

1740
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: not convinced they're going to go that way. They've been

1741
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: eleven and ten personnel almost exclusively all season long. They've

1742
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 1: mixed in twelve and twenty one when they get down

1743
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 1: around the goal line or in the red zone. But

1744
01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:24,559
Speaker 1: this is a largely road around the yard type of offense. Now.

1745
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: I thought Greg Cosell's point was interesting. He's sensing that

1746
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: Zach Moss could get a little more work coming out

1747
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 1: of this bye week. It wouldn't shock me if this

1748
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:37,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff, after reviewing everything, said we're just not winning

1749
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: enough at the line of scrimmage. We need somebody who

1750
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: can at least fall forward grind out an extra yard

1751
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: just to try to help us stay on schedule down

1752
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: and distance wise. If you're thinking that way, Zach Moss

1753
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:56,719
Speaker 1: does make a lot of sense. Yeah, I don't think

1754
01:33:57,040 --> 01:33:59,599
Speaker 1: if you by giving them the ball more, you mean

1755
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,639
Speaker 1: get them more involved, you know, well, I mean Moss

1756
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 1: more than Singletary, right two thirds to one third kind

1757
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 1: of thing. Right, And but the question, you know, the

1758
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: what will mail spok like? What would the script look like?

1759
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:15,480
Speaker 1: The script ain't gonna change. They're they're killing it offensively,

1760
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:18,719
Speaker 1: they're scoring all kinds of points. Josh Allen's throwing it around.

1761
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 1: They're a handful. And this team. You look at yourself

1762
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: and you and you have people in your organization that

1763
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: that scout your own team. You got yourself scouting. That's

1764
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 1: what analytics are. And you say, listen, we are if

1765
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:34,160
Speaker 1: we run anything other than a you know, eleven personnel

1766
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:38,920
Speaker 1: or ten personnel, were crazy because nobody's even right. And

1767
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: and that's the question, Now, what do you do this week?

1768
01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 1: I still don't think they change. Get away from the

1769
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,360
Speaker 1: script that they've used. It's hard to argue with twenty

1770
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:50,200
Speaker 1: seven thirty points a game. Yeah, that's hard to argue with.

1771
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,799
Speaker 1: All right, break time for us, But when we return,

1772
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:56,559
Speaker 1: it'll be time for the Lowdown, our weekly visit with

1773
01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 1: one Lorenzo Alexander, who had a pretty full well Thanksgiving,

1774
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: played yesterday. Someone didn't have to make weight now that

1775
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,880
Speaker 1: he's retired. We'll get into that with him, along with

1776
01:35:07,920 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 1: the game coming up on Sunday. When we return here

1777
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:12,559
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

1778
01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network Sports your update

1779
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,720
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive. Cody Ford declared out for this

1780
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:33,679
Speaker 1: season after suffering a knee injury in practice this week.

1781
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:37,479
Speaker 1: NFL Network's Ian Rappaport reported it's a torn meniscus that

1782
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:41,759
Speaker 1: will require surgery with a three to four months recovery time. Meanwhile,

1783
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 1: wide receiver John Brown declared out for Sunday's game by

1784
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott with an ankle injury suffered back

1785
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:50,200
Speaker 1: in Week ten at Arizona. As for Buffalo's offensive line,

1786
01:35:50,280 --> 01:35:54,080
Speaker 1: McDermott confirmed that Mitch Morris will start at center for

1787
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:58,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Brian Bulaga did not practice on Thursday. Fellow

1788
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:02,840
Speaker 1: starters on defense Melboanie and Casey Hayward also non participants

1789
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:05,799
Speaker 1: in practice all week, making them question marks for Sunday's

1790
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 1: game against the Bills. More COVID outbreaks in Baltimore and

1791
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:13,040
Speaker 1: Sunday's game between the Ravens and Steelers could be somewhat

1792
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:17,040
Speaker 1: in jeopardy. The latest Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson tested positive

1793
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:20,120
Speaker 1: for COVID, one of four players who had a positive

1794
01:36:20,120 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: test on Thursday. This follows a handful of other players

1795
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 1: who went on the reserve COVID list earlier in the week.

1796
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 1: As of now, though, no change to the status of

1797
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: their rescheduled Week twelve matchup against the Steelers Denver. Bronco's

1798
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:35,839
Speaker 1: dealing with another COVID nineteen issue, team canceling practice following

1799
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,680
Speaker 1: news of a player and two staff members testing positive.

1800
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:41,200
Speaker 1: It's the third time the team has had to cancel

1801
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: practice due to COVID nineteen issues. Cardinals will play a

1802
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:48,160
Speaker 1: game without Larry Fitzgerald, who tested positive for COVID. The

1803
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,719
Speaker 1: Browns announced on Thanksgiving another one of their players tested positive,

1804
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 1: making it the third player in less than a week

1805
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,519
Speaker 1: for that franchise. Thanksgiving Day games, Washington beat Dallas in

1806
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: a battle three and seven teams on Thanksgiving, which would

1807
01:37:00,479 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: ordinarily mean nothing in the NFL playoff picture, but this

1808
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:06,760
Speaker 1: year the NFC East is anything but ordinary. By improving

1809
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:10,800
Speaker 1: to four and seven steam Washington moved into first place

1810
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:13,840
Speaker 1: in the division. They only take six wins to take

1811
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 1: that division title and host a playoff game, unbelievable. Finally,

1812
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: in college football, the UB Bulls at Brey and O

1813
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: taking on the only other undefeated team in the MAC

1814
01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:27,759
Speaker 1: when they host Kent State Saturday afternoon at UB Stadium.

1815
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 1: That is your sports update, and it is now time,

1816
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:46,640
Speaker 1: as we always do on Fridays for the lowdown. Lorenzo

1817
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:52,480
Speaker 1: Alexander joining us from out in sunny and warm Arizona.

1818
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 1: We've got a storm system coming here early next week. Zo.

1819
01:37:57,080 --> 01:37:58,840
Speaker 1: By the next time we talked to you, there's brown

1820
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 1: bound to be an amount of white stuff on the

1821
01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: ground for us, So revel in that. We also noticed, Zoe,

1822
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: that you were reveling in retirement eating on the holidays,

1823
01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:15,040
Speaker 1: as you posted on social media yesterday that you did

1824
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:17,960
Speaker 1: not have a way in to report to today. So

1825
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 1: the plate overfloweth, shall we say. As we are putting

1826
01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 1: up your post, you're also responding to Bertrand's Berry Bertrand

1827
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 1: Berry's tweet about how canned cranberry sauce is where it's at,

1828
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,280
Speaker 1: and you noted where it was located on your plate yesterday.

1829
01:38:34,320 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 1: But that's a pretty big fill there, man, getting your

1830
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:42,640
Speaker 1: getting your fill is starch yesterday. Oh yeah, yeah, you know.

1831
01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:45,560
Speaker 1: I deprived myself a lot doing my playing Careers of

1832
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 1: Cards and all the good foods, and even on Thanksgiving

1833
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 1: that always going in and so this is really my

1834
01:38:51,080 --> 01:38:52,880
Speaker 1: first opportunity to do it, and so I went all

1835
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 1: in and as far as the cranberry sauce, you know,

1836
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:57,640
Speaker 1: you can never forget how you grew up. Even you

1837
01:38:57,680 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 1: get a little money in your pocket, you can't get

1838
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:01,519
Speaker 1: too fancies, you know. I keep it real and I

1839
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:04,000
Speaker 1: still uh love a lot of the foods that I

1840
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 1: grew up on. And so it was really good that

1841
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 1: my mom is here in a z and so she

1842
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:09,760
Speaker 1: made a lot of the dishes, and so I was

1843
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: really looking forward to just throwing down and that was

1844
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 1: my starter play a little bit of everything. I mean,

1845
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:17,400
Speaker 1: I think I think the first six and seven things

1846
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 1: I put on my play was just straight cards. I

1847
01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: don't even Rent even worried about me. Hope you're in

1848
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:29,040
Speaker 1: the family or well, it's good to have you back

1849
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: here for this week. What what are your thoughts on

1850
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:34,559
Speaker 1: the Bills facing the Chargers? What's your overall view of

1851
01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 1: this game? I mean, obviously is gonna be interesting game.

