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Speaker 1: at linebacker. I think Tremaine Edmonds is probably having the

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Speaker 1: best season in terms of consistency of play until he

426
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Speaker 1: got hurt and missed last week's game. You know, Milano's

427
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: made plays here and there, and the secondary's been outstanding

428
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Speaker 1: in terms of taking the ball away across the board

429
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Speaker 1: as we saw last week. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: good candidates that you can pick from. And I gotta

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Speaker 1: be honest, Steve, I don't know if there is one

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Speaker 1: particular guy because, as we've talked about, I remember we

433
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: were talking about talking about this with Kyle Brand a

434
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, there's not a true superstar, household

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Speaker 1: name guy that would look this defense in the eye

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Speaker 1: and say, you're following me, let's go. I think there's

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00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: I think this The reason this defense is so good

438
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: is because of the sum of its parts. This is

439
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: an eleven man defense, and you could argue fifteen sixteen

440
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: man defense with all the rotation they do on the

441
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Speaker 1: defensive line, right. I agree. That's that's why it's a

442
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: hard question because it truly, even up to this point,

443
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a superstar on this team. I'm Poyer

444
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: has been close and trudevious White. It's been as he

445
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: doesn't get much, you know, attention, because I mean, you

446
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: can't complete pass against him, so you don't they don't

447
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: throw it. It's a little bit like the Mike Haines theory.

448
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 1: One year in the NFL back in the seventies, I

449
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: believe Lester Hayes burst onto the scene of the national

450
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: football He had like sixteen interceptions and people are like, wow,

451
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Speaker 1: why is he again? And finally at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season, one of the animals on this listen the

453
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Speaker 1: reason Lester Hayes gets so many interceptions because nobody throws

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Speaker 1: at Mike Haines the other corner. Lester gets a lot

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Speaker 1: of traffic because Mike Haines you can't even find a

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Speaker 1: place to throw it. So that kind of that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the way Tredavious has been going. He is his numbers,

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00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: like his completion percentage against his quarterback rating against me.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like you know, it's it's like you

460
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Speaker 1: know on Animal House, it's the it's the grade point.

461
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: It's zero point zero zero. You know, it's like Incompero

462
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Speaker 1: point zero, right. I mean that's what it looks like.

463
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: There's no statistical residue from his season. So, I mean

464
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Speaker 1: at one he got finally got a pick on somebody

465
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: else's receiver, like he fell off and got it. I'm

466
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: gonna take I'm gonna I they're gonna throw to your guy,

467
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that one. Yeah, So you know, it's

468
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: hard to pick a guy on this defense despite how

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Speaker 1: you know, glowingly we're talking about Tredavious who you know,

470
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: and it is a group effort there. Like you said,

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00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: there's like there's eleven, there's fifteen guys. They rotate eight

472
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: defensive lineman through and everybody else in the back end

473
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: stays static and they all play really good together. That's

474
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Speaker 1: a good question. I'd be tempted to probably if I

475
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, if somebody forced me to pick somebody, I

476
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: would probably pick one of the two safeties. I would

477
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: probably do that. They've been here from the jump, they

478
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: already had experience in the league when they got here.

479
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: They have maximized their abilities as players in Bill's uniforms,

480
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: and they're still making a ton of plays now. And

481
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: they've both served as captains during their time here. A

482
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Speaker 1: lot of them, A lot of guys when they when

483
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: you talk about him, a lot of guys just point

484
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Speaker 1: to write to Tremaine Edmonds. Yeah, he's the guy natural

485
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: leadership position. Yeah, and he's the one who's called on

486
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Speaker 1: this defense. So they all kind of looked to him.

487
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: They all hear his voice every play, so there's a

488
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: little bit there for that, and there's a little bit

489
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: of human nature, like look to him when you're looking

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Speaker 1: for some a message, you know. But you know, as

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Speaker 1: far as production man, it is, it is a level

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Speaker 1: playing field for all of those guys, all of those

493
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: guys like you'd want to pick Milano or somebody like that.

