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Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to a Tuesday edition of One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and motoring on over

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Speaker 2: slowly but surely to the week fifteen showdown. Let's go

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Speaker 2: between the Bills and the Patriots at the Raiza as

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Speaker 2: they call it up there, Jillette Stadiums.

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Speaker 3: They call it the Raize it. Yeah right, well, good

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Speaker 3: for that.

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Speaker 1: That's good. I like it. I like it. It's it

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Speaker 1: fits whatever.

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Speaker 2: You do.

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Speaker 1: Don't bad mouthed the place. It gives you one good

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Speaker 1: radio boot.

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Speaker 2: It is if it's probably the best one in the league.

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Speaker 2: I can't knock it.

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Speaker 3: It's everybody else put in the clam chowder is outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else puts you in the corner behind a pole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I guess the clam chowder has to

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Speaker 2: has to be outstanding there, right, they can't. There's a

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Speaker 2: standard to be upheld there.

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Speaker 1: I would say it's a little bit probably.

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Speaker 2: It's much like our wings, right, probably a point of pride,

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Speaker 2: Like we've got to hit all the high notes with

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Speaker 2: the wings. They got to hit all the high notes

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Speaker 2: with the chowder, and they do. It's very good clam chowder. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I make sure I get it every time.

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Speaker 1: It is good. I've had it. Yeah it is, it

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Speaker 1: is very good. But nevertheless, here we go. We're almost

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Speaker 1: almost full force into the preparation. I know the coaches

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Speaker 1: and player they're all thinking about it, but I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of still thinking about the Bengals game a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I watched that. There's on the web Bill's website. There's

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Speaker 1: a thing that's called a mini movie. Recommend it good one.

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Speaker 1: Brownie's all scattered all in it too. It's all radio

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Speaker 1: calls and all that, and the radio call really good stuff,

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Speaker 1: and the TV call sure fun stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, it's easy when

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Speaker 2: the game ends that.

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Speaker 1: Way, right, So what happened was in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: of that game. So what happened Maddie and I Maddi,

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Speaker 1: glab and I and we do postgame live and all that.

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Speaker 1: So we're sitting behind Brownie and Eric Wood in the radios.

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Speaker 1: We're two rows behind. We're way back in the back. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good seats right, great angle, and it's it's heated.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we're sitting back there and about the at

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter or real close to it, unless there's

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Speaker 1: a break or something. Maddie and I have to walk

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Speaker 1: across the parking lot real quick to get in here

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Speaker 1: to this post game live, right, So we kind of

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Speaker 1: missed the end of or the beginning of the end

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Speaker 1: of the third or the beginning of the fourth. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: We come over here and we watch it. So we're

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here watching the game, and the Benford play happens.

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Speaker 1: I thought my head was going to explode. I could

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Speaker 1: not believe what I was looking. It was unbelievab. Now

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Speaker 1: you were here for that, right, I was sitting in here.

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Speaker 1: Everything's quiet, Matt, Maddie's sitting there. Plus, I can't I

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Yeah, and on them and I said

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Speaker 1: it too on the mini movie, this thing I was

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Speaker 1: just talking about. They've got the crowd reaction. You can

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Speaker 1: hear it in the background. It is like flipping a

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Speaker 1: light switch. It goes from zero, goes one hundred zero

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Speaker 2: And because everybody was just as stunned as we all

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Speaker 2: who was the who was the Fox announcer Joe Davis, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I think that's right. Even Joe Davis said what just happened? Yes,

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Speaker 1: The I mean it just it went from zero to

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Speaker 2: A couple of good ones in this final season at

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Speaker 2: Old Time Mark Week one, this one, people A lot

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Speaker 2: of people liked.

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Speaker 3: Week eleven against Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Tampa was a very good, really good game game to

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Speaker 1: what really good for Spectac.

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Speaker 2: People loved seeing us beat the Chiefs one more time

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Speaker 2: in that building.

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Speaker 1: That's right, So good one.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 2: There have been some good one good home games in

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Speaker 2: this final season of high Mark, so yeah, been pretty

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Speaker 2: pretty darn good. This week's game at the Patriots, though,

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Speaker 2: is presented by Victory Live, the official ticketing analytics partner

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Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills. But let's get into some of

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Speaker 2: the Bills practice updates, which as always are presented by

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Speaker 2: leecom your Lake Erie College of ostin Theopathic Medicine head

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Speaker 2: coach Sean McDermott provided an injury update late Monday at

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Speaker 2: his weekly late afternoon press conference the day after games.

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Speaker 2: Joshua Palmer, Spencer Brown, to Rel Bernard, and Joey Bosa,

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Speaker 2: all of whom missed last Sunday's game, are improving and

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Speaker 2: they'll see how each of those players makes it through

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Speaker 2: the practice week. When he was asked about it on

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Speaker 2: a follow up question, McDermott said all of them have

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Speaker 2: a chance to return to the lineup this week, but

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Speaker 2: how they progress through the practice week will determine the

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Speaker 2: likelihood for each of them for.

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Speaker 1: Something completely Bosa's hamstring, Teril Bernard's elbow, Brown's, Spencer's shoulder,

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Speaker 2: The good news is Dalton kin Kaid, who was questionable

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Speaker 2: going into the game on Sunday with hamstring and knee ailments,

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Speaker 2: came out of the game no worse for wear, so

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Speaker 2: he should be good for this week's game going forward.

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Speaker 3: So that's a plus.

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Speaker 2: Cole Bishop, who left the game on Sunday in the

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Speaker 2: second half and did not return, just had muscle cramps.

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Speaker 2: That boy hydrated. Yeah, get him an IV and ready

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Speaker 1: that's uh, we got it. It's really interesting to see

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Speaker 1: They are no, they're obsessed with They are absolutely attacking it.

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Speaker 2: Coach McDermott all So commented on newly acquired safety Darnell Savage,

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Speaker 2: So apparently they see see the same position flex in

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Speaker 2: He's cut from the same cloth in terms and with Bishops.

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Speaker 1: When Bishop came off the field last week because of

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So that's kind of the.

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Speaker 2: Details of the injury report as we prepare for the

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Speaker 2: do know the Patriots are going to be without a

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Speaker 2: and that's because defensive tackle Milton Williams. Their big offseason

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Speaker 2: that Will Campbell, they're starting left tackle, will not be

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Speaker 3: He will be out of the lineup.

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Speaker 2: We anticipate that Vederian Lowe will be lining up at

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Speaker 2: as well. Let's go around the NFL presented by Kiloda Health,

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Speaker 2: the official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills and Jalen

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Speaker 2: Hurts had a five turnover game on Monday Night Football,

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Speaker 2: including two on one play, which helped the LA Chargers

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Speaker 2: pull out a twenty two to nineteen victory thanks largely

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Speaker 2: to five field goals from Cameron Dicker, including a fifty

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Speaker 2: more about the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Chargers turned it over three times in the

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Speaker 1: was it was hard to watch early on. It was

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Speaker 1: turn it over at the end, and he got he had.

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Speaker 1: He turned it over twice on one play. He got

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Speaker 2: He had it initially and then he fumbled it.

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Speaker 2: That was the last play of that game that I watched.

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Speaker 2: I said, okay, yeah, not to see how this thing's going.

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Speaker 2: Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert wasn't anything special, twelve of twenty

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Speaker 2: to improve to nine and four. That allowed the Chargers

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Speaker 2: to leap frog the Bills for the top wild card

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Speaker 2: nine and four wrecords, So the Bills now in the

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Speaker 2: With four games to play, Bengals pass rusher Trey Hendrickson

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Speaker 2: It's a tough break for all the hullabaloo they went

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Speaker 2: out and holding in and all right, Well.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals were right, even if they were unkind.

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Speaker 3: Don't pay giant money to a thirty one year old

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Speaker 2: And what did the Colts do? They went all in.

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Speaker 2: As Steve said off air when we were having this

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's every you hate to say it is.

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Speaker 2: So it looks like he'll be back in the lineup

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Speaker 1: That's that's the right move. I mean, the guy he's

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Speaker 2: I cannot speak to that, Steve, because I have They

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Speaker 3: Two point conversion.

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Speaker 1: What was that about.

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Speaker 3: I haven't had my ear to the ground on that one.

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Speaker 1: Ownership's looking down. They're going no, Chader's playing pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You know what, take him out? We don't. We don't

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Speaker 3: Only been to tie it because it was thirty one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just forget it.

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Speaker 1: And you actually, well think about this though the Browns

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Speaker 1: it's time to just give him the reins? Let's announce that.

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Speaker 3: Did make me scratch my head.

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Speaker 2: I know that and a Buffalo connection to the Jets

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Speaker 1: Going down the list to those.

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Speaker 2: into Bill's patriots, but that's certainly welcome.

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Speaker 3: At eight oh three h five fifty eight, eight five

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Speaker 3: fifty two, five fifty.

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Speaker 2: What we'd like to know is how comfortable are you

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Speaker 2: with the current playoff standings in the AFC. And in

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Speaker 2: case you did not know, the Bills are currently in

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Speaker 2: the sixth hole in the wild car Charger's leapfrog them

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Speaker 2: last night by virtue of their win over the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: So it's Chargers five, Bill six, Texans seven. Your division

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Speaker 2: leaders in the top four seeds are in order, Denver,

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Speaker 2: New England, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh. So how comfortable are you with

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Speaker 2: the current playoff standings as they sit in the AFC?

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Speaker 2: Eight oh three, five point fifty one eight A eight,

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Speaker 2: five point fifty two, five fifty. Those are the numbers

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Speaker 2: to jump on board. We have to take a break

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Speaker 2: here and we will get to phone calls. But when

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Speaker 2: we come back, we will first talk with our good

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Speaker 2: friend Mitch Morse, former Bills Center, because it's time for

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Speaker 2: our from the armchair segment, and we'll get to that

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Speaker 2: on the other side of the break.

