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Speaker 1: This one Bill's Live, presented by Kaleida Health. All Right,

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Speaker 1: Happy Christmas Eve, everybody, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: are here for you today and any number of ways,

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Speaker 1: your entertainment value, your comedic value, whatever it is. We're

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Speaker 1: here for the next couple hours. So glad you're joining us.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're off of work today and joining our show

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Speaker 1: either on MSG on television or on the radio airwaves

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Speaker 1: at WGR five fifty here in Buffalo and in Rochester

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Speaker 1: as well. So welcome aboard. Glad you could join us

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Speaker 1: here on this Christmas Eve. Hopefully all of your shopping

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Speaker 1: is done. Although although and tell me, Steve if you

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Speaker 1: if you know anyone like this. My best friend growing up,

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Speaker 1: his dad purposely would wait until Christmas Eve. Now this

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Speaker 1: is prior to the Amazon and online shopping days that

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Speaker 1: we now enjoy. Now, this is back in like the eighties.

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Speaker 1: He would purposely wait until Christmas Eve to go Christmas

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Speaker 1: shopping for his family because he liked the thrill. That's

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Speaker 1: not a game I would have played. Do you know

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Speaker 1: anybody that does that subscribes to that approach?

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Speaker 2: I have done that in the past, not that that's

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Speaker 2: my approach. You know what I'm saying, I got caught, okay,

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Speaker 2: and I get it. There's a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: let's go, you know, gotta get it kind of a

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Speaker 2: fun thing. Plus I've always felt too that when I

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Speaker 2: the extra money because I did it this way, right,

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Speaker 2: Because you're not getting Black Friday deals on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you can get stuff that's in in desperation mode

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Speaker 1: after Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but I'll say this, it's I see

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Speaker 2: the thrill of it. But you you, I think your

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Speaker 1: That there is a good chance that they are.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And so you know, you do run that risk

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Speaker 2: of paying a lot more money for something that's not

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Speaker 1: It might not come from the heart. It might just

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Speaker 1: come from pure and utter desperation.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: That is my fear and why I would never do

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've all got caught with a you know,

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Speaker 2: that's normal.

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Speaker 1: But so hopefully that is not you and you're not

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Speaker 1: driving around madly this afternoon trying to scrounge up a gift. Occasionally,

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Speaker 1: maybe you forget a secondary or tertiary person on your

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Speaker 1: Christmas list. Yeah, maybe you forgot to get something for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you forget something you know.

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Speaker 1: Where you're a postal worker or you know, your garbage collector,

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Speaker 1: and you know that happens. But doing your whole immediate

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Speaker 1: family on Christmas Eve, that's a challenge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it hangs on.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he did it, but he did

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Speaker 1: it for like ten twelve years in a row. And

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Speaker 1: that's just living on the edge.

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Speaker 2: That is. Yeah. And I'll say this though too. You

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Speaker 2: know you got the whole day to do it. Usually,

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Speaker 2: unlike you and me, most people do have the day

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Speaker 2: off on Christmas Eve, right, Yes, not everybody. I'm obviously

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Speaker 2: this building's full. People are in here working, but and

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Speaker 2: retailers are like this is there make haywall a sunshow. Yes, season,

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Speaker 2: so they're working, but a lot of people just shut

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Speaker 1: We'll spend most of today's show getting you for Bill's Jets.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, is giving away these winter beanies. Look at this.

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Speaker 1: I got one right here, Steve's got one. You can

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Speaker 1: The first twelve thousand fans at high Mark Stadium at

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Speaker 1: this weekend's game. So it's got a Bill's logo on it,

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Speaker 1: and it's also got the Teamark logo on the bottom

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Speaker 1: not going to be nearly as cold this city day

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Speaker 1: There is, however, a chance of rain.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that's not day. It's a waterproof day,

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Speaker 1: Coming up, Bill's practice updates are presented by leecom. You're

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Speaker 1: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. The Bills are gonna

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Speaker 1: get some work in today. I'm not certain they're gonna practice,

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Speaker 1: So Tuesday, which is usually an off day, is being

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Speaker 1: getting work done. They don't have to get an injury

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Speaker 1: report out until tomorrow afternoon. But there is some roster

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Speaker 1: and replacing him on the roster, the Bill signed veteran

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Speaker 1: linebacker Nicholas Morrow back to the fifty three man squad.

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Speaker 1: He was released just last week to make room for

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Speaker 2: That was all the way back when they were you know,

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Speaker 2: guy like Mac Collins, that's why the guys start going barefoot. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Them among other things among it.

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Speaker 2: He had to. So one of the things he did

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Speaker 1: Right because he hired a couple of guys out of

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people down there that believe in grounding.

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Speaker 1: They believe, Look, we live on an electrically charged planet,

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Speaker 1: because that contact activates your lymphatic system, which is the

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Speaker 2: It's and it's just that's just one example. But guys

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Speaker 2: And you know, because I remember when way back in

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Speaker 2: Don Beebe was one of those guys and they made

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he couldn't stop getting hamstrings.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's a real thing. And and now we've

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Speaker 2: McDermott has been very sensitive to holding guys out and

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Speaker 2: and it's up to somebody outside them to hold them accountable.

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Speaker 2: In the playoffs, all that stuff's on the table because

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Speaker 2: it's such a weird atmosphere when you're already in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: you can't affect you're seeding all that much. There's a

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Speaker 2: So this Bale inspector thing, all of the injuries Milano,

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Speaker 1: We should also let you know that with tomorrow being

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Speaker 1: three oh five point fifty one eighty eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Then I'm gonna get on board and

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Speaker 1: we lead off today with Mike out in North Collins.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Mike?

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Speaker 4: Uh? I like the quest? Uh a nickname for Cook? Okay,

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Speaker 4: James Cook? Right in honor a cookie Gilchrist. It should

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Speaker 4: be cookie. Lookie, lookie, there goes cookie.

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Speaker 1: Okay, blast from the past. There, I get what you're saying, Mike.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take that under advisement. We'll see if it

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Speaker 1: gains any traction. Maybe we'll put a poll up for

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Speaker 1: you on one Bill's lots.

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Speaker 2: HiT's his, that's his. Santa Claus gift is a new

446
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Speaker 2: night name for James.

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Speaker 1: I guess put it. We'll make it a stocking stuffer.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim in South Buffalo. What's up, Jim?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Hello there, goodhappy holiday?

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Speaker 1: Yeah you too.

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Speaker 7: I want to talk about as Sally recap because this

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Speaker 7: year we're still paying for digs correct, well.

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Speaker 1: We're eating dead money, yes, and.

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Speaker 7: Then next year that's going to be gone.

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Speaker 2: Yes, should be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Right now, they're about nine point three million under

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Speaker 1: the cap, which is twenty eighth in the league. But

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Speaker 1: some of the money they'll be able to clear with

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Speaker 1: some veteran contracts, like there's an out in the contract

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Speaker 1: for von Miller. You could save about fifteen million there,

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Speaker 1: and there are other moves that they could make with

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Speaker 1: some older veteran deals. They're also going to be able

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Speaker 1: to save money by signing people to extensions. Young players.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen probably chief among them. They're going to have

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Speaker 1: to redo his deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, the Bills have seventy four million in

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Speaker 2: dead cap space.

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Speaker 7: Okay, because I was wondering about Cooper for next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be a free agent. So does he want

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Speaker 1: to come back A and then B? What's the price

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Speaker 1: tag to do that? And the other thing you have

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Speaker 1: to consider, Jim, is a lot of young veteran players

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Speaker 1: that you're going to want to lock up to a

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Speaker 1: second contract. Christian Benford, Greg Russo, to rel Bernard James Cook.

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Speaker 1: This is the young core of your football team that

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Speaker 1: you presumably want to keep in place for the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 1: and you may want to get some new deals for them,

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Speaker 1: and there are ways you can structure that and save

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Speaker 1: yourself money on the cap this coming season and even

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Speaker 1: the next season. But you know, if you structure it

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Speaker 1: the right way. Let's get back to the phones into

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Speaker 1: Gary in Clarence. What do you got for us? Gary?

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Speaker 3: My gift for the Bills would be an edge rusher.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: I have another question looking towards next year, do you

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Speaker 3: think Matt Mulano has any value for trading or is

487
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Speaker 3: he over the hill now as fire as injuries? And

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Speaker 3: my last is this a trivia thing? Cookie go? Chris

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Speaker 3: had a mate running back and his name was Earthquake Anured.

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Speaker 3: Anybody remember him?

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Speaker 1: I I do not remember that player. I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: you're referring to one of his CFL teammates. Was that.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember a Bill's player by that name.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: For those that don't know Cookie Gill, Chris played in

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Speaker 1: the CFL and then was discovered by NFL teams and

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Speaker 1: AFL teams and ultimately signed with the Bills, he must

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Speaker 1: be referring to a CFL players. I do not know

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Speaker 1: that name at all, and maybe I'm just missing it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think that's a Bills player. But I

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Speaker 1: could be wrong. If somebody knows, feel free to correct me.

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Speaker 1: That's obviously before both our times.

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Speaker 2: And Milano I think, yeah, Milano, I want I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: wait till the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think we need to see more, right, Like, we

506
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Speaker 1: haven't seen enough of him yet.

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Speaker 2: He is certainly he's certainly become an injury guy, which

508
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Speaker 2: we were talking about earlier in the in the in

509
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Speaker 2: the show about you know, guys who can change the

510
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Speaker 2: narrative about their future. But you know, he's a playmaker.