1852
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:42,280
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers are probably you know, you put them,

1853
01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:44,839
Speaker 1: you think about three and seven, so your mind immediately

1854
01:39:44,880 --> 01:39:47,720
Speaker 1: goes to the NFC East and they're a very good team.

1855
01:39:47,760 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you look back over the

1856
01:39:49,520 --> 01:39:52,200
Speaker 1: season and how they've played, with obviously being for me

1857
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 1: with Anthony Lane. You know they're gonna be well coached

1858
01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:57,360
Speaker 1: and murders of Justin Herbert. They've actually had probably two

1859
01:39:57,439 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: or three games they should have won. I think the

1860
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: probability of them that she losing that game was like

1861
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 1: one of a million, and that one of a million

1862
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,680
Speaker 1: happened like two or three weeks in a row. You know,

1863
01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:08,560
Speaker 1: that comes down to them having not playing well on

1864
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:11,880
Speaker 1: special teams, some block punts, and just a turnover margin.

1865
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 1: But I think overall, this is a very well coached team,

1866
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: a team that can compete, a team that can you know,

1867
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:18,800
Speaker 1: beat you at any at any time. And so the

1868
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:20,720
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna have their hands full this week. But

1869
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: I think they're definitely well equipped defensively to match up

1870
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 1: on the back end when they will receive a group

1871
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 1: and be able to put pressure on Herbert. I mean,

1872
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:29,639
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he is still a rookie.

1873
01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:31,880
Speaker 1: You got to treat a rookie like like a rookie,

1874
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:34,840
Speaker 1: even though he's had some success, but getting after him early,

1875
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:38,639
Speaker 1: speeding him up or things that have caused him issues,

1876
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: and if you can snuff this run game out early

1877
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:43,280
Speaker 1: and minimize it and put it all on his shoulders.

1878
01:40:43,400 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 1: It's gonna get the Bills an opportunity to play, and

1879
01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:47,600
Speaker 1: then obviously Josh Shallon and what they able to do,

1880
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:49,880
Speaker 1: it's really nothing they can do it all. It's all.

1881
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:51,760
Speaker 1: It's gonna be about whether or not Josh and them

1882
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: get get off to a fast start, because nobody in

1883
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,040
Speaker 1: this league that can stop them besides themselves. In my

1884
01:40:58,080 --> 01:40:59,600
Speaker 1: mind is where the way I looked at it and

1885
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 1: see how they've played throughout the year. Yeah, Zoe, I

1886
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:06,000
Speaker 1: want to tap into your special teams expertise. Coach Lynn

1887
01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:07,840
Speaker 1: had to make a tough decision this week with the

1888
01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:11,200
Speaker 1: struggles they've had on special teams, demoting you know, not

1889
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 1: only one of members of his coaching staff, but a

1890
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:15,519
Speaker 1: guy who was a coaching mentor for him and George

1891
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:19,880
Speaker 1: Stewart had to demote him and then promoted Keith Burns

1892
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,920
Speaker 1: from assistant special teams coach to special teams coordinator this

1893
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,559
Speaker 1: week just to get a change of some kind. I mean,

1894
01:41:25,960 --> 01:41:28,840
Speaker 1: three block punts in the last four games. They've had

1895
01:41:28,880 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: some penalty issues, execution issues. I mean I was telling

1896
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: Steve even last week against the Jets, it's the end

1897
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 1: of the game. They have their punter taking an intentional safety.

1898
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:41,760
Speaker 1: He doesn't even run out the clock. He leaves his

1899
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: second on the clock. They have to take a free

1900
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:45,800
Speaker 1: kick and give it back to the Jets only up six.

1901
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 1: I mean, they gave the Jets another shot at him

1902
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. So it doesn't look

1903
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 1: like their block punt situation is a schematic flaw. It's

1904
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,599
Speaker 1: more of an execution issue. But how do you get

1905
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: something that's rolling so badly in one direction flip back around? Well,

1906
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't watch all the block pucks, but

1907
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:10,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess and that it's not the same person

1908
01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 1: every time. And so when you have multiple guys messing

1909
01:42:13,479 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 1: up and and and it coming from different places. Just

1910
01:42:16,080 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: besides just like one player where you can maybe remove

1911
01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: that one player from the from the system, whether you're

1912
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:23,920
Speaker 1: you're benching or cutting, whatever it may be, then you

1913
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 1: have to look at the next the next tier. And

1914
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:28,360
Speaker 1: that's normally the coaching, you know, And so that has

1915
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:31,719
Speaker 1: to be the position coach, the coordinator and acton. Lynn

1916
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:33,880
Speaker 1: being the guy that he is and being around him,

1917
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 1: he expects excellence and attention to detail from his players

1918
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: as well as his coaching staff and if he allows

1919
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:41,680
Speaker 1: that guy to kind of stay in there based on

1920
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,360
Speaker 1: probably what he has preached to that locker room, it

1921
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,519
Speaker 1: doesn't add up. And so it was a tough decision,

1922
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:50,360
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure he had a conversation with the coach.

1923
01:42:50,400 --> 01:42:53,240
Speaker 1: The coach probably understood and knowing Keith Burns as well,

1924
01:42:53,280 --> 01:42:55,200
Speaker 1: he's a great special team's coach, has been his league

1925
01:42:55,200 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 1: a while, you know, playing in his league, and so

1926
01:42:57,160 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 1: hopefully they get those things right, not again us, because

1927
01:43:00,960 --> 01:43:02,920
Speaker 1: I know Heath is probably you know, looking at some

1928
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:04,840
Speaker 1: of those ways that they did get those block punts

1929
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:06,559
Speaker 1: and it's probably dollars some things up to maybe take

1930
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: advantage of it. But it's just part of the game.

1931
01:43:09,400 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 1: You have to get it corrected. But hopefully we'll be

1932
01:43:11,080 --> 01:43:13,439
Speaker 1: able to explore it this week in the special team

1933
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:15,759
Speaker 1: game plan, because that'll give us a huge advantage, especially

1934
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: when you have an office that's been playing fairly well

1935
01:43:17,760 --> 01:43:20,400
Speaker 1: for the last two years of your career. I think

1936
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 1: last two you played for Sean McDermott and this coaching staff,

1937
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 1: and you watched them during a bye week and how

1938
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 1: they went about their business. They're three and o coming

1939
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:35,840
Speaker 1: off a buye, so for three years you've been there. Yeah,

1940
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 1: what is it about Sean McDermott, What do they do

1941
01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:41,800
Speaker 1: maybe differently than what you've were used to going into

1942
01:43:41,880 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott era that gives him the ability to

1943
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 1: could be three and oh after a bye Well, it's

1944
01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:50,960
Speaker 1: first year. I don't think too many of the guys

1945
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:54,599
Speaker 1: liked it, because we still practice fairly hard. I think

1946
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:56,680
Speaker 1: that was his initial year where he's really trying to

1947
01:43:56,680 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 1: implement his culture and his mindset, and I think since

1948
01:43:59,080 --> 01:44:01,200
Speaker 1: then he's kind of backed off a little bit because

1949
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,960
Speaker 1: it's been ingrained into the guys and there's a lot

1950
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:06,760
Speaker 1: of carry over. But I think the same principles as

1951
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:07,960
Speaker 1: far as what he's trying to get out of the

1952
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,559
Speaker 1: bye week maintain it's been moved more to a mental

1953
01:44:10,600 --> 01:44:13,600
Speaker 1: than a physical and it's really just making sure that

1954
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:16,639
Speaker 1: guys just don't completely take it off. And I think

1955
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:19,920
Speaker 1: there's a balance of getting some work in, staying fresh,

1956
01:44:20,040 --> 01:44:23,439
Speaker 1: running around, maybe getting the headstart or jump on what

1957
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 1: your opponent will be that following week when you come

1958
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 1: back from the bye, and then also taking time to

1959
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:32,559
Speaker 1: maybe sure up some deficiencies that you might have shown

1960
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:35,599
Speaker 1: as a team. And so whether that's you know, maybe