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Speaker 2: Flannigan is a proud partner of the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 2: here to do that with us is former Bill center

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Speaker 2: Mitch Morse, who joins us every week and also is

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Speaker 2: the host of the Monday Mornings with Mitch podcast. Let's

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Speaker 2: begin here, Mitch, Josh Allen when he's under center, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, there's something about this offense that appears differently,

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Speaker 2: and they started that right off the bat in last

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Speaker 2: week's game. First play, he's under center, play action Dawson

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Speaker 2: Knox thirty two yards and they took it from there.

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Speaker 5: Play action is the bread and butter of this team.

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Speaker 5: Whether it's the run game or it's the pass game,

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Speaker 5: let's just call it how it is. This team does

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Speaker 5: not thrive in the pass game and shotgun right now,

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Speaker 5: they thrive under center. To your point, Dawson has that

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Speaker 5: huge thirty two yard game to start off the ballgame

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Speaker 5: for the Buffalo Bills offense, and I think besides the

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Speaker 5: two point conversion, every single one of his yards catching

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Speaker 5: was from the exact same play run over and over

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Speaker 5: and over again, a play action pass where it's the

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Speaker 5: guard pulling, and if they want to change that up

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Speaker 5: a bit, it's it's the center polling. But I think

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Speaker 5: that's just dictated off of the defensive front. They enjoy it,

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Speaker 5: and why wouldn't they exploit this fact in the pass

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Speaker 5: game because almost all of their run game is under center,

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Speaker 5: and the Buffalo Bills are synonymous right now with an

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Speaker 5: efficient and potent running attack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why it's in retrospect, you think why

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Speaker 1: it's so effective. Cincinnati should have really expected the run

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Speaker 1: they ran for two hundred and forty nine yards against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers the week before. It's snowing out. Your defense

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Speaker 1: is thirty second against the run. They're gonna grind it

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Speaker 1: out on us. Here we go and it they can

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Speaker 1: play action thirty two yards. I mean, it seems like

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Speaker 1: that's how it's supposed to work. Why do we why

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Speaker 1: are we not running play action one thousand percent of

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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, because that's a great question, because there are certain instances.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Steve, if we're running under center, third and ten,

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Speaker 5: I mean we're expecting some sort of play action. But

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Speaker 5: that's a great point. I mean, why deviate from what

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Speaker 5: is working, which is that play action pass? And I

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Speaker 5: think we're at the point of the season where we

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Speaker 5: know it works, and now it's not so much changing

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Speaker 5: the plays but keeping the same plays, keeping the core

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Speaker 5: of that play, but just changing the little intricacies of

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Speaker 5: it around it to make it a little bit different

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Speaker 5: for defensive coordinators out of maybe personnel or different packages.

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Speaker 5: But keep the bread and butter.

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Speaker 2: The bread and butter, dude flipping it over to the

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Speaker 2: other side of the ball for the second straight week.

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Speaker 2: Christian Benford is a catalyst for this defense, not only

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Speaker 2: getting a takeaway, but putting points on the board directly

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Speaker 2: for the team. We had this conversation yesterday, Mitch and

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Speaker 2: I want to get your take on this because he

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Speaker 2: gets the big contract in the off season and we

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Speaker 2: see a shift in his approach with his teammates. He

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Speaker 2: realizes he is now being counted upon as a leader

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Speaker 2: on that defense. He's more vocal when that is not

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Speaker 2: something that seemed to come naturally to him as a

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Speaker 2: younger player.

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Speaker 3: And then.

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Speaker 2: I feel that his approach took another step in this

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Speaker 2: last six weeks when he has been asked in man

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Speaker 2: coverage situations to follow the opponent's best receiver. It's almost

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Speaker 2: like it flipped a switch in him to think, I

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Speaker 2: not only have to play sound, fundamental football, I have

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Speaker 2: to deliver game changing plays for this team as well.

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Speaker 2: And that's easier said than done on a week to

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Speaker 2: week basis. But I think it has breeded even more

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Speaker 2: confidence in him to look to make those kinds of plays.

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Speaker 2: If that makes sense. What's your take on it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that makes total sense. Right, you get

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Speaker 5: invested in by the organization with this great contract. You're

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Speaker 5: not the most vocal guy, but that doesn't mean you

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Speaker 5: can't lead.

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Speaker 4: So how do you lead?

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Speaker 5: You lead by the style of play, You lead by

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Speaker 5: how you show up to practice, how you interact with

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Speaker 5: your teammates, and then you also take it upon yourself,

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Speaker 5: like listen not.

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Speaker 4: There's two schools of thought.

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Speaker 5: One is I'm going to cash it in now that

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Speaker 5: I've gotten this paycheck, or I'm going to prove that

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Speaker 5: every cent that you guys compensated me with is due

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Speaker 5: right like that, there's a reason why you did that.

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Speaker 5: And he has just played exceptional football. I think he's

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Speaker 5: becoming more of a student of the game. It seems

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Speaker 5: like settling in into a few years now into the league.

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Speaker 5: And something that's really fun to see is that stat line.

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Speaker 5: If you look at ESPN or whatever, you see the

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Speaker 5: stat lines total tackles, solo tackles, pass defended, tackle for loss, sacks,

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Speaker 5: and touchdowns. Rarely do you see every single one of

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Speaker 5: those have a number in it. And Christian Benford's last

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Speaker 5: game had every single number in it. And that means

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Speaker 5: that you are not only active in the past game.

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Speaker 5: You're active in the run game, the blitz game. And

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Speaker 5: that means you're a master of your craft. You're a

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Speaker 5: master of the defense. And when the big play is

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Speaker 5: asked of you, not only do you make it that

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Speaker 5: you exploit it and you make it the best of

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Speaker 5: your ability. I mean touchdowns, tackle for losses, sacks, you

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Speaker 5: name it. This man is what you said earlier, has

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Speaker 5: injected energy into this defense when you need a big

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Speaker 5: play maker. There's offensive coordinators are now circling on Wednesday

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Speaker 5: meetings when they're introducing these defensive players to the opposing offenses.

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Speaker 4: This is a guy that you have to take care of.

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Speaker 1: And you see this Bill's offense. I mean, you recognize

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Speaker 1: what happened to the Bengals defense in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: of that game as as well as anybody you've been

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Speaker 1: you've been there and watched. You know, the snow the

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Speaker 1: snowplow they have at quarterback do his thing. Uh talk

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Speaker 1: walk us through that final drive where the Bills have

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Speaker 1: to you know, they gotta you gotta go up by two, right,

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Speaker 1: you're going down, you get first and goal, you're down there,

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Speaker 1: you're close and you're up by what is you up

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Speaker 1: by three or four? Yeah, you're up by you end

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Speaker 1: up by five, but you gotta you gotta go up

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Speaker 1: and because you got to stay up right and so

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Speaker 1: you gotta score there. You don't want to take the

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Speaker 1: field goal because then you'll only go up by and

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Speaker 1: so you're up for and it's a fourth down and

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Speaker 1: you gotta you know, so you got to you gotta

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Speaker 1: score TD on that drive. What are the would get

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Speaker 1: walk us through how you know how that works? You

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Speaker 1: know the touchdown to Hawes.

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Speaker 5: Wow, you know what was so interesting, Steve was just

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Speaker 5: not only the ability to convert fourth downs, but the

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Speaker 5: gall the cajones, whatever you want to call it, just

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Speaker 5: the belief, you know, because there's there's We've all seen

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Speaker 5: team meetings that teams posts were the offensive coordinator, the

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Speaker 5: head coach says, I trust you guys, implicitly, I'm going

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Speaker 5: to put the ball in your hands in the biggest moments.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to play tennant.

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Speaker 5: It's a whole different ball game on Sundays, when the

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Speaker 5: bullets are flying, the anticipations at an all time high,

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Speaker 5: attentions palpable, and we saw it over and over again.

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Speaker 5: There was only one fourth down that this team didn't convert.

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Speaker 5: It was close, right, like there was just kind of

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Speaker 5: a little weird breaking protection or whatnot, whatever you want

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Speaker 5: to call it. But in the biggest moments of this game,

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Speaker 5: whether it was huge fourth down conversions by Dawson Knox

606
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Speaker 5: or doldenkin Kaid or whatever you want to call it,

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Speaker 5: two touchdown passes, one of those that unbelievable pass to

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Speaker 5: Khalil Shakir, and then this one you felt something and

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Speaker 5: for some reason, this felt like they were in flow state,

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Speaker 5: even when there was all hands on deck and the

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Speaker 5: anticipation was palpable.

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Speaker 4: It was beautiful.

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Speaker 5: And then, honestly, the most impressive drive to me, and

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Speaker 5: I know this is kind of going off with the

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Speaker 5: cuff here, but was that two minute drive They had

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Speaker 5: two oh seven left in that fourth quarter. The Bengals

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Speaker 5: had just gone down because you score that touchdown to

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Speaker 5: Jackson Hawes, they go down and methodically put someone so

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Speaker 5: you feel like they're not out of this game, and

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Speaker 5: you kind of have this sinking feeling. And then you

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Speaker 5: go out and you have to get a first down conversion,

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Speaker 5: get a run, and then you take a sack, which

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Speaker 5: I think was a smart plane. You have this third

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Speaker 5: and fifteen, right you're down by five or you're up

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Speaker 5: by five. Brother, they go out and talk about the

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Speaker 5: snowplout quarterback man, and I had told Chris earlier this

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Speaker 5: day that it was kind of a song that's been

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Speaker 5: sung a thousand times, which you don't get tired of

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Speaker 5: hearing it. Man, in the biggest moments of the game,

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Speaker 5: this guy produces and you see it. It was just

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Speaker 5: a great, beautiful thing to see and something that it's

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Speaker 5: a catalyst for these games coming down in December, in January.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it never seems to change in terms of

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Speaker 2: how Josh pulls these rabbits out of the hat all

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: We can argue that maybe it's because he's facing another

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Speaker 2: elite quarterback and wants to prove that he's the better

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Speaker 2: man and can win the game for his team. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's because the picture is a little bit clearer as

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Speaker 2: to what has to happen for this team to get

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Speaker 2: where they want to go.

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's the impetus.