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Speaker 2: We have seen him do it. That's his that's his

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Speaker 2: mo o, and you hate to think about not having

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Speaker 2: a guy like that. Although the Bills have been without

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Speaker 2: him for quite some time, so I'm sure he's frustrated

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Speaker 2: by his inability to stay on the field, and I

516
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Speaker 2: know some fans are kind of getting a little bit

517
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Speaker 2: impatient with him to get back. But let's face it,

518
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Speaker 2: if he finishes this regular season strong and makes key

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Speaker 2: plays in the playoffs, he's not gonna go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get back to the phones and to Mike

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Speaker 1: in Eden.

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Speaker 8: What's up, Mike, Hi, guys, how are you happy holidays?

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Speaker 1: Yep?

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Speaker 2: To you two.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I know. I know Steve gets all kinds of

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Speaker 8: gifts because I drop him off at his house. Okay, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 8: your your wife, she ad buys all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, all right.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, right, why did you call?

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Speaker 8: I called because I believe the Kansas City Chiefs have

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Speaker 8: run out of luck.

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Speaker 1: Oh well that's a headline. How do you know, Mike?

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Speaker 2: What was the sign that showed you the Chiefs ran

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Speaker 2: out of luck?

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Speaker 8: I do not think that they will win a playoff game.

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Speaker 8: I think, I, honest to God, don't and I'm betting

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Speaker 8: on it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, well then it's going to happen. I feel

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Speaker 1: good about it.

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Speaker 7: Here's the reason.

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Speaker 8: Their tackles are terrible. Yeah, and once and once Buffalo

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Speaker 8: or whoever it's not going to be Buffalo, they're not

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Speaker 8: going to play them. And once it's a team with

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Speaker 8: a decent defensive line, they're going to start running stunts.

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Speaker 8: I'm with both, but with both the defensive tackles and

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Speaker 8: the defensive and twist yeah yeah, right, defensive tackle, with

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Speaker 8: the defensive tackle and the defensive end. And they're gonna

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Speaker 8: put pressure on Mahomes up the middle, which is where

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Speaker 8: Mahomes struggles.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's that's that's an interesting assessment there, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I wish you best of.

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Speaker 2: Like I played the Houston Texans this last week, and

553
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Speaker 2: the Texans are have a very reputable defensive front line

554
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 2: and they didn't have much luck. In fact, it was

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Speaker 2: one of the most convincing victories of the season for

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: You got Hunter and Williams on the edges.

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Speaker 2: So you know, maybe you're right. I do not know,

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Speaker 2: but you go with you go with your hunch. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I will tell you. Thanks for the deliveries.

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Speaker 1: They bumped an all Pro guard, Joe Tuning out to

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Speaker 1: left tackle last week, put Mike Caliendo in at left guard,

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Speaker 1: and then flipped Janye Morris to right tackle, and it

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Speaker 1: held up relatively well for them. And guard to guard

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Speaker 1: they're outstanding. I mean with Creed Humphrey Trey Smith at

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Speaker 1: right guard. Granted you're moving one of your guards out

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Speaker 1: to tackle with Tuney going out there. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: they do that again this week because Jowan Taylor is questionable,

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Speaker 1: he might not be available at a tackle position. And

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Speaker 1: DJ Humphries, who they picked up off the street, is

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Speaker 1: a former left tackle of the Arizona Cardinals is also out,

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Speaker 1: so it might be Joe Toney again at left tackle

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Speaker 1: in light of how well it went last week. Now

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Speaker 1: they're in Pittsburgh and they'll be tested again with the

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Speaker 1: likes of t J. Watt and Alex high Smith and

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Speaker 1: even the her Big Kid is a good third rusher

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Speaker 1: for them. So we'll see how they do. And Mike,

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't look good, who knows, your ticket may

579
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Speaker 1: come in on your on your bet that has been

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Speaker 1: placed that the Chiefs won't even win a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Gotta take a break here, more of your phone calls

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Speaker 1: when we come back here on one Bill's Live, Stay

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Speaker 1: with us, Bill Siggets, check face paint, check your favorite

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Speaker 1: apple with the epic crunch. Snapdragon apples are available now

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Speaker 1: at Wegmans and other local retailers. Fuel your day with

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Speaker 1: Snapdragon Apples, the official apple of your Buffalo Bills. Gonna

587
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: get back to the phones, but before we do, there

588
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Speaker 1: is breaking news on player availability for Chiefs Steelers tomorrow

589
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting, actually the injury

590
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: reports out, so we can just flat out tell you

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Speaker 1: George Pickens off the injury report for the Steelers for

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's game against the Chiefs. He is good to go.

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Speaker 1: He's missed the last few games with a hamstring injury,

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Speaker 1: so that is huge news for them, and I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to check the rest of their injury report here quickly.

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00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: Out for them are Ben Scaronik, who got hurt last

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Speaker 1: week against the And they're also going to be without

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Speaker 1: Joey Porter, so that's not good because they're already down

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Speaker 1: there two starting corners now with Porter out, so it's

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Speaker 1: largely backups like Corey Trice and others. So that's not great.

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Speaker 1: So may have to turn into a shootout. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to see if Russell Wilson and company with Pickins that helps.

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00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: Maybe you can keep up a little bit better. And

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Speaker 1: you're gonna need your pass rush to really eat tomorrow

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna upset the Chiefs at Hinsfield Er Sorry,

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00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: Akroscher Stadium, got to get it right. It changes all

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Speaker 1: the time, but we're gonna get back to the phones

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Speaker 1: at eight h three oh five point fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five point fifty. You're Santa

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Speaker 1: for the Bills. What gift would you give their roster

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Speaker 1: for Christmas, you let us know we go to We

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Speaker 1: should also remind you the football Relationship hotline has also open.

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Speaker 1: So any issues you have with your football viewing priorities,

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00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: especially tomorrow on Christmas, let us know, we're happy to help.

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Speaker 1: To Aaron in Oregon, we go, what's up, Aaron?

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, Hey, I have a little grab bag of

617
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Speaker 5: everything today. I do know about Bill in her earthquake

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Speaker 5: in here. He's from Orion State and he was actually

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Speaker 5: in the late sixties, so he's after Cookie's time. I

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Speaker 5: read a book, OJ's Rookie Year Memoir and it talked

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Speaker 5: about Billy in her being you know, a young back.

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Speaker 1: And well, thanks for letting us know, Aaron, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's that. And then Relationship Hotline. I actually

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Speaker 5: kind of put my foot in it. Yesterday. I had

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Speaker 5: a little surgery and I went under anesthesia and my

626
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Speaker 5: wife was there to support drive me home all that,

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Speaker 5: and the first thing I say out of my out

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Speaker 5: of my mouth, now I love you, not thank you. Well,

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Speaker 5: let's go Bill.

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Speaker 1: So what was the reaction.

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Speaker 5: She's very understanding and she's very low maintenance, so she

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Speaker 5: was she was fine, she laughed, but uh, you know

633
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Speaker 5: if she were a high maintenance or a touchy person,

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Speaker 5: I would be in some hot water. I think so.

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Speaker 5: But it was just funny. You know, you got no filter,

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Speaker 5: You're coming out of that. You're kind of loopy and

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Speaker 5: and that's I guess I've been.

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Speaker 1: Playing for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So, But lastly, I kind of wanted to talk

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Speaker 5: about and asked Steve a little bit about rivalries with teams.

641
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 5: I know, like Dean Dawkins has no love loss for

642
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Speaker 5: the Jets. I personally don't don't like Rogers, just his

643
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 5: his narcissism and all that. So I just wanted to

644
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Speaker 5: see from a player standpoint, Steve, was there a team

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Speaker 5: you like, Oh I just don't like this team? Or

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Speaker 5: was there a player you don't have to name names,

647
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Speaker 5: but was there a player you're just like a lot

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Speaker 5: of this guy, you know, Brian Cox type or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Was there Was there any team or player that you

650
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Speaker 5: had a vile for?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: No, I know there was no other players on the

653
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Speaker 2: the league that I didn't like or hated or thought

654
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: were bad guys that I can think of. I know

655
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Speaker 2: that every locker room's got guys in it that you know,

656
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Speaker 2: you you kind of have to help long or that

657
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 2: everybody around that guy has to do a little extra

658
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Speaker 2: work to make them to get along with them. But

659
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 2: there was nobody that you know, you've flat out disliked.

660
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Speaker 2: And I'll say this too. For my thought, if a

661
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 2: guy was getting along, if his teammates were okay with him,

662
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 2: that was okay with me, because you can't I've said

663
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: it a million times, you can't hide who you are

664
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Speaker 2: in an NFL locker room. They know what kind of

665
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 2: guy you are, and if they don't like you, you're unlikeable,

666
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 2: You're you're a lost cause. Because guys work pretty hard

667
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 2: to like each other in the locker room because it

668
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 2: makes the workplace better, makes practice better, makes your team better,

669
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: and that's what you're all about. So most guys can

670
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: be absorbed into a healthy locker room, and they can

671
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 2: that locker room will help the guy get along even

672
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: if he's a bad guy, but they know the kind

673
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 2: of guy he is, so there and so if I

674
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 2: always told myself, if that guy's okay with his teammates,

675
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 2: then he's okay with me, And that's that's where I

676
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 2: went from. And but for teams, now, that was a

677
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: different story. You know, we had a division rivalry with

678
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins during the era that I played, uh

679
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: that was filtered by over the seventies, and you know,

680
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: I got there in mid mid eighties, and that was

681
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 2: still a very heated rivalry. And then when they got

682
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Speaker 2: Dan Marino and they went to a super Bowl early

683
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: in his career, and the Bills, you know, was a

684
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 2: minute before they got Jim uh so when they got

685
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 2: Jim Kelly, then they got Bruce, we got Thurma, we

686
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 2: got good and then it was a rivalry because both

687
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 2: teams were really good, and both head coaches were really good,

688
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: and they were entrenched and nobody was moving, and so

689
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 2: that was a rivalry that was that was on for

690
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: you know, for years, you know, for a decade. And

691
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Speaker 2: because of that and because of the meaningful game games

692
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 2: that they played in. Yeah, that was a that was

693
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Speaker 2: a rivalry for I think for the guys in our

694
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Speaker 2: locker room.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And did anybody else have issues with Brian Hawkson and

697
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Speaker 5: his Well.

