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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by called Lida Health.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in to One Bill's Live. Hope you guys are

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Speaker 2: doing fabulous. Week fifteen is upon us. It features Round

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Speaker 2: two between the Bills and the Patriots. I'm joined by

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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker for the next couple of hours here bringing

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Speaker 2: you the latest Bills news and notes and notes from

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Speaker 2: around the NFL. The Bills are practicing right now as

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Speaker 2: we speak on the indoor field, slated to go till

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Speaker 2: about two thirty. Then we'll hear from players afterward and

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Speaker 2: hopefully get an updated injury report Steve. Yesterday, the injury

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Speaker 2: report was as follows. Linebacker Trel Bernard, who's dealing with

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Speaker 2: an elbow injury, was limited. Bosa Joey Bosa is also

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Speaker 2: limited with a hamstring and wrist injury, as well as

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Speaker 2: right tackle Spencer Brown with a shoulder injury limited, wide

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Speaker 2: receiver Joshua Palmer dealing with that ankle injury also limited,

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Speaker 2: and tight end Dawson Knox did not practice due to

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Speaker 2: personal reasons. So we'll see if any of these guys

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Speaker 2: were upgraded to full participants in Thursday's practice and see

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's even a week fifteen. Getting anybody healthier as

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Speaker 1: a plus, giving those Bosa not having to play a

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Speaker 1: complete game doing on the rehab thing, he'll come back

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Speaker 1: a little fresher. Kincaid'll probably feel a week better than

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Speaker 1: he did last week. All of this stuff eat Josh Palmer,

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Speaker 1: it'd be great to have him back on the field.

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Speaker 1: It has been a carousel out out at the edges

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Speaker 1: and see what happening. You know, Micole Hardman still in

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Speaker 2: There have been a lot of injury.

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Speaker 3: With Keon his discipline issues, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Just give us, just give us some stability out there

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Speaker 1: would be a nice healthy week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it give us a healthy week.

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Speaker 2: It looks like the group is getting healthier. I mean

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Speaker 2: injury reports that were far bigger and longer than what

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Speaker 2: I just read off and hopefully you get some of

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Speaker 2: very very important matchup with the New England Patriots, who

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Speaker 2: are sitting at eleven to two right now second place

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Speaker 2: in the AFC. They win this game, the Patriots are

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Speaker 2: crowned AFC East champions. If the Bills beat them, they

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Speaker 2: hold the Patriots off from winning the division for now.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. Buffalo still has a path to do it,

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Speaker 2: but it starts with beating the Patriots on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an important game for the Bills to.

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Speaker 1: Either postpone or whatever keep the Patriots from clinching the division.

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Speaker 1: That's this first and foremost. That's it right there.

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Speaker 3: They'll draw it.

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Speaker 1: Within a game, but you know, they still there's still

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Speaker 3: To go, So it starts with this game.

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Speaker 1: This is I think a much obviously a much bigger

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Speaker 1: The Patriots playoff ticket is pretty much punched at this point.

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Speaker 1: Even if they haven't, you know, mathematically clinched a playoff spot,

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Speaker 2: They've struggled and three and three on the road this season.

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Speaker 3: They can't.

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Speaker 2: Also eight and seven on the road since twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: And this you know obviously and people know this that

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Bill's practice updates are presented by Lee Colm

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Speaker 2: lake Erie, College of Osteopathic Medicine. If we get an

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Speaker 2: today's show, we've got it. We've got a couple fun

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Speaker 2: have a question for you today, what are your keys

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Speaker 2: so let's get to our news and notes and go

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Speaker 2: around the NFL. It's presented by Kalida Health, the official

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Speaker 2: healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills, and right off the bat. TJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt right now is in a local hospital for further

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Speaker 2: medical evaluation of his lung after experiencing discomfort at the

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Speaker 2: Monday night's game against Miami is in question. The release

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Speaker 2: provide more updates at the appropriate time. Scary news, something

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Speaker 2: you never want to see. That a player is in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they obviously the players are pretty in tune with

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Speaker 1: Watt may be one of the most significant players in

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Speaker 1: that race exactly. So, yeah, that you can bet the

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Speaker 1: Ravens aren't monitoring TJ Watt's health as much as the

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Speaker 2: Yep. Because the Ravens and the Steelers close out the

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Speaker 2: regular season with a game against each other on January fourth,

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Speaker 2: that time is to be determined. At this point, the

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Speaker 2: Ravens and defensive tackle Travis Travis Jones have reached a

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Speaker 2: three year extension worth forty point five million dollars. That's

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Speaker 2: twenty five million guaranteed. According to Ian Rapaport, Jones was

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Speaker 2: a pending free agent coming this offseason. Currently in his

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Speaker 2: round of the twenty twenty two NFL drafts. So deals

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some teams have some salary cap space and they

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Speaker 2: Bill's general manager Brandon Bean is usually ahead of the

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Speaker 2: Bengals have officially placed defensive end Trey Hendrickson on the

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Speaker 2: injured reserve list with a hip and pelvis injury. Hendrickson

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Speaker 2: Hendrickson has started in just seven games this season for Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also why teams hesitate to sign guys deep

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Speaker 2: It is Week seventeen is officially finalized Steve. The NFL

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Speaker 2: has finalized Week seventeen with a Saturday, December twenty seventh

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Speaker 2: slate of games. It will feature a double header, starting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Saturday, Saturday Football.

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel about that at.

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Speaker 3: The time of year, let's go. I like it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, at this point in the season, with all

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Speaker 2: I could do football every single day of the week.

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Speaker 1: It's a puzzle because they don't want especially Week seventeen,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get more and more teams clinching and clinching

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Speaker 1: they want to make sure that one team who still

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Speaker 2: Thinks, well, the Tampa Bay Bucks puzzle is finally coming

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Speaker 2: together because wide receiver Mike Evans is off injured reserve

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Speaker 1: I can't believe how well they played against Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: now they look like they look, you know, and Mike

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Speaker 3: But man, oh man, they look like a completely different.

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Speaker 2: Squad roller coaster ride of a season as the Colts

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Speaker 2: about the NFL referees and their CBA. NFL Executive Vice

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Speaker 2: the collective Bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL

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Speaker 2: Referees Association ends in May, so that makes this the

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to take significant steps to improve officiating pending

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Speaker 2: now the NFL can't speak to officials from the day

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Speaker 3: And that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Everybody deserves some time off, particularly when your sport's not

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be one of those games. It's gonna

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Speaker 3: You've got to win.

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Speaker 2: Wo man. Well, we know the Patriots have won ten

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Something you don't see often will be on display Sunday

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Speaker 3: Those game. These games don't happen very often. Think about it.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to win that many games in a row.

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Speaker 2: They're eleven to start is the best start for the

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Speaker 3: Eleven and two is beyond Yes, when.

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: are a hard team to beat. But that was and

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Speaker 1: that was I think just before Joe Burrow came back. Yes,

442
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Speaker 1: so they did. They played the Bengals without with and it.

443
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 2: Was without Jamar Chase because he was suspended for that.

444
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Speaker 1: Actually they played a wounded, a wounded Bengals team still

445
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Speaker 1: and then of course then right before their bye week

446
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Speaker 1: they beat the Giants and crushed them. So they're crushing

447
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: some bad teams. They're just getting by some other teams

448
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: that are bad. But as far as being I think

449
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Speaker 1: they're exactly what I thought they'd be. I just didn't

450
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Speaker 1: think that would be enough to win as many games

451
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Speaker 1: as they have. They're they're very well rounded club are

452
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, and they have handled Drake May extremely well,

453
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: extremely well. He's a good player too, but they have

454
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: done everything they can to make sure he.

455
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Speaker 3: Has some success.

456
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Speaker 1: They protect him extremely well, and the kids come through

457
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Speaker 1: for him.

458
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 3: The guys come through for him.

459
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Speaker 2: Most efficient pastor in the game this season, that's what

460
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Speaker 2: Drake May is. Leads the NFL and completion percentage with

461
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Speaker 2: seventy one and a half percent. It's got a passer

462
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Speaker 2: rating of one to eleven, which is second best in

463
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Speaker 2: the league. I mean, he's up there in so many statistics.

464
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Speaker 1: Ros McDaniels is one of the best offensive coordinators in

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Speaker 1: the league.

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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely he may be.

467
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Speaker 2: He's he's up in the What is he so good at.

468
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Speaker 3: Here's what he can do.

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Speaker 1: He certainly he protects the quarterback and does some basic

470
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Speaker 1: things extremely well.

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Speaker 3: He'll protect him or he.

472
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Speaker 1: Will adjust on the fly very quickly, and that keeps

473
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Speaker 1: you out ahead of it, which is as excellent as well.

474
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Speaker 1: But he also sets your defense up to be attacked

475
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Speaker 1: where it's weak. His pre snap information is extremely good.

476
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Speaker 1: His ability to teach his quarterback where to attack any

477
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Speaker 1: given defense. Once you recognize what it is, you attack

478
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Speaker 1: it where it's Every defense has weaknesses, right, or everybody

479
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: would play that same defense. So his ability to get

480
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Speaker 1: his quarterback to hit the defense where it's weak, where

481
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: it's vulnerable, every single snap is unpresent. And plus he

482
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Speaker 1: will sequence plays and play here, one play here, and

483
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Speaker 1: then the defense will start to think, okay, I got you,

484
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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I don't got you.

485
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Speaker 3: You know they got me.

486
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Speaker 1: So it's one of those kind of things where you

487
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Speaker 1: think they set you up for anticipating something and then

488
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: pulling the rug out from underneath.

489
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Speaker 3: You and getting it the other way.

490
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Speaker 1: So he's brilliant at that and smart move by Mike

491
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Speaker 1: 're able to keep Josh McDaniel in the building. Yeah, yeah, smart.

492
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Speaker 2: Move, Yeah, I agree. What sticks out most about New

493
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 2: England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is his ability to

494
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Speaker 2: give Drake May the information he needs before the ball

495
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Speaker 2: is snapped, with motions and things like that as a

496
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Speaker 2: telltale sign of this is what the opposing defense is in,

497
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Speaker 2: and this is how you can beat it. How you

498
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Speaker 2: beat what New England does, I believe is some disguises.