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Speaker 2: Hell, maybe it's a smelling salt on the sideline before

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Speaker 2: he goes out there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, whatever it is, it always seems to happen.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, when the biggest moments, I mean,

648
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Speaker 5: you become kind of kind of immune to it, right,

649
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Speaker 5: because he produces so many times over and over again

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Speaker 5: in those big moments when you need them the most,

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Speaker 5: these talk about hallmark moments. He just shows up on

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Speaker 5: them over and over again. And I hope that we

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Speaker 5: never get tired of it, because it is an exceptional

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Speaker 5: quality and trade for a human to have, and he

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Speaker 5: definitely exemplifies it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly after that game I went back and watched

657
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: it again on parts of it over and over again.

658
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: The subtle plays that he makes throughout the game that

659
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Speaker 1: you kind of take for granted. The fourth and four

660
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: that he turns into a seventeen yard completion to Gabe Davis,

661
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: the second and longer first and long third and shore

662
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: medium or whatever. He scampers around the right end on

663
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Speaker 1: their side of the field and gets a first down

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Speaker 1: on a scramble in the first half. And you mentioned it,

665
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: the sack he took on second down on the last

666
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: drive before he ran for the third and fifteen, that sack,

667
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: taking it, forcing them to take their time out, not

668
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: putting it the ball at risk, and just eating it.

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Speaker 1: And of course, you know, running for seventeen yards on

670
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: the third and fifteen as a result that that's kind

671
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: of the hero play. But the smart play and the

672
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: discipline play was something he might not have done as

673
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: a rookie eight years ago. But he just ate it

674
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: and took the loss and forced them to call the

675
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: time out. All of that stuff goes. It's just kind

676
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: of you don't even he just throw it. On the

677
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: stack of plays that he made in that game, some

678
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: of them were absolutely mind boggling, and others you don't

679
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: even notice. And yet it's a he threw the ball

680
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: through a key hole on fourth down to Khalil Shakir

681
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: and he used to lose it because there's so much

682
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: other stuff that happens. So the question, I guess, and

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00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: really what you ask yourself is, all right, is that

684
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: a bottomless well of stuff that you can ask him

685
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: to do? Which sometimes it seems like it is, and

686
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: other times it's like, gosh, I don't know, or do

687
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: you try and give him some help, some play somewhere

688
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: on the roster. Somebody's got to do something. And this

689
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: today or yesterday Sunday, Christian Benford pops up right and

690
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: makes it play. Uh, that's the kind of that's what

691
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: we're looking at this team. There is no answers to this.

692
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: You can't anticipate. This isn't like, oh yeah, we're gonna

693
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: come in. This is gonna happen and we're gonna do

694
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: this and we're gonna win. We have no idea what

695
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna look like if the Bills win or lose.

696
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 5: That's why you turn on the tape, crazy, why that's

697
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 5: why you watch the game. I mean, so national narratives

698
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 5: all this stuff. Yes, I like how you said getting help.

699
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 5: Maybe the guy we have help is on defense right,

700
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 5: because I'm tired and sick of the narrative over and

701
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 5: over again, Like we got to get help for Josh Lafflins.

702
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 5: We've got they have everything they need. Man, he has

703
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,439
Speaker 5: the ability to go and do these things. Why take

704
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 5: that away or feel like he's got to siphon it

705
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 5: or cycle something out?

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00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 4: Right?

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00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: Like let him be a superhero. That's when he's in

708
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 5: his zen mode. They're not asking him to do anything extra.

709
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 5: This is just how he plays the game, and I

710
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 5: think we celebrate that rather than try to diminish it.

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Speaker 3: Mitch, thanks as always for the time.

712
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. We will catch up with you next week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Mitch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate you'all. Take it easy.

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00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Mitch Morse joining us for from the armchair

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Speaker 2: presented by Ray Moore and Flanagan. Have time to squeeze

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Speaker 2: in a quick phone call here at ATO three oh

718
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 2: five fifty open lines for you there as we are

719
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 2: asking you, how do you feel about the current state

720
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 2: of the AFC playoff race With the Bills in the

721
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Speaker 2: sixth spot, that is the second of three wild card

722
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Speaker 2: spots eight O three oh five fifty one eighty eight

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Speaker 2: five fifty two, five point fifty and we lead off

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Speaker 2: with Joanne and Orchard Park. Good afternoon, Joanne.

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Speaker 6: Hello, I'm calling basically about the mafia. Bill's Mafia. Okay,

726
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 6: my cousin came in from California to experience a football game.

727
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 6: He got to see an awesome game. He gets to

728
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 6: experience the snow and the cold. He went to get

729
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Speaker 6: something drink. He lost his wallet and he was taking

730
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Speaker 6: off to go back to California on Monday afternoon. He

731
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 6: called the stadium. Someone turned it in, he picked it up.

732
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Speaker 6: Not one thing was taken from it. That's how good

733
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 6: are building, mafia. And I want to say thank you

734
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Speaker 6: to the person.

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Speaker 1: All right, Oh well that's nice.

736
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Speaker 2: Well glad to hear that, Joanne. Everybody loves a happy ending,

737
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 2: and that is certainly one. So thanks for the phone call,

738
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 2: and yeah, good on you, Bill's Mafia. That's for doing

739
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 2: the right thing.

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00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 1: That's very nice.

741
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 3: Thanks for sharing that one. My day's a little brighter now.

742
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 2: I'm nice to know they're still good in the world,

743
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 2: this wild, crazy universe that we live in.

744
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: But Brownie.

745
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,479
Speaker 3: People still have morals, you know, Prince, I'm gonna turn.

746
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: The wall in. Give me a twenty just my troubles. Thanks, man,

747
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate good luck. Here's your driver's license back, No,

748
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,240
Speaker 1: nothing's missing front. That good for them there, that's awesome.

749
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: That's a good story.

750
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Speaker 2: We are up against the break now. But when we return,

751
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: Tom on the West Side and Miran in Virginia will

752
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 2: lead us off as we take your phone calls. How

753
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 2: comfortable are you with the current playoff standings in the AFC?

754
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 3: You let us know.

755
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health,

756
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: it's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, back here on One

757
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Speaker 2: Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and it

758
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: is time for Game Day Mentality, presented by Best Self,

759
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: Best Self Behavioral Health, official mental health partner of the

760
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills.

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00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 3: So, Steve, I will pose this to you.

762
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 2: All right, The Bills know that they are entering a

763
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: game where if they do not come out on top,

764
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Speaker 2: they will have to witness the Patriots put on Division

765
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: champion T shirts and hats, and we'll see an end

766
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 2: to their five year reign as AFC East champions. How

767
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 2: does that impact their game day mentality from a physical

768
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 2: and mental standpoint, if at all.

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00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: On game day you're thinking about a little bit. During

770
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: the week you think about that stuff, it's like, hey,

771
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: not this week. You gotta let's go. You gotta bear

772
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: down on game day, try and keep it as normal

773
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: as possible. You don't want to get sidetracked by any

774
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: of that stuff. But when you're prepping, no question, you're

775
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: having conversations about it, and you're shown up with a

776
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: little bit of attitude. You don't want it to be you, right,

777
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're here. You'll hear about that stuff in

778
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 1: the locker room this week, so you okay.

779
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: So it will be a layer of yeah.

780
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's not nothing. It's not nothing,

781
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: but it's not it's not central. It's just it's every

782
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: guy will treat it in his own way. But yeah,

783
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: you'll get a couple of laughs out of it, like

784
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: all right, here we go, let's go make sure they

785
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: don't do that. In fact, yeah, you steal theirs. You

786
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: steal a box of those T shirts. If you win,

787
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: you steal a box of those T shirts and you

788
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: pop those out when you win the division. If it happens.

789
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 2: All right, As we told you yesterday, the division is

790
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: not dead yet. You beat the Patriots, now, you gotta

791
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: still win your last two games game, yeah, your last

792
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 2: three games after that.

793
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 1: I gotta win out there's no doubt.

794
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: But if the Patriots lose to the Bills and then

795
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: lose one of those other division opponent games Jets in

796
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: Week seventeen, Dolphins in Week eighteen, and the Bills run

797
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 2: the table, they would win the division. That is one

798
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: scenario that could happen. Obviously, if the Patriots lose three

799
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: of their last four and the Bills run the table,

800
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 2: that would be another way. But at minimum they have

801
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 2: to lose to the Bills this week and then one

802
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 2: of those two division games at the end for them

803
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 2: and the Bills run the table. That's another way to

804
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 2: the division title. It's unlikely, but it's there for what

805
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 2: it's worth. Let's get back to the phones and to

806
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 2: Tom on the west side. What's up Tom, Hey, guys

807
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 2: have a victory Tuesday.

808
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 7: It's far Shadur and Cleveland goal. That's a Cleveland thing, man.

809
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 7: They got it going. Let me tell you. I'll want

810
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 7: to answer your question. And then I got a question

811
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 7: as far as the division, if at end of the day,

812
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 7: then Houston would happen to play New England and Houston

813
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 7: would beat New England up. Now, while they win that

814
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 7: game or not, New England's gonna get beat up in

815
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 7: that game, we would play the Jags, and if we

816
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 7: beat the Jags, then then the Chargers would have to

817
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 7: play Pittsburgh. And I don't think the Chargers they're going

818
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 7: to be one and done well.

819
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 3: Coming east is traditionally difficult, that is true.

820
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, especially with a broken hand in the cold weather.

821
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 7: I don't know how that's gonna work out for him,

822
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 7: because Steve knows injuries hurt more in the winter time.

823
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 7: But anyway, Yeah, I mean, if you keep playing this out,

824
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 7: Houston is going to keep beating everybody up. Houston will

825
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 7: have to play Denver and beat Denver up, and then

826
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 7: if we get if we faced Houston again, it would

827
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 7: be a home game for the Bills.

828
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, which I like a whole lot better.

829
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a little better scenario, no question that. Yeah,

830
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: you can, Tom, you can jump through all kinds of hoops.