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Speaker 2: I'll say this, we had we had some pretty smart

699
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 2: guys on our team, most notably a guy like Glenn Parker.

700
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Speaker 2: And I remember this story Glenn, we were playing the

701
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Speaker 2: Dolphins and and Brian had that reputation not just for

702
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Speaker 2: Buffalo fans, but around the league. He was getting thrown

703
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 2: out of a game every month, every every other game,

704
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: he was getting tossed, and he was in He was

705
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: in a confrontation on a field every game, and sometimes

706
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 2: it didn't escalate, and bless his heart, Glenn uh picked

707
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: a fight with him and just just knew you didn't

708
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 2: have to do much to get him to retaliate. So

709
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: you just do a little thing that's like nobody even

710
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: hears or sees or whatever. You do something to get

711
00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: under skin. He retaliates, and you kind of keep poking

712
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: at it. And Brian got thrown out, and so you know,

713
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Speaker 2: let me tell you, I'll say it again, Brian Cox

714
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Speaker 2: might have been even with Marino and Don shul and

715
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Speaker 2: all those guys over there, Brian Cox might have been

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Speaker 2: the only guy that the guys in my locker room,

717
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: the Bill's locker room, would have said, yeah, we'll take him,

718
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 2: we'll take that, because he didn't care. That guy wanted

719
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: to win and he would do anything, and you'd like

720
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: to have guys like that on your team. So Bill's

721
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 2: players had a ton of respect for Brian Cox. But

722
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Speaker 2: we also knew we could use it against him, and

723
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 2: we did and he got tossed out of the game.

724
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Speaker 2: And it was a deliberate I am I from the scuttle,

725
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: but I got it was a deliberate fight that was

726
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 2: picked on Brian's to get him thrown out and it worked.

727
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: And that's you know, smart players get your beat. Guys

728
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: who aren't get your beat. You know, smart players help

729
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: you win, not smart guys get your beat. And that

730
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Speaker 2: we knew we could use that against Brian, his competitiveness

731
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Speaker 2: against him, and it worked for us. So yeah, there's

732
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Speaker 2: a little bit of that going on.

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Speaker 1: Sure, let's go to Bobby in Buffalo next. What's up, Bobby?

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Speaker 9: Hi, guys, how are you good? Good?

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Speaker 4: Good?

736
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 9: And Merry Christmas and happy Holidays to.

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Speaker 1: You as well.

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Speaker 9: All right, thank you. And now and for the question,

739
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 9: I'll see what gift? What gift would you give to

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Speaker 9: the Bills roster of I was Santa Claus, Well, I'm

741
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Speaker 9: in the given mood. I would give them two gifts.

742
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 9: Number one, the first gift I would give them is

743
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 9: a spot in the AFC Championship Game to be played

744
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 9: here in the city of Buffalo. That's number one. And

745
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 9: number two a first class ticket to the Super Bowl. Okay,

746
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 9: those are my two gifts that I would give the

747
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 9: Bills And actually, actually, guys, answer me this question. When

748
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 9: was the last time time that the AFC Championship Game

749
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 9: was played here in the city of Buffalo?

750
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Speaker 2: January ninety four, right, Yes, it's January ninety four, the Chiefs,

751
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and Chiefs in Montana.

752
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the last time. It's unlikely to happen

753
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: this year because the Chiefs have to just win one

754
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: more game and they're the number one seed, and then

755
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs go through Kansas City.

756
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they would have to lose their one

757
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 2: divisional round game to whoever it was that showed up, right.

758
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: If they happen to lose in the divisional round, as

759
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: Steve said, yeah, then the two seed would host. The

760
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Speaker 1: two seeds hosts and provided they're still alive and so

761
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Speaker 1: on and so on. So yeah, it'd be a nice gift,

762
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: and I think they'd be all too happy to take it.

763
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: But right now the one seed looks somewhat unlikely.

764
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 2: But if you can, if you can guarantee an AFC

765
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: Championship game at home, I'd just rather have the Super

766
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 2: Bowl championship. Yeah, you gotta give them a gift.

767
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. H to Judy in Buffalo. What's up, Judy?

768
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 10: We all this game coming up? Is I'm very concerned

769
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 10: about it. The Jets are a much more talented team

770
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 10: than the Patriots. And here we have a team, the Bills,

771
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 10: who are supposedly playing it close to the best, not

772
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 10: to show anybody what they have. And you know, we

773
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 10: were down fourteen to nothing last week and how we

774
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 10: won that game is beyond me. But our defense is

775
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 10: so poorous if somebody on the Bills had better wake

776
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 10: up to say, hey, we're going to show them what

777
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 10: we have and they better be afraid of us, because

778
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 10: at this point, I don't think the Bills have are

779
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 10: scaring anybody in the run to the Super Bowl.

780
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: All Right, I'll say, all right, Judy, You're right. They

781
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 2: did show up asleep on Sunday night Sunday afternoon, no

782
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 2: question about it. But I'll say this, the Bills have

783
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 2: got a big engine under their hood, and when they revt,

784
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: nobody beats them. And if you think any team out

785
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 2: there wants a piece of the Bills in the playoff,

786
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 2: they're hoping they can dodge them that goes for the Steelers,

787
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 2: the Ravens who beat them by twenty five in the

788
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: early in the season. Nobody wants a piece of this team.

789
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 2: You can say what you want about, yet that's what

790
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 2: you're talking about. That these teams that are no good,

791
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: like the Cincinnati Bengals getting in say wow, nobody wants

792
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: to play this. Yeah, bring those guys on. We're the

793
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 2: team that has scored thirty points eight to last nine

794
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: games and forty points in two of them. We're the

795
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 2: team that's on a hot on a heater for over

796
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 2: the last half of this season. We're the team that's

797
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 2: gone twenty three and three over in January and December

798
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: in the regular season throughout the last four or five years.

799
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: This is listen. You can say what you want. Everybody's

800
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: trying to conjure up a scenario where somebody's gonna get

801
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: the Bills. Yeah, the Bills may lay down and rest

802
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 2: their guys in these last two weeks and drop one,

803
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 2: drop two, drop either one of them. Who knows. Let

804
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: me just tell you something. When the playoffs kick off,

805
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 2: You're gonna see the kind of team that's that played

806
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: against the Detroit Lions in Detroit and against the Chiefs

807
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: here in Buffalo. That's what's gonna happen. And I said,

808
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 2: I get it. The Bills don't have a defense like

809
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. They don't have a defense like the

810
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: night of the twenty twelve Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: You know.

812
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 2: But I'll say this, if you want to get into

813
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 2: a track meet, and if you have to score points

814
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 2: to win a game, you better score more than Josh

815
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 2: and these guys because they're gonna do it. They're gonna

816
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: hang thirty on you on a playoff team. They'll hang

817
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 2: thirty on any playoff team in the tournament right now.

818
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 2: So you better be ready to do that because that's

819
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 2: what that's kind of game's gonna be with Josh and

820
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 2: this offense and when they do unfurl and rev the

821
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 2: engine under their hood. So yeah, you can make all that.

822
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 2: You can come up with all kinds of scenarios and

823
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: problems that the Bills have where they're playing it too

824
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 2: close to the vest and the game gets away from

825
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: him and then they don't have enough time to beat

826
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: the Jets in a Week seventeen matchup, or they come

827
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 2: out and Josh plays for two series in week eighteen

828
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: and the Patriots find a way to beat them by

829
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 2: a field goal. Okay, fine, let me tell you something

830
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 2: when it's all said and done on wild Card weekend. Nobody,

831
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: nobody wants to come to Buffalo. Nobody. That's the kind

832
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 2: of team the Bills have.

833
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: With that, we will take a break. When we come

834
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: back more of your phone calls. Got the football relationship

835
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: hotline open and also asking if your Santa for the

836
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: Bills today, what gift would you give to their roster

837
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: for Christmas? Phone lines open. We'll see more of your

838
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: phone calls next here on One Bill's Live. Stay with

839
00:44:47,880 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: us all right back here on One Bill's Live. And

840
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: thanks to one of our earlier callers, Aaron and Oregon

841
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: for pointing out Bill Enyert. We'll get to that in

842
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: a second. In the meantime, we need to tell you

843
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 1: about Buffalo's new stadium. Uh here's the situation. I'm gonna.

844
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to it. I promise I wasn't ready

845
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: h going, No, I got it. Bill's Maafia. There's no

846
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: better time than right now, right here, to secure your

847
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: opportunity to buy tickets in the new high Mark Stadium.

848
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 1: Join the new Stadium Priority List. By visiting Bill's Stadium

849
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: Experience dot Com and placing a seat deposit, Priority List

850
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: members will be invited to pick their new high Mark

851
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: Stadium seats immediately after current Bill season ticket members. We

852
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: look forward to bringing you with us on the journey

853
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: to the new high Mark Stadium. Once again. That's Bill's

854
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 1: Stadium Experience dot Com. Seeing progress over there every day.