499
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: The Bills have been so good at disguising their corner

500
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Speaker 2: blitzes this season. Hey, they got Joe Burrow on two

501
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: corner blitzes last week. I believe they can use something

502
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: like that again against a younger, younger quarterback to get

503
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Speaker 2: them on the ground, to push the pocket, to make

504
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 2: them one dimensional. I'm very interested in how defensive coinertor

505
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: Bobby Babbage is gonna call this game.

506
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this too. The Bills are and the Patriots

507
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: are a little opposite. The Patriots are very good at

508
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: in the beginning of games and the Bills that flip flopped.

509
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: The point differential is high for the Patriots in the

510
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Speaker 1: first half of games and less or maybe negative in

511
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Speaker 1: the second half. It's just the opposite of that for Buffalo.

512
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Speaker 1: The Buffalo is negative in the first half and very

513
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Speaker 1: positive by a long way, first in the league.

514
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Speaker 3: In the second half.

515
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Speaker 1: So that may this that lines this game up for

516
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Speaker 1: the Patriots to go out and jump into the lead

517
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Speaker 1: and the Bills come fighting back, you know, So we'll

518
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Speaker 1: see if that's the case. Doesn't necessarily have to be

519
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: that way, obviously, But the first time these two teams met,

520
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: remember it was sixty three at halftime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Buffalo had the lead once. They were tied a

522
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Speaker 2: couple times throughout the game, and Buffalo tied it up

523
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Speaker 2: with just over two minutes to play, and the Patriots

524
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: hit a game winning fifty two yard field goal. So

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Speaker 2: when you look back at this game, for some reason,

526
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Speaker 2: it was like for me, at least before I looked

527
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 2: back at like, actually one unfolded. I forgot, you know,

528
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: the Bills were in it at the end. You kind

529
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Speaker 2: of feel like it was a game where you got

530
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: a bad taste in your mouth. They didn't play that

531
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Speaker 2: good because they had the lead just once in the game.

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Speaker 2: It kind of felt like it was the Patriots game

533
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Speaker 2: the entire way.

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Speaker 1: They turned it over three times, were minus two on

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Speaker 1: the turnover chart, and it felt like that. I remember,

536
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Speaker 1: it felt like that game got away from Buffo.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that.

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Speaker 1: Game was at home, and it's going to be tough

539
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: to go into Foxborough and have any kind of edge.

540
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: Not gonna be easy to play there.

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Speaker 3: It's not hard. It's not easy. It's a hard place

542
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Speaker 3: to play.

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Speaker 2: But you got Josh Allen on your team as Jort back,

544
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: and anything is possible. That's what I keep phoning back on.

545
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Speaker 2: I know we got to take a break, but when

546
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Speaker 2: we return, coming up at one thirty, so just a

547
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Speaker 2: couple of minutes away. We've got the legend Thurman Thomas

548
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Speaker 2: joining us next on One Bill's Live, represented by Clyde

549
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Speaker 2: Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: We are now joined by Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on and hanging out with us today.

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Speaker 2: Big game this week, Big.

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Speaker 7: Game this week, Like who was hoping like coming up

554
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 7: here and say, look, I don't even want to talk

555
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Speaker 7: about it.

556
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even want to talk that game. That

557
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 4: game is over, Like, don't even mention it.

558
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 7: Like this is like moved on, have moved on, Like

559
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 7: like like a Belichick will say, we've moved on.

560
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 4: Monday morning, We're done right in New England.

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Speaker 3: We're on in New England.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, the biggest game, biggest game of the year.

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Speaker 7: And like I said, we don't know, like is this

564
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 7: going It's New England gonna fall off and we're somehow

565
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 7: going to win the division or whatever.

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Speaker 4: You know, Like this game right here is it.

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Speaker 7: Doesn't matters without a win, without a win, and so,

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Speaker 7: uh yeah, I think it'll be tough. I think we

569
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Speaker 7: can always look at it. I mean you look at

570
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 7: New England schedule, like, you know, like who are they played,

571
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Speaker 7: you know, can they handle the Bills and Denver back

572
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 7: to back? You know, tough games back there. They haven't

573
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Speaker 7: did that really and they've It's hard enough to win

574
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Speaker 7: in the National Football League and they've done a very

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Speaker 7: good job of really putting together with eleven wins now.

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Speaker 7: And I've always been a fan of Mike Rabel. You know,

577
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 7: people are probably saying no, no, no, but he's always

578
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 7: been a good coach. I was real upset for him

579
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Speaker 7: when he got released, you know, from the Titan because

580
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 7: I thought like he built he built that really, I

581
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Speaker 7: mean he had success besides you know, Jeff Fisher being

582
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 7: old football coach there or whatever. But come into New

583
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Speaker 7: England and doing what he's doing. It's impressive. Like I said,

584
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Speaker 7: this is a National Football League. Any given week, anybody

585
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 7: can beat anybody, and they've proven that, hey with the

586
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Speaker 7: eleven wins, you know, but I'm still like, but can

587
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Speaker 7: you do it back to back to back?

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Speaker 4: And what seed or you're going to get? I mean,

589
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Speaker 4: all that is thrown right.

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Speaker 7: In there, because if you're New England, you think about

591
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Speaker 7: the years that they had.

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Speaker 6: They had the number one seed for.

593
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Speaker 4: Eighteen out of the twenty years they.

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Speaker 7: Went to the playoffs. I mean, it was always that

595
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Speaker 7: number one seed. And now are we seeing that? And

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Speaker 7: I love Drake May. I think he's a fantastic quarterback.

597
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Speaker 7: And you know, the receivers, the defense that they have.

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Speaker 7: You know, they've already beat us one, but we did

599
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Speaker 7: have three turnovers.

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Speaker 1: I just told Maddy, I expect this game to be

601
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Speaker 1: like the one here. Is gonna be a one possession game,

602
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Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be just absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Excruciating to watch, whether.

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Speaker 1: We win or lose. I think it's gonna be one

605
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Speaker 1: of those games. Every snap I'm just gonna have to

606
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: cover my eyes every snap because it's gonna be so

607
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: tension tense.

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Speaker 6: Phil, Yeah, I mean you are right.

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Speaker 7: I was just telling somebody today like, this will be

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Speaker 7: the most watched Buffalo Bills game in a while.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, because the Chiefs game got like

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Speaker 1: I had fifty eight million people watching it this year

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Speaker 1: at four twenty five.

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Speaker 3: But this, listen, this, this, this will.

615
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Speaker 4: Break some records, will be in the number one game

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Speaker 4: might be. Yeah, it will break some records.

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Speaker 3: Want to see it.

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Speaker 6: People are gonna want to see it.

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Speaker 1: Know, it's the two MVP, the two and three in

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Speaker 1: the MVP. Can if you give Matt Stafford, like if

621
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Speaker 1: he's the first guy out, this is two and three,

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Speaker 1: Drake may Josh Allen, this is and think about that.

623
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Speaker 1: These guys are gonna see each other for a while

624
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Speaker 1: twice a year, right, yeah, I.

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Speaker 6: Mean what Drake's only what second year?

626
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Speaker 5: Second year?

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Speaker 4: Josh is ninth, eighth, eighth, so got a little of

628
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Speaker 4: a six year start right there.

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Speaker 7: So I think, you know, Drake will probably play longer

630
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Speaker 7: while and Josh will be retired, you know, so if

631
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Speaker 7: he can retire with two super Bowl champions. Yeah yeah, thanks, yeah, look,

632
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 7: thanks for stopping Brown. Let Drake make do his thing.

633
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it's uh. And the thing about it is

634
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Speaker 7: that I like that it's in our division too. And

635
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 7: I say that because, you know, really, in the last

636
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 7: three or four years, we've just I mean, we've come

637
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Speaker 7: to Game twelve and the division.

638
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 4: Has already been clutched, right, you know.

639
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 7: So I think this is a little bit of different

640
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 7: mindset for the Buffalo Bills now that they know we

641
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 7: might not get the number one seed or number two seed,

642
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 7: we might be playing on the road for all three games,

643
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 7: like those are the things that you're already thinking about, Like, okay,

644
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 7: but in order to do that, we have to play.

645
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Speaker 4: We have to win this football game to keep that

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Speaker 4: trig alive.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of meaning in the game. We're talking

648
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: about it right now. As a player, how do you

649
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 2: let that meeting meaning of the game fuel you but

650
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: not freak you out so much that it handcuffs you

651
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Speaker 2: on Sunday?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: You know, for for me, it was I never really

654
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 7: changed up anything, my routine or whatever. And I think

655
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Speaker 7: the teammates that we had in that locker room, they

656
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 7: knew and they understand, so they kind of gave off

657
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 7: the vibe really of how things should be working that week,

658
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 7: you know. Don't get too high and don't get too low,

659
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Speaker 7: but just always focused on the task that you have

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00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 7: at inn and uh and I think this team, you know,

661
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 7: this is you look at the injuries.

662
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 4: You look at you know people, Oh, the offense can't

663
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 4: do this.

664
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 7: It's so predictable. And we're still right there. And this

665
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 7: may be the first time in what the first time

666
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 7: that we might not have our nemesis in the playoffs

667
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 7: being in City and and Baltimore and Baltimore. I mean,

668
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 7: those three teams might not make the playoffs and so

669
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 7: and now I know you have these new guys, these

670
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 7: new younger.

671
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 3: Bonators Drake May. Yeah, but.

672
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: You're right, it looks that looks easy. But this is

673
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: also the most injured. I mean, you took the you

674
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: took the the three best players other than Josh, The

675
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: three best players on both sides of the ball have

676
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: been chopped off at different times on the season, Ed

677
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: and Michael Hoyt. Hoyd played two games, Ed played two games,

678
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: three games, and then you know, Bosa was out the

679
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Josh Palmer's been out for a while,

680
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: Kincaid has been you know, he's had like he hasn't

681
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,479
Speaker 1: played three games in a row.

682
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 4: And this is definitely the flip of what we used

683
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 4: to see because our.

684
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 6: Players never got hurt.