831
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: And and by the way, you were you called last

832
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: week about the weather, you were right that it's a

833
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: it's a difference maker. And I said this yesterday. It's

834
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: easier for a team like Houston to go on the

835
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: road and win because of its defense. Defense, it's easier

836
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: to play on travel. It's easier to play on the

837
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: road as a defense because of the communication and all

838
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: that stuff and snap count the whole thing. It's easier

839
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Speaker 1: to play on the road sometimes, and it is even

840
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: at home because of the noise. Bills are built just

841
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: the opposite of that, right, I mean, the Bills have

842
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: all this pre snap note motion, the checks and and

843
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, motions and shifts that you got to call

844
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: you can't hear when you're on the road. So that

845
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: puts the Bills that are disadvantaged because their offense is

846
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: kind of the engine. Right, So you're right, you can

847
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: jump through a bunch of mental hoops and put the

848
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: Bills in the AFC Championship game in high mark. Yes,

849
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: it could happen, but we'll see.

850
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 3: Let's squeeze me. You're on in here before the break?

851
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 3: What's up me?

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00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 8: Ron Hi Galen thinks for taking my call. In response

853
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 8: to the question, I'd be happy to see us in

854
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 8: the seed where we have to play the AFC North

855
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 8: Division winner or the AFC South Division winner, whether it

856
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 8: be Jacksonville or or Indianapolis. I think they're going to

857
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 8: sign Philip Rivers here. I do have one question about

858
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 8: Max Harrison's play time. I know it's over. In the

859
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 8: past couple of weeks, his playing time has gone down

860
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 8: Russ's previous way. Is that a function of them just

861
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 8: kind of easing him in back from the cushion protocol.

862
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 8: Are they seeing something in his game that maybe he

863
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 8: may be regressing playwise and the bet trusting tradavieus more

864
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 8: out there given that even though he's more physical limited

865
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 8: than Max's That's all I got, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good question.

867
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Speaker 2: I actually asked coach McDermott about how Harriston is progressing

868
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: and earning the trust of the coaching staff to get

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Speaker 2: more time on the field, and he said that Harrison

870
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Speaker 2: is doing the right things, He's asking the right questions.

871
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 2: His play I think isn't as consistent as his preparation,

872
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 2: and I think that's a contributing factor to why he

873
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 2: hasn't seen more time on the field. Coach McDermott specifically

874
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 2: referenced the touchdown he gave up to T Higgins as

875
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Speaker 2: an example. So yeah, I mean he's a work in progress.

876
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Speaker 2: I would like this is just me personally. I wish

877
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Speaker 2: he would see more time because I want him to

878
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Speaker 2: take his lumps now so he's more of a contributor

879
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Speaker 2: for this team when they reach the postseason because he

880
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 2: already missed the first half of the season. I want

881
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Speaker 2: him learning as much as possible now over this final

882
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 2: month of the regular season in the hopes that he

883
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Speaker 2: makes progress through those ups and downs and is a

884
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: more dependable player and a bigger contributor for this team

885
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 2: in the postseason. That's just me, though, Yeah, I'm not

886
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 2: with him every day. I'm not on the practice field.

887
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Speaker 1: You think about it, though, it was a tough ask

888
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: last week because yes, Max gave up that early touchdown

889
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: to T Higgins, Trey White gave up one late, So

890
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 1: take your choice, right.

891
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: And Harrison is unquestionably a better physical athlete at this

892
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 2: point in time.

893
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: He's been faster, although Trey's significantly I think a little bigger.

894
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: But they both got thrown in there against T Higgins

895
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: and Higgins kind a touchdown on both of them, so

896
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 1: you're kind of like, you know, take your choice. Don't

897
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: know if there were anything about the conditions that led

898
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: to playtime choices or Trey's experience or whatever. Maybe they

899
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: nodded towards that, But you're right, it is I don't know.

900
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: It's a question needs to be asked about why he's

901
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: not playing and why snap counts are what they are.

902
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: Don't know if we have a true answer for it.

903
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, got to take a break here.

904
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Speaker 2: When we come back, our number two begins with ESPN

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Speaker 2: NFL analyst dan or Alofsky. He'll make his weekly visit

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Speaker 2: with us to talk about the game that was and

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Speaker 2: the jaigundo one that is coming up on Sunday Bill's Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Here on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and we welcome in

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Speaker 2: now our weekly guest on Tuesday days. It's ESPN NFL

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00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,279
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917
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Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills. And man, it was a wild

918
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Speaker 2: one here on Sunday, a shootout that I think many

919
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Speaker 2: of us thought certainly had the potential to happen, and

920
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Speaker 2: sure enough it did, and in the end, the Bills

921
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Speaker 2: defense gets the requisite stops needed to kind of turn

922
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Speaker 2: that game around for Buffalo as they were chasing the

923
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: game right from the jump. But something that we've been discussing, Dan,

924
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 2: and you've been discussing probably for the better part of

925
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: the last two years, is the use of under center

926
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Speaker 2: play action for the Bill's offense. And they got to

927
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Speaker 2: it very early first play of the game, thirty two

928
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Speaker 2: yards to Dawson Knox and off they went after that.

929
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I loved it. It was the most they used

930
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Speaker 9: it this season. It was the most yardage they had

931
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Speaker 9: out of it, it was the most touch they had

932
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Speaker 9: out of it, it was the most completions they had

933
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Speaker 9: out of it.

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Speaker 3: And so.

935
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Speaker 9: Chris, I think it's something that when you take a

936
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Speaker 9: look back and you're obviously heart of December playoff run

937
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 9: and you go, really, who are we or who can

938
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Speaker 9: we be if we need to be our best? And

939
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Speaker 9: I think that this past Sunday was the polaroid of that.

940
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 9: They the perimeter players. The wide receivers are who they are.

941
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 10: Can you win with them? I think the body of work.

942
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 9: Says yes, Is there a very specific way that you

943
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 9: have to win with them? Yes, you're not going to

944
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 9: line up like Cincinnati and call pass plays one.

945
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Speaker 10: On one routes and consistently, you know, win on the perimeter.

946
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Speaker 9: But I think that putting the quarterback under center because

947
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 9: they do in their run game that they don't really

948
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 9: have the gun run game as much as they did

949
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 9: last year. This year is a more under center run

950
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 9: game and utilizing not only play action, but I also

951
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 9: had the complaint that the play action passes were kind

952
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 9: of one of two things, and we saw more different

953
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Speaker 9: versions of play action this past week in which I like,

954
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Speaker 9: the first play you're talking about is the power pass.

955
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 9: We saw the play action with twenty two personnel when

956
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Speaker 9: it's that three man concept and not necessarily over the ball.

957
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 9: We saw the gun play action where they become a

958
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Speaker 9: flood to one side and bring four people to a

959
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 9: side of the ball. So not only that, but the

960
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 9: variety of the play action passes and the different schemes

961
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Speaker 9: that they utilized and protections I was a fan of

962
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Speaker 9: and I think it incorporates everybody on their offense. It protects,

963
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Speaker 9: It allows the tight ends and the backs to be

964
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Speaker 9: the focal point of the pass game while also not

965
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Speaker 9: ignoring the wide receivers. And you know, if I had

966
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 9: to pick kind of what is the game plan have

967
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Speaker 9: to be on this final month and for Buffalo fans

968
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Speaker 9: hopefully into the playoffs, it's something that looks very similar

969
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Speaker 9: to Sunday.

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Speaker 1: How does a confidence of the defense because you say

971
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: play action pass because the defense, you want to make

972
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Speaker 1: the defense think it's a run. And if you can

973
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: do that, doesn't and I hate to go into this

974
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: this kind of esoteric kind of you know, thought process,

975
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: but if the defense is really confident they can stop

976
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: your run, doesn't it make it easier for them to

977
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Speaker 1: stop your play action pass because they don't feel like

978
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: they got to dive into the line of scrimmage. And

979
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Speaker 1: how does the defense's ability to stop your run affect

980
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: the play action because you know, Patriot defense is no slouch.

981
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a little different game on Sunday

982
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 1: than it was this last Sunday.

983
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a great question that's got layers to it.

984
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 9: Hosten's the perfect example defensively. I have said this, when

985
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 9: I watch Houston's defense, I'm always going everybody in their

986
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 9: defense ball gets nat this downhill, but backers fill, safeties fill,

987
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 9: and so my natural reactions go, Okay, well you kill

988
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:58,959
Speaker 9: them in play action, and then you watch them defend

989
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 9: the play action, you're like, how, oh, how are you

990
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 9: so good at both of those things. I've always believed

991
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 9: in this, Steve number one, Most defensive players grow up

992
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 9: always from the first time they start playing football to

993
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 9: the present moment, hearing.

994
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 10: Gotta stop the un gotta stop the run, gotta stop

995
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 10: their run. That's just how they grow up being taught.

996
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 9: And so I always believe that defensive players are going

997
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 9: to be intrinsically motivated or wired or taught go get

998
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 9: the football, no matter what it looks like. And so

999
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 9: you don't necessarily have to dominate in the run game

1000
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 9: to have a effective play action game.

1001
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 10: Has always been my thought.

1002
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 9: Now, I have to have the play action look like

1003
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Speaker 9: my runs though.

1004
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 10: That's the big thing.

1005
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 9: No matter if a defense is good at defending run

1006
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 9: or not, your run has to look or your play

1007
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 9: action has to look like your run. So do the

1008
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 9: formations look the same, does the action of the quarterback

1009
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,720
Speaker 9: and the tailback look the same. Does the the feel

1010
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 9: of the offensive line. And that's the area that I

1011
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 9: would tell you is probably the biggest difference between a

1012
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 9: good play action team offensively and one that's not good.

1013
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 10: What does the offensive line feel like at the snap?

1014
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 9: Defenses are smart if you're not showing some form of

1015
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 9: that first step or two run where your pads are

1016
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 9: a little bit lower, you're popping off the ball.

1017
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 10: Your helmet's down. This looks like run.