855
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: They're hard at work. Bill Enyert, former second round pick

856
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: of the Bills in nineteen sixty nine draft, only played

857
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: nine games for them six foot four to two hundred and

858
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: thirty five pounds running backslash linebacker, and then went to

859
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: Oakland played a game in his career was over, So

860
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: forgive us for not remembering earthquake. Enyert back to the phones, though,

861
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: and to Matt on a cell. What do you got

862
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: for his matt, Hey, guys in you too?

863
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 2: You too?

864
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 6: A couple a couple things. One the thing I'd give

865
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 6: for Christmas for the Bills is a defense that compliments

866
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 6: Josh Allen because if you look at Kansas City, Mahomes

867
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 6: gets a lot of credit, and rightfully so, he's a

868
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 6: great player. But I would I would put money that

869
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 6: they will not would not have three Super Bowls without

870
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 6: Chris Jones on the other side, because if you watch

871
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 6: the playoff games of Kansas City, late in games in

872
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 6: the fourth quarter, he takes over. Every time you need

873
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 6: a play, he makes a play on defense. You know,

874
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 6: even going back to the game last year against US,

875
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 6: he pushes Dawkins and Alan Shoulder and causes that pass

876
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 6: to a wide opener in the end zone to fall short.

877
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 6: And then in the Super Bowl he goes and knots

878
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 6: down a party pass that would have gave them the

879
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 6: lead late in the game. And so like every single

880
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 6: fourth down the fourth quarter, late in the drive, late

881
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 6: in the game, you know, defensive plays and needs to

882
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 6: be made, he makes it. And he either like snuffs

883
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 6: out the drive or gives the ball back to the

884
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 6: Chiefs and lets them go and win the game. And

885
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 6: so like, even going back to the teams that you

886
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 6: were on steven super Bowl runs, look at the defense

887
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 6: and what they did in the AFC Championship games. The

888
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 6: twenty seven points that the Chiefs scored against US last

889
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 6: year were more than the four games in the AFC

890
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 6: Championship that the Bills defense allowed combined. You had fifty

891
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 6: one to three against the Raiders. He had ten to

892
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 6: seven against the Broncos, twenty nine to three against the Dolphins,

893
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 6: then thirty to thirteen against the Chiefs, And so our

894
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 6: defense just implodes in the playoffs in these games. And

895
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 6: so until we get that mix and have someone step

896
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 6: up on defense not going anywhere. I don't care how

897
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 6: good Allen is, because the defense can't stop anyone.

898
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's not an unpopular opinion among the fan base.

899
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, people are worried about the defense's ability to make plays.

900
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: You're right, And that's why I think one of the things.

901
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's so hot to get Matt Malone back

902
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 2: on the field. They love they love him on there

903
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: because he turns up at moments when you need it,

904
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: when you need to play. The regular season win in

905
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: Kansas City when he forced when he forced Mahomes to

906
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 2: throw it and let Taron Johnson in herseuse upon Miller

907
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 2: but not sorry, Vaughan. Yeah, playmakers like that. And then

908
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: you know this last game when Terrell Bernard picked off

909
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 2: that last ditch effort to get the ball to Kelsey

910
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 2: and he picks it off and ice is the game there.

911
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 2: When Kelsey did the golf clap. You know you need playmakers,

912
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 2: and I agree with you. It's a different atmosphere than

913
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 2: it was back in the day when I played, and

914
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 2: you know, Bruce Smith was making plays like that and everything.

915
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 2: But I think the atmosphere in the league now is

916
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: what you described. You need guys that in moments, show

917
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,919
Speaker 2: up in a moment, you show up on a third

918
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 2: down boom, and now they're off the field. Show up

919
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 2: in at the end of a game when and force

920
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: them into a bad throw or a mistake. That ice

921
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 2: is the game for you. That's the kind of defense

922
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 2: that is played around the National Football League these days,

923
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 2: and it's about getting after the passer and picking passes

924
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 2: off and forcing fumblest will This Bill's defense is good at.

925
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: That, Matt. I will say that I share some of

926
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: your concerns in terms of yards allowed, but you can't

927
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: knock them for not making big plays. They're second in

928
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: the league or third in the league in total takeaways

929
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: with twenty eight. Only Minnesota and Pittsburgh have more, and

930
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: they're tops in the league and turnover margin. So they

931
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: make plays, they just don't do it down to down

932
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: to down to down. They'll make three takeaways on three

933
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: consecutive series like we saw last week, you know, with

934
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: a fumble recovery and interception and a fumble recovery in

935
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: the end zone for a touchdown. That's how they have

936
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: made big play. They don't make it by stopping the run.

937
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: They make it by taking the ball away. Because for

938
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: a stretch here this season, the Bills led the league

939
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: in points scored off takeaways. So I would argue they

940
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: have helped Josh Allen this season by giving him the

941
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: ball back. Yeah, I'll say this, it's a dangerous way

942
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: to live because when the takeaways dry up, what do

943
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: you have? So that's why I share your concern, Matt.

944
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: But you can't say they haven't made plays. They have.

945
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 2: I'll say this too that I don't know if it's

946
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 2: a deliberate recipe, but that's kind of the recipe for

947
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 2: the Bills this year. And it's I guess it probably

948
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 2: is deliberate because Sean McDermott trumpet's this complimentary football thing

949
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 2: and everybody thinks, well, complimentary football, it's you know, you run,

950
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 2: stop the run, you you you know, do all this stuff.

951
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 2: What it looks like is you got an offense with

952
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 2: Josh Allen who can really go. You will let them

953
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 2: do that. Your defense, conversely, has to play against an

954
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 2: offense is trying to keep up, so they're gonna get

955
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 2: they're gonna be playing against. It's a desperate offense. Teams

956
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 2: can't run the ball in the second half, don't want

957
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 2: to because they got to get back in it because

958
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 2: the Bills are scoring points. They got to stay in it.

959
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: And the Bills, on the other hand, start to shorten

960
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 2: the game and squeeze the life out of That's the recipe.

961
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 2: That's been the recipe.

962
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: But if they get off to a slow start, that's

963
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: a problem.

964
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: If they get off to a slow start, it is

965
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 2: a problem. Although even and then last week was a

966
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: perfect example of complimentary. They they get a touchdown and

967
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,959
Speaker 2: a defensive touchdown that gives them a ten point lead

968
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: with five minutes to go or three minutes to go,

969
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 2: and then it takes them three of the five minutes

970
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: left to score the touchdown. Now here's two minutes and

971
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 2: they got to kick your ball to you and the

972
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: game's over. That's kind of the recipe for the Bills,

973
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 2: and they lean there's no question they lean on that

974
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 2: offense to put that the other team's offense in a

975
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 2: desperate situation to keep up. And that's gonna show in

976
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 2: your defensive stats and that kind of thing. When you

977
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 2: got a team that's got to throw the throw the

978
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: ball a lot, trying to score points, trying to you know,

979
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 2: do all that. The Patriots will show you the recipe

980
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: that in that first half. They'll show you the recipe.

981
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,959
Speaker 2: Teams are going to use against the Bills a ton

982
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 2: of put time of possession, stay on the field. They

983
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 2: were four of four on third down in the first quarter,

984
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 2: four of four. That's why the Bills had one possession.

985
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 2: That's how teams are going to try and beat the Bills.

986
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that Matt worries about, and I

987
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: think it's well founded.

988
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the recipe.

989
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: Third down defense has been a problem all season, all season.

990
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: That's gonna be the recipe in the playoffs. When you

991
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 2: get a good team who has the ability to execute

992
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 2: a game plan because they do have talent, they do

993
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: have good players. That's what you're gonna see in this

994
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 2: playoff run. They're gonna see teams try and keep Josh

995
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 2: in a baseball cap, eating sunflower seeds on the sideline, watching.

996
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: Break time for us here. When we come back, we're

997
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: going to be joined by ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlowski

998
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: for his weekly visit every Tuesday. We'll catch up with

999
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: him on Bills Patriots, and the look ahead to how

1000
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: the Bills should play these last two regular season games,

1001
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: especially if they're play off seating is locked up Daniel

1002
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: Lobsky next year on One Bill's Live. Stay with us.

1003
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,920
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1004
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,640
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1006
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,680
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1007
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1008
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1009
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: of all, Dan, thanks for having a sign here on

1010
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Second, yeah, thank you. Second of all, Bills

1011
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: fans are trying to make heads or tails of last

1012
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: week's performance where it's clear that a team that you know,

1013
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: clinched the division with five games left to play and

1014
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: is coming off an emotional win over you know, the

1015
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: NFC's best team at least right now in the Lions,

1016
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: probably had a little bit of a letdown. Hard to

1017
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: get up for a three and eleven team, even though

1018
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: it is a division opponent. Even Josh Allen said they

1019
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: were not ready to play in the first half. Coach

1020
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: McDermott termed it sloppy and it was at times. What

1021
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 1: is the challenge do you think for the Bills going

1022
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: forward here with two games to play? Yes, there is

1023
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: some playoff seating that could be at play this Sunday,

1024
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: depending on what it happens Wednesday, Christmas Day. Coach mcdermm maye,

1025
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: no bones about it. Dan, it's a hard needle for

1026
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: coaches to thread here.

1027
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's challenging.

1028
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 12: I can't imagine on a daily, day to day to

1029
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 12: day basis because if you go back in time, and

1030
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 12: I do agree that that's kind of what happened in

1031
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 12: the game. You know, when I watched that game and

1032
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 12: I sent my notes to you know, television people, I

1033
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 12: was like, I don't have much to say. You know,

1034
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 12: it was they figured out a way and Josh and

1035
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 12: played good bad five starters.