685
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 7: They want they want awards for being the most like

686
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 7: top rated team as far as like keeping their players

687
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 7: healthy and stuff.

688
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 4: They've won awards about that.

689
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 7: And just now, you know, as you get older, man,

690
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 7: that's kind of what happened. What happens, you know, it

691
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 7: creeps up on you and the things that you're injured

692
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 7: now wouldn't have happened three or four years ago.

693
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: The Patriots have the third best run defense in the league.

694
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 2: The Bills had one hundred and eighteen rushing yards against

695
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: the Patriots and the first time they played them in

696
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 2: Week five. How do they make it a ground and

697
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: pound game?

698
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 7: Well, I think you I think with New England, I

699
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 7: think you kind of want to mix it up.

700
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 6: But when you mix it up, I think you have

701
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 6: to have Josh in that mixing it up.

702
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think like more some quarterback runs exact costs

703
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 7: some more quarterback runs. I mean, this is I mean,

704
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 7: everybody got to be doing something right now at this

705
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 7: point in the season.

706
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 4: So I think it's different than hate run some quarterback draws.

707
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 7: You know what I mean, just you know, make them

708
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 7: aware that, Okay, what guy is going to be signaling

709
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 7: that I got Josh one on one?

710
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 6: Where can I get.

711
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 4: Him in a position where I can change things up?

712
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 7: So I do really think, you know, being having Josh

713
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,479
Speaker 7: and like, this is a big game, and Josh usually

714
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 7: come through in big games, and if he's involved with

715
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 7: the offens, I mean, I'd probably do it on the

716
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 7: first series. Let him run like it, let him run

717
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 7: just like this is, and if we gain ten or fifteen,

718
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 7: this is the way it's gonna be. And then and

719
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 7: then you kind of like, okay, what if you start

720
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 7: handing off the cook and booh five, heresy there or whatever.

721
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 7: So when you had when Josh is out there and

722
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 7: he's operating like that the way we want him to

723
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 7: operate every single week, it makes it so hard for

724
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 7: the defense to try to control us. And we usually

725
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 7: score over thirty points, right we.

726
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: This has been one of the few teams I've seen

727
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: over the course of my experience as vast as it.

728
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, a couple of decades.

729
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: This team is able to run the football more and

730
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: score more points doing it than any team I've ever seen.

731
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, that they could run the ball for two

732
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: undred and fifty yards and hang thirty on people. And

733
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: you never used to be able to see that, right,

734
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: I mean, he never used to see that, and yet

735
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: this one still does it. And Josh Brownie calls him

736
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: to Michael Jordan in the NFL. He scored is like

737
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: nobody else scores. He's gonna have another. He's gonna have

738
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: another forty touchdown season this year. Nobody's ever had as

739
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: many in a row as he has. And so you know,

740
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: their ability and desire and I don't know, willingness to

741
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: take the ball out of his hand and hand it

742
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: off and then to use him here and there and

743
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: just still score a ton of touchdowns is really I

744
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: don't get how they do it, but they do. They do.

745
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: I mean this helps. I mean snapping off a forty

746
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: yard touchdown with a guy, I mean, okay, that's a

747
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: nice score. That that that explains a little. That explains

748
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: a little of it, A lot.

749
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 4: Of that explains a lot of it right there.

750
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: And James Cook's emergence as well.

751
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: I mean, they got it going on.

752
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, they just they're able to run

753
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: the football, dominate time of possession, and still get enough

754
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: possessions to hang thirty on people.

755
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 5: Yeah.

756
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, and I think when you're looking

757
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 7: at that, you're like, you know what.

758
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 8: And Josh's he's put up numbers, but in past, I

759
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 8: mean he'd have at least six or seven three hundred

760
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 8: or games by now, and he has how many?

761
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 6: Right?

762
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 3: Three? Maybe I got three week one.

763
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 6: Right, I think he has only three.

764
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 7: And so I mean I mean keeping that level, that

765
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 7: number down, but also having that run up around two

766
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 7: hundred to whatever.

767
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 4: I mean that that just it just wears you out.

768
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 2: One, two, three, Yeah, he's got three.

769
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he'd have that in September.

770
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 3: Four games.

771
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it yeah, So it was what do you

772
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: think this game? What do you think it's gonna look like?

773
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I said what I think. I think it's

774
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a singles possession. I think it's going to

775
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: be really difficult to watch with any kind of calm demeanor.

776
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know, you know, maybe maybe a special teams.

777
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 6: Play the size the difference.

778
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 3: They got some pretty return guys.

779
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 6: He got some pretty good return guys.

780
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 7: I mean Mike Webriel, like once again, you know he's

781
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 7: a special team guy.

782
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 4: They know how to run.

783
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 7: This is an organization of the last whatever years, but

784
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 7: they have really they make special teams a part of

785
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 7: the game and that's why they have so many.

786
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 4: They run a great screen scheme down there.

787
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really good. I'm really good, Josh, Josh McDaniel is.

788
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 3: We were talking about it before he came on.

789
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: He's a cut above. He's a really good offensive coordinator.

790
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: He had all those years with Brady and and you know,

791
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: Brady will give him some credit. You should give him

792
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: some credit as well, particularly when you see him do

793
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: it with a guy, you know, with Drake May. It's

794
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: not Tom Brady, it's Drake May. And Drake May's in

795
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: the conversation for the MVP, right.

796
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 7: And I think it was Josh Daniels that I said

797
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 7: a quote about three or four weeks ago about, you know,

798
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 7: like like telling Drake like Tom Brady wouldn't do this,

799
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 7: like like telling him like it was a court I

800
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 7: can't remember.

801
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 6: I'm sure Jay will find it.

802
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 7: But before you guys go, but it was a quote

803
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 7: like Tom Brady wouldn't do this. What do you think

804
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 7: Tom Brady would do in this situation? I'm like, man,

805
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 7: I'm like Josh, you're really throwing it at.

806
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: Me right now.

807
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so and Drake.

808
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 7: You know, he answered the question, you know, and it

809
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 7: was like, okay, let's go do it there. Yeah, I

810
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 7: mean they I mean, you know, you think I know

811
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 7: Josh McDaniel, you know, he had a couple of head

812
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 7: coaching or whatever.

813
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 4: But you know, and I think it was because of

814
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 4: Tom Brady.

815
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: Well, it's because of the success that they had, no doubt.

816
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 7: But you know, that's one of those situations that I

817
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 7: always say, like, yeah, you know, I would love to

818
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 7: be a head coach, but you know what, I'm gonna

819
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 7: sit here for twenty years and ride this young man

820
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 7: right here, like like Dick lebou you know, defense head coaching, No,

821
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 7: that's not my thing right there.

822
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 4: I'm a defensive cord.

823
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 3: Let's face it. Head coach is its own job. Of

824
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: coordinator's different job.

825
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: And you can be it's not a detriment that you're

826
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: not a head coach, but you're a fantastic coordinator.

827
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. And he is.

828
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,479
Speaker 3: He's a really good.

829
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 6: Really good quarterback, really good quarterback coach.

830
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's something you're gonna have to contend with, Yeah,

831
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: he'll be there another twenty.

832
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 6: Right, he'll be there, another will be there another ten.

833
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 3: I mean it.

834
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 7: I mean they're they're kind of like wiping the five

835
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 7: years away all into one year now, where they you know,

836
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 7: they didn't play well and so and they're back and

837
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 7: you know what, And like I said, I'm glad that

838
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 7: they are back.

839
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 6: I'm glad.

840
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 3: You know.

841
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 7: I don't even know what Miami and the Jets are

842
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 7: going to do in the division, but I think as

843
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 7: long as you have these two teams competing, it's going

844
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 7: to be a fun next six to eight years, especially Josh.

845
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about the Josh Allen factor in a

846
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 2: game like this. When you look at the two teams,

847
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 2: both are top ten on offense in terms of what

848
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 2: they average scoring. The bill are about twenty nine, the

849
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: Patriots are twenty seven. Patriots defense has given up about

850
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 2: eighteen and a half points per game. The Patriots have

851
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: struggled in the red zone both on offense and defense,

852
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: worst red zone defense in the league. They're allowing touchdowns

853
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: at a rate of seventy three percent of the time

854
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:17,919
Speaker 2: in the red zone.

855
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 3: So get you the red zone.

856
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 2: When I say those things what or who is the

857
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: X factor aside from Josh Allen.

858
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 7: Oh man, you know what, I'm gonna continue to be

859
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 7: X factor for me. You know, I want to say

860
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 7: James good, but I want to say I it's the

861
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 7: offensive line. It's our offensive line. I mean, I think

862
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 7: we haven't. You know, when you start throwing up the

863
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 7: numbers like cook is thrown up this year and Josh's

864
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 7: numbers is down in passing, but and we're the number

865
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 7: one rushing team in the National Football League, you get

866
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 7: overlooked sometimes, Like these guys have done a hell of

867
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 7: a job, and I think it's going to be the

868
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 7: offensive line that's going to be the determining factor in

869
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 7: this whether they can keep keep people off of Josh,

870
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 7: and whether they can run the football control and really

871
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 7: like you know, have that time of possession like.

872
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 4: We've never had it before.

873
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 7: Like I mean a couple of weeks ago, we had

874
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 7: it for forty six minutes, right, you know.

875
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, so get.

876
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 7: Into one of those situations to where if you're winning

877
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 7: that time of possession and not turning the.

878
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 6: Ball over.

879
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 7: And have your defense create at least one or two turnovers,

880
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 7: that's it. I mean, that's I mean that's huge, and

881
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 7: I think but it all falls on that offensive line.

882
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 9: Man.

883
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 7: If they come out, you know, ready to go. And

884
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 7: I think joshould be implemented into the to the game

885
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 7: plan early, you know, to let them know like hey,

886
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 7: we're we're all in from here on out.

887
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 6: No matter what.

888
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 2: Ye it'll be a fantastic game. I mean, I think

889
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,760
Speaker 2: everybody's looking forward to it. Week fifteen features an epic

890
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: slate of games. I know probably some people were surprised

891
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 2: like this didn't get flexed into a different window, but

892
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 2: there were so many good matchups in Week fifteen. The

893
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: NFL fans are definitely blessed with a week like this.