1018
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 9: Those guys are gonna get coached up well to say, Okay,

1019
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 9: no matter what's going on, if that offensive line or

1020
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 9: if that tackle immediately stands up and his helmet goes up,

1021
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 9: you don't have to worry about that being a run.

1022
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 9: That's going to be a play action And so I

1023
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 9: think that's a really big part of it. Obviously, the

1024
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 9: better you run it, the more the defense is going

1025
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 9: to be committed to trying stopping it, either action or numbers.

1026
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 10: And New England's a really good defense.

1027
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 9: I think that New England's defense, you know, as big

1028
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 9: bodies in the middle linebackers that are very active, they

1029
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 9: set the at an incredibly high level. But if you're

1030
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 9: taught well offensively, you can be a good play action

1031
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 9: team without being the best run team in football.

1032
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 2: A second layer of that play action passing game. It

1033
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: was hard to ignore the production of the tight ends

1034
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: when the game was over, eleven catches for the three

1035
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 2: of them combined one hundred and thirty seven yards and

1036
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 2: two touchdowns against the defense that has been rather porous

1037
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 2: in defending tight ends, the worst in the league as

1038
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: a matter of fact in Cincinnati. Would you consider the

1039
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 2: explosion in production at the tight end position by the

1040
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 2: Bills a one off base largely on opponent or do

1041
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 2: you think they may have been reminded. Oh, you know what,

1042
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: it doesn't just have to be concaid all the time.

1043
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 2: We might be able to fan out our tight end

1044
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 2: usage going forward in the passing game.

1045
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it starts with Dalton in Dalton's health

1046
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 9: is a big deal because of all the different things

1047
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 9: you can do in your offense with him, formation, motion, action,

1048
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 9: and then the attention that he gathers. Dawson Knox has

1049
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 9: been a good player for years in Buffalo. Is he

1050
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 9: as a high level of player as Dulton one on

1051
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 9: one matchup? Probably not. That doesn't mean that he's not

1052
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 9: a really good player. And so, yeah, I think Chris

1053
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 9: you for a couple of weeks now, it's been this

1054
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 9: trend of there's this giant question market wide receiver and

1055
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 9: are they good enough? And Holman's bench and Shakir and

1056
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 9: Shavers and you know, Gabe Davis has come in and

1057
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 9: brought some nice moments. And I think over the past

1058
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 9: month that's why you sit there and go. You start

1059
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 9: to really maybe it's a little bit late than desire,

1060
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 9: but you're really figuring out who you are in your

1061
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 9: past game. And yeah, their past game should be at

1062
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 9: least a focal point should be.

1063
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 10: Those backs and tight ends as pass catchers.

1064
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 9: And so does that mean that I don't I'm not

1065
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 9: impressed with some of the stuff the receivers have done,

1066
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Speaker 9: not at all.

1067
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Speaker 1: I just mentioned.

1068
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Speaker 9: I think Gabe has done some stuff gave obviously in

1069
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 9: the broken plays. He's got a good understanding of what

1070
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 9: Josh wants to do. Same with Shakir. Shoot, it's Shafer's

1071
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 9: has done some nice stuff. He's good in the run game.

1072
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 9: He won one on one on the perimeter and a

1073
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 9: contested catch, And so I think you have to be

1074
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 9: encouraged by some of those guys.

1075
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 10: But yeah, I believe that you guys know where I

1076
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 10: stand when it comes to this offense.

1077
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 9: If this offense has Dalton, k and Kate healthy and

1078
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 9: obviously the line, I think this offense can score thirty

1079
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 9: on about anybody, specifically if they're home. And so, yes,

1080
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 9: the Bengals are not a good defensive team, but they

1081
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 9: did exactly what they should do to a bad defensive team.

1082
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: So I guess we shouldn't get too deep into this

1083
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: before we ask you about your thoughts on the way

1084
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Speaker 1: Josh played this last weekend. I mean, it's just another one.

1085
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: You can throw this on a stack of a lot

1086
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: of games that look like this, and some say something

1087
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: is too many, and I get that he's doing too much.

1088
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: But once again, and you know, he he is the engine,

1089
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: and he revved on.

1090
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 3: The sixth higher. He gets better. Yeah every time.

1091
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he rebbed his engine against a bad football

1092
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: team and it showed. I mean, the guy was unbelievable.

1093
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 9: If you had asked me eight weeks ago, six weeks ago,

1094
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 9: Josh in the MVP conversation, I would have said, Nah,

1095
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 9: just not playing good enough. If you would have asked

1096
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 9: me maybe four or three weeks ago, as Josh in

1097
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 9: the MVP conversation, I would have said, Nah, just not

1098
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 9: good enough this year, not consistent enough this year, and

1099
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,479
Speaker 9: then in the last two or three weeks he's played

1100
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 9: himself very much. So into the MVP conversation, I was

1101
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 9: surprised because Josh has had a down year. I don't

1102
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 9: saying that negatively, Steve, I just want to be honest,

1103
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 9: especially if we've seen some of the seasons he's had.

1104
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 10: He's second in the NFL in touchdowns.

1105
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 9: Matthew Stafford, who I would probably put at one B

1106
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 9: in the MVP race, is first in the NFL with

1107
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 9: thirty five touchdowns. Josh in his second in the NFL

1108
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 9: with thirty four touchdowns in a year where he's not dominating,

1109
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 9: maybe in the way that we grew accustomed to. A

1110
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 9: month left, is it far fetched for Josh to have

1111
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 9: another forty five touchdown season.

1112
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 10: No, I would argue that it's more than likely.

1113
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 9: And so I think that to your guys point, he's

1114
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 9: starting to play his best football coming off of a

1115
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 9: game against Houston where there's a lot of variables where

1116
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 9: you don't play well and hopefully people can watch the

1117
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 9: Chiefs and one of the great quarterbacks of all time

1118
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 9: struggle and go, Okay, maybe Buffalo isn't as bad as

1119
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 9: it looked. For stretches. I just thought, obviously the play

1120
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Speaker 9: action pass game. But Steve, you just go down the

1121
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 9: notes and I call him above the ex's.

1122
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 10: And oh's plus plays.

1123
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Speaker 9: I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

1124
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 9: ten plays. Where you go, that's not coaching, that's not

1125
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 9: a great design or scheme. That's the quarterback doing something

1126
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 9: above the play call that becomes a very high end play,

1127
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,919
Speaker 9: a highly productive and or explosive play.

1128
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Speaker 10: So it's good to see that out of him.

1129
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 9: And and is he doing too much? Sure, but the sun

1130
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 9: is going to rise tomorrow as well. So that's a duh.

1131
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 9: You know, it's it's Josh Allen, it's the Buffalo Bills.

1132
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, flipping it over to the defense. Obviously, the Bills

1133
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 2: have had a man power issue on that side of

1134
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 2: the ball virtually the entire season, due largely to injuries.

1135
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 3: You know.

1136
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 2: And all you got to do is look at last

1137
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 2: week and Joe Burrow until they decided to start heating

1138
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 2: him up with blitz his head all day to pick

1139
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: and choose where he wanted to go with the football.

1140
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 2: But you have no Ed Oliver, Michael Hoyt's done for

1141
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 2: the season, and you don't have Joey Bosa because of

1142
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 2: a hamstring injury. That's your three best pass rushers not

1143
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 2: a part of the equation. So they had to turn

1144
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 2: to sending more guys, and boy has it been fruitful

1145
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 2: when they blitz Christian Benford off the corner the last

1146
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 2: two weeks. Uncanny not just take but defensive touchdowns. What

1147
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 2: is what do you think is realistic for this defense

1148
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 2: down the stretch here? Because I'm of the belief that

1149
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 2: all you need to ask this defense to do, conceivably

1150
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 2: when Josh is playing a quarterback of comparable ability, and

1151
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 2: this would be an example of that this week, just

1152
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 2: get him three or four stops. You don't even need takeaways. Necessarily,

1153
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 2: get four stops in this game, and you should, conceivably,

1154
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 2: as long as you're not turning the ball over, have

1155
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 2: a chance to win the game.

1156
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would agree.

1157
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 9: It's three or four stops, three or four different times

1158
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 9: you get the ball back for Josh and this offense

1159
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 9: specifically at home. I know I'm probably in the minority here.

1160
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 9: I actually thought there was some good stuff from the defense.

1161
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 10: I really did.

1162
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 9: I thought the defense played better statistically or better than

1163
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 9: the stats would show. I thought Walker was really good

1164
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 9: at times, both in the run and the pass game.

1165
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 9: I thought coverage like five or six times. If I

1166
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 9: was Bobby Babbage, I would sit there and Sean McDermot

1167
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 9: and go, I can't necessarily ask you to cover it better.

1168
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 9: You just got beat by a great throw and you

1169
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 9: got to give credit to Burrow in the receivers at time.

1170
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 10: I really believe that a lot of times.

1171
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 9: I'm sitting there going, gosh, it's a twenty five yard game,

1172
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 9: but the guys in his back pocket, his arm is

1173
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 9: in between the receivers.

1174
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 10: Hands, and the ball just gets completed.

1175
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 9: Do I think that there were moments when they were

1176
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 9: too reactive to stuff, and that's been the case for

1177
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 9: this year when it comes to some of their eye discipline.

1178
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 10: Yes, you mentioned the lack of pass rush. Yes, but

1179
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 10: I was more encouraged.

1180
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 9: After watching the tape than going, oh my gosh, they

1181
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 9: gave up thirty four points and got absolutely shredded. I

1182
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 9: think that there is a little bit of reality where

1183
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 9: you're not going to face a pass game that is

1184
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 9: as clinical is the one that they saw on Sunday,

1185
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 9: And if they keep covering that way strategic pressures, guy

1186
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 9: steps here and the steps up here and there, I

1187
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 9: think they'll be okay.

1188
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 10: Joey's got to get healthy and they're gonna have to.

1189
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 9: Like if I was a defen on offense going in,

1190
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 9: you're gonna get thirty snaps of misdirection, whether it's a

1191
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 9: run or a pass. And they I really would like

1192
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 9: to see their defense solidify and clean that up.