1036
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 11: Out all that.

1037
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 12: So, you know, you go all the way back to

1038
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 12: essentially after the draft, and you kind of paint the

1039
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 12: vision for your organization and your football team, and you

1040
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 12: lay out your goals, and I would say, in reality,

1041
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 12: you know, the goal that they needed.

1042
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,760
Speaker 11: To conquer first is done.

1043
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 12: There's not much that is left to get done that

1044
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 12: is capable of being accomplished right now, that that is

1045
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 12: at a later date, and they've earned that right, They've

1046
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 12: earned the opportunity to kind of have these last couple

1047
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 12: of weeks not be I don't want to say not necessary,

1048
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 12: but not be as valuable as maybe they have been

1049
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 12: in the year's past. And so you ask as a coach,

1050
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 12: you ask and push and in many ways demand of

1051
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 12: your guys what's necessary to get to that result. And

1052
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 12: it's hard to then constantly demand and ask that of

1053
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 12: them when the results been accomplished in many ways. And

1054
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 12: so I agree that, you know, I would imagine that

1055
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 12: result that happened in Kansas City on Saturday dictated or

1056
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 12: impacted how they played mindset wise on Sunday. I would

1057
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 12: imagine what happens on Wednesday with both Houston and Pittsburgh

1058
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 12: and all three Kansas City. We'll have a little bit

1059
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 12: of a bearing on how they played this weekend, you know,

1060
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 12: And if there's not a ton to be playing for

1061
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 12: I think it's going to be a challenge against a

1062
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 12: bad football team for sure.

1063
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: Before we to that and how they handle the last

1064
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: two games. Josha also said after the game they're in

1065
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: a weird spot and indicated that they were leaving some

1066
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 1: stuff in the bag, so to speak, offensively in terms

1067
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: of play calling and look what counts as what's coming

1068
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: in the postseason. I get all that. How does a

1069
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: coordinator figure that out? Because you're trying to still keep

1070
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: your offense sharp, but you want to leave your best

1071
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: stuff under wraps. It's kind of like a wacky secondary

1072
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: preseason kind of approach here.

1073
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think that there's a very simple and easy

1074
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 12: way to stay sharp. I mean, obviously, one day and

1075
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 12: every day practice, you're staying sharp on the things that

1076
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 12: you can control, too. I also think that you can

1077
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 12: be sharp with some of the stuff that you're doing

1078
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 12: in a game that maybe isn't the second or third

1079
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 12: or fourth thing you have off of a certain formation

1080
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 12: or a certain personnel grouping or certain motions. So you

1081
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 12: can stay sharp in those elements while leaving the curveball

1082
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 12: or the tweak left to be desired for the playoffs.

1083
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 12: So I honestly Ronnie, I would say, like, probably the

1084
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 12: biggest challenge for Joe, if this is just me being

1085
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 12: completely transparent, here is you got a quarterback that I

1086
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 12: would say is the front runner for the MVP. I've said,

1087
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 12: like for me, it's over. Is it one hundred percent done? No,

1088
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 12: people are taking that to the extreme. But you know,

1089
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 12: so you've got two games that maybe don't matter a ton,

1090
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 12: but you do want to put your best foot forward

1091
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 12: for that guy that I'm sure has the goal of

1092
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 12: accomplishing that, And so how does he manage that in

1093
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 12: regards to like making sure that Josh continues to play

1094
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 12: at a high level and perform at a high level

1095
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 12: while also not exposing too much health and or too

1096
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 12: much scheme. I think that's probably the big challenge.

1097
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and taking that a step further, there are times

1098
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: where a coordinator will put stuff out there on purpose

1099
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: to force future opponents to have to study a little

1100
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: bit more or dig a little bit deeper. And I

1101
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: think about the play where Josh slides over cooks under

1102
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: behind center in the shotgun and runs a Reid option

1103
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: as the primary ball handler. Maybe just give us an

1104
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: example of that's on tape now and now Joe Brady

1105
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: probably has some wrinkle that he wants to run off

1106
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: of that when he gets to the postseason. Right, Oh totally.

1107
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 12: And so just you know, for preparation, now the defense

1108
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 12: has to present that play in that situation out of

1109
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 12: that personnel grouping to their defensive players and say, okay, guys,

1110
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 12: if this happens, this is going to be the check

1111
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 12: or this is going to be the way that we

1112
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 12: go about preparing it. But the reality is, then Joe

1113
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 12: has got I guarantee a second or third thing off

1114
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 12: of that. So you know, now what you can do

1115
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 12: is you he might show that same look and then

1116
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 12: see how a defense prepares for it, and so what's

1117
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 12: the wrinkle off of it that creates a benefit. So

1118
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 12: you're forcing the defense to prepare for something different, You're

1119
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 12: forcing the defense to.

1120
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 11: Show their hand.

1121
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 12: I mean again, these coordinators are unique. There might be

1122
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 12: another team that runs that something similar that they head

1123
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 12: might have seen on tape versus an opponent that they

1124
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 12: might play in the playoffs, and so you're just trying

1125
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 12: to see how that opponent played it against this certain team.

1126
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 12: And now you know, okay, I want to show it

1127
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 12: on tape because then I know that they're going to

1128
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 12: adjust this way and we can take advantage of it.

1129
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 12: And so it is a it's a game of preparation,

1130
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 12: it's a game of answers. I wouldn't I would value

1131
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 12: all the things that they could show.

1132
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 11: Absolutely.

1133
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, looking at where the Bills sit, obviously a

1134
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: lot can be determined for them tomorrow on Christmas Day

1135
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: with a team in front of them and the Chiefs

1136
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: and one of the teams behind them in the Ravens.

1137
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: So we know if the Chiefs win, the one seeds

1138
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: out of reach, and if the Ravens lose, the Bills

1139
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: are locked into the two seed with two games to play.

1140
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: Is two games are two games maybe too many to

1141
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: sit your primary starters. I mean, you're not going to

1142
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: get to buy because you won't get the one in

1143
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: this scenario I've laid out for you. But two weeks

1144
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: of no football for some of your guys. Do you

1145
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: worry about the sharpness factor going into wild Card weekend?

1146
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 12: I think so. I think you worry about a lot.

1147
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 12: I think you worry about how sharp we can be.

1148
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 12: I think you worry about how healthy we can be.

1149
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 12: I don't necessarily know the perfect answer for that. You know,

1150
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 12: it's probably in relation to the sharp element. Both situations

1151
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 12: are a case by case. More than likely sharp is

1152
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 12: the individual player who coaches know who needs to stay

1153
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 12: in the fight to stay sharp.

1154
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 11: A von Miller, Probably not.

1155
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 12: That guy, you know. You know, maybe a Keyon Coleman,

1156
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 12: probably that guy. And so you're trying to evalue which

1157
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 12: individual player, depending on how they're practicing, depending on how

1158
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 12: you know they playing games, who needs those live reps

1159
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 12: to stay sharp? And then who needs or who can

1160
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 12: really benefit from a breather, who can benefit from maybe

1161
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 12: not the wear and tear on their body, and so

1162
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 12: maybe lighten up a little bit in practice and you know,

1163
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 12: they play a little bit longer in the game. Maybe

1164
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 12: you push a little bit more in practice and they

1165
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 12: play a little bit less in the game. And so

1166
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 12: I think that will probably be one of the biggest

1167
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 12: conversations in Buffalo if those two situations happen tomorrow, is

1168
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 12: how do they really manage the following fourteen days or

1169
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 12: so to really just really.

1170
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 11: Ramp up and play their very best football for a month?

1171
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the Bills were victimized having to push last year.

1172
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: At this time they were a six and six football

1173
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: team after twelve weeks literally had to win the last

1174
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: five to walk down Miami. They lose Taylor Rap and

1175
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: Rasul Douglass. In week eighteen, they lose to rel Bernard

1176
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: and Christian Benford. In the wildcard game against Pittsburgh, they

1177
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: got nobody left to play defense against the Chiefs. They

1178
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:20,919
Speaker 1: don't want to go down that road.

1179
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 11: I really believe if you've got I don't mean to

1180
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 11: cut you off. I'm sorry.

1181
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 12: I really believe if you have got good daily habits

1182
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 12: and there is culture, if you really practice and prepare

1183
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 12: in a certain way. These guys have been playing football

1184
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 12: for a long time and been since August. I mean

1185
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say that more often than not, your sharp

1186
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 12: and as long as you practice the right way with

1187
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 12: the right intensity for periods and those habits daily continue

1188
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 12: to be at the forefront. I don't worry about as

1189
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 12: sharp as much as how healthy are you? That's where

1190
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 12: I think you'll lean a little bit more.

1191
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: Right. I know this game isn't a sexy one, but

1192
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:03,479
Speaker 1: it is a division game. And in light of how

1193
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: tight last week's game was, Jets come in here on Sunday,

1194
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: and if there is anything to highlight about this one.

1195
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: These two teams don't like each other very much. And

1196
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: I know it starts with Dion Dawkins and Michael Clemens

1197
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: and then filters down from there. But this is a

1198
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: game that you know could get chippy, and knowing the

1199
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: Bills want to be healthy, you know, going into the postseason,

1200
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, if a couple of guys in

1201
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: particular sit even if the two seed is still out there,

1202
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: because if the Ravens win, the Bills would have to

1203
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: win on Sunday to nail down the two seed. But

1204
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: does Adon Dawkins play knowing he's at the forefront of

1205
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: that angst between the two teams.

1206
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean that's one.