894
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Speaker 2: But thanks for coming on to hang out and break

895
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Speaker 2: down this huge matchup against the Patriots for Sunday.

896
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Speaker 4: Absolutely welcome, Go Bills.

897
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: Go Bills. All right, we're gonna take a break, but

898
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 2: much more next when you come back on One Bill's Live.

899
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 2: We're presented by Clydehealth on Buffalo Bill's Radium. All right,

900
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: we're back here on One Bill's Live. Great conversation with

901
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: Thurman Thomas. I would love to watch a game with

902
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 2: the two of you together. That would just be appointment

903
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 2: television right there would not be great.

904
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 3: It would not.

905
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 2: Be Hey, your phone blows up during games and I

906
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: know exactly who you're texting.

907
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: I tell you know, I've got this. We got this

908
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: text sloop.

909
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: It's Thurma Thomas, Jim Kelly, Andre Reid, Cornice Bennett, Darryl

910
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: town Me, Chris Moore, Will Wolford. There's like six or

911
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: eight of Bruce Smith is in there too. He's on

912
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: the He's on the text loop as well. So all

913
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: you can imagine and they're all, you know, obviously huge

914
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: fans of the team, and we're talking about it, and

915
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: they've got a you know, a level of knowledge and

916
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: what they're and beliefs.

917
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 3: That you know a lot of people can't share.

918
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: So you know, you have these games where these people

919
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: we're all pulling our hair out. You can imagine how

920
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: that text loop goes when they start doing it. It's yeah,

921
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny sometimes. But I've never watched a game

922
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: with any of them.

923
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 2: That's crazy that you've never watched a game with any

924
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 2: of them.

925
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 6: I don't know.

926
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Speaker 1: If I want, I don't know. I couldn't do it, man,

927
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: it would get so loud. I walked by the locker

928
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 1: room today. I was going down to the room because

929
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: going down the locker room down to the mailroom to

930
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: drop some stuff off. And I walked by the locker

931
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: room and I heard the din coming out of it.

932
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: They were having a discussion, which is it happens every

933
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: day they're in the locker room where And I was like, man,

934
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: I remember that so much. They I don't know it

935
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: was I I couldn't even tell what they were talking about.

936
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: But it was loud and it was boisterous, right, and

937
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: they were all that. Some were like that, you know,

938
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: and everybody's trying to warm up each other. Yeah, that's

939
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: what it would be like watching with those guys. It

940
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: would get so loud you can just mute the TV.

941
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: One day, we're gonna make it happen. We're gonna shoot

942
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: video of it's gonna be still documentary.

943
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: Those guys are Yeah, there are different There are a

944
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: different bunch of cats, no question.

945
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: All right, it's time for Heating up and cooling down.

946
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 2: Presented by Team Mark HVAC and Plumbing, the official residential

947
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 2: HVAC partner of the Buffalo Bills. Heating Up is Buffalo's

948
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 2: defensive turnovers. They've had six takeaways in the last four games,

949
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 2: which ties for third most in the league. You've seen

950
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: this defense really be able to turn it up a

951
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 2: notch and take over in ways in the second half

952
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 2: of games and when they need a turnover, when they

953
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 2: need to force a takeaway. Buffalo has been able to

954
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 2: do it as of late, which I think has been

955
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: so awesome to watch this defense do coming off of

956
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 2: last season when they ran it's top three in takeaways.

957
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see too.

958
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean, the entire game hinged on the two consecutive plays,

959
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: one on the Benford pick six obviously, and the next

960
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: play from scrimmage after the kickoff. You know, a Japanessa

961
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: catches the tip ball from Jordan Phillips and it's going

962
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: back the other way as well. It led to the

963
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: three straight touchdowns. The Bills went from down ten.

964
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 3: To up eleven. Yeah, that's it.

965
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a quintessential example of how those things

966
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: change everything. So that's the fact that they're getting better

967
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: on both sides of that. Certainly, the I'll say that

968
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 1: James Cook has fumbled twice in the last two games.

969
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,919
Speaker 3: Each game fingers you can bet, you get you can bet.

970
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,240
Speaker 1: The conversation have been had already, and I say listen,

971
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: you know. Uh so we'll see if they can clean

972
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: that up and continue to get turnovers.

973
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: Cooling down the Patriots run defense, I said, they're the

974
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 2: third best run defense in the league. That's if you

975
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 2: look at the season as a whole. Now, if you

976
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: look at the last three games, defensive tackle Milton Williams

977
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 2: not a part of the equation because he went on

978
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 2: IR on November fifteenth. So if you look at the

979
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 2: last three games, the Patriots are twentieth against the run,

980
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 2: allowing an average of one hundred and twenty three rushing

981
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 2: yards per game. Buffalo sits at eighteenth in terms of

982
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: run defense, which is quite an improvement from where they

983
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: have been for most of the season, just allowing one

984
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two rushing yards per game. And if

985
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: you dig a little bit deeper into the run defense,

986
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: entering their bye week, which was last week, New England's

987
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 2: run defense ranked last and success rate over their previous

988
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 2: four games, as they also have allowed an additional one

989
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: point three yards per carry four point nine total compared

990
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 2: to their first nine games.

991
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: And those games were against the Jets, the Bengals, and

992
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: the Giants. Hope that continues. The Bills are better than

993
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: the Jets, Bengals, and the Giants in the run game,

994
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have their work cutout for them. They're

995
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: gonna have They're gonna have a plan. Though they've had

996
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: an extra week, they've got the bye week, They're gonna

997
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: come fresh, and they will have a plan to stop

998
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo's running game first and foremost. They will probably feel

999
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: like they have to do that and it'll be job

1000
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: one for him. And let's see, it's gonna be There's

1001
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 1: going to be a test on both sides of the

1002
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: ball for their defensive front and also Buffalo's offensive line.

1003
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: I do wonder if Buffalo's rushing offense feels like they've

1004
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 2: grown this muscle because of the game that happened against

1005
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 2: the Steelers. You rush for two hundred and forty nine

1006
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 2: yards against that defensive line, and you go up against

1007
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots defense, it's one of the best

1008
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 2: in the NFL, but has struggled against the run as

1009
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 2: of late. Maybe this is a game you walk into

1010
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 2: the stadium with Aaron Kromer as your guru, who's coming

1011
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: up with these run cons SAPs, and think we can

1012
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: do it. We can beat you in this category.

1013
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and well you know how it is. You

1014
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: can you can draw up the perfect play, but can

1015
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 1: the can your exes? Can your o's block their exes?

1016
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 3: You know?

1017
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it comes down to. You can

1018
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: you can draw up the perfect play on paper with

1019
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: little lines and arrows, but your guys still have to win.

1020
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: And that's that's where you know, the rubber beats the

1021
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: road and will have to. You have to kind of

1022
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: wait and see whether it's going to happen that. But

1023
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: you're right, Maddie, They're going to have a plan on

1024
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: both sides, and the Bill's running game is going to

1025
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: be tested by a team that's expecting it, a good

1026
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: team that's expecting it.

1027
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I agree with you.

1028
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna I think the Bills have flexed

1029
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: on so many teams this year in the run game

1030
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: and have never you know, they've learned not to abandon

1031
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: it completely. And the fact that Josh is a part

1032
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: of it adds an extra degree of difficulty for defenses

1033
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: that is sometimes too.

1034
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 3: Much for him.

1035
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: And it's yeah, I can't wait to see it.

1036
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 3: Well, I kind of I say that, and.

1037
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be watch but yeah, I think that's right.

1038
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. That the fact that the Patriots

1039
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: defense has struggled stopping the run without the defensive tackle

1040
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: it's injured.

1041
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 3: That's that's big. That's big.

1042
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 2: We gotta take a break. But coming up next, we

1043
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 2: got NFL on CBS Sideline reporter Evan Washburn joining the

1044
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 2: show to help break down everything we need to know

1045
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 2: for an epic Sunday game against the Patriots. We'll be

1046
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 2: back in a few minutes here on One Bill's Live,

1047
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 2: represented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bill's Breaking.

1048
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, presented by called Laida Health.

1049
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 2: Welcome in to One Bills Live, Matti Glab alongside of

1050
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: Steve Tasker. Week fifteen is here. It features a epic

1051
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: matchup between the Bills and the Patriots. It feels like

1052
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 2: the biggest game of the season. Bills are nine and four,

1053
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 2: Patriots are eleven and two, writing a ten game win streak,

1054
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: a lot of meaning behind this one and to help

1055
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 2: us talk about all of that is NFL on CBS

1056
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 2: Sideline reporter Evan Washburn, who joins us right now. Evan

1057
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 2: is also along with Ian Iroan Eagle JJ Watt, who

1058
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: are a part of the NFL on CBST coverage of

1059
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 2: the Bills at Patriots for Sunday's matchup. Evan, thanks for

1060
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 2: taking the time to come and break down this matchup.

1061
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 5: With us, no doubt excited for it.

1062
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a huge one. We've been talking about

1063
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 2: it all day, pretty much all week here. It feels

1064
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 2: like we turn the page a little bit quicker than

1065
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 2: we normally do, just because of the magnitude behind this matchup.

1066
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: When you started to study these two teams, what's the

1067
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 2: biggest thing that sticks out right now about what Sunday means?

1068
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 9: There's so much to it, Maddie, and I think on

1069
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 9: the surface, there is the idea of changing of the guard.

1070
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 9: I'm not sure I'm ready to go there yet. Yes,

1071
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 9: one of these two teams is going to win the

1072
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 9: AFC East New England's and the driver's seat. But I

1073
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 9: think these teams mirror themselves in a lot of ways.

1074
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 9: And they have the MVP and Josh Allen and your

1075
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 9: Buffalo Bills up against the up and comer and Drake

1076
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 9: May and it really takes me back to twenty nineteen

1077
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 9: when these two teams met in Week sixteen in New

1078
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 9: England and it's almost as if the roles are reversed.

1079
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 9: I think if you're a Bills fan, you're hoping that

1080
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 9: that's the case here in twenty twenty five, because New

1081
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 9: England wins that game, they hold off Buffalo, they win

1082
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 9: the division again their last time since they've now handed.