1193
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 2: They did make both these offenses the last two weeks

1194
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 2: one dimensional. I mean they held both of them to

1195
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 2: under seventy five yards rushing. The run defense has been better.

1196
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 10: Parker was really good this game in the run game.

1197
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 9: For me, like I thought holding the point, I thought

1198
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:40,479
Speaker 9: getting skinny at times, I thought getting down the line

1199
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 9: of scrimmage with some runs. I really think that the

1200
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 9: run game, the discipline, the integrity, the not wanting to

1201
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 9: go make the play and run myself out of gap,

1202
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 9: has been much improved over the last two weeks.

1203
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: All right, we get as we get down to this

1204
01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: last month of the season. Right now, the Bills are

1205
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: the exceed They got a leap frog by the Chargers

1206
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: yesterday on their winning as Philly. We talk about home

1207
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,960
Speaker 1: and road games. Buffalo is and we've talked about this

1208
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: in your past visits with us. It's hard for Buffalo,

1209
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: particularly like in that Houston game, in the Atlanta game,

1210
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: where you go into a stadium where you need to

1211
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: communicate pre snap, shift, motion, do all that. It's really

1212
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,920
Speaker 1: tough for Buffalo to be as efficient on the road

1213
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: as it is now. And you've said that here on

1214
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: the show before. How about a team like Houston or Denver.

1215
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: Those teams on the road are a little bit better off,

1216
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: and particularly like in a playoff atmosphere where their defense

1217
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: is kind of the engine of what makes things run

1218
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: right and they can communicate and still do what they

1219
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: want to do on a road environment. So how much

1220
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: of that may or may not affect you know, this

1221
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: tournament coming up wide open AFC teams in the play

1222
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: we don't even know who they're gonna be, but you know,

1223
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: we expect the Bills to be a part of that.

1224
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:11,959
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to go on the road.

1225
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 9: The way it looks, yeah, I mean this game this

1226
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 9: coming Sunday is obviously the game if they find a

1227
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 9: way to go to New England and win they got

1228
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 9: a chance to have people come to their place.

1229
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 10: If they don't find a way to win this.

1230
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 9: Game, obviously you're still sitting there with a question mark

1231
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 9: on the playoffs, even though you would still believe find

1232
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 9: a way to win one more game and get in.

1233
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 10: But then it's also going on the road.

1234
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 9: Big picture view, Steve Patrick doesn't feel like he's getting in.

1235
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 9: Lamar just doesn't feel like he's gonna get in. They're

1236
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 9: still in the conversation, but Lamar doesn't look like Lamar.

1237
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 10: Burrow's not getting in.

1238
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 9: It'll be the easiest path, Josh Allen when it comes

1239
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 9: to having to go knock off one of those great,

1240
01:06:56,520 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 9: great Hall of Fame trending quarterbacks, easiest path he's ever had.

1241
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 9: So maybe not the best team that he's had in

1242
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 9: trying to do that, but not having to beat those guys, it.

1243
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 10: Puts added expectation and pressure on it.

1244
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 9: I think, if this offense is healthy and I look

1245
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 9: at matchups, can they go on the road and beat

1246
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 9: an Indy in Indy?

1247
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 10: Yes?

1248
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 9: Can they go on the road and beat a Jacksonville Yes.

1249
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 9: I would tell you they match up well versus Denver,

1250
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 9: because to throw the ball against Denver you got to

1251
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 9: have backs and tight ends and that's the focus point.

1252
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 9: So can they go on the road and beat to Denver?

1253
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 10: Yes?

1254
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 9: Can they go on the road and beat the Chargers? Absolutely?

1255
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 9: The Chargers offensive line is just decimated by injuries. Houston

1256
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 9: would be the one that would give me a high

1257
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 9: level of caution.

1258
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 10: Could they go on the road and beat Pittsburgh one?

1259
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 10: So you know Houston?

1260
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 9: Yes, all that like that would be And I think

1261
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 9: Steve a lot of teams in the AC don't want

1262
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 9: to go to Houston. I don't think anybody's like sign

1263
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 9: me up to play that defense whole or away.

1264
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 4: And so.

1265
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that this Sunday's game is going to

1266
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 9: go long, long way to determine how confident.

1267
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 10: But make no mistake about it.

1268
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 9: If they're at home, if they find a way to

1269
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 9: win Sunday and win the division, they should go.

1270
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 10: To Santa Clara. If they got to go on the road,

1271
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 10: they can.

1272
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 2: All right, So Dan quickly on the Patriots. Where do

1273
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:24,639
Speaker 2: you think they are most improved now from where they

1274
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 2: were in Week five when they last played Buffalo.

1275
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, from an offensive perspective, the amount of information they're

1276
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:35,440
Speaker 9: giving Drake Man at the line of scrimmage.

1277
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 10: It's like he's a five year veteran.

1278
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 9: They are calling three or four plays per huddle, and

1279
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 9: you're going to see these motions and shifts and he's

1280
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 9: going to get them in and out of plays that

1281
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 9: are ideal versus the look that you're presenting him. So

1282
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 9: one the different ways that they can get in and

1283
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 9: out of plays. Two, the different personnels that they're throwing

1284
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 9: out there, utilization of the two tight ends, utilization of

1285
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 9: the two backs. Booti's be stepped up and become a

1286
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 9: big time player. The pocket movement of the quarterback has

1287
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 9: really grown this year. He very rarely hangs in the

1288
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 9: same place. He's constantly avoiding pressure, his understanding of how

1289
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 9: the rush is matched with coverage. He doesn't take a

1290
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 9: lot of sacks. And so like there's there's been this

1291
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 9: is a good offense. This is an offense that's humming. Obviously,

1292
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 9: the left tackle, who's been an outstanding player, is out

1293
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,799
Speaker 9: there constantly committing to protecting the quarterback.

1294
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:37,799
Speaker 10: You're gonna see double edges chipped all the time.

1295
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 9: And so you live in this world, Chris, you're just

1296
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 9: mentioning the pressures. Is that something you really want to

1297
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 9: get into because New England's like, we're gonna make sure

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Speaker 9: your pressure at least doesn't get a starting point. From

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Speaker 9: the defensive perspective, they're healthy on the back end. They

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01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 9: set the edge in the run game fantastic And I've

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01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 9: been outspoken. New England fans don't like me if you're

1302
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 9: gonna play nickel defense as much as the they do.

1303
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 9: This is a Gilliam game, this is a Jackson Hawes game.

1304
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 9: You got to stop my run with five defensive backs

1305
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 9: on the field on a consistent basis.

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01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, very quickly.

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01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 2: I know you had a little fun with the telecast,

1308
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 2: the Fun Day telecast with you got a character, I

1309
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 2: mean you were turned into a cartoon.

1310
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Monsters Inc.

1311
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,800
Speaker 2: There What was what was that whole thing like? And

1312
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 2: did you have say on what you were going to

1313
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 2: look like? Because that's a that's a hell of a caricature.

1314
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 9: No say in what I was going to look like.

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 9: That's that what was presented to me, Chris. It's a

1316
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 9: lot of fun.

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01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 10: You know.

1318
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 9: I have kids who kind of grew up. I have

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01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 9: thirteen year old sons and a ten year old daughter.

1320
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 9: They grew up in the Monsters Inc.

1321
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 3: World.

1322
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 9: They love Pixar and Disney movies. My one son, Madden

1323
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 9: is autistic. His love and superpower is animation and character creation.

1324
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 10: So he was the have his person on the planet.

1325
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 9: So when I got presented the opportunity to do it,

1326
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 9: it was an easy yes for me, strictly for Madden.

1327
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 9: If Madden enjoyed it, you know it was worth it.

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01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 10: I love doing it.

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01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 9: I think it's a cool way to watch football. I

1330
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 9: think it's a different We watched football all the time

1331
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 9: in America. Every single day there's a football game on.

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01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 9: They're presented the same way, you know, and so it's

1333
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 9: just a different way to present it, different way to

1334
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 9: watch it with your kids.

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Speaker 10: And he was the happiest kid on the planet waking

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01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 10: up this morning. So it was it was a fun

1337
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 10: experience for.

1338
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: Me to do it again.

1339
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 3: What was Madden's review of your character?

1340
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 1: Look?

1341
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:31,680
Speaker 3: What did he think of it?

1342
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 2: Would he have drawn it that way? You think, because

1343
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 2: he's probably drawn a few times.

1344
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, he would probably have me something looking like that.

1345
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 9: He's he liked it. He loved it more than the

1346
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 9: other two. Like the other two thirteen year old boys

1347
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 9: are a little bit more mature than him.

1348
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 10: They're a little bit too cool school for school for

1349
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:51,799
Speaker 10: his teenage.

1350
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 9: But he was like, my wife sent me videos all

1351
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 9: night of just him watching it, him interacting with it. So, yeah,

1352
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 9: Mike character, if he had drawn my character, there was

1353
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 9: probably gonna be some similarity for sure.

1354
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: Okay, good stuff, Dan, Thanks man, it's good seeing you.

1355
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 10: Great to see you guys. Enjoy this weekend, right.

1356
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,160
Speaker 2: All right, we'll catch up you next week. That's ESPN

1357
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 2: NFL analyst Dan or Alofsky joining us. Yeah, did the

1358
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 2: Monsters Ink Fun Day telecast of Monday Night Football last

1359
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 2: night as a character as you saw there? And I

1360
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 2: guess it could have been worse, right, Like, I guess

1361
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 2: he could have. They did capture the hands. I mean,

1362
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 2: Dan has big like throw the ball, spin it with

1363
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 2: big hands. They gave him some big hands there, and

1364
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 2: they had the hair cooff, correct, that was that was

1365
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 2: on the money.

1366
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 3: So they did well there.

1367
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: That's about it.

1368
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not gonna I have stood next to Dan,

1369
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 2: so he's tall, so the legs probably right. Yeah, it

1370
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 2: could have been worse. I mean they could have drawn

1371
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 2: him like Patrick Starr. That's right, you know, So that's right.