494
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: But he's not a vocal guy at all. He's kind

495
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: of a lead by example dude. Um, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Tremaine I think is a legitimate choice here. I think

497
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: I think I might still land h I think Pawyer's

498
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: having a great year. I think this is a year

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00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: where he maybe he gets the recognition we a lot

500
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,719
Speaker 1: of us have thought he deserved years and behind us

501
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: have made the Pro Bowl is first year here has

502
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: not made one since Payer probably should have made a

503
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl somewhere along the way in the last four years,

504
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: has not. And Tremaine's made a couple. One he was

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Speaker 1: voted in as a starter, the other one he served

506
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Speaker 1: in it in an alternative capacity, but still went to two.

507
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's not easy. It's not easy

508
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: because they're good across the board, front to back, back

509
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: to front. I think, you know, thinking about what today

510
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: means in this Coult game coming up and how good

511
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: they are, and that game last year was just an

512
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: awesome playoff game between the Colts and the Bills and

513
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: the games that have happened over the years for for

514
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: young people, they don't realize the Bills were. The Colts

515
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: were in the Bill's division. Yeah, for a long for decades.

516
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: They were in the AFC East for forever, and we

517
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: played him twice a year. They had Eric Dickerson, they

518
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Speaker 1: had you know, Jeff George, had all these guys over

519
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: the years that were really good, Steve Ventman and all that,

520
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Speaker 1: you know, those names, Dwayne bickett Um, even Billy Brooks

521
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: who played here in Buffalo. Was played for the Colts.

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Speaker 1: They had a lot of really great players and when

523
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: before Peyton Manning even came to the league, they were out.

524
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: We never played him. But there has been some a

525
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: ton of games against the Indianapolis Colts, and you think

526
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: about it too, there's been a couple of epic battles,

527
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Speaker 1: particularly the Snow Game with Lashan McCoy scorning in overtime.

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00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: What a game. Yeah, that was you know this the

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Speaker 1: Snow Game was Thompson job Webb was the quarterback. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the end of that game, Yeah, because Peterman got

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00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: a concussion, right, Tyrod left the game. Tyrod was out out.

532
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: Peterman starts, gets a concussion first half. Joe Webb, right,

533
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Speaker 1: Joe Webb, Yeah, is that Joe Webb? Yeah, yes, that's right.

534
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: Joe Webb comes in, wins the game. Threw a bomb

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Speaker 1: down the right side to the Yante Thompson. I don't

536
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: know how the guy got there. I don't know how

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00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: the ball got there. One touchdown to if you think

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00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: about it, so one touchdown. The one time when the

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00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: big tall receiver from Carolin that we had we got

540
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: from Carol Calvin Benjamin catches the fade route. He caught

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: like two or three fade routes before halftime to give

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00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: the Bills a touchdown, which is all I had anybody

543
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: could get. The Colts come back, get a touchdown late,

544
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: and the Bills get a gift pass interference call on

545
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: the two point and they missed the two point to

546
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: take the lead, and the Bills went in overtime on

547
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: his shady McCoy run. It was and to this very day,

548
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: I think that game was an absolute work of art.

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00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so visually stunning. The Bills and they're

550
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: all read the white helmets Colts and they're white with

551
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: the blue, you know, the blue accents. And there was

552
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: so many photo you know, Bill Whippert and his crew

553
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: took so many iconic photos of that. It was just

554
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: and the fans were into it. My son and brother

555
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: in law were at that game, and if you sat

556
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: in your seat long enough without moving, snow would pile

557
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: up on their shoulders, all kinds of pickup. I was

558
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: knowing I was the sideline reporter for CBS that then

559
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: they asked me to like I was, asked me to

560
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: come back and do it. I was actually what was it?

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Speaker 1: I was doing. I can't remember what it was. Was

562
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: that a wasn't it. I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 1: This Sunday afternoon, I can't remember why. It was a

564
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: regular Sunday game and I was supposed to do another

565
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: game or whatever, and I came. I did this sideline

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Speaker 1: reporting for that game, and I remember they had the

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Speaker 1: snowblowers out the you know, the Ghostbuster packs out blowing

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Speaker 1: the sideline, bowing the yard parkers off. And then they

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Speaker 1: had also guys with with snow shovels. They had a

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00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 1: whole crew, right, they were all down there, and I

571
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: mean it was they were constantly trying to keep that thinking.