1083
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 5: It over to the Bills for the last five.

1084
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 9: Seasons and their season ended in the wildcard and the

1085
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 9: Brady era was over.

1086
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 5: In New England.

1087
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 9: But it's not that because Josh isn't going anywhere in

1088
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 9: Buffalo for hopefully a while now. But this is the

1089
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 9: first time where they've had a real test, and I

1090
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 9: think the teams kind of play a similar brand of

1091
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 9: football in a lot of ways. It comes down in

1092
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 9: my mind and you go to Week five, what team's

1093
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 9: going to make the least amount of mistakes and who's

1094
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 9: going to be more effective in the red zone and

1095
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 9: that might decide this one.

1096
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Speaker 1: So Evan, I've got an affinity for you. What you

1097
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: do standing on the sidelines down there. I'm looking at

1098
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: the ten day on Sunday is supposed to be high

1099
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: of thirty one, low thirteen, showers in snow showers, in

1100
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: the morning, like a fifty to fifty chance of precipitation.

1101
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: Foxborough is gonna be cold. It's gonna it might be wet,

1102
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: might be too wet to be wet. It might be

1103
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: too cold to be wet, it might be snowy. How

1104
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: do you think that effects that the Bills just had

1105
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: a game like that this week, this last week against Cincinnati.

1106
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: Is that anything to think about.

1107
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 9: It's always something to think about. Taskar, Look, you lived

1108
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 9: it as a player. You've been on the sidelines for

1109
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 9: plenty of these games as well.

1110
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 5: It impacts all of us.

1111
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 9: And I do think that Buffalo, because of Josh, because

1112
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 9: of their style of play, their comforting in it. You

1113
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 9: guys limited day to day and just haven't played in it.

1114
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 9: In that game against the Bengals, I would give them

1115
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 9: the edge in any weather situation. And New England doesn't

1116
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 9: really run the ball that well, they would argue maybe

1117
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 9: that's by design. They use it as a way to

1118
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 9: set up things in the passing game. But as you know,

1119
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 9: when conditions are not optimal on ground, game offensively can

1120
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 9: be really helpful. So I do think that would help

1121
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,479
Speaker 9: Buffalo if that is the case. I'm hoping that maybe

1122
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 9: the weather pushes through and we get a true clear,

1123
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 9: yes cold, not windy game, and it kind of puts

1124
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 9: both teams in a position to perform at their best

1125
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 9: and see who's going to come out on top.

1126
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 2: New England's writing a ten game win streak. What's been

1127
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,439
Speaker 2: their identity during that span?

1128
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 5: Consistency since Week three? Ball security?

1129
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 9: They turned the ball over five times and that loss

1130
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 9: to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our crew was actually there for

1131
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 9: that game. And if you'd have told me walking away

1132
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 9: from that one that that team would then go on

1133
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 9: and win ten games and we'd be having this conversation

1134
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 9: about them winning the afcast potentially on Sunday, would have

1135
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 9: told you were crazy, because they just look like a

1136
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 9: young team that had a clear foundation under Mike Rabel,

1137
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 9: but not necessarily ready to make that push.

1138
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 5: But they've been able to do it. And I think

1139
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 5: it starts with.

1140
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 9: Not losing the ball, not turning over nearly as much,

1141
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 9: and the efficiency in which Drake May has played. And

1142
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 9: you can't give enough credit to Josh McDaniels in the

1143
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 9: marriage that those two have had and just how he's

1144
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 9: taken May's game to another level just above the shoulders too,

1145
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 9: and I think that's where we all knew he had

1146
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 9: the physical gifts. Where he's impressed me most is just

1147
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 9: his decision making. He just hasn't made a lot of

1148
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 9: poor decisions over the course of this ten game win streak.

1149
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 9: And defensively, they always play tough under Mike Rabel, and

1150
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 9: they've done that. They're kind of near the top and

1151
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 9: a lot of the important categories outside of red zone,

1152
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 9: and again I mentioned that off the top. I do

1153
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 9: think that's gonna be something to really look at in

1154
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 9: this game early. Are they trading seven for three? How's

1155
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 9: that math going winning if they find themselves in the

1156
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 9: red zone. But it feels like an elevated version of

1157
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 9: some of the Mike Rabel teams that he had in Tennessee.

1158
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 9: Maybe not the elite level roster talent, but they're getting

1159
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 9: a ton out of the rookies. And maybe it's a

1160
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 9: roster that will look at in a year or two

1161
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 9: and go, oh, they actually are littered with guys we

1162
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 9: just didn't know who they were. They hit it in

1163
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 9: free age and they've got a belief and Steve you

1164
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 9: know this, she played the game at a high level.

1165
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 9: This locker room believes they can go on and win

1166
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 9: this game and probably win a super Bowl, and just

1167
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 9: because all of us are surprised by it, they don't

1168
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 9: really care.

1169
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this seems like a team you can

1170
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: call the way you want, firing on all cylinders or

1171
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: well rounded. I mean, they get contributions from everybody crossing.

1172
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: Never spectacular, but always extremely solid, high floor, and they

1173
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: just don't make enough mistakes for any team to take

1174
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: advantage of. And if you're going to beat them, you

1175
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: kind of have to play that way, no doubt.

1176
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 9: And I should mention, and not just because we're talking

1177
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 9: special teams. Has been unbelievable as well in terms of

1178
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 9: the return game, the coverage and kickoffs and punt coverage.

1179
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 9: Talked to Marcus Jones a little while ago. I mean,

1180
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 9: I think he's as ultimate a weapon as you can

1181
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 9: have when he's able to get a clean opportunity at

1182
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 9: a punt return.

1183
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 5: He's been dynamic.

1184
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 9: You just look at what he did in that Monday

1185
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 9: night game against the Giants, and it's just it's.

1186
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 5: A group that.

1187
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 9: Feels like a version two point zero of some of

1188
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 9: the Belichick teams, where they're not going to beat themselves

1189
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 9: and then they're going to allow the opportunity to then

1190
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 9: beat you, and I think a lot of teams in

1191
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 9: the NFL struggle with that because of their inability to

1192
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 9: take care of the ball or in those critical possession

1193
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 9: downs not make the right decision. It's a fun team

1194
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,439
Speaker 9: to now have in the mix from our side of things.

1195
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 9: From a coverage standpoint, I know Bills fans aren't loving

1196
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 9: that they're doing this in the division, but I also

1197
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 9: think in the last point I would make on this

1198
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 9: is it's fair to at least bring up the road

1199
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 9: that they've had over the course of this ten game

1200
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 9: win streak. Outside of the Week five game against y'all,

1201
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 9: it's not been necessarily the top of the heap in

1202
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 9: terms of the NFL, and I think that's helped them

1203
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 9: build some confidence and ability to feel really good coming

1204
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 9: into this matchup in Week fifteen.

1205
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 2: The Patriots will see Buffalo obviously this Sunday, and then

1206
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 2: the week after they've got the Baltimore Ravens. I want

1207
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 2: to go back to the Josh McDaniels and Drake May

1208
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 2: part of it all because so many people have said, Wow,

1209
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 2: what May and McDaniels have done together is amazing. Just

1210
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 2: a second year quarterback, a part of the MVP conversation

1211
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 2: your most efficient passer this season. When it comes to

1212
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 2: what McDaniels has done for May, what's been the biggest

1213
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,959
Speaker 2: part in May's development this season.

1214
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 9: I think Mattie it would be his ability to teach

1215
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 9: the position where yeah, there's the mechanical side of things

1216
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 9: and the fundamentals and the ability to make the throws

1217
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 9: and how to do all those things, but it's more

1218
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 9: above the shoulders and giving May the opportunity to learn

1219
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 9: how to truly play the position and not necessarily have

1220
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 9: all the answers prior to the snap, but put him

1221
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 9: in a position too if he wants to, if he

1222
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,959
Speaker 9: wants to dig in intellectually and learn how to play

1223
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 9: it at the highest level, which when you look at

1224
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 9: guys like Josh Mahomes, obviously Tom and Hayton before him,

1225
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 9: Drew Brees, those guys are playing the game intellectually at

1226
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 9: a different level what they see pre snap and post snap.

1227
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 9: And I think that's where, going back to the point

1228
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 9: made earlier, we didn't know that about Drake May. We

1229
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 9: just knew him as this physically gifted, really young raw

1230
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 9: player coming out of UNC and can make all the throws,

1231
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 9: do all those things in the workouts and the combines

1232
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 9: and even in the times that he played last year,

1233
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 9: even though it was an unsuccessful season in terms of results.

1234
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 9: I even think of when he played you guys late

1235
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 9: in the season. Our crew had that game. It was cold,

1236
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 9: it was kind of nasty. It was a four h

1237
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 9: five or I think week sixteen or seventeen, and just

1238
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 9: watching him warm up and the way he throws the ball.

1239
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 9: But this year it's been about how he and Josh

1240
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 9: have got into a place over the course of the

1241
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 9: season where you can see he's just his calmness of

1242
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 9: his feet, he's playing the game on his terms and

1243
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 9: just making the right play. And Mike Rabel points out

1244
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 9: some of his highlights in the coach's mind, Maddie would

1245
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 9: be the place the throws, he's not making the scram

1246
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 9: that he's making the decisions he's making based off of

1247
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 9: the situational football. So it's it's really been above the

1248
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 9: shoulders to me that Josh mc daniels has really made

1249
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 9: his impact on Drake matt In.

1250
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: The last month or so, Milton Williams went down the

1251
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackle and up and even now they're the number

1252
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: three run defense in the league.

1253
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 3: Are the Patriots, but.

1254
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: Over the last three or four weeks they're at the

1255
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: twentieth ranked run defense. Milton Williams has obviously made a

1256
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: difference the teams they have played over the last three weeks.

1257
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: Was it was not a gauntlet. It was you know,

1258
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: it was Cincinnati, it was the Giants, it was the Jets.

1259
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: And they've struggled to stop the run to the point

1260
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: where they're, you know, where they were early in the season.

1261
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: Milton Williams is still going to be out of this game.