1961
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: for the office of the line, maybe they haven't been

1962
01:44:37,080 --> 01:44:38,920
Speaker 1: good on their double team blocks, and so maybe they're

1963
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: emphasizing in those practices double team blocks to communication. Maybe

1964
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:46,600
Speaker 1: it's been some back in maybe fire's own coverages, and

1965
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,120
Speaker 1: so maybe you draw up a drill to work defensively

1966
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:51,639
Speaker 1: on how to pass off certain schemes that have hurt

1967
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: you throughout the year. So he always made an emphasis

1968
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:58,120
Speaker 1: of identifying those things as far as self awareness as

1969
01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 1: well as versus the opponent, so that the Bible week

1970
01:45:01,280 --> 01:45:03,840
Speaker 1: just just wasn't okay, when when can I get out

1971
01:45:03,840 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 1: of here? But how can I continue to grow but

1972
01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:08,799
Speaker 1: still be charged? And so he was always about balance

1973
01:45:08,840 --> 01:45:10,120
Speaker 1: and I think he did a great job of that,

1974
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:14,120
Speaker 1: especially after he got his you know, his system and

1975
01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 1: culture kind of implemented and was able to back off

1976
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: a little bit from the physical standpoint. Dove tailing off

1977
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 1: of that point, Zoe Zack moss In speaking to the

1978
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: media today, said that they had extra run periods in

1979
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: this week, and we know the run game was a

1980
01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: bone of contention that coach McDermott wanted to take a

1981
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:34,639
Speaker 1: deep dive on during the week. So you hear they're

1982
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:37,960
Speaker 1: putting in extra periods just for the run game. I mean,

1983
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 1: this isn't training camp where you're like, all right, we're

1984
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:42,360
Speaker 1: doing nine on seven here for two extra periods. This

1985
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:44,840
Speaker 1: is during a game week. So you hear that. What

1986
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:47,000
Speaker 1: does that say to you? When when you hear that

1987
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:52,679
Speaker 1: that extra emphasis is being put there, that it's important.

1988
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:54,760
Speaker 1: He understands that you're gonna need it, especially as the

1989
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:57,720
Speaker 1: weather gets colder and games get ugly, or if you're

1990
01:45:57,800 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: up on a team, you want to be able to

1991
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:02,639
Speaker 1: close it out. And so the run game is very

1992
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:05,480
Speaker 1: important and a significant I know it's not as flashy

1993
01:46:05,479 --> 01:46:07,920
Speaker 1: as the pass game, and you know, big explosion plays

1994
01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: down field, but if you're able to grind out a

1995
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:13,760
Speaker 1: game and really just to moralize somebody with that, it's

1996
01:46:13,800 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: just as effective and probably more effective. You know, in

1997
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm a little bit of of old school

1998
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:19,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. And so it's important that

1999
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,280
Speaker 1: you'd be able to do that to control the game,

2000
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:24,120
Speaker 1: to control the clock, and to be able to finish

2001
01:46:24,160 --> 01:46:27,080
Speaker 1: off people and finish them all physically, especially at the

2002
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:30,600
Speaker 1: end of the games when you have a mass a

2003
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 1: lead and you don't want to feel like you have

2004
01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 1: to give the ball right back because maybe you go

2005
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 1: three and out two incomplete passes and not a lot

2006
01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 1: of time comes off the clock, and then you're giving

2007
01:46:39,040 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: the opportunity for the other team, especially when you start

2008
01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:43,559
Speaker 1: playing teams when you get to the playoffs that have

2009
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 1: explosive offices too. When you think about Pittsburgh, when you

2010
01:46:46,680 --> 01:46:49,120
Speaker 1: think about Kansas City, you don't want to give these

2011
01:46:49,200 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks a whole bunch of time to work with. And

2012
01:46:50,960 --> 01:46:53,280
Speaker 1: so if you can grind it out and go down

2013
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: the field methodically, take you know, eight minutes off the clock,

2014
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,960
Speaker 1: and then score a touchdown with your run game, that's

2015
01:47:00,120 --> 01:47:01,599
Speaker 1: the type of way you beat some of these teams

2016
01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:04,760
Speaker 1: is because the best defense in those cases is having

2017
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:06,640
Speaker 1: a great office that's controlling the clock and keeping those

2018
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 1: guys on the sideline. And Ben Roethlisberger and Pat Mahomes. Yeah,

2019
01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:12,559
Speaker 1: in the big pictures, as far as the next game goes,

2020
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:14,680
Speaker 1: it's charge your game. For the Buffalo Bills. Is it

2021
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:17,439
Speaker 1: better or worse or does it matter if you go

2022
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 1: into the buy with a winner or loss us it's

2023
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:24,840
Speaker 1: always better to go going to it with a win. Um.

2024
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: I think it takes a maturity because of this football team.

2025
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an issue. They can go into

2026
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 1: it with a win and win and not relax right now.

2027
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:34,720
Speaker 1: I think Sean has done that too, and making sure

2028
01:47:34,760 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: guys don't relax when you have success, but making sure

2029
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: that you continue to learn because you want to create

2030
01:47:41,160 --> 01:47:43,160
Speaker 1: a winning coachure. You never want to you never want

2031
01:47:43,160 --> 01:47:46,559
Speaker 1: to lose. Sometimes it's good to shock the system, but

2032
01:47:46,640 --> 01:47:48,680
Speaker 1: it's not like this team has been riding high all year.

2033
01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:50,639
Speaker 1: They've had some university so you want to You want

2034
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:53,920
Speaker 1: to win as much as possible because winning breeds confidence within,

2035
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 1: brings success, and that's what it's all about. It's about

2036
01:47:57,000 --> 01:47:58,920
Speaker 1: getting ws and winning and putting yourself in the best

2037
01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:02,679
Speaker 1: position as you enter the playoffs, you know, really ride

2038
01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: and hitting it on all cylinders. Does it matter at

2039
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:09,479
Speaker 1: all though, from a from a film study standpoint, because

2040
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:12,080
Speaker 1: we're hearing that there's a chance Austin Eckler could be

2041
01:48:12,120 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 1: activated this week he was practicing coming off of that

2042
01:48:15,560 --> 01:48:17,800
Speaker 1: torn hamstring that forced him to miss the better part

2043
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:20,680
Speaker 1: of the last two months. From a film study standpoint,

2044
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: does it matter at all that this guy isn't on

2045
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: their most recent game tape? You know, the last four

2046
01:48:25,439 --> 01:48:27,559
Speaker 1: or five games. You just go back to the older

2047
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:31,160
Speaker 1: stuff when he was in the lineup and you study that. Right,

2048
01:48:31,160 --> 01:48:33,839
Speaker 1: there really isn't any thing to worry about with respect

2049
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: to him, right, But yeah, I would agree with that.

2050
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:39,840
Speaker 1: It's not lifing handily landing off the corner. They're going

2051
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:44,160
Speaker 1: to change drastically what they do from a schematic standpoint. Obviously,

2052
01:48:44,160 --> 01:48:47,280
Speaker 1: Eckler brings his own style to the game and his talents.

2053
01:48:47,439 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 1: So you go back to seeing how he was used before,

2054
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 1: look at some other film if he doesn't obviously doesn't

2055
01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:54,160
Speaker 1: have a lot of current reps, and seeing with some

2056
01:48:54,200 --> 01:48:55,800
Speaker 1: of the things he does, well, you know with the

2057
01:48:55,880 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 1: stiff arms, he patient does, he hit the whole heart.

2058
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 1: You know, his breakaway speed. So you get to learn

2059
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: about him from his past success, and that's how you

2060
01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:07,439
Speaker 1: got to look at it. And then you know that

2061
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:10,400
Speaker 1: he may not be you know, he's healed one hundred percent,

2062
01:49:10,439 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 1: but it's his first game back, and so you want

2063
01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:14,519
Speaker 1: to as a defender, you want to jump on him, Earli.