1372
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 2: I think all things considered, they did all right, there. Uh,

1373
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 2: we have to take a break, but we're back to

1374
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 2: your phone calls when we return. Also, the latest installment

1375
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,679
Speaker 2: of the Tailgate tag Along, Steve and I had some

1376
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 2: of the best tailgate fair of the season. You'll want

1377
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 2: to see what it was next here on one Bill's Live.

1378
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:34,759
Speaker 3: Stay with us, all right.

1379
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 2: Winter weather has struck Western New York, but it hasn't

1380
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,719
Speaker 2: stopped the Tailgate tag Along Steve. There is Skyway chili

1381
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 2: and venison on the menu today, I know.

1382
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: And here's the thing I had. It was a little cool.

1383
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: I had to have a warm up cigar before we

1384
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: got started. So bear with us. It's gonna be fun.

1385
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: Though it's gonna be great.

1386
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 3: I know the weather will not impact us one bit.

1387
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: Roll out, let's go. So let me ask it. So

1388
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: this is let me just say, very nice spot. How

1389
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: long have you been here since Rolph Wilson died? Okay,

1390
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: since Ralph.

1391
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 3: Past fourteen, so that's like eleven years twelve.

1392
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: Years before they parked across the road over there, so

1393
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: they'd been a house burn down there, and oh, I

1394
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 1: think all what moved here? I will say this is

1395
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: a very nice place.

1396
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 2: Nineteen all right, So David, you impressed us with your

1397
01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 2: venison on the menu.

1398
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 11: I got to tell you my medicine frediates from jenes Seal.

1399
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 3: Okay, oh Tennessee love it.

1400
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 1: Okay. He got up and met me on the way

1401
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: here to make sure I appreciate the dedication. So look

1402
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: at the hands.

1403
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,639
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, that's chilly. Oh my gosh.

1404
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: Here yeah, yeah you can.

1405
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:50,759
Speaker 3: Green beans?

1406
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: No, okay, I was like, I just I almost.

1407
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 2: Got forced e green bean castle at Thanksgiving last week.

1408
01:14:58,479 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 3: I wasn't doing that either.

1409
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: The co s are here for you. The cops are

1410
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:01,600
Speaker 1: here for you.

1411
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 3: Hold me over. This is hard to do with a

1412
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 3: microphone in your hand.

1413
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: I know, I got.

1414
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 3: All there you go?

1415
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: You ready?

1416
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 2: We go?

1417
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:10,840
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1418
01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: Whoa perfect?

1419
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 3: Oh this is great. You know what the sausage. The

1420
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 3: sausage helps.

1421
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:21,679
Speaker 1: Sausage gives it. It gives us some girth.

1422
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 4: That's good.

1423
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that sausage like pasta, these type of things.

1424
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 2: That sauce is like sweet, it's got like a sweet

1425
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 2: what's the what what's the secret idea?

1426
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 4: Wait?

1427
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait hold on,

1428
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: I just ate something that you don't know what's in it. Dope,

1429
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: not at all, not at all. Other than the butters

1430
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: of sausage. Are you gonna eat it? Yes? Okay, all right,

1431
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 1: then that's better. So you have another dish we gotta

1432
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: try as well. Right, this is a chili love it?

1433
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 3: There you go.

1434
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,560
Speaker 2: You can throw a little more. Yeah, yeah, get a

1435
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:55,640
Speaker 2: little meat in there for me. That's good, Thank you.

1436
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 1: Just give me the rest of that later, right, that's

1437
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: perfect purpose cheese there, all right, I'll throw some cheese

1438
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 1: on there.

1439
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 3: Get in here so these guys can get this on

1440
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 3: the one shot head.

1441
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: Here we go. Oh yeah, Oh, that's got a nice

1442
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: smoke on it.

1443
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 3: There's a definite smoke flavor.

1444
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:18,759
Speaker 1: And they're very different, very different.

1445
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:19,839
Speaker 3: This is smoky.

1446
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1447
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: Sweet, Now, so you do you put some.

1448
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 3: Pepper in there for the smoke, so you use that.

1449
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: So you do know what's in the chili? Yes, I do.

1450
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. This is.

1451
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 3: Card well done, well done.

1452
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

1453
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 3: We wants us to thank you for letting us sample

1454
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 3: some of your food.

1455
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: Fair.

1456
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 3: So that's from them, so you can replenish for the.

1457
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 2: Next tail game and be ready since you said you

1458
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,759
Speaker 2: don't miss these games, so you'll be at the next.

1459
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: One family for Christmas miss one time? Yeah, I got it.

1460
01:16:58,360 --> 01:16:59,719
Speaker 3: Well, merry Christmas to you guys.

1461
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: Good to see all say. They're way up on my

1462
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 1: priority Listen, this is one of my favorites because they

1463
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: gave me a cigar. I don't want to say anything.

1464
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 3: He's easy to please. He's too easy.

1465
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: I can be bought one, two, three, All right, on

1466
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: to the next one. Look at this, that's what I'm

1467
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: talking about. Come on, we'll see these might hit. Let's

1468
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: try the FNK. Look at this is. Let me just say,

1469
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: this preparation is key. This little tiered system here, I

1470
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: like it.

1471
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 3: Well, get us, get us some utensils out of over there.

1472
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 3: What you're doing?

1473
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 5: All right?

1474
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: Alright? You got me on that one. I should have

1475
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: been on it.

1476
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:42,879
Speaker 3: This is Oh my god, he's got toasted buns.

1477
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: We got garlic oil, toasted garlic oil, toasted bread.

1478
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 2: Christine, I gotta tell us how long you how long

1479
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 2: you've been setting up here?

1480
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 1: We got here at six forty five this morning.

1481
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 3: I'm talking about how many years have you been setting me?

1482
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,080
Speaker 1: Just five years? I moved here five years ago. A

1483
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: five years ago? Awesome?

1484
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 3: So where you grew up a bills fan or I.

1485
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:05,520
Speaker 1: Grew up a Bills fan. I'm a I'm a complicated story.

1486
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 2: All right.

1487
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 4: So where were you?

1488
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 3: Where were you before moving.

1489
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,679
Speaker 1: Here Northern Maryland? I was in near Hanover, PA.

1490
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 3: As Steve says, a pilgrim and an unholy land bill.

1491
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome to home.

1492
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 3: Me and my friend here.

1493
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 11: I met him on Instagram and I saw his chicken wings,

1494
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 11: and I go, everything you cook looks way better than mine.

1495
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 1: You have to come teach me now.

1496
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 11: We co own a barbecue company together.

1497
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 4: We uh, it's it's funny.

1498
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 11: He comes here every week and he kept coming back

1499
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 11: week after week, going, you and your friends are great people.

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01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: This everyone's very warming, accepting.

1501
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:41,479
Speaker 4: And it turns out he can cook like this.

1502
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: So why yeah, yeah, you're you're like the first guy

1503
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: on the list to get invited. Right, Ye, we did

1504
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: a garlic confused olive oil.

1505
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 3: Okay, most of them on the on the girl really fast,

1506
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 3: just get me here.

1507
01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 1: Then we've got a flank stake.

1508
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 5: It's got some girls mafia all purpose rub on there

1509
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 5: a little of our.

1510
01:18:57,240 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 1: There you go ferguson a like that out brownie and

1511
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 1: how much of it? Just a little of this right

1512
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:03,599
Speaker 1: whatever you love?

1513
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me a little spoonful of that because this

1514
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 3: is looking.

1515
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,760
Speaker 1: There, Dynamite you guys, come in, come in and grab

1516
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: one too.

1517
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 3: There we go, Stevie, Ready, here we go.

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01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is all going in.

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01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 3: Here we go, going down the hats whole thing.

1520
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I love it. Yeah for a tailgate, and

1521
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: it's very high end, very high end.

1522
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 11: That's been our thing is we want to bring a

1523
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 11: high end food to a tailgate.

1524
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:39,440
Speaker 1: App Yeah, I mean my god, flank steak with the yeah.

1525
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: Oh there's a lot in that.

1526
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 4: Oh it's so good, so good.

1527
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: So you guys this year, do you is this a

1528
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:47,759
Speaker 1: favorite dish or is this a one of a bunch?

1529
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 4: A bunch?

1530
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 11: We scatter a lot of different dishes around the course

1531
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 11: of a season. We try to tailor some things to

1532
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 11: who were playing earlier. This year when the New Orleans

1533
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 11: came to town, we did pole Boys and Jumbalaya. We

1534
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 11: but realistically it's just can we feed a crowd because

1535
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 11: food makes people happy?

1536
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 3: Right?

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01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? Doing these stories, Brownie, You know this, dude, it's

1538
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: really I tell people who come into I just drop

1539
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: by a tailgate, feed you, yeah, and they'll be friendly

1540
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 1: and you make some new friends.

1541
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 2: I gotta say, though, the bread on the bottom of

1542
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:21,600
Speaker 2: that it hits you at the end because you know

1543
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 2: the stakes on your palate first is perfect, and then

1544
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 2: the layer of the bread at the end. It's such

1545
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 2: a great chaser to the meet I'm having.

1546
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have one more.

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01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm the medium cut here. Oh yeah, yeah, the meeting

1548
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:33,680
Speaker 1: got to do that.

1549
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 2: You gotta can't be past medium, but medium rare even better.

1550
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: So how many how many years you've been coming to

1551
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: the Bills games? Just five since the nineties, Just since

1552
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: the nineties. What you're all right? What? What game from

1553
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 1: way back is your favorite?

1554
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:50,519
Speaker 5: When we beat the Dolphins for the AFC East ninety five,

1555
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 5: I believe the game division title.

1556
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: I don't remember was I around then?

1557
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 3: Yes, you are all right, You're on the field, you

1558
01:20:58,439 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 3: were in the game.

1559
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 11: So we do a stupid football podcast and one of

1560
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 11: the dumbest things I've ever said on air was that

1561
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 11: I always thought you were a linebacker because the way

1562
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 11: your physicality did not.

1563
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: Match wide receiver status, the way.