1262
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: And the Bills are a really good running football team.

1263
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 1: How you know, what is going to be the plan

1264
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: for the Patriots? You think to not let that happen

1265
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: given their you know, the injuries they've sustained.

1266
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 9: That's a great point and I think that's where the

1267
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 9: chess match when it comes to Mike Vrabel and he's

1268
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 9: got Zach Kern who's kind of taken over that play

1269
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 9: calling duty, But make no mistake, Raves is going to

1270
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 9: have his impact on how they call this defense. And

1271
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 9: I think how.

1272
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 5: He've used this.

1273
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 9: He's got that scheme to him where he's going to see,

1274
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 9: all right, we're deficient in this area, and they're not

1275
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 9: going to shy away from acknowledging that. But we're going

1276
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 9: to have to sell out to stop James Cook. He's

1277
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 9: made that point in terms of his respect for what

1278
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 9: Cook's been able to do throughout this week, and that's

1279
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 9: something that honestly, we don't know right now and they

1280
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 9: don't want us to know. I think we're going to

1281
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 9: find out early in this game if it's bringing another

1282
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 9: defender into the box and how that affects things and

1283
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 9: what that allows maybe Josh to do and Joe to

1284
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 9: do in terms of play calling to attack things through

1285
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 9: the air.

1286
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 5: But they know that Buffalo's.

1287
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 9: Coming in to New England wanting to run the ball

1288
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 9: to establish everything they do. And you're right, they've been

1289
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 9: vulnerable in that spot since Milton Williams went down and

1290
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 9: he's not available, so they've been throwing bodies at it

1291
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 9: and it worked against the Giants on Monday night. But

1292
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 9: this is a different beast, as you guys well know,

1293
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 9: in what Buffalo brings in that department.

1294
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 2: Over in New England's ten game win streak, the offense

1295
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 2: and defense and special teams have been very complimentary, which

1296
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 2: is hard to sustain for that long, the offensive has

1297
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 2: averaged more than twenty three points per game and the

1298
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 2: defense has allowed under twenty three points per game. Longest

1299
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 2: streak in a single season in NFL history where the

1300
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,479
Speaker 2: broken parts have been are in the red zone, both

1301
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 2: offensively and defensively. What is going wrong for the Patriots

1302
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 2: when they get to the red zone?

1303
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 5: I think it's just really challenging.

1304
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 9: And that's where a guy like Josh at this point

1305
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 9: in his career can make some plays and see some

1306
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 9: things that a guy in year two, even if he's

1307
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 9: playing at an MVP caliber pace, maybe doesn't see. And

1308
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 9: maybe the fact that they don't have a one.

1309
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 5: A ALPHA receiver.

1310
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Speaker 9: They have a quality tight end in Hunter Henry, but

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Speaker 9: they don't have a gotta have it guy. I mean,

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Speaker 9: I would say Diggs is probably that Mac Collins is.

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Speaker 9: Actually it's a lot of former Bills that have been

1314
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Speaker 9: really effective in some of those situations when they have

1315
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Speaker 9: found seven in the red zone. They've been a big

1316
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 9: play offense in a lot of ways, and so they

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01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 9: haven't been in the red zone maybe as much. But no,

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Speaker 9: I think Maddie it's a great, great point, and we've

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Speaker 9: touched on it a couple of times here both teams,

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Speaker 9: how and look, Buffalo defensively, I think they're twenty three

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Speaker 9: to twenty fourth in terms of red zone defense. So

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Speaker 9: two units that maybe aren't it where they want to

1323
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 9: be in that department. Whoever has the edge in that

1324
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 9: area I think will go a long way in determining

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Speaker 9: who wins this game.

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Speaker 1: Evan, what are your thoughts about how this game is

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Speaker 1: gonna look? I mean the big picture, every season, every

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01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: matchup between these two is a single possession game. It

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01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: has been for almost double digit matchups. The first game

1330
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: this season, the Bills turn it over three times and

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01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 1: it's still a three point game at the end, and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots kick a walk off. It's gonna be one

1333
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Speaker 1: of those games. What do you think, I mean, what's

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Speaker 1: it gonna take for one of these teams to get

1335
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 1: an edge and maybe get a lead where they don't

1336
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: have to sit on the edge of your seats and

1337
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 1: chew your fingernails.

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Speaker 9: Oh, we're hoping that that's the case, because that, as

1339
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 9: you know, on our side of the coin, is most important.

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Speaker 9: We want to entertainment, and that usually happens late in games. Look,

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01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 9: the things that come to mind Steve and Maddie when

1342
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 9: it comes to this matchup, and it falls in line

1343
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 9: with your question there, Steve, it's the difference between Josh

1344
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 9: and this Bills offense home and away. So now they're

1345
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 9: going on the road and not that they've been terrible

1346
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 9: on the road in terms of performance, but the numbers

1347
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 9: take a dip. But also New England since that Buffalo

1348
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 9: game in Week five in your backyard, has not been

1349
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 9: in a second half where they've been down.

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01:06:57,960 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 5: They haven't had to.

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01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 9: Now, they've been in some tight situations, they've had to

1352
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 9: play out games to win them, but they haven't had

1353
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 9: to claw back. And then on the flip side, as

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01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 9: you all well know, the Bills have lived in terms

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01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 9: of second half point differential and just being able to

1356
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 9: turn things on in those critical moments late in games,

1357
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 9: late in the third fourth quarter, and they've been at

1358
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 9: their best in the second half. So all those contrasting

1359
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 9: aspects of the roads for these two teams to get

1360
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 9: here makes this on paper lineup as which group's going

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Speaker 9: to be able to play the.

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Speaker 5: Game on their term.

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Speaker 9: Stylistically, I think if it's New England, they want to

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Speaker 9: get out in front. Not necessarily there's no one. I

1365
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 9: don't think in either side's going to be blown anyone

1366
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 9: out in this game, but control the game from the

1367
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 9: first half into the second half and not have to

1368
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 9: fight their way back because that's unfamiliar territory for a team.

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Speaker 5: That plays a lot of rookies.

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Speaker 9: That's the other thing too, At least as of Monday night,

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Speaker 9: and there's been a bye week where nobody played. The

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Speaker 9: Patriots were second in the NFL rookie snap totals, So

1373
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 9: to be able to do this to a lot of

1374
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 9: young guys, this is gonna be their biggest game as pros.

1375
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Speaker 9: And then even for a guy like Drake May it's

1376
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 9: his biggest game as a pro. Second half when things

1377
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 9: get tight, that crowd's a little nervous, as you mentioned,

1378
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 9: chewing their fingernails. I would say I'd lean more towards Buffalo.

1379
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,600
Speaker 9: So I think just how the game starts, who's dictating

1380
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 9: tempo and style, and obviously the scoreboard into the second

1381
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 9: half will give us a real sense of again, who's

1382
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 9: gonna win this incredibly critical matchup here in week fifteen.

1383
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about the Patriots, but got one

1384
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 2: more for you before we wrap things up. As it

1385
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 2: relates to Buffalo. In the last two games, you see

1386
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 2: them go to Pittsburgh and rush for two undred forty

1387
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: nine yards a record at Pittsburgh, and then last week

1388
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 2: against the Bengals, you see Josh Allen go off for

1389
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 2: four touchdowns. The defense has a pick six. The takeaways

1390
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 2: have been coming in bunches for Buffalo's defense as of late.

1391
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 2: What type of team is Buffalo becoming at this point

1392
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 2: in the season.

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Speaker 9: They're becoming a team who knows they can win ugly,

1394
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 9: they can win in a variety of ways, and I

1395
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 9: think that's extremely dangerous this time of year. They know

1396
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 9: who they are. I think the words that Sean used postgame,

1397
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 9: you guys might know. I'm sure you've already played it.

1398
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 9: It was something to the effect of he likes the

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01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 9: fabric in which this team is starting to resemble or

1400
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 9: look like. And I took that as, Yeah, it's not

1401
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 9: going to be as clean as they would like it

1402
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 9: to be. There's going to be deficiencies based off of

1403
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 9: a lack of availability. I would point to on the

1404
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 9: defensive side of the ball. They want to stop the

1405
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,160
Speaker 9: run better than they have. They want to do things

1406
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 9: probably more efficiently than they have. They want to stop

1407
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:47,919
Speaker 9: turning it over in times, putting themselves in these positions

1408
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 9: late in games for Josh to make these heroic plays.

1409
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 9: But they know who they are and they've been there before.

1410
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 9: And the longer I'm in and around this league doing

1411
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 9: this job at this point in the season, and then

1412
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 9: most important in January, the experience of these moments and

1413
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 9: the scar tissue, both positively and negatively of December games

1414
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 9: and then January games, I think is extremely valuable. And

1415
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 9: that's what again makes this game so exciting to preview

1416
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 9: and get set for.

1417
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 5: You have a team in Buffalo who, as you laid

1418
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 5: out Maddie is.

1419
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 9: Doing it in a certain way and it's starting to

1420
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 9: work and they're starting to have that belief and you

1421
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 9: guys have been around it long enough to know what

1422
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 9: that means.

1423
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 5: And New England on.

1424
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 9: The flip side, it's so fresh, it's so new, it's

1425
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 9: so exciting. But I know in the back at least fans'

1426
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 9: minds and maybe those that cover the team, I can't

1427
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 9: speak for those guys in the locker room and those coaches,

1428
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 9: there's still this level of, like what happens when we're

1429
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 9: in one of those moments in December against a team

1430
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:47,839
Speaker 9: like Buffalo and a quarterback like Josh.

1431
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 5: We don't know yet. Well we're going to find out

1432
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 5: on Sunday, and that's awesome.

1433
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1434
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 2: Thanks having take some learning for sure. Thank you so much, Evan,

1435
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 2: appreciate it. We won't be there on Sunday, but we

1436
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 2: hope you have a great game and we can't wait

1437
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 2: to watch you on TV.

1438
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 5: Thanks guys.

1439
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 2: All right, that was NFL on CBS sideline reporter Evan Washburn.