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00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: I mean between almost every play they were out there

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00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: and I was the sideline. You know, the guys of

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00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: the bench area were giving these guys gatorade because they

575
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: were like they were like a full It was like

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Speaker 1: twenty degrees out and these guys were in a full lather,

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Speaker 1: just sweating, just like just it was like running around

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00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: with a tight on. These guys are just like and

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Speaker 1: they're layered up. Yeah, it's like you're just like when

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00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: you were six years old and he's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're building a snow forward or whatever. You're out there

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Speaker 1: for like six hours and you're like totally. These guys

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00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: are like and they're like giving these guys and these

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Speaker 1: guys are taking a knee, leaning on their shovel, just

585
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: panting because they're trying to keep the field. I was.

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00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. The fans were going crazy. I loved it. Yeah,

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00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: it was amazing. That was That was an epic and

588
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: Shady was amazing. Yeah, maybe the best snow player I've

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00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: ever seen. He made a couple of unbelieving He made

590
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: a couple of runs in that game nobody else could

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00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: even touch because the way he ran. You know, maybe

592
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: a guy like Marshawn might have been good in that

593
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: because he kind of stomps his feet. But but Shady

594
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: was was money in that game. Best snow player I've

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00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: ever seen. It was great. And then and win it

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00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: with Joe Webb at quarterback. Yeah, bless his hard all Right,

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Speaker 1: we got we gotta take a break. That was a

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00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: good trip down Memorily, this is also and we'll talk

599
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: about this the anniversary of s November. So yeah, that

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00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: happened seven years ago, but we'll get into that. Also,

601
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: plenty more to discuss, including Which Bills defensive player do

602
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: you think will lead the way for this team the

603
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: second half of the season? Eight three five fifty. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to your calls and some sound from head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Colloida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you.

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Speaker 1: Are eyeballs out at practice? Have told us that Matt

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00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: Milano is practicing today, but he is wearing a red

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00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: non contact jersey, so we'll see if he pops up

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00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: on the injury report when it's released later this afternoon.

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00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: We'll see where that goes. Eight oh three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Which

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Speaker 1: Bill's defensive player will lead the way the second half

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00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: of the season? Steve and I don't think it's a

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00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: very easy decision to make, but we'll see what you

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Speaker 1: have to say. But let's go to the phones and

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Speaker 1: we lead off here with Frank and Williams. Will Frank,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on One Bill's Live. Well,

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Speaker 1: it starts a player I'm lowing Ed aliber I really

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Speaker 1: like luis that tits from playing to turn up his game.

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Speaker 1: Um see, I wanted to ask you a question about

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Speaker 1: teams if I could. I noticed the punters these days

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00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: seems to be using a different technique. I wonder if

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00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: you get enlighten me back in the old days, to

626
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: seem like with Ray guy Mobile and those guys, they

627
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: used to drop the ball down from their shoulder height

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Speaker 1: almost and they're just looking for a hang time to

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Speaker 1: get the little hang time clock in the corner of

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Speaker 1: the TV. And oh ed um. Now, let's say he

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Speaker 1: dropped the ball bunch lower, almost like two feet off

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00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: the ground and with a point down and it seems

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Speaker 1: to me that will be easy a block and the

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Speaker 1: way they huld do it, do you know? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, Frank, I know exactly what you're talking about.

636
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Speaker 1: And it's all with you. It's the inclusion or the

637
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: don't an invasion or whatever of a different technique that

638
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: they used now. Because it's a lot you'll see a

639
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: lot more guys with much bigger legs. Um. I'm not

640
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 1: saying physically, I'm saying guys that kick it a long

641
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: way now. In the NFL used to be you have

642
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that could really boom it. Now

643
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,959
Speaker 1: you've got pro punters everywhere. Everybody kicks it twenty five

644
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: percent farther than they used to. And what that means

645
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: is the field is smaller, so they're kicking it under

646
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: controlled circumstances a lot more often than they used to be.