2064
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: You don't want him to feel like, Okay, I'm really

2065
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:19,519
Speaker 1: good now, there's nothing wrong with my hamstring. You want

2066
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:22,000
Speaker 1: to obviously put some down in his mind early that Okay,

2067
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:23,519
Speaker 1: well I'm about to get hit. I've been hitting a

2068
01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: couple of months to be able to feel that. And

2069
01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:27,920
Speaker 1: so they need to really take advantage of him not

2070
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:31,439
Speaker 1: playing a lot of football over the last couple of months,

2071
01:49:31,439 --> 01:49:33,439
Speaker 1: because you can be rusty from you know, seeing the

2072
01:49:33,479 --> 01:49:35,240
Speaker 1: holes getting in there. But if you let him get

2073
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:38,160
Speaker 1: some success early, it could be detrimental because he is

2074
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 1: a very talented running back. How much of a wild

2075
01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:43,720
Speaker 1: card is justin Herbert in this game? He's a really

2076
01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:46,439
Speaker 1: good quarterback, playing really well, throwing the football all over

2077
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 1: the yard. But he's a rookie too, so he's got,

2078
01:49:48,920 --> 01:49:50,920
Speaker 1: you know, kind of two starts of the same coin.

2079
01:49:51,120 --> 01:49:53,200
Speaker 1: You know, you want to treat him like maybe you

2080
01:49:53,240 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 1: treat him a little bit more like a veteran quarterback

2081
01:49:56,280 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 1: than you would another rookie, but by the same token,

2082
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:01,160
Speaker 1: there's got to some things you want to try to

2083
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: you haven't been able to see on film. Yeah, and

2084
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:07,880
Speaker 1: you know that's always a balance. But I'm always gonna

2085
01:50:07,920 --> 01:50:10,840
Speaker 1: go with his lack of experience. You know, a lot

2086
01:50:10,920 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: of guys are uber talented, right, they have the ability

2087
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:16,360
Speaker 1: to coming and playing this league at a high level.

2088
01:50:16,960 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 1: But the experience, in my mind, is always what separates

2089
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:23,200
Speaker 1: a guy like a Herbert from a guy like you

2090
01:50:23,240 --> 01:50:26,200
Speaker 1: know where a Drew Brees or Peyton Manning or somebody

2091
01:50:26,200 --> 01:50:27,840
Speaker 1: of that ELP that has done it at a high

2092
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 1: level for a long time. Because he has to continue

2093
01:50:31,040 --> 01:50:32,680
Speaker 1: to approve of it. We all know that one year

2094
01:50:32,720 --> 01:50:34,680
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. Even though he's playing high at a

2095
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:37,519
Speaker 1: high level right now, but he still has rookie tendessees.

2096
01:50:37,560 --> 01:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I mean he still gets nervous, getting sped up as

2097
01:50:42,040 --> 01:50:44,360
Speaker 1: far as when he sees pressure and moving his feet,

2098
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:49,160
Speaker 1: throwing some inherit balls trying to make a play. He's done,

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Speaker 1: I think better than what most people probably expect it

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Speaker 1: because he wasn't the starter at the beig end of

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Speaker 1: the season. But you can still get after this guy

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Speaker 1: with pressure, and like I said, you're not always just

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Speaker 1: competing against him. I think our back end matches up

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Speaker 1: well with their their position, their skill positions, and their

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Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends. And so if you have great

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01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:12,519
Speaker 1: sticky coverage like Miami Dolphins showed, you can make plays

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01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:16,000
Speaker 1: on the ball, you can get some turnovers, and then

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01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:19,479
Speaker 1: also you can prevent the big play. Herbert loves being

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Speaker 1: able to go down the field and take chuck yards.

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01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 1: And so if you have great coverage able to break

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Speaker 1: up some balls and make him have to earn it

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Speaker 1: and go down the field, he's more viable to make

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Speaker 1: a mistake because of his youth. Yeah, I mean we

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Speaker 1: were talking to Greg Cosell about that this week, because

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Speaker 1: this is a shot play offense. I mean, they'll go

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Speaker 1: down the field and he's pretty accurate down the field too.

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Speaker 1: And they have a couple of four or three kids

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Speaker 1: that they throw on the field, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: Jalen guyden Is one of the guys that they send

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01:51:48,439 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 1: deep a good deal, Ty Johnson so and then they

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01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: got that big tight end kid Parum that they bring

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01:51:55,479 --> 01:51:57,160
Speaker 1: on in the red zone. He's like six foot eight.

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01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:59,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like putting the power forward out there.

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01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 1: It's I mean, he's not short on weapons. But when

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01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:05,640
Speaker 1: you have an offense like that that has shown an

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01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: ability to hit up not just take shots, but hit him,

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01:52:10,360 --> 01:52:13,000
Speaker 1: I have to believe that that that can give a

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01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:19,840
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator pause with respect to play calling. I mean

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Speaker 1: he does, But then you have to you have to

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01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 1: look at the guys that you have on your side

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01:52:23,479 --> 01:52:25,680
Speaker 1: on your roster and say, okay, can we match up?

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01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:27,240
Speaker 1: Can we hold up? It's not like you're gonna go

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01:52:27,439 --> 01:52:29,720
Speaker 1: zero blitz every single play, but you have to have

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01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 1: a great mix, great disguise to cause him to have

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01:52:33,439 --> 01:52:36,200
Speaker 1: some pause and Herbert, when he's looking at the picture,

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01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:38,040
Speaker 1: you can't get show him one thing because he has

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01:52:38,080 --> 01:52:40,519
Speaker 1: showed some success. And so it starts with the run

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01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:42,439
Speaker 1: game because most of these shots are coming off a

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01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:44,920
Speaker 1: play action pass. Anthony Lamb wants to establish the run

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01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:47,880
Speaker 1: and upfront, but if you're able to mitigate that and

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01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:51,679
Speaker 1: make the playing pass become Nolan void where you don't

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01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:54,799
Speaker 1: have to necesarily have your linebacker underneath the fenders flying

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01:52:54,920 --> 01:52:57,840
Speaker 1: up trying to stop that and stop the bleeding, which

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01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:00,680
Speaker 1: was probably another emphasis of that extra run appeared this week.

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01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:02,360
Speaker 1: It was not only just for the offense, but it

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01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:05,240
Speaker 1: was probably just as much as for the defense being

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01:53:05,280 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 1: able to stop the run. You can play some of

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01:53:08,040 --> 01:53:10,840
Speaker 1: those underneath route, some of those play actual shot routes

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01:53:10,840 --> 01:53:12,320
Speaker 1: because you don't feel like you have to come up

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01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:15,720
Speaker 1: as quickly, and so that's what they have to make

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01:53:15,720 --> 01:53:19,040
Speaker 1: sure they do in order to kind of stay away

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01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:21,000
Speaker 1: from giving up those big shots with the safety of

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01:53:21,080 --> 01:53:22,519
Speaker 1: Jordan doesn't feel like he needs to come up in

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01:53:22,560 --> 01:53:25,200
Speaker 1: the box real Qurt to become that eighth or ninth

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01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:27,680
Speaker 1: man in the boxing style run. Yeah, we've talked a

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01:53:27,720 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: lot about the players that are not going to be

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01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:32,799
Speaker 1: there for the Bills, John Brown, Matt Milano, Cody Ford

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01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:36,559
Speaker 1: also just now out looks like Casey Hayward and Melvin

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01:53:36,720 --> 01:53:38,439
Speaker 1: Ingram are not going to be in the game for

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01:53:38,640 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers. And questionable is Kaylin Balage. I mean, at

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01:53:43,720 --> 01:53:46,240
Speaker 1: this time of year, obviously, everybody's got to deal with it,

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01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:49,400
Speaker 1: but two starters, a defensive defensive end, a really nice

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01:53:49,439 --> 01:53:51,640
Speaker 1: pass rusher and one of your starting corners have to

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01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:54,559
Speaker 1: sit down talk about what that does to that side

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Speaker 1: of the football. Well, it really hurts the Charges obviously

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01:54:00,040 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 1: any time, especially when you think about Casey Hayward going

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01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:04,879
Speaker 1: down right, he's probably one of your top tier corners,

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01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 1: has been one of the top guys over the last

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Speaker 1: you know, four or five years in the league as

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Speaker 1: far as being productive, and so you take him out

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01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:14,760
Speaker 1: of the call, now everybody rises up, right, and so

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01:54:14,800 --> 01:54:17,360
Speaker 1: now you have a less talented guy that's than that

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01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:19,519
Speaker 1: may be on Diggs And as that go, as that

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Speaker 1: changes as you work down kind of of the guys

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Speaker 1: that we've utilized offensively, Now you're getting that that next

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01:54:27,160 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: guy that's kind of in that line. So now Gabriel

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01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:33,800
Speaker 1: has a guy that's not as good on him, Cole

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01:54:33,840 --> 01:54:36,000
Speaker 1: Beasley maybe not have a guy as as good as

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Speaker 1: as us on him. Um. And so that you're able

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01:54:38,880 --> 01:54:41,760
Speaker 1: to now manipulate some of those matchups even better. Um.