1440
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 2: Evan's also a part of the crew with Iron Eagle

1441
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 2: and JJ Watt NFL on CBS coverage of the Bills

1442
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 2: at the Patriots on Sunday. It all starts at one o'clock,

1443
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 2: and Evan made a great point about the Patriots. Yes,

1444
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 2: they've been there before with different regimes, but with Mike Rabel,

1445
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 2: with Drake May, with all the rookies that Evan talked

1446
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:34,760
Speaker 2: about that are taking meaningful snaps this season. It takes

1447
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 2: me back to twenty nineteen when Josh Allen was a

1448
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 2: young quarterback and was learning about what the NFL is

1449
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 2: and what playoff football means and what it takes to

1450
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 2: win in the postseason. And I think back to that

1451
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 2: game against the Houston Texans in the postseason, that first game.

1452
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 2: It was great that Buffalo got there, but at that

1453
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 2: point in Allen's career, with the young players that he

1454
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:02,759
Speaker 2: had around him, it was like, this is a learning

1455
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 2: experience and next year it's going to be better.

1456
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:06,639
Speaker 3: And you think about what happened.

1457
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: They jumped out to a sixteen or nothing lead at

1458
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: halftime and it ended up losing that game as a result,

1459
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, and in the result and final and remember

1460
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: that was the game with the kickoff where the guy

1461
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: tossed the ball to the ground and it was a

1462
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: touchdown for the Bills and the league took it back. Yeah,

1463
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: that guy no longer works for the NFL anyway. So yeah,

1464
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,160
Speaker 1: a lot going on in that that. That's right though

1465
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: they don't know that. You can don't. You can't take

1466
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 1: it for granted that they're gonna fold up when they

1467
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: get when the lights get bright.

1468
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:37,759
Speaker 3: But certainly the Bills won't.

1469
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 1: We have seen them rise up Josh's It's been well documented.

1470
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: Josh has a pension for playing big in moments like that.

1471
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: Twenty thrives and something about his mentality carries him through

1472
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: on that, and you know he turns he has something

1473
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: an extra gear that he can go to. We'll see

1474
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,879
Speaker 1: if Drake May has that, and some of the Patriots

1475
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: players have that. It's gonna be a huge matchup though,

1476
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: and it's what a game it's gonna be. And like

1477
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 1: I said, I the Bills really.

1478
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 3: Need to win this game. This is a big one.

1479
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. Buffalo is nineteen and three in December since twenty

1480
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 2: twenty with Sean McDermott and Josh Allen at the helm

1481
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 2: alongside of Brandon Bean. It's a fantastic record that not

1482
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 2: a lot of teams have even come close to, and

1483
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 2: that's because of Buffalo's ability to dial it in when

1484
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 2: it matters most. We're gonna take a break, but when

1485
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 2: we return a lot more coming up. We're gonna get

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Speaker 2: the right regular season. Hopefully we get a couple more

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Fingers crossed. Yeah, okay, here you go, Steve.

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Speaker 2: This is from Dwayne the freezing cold game against the

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01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 2: Raiders in the playoffs when Tasker snatched the ball out

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 2: of the air and Willie Galt chased him down just

1505
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:52,599
Speaker 2: short of the end zone, and amazing play. How hard

1506
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 2: was that football?

1507
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 3: Everything was hard in that game.

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01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: The thing you worry about mostly, I didn't anticipate handling

1509
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 1: the football right. I was an up back, and I

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: was gunner, and I was a specialty covering kicks. I

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01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 1: was a wide out and but I you know, no

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: plans for me to get in the rotation.

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01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 3: So the ball.

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01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: They kicked the ball to me and I had long

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01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: white sleeves under my jersey and it was just it

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01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 1: was just a I don't know nyle of cotton or

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01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: a thing, but I.

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01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 3: Had two layers underneath that. I mean, I was totally

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01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 3: layered up.

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01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: The worry is when you tuck the ball away, your

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01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: arms slippery because of the this is the play. Your

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Speaker 1: arms slippery because of the cloth on it instead of

1523
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: the skin. Your skin kind of sticks to the ball.

1524
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: So I'm running down the sideline and you realize I

1525
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: might have too many clothes on to actually run well, right,

1526
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:45,600
Speaker 1: Willie Gault ran me down and I, you know, the

1527
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: same guy was talking about earlier in the show, Bud Carpenter.

1528
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: I got off the sideline. I was a pretty fast guy, right,

1529
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, who, I mean, who caught

1530
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:54,680
Speaker 1: was that? Because I couldn't you know, I didn't know

1531
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: who was And he said, yeah, it was Dan Turk. Well,

1532
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: Dan was a long snapper for the Raiders, who was

1533
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: you know, kind of heavy guy's aligneman. I was like

1534
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,799
Speaker 1: Dan Turk and I sat there for me. I go, wait, wow,

1535
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: must have had the angle or something. And then I

1536
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: see the replay. It was like Willie Gold, who was

1537
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: an Olympic athlete, that's like he dog. So yeah, that

1538
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: game was the coldest game in Bill's history. It was

1539
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:24,559
Speaker 1: a bright sunny day. They cleared, they brushed the field off.

1540
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:30,679
Speaker 3: It was it was beyond cold, Maddie, it was beyond cold.

1541
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 2: You know.

1542
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: The Bill's player offensive line played, you know, did the

1543
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: thing where they come out for pregame warm ups sleeveless, right,

1544
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: and and it was a thing and it still is.

1545
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: Probably that the opponent like they're coming in, they know

1546
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: we live here, like we practice in it, we do

1547
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 1: this in it, and they go, oh, they're going sleeveless,

1548
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: so that must be what you do. So after pregames

1549
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 1: they go in and they take the sleeves off.

1550
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:57,879
Speaker 3: Our guys put.

1551
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: Them on before between the pregame war up, and they

1552
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: come off the field and they put their sleeves on.

1553
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: So the Raiders guys take theirs off, so they got

1554
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: to play the game without them to begin with until

1555
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:10,880
Speaker 1: they can put them back on.

1556
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's the way. It's the way it works.

1557
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 1: So our guys go out sleeveless, come back out to

1558
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 1: play the game with sleeves on and the raiders were

1559
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: just the opposite.

1560
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 3: And then they couldn't you know.

1561
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: They always set cups of water out for guys to

1562
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: come over and just get a quick drink. Now they

1563
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: have guys with bottles that they'd squired in. They used

1564
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: to be cups on the sideline and they got tired

1565
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: of seeing like five thousand cups scattered all over the sidelines.

1566
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: It looked bad. So they have bottles now. But the

1567
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: cups they set them out to free to drink, and

1568
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: they were all frozen, stiff, frozen solid, and it was all.

1569
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 3: Gatorade back then.

1570
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: Now they do they do hot stuff like broth. It's

1571
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,640
Speaker 1: all changed. Everything's you know, evolved from that. But on

1572
01:17:53,680 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: that play, their kicker, Jeff Gossip, he his plants hard.

1573
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: He planted hard, and I thought, yeah, he might slide

1574
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: and his foot might and he did. He lined drive

1575
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: the he lined drive the kick it came to me.

1576
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 1: I was able to catch it off my right shoulder

1577
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: and head down the sidelines and I was going the

1578
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 1: other way because he line drived it and I was

1579
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 1: going the other way. Before the coverage guys even knew

1580
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: who had the ball, so I got by that first,

1581
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:25,759
Speaker 1: like I do a little hot jump cut right right there,

1582
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: and those two guys that was it. No, there was

1583
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: nobody left and it was just gosted. He made a

1584
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: stab for me and he couldn't get there. I thought

1585
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: I might get there, WILLI galt rent. He could have

1586
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: run a circle around me and still can't tackle me.

1587
01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 3: He was so fast. But uh, the ball was really hard.

1588
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: You see in the old photographs sometimes they pushed the

1589
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 1: snow up on the against the wall that everybody knows,

1590
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: you know. Now we're so familiar with the walls around

1591
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 1: this field and you think, like wow, you go over

1592
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: there and jump in the in the in the wall,

1593
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 1: and like no, the snow pushed against the wall was

1594
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,640
Speaker 1: hard as a rock. You could walk right up on

1595
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: top of the snow bank.

1596
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 3: It was just it was ice. It was like rock.

1597
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like you could even pack it together

1598
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 1: with it. You had to snap pieces of it.

1599
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 3: It was so.

1600
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: Cold, gosh, you could stand on it and you wouldn't

1601
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: sink in the snow. People were people were absolutely you know,

1602
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 1: just you know, just freezing, just suffering in the stands.

1603
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: It's a full house. I mean, there's bless their hearts. Bills,

1604
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: Mafia showed up, but it was it was it was

1605
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,600
Speaker 1: so cold, so cold.

1606
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 2: Oh okay, at that point when you're playing and it's

1607
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 2: that cold, there's no there's no warm chicken broth on

1608
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 2: the sideline, there's no there's no hot chocolate. What are

1609
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 2: the coaches telling you about how to stay warm? Or

1610
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,719
Speaker 2: was it like you, guys, just play the game, it'll

1611
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,720
Speaker 2: be fine, don't think about how cold it is.

1612
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: Don't think about it too much, because we had heated benches.

1613
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: So they've got those turbo heaters going down through the

1614
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: white benches. You sit on those and you can stay

1615
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: warm with a with a blanket, with a poncho over you.

1616
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: You can kind of stay warm and you keep your hand.

1617
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: They have slots where your fingers can go in and

1618
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: you can stay warm. It's better for the players on

1619
01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: the field, both the guys on the field who are

1620
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: playing and the guys on the sidelines, than it is

1621
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: for any of the fans that are sitting out in

1622
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: the stadium. They you know, they make an effort to

1623
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: keep take care of us, and it works. I mean,

1624
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: you can stay warm and you can you know, they

1625
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: have turbo heaters at both ends of the benches. You

1626
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: can go stand in front of the hot air that's

1627
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: coming out, but the area where it keeps warm is

1628
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:43,839
Speaker 1: smaller than usual. But that I mean you are always

1629
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: looking to get warm.

1630
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:45,639
Speaker 10: Oh.