1207
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 12: What's his health too, what's the conversations like with him

1208
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 12: and Sean McDermott. You know, if Shawn's got coach mcdermot's

1209
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 12: got some reservations over it, it's probably a conversation on

1210
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 12: you also have to be aware of. And I know

1211
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 12: it probably doesn't affect the playoffs, but you know, when

1212
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 12: you're one of those teams and you don't like each other,

1213
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 12: you're trying to constantly push that guy over the plank

1214
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 12: because then he can get himself in trouble, then he

1215
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 12: can get himself suspended and all of a sudden you

1216
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 12: get the last laugh in a way, especially if you

1217
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 12: don't like each other team wise, or if you don't

1218
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 12: like each.

1219
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 11: Other personally, you know, personally.

1220
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 12: So it's probably a conversation with coach McDermott of you know,

1221
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 12: are you completely aware of all this stuff and are

1222
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 12: you capable of constantly walking away but also playing that

1223
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 12: edge of style of ball that you want? So, you know,

1224
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 12: I really believe depending on the results of Wednesday will

1225
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 12: dictate kind of how they go about handling themselves, because

1226
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 12: they know what that this this season is capable of,

1227
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,919
Speaker 12: and as long as they're fully capable or fully at

1228
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 12: full strength, that's the most paramount thing.

1229
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm watching the game back last week between

1230
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: Jets and Rams, and I'm like, oh, are there Jets

1231
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: a little frisky here at the beginning? And then sure,

1232
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: and then it didn't. It kind of just fell off

1233
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: and disappeared, as we've seen so many games with the

1234
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: Jets unfold. So I don't know what to make of that.

1235
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: I expect them to be more inspired to play the

1236
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 1: Bills than a Rams team that they rarely see especially

1237
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: with the history there. Yeah, especially with the history there.

1238
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: So the spoiler role, you know, I think the Jets

1239
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: want to play that this week. So what are you

1240
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: anticipating from a Jets team that has really had trouble

1241
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: running the ball? Heck, their kicking game is a mess

1242
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: right now. They just signed another kicker, Greg Joseph to

1243
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: their practice squad. We know all the problems that the

1244
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: Jets have, but there's still enough talent there I would

1245
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 1: think to summon up a spoiler role effort.

1246
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 11: Well, Aaron's playing well too, you know, Aaron Rodgers.

1247
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 12: Forget what you might have heard of Week four, Week five,

1248
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,040
Speaker 12: if you just watched really even that stretch. But the

1249
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 12: last gosh, five, six, seven weeks, he's playing good football.

1250
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 12: And his connection with Devonte Adams is absolutely It's not

1251
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 12: what it was four years ago, but it still is

1252
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 12: a very viable connection. And so that's a huge part

1253
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 12: of kind of what's going on for that football team

1254
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 12: is that connection.

1255
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 11: He is playing well, he's healthy, and he's moving really

1256
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 11: well as well.

1257
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 12: So don't allow him to kind of go and create

1258
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 12: because that is still a part of his game because

1259
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 12: he feels good. Really, like, if you're Buffalo. This is

1260
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,479
Speaker 12: a football team that constantly hurts himself. In the Jets,

1261
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 12: the penalties there are a massive problem. So the crowd

1262
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 12: will be a huge advantage. Forcing this team to play

1263
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 12: very clean on the road is going to be a

1264
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 12: huge deal. And then defensively, there's moments when they play

1265
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 12: good and then there's moments when you.

1266
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 11: Go, you guys look like a lost football team.

1267
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 12: And so I would say the two things that really

1268
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 12: show up on tape that Buffalo, I've talked about their

1269
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 12: run games, some of their split flow runs. That's what

1270
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 12: the Rams had a ton of success on was you know,

1271
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 12: pushing one way and having someone come across the line

1272
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 12: of scrims the other way. That was really successful. And

1273
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 12: then you know, you know, Matthew made some plus plays.

1274
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 12: I would say is holding onto the football and kind

1275
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 12: of creating the rush. And the coverage for the Jets

1276
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 12: isn't really attached right now, and so I think there

1277
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 12: will be some opportunity for Josh to create with his legs,

1278
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 12: but in the past game rather than as a runner.

1279
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: And then just finally to take a look at the

1280
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: AFC conference, you know, and trying to gauge you know,

1281
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: who's ascending into the end of the regular season and

1282
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: into the postseason. It looks like the Chiefs are getting

1283
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: their ducks in a row. Hollywood Brown is back, Pacheck

1284
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: Go's back in the lineup as we know the last

1285
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: few weeks. And I know Chris Jones is an injured

1286
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: player right now. That's gonna bear some watching with the

1287
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 1: injury he's got, especially on a short week here. But

1288
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs seemed to be lining up the Ducks and

1289
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: you know, starting to play better football overall, not that

1290
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: they've played or football, it's still winning football. And then

1291
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 1: Baltimore looks like they've kind of put it into a

1292
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Speaker 1: different gear. And you know, moving uh the kid whose

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Speaker 1: name escapes me to safety has really fortified their defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know they bench Marcus Williams and you know they

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Speaker 1: put the Yeah, they put their former first round pick

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Speaker 1: back there at full time safety and it's changed everything

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Speaker 1: for them defensively because that was their achilles heel, you know,

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Speaker 1: giving up fourth quarter leads and they've they've nipped that

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Speaker 1: in the bud. So maybe just kind of assess the

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Speaker 1: top of the pyramid in terms of the AFC playoff

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Speaker 1: picture here, Chiefs Ravens Bills.

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Speaker 12: You're totally right about Kansas City. I think the really

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01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 12: interesting about Kansas City. Thing about Kansas City is the

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01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 12: offensive line play was the best that has been all season.

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01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,679
Speaker 12: This past week. They moved Joe Tony to left tackle,

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01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 12: who's there, All Pro guard Caliendo played guard. Wandy Morris,

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Speaker 12: who was their left tackle who was playing awful, went

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Speaker 12: the right tackle.

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Speaker 11: He played well. So you're sitting there and best thing

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Speaker 11: ran it best.

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Speaker 12: They protected Patrick, so they might have stumbled onto something

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01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 12: as a band aid to what was a massive issue.

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Speaker 11: So that's something I'm very much so paying attention to.

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Speaker 12: The second thing is, you know, every really since Jalen Watson,

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Speaker 12: one of their corners, got hurt, that's when the defense

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01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 12: really started to drop off. And Josh Williams is back

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01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 12: playing corner now that allows McDuffie to play inside. He's

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Speaker 12: a lot like tearing. Both of them are high end

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01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 12: at basically everything. I think that's something to watch as well.

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Speaker 12: So both units seem to be figuring some of the

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Speaker 12: stuff out and playing a little bit more to what

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Speaker 12: we thought they were over the past couple of years.

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Speaker 12: With Baltimore one a little bit like knas City. I

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Speaker 12: actually say Nate wiggins emergence at corner is really helped

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Speaker 12: them defensively because it allows Marlon Humphrey to play the

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Speaker 12: nickel position and then Kyle Hamilton's back at playing safety,

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Speaker 12: soh yep, So that's really allowed that defense to play

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01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 12: a little bit more consistent.

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Speaker 11: They still don't have any elite pass rush, but.

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Speaker 12: That's minimized some of the really big plays down the

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01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:03,520
Speaker 12: field that they were getting up wiggins emergence, so defensively

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Speaker 12: a lot more comfortable with what they've showed over the

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Speaker 12: past two weeks. Offensively, for me, it's who shows up.

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Speaker 12: What Ravens offense shows up. Sometimes they get in their

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Speaker 12: own way with Lamar's play or scheme whatnot. It is

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Speaker 12: an unbelievably difficult offense to stop because it's so versatile.

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Speaker 12: So they seem to be very much so rounding in

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Speaker 12: de form as well. And then Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's tough to

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01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 12: gauge right now, just because Pickens hasn't played in three weeks.

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Speaker 12: They're nothing without Pickens. Offensively, they can't do anything that's

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01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 12: gonna scare you. But he changes a lot. He's as

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Speaker 12: valuable to them as TJ.

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Speaker 4: Watt.

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Speaker 12: Defensively, they've gotten hurt a little bit the past two weeks,

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01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 12: They've gotten attacked, and maybe it's I would tell you.

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Speaker 12: I remember Cleveland played them about a month ago, and

1347
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 12: I went on and said, dude, Cleveland spread them out

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01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 12: on offense defense and had a lot of success if

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01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 12: I were teams that spread them out, and that's kind

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01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 12: of what Philly did and that's kind of what Baltimore.

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 11: Did that last week.

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01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 12: And so so I think that their defense has a

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01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 12: little bit more question marks than their offense has. Unknown

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 12: so still really good football teams, but I think Baltimore

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01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:10,639
Speaker 12: Kensady are rounding into form.

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Speaker 1: And then, finally, if there's something you feel the Bills

1357
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: need to take into the workshop and get fixed up

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01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: before the postseason. Do you think it's get healthy on

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01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: defense where they were missing four of their back seven

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01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: starters this past week due to injury. Is it still

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: defending the run, which has been at a problem and

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01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: a persistent one along with getting off the field on

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01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: third down. I know you don't probably spend a lot

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01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: of time watching special teams, but there have been some

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01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: hiccups there for them this season. There are fans that

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01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: are worried that that could rear its ugly head in

1367
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: a tight playoff game. So maybe just lay out what

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Speaker 1: you think the Bills need to work shop between now

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Speaker 1: and the start of the playoffs.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Offensively, not much.

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Speaker 12: I really believe that offensively they're comfortable as long as

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01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 12: Josh is playing the way he's played all season long.