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01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:43,760
Speaker 1: And it just really push the charge of secondary in

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01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:46,040
Speaker 1: a hard place. UM. And then when you think about

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01:54:46,160 --> 01:54:49,280
Speaker 1: Ingram Um hasn't really stood out this year as far

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01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:51,440
Speaker 1: as numbers, but we all know what he's a capable

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01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: of doing as far as rushing the pass, and that

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01:54:53,640 --> 01:54:55,440
Speaker 1: just one less guy you have to worry about when

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01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:57,760
Speaker 1: you have Boast on the opposite side as far as

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01:54:57,760 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: who you're gonna chip, who are you gonna double to,

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01:55:00,080 --> 01:55:01,600
Speaker 1: who are you going to send a protection too? And

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01:55:01,680 --> 01:55:04,440
Speaker 1: so that may help Josh and the offensive line be

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01:55:04,480 --> 01:55:06,400
Speaker 1: able to give him more pressure to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: those mismatches that we may see in the secondary. All right,

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Speaker 1: so thanks for the time as always here be very

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01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 1: liberal with your turkey leftovers. My friend, lather on the gravy.

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01:55:19,240 --> 01:55:22,760
Speaker 1: I will double up on the bread for those turkey sandwiches.

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01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 1: Do it all man, all right, Zoe, Oh yeah, believe me.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get the white bread right now. Sandwiches. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the way it goes man Friday after Thanks you,

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Speaker 1: it's the greatest. Thanks so all right. So Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: with the lowdown and uh yeah, so that's just coming down.

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Speaker 1: Hayward not playing. He didn't practice all week, so it's

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Speaker 1: not surprising. And suddenly, you know, the secondary for the

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01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:53,200
Speaker 1: Chargers gets real young, real fasts. Haywards the veteran, and

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01:55:53,280 --> 01:55:56,600
Speaker 1: the guy behind Ingram is at Ucheni and Woe Su

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Speaker 1: is also out. Yeah, he had a shoulder injury in

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01:55:58,840 --> 01:56:01,320
Speaker 1: last week's game. He did not practice at all this week.

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01:56:01,560 --> 01:56:04,560
Speaker 1: You know, be thin up front, So they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: thin from a pass rushing perspective with no Ingram or

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Speaker 1: in Wosu so well, you'd think they wouldn't be as

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Speaker 1: as good. But then when you get these other guys

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01:56:12,520 --> 01:56:14,880
Speaker 1: in there, they got one. They feel like you get

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01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:16,840
Speaker 1: some of the other guys on their depth charge. I

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01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:19,160
Speaker 1: mean they got well. Isaac Rochelle would probably be the

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01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 1: replacement there a defensive end for Ingram, right, But they

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01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 1: got Cortes brought in, Jesse Lmagnier, Jerry Tillery, all these

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Speaker 1: guys they're on their defensive. Think when one of those,

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01:56:29,080 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: one of those guys may bust out. You always worry

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01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:34,000
Speaker 1: about that as a as an opponent. You get this

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01:56:34,080 --> 01:56:37,120
Speaker 1: one guy in there, this is his one chance. Who's

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01:56:37,160 --> 01:56:38,680
Speaker 1: this guy? And he goes in, He's got like a

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01:56:38,680 --> 01:56:41,120
Speaker 1: two sack day three pressure is a batted down pass.

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Speaker 1: It is one of those kind of things. You don't

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01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 1: want that to happen. But don't think it's a day

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Speaker 1: off just because Melvin Ingram's not going to suit up.

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01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:50,880
Speaker 1: It's the genuine belief that if there is a weakness

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01:56:50,920 --> 01:56:53,840
Speaker 1: to this Chargers defense, it's at the linebacker level, doing

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01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:56,120
Speaker 1: part to end experience and doing part to the lack

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01:56:56,160 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: of true athleticism for what you need at that position

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01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:01,920
Speaker 1: in this league these days. But man, if they're that

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01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:07,080
Speaker 1: shorthanded up front and on the back end, even without

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01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:10,240
Speaker 1: John Brown, this offense could have a day on Sundays.

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01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:12,960
Speaker 1: It looks like they're gonna have to. Yeah, we gotta

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Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. More of your

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Speaker 1: questions from the obl fan mail bag and if we

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Speaker 1: have time, a little NFL true false, that's coming your

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Speaker 1: way next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid

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Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: here with you final half hour of the program. And

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Speaker 1: I completely forgot about the team reporters segment, as our

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Speaker 1: own colleague Mattie Glab catches up with Chargers reporter Hilley Ellwood.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on to talk with us about this matchup.

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01:57:57,480 --> 01:57:59,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good one between these two teams.

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01:57:59,680 --> 01:58:03,160
Speaker 1: We've a rookie quarterback and a younger quarterback and Josh

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01:58:03,240 --> 01:58:05,800
Speaker 1: Allen facing each other. And the Chargers they're three and

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01:58:05,880 --> 01:58:08,320
Speaker 1: seven and rank at the bottom of the ancy. But

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01:58:08,600 --> 01:58:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, this team is so much better than their record,

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01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:14,240
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's no one better than you who

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01:58:14,280 --> 01:58:18,640
Speaker 1: can explain that, because I've been watching film and watching

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01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,280
Speaker 1: the teams that they've played against. I'm like, how is

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Speaker 1: this team three and seven? I mean, Justin Herbert has

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Speaker 1: had such a great season. I think has really exceeded

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01:58:27,800 --> 01:58:30,800
Speaker 1: expectations from what people thought he would do in his

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01:58:30,920 --> 01:58:34,600
Speaker 1: first season. So why is that that this team has

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01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:37,800
Speaker 1: the record that they have right now? And how they

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Speaker 1: kind of been on the wrong end of those close games. Well, first, first, Mattie,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you so much for

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01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:46,320
Speaker 1: having me on. I'm so sad I won't be there

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01:58:46,400 --> 01:58:49,600
Speaker 1: in Buffalo this week to see you. Hello COVID, but

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01:58:49,720 --> 01:58:52,480
Speaker 1: so glad we could do this virtually. But getting to

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Speaker 1: your question, it honestly has just been a couple plays

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01:58:55,320 --> 01:58:58,480
Speaker 1: here or there. Their losses have come down to one score.

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01:58:58,880 --> 01:59:01,120
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa said it last week. In order to come

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01:59:01,160 --> 01:59:03,280
Speaker 1: out on the other side of some of these games,

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01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 1: they just have to make plays when they're there and

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01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:09,200
Speaker 1: take advantage of those. So execution, that's what it has

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Speaker 1: come down to with this team. And now, rookie quarterback,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this guy. Justin Herbert. He ranks above

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01:59:16,600 --> 01:59:20,720
Speaker 1: a lot of talented veterans in several different statistical categories.

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01:59:20,880 --> 01:59:24,920
Speaker 1: He ranks at the top for all rookie quarterbacks right now.

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Speaker 1: Even though he was drafted after Tuah, after Burrow, he

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01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:32,680
Speaker 1: still is producing at the highest level at least right now.