1631
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: If you're out on the field and you're coming off,

1632
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 1: you don't think about it because you're concentrating so hard

1633
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: during the game and you're practice, you're competing, so you

1634
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: don't really think about it. But when you when you

1635
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: come off the field, it hits you. They're like, oh, man,

1636
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get I gotta stay warm because

1637
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: it goes so fast. You know, you can go downhill

1638
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: so fast, you know what I mean, It doesn't take

1639
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:14,639
Speaker 1: it only takes a minute to be like numb, right

1640
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 1: because it was so cold, so you really had to

1641
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: stay on top of it, and it was an extra

1642
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:22,519
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty. Everybody had one of the raiders wide receivers,

1643
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, couldn't play. He sat on

1644
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: the bench and they just they stacked blankets on him,

1645
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: and he what he sat there and he was he

1646
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: was almost in a in like a trance, in a daze,

1647
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:38,759
Speaker 1: kind of trying to stay awake. He just couldn't function

1648
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: in that cold weather. What and it wasn't like he

1649
01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: was you know, he just he didn't know. He didn't

1650
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't know how to handle it. His

1651
01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:49,680
Speaker 1: body and he and he was incapacitated by it.

1652
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 3: He just sat there on the bench and just he couldn't.

1653
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:55,520
Speaker 3: It was debilitating.

1654
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:59,640
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. We had tray wite tray white on

1655
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 2: in side the charge earlier this week, and Trey talked

1656
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 2: about just that. He said, he loves playing in the snow,

1657
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 2: but when his fingers and toes go, that is the

1658
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 2: hardest thing to deal with and get warm again, because

1659
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 2: you don't want to be out there handling the football

1660
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 2: when you're you can't feel your fingers, or running when

1661
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:18,719
Speaker 2: you can't feel your toes. It gets a lot harder.

1662
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:22,559
Speaker 2: But he had so many hilarious things to say about

1663
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 2: how many different items he has burned on those heaters,

1664
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 2: from his his own butt, he said, his helmet, his

1665
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 2: chin strap, his gloves, his cleats, like.

1666
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: Melting, your shoes melt the fire and you can't they're

1667
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: so cold. The shoes start to melt before your feet

1668
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: feel it, can.

1669
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 2: Smell it, starts to smell it before you feel it.

1670
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,759
Speaker 1: Got you know, their helmets. They melt the chin straps

1671
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: on them. It's hard because when you do go numb,

1672
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:56,559
Speaker 1: you can't you can't get warm again. Yeah, it takes

1673
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: a long time, and you can't do it fast. It

1674
01:22:58,439 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: takes a while.

1675
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 2: It's well, it's gonna be cold for the Patriots game

1676
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 2: this week, and not as cold as as the high.

1677
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 2: At least some snow in the forecast too.

1678
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 3: I think snow showers early in the day. We'll see.

1679
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 3: All right.

1680
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,240
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1684
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1686
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Speaker 2: deal right there. All right, Before we go to break,

1687
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna quickly dip into the tweet sheet brought to

1688
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:40,880
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1689
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills, And the question is what are

1690
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 2: your keys to a Bill's victory over the Patriots on Sunday?

1691
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 2: Ted says no turnovers, third down efficiency, Shaq Thompson at

1692
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 2: middle linebacker and let Josh cook.

1693
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 3: Instead of saying let you cook, let's just say Josh

1694
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 3: cook it James And.

1695
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it caught me for a second, Like,

1696
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 2: is that Josh or James? The two of them together,

1697
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 2: let them both cook. Trell Bernard was limited for practice yesterday.

1698
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 2: We haven't gotten a practice injury report update from today's

1699
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 2: practice yet, and it about thirty minutes ago.

1700
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 1: Joshu Sean McDermott has said that Bernard is progressing, but

1701
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be a an odyssey this

1702
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: week to see how he traverses the ye the path,

1703
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, through practice and rehab and getting ready.

1704
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 3: And we'll have to wait and see.

1705
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 2: I'm dealing with that elbow injury. E GB says third

1706
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 2: down defense, penalties control the time of possession. Yeah, penalties.

1707
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:50,680
Speaker 2: Last time the two faced each other Week five, the

1708
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 2: Bills had ten penalties in that game.

1709
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: Uh.

1710
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 2: You have to play clean football in a game like this,

1711
01:24:56,760 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 2: because you don't want the Patriots taking advantage of the

1712
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:03,600
Speaker 2: ex yard gained, extra yards gained in terms of penalties,

1713
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 2: actually eleven eleven penalties for ninety yards. The Patriots had

1714
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 2: eight for ninety three.

1715
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, eighteen penalties. That's a lot.

1716
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:17,040
Speaker 2: It's a lot, Okay. MBCB says, don't turn the ball over.

1717
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 2: The Bills turn the ball over three times when they

1718
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 2: lost to the Patriots in October and still only lost

1719
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 2: by a field goal. If the Bills protect the ball

1720
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 2: this time, they should win. I agree with that wholeheartedly.

1721
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 2: I believe this is a Bills team who is taking

1722
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 2: steps in the right direction as it relates to taking

1723
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:36,720
Speaker 2: care of the football and forcing takeaways. Those two have

1724
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 2: come together in the last couple weeks. I want to

1725
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 2: see a lot more of it.

1726
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 1: If you come out of this on the positive side

1727
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: of the turnover margin, that's huge. That's a huge boost

1728
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: to your chances in a game like this. Yeah, the

1729
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Bills have now. Certainly, both teams are gonna have to

1730
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:56,440
Speaker 1: put the ball at risk to move it against these defenses.

1731
01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: But if you don't turn if the team that turns

1732
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: it over less is going to have a huge advantage.

1733
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,599
Speaker 3: I think. I think that's a really important aspect.

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Speaker 2: I really do time of possession as well, that's very important.

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Speaker 2: We're going to take a break, but when we return,

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Speaker 2: closing up shop here on one Bill's Live are presented

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Speaker 2: by Cloud Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back on

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Speaker 2: one Bill's Live and we want to tell you the

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills have nominated Ellie Edwards from Pioneer for the

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Speaker 2: Maxwell Football Club Girls National Flag Football Player of the

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Speaker 2: Year Award. All thirty two clubs selected a female high

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Speaker 2: school flag football player to represent their team for consideration

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Speaker 2: for this year's award, which recognizes outstanding on field performance,

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Speaker 2: academic achievement, and community service. For Finalists from both the

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Speaker 2: NFC and AFC will be chosen later this month, with

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Speaker 2: the winner being awarded in January. Congrats to Ellie. All Right,

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Speaker 2: we have a couple of minutes left in the show,

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Speaker 2: so we're going to go to the phone lines quick

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Speaker 2: to Matt from Arkansas. Matt, how you doing.

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Speaker 10: Hey, I made it first, you made it. I don't

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Speaker 10: know if you guys have received a call from Arkansas yet,

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Speaker 10: so I'm hoping I'm the forty second state here.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: We'll find out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Brown, Chris Brown keeps the list. Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 10: You're commercial with Josh Allen Man. That was so funny. Man, Well,

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Speaker 10: he's living in a new stadium and at the end,

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Speaker 10: you're walking out, He's like, hey, Steve, come on and

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Speaker 10: you pop up. Man, that was good, Steve. I wanted

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Speaker 10: to give you some credit on that. I wanted to

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Speaker 10: talk about Matt Milano.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 10: I think he's playing really well the last couple of games,

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Speaker 10: and I think I know Brownie said he's kind of

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Speaker 10: lost the step, but I don't think that. I think

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Speaker 10: he's just been hurt the last couple of seasons, and

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Speaker 10: now that he's getting a couple more game play in

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Speaker 10: his instincts that just have been superb. And I've seen

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Speaker 10: the last game on the Bengals, he's really covering the

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Speaker 10: running backs really well and the tight end. So it's

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Speaker 10: good to see that. I'm a big Matt Milano fan.

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Speaker 10: So keep it up, Matt. I want to say this weekend,

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Speaker 10: I think we're gonna beat him by ten. I think

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Speaker 10: we should run the ball hard in the first half

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Speaker 10: week in the defense, and then let Josh put his

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Speaker 10: cape on in the second half and we just toss

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Speaker 10: it all over the field. So you guys are amazing,

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Speaker 10: Go Bills. Love the show.

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Speaker 2: Thanks all right, thank you, Matt, appreciate it. Okay, Matt

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Speaker 2: Milano looking at his stats from last week five tackles

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Speaker 2: against the Bengals, which is a one shy of his

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Speaker 2: season high six against the Bucks. But when Matt Mullano

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Speaker 2: can trigger, that guy is so fast. It makes me

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Speaker 2: think of the sack he hat on bow Nicks last

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Speaker 2: year in the playoffs, and not sacker just running him

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Speaker 2: out about it.

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Speaker 1: Bis was trying to roll out. He tackle him for

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Speaker 1: a loss on a passing play. You're right, Milano's ability

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Speaker 1: isn't so much as a next to nose linebacker runs something.

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Speaker 1: He's a playmaker. The guy sees it and he gets

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Speaker 1: in the middle of it fast. And when he's playing

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Speaker 1: his best, he's forcing turnovers. He's just in the middle

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Speaker 1: of it. He's where you don't expect him to be.

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Speaker 1: We have seen him play along with Shaq Thompson. Those

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Speaker 1: two guys have been really effective. And Milano's presence and

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Speaker 1: his ability to stay healthy, I mean, his huge boost

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Speaker 1: to this defense, no question. Certainly, Milono's had his ups

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Speaker 1: and downs with injuries, but you know now that he's

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Speaker 1: playing and every playing every week, of course, he's shown

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Speaker 1: up more and more and more. So it is good

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Speaker 1: to see because I like guys who are instinctive and

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Speaker 1: seem to be ahead of it mentally, and that's what

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Speaker 1: Milano is.

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Speaker 2: Yep. We'll see which linebackers are on the field for

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Speaker 2: Sunday's matchup against the Patriots. Remember Trel Bernard dealing with

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Speaker 2: that elbow injury has been limited this week in practice.

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Speaker 2: Haven't got an injury report yet, but that should be

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Speaker 2: on pr square accounts soon enough. Want to thank you

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Speaker 2: for tuning into One Bill's Live. We'll see tomorrow from

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