647
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: So what happens, and now you're right, they they hold

648
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: the ball verdict. They used to lay it flat and

649
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: kick it on the like if the ball's laying flat,

650
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: like if you put a football on the ground, it

651
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: lays like that. That's how they were kicking it on

652
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: the underneath belly side of it. Yeah, they still do that,

653
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: but they still do, but now most of them turn

654
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: it up and kick that like a with the same

655
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: punt motion, but they almost kick it like it's standing

656
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: on end, like a kicker kicks it to get it

657
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: up in the air, and the ball comes out tumbling

658
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: instead of spiraling. What that does is it makes it

659
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: easier to control. The drop is much more much less unpredictable,

660
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: much more predictable when you drop it from a lower spot,

661
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: because it's not in the air long and it's much

662
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: more as much easier to control the spin when it's

663
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: tumbling because and it also bounces more often. It bounces

664
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: vertical than it used to when it was spiraling. So

665
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: all of that stuff put together, plus the fact that

666
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: most teams now will have a guy fair catch it

667
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: inside the ten or catch it and fair catch it,

668
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: and all of that, the rules of handling a football

669
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: and a punt have changed a little bit as well,

670
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: meaning both those things kind of win in concert. The

671
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: simple thing is this, they punt it farther, which means

672
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: they're trying to drop it in and not have it

673
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: bounce forward as much, which means that technique does it

674
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: more often that vertical drop. And that's It's that simple.

675
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: The guys kick it farther. They're coughing with the old

676
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: Coffin corner kick. They're doing that from outside the fifty

677
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: yard line. Now they're doing it like from everywhere, almost anywhere,

678
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: from their own forty into plus territory. This is commonly

679
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: referred to as the Aussee style kick. The Australian kickers

680
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: it came to the NFL started kicking this way and

681
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: everybody has adopted it because it's been proven effective. They

682
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: when you're trying to place a kick inside the opponent's

683
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: twenty yard line ten yard line, and you don't want

684
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: to risk it becoming a touchback. You drop it with

685
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: the point down, and by kicking it that way, as

686
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: Steve said, it tumbles backwards on its path to wherever

687
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: it's headed, and more often than not, that tumbling motion

688
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: will get a favorable bounce away from the end zone,

689
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: which now enables your coverage unit to down the kick

690
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: deep in the opponent's territory. Back when you're backed up

691
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: on your own ten or your own twenty, they will

692
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: still kick the belly of the ball many times, but

693
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: when they're looking to drop it in a specific area

694
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: without a lot of bounce and run, they will kick

695
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: it ausee style and drop it point down. That's not

696
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: as an ausee style kick. I'll say this, and I

697
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: want to go in the weeds too much, but when

698
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: I played, I went to the soup to the Pro

699
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: Bowl handful of times, and one of the guys that

700
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: went out there and one of the guys that came

701
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: in the Aussie style kick was Darren Bennett. He was

702
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: the first one. Yeah. Back in the day, Darren Bennett

703
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: had been a really successful Australian rules football player, it's

704
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: a completely different game, but there's a lot more foot

705
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: on the ball in that game than in the American game.

706
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: They do it constantly, and they kick it at any

707
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: point in the game, and you know, the field's round.

708
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: It's all kinds of different, but they handle the ball

709
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: and kick it a lot. So Darren been It brought

710
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: some of that skill set to the San Diego Chargers.

711
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: He kicked for him forever a long time. He's a

712
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: big dude. And we got the chance to play together

713
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: in the in the Pro Bowl, so we became friendly.

714
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, my, my guy, my special team's coordinator.

715
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna forget his name. But he will not,

716
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: he said, And you're not kicking that aus he kicks stuff.

717
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to see it. He wouldn't let him

718
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: do it. Wow, and I and I still want. He goes, yeah,

719
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: he goes, it'd make it been. He gave me the

720
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: whole scenario. I go, I go, hey, we're in the

721
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Kick it. I go, you kick it all

722
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: down it, y'all chase it, let's go. Let's let's do

723
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: it right. He goes, no, what are y'all go? He's

724
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: what are you talking about what you I go, Darred

725
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: ain't gonna cut. Yeah, you're in the Pro Bowl. Nobody

726
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: cares do it. So he did. He kicked it in

727
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and it, you know, worked just like

728
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: it was supposed to. And and it's really easy if

729
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's a real easy kick to control because

730
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: like you said, you don't drop it and you're not

731
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: like looting it hard and these guys with such big

732
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: legs and he's it's a it's a real easy kick

733
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: to get your foot on. So there's fewer mishits, fewer shanks,

734
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,280
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. And it forces a fair catch

735
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: because you can get it up in the air and

736
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: it's you know, all of that stuff. And it worked

737
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: exactly like it was supposed to. And lo and behold,

738
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: from that moment it started to have to be a

739
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: part of the repertoire for other kickers and other punters,

740
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 1: and Darren Bennett with a genesis of the Aussee kick

741
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, I didn't, I didn't. I had

742
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. You made the suggestion, happened.