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Speaker 1: As we're in week twelve, he ranks third right now,

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Speaker 1: averaging two hundred ninety nine point nine passing yards a

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01:59:38,160 --> 01:59:41,680
Speaker 1: game is tied for six with twenty two passing touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: has one more than Josh Allen, and most people say

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01:59:44,800 --> 01:59:47,480
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a rookie. We've talked to several

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01:59:47,520 --> 01:59:49,440
Speaker 1: of our players this week, and a lot of our

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01:59:49,480 --> 01:59:52,240
Speaker 1: defensive guys has said, you know, we've turned the tape

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01:59:52,240 --> 01:59:55,120
Speaker 1: on and it's hard to believe that Justin Herbert is

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01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:57,080
Speaker 1: just a rookie with the way that he's playing. Sean

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01:59:57,160 --> 02:00:00,120
Speaker 1: McDermott echoed that to our media when he spoke to

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Speaker 1: them this week as well. What's been the most impressive

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Speaker 1: part of his game as you've gotten to watch him

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Speaker 1: now through nine games. I'm gonna give you two things,

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Speaker 1: and the first is his poise, which I think plays

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Speaker 1: into that sort of maturity that you're essentially talking about

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Speaker 1: that he hasn't really looked like a rookie out there.

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Speaker 1: Poise is something that Chargers players have cited about him,

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Speaker 1: both on offense and defense and this coaching staff that

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02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:25,400
Speaker 1: he just doesn't really get rattled. And then to couple that,

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Speaker 1: the second thing I'm going to say is his preparation.

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Speaker 1: And I always go back to a conversation that I

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Speaker 1: had with ESPN's Molly McGrath after the Chargers drafted Herbert

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Speaker 1: and she watched him at Oregon and she said, look,

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Speaker 1: he's extremely academically gifted. He was a bio major at Oregan,

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Speaker 1: four point zero plus student. But she said, what he

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02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:46,560
Speaker 1: will do is he will take the study skills that

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Speaker 1: he had used towards the textbook and apply those to

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Speaker 1: the playbook. And one thing that Herbert said today actually,

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Speaker 1: when asked about his preparation, he cited former Oregan offensive

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oregan assistant coach, former offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo

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Speaker 1: that when Herbert was at Oregon, Arroyo essentially devised a

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Speaker 1: game plan as to how to study. So basically, he

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Speaker 1: said that he sort of broke down what Herbert would

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Speaker 1: watch on different days, watching different segments of film on

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Speaker 1: different days. And Herbert said he's now taken that into

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And I think in a year like this

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, unprecedented as we know, with rookies not

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Speaker 1: being able to get out on the field for the preseason,

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Speaker 1: very very limited off season on field reps, I think

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Speaker 1: that preparation has served him really really well and worth

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Speaker 1: seeing his progress as a product of that. It'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to just see him years from now, because Jack

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Speaker 1: Allen spoke to the media today and he was asked

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Speaker 1: just about his first year in the league versus now

2316
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Speaker 1: and just what he didn't know in that rookie season

2317
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Speaker 1: versus what he now knows and diagnosing defenses and things

2318
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Speaker 1: like that, and to see Justin Herbert play at the

2319
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Speaker 1: level he's playing at right now, it'll be really interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how he grows from here on out. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about some of the weapons that Justin Herbert has

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Speaker 1: to throw too, and you can't talk about those weapons

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Speaker 1: without mentioning Keenan Allen. He's one of the most talented

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Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL right now. He leads the league

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Speaker 1: with eighty one receptions one hundred and twelve targets. And

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Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting watching Anthony Lynn run this team, specifically

2327
02:02:21,440 --> 02:02:25,080
Speaker 1: this offense, because he's someone who Bills fans. When he

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Speaker 1: was in Buffalo, they know for his rushing attack. His

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Speaker 1: rushing offense the Bills led the league in twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen when he was here as the running

2331
02:02:33,600 --> 02:02:37,560
Speaker 1: backs coach and offensive coordinator. This year, it's kind of flipped.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're relying on Herbert's arm. They're relying on

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02:02:40,600 --> 02:02:45,000
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen Hunter Henry right now. They're passing offense ranks third.

2334
02:02:45,040 --> 02:02:48,960
Speaker 1: Their rushing offense is tense. So how has Anthony Lynn

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02:02:49,040 --> 02:02:52,680
Speaker 1: kind of changed up the way this offense runs based

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Speaker 1: on Justin Herbert in some of those weapons like Keenan Allen, Well,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it as a former running back himself, he

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Speaker 1: likes balance and he definitely definitely wants to run the football,

2339
02:03:02,080 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: and he said it last week. It was something that

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02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:06,480
Speaker 1: they didn't do well or really see against the New

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02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:09,120
Speaker 1: York Jets. But you mentioned Keenan Allen. Lucky for this

2342
02:03:09,160 --> 02:03:11,440
Speaker 1: team they have that guy on it who basically just

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02:03:11,520 --> 02:03:15,000
Speaker 1: took that game by storm. He had a season high

2344
02:03:15,080 --> 02:03:17,880
Speaker 1: and also career sixteen catches in that game, one hundred

2345
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:21,280
Speaker 1: and forty five yards a touchdown. Basically, at this point,

2346
02:03:21,720 --> 02:03:24,800
Speaker 1: he and Herbert have such a such a great rapport together.

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02:03:24,880 --> 02:03:26,880
Speaker 1: And the one thing about Keenan Allen, I joined the

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02:03:26,960 --> 02:03:29,640
Speaker 1: Chargers a year after he was drafted. He faced so

2349
02:03:29,720 --> 02:03:32,960
Speaker 1: much adversity early on in his career with a litany

2350
02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:35,480
Speaker 1: of injuries, and he had told me in twenty seventeen,

2351
02:03:35,640 --> 02:03:38,680
Speaker 1: give me sixteen games just give me a full season

2352
02:03:38,680 --> 02:03:40,640
Speaker 1: and I will prove to you that I can be

2353
02:03:40,680 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 1: the best in this league. He has taken his game

2354
02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:46,240
Speaker 1: to new heights. He's made three straight Pro Bowls. And

2355
02:03:46,280 --> 02:03:49,120
Speaker 1: to see what he is doing this year with this

2356
02:03:49,200 --> 02:03:53,440
Speaker 1: quarterback again, barely any offseason or I'm sorry, yeah, offseason

2357
02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:56,360
Speaker 1: on field work. But to see what they're doing week

2358
02:03:56,440 --> 02:03:58,760
Speaker 1: in and week out is something really really special and

2359
02:03:58,800 --> 02:04:01,720
Speaker 1: this team is certainly capitalizing on that. I think Bills

2360
02:04:01,760 --> 02:04:06,120
Speaker 1: fans feel very similar about Josh Allen's connection with Stefan Diggs.

2361
02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:08,640
Speaker 1: When you have a player come in and doesn't even

2362
02:04:08,680 --> 02:04:12,480
Speaker 1: have a year under their belt, whether that's experienced or

2363
02:04:12,480 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: whether that's just being in a new environment and on

2364
02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:18,040
Speaker 1: a new team, and to see some of these connections

2365
02:04:18,080 --> 02:04:21,000
Speaker 1: that have come of this COVID world, even though these

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02:04:21,480 --> 02:04:23,560
Speaker 1: guys didn't get in an offseason or anything like that,

2367
02:04:23,640 --> 02:04:25,800
Speaker 1: and to see the product that they're putting on the

2368
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:29,000
Speaker 1: field is really impressive. I know, at least I'm impressed

2369
02:04:29,080 --> 02:04:31,720
Speaker 1: every week with what Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen are

2370
02:04:31,760 --> 02:04:33,720
Speaker 1: able to do with each other. But let's flip over

2371
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:36,560
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball. The Bills defense.

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Speaker 1: They've been playing a lot better as of the last

2373
02:04:39,160 --> 02:04:41,560
Speaker 1: six games. And I was looking at stats trying to

2374
02:04:41,560 --> 02:04:44,640
Speaker 1: see where the Bills rank, and the Chargers were popping

2375
02:04:44,720 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: up in a lot of those high statistical categories. For

2376
02:04:48,200 --> 02:04:50,880
Speaker 1: their defense, they've also been playing a lot better as

2377
02:04:50,920 --> 02:04:54,440
Speaker 1: of the last six games. They rank fourth in overall

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02:04:54,480 --> 02:04:57,520
Speaker 1: defense right now in the last six weeks, allowing only

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02:04:57,560 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 1: three hundred and seven point four yards per game. I guess,

2380
02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:03,360
Speaker 1: how have you seen them get better in these last

2381
02:05:03,440 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 1: six games. I think one of the reasons has come

2382
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:09,920
Speaker 1: down to younger guys on this defense taking advantage of opportunities.