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Speaker 12: I would tell you the number one thing is how

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01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 12: are they're going to handle each team individually? So how

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 12: are they going to handle Kansas City's really gotten into

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01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:14,719
Speaker 12: their four by one world, but they compartmentalize it early downs,

1377
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:18,400
Speaker 12: it's their RPO game, late downs or pass downs, it's

1378
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 12: their kind of man beating concepts. So how do they

1379
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 12: want to handle those? How are they going to handle

1380
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 12: those in the early downs? In the four by ones

1381
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 12: when you know what you're getting, are you going to

1382
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,720
Speaker 12: play man or are you going to play zone? How

1383
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 12: do you want to kick your kind of coverage and rotation?

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01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 12: So I think that's very specific to Kansas City. And

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01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 12: then I would say Baltimore, how are they going to

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01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 12: handle Baltimore's big guys? You know, because you know when

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01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 12: it comes to Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely and Riccard, how

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01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 12: are they going to handle those guys when ones on

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Speaker 12: the field, when two's on the field, when all three

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01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 12: are on the field, and so is it going to

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Speaker 12: be a personnel adjustment is it going to be a

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Speaker 12: front adjustment? I think those are probably the two big

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Speaker 12: questions that you've got to ask when it comes to

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01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:05,560
Speaker 12: knocking off or really beating those two teams and handling specifically,

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01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 12: how they.

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Speaker 11: Want to play ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve was a big proponent of playing a fifty

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01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: front against Baltimore and just go completely unconventional against them

1399
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: and dare them to throw the ball outside the numbers.

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01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 1: He thinks that's how the Bills could effectively defend ball.

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01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 12: Washington did front wise against Philly this past week.

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01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,360
Speaker 11: They actually put six guys across the line of scrimmage.

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01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,440
Speaker 12: Yeah, and saying all right, we're going to create penetration,

1404
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 12: and that was big for them.

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01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 11: Obviously, you you know, risk yourself a little bit.

1406
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 12: So yep, you got to trust the guys back there,

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01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 12: but you know you got to do something.

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01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, thanks to always have a great Christmas with

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01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: your family. We'll catch up with you next week.

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01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 11: Merry Christmas, but thank you all right.

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01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: So that's Dan Orlovski joining us as he does every Tuesday.

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01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with him after Christmas next week to

1413
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: review Bills Jets, which we have one small update on that.

1414
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, addressing the media this afternoon down in New Jersey,

1415
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 1: when asked about his knee injury, said he is going

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01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: to play and that his knee feels pretty good. He

1417
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: confirmed it's a little bit of an MCL strain, but

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01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 1: he's had a lot worse. He said there was some

1419
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 1: stretching of the ligament. He said one of his final

1420
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: goals is to play in all seventeen games. He was

1421
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: then asked about his future and if the Jets want

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01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 1: him what it would mean to him. If the Jets

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01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: want him back for next year, he said, it'd mean

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01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: that they'd see me as an important part of helping

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01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 1: the culture to change over whatever they do at head

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: coach and helping the next wave of Jets. That'd be

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01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: special to hear that. But if they don't again, no

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01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: offense at all will be taken. So apparently Rogers has

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01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: mentioned more than once about expecting to be wouldn't be

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01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 1: surprised if he's released. He's kind of like put that

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01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 2: He knows the business side of it. I mean, he's

1433
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 2: doing a ton of money if they hang on to him.

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01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 2: And quite frankly, he even he knows he hasn't played

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01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:07,680
Speaker 2: up to that level. And as far as him, I

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01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 2: think it personally for him coming back off the achilles

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01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 2: last year, I think it was important for him to

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01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 2: come back in this year and give him all seventeen games.

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01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 2: I think he feels like he's held his end of

1440
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 2: the bargain up. Certainly, it wasn't his fault that he

1441
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 2: got his achilles blown last year. It was on a

1442
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 2: sack where he got a hard tackle. And I think

1443
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 2: for him it meant something to him personally, and you know,

1444
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 2: kudos to him. Yeah, that's nice to hear. It does

1445
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 2: mean something in a locker room and for a guy

1446
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 2: personally to know that, yeah, you got hurt, but you

1447
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 2: came back and he gave him all seventeen games, you

1448
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 2: stayed healthy, and you stayed on the field for the

1449
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 2: entire next season. I thought that, And it's I had

1450
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 2: never put, you know, much thought into that, but absolutely

1451
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 2: you could see a guy doing that. That's a football player.

1452
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:58,840
Speaker 2: And that's and you know, for as much as we

1453
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 2: have you know disdained the Jets here and all that.

1454
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 2: That's a football's player's mentality. Bless his heart.

1455
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:07,600
Speaker 1: Got to step aside here for a break. But we

1456
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:09,799
Speaker 1: will get back to your phone calls when we return.

1457
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 1: So Craig and Lackawana, Fred and Webster, Jim and Penfield

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01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 1: will get to you when we return here on one

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Speaker 1: up is one James Cook. He's got the burner on

1464
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: full blast on the oven top there, and you know,

1465
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:49,600
Speaker 1: second straight one hundred yard rushing day, another couple of touchdowns.

1466
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 1: Sits two rushing touchdowns away from tying OJ Simpsons single

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01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: season rushing touchdown record of sixteen. He has fourteen. Yes,

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get total touchdown record that

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01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: Oj has, which is twenty three in fourteen games in nineteen.

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01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not getting that seventy five.

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01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: He's got sixteen right now, but I don't think he's

1472
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: gonna get another seven in the last two games. Heck,

1473
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: he might not even play the last game.

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01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, he has been well, he's elite this year.

1475
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 2: His numbers say it, his contributions say it. I'll say

1476
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 2: this too. I was thinking about this year that you

1477
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 2: think about the narrative the guy's seasons take and how

1478
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 2: people think about them and how it carries over and stuff.

1479
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 2: Think about this if you can go back and remember

1480
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 2: the catch. He had three touchdown catches last year that

1481
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 2: he absolutely stone cold dropped if he catches those because

1482
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 2: they were in like night games. It was the Philly game,

1483
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 2: it was the Rams game, it was all these games

1484
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 2: that were high profile he catches all three of those.

1485
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 2: People around the country are on this guy, not just

1486
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 2: Bills fans. I mean the season he's having this year.

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01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: Said for a while, he's the most dynamic athlete on

1488
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: the roster on offense. Maybe Kean Coleman will have something

1489
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: to say about that in a year or two, but

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01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: he is dynamic and elite from an athletic perspective, Yeah,

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01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: he is.

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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 2: He has been an enormous finding and they spent a

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01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 2: second round draft pick on him. And I'm right now

1494
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 2: I'm thinking the Bills are pretty pretty happy they got that.

1495
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: Guy cooling down is Buffalo's chances of landing the one seed.

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01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:29,640
Speaker 1: If the Chiefs win tomorrow, the chance to get the

1497
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:32,640
Speaker 1: one seed is out the window, and the best the

1498
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: Bills can do is the two seed, which they could

1499
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: get if the Ravens lose tomorrow and the Chiefs win.

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01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: The other way to get it is to win yourself

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01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Jets, and then you'd be locked

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01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 1: into the two seeds.

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01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you kind of hope the Chiefs go ahead

1504
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 2: and just win, just put it to bed, So yeah,

1505
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 2: because then you'd you know, it's like, eh, well, because

1506
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:58,719
Speaker 2: then you wouldn't worry about staying ahead of the Ravens,

1507
01:19:58,760 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 2: staying ahead of the Steelers.

1508
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, but all you need is one win to

1509
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 1: finish ahead of the Ravens, right, you know, Well, even

1510
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 1: if they win tomorrow, you win Sunday, they can't.

1511
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: Catch you, That's right, That's right. So but if they yeah,

1512
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 2: if they lose in Steelers, if the Steelers beat the Chiefs, yeah,

1513
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 2: you still you still got to win both games to

1514
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 2: stay ahead of them, or one of the games to

1515
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:22,839
Speaker 2: stay ahead of them.

1516
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm well, yeah, but if the Steelers beat

1517
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Now the one play is back. Now, the

1518
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 1: one seat is back in play?

1519
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 2: Yes, and then how does that change your think?

1520
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: You gotta go for it. You gotta go for it,

1521
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: think you do?

1522
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 2: And hope the Denver Broncos rise up.

1523
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: So that is heating up and cooling down, presented by

1524
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:48,040
Speaker 1: Team Mark HVAC and plumbing back to the phones and

1525
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: we go to fred In Webster next, what's up? Fred?

1526
01:20:55,000 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 4: Hi, guys, Merry Christmas, thanks for taking my call. Sure yea.

1527
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 4: If I was Santa Claus, this is what I would do.

1528
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 4: I would wish for the Bills to have first half

1529
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 4: offensive dominance from this point down the line. That would

1530
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:17,320
Speaker 4: be my big gifts for them. Sean can make very

1531
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:20,760
Speaker 4: good halftime adjustments. I think he's the best halftime adjustment

1532
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 4: coach in the league. You very seldom see that team

1533
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 4: come out in the second half and have anybody give

1534
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:30,679
Speaker 4: them a hard time. They're always ready in the second half.

1535
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:35,440
Speaker 4: But my gift to them would be good dominant offensive

1536
01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:37,960
Speaker 4: first halves. And I'd like to see it start right

1537
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 4: with the Jets. I know that the coaches have to

1538
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 4: make their decisions on who to play and who not

1539
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 4: to play. Sean will do that. I don't worry about

1540
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 4: that at all. He'll do the right thing. But that's

1541
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 4: what I'm at. Also, I would like to say thumbs

1542
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:54,799
Speaker 4: up on the Red unis. I liked them.

1543
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 7: I thought they were great.