743
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: I gave him the okay to go ahead and do it.

744
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: I was just like Buddy, I was just supervised. No,

745
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: here's what happened. He had. He had the guy on

746
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: this shoulder with the halo saying, listen, you want to

747
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: play it safe. You're making a lot of money doing

748
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: this day. And I'm the little guy over here with

749
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: a pitchfork. Tam, come on, cut dare him? Darren? So

750
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: he does, you know? And it worked out so now.

751
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying, but I think Darren Bennett is

752
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: the one who introduced that to the NFL. And now

753
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: everybody has evolved into a staple. And that's a prerequisite

754
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: for an NFL killer. You have to be able to

755
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: do it absolutely. All right, we gotta take a break.

756
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Mike on a cell. Hang on, We'll get to you

757
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break. Here it's One

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00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

760
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: Steve Jasper with you, and wanted to pass along a

761
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: couple of comments from coach McDermott from his press conference

762
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: just before practice today. And he thinks pretty highly of

763
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: this Cold's team. He knows that they pushed his team

764
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: to the brink last year in the wildcard playoff game,

765
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: which ultimately came down to a hail Mary throw by

766
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers which was knocked down by Micah Hyde, giving

767
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: the Bills a three point victory in advancing to the

768
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: Divisional round to the playoffs. So here is coach make

769
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: dermots evaluation of the Colts ahead of Sunday's game. A

770
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: good football team. Talent across the roster all three phases.

771
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: They play well, play fast on special teams, um, you know,

772
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: well coached. Offensively, what they do offensively, you know, with

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00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: a good quarterback and Frank's had a few of them

774
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: there with going back to Luck and then and then

775
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: Philip last year, now Carson, so um, all these seems

776
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: to have a good quarterback in a system and they

777
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: execute at a high level. And um, the running game

778
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: is is uh, I think tops in the NFL. Also so,

779
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: but then they have skill at the tight end receiver position,

780
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: the backside of the backfield. Defensively, again well coached, um,

781
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean they just they do a great

782
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: job taking the ball away, um, changing up their schemes.

783
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: So they're real good football team. Thanks Jonathan Taylor. Uh

784
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,479
Speaker 1: you know, I mean if you could kind of build

785
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: them all back that way. I mean he's got size, power, vision, balance, um,

786
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: home run speed. You don't always it's hard to find

787
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: that all in all those traits in one and one

788
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: back and he's got them all. And he's also tied

789
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: for the league lead in rushing with Derrick Henry, who

790
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: hasn't played the last two games, and still he's done

791
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: it in rushing yards. He's done it in about fifty

792
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: less carries as well. Taylor has. Taylor hasn't um that. Also,

793
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: the Colts are second in the league in turnovers, getting

794
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: turnovers takeaways their second league and takeaways to Buffalo um.

795
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: And you got to think from the what the Colts

796
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 1: look at in the Buffalo Bills. Devin Singletary is number

797
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: one in the NFL and with in running and all

798
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: running backs, he leads all running backs in the NFL

799
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: with five fumbles. You've got to know that that they're

800
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: looking at that saying we're gonna get the ball. Yeah,

801
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: that going to be a point of emphasis for a

802
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 1: team coming on the road into a into a building,

803
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: right And you know, you look at the Colts and

804
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard, who will talk to Stephen Holder about in

805
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 1: our next segment. Who's the beat writer for the athletic

806
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: covers the Colts out there in Indy and I saw

807
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: we saw it in the Jets game where Leonard just

808
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: punched the ball out. Guy comes running through the hole.

809
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: He kind of corrals him, grabs him with one arm.