2383
02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:13,480
Speaker 1: You look at someone like this year Atterle Safety. Last

2384
02:05:13,560 --> 02:05:16,720
Speaker 1: year he battled through some injuries. He basically had more

2385
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:19,360
Speaker 1: of a red shirt kind of season, and now he's

2386
02:05:19,400 --> 02:05:21,720
Speaker 1: getting more reps and taking advantage of that. As is

2387
02:05:21,800 --> 02:05:25,240
Speaker 1: Jerry Tillery, first round pick of the Charters in twenty nineteen.

2388
02:05:25,400 --> 02:05:28,160
Speaker 1: His game has taken a step forward this season as well.

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02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:30,160
Speaker 1: And then you also look at some guys who are

2390
02:05:30,160 --> 02:05:32,320
Speaker 1: now back. Look at the defensive line. We talked about

2391
02:05:32,320 --> 02:05:36,000
Speaker 1: Tillary obviously, but guys who are back, Justin Jones, Melvin Ingram,

2392
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:38,640
Speaker 1: they were both on injured reserve earlier this season. They

2393
02:05:38,720 --> 02:05:42,320
Speaker 1: came back in Week seven. The defense has battled through

2394
02:05:42,360 --> 02:05:44,960
Speaker 1: some injuries, but now some guys are coming back and

2395
02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:48,040
Speaker 1: also some younger players are taking that next step to

2396
02:05:48,040 --> 02:05:50,600
Speaker 1: sort of form this unit and what this unit really

2397
02:05:50,640 --> 02:05:53,200
Speaker 1: should be and should look like as we move forward

2398
02:05:53,240 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: through this latter half of the year. Yeah, the Charters

2399
02:05:55,720 --> 02:05:58,480
Speaker 1: do have a strong defensive line, There's no doubting that.

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02:05:58,560 --> 02:06:01,040
Speaker 1: And that's similar to the Bills. Two is that finally

2401
02:06:01,040 --> 02:06:04,160
Speaker 1: they're getting some of those defensive pieces back as we

2402
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 1: head into Week twelve, kind of final push to the

2403
02:06:07,480 --> 02:06:11,160
Speaker 1: end of the season into the playoffs. We talked about

2404
02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 1: these star players and Justin Herbert and Keenan Allen, But

2405
02:06:14,800 --> 02:06:18,360
Speaker 1: who are some under the radar players that Bill's players

2406
02:06:18,480 --> 02:06:21,640
Speaker 1: and fans should know about come Sunday. Yeah, So I'm

2407
02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna give you two guys both on offense, both wide receivers,

2408
02:06:25,040 --> 02:06:29,280
Speaker 1: Tyron Johnson and Jalen Guiton. Not household names like Keenan

2409
02:06:29,320 --> 02:06:31,880
Speaker 1: Allen or Hunter Henry or Mike Williams, as you said,

2410
02:06:31,960 --> 02:06:34,879
Speaker 1: under the radar, but each of them have three catches

2411
02:06:34,880 --> 02:06:37,920
Speaker 1: of forty nine yards or more. Justin Herbert, he's got

2412
02:06:37,920 --> 02:06:40,320
Speaker 1: an arm. He likes to throw deep, and they have

2413
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:43,600
Speaker 1: been on the receiving end of those passes. They're also

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Speaker 1: guys former undrafted rookie free agents, and two guys that

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02:06:47,080 --> 02:06:50,160
Speaker 1: both Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn and offensive coordinator Shane

2416
02:06:50,160 --> 02:06:53,400
Speaker 1: Steke and have said they've worked so hard, so so

2417
02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:55,560
Speaker 1: hard on the practice squad to get to where they

2418
02:06:55,600 --> 02:06:58,040
Speaker 1: are now, and that work that they've put in on

2419
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:00,680
Speaker 1: the practice field is certainly paying off and showing up

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02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:03,080
Speaker 1: in games. All Right, Well, I'll have to go tell

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Speaker 1: our secondary about those two. All right, we don't want

2422
02:07:06,800 --> 02:07:09,240
Speaker 1: to see any of those explosive plays for more than

2423
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 1: forty yards on Sunday. Haley, thanks so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: I know you're thinking on the other end exactly. I

2425
02:07:15,720 --> 02:07:18,160
Speaker 1: hope they I hope they pop those off against the

2426
02:07:18,160 --> 02:07:21,480
Speaker 1: Bills defense. We'll see how it happens on Sunday. Wish

2427
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Speaker 1: you guys could travel here. This year has been a

2428
02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:25,680
Speaker 1: bummer for a lot of us, and that we don't

2429
02:07:25,680 --> 02:07:29,000
Speaker 1: get to see some of our friends on other teams.

2430
02:07:29,080 --> 02:07:32,200
Speaker 1: So good luck on Sunday. Good to talk to you,

2431
02:07:32,280 --> 02:07:35,080
Speaker 1: great conversation, and thanks for letting us know a little

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02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:38,480
Speaker 1: bit more about the Chargers this season. Thanks Mattie, thanks

2433
02:07:38,480 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 1: for having me on so glad we could do this

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02:07:41,440 --> 02:07:44,160
Speaker 1: all right, our colleague, Mattie glab with Haley Ellwood Chargers

2435
02:07:44,200 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: reporters some in depth analysis there, especially on that Chargers

2436
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:50,280
Speaker 1: receiving cores that the Bills will be keeping tabs on

2437
02:07:50,760 --> 02:07:53,280
Speaker 1: for most of the game on Sunday. Is the Chargers

2438
02:07:53,280 --> 02:07:54,960
Speaker 1: have kind of one in much the same way that

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02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:57,640
Speaker 1: the Bills have through the air, and we don't expect

2440
02:07:57,680 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 1: that to change, especially with the forecasting two degrees partly

2441
02:08:01,160 --> 02:08:03,920
Speaker 1: sunny for Sunday, So it doesn't look like the weather

2442
02:08:03,960 --> 02:08:05,160
Speaker 1: is going to get in the way of the way

2443
02:08:05,160 --> 02:08:07,720
Speaker 1: these teams win. Gamehould be perfect, and that's that should

2444
02:08:07,760 --> 02:08:12,560
Speaker 1: be good news for Bills fans. It's it's where you

2445
02:08:12,560 --> 02:08:13,800
Speaker 1: want it. You got it. You want as good a

2446
02:08:13,840 --> 02:08:15,520
Speaker 1: weather as you can with this team playing the way

2447
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:18,760
Speaker 1: it's playing right now. There is an update concerning Sunday's

2448
02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:22,640
Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens game, which was supposed to be played Thanksgiving

2449
02:08:22,800 --> 02:08:25,520
Speaker 1: night and then due to the COVID outbreak in the

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02:08:25,600 --> 02:08:29,760
Speaker 1: Ravens team facility, they pushed it back to Sunday. Now,

2451
02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter is reporting Ravens Steelers being tentatively moved from

2452
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:40,320
Speaker 1: Sunday to Tuesday night. ESPN's Diana Rassini also reporting that

2453
02:08:40,720 --> 02:08:43,560
Speaker 1: so not all that different from what the Bills experienced

2454
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:47,600
Speaker 1: in Week five when they had their game against the

2455
02:08:47,600 --> 02:08:51,320
Speaker 1: Titans because of the Titans outbreak moved to a Tuesday,

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02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:54,960
Speaker 1: and then had their Thursday game moved to the following Monday. Now,

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02:08:54,960 --> 02:08:57,960
Speaker 1: the interesting thing here, Steve, is the Ravens have a

2458
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:01,040
Speaker 1: Thursday night game next week, the exact same situation that

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02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:04,560
Speaker 1: the Bills found themselves in in Week five. So does

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02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:06,640
Speaker 1: that game move to the following Monday? I think it

2461
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:09,280
Speaker 1: very well could be. Probably will the exact same scenario

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Speaker 1: for the chief for the Ravens. They they're certainly they

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02:09:12,800 --> 02:09:17,400
Speaker 1: can't play on Tuesday. Thursday. No, that's insane, right. You'll

2464
02:09:17,400 --> 02:09:19,840
Speaker 1: wonder if it's enough time for them with the game

2465
02:09:19,880 --> 02:09:22,880
Speaker 1: moving to Tuesday to get Lamar Jackson back five days

2466
02:09:23,560 --> 02:09:26,920
Speaker 1: you tested positive Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. That

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Speaker 1: would be the exact fifth day, because you know, the

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02:09:31,040 --> 02:09:33,800
Speaker 1: networks want Lamar Jackson on the field. Sure, but here's

2469
02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:37,840
Speaker 1: the thing, they're out, they're out of slack, no bye week.