1544
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:58,679
Speaker 1: The numbers certainly pop, that's for sure.

1545
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:02,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, they sure did. I think I really liked that.

1546
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:04,559
Speaker 4: I would The next thing I would like to see

1547
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 4: is white's over reds. I'd like to see the white

1548
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 4: jerseys over the Red fans. But anyway, Yeah, that's it.

1549
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 4: Let's get some first half offensive dominus. That would make

1550
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:14,679
Speaker 4: me very.

1551
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the call for it. I appreciate it. Yeah,

1552
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 1: I mean, fast starts have been a stumbling block for

1553
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: the offense at times, not all the time. Go back

1554
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: to Week six nine play drive eight runs Ray Davis

1555
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: running over DB's offensive lineman, burying defensive lineman and they

1556
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: marched right down the field on this Jets team back

1557
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:35,759
Speaker 1: in week six.

1558
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was it can happen. Yeah, that was a

1559
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 2: statement in an opening drive there it was. Yeah, I

1560
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 2: get it. You'd like to get off to a fast start.

1561
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 2: It certainly makes the Gum game more fun for fans

1562
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 2: because you can imagine this stress level in the stadium

1563
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 2: the other day was pretty high when it was down

1564
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 2: fourteen nothing, and yet he made a first down or

1565
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:03,440
Speaker 2: made one first day and then off the field. So yeah,

1566
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 2: I get that. There's not too much wrong with the

1567
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 2: offense the way it's running right now. They played a

1568
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 2: half of a game last week, beat a New England game,

1569
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 2: a bad New England team beat them playing half a

1570
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 2: game with one hand tied behind their back. Play selection wise, yeah,

1571
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:27,560
Speaker 2: they're all right offensively.

1572
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,719
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim and Penfield. What's up, Jim?

1573
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, actually, I'm gonna go the opposite of fed. I

1574
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 7: think they should burn those red and whites. They remind

1575
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 7: me too much of the New England teams some years.

1576
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, hard not to think of Pat the Patriot, right.

1577
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 7: Oh man, I saw that And oh my god, is

1578
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 7: that blood's so gonna play too? And so that's pretty

1579
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 7: much shit on that. But as for what I would

1580
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:54,799
Speaker 7: like to see is I'd like to see a healthy

1581
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 7: defensive backfield. I want all the guys to heal up,

1582
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 7: get their stuff together, and God, I wish you guys

1583
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,680
Speaker 7: merry Christmas thereby New Year and all the crew in you.

1584
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 7: Thank you for the jobs you do all, especially you

1585
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:08,879
Speaker 7: over the radio. Chris, You're terrific.

1586
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 1: Oh. Thanks, I appreciate that. Merry Christmas to you too, Jim,

1587
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: thanks very much. That's nice to you to.

1588
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 2: Say they did look like the New England Patriots from.

1589
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: Me a little bit. Yeah, I mean the only thing

1590
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: you were missing is that the white stripes were on

1591
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: the sleeve, not the shoulder, which is how the Patriots

1592
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: old and it wouldn't be drew bledsoe be Steve Grogan.

1593
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,639
Speaker 1: Steve Grogan is who do you think of in those right?

1594
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 2: May put some neckroll on. We'll know where in a

1595
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 2: time time working, I.

1596
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:36,799
Speaker 1: Believe we had a couple of football relationship hotline questions

1597
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: to get to the first one comes from Tom am

1598
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,719
Speaker 1: I correct, and assuming that only Netflix subscribers can watch

1599
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: these Christmas games or are they on local channels as well?

1600
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:53,559
Speaker 1: They are on Netflix only for Christmas. Now, if you

1601
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: live in the cities in which those games are being played,

1602
01:24:56,479 --> 01:25:00,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Pittsburgh, or Baltimore, Houston, you'll be able to

1603
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: watch them on a local over the air channel. But

1604
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: if you are not Netflix only, yes, so make plans accordingly,

1605
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 1: or find a buddy that's got a net Flix subscription,

1606
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: go to their house or whatever you gotta do. Mm hm,

1607
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: Kevin asks on the PEPSI Football Relationship Hotline. All of

1608
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:22,679
Speaker 1: us fans always share what a super Bowl would mean.

1609
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: Can Chris and Steve answer what a super Bowl would

1610
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 1: mean to them? Hm? It's interesting for.

1611
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:36,280
Speaker 2: Me at this at this station in life. I would

1612
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 2: love it as a validation for the city of Buffalo

1613
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 2: and Bill's fans no more. You know, they have don't

1614
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 2: have to point to the teams I was on as

1615
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 2: a being an insult to football, you know what I mean?

1616
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 2: Certainly those teams were great, and there are a bunch

1617
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 2: of Hall of Famers on them, and and anybody with

1618
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:54,760
Speaker 2: half a brain knows that it was a great group

1619
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:57,200
Speaker 2: of guys and a great Hall of Fame coach. But

1620
01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:58,600
Speaker 2: you know the fact that we couldn't get on the

1621
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 2: scoreboard on super Bowls still kind of haunts Bills fans.

1622
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 2: It's always that trump card of the other fan base

1623
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 2: throws out. So I would love it for that reason,

1624
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 2: so that you know, Bills fans do have that patch

1625
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 2: on their jacket, you know, a super Bowl championship, right.

1626
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: That's what it would mean to me, it would mean

1627
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia gets what it deserves. The fan loyalty in

1628
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: this city is pretty unmatched, considering the history has not

1629
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:31,599
Speaker 1: been illustrious for the majority of this franchise's existence. So

1630
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: I would put their loyalty up against any other team

1631
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 1: in the league and being one of twelve teams that

1632
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: still hasn't won a Super Bowl. That's what it would

1633
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: mean to me. It would mean that Bills fans finally

1634
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,919
Speaker 1: get what they deserve for all the years of support.

1635
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 1: Mike asks, do I bother rapping horribly or go the

1636
01:26:50,880 --> 01:26:54,639
Speaker 1: easy route with gift bags? I'll hang up and listen Mike.

1637
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 3: There.

1638
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,360
Speaker 1: This could depend on the people for whom you are

1639
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 1: rapping slash gift bag sticking. If you have a spouse

1640
01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: or significant other that would genuinely appreciate your best effort

1641
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: at rapping, and if it's horribly wrapped, know you put

1642
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: the time in even though you're bad at something, to

1643
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: think enough to wrap it anyway. You might get extra

1644
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:19,759
Speaker 1: bonus points for that. But if time is of the essence,

1645
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:21,679
Speaker 1: a gift bag is a ton faster.

1646
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:28,560
Speaker 2: I think gift bags are totally socially acceptable in any situation. Yes, absolutely,

1647
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 2: totally acceptable, right.

1648
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, finagle the tissue paper, make it

1649
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 1: look nice and fluffy. But other than that, yeah, time

1650
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: of the essence gift bag. If you think your wife

1651
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:41,800
Speaker 1: will appreciate it significant other, wrap it up and she'll

1652
01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 1: know you did it because it was horribly wrapped. Gotta

1653
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: take a break. One segment to go here on One

1654
01:27:46,360 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Stay with us all right back here on

1655
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: one of those live one final segment to go, and

1656
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,639
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of time left here on

1657
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 1: this Christmas Eve edition. As a reminder, we will not

1658
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: be on the air tomorrow. We're all off for Christmas Day,

1659
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:17,920
Speaker 1: so we hope you and yours enjoy your Christmas. So

1660
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to all of you, from all of us

1661
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 1: and to our crew in the studio who takes care

1662
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:25,800
Speaker 1: of us. It makes us look good all season long.

1663
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: A little bit of a skeleton crew today as we're

1664
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 1: missing a couple of people, but we've got Addie, Shannon

1665
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:35,519
Speaker 1: and Jay putting in yeoman's work today covering multiple spots

1666
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: to run our show, which is usually manned by six people.

1667
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:41,600
Speaker 1: So so thanks.

1668
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 2: To that job keeping us between the lines here, that's right,

1669
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 2: Thanks to all of you out there, Yes, all our

1670
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 2: crew here.

1671
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:49,559
Speaker 1: And they brought goodies today too on top of that,

1672
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 1: which was their fantabulous. I've pretty much devoured the chocolate

1673
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: bark at this point, and I'll be diving into a box.

1674
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 2: Well, we'll be back Thursday one o'clock and we'll have

1675
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 2: to recap the two games from yes tomorrow.

1676
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: Yes, which we'll have major bearing on where Buffalo finishes

1677
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 1: seed wise in the AFC.

1678
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,799
Speaker 2: Interesting because it's gonna have an effect on what happens

1679
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 2: on Sunday for the Bills Jets game.

1680
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: Yes, And I don't know. I would almost prefer that

1681
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 1: just let the Chiefs have the one and let the

1682
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: Ravens lose so the Bills can have the two and

1683
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 1: then the last two games are immaterial.

1684
01:29:22,280 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, if you can get the one,

1685
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 2: you gotta go for it all, go all gas, no brakes,

1686
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 2: go for it because you'll get a buy anyway if

1687
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:31,640
Speaker 2: you do get it, and that's huge.

1688
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 1: Right, But if you can get the two nailed down

1689
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: at worst this week with a win, you can use

1690
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: Week eighteen as a bye for your players anyway.

1691
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:42,799
Speaker 2: That's true, and you know you end up yeah whatever,

1692
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 2: So there you go.

1693
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:47,719
Speaker 1: Everybody, have a great Christmas. Hope Santa treats you all well,

1694
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: and we'll see you here on Thursday for a one

1695
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:51,800
Speaker 1: pm edition of One Bill's Live