810
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he don't even grab him. He just comes

811
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: right in and just he's not even trying to tackle him.

812
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: He's just going into jab the ball and he hit

813
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: it square in the middle and the thing pop loose

814
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: and Colts recover. And that's how they've gotten some of

815
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: their turnovers this year. They're using the peanut punch and

816
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: it's worked. And yeah, they're right behind the Bills in

817
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: total takeaways and they're right behind the Bills and turn

818
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: over margin. Because even though Carson Wentz will have a

819
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: wonky pass every now and then, he's only thrown three

820
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: picks this year. That's low for him. Two of them

821
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: were in one game. Yeah, and um, so he's been

822
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: very good about protecting the football. I think he learned

823
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: a lesson. He had an ugly, ugly interception in the

824
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: one of their earlier games, maybe against Tennessee, where he

825
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: kind of tried to left hand and it was just

826
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: awful and ended up in a pick six, you know,

827
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 1: just trying to do too much all of Josh Allen.

828
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: And I think he's starting to settle down and he's

829
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: starting to feel like the Colts are his team, and

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00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, there is yeah, yeah, it was against Tennessee

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00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: and they lost that game. It's just they're getting better,

832
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, as most teams are, and certainly a lot

833
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: of teams like the Bills and like some other teams,

834
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: they were good out of the gate, going four and

835
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: one or three and one the Bills did. Then they

836
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: then they you know, against Jacksonville against Miami, they kind

837
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: of had a sinking spell there for a week or two.

838
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: And that seems to be going around the the AFC

839
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: for for sure. But there are teams like New England,

840
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: like Indianapolis who are starting to get it together and

841
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: play better now. You know. Now they're starting to look

842
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: like the team we thought they were going going to

843
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: be early on. And I you know, I so I'm

844
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm interested to talk to Stephen Holder about, you know,

845
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: the pro progression of this team. After this Colts team,

846
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: after digging himself as a hole, finding a way out

847
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: of it, it's not an easy hole to climb out of.

848
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: I think there's only about five or six teams in

849
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: the history of the league that have started a season

850
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: OZ and three and come back to make the playoffs.

851
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: The ninety eight Bills are one of them. Yeah, it's

852
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to make that comparison now because

853
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: you got seven teams in the playoffs. Six it's easier

854
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: to get different. But still, and you have an extra

855
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: game to kind of make up for a slow start too,

856
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: because I play seventeen now, right, So yeah, the games

857
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: mean you know what, eleven, you know, fifteen percent less

858
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: than what they used to So something like that. Yeah,

859
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: don't in public, man, Yeah, don't ask me to do

860
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: it on the floor. You know, they just mean that

861
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: much less. He got that much time to recover. And

862
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: I think also, and I'm being anxious to see the

863
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: data or the you know, the numbers of what the

864
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: three instead of four preseason games meant to a lot

865
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: of teams. And the Colts were a great example of

866
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: that because their preseason was horrible because their roster was

867
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: ravaged by injury. Right, anybody healthy to get ready for

868
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: to see what Stephen Holder has to say, about the

869
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: effects of that preseason and how the Colts have had

870
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: to overcome it and whether it led to their slow start. Yeah,

871
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, we will take a break here.

872
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: But as Steve said, when we come back, one Stephen

873
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: Holder will be joining us, Senior Colts and NFL writer

874
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: for the Athletic Covers the Colts out there in Indy.

875
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: We will talk to him next to get the four

876
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: one one on Buffalo's next opponent that's coming up here

877
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: next on One Bill's Live presented by Collid of Health.

878
00:48:43,800 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

879
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

880
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

881
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy here,

882
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: all right, here we are our number two on a Wednesday,

883
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: and time now for us to be joined by the

884
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: Senior Colts and NFL writer for the Athletic Covers of

885
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: Colts out there and Indie. One Stephen Holder joined Steve

886
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: and myself as we get the four one one on

887
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: the Bill's upcoming opponent, the Colts. All right, Steven, so

888
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: let's begin here climbing out of the hole. For the Colts.

889
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: We know they started off and three, then one and four.