1564
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 11: You played the game. So in my head as a kid,

1565
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,680
Speaker 11: you were a linebacker playing special teams and I just

1566
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 11: I just blacked out all the touchdown passes you caught.

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01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 3: This deserved an encore. It's it's well done.

1568
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 1: Go Bills.

1569
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 3: That's super duper really good stuff. Well done, guys, Proud

1570
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 3: of you, Proud of you.

1571
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: What's for the Philly game?

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01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 4: Philly game, Philly cheeseteaks?

1573
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 11: Of course, I'm gonna do a little chuck though, and

1574
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:46,639
Speaker 11: you braize it. You gotta season it, braise it, slow,

1575
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 11: cook it, let it fall apart, and then you're gonna

1576
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,520
Speaker 11: see it hot and fast with a little smoke, provolone,

1577
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 11: peppers and onions, and then you're gonna put it inside.

1578
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 1: Of a start talking to a cook and you can't

1579
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:57,599
Speaker 1: shut them up, right.

1580
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:00,640
Speaker 2: So, uh, the good people at Wegman to kind of

1581
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 2: support our tailgate tag along want to.

1582
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 3: I want to support you as well.

1583
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 2: So that's to help you refortify the supply that we

1584
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 2: just chowed.

1585
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 3: Down for your next tailgate.

1586
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 2: All right, so you can pick up your Philly cheese

1587
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,759
Speaker 2: steak needs a Wegmans next week.

1588
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:15,400
Speaker 3: For the next home game.

1589
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: Hey, Harry, Christmas, guys, man goat Bills on three one

1590
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: two three. Thanks guys.

1591
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 3: That was super all right.

1592
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 2: This is the last tailgate tag along before Christmas. Bill's

1593
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,879
Speaker 2: got a couple of roadies before they're home for week seventeen.

1594
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 3: And eighteen Eagles jets. I wonder what the weather will

1595
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 3: be like then, just like this or worse?

1596
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, or worse.

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01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:44,760
Speaker 1: It's not bad today.

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01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:46,680
Speaker 2: It's a nice light snow and we had a lot

1599
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 2: of fun warming up with some really warm food that

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01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 2: Venison gulash and the chili over there and then.

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01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 3: Outstanding.

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01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be today. It's today's chili. It might be

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01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:00,080
Speaker 1: cool after Do.

1604
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 4: You think it might be chilly?

1605
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 3: I think it might be chilli.

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01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go.

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01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 2: That's it for this edition of the tailgate taglong We'll

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01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 2: see you after Christmas. So Merry Christmas, everybody, and our

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01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,559
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Speaker 2: participating Wegmans. No purchase necessary. Gonna take a call here

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01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 2: before we go to break to Ken in Buffalo.

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01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 3: What do you got for us?

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01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: Ken?

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01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 12: Hey, good afternoon, fellers. Tuesday, still brending and beaming over

1619
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 12: a very very meaningful win against the Cincinnati Bengals. Incidentally,

1620
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 12: what all due respect among your colleagues, who I won't

1621
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 12: mention on air, they have the nerve to suggest that

1622
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 12: this was not a quote unquote big win because according

1623
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 12: to them, had the Bills lost, they would have still

1624
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:00,080
Speaker 12: been in the playoff, which I've found to be some

1625
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 12: ridiculous because had we lost the game, then Houston would

1626
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 12: have leap frogged us from you know, from the sixth

1627
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 12: position we would fall, we'd have fell to the seventh

1628
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 12: and then in a sort of fight with the Indianapolis Coats,

1629
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,600
Speaker 12: which are similarly situated at eight to five. But to

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01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 12: cut to the chase, it was a big win and

1631
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 12: to see our team evolved like they did, and in

1632
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:23,360
Speaker 12: particular I was impressed with, as you are noted, how

1633
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 12: well we played with Josh under center. I think people

1634
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 12: lose side of the fact that he's one of the

1635
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 12: best play action quarterbacks in the game has been and

1636
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 12: the fact that this sort of alignment and this approach

1637
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 12: to offense has been underutilized. But clearly I thought Joe

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01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 12: Brady was at his best and utilizing twelve and thirteen personnel,

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01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 12: in particular presenting a strong run look, but to use

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01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 12: the play action of pivot was a great look. On

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01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 12: the other hand, as you are noted the fact that

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01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 12: Benford has emerged as this great blitzing defensive back. I

1643
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 12: thought they were creative and realizing they had to change

1644
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 12: up the blitz looks. And he's really at depth at

1645
01:24:57,880 --> 01:25:00,040
Speaker 12: disguising when he's coming. So I think that's something and

1646
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 12: look forward to. But to get to the heart of

1647
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 12: your question, which i'd like to be, this is a

1648
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 12: segway as to the playoff picture. I think that this

1649
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:09,040
Speaker 12: picture looks better than what we've had to look at

1650
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 12: in the past in the sense that it doesn't appear

1651
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 12: as though mahomes A is going to be there. It

1652
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 12: may come to pass that Lamar Jackson may not be there.

1653
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:19,719
Speaker 12: But as it stands today, in terms of the current picture,

1654
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 12: if the playoffs started today, Josh Allen is easily the

1655
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 12: best quarterback in the playoff format as it sits now,

1656
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 12: and I don't know if it's going to change dramatically,

1657
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:31,639
Speaker 12: So I think that advantage in and of itself should

1658
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 12: propel us going forward. Additionally, the fact that he played

1659
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 12: so well and put on the cape without doing too much,

1660
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 12: but stay within himself not making any careless mistakes is

1661
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 12: certainly something to feel good about. And the thing that

1662
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 12: our run defense has come along as it has, And

1663
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 12: even though Joe Brady Joe Burrow Party had a very

1664
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:50,800
Speaker 12: very good passing game, he still was held to less

1665
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 12: than three hundred yards. So those sort of indicators to

1666
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,600
Speaker 12: me suggest that this team is poised right now to

1667
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 12: really make a push. This week's game against the Maryland

1668
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:01,559
Speaker 12: will be very pivotal, and I think it's an opportunity

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01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,360
Speaker 12: for us to serve notice that we are not only

1670
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 12: still in the race, but the AFC East crown is

1671
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 12: still within reach. So I look forward to how this

1672
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 12: league plays out, and I think the playoff picture looks

1673
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 12: very promising for us going forward.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks Jim, Yeah, it was a meaningful game.

1675
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 1: I think not that they just won, but the way

1676
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: they won and how they looked it gave Bill's fans

1677
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of a glimpse of the things we've

1678
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: seen this team be good at in the past. They're

1679
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 1: still good at well, Josh. Mostly the defense is playmaking,

1680
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,599
Speaker 1: can turn out some turnovers, and the team wins because

1681
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: their offense is really efficient. Even the fact that they

1682
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 1: blew two touchdowns, which is really ten points they left

1683
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 1: on the field. They got a field goal out of

1684
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 1: the Tye Johnson trip and stumble. But if you take

1685
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: that as a touchdown and the James cook as a touchdown,

1686
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 1: if they get in the end zone down at the

1687
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:55,600
Speaker 1: other end, that's ten extra points they put on the

1688
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:58,879
Speaker 1: board on that defense. But really, because of their own mistakes,

1689
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 1: they didn't and you still win and score thirty nine

1690
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:06,600
Speaker 1: points doing it. It was a good day offensively, and

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: I think that gives Bill's fans, who maybe have had

1692
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: some doubts about where this team could go, maybe a

1693
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:16,000
Speaker 1: little bit of a glimpse of got a little bit

1694
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: more hope about how.

1695
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 2: This scene that likes to finish strong. They've done it before,

1696
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 2: so I don't know if I would rule it out.

1697
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 2: I think they could do it again. Break time for us.

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01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 2: One segment to go. We'll be back in a flash

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01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:44,679
Speaker 2: here on one Bill's Live Stay with Us. On Sunday,

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01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 2: December seventh, the Buffalo Bills, in partnership with Legends Global Merchandise,

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01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 2: recognized two high school tackle football coaches as the Coach

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01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 2: of the Year. During halftime of the Bills Bengals game.

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01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 2: Newfane High Schools Chuck Nagel and Penfield High School's Anthony

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01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 2: Bianki chosen not only for their efforts on the field,

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01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 2: but their personal and team accomplishments off the field during

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01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season. Congratulations to these coaches of

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01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 2: the Year, but also to all the coaches of the

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01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 2: week this past season. Guys are doing good work out there. Yeah,

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01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 2: got to support your scholastic coaches.

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01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: Absolutely. They are a whole crew of guys on the

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01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: field last week. Oh yeah, knowledge and all this coaches.

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01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: It's hard. That's a hard job. Man. I never wanted

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01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:29,960
Speaker 1: to be a coach.

1714
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:32,799
Speaker 3: Did you ever coach any of your kids teams?

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01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 1: I was the assistant to the assistant to the assistant

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01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:42,720
Speaker 1: for one of my kids little football teams. Okay, yeah,

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01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't make it all the Saturday games

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01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:46,600
Speaker 1: because traveling with CBS. But I'd be there during the

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01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: week and practice and stuff and talk to them. Yeah

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01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: that's cool. It was fun.

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01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:50,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good stuff.

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01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:56,720
Speaker 2: We have to pretty much turn the page completely to

1723
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 2: Bill's Patriots beginning tomorrow, and we will do that in

1724
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:04,360
Speaker 2: heart because this one is a biggie, and right now,

1725
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 2: what is it? The Bills are favored by one? Is

1726
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:11,759
Speaker 2: that what the line is right now? So that's yeah,

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01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 2: it's a razor thin margin. And I think this could

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01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 2: very much be a very back and forth game and

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01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 2: probably high higher scoring.

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01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 3: Than the first.

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01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: Remember, my friends, they don't handicap the games.

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01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 2: They handicap where the betters, Yeah, where the money is.

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Speaker 1: They handicap where they think the money's gonna get bet.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I get it.

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Speaker 2: Big Show tomorrow will be have the players back on

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Speaker 2: the practice field. We'll have all your practice updates for you,

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Speaker 2: and we'll have a player in studio joining us. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you tomorrow at one