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02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: They don't want to throw out an eighteen game a

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Speaker 1: week eighteen, so that's game. It's still too early to

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Speaker 1: think about doing it without having an overlap, without having

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Speaker 1: a Ravens be stuck on a week eighteen again then,

2474
02:09:51,080 --> 02:09:55,200
Speaker 1: because once you go to a week eighteen, now you're

2475
02:09:55,240 --> 02:09:57,000
Speaker 1: stuck with maybe the same team having to go to

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Speaker 1: a week nineteen, and then you can't do that. They're

2477
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to start forfeiting game and throwing games out

2478
02:10:01,040 --> 02:10:04,400
Speaker 1: of the hopper. And that's the last that's absolute, all

2479
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Speaker 1: hands on deck, not letting that happen. So in case

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Speaker 1: you're just joining us, ESPN's Adam Schefter and Diana Rassini

2481
02:10:10,560 --> 02:10:13,800
Speaker 1: both reporting Ravens Steelers game that was already moved from

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night to Sunday because of the COVID outbreak in Baltimore,

2483
02:10:17,560 --> 02:10:22,040
Speaker 1: is now tentatively being moved to Tuesday night break time

2484
02:10:22,080 --> 02:10:23,920
Speaker 1: for US. But when we come back, we'll close this

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Speaker 1: one up for the week with what have we Learned?

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker back in a flash. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio time for what have we Learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Had Greg Kosell on for his weekly visit,

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Speaker 1: the senior producer from NFL Films, talk to him a

2492
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Speaker 1: lot about the rookie quarterback for the Chargers, Justin Herbert,

2493
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:08,640
Speaker 1: and about that quarterback's progression from his college game. There

2494
02:11:08,640 --> 02:11:10,480
Speaker 1: were two things when he came out of Oregon that

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02:11:10,560 --> 02:11:13,800
Speaker 1: had a lot of people potentially concerned, myself included because

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02:11:13,800 --> 02:11:16,800
Speaker 1: I actually watched over his final two years in college,

2497
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:19,840
Speaker 1: about eighteen games. I was concerned about his sense of

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02:11:19,880 --> 02:11:23,600
Speaker 1: anticipation and timing, and his ball placement was not always

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02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:27,000
Speaker 1: consistently accurate. Well, the Chargers have done a really good

2500
02:11:27,120 --> 02:11:30,640
Speaker 1: job with the anticipation part what they do with their

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02:11:30,680 --> 02:11:34,440
Speaker 1: pass game concepts. There's not a lot of pure anticipation throws,

2502
02:11:34,720 --> 02:11:37,600
Speaker 1: but the ball placement has been very good for the

2503
02:11:37,680 --> 02:11:40,240
Speaker 1: most part, much better than it was in college. And

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02:11:40,320 --> 02:11:43,720
Speaker 1: particularly Chris, as you mentioned on the deep ball, there

2505
02:11:43,720 --> 02:11:49,160
Speaker 1: is shot play offense. They take shots. He's right. I mean, now,

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02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 1: granted they were playing the Jets last week, there was

2507
02:11:52,600 --> 02:11:56,480
Speaker 1: an inordinate number of shots. I mean, there probably was

2508
02:11:56,520 --> 02:12:00,200
Speaker 1: about twelve to fifteen passes more than twenty yards down

2509
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Speaker 1: field last week and they connected on about half. Jets

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02:12:02,640 --> 02:12:06,440
Speaker 1: were literally playing cardboard cutouts. It was not good. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's an accurate this assessment. This

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02:12:09,240 --> 02:12:11,080
Speaker 1: game's not gonna be much different from that. Despite it

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Speaker 1: was the Jets last week the year fifteen shots. No,

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Speaker 1: but these two teams are gonna air it out. It's

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02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:19,760
Speaker 1: gonna be take the over entertaining game. It should be

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Speaker 1: an entertaining game. Justin Herbert is gonna look a lot

2517
02:12:22,320 --> 02:12:25,120
Speaker 1: like the quarterback of the Bill's Josh Allen. They're two big,

2518
02:12:25,360 --> 02:12:28,800
Speaker 1: strong athletes with big arms. Herbert throws it all over

2519
02:12:28,840 --> 02:12:32,560
Speaker 1: the place, and they've both got big time number one receivers.

2520
02:12:32,560 --> 02:12:34,440
Speaker 1: Those guys are number one and two in yardage in

2521
02:12:34,480 --> 02:12:37,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. Between them, they get a ton of targets

2522
02:12:37,000 --> 02:12:41,320
Speaker 1: for their team. Just Keenan Allen and Stefan Diggs. Look out,

2523
02:12:41,400 --> 02:12:44,040
Speaker 1: here we go. Should be a fun game on Sunday.

2524
02:12:44,280 --> 02:12:49,200
Speaker 1: It is confirmed Ravens Steelers now Tuesday Night. They will

2525
02:12:49,240 --> 02:12:51,760
Speaker 1: be moved for a second time to Tuesday night because

2526
02:12:51,760 --> 02:12:54,960
Speaker 1: of the Ravens COVID outbreak, which will also mean that

2527
02:12:55,080 --> 02:12:58,880
Speaker 1: Thursday's Ravens game next week against the Cowboys is going

2528
02:12:58,920 --> 02:13:02,800
Speaker 1: to be moved as well, presumably to the following Monday,

2529
02:13:02,880 --> 02:13:05,600
Speaker 1: much the same way the Bills games were moved back

2530
02:13:05,640 --> 02:13:09,080
Speaker 1: in Week five and week six. That'll do it for

2531
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:11,600
Speaker 1: us here on this Thanksgiving week. We're glad you're able

2532
02:13:11,640 --> 02:13:13,400
Speaker 1: to join us today, even for just part of the

2533
02:13:13,440 --> 02:13:16,200
Speaker 1: three hours that we were on. Steve and I'll be

2534
02:13:16,320 --> 02:13:20,440
Speaker 1: on countdown to kick off for the roundtable on the

2535
02:13:20,480 --> 02:13:25,160
Speaker 1: Bills Radio network at eleven AM for Sunday's game, so

2536
02:13:25,520 --> 02:13:27,840
Speaker 1: be sure to tune in for that on your local

2537
02:13:27,880 --> 02:13:31,800
Speaker 1: affiliate stations. Um. Yeah, that's remember. Looking forward to it.

2538
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:34,600
Speaker 1: Ken another home game plus bonus game on next week.

2539
02:13:34,640 --> 02:13:37,920
Speaker 1: We got Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Night Extra Football for Steve.

2540
02:13:38,000 --> 02:13:39,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna watch. I wonder if they if they pushed

2541
02:13:39,960 --> 02:13:42,200
Speaker 1: the Ravens game off Thursday, they're gonna are they gonna,

2542
02:13:42,240 --> 02:13:45,360
Speaker 1: you know, replace it? Um, probably not right. I don't

2543
02:13:45,360 --> 02:13:48,120
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do with that, Probably not. They

2544
02:13:48,160 --> 02:13:50,960
Speaker 1: didn't replace Buffalo's games, so I'm not anticipating that either.

2545
02:13:51,040 --> 02:13:53,480
Speaker 1: At stinks. All right, that's it for us this week.

2546
02:13:53,640 --> 02:13:55,880
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, enjoy the game on Sunday. We'll

2547
02:13:55,920 --> 02:13:59,920
Speaker 1: see on Monday, everybody