890
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: Now they're back even finally here at five hundred. What

891
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: is the feedback you're getting from the players in the time,

892
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, get to interview them and then coach Reich

893
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: in terms of climbing out of that hole and how

894
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: they look forward. Now, yeah, it was a deep hole,

895
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: there's no question about that. One in four is never

896
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: the way you draw it up. But they there's two

897
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: things happening. They are starting to sort of mesh and

898
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: and to sort of become the team they hoped they

899
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: could be. They certainly offensively have gotten it together a

900
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: little bit of struggles against Jacksonville, but you guys know

901
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: about that tough defensive front, so but generally they have

902
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: been definitely I think borderline elite offense in some of

903
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: their recent games, and they think that's kind of their

904
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: strength right now. They also are a team that takes

905
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: the ball away with all kinds of frequency, and so

906
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: they have some identifiable strengths which I don't think we

907
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: saw early. And I think they're starting to kind of

908
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: become a team that we can, you know, see an

909
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: identity where and I think that's they understand how they

910
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: can win now. Yeah, when we saw them in their

911
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: last game last year here in Buffalo, in that playoff game,

912
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: and we thought, you know, collectively here it was really

913
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: the most one of the toughest games the Bills had

914
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: all season. We felt like they were really clicking. Now

915
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: they got Carson Wentz, who is has got different strengths

916
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: than Philip Rivers did a year ago. But this is

917
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: a really good team. Could you chalk up their slow

918
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: start to the injury to Wentz, the injury to the

919
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: right guard. I mean some of those things. Yeah, that

920
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: the you know, it was kind of the first three

921
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: game first month of the season was really their preseason

922
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: with the guys who were actually going to play the

923
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: regular season, right. Yeah, training camp was an absolute mess,

924
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: I will tell you certainly. Carson Wentz was not out there,

925
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson wasn't out there, Darius Leonard missed most of

926
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Speaker 1: training camp. So I mean those are you're talking about

927
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: your your elite players on the team, your most important players.

928
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: The offensive line I am pretty sure didn't have collectively

929
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: an entire pract this together in the preseason, not one,

930
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: And so I mean that's that's a pretty tall order

931
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Speaker 1: to have to hit the ground running against by the

932
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: Way Seattle with Russell Wilson and then the Rams a

933
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: week later. I mean that was their opening back to back,

934
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: so that's pretty tough, and I just didn't think they

935
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: were prepared and it was Claire. You know, the offensive

936
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: line has been a strength of this team, and so

937
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,919
Speaker 1: to watch the offensive line really struggle through those first

938
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: two games, I think it told you a lot about

939
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: their preparedness for the season. So so now, as you mentioned,

940
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of got things together that they

941
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: were still hurt into the season. Carson Wentz, as you mentioned,

942
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: had another injury the ankle that he had to play through.

943
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: He's back to health now, at least as healthy as

944
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: he'll be, and I think they're starting to see some

945
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: other guys get healthy as well. T Y Hilton's back,

946
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: they hope to get a little more out of him.

947
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: So they're they're not the same team that they were

948
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 1: a month ago or six weeks ago, and that's why

949
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: you're starting to see things kind of crystallize a little bit.

950
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: So Steve, and we know that as you mentioned, t

951
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: Y Hilton is coming back to the lineup, but it

952
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: seems as though Michael Pittman has supplanted him as the

953
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: true number one receiver in this offense. Can you just

954
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: talk about the connection that's been established now between Wentz

955
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: and Pittman, particularly on third down and in crunch time. Yeah,

956
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: I thought this might happen, and it's happened, probably faster

957
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: than that I think most people expected. I really liked

958
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman as a rookie last season. I thought that

959
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 1: he had the potential to be utilized a lot more.

960
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: But what Carson Wentz has realized, and I think what

961
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: has helped Michael Pittman is Carson Wentz certainly is a

962
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: more aggressive quarterback than Philip Rivers, just has more arm

963
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: talent at this compared to Philip Rivers at the end

964
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: of his career, you know, which is no knock on

965
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,760
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. He's thirty nine. So but anyhow, Carson Wentz

966
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: two things. Has the arm talent and has the attitude.

967
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: The aggressive attitude. I mean, he's never thrown, he's never

968
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: seen a pass he's not willing to make. And as

969
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: we know, and now Michael Pittman has benefited from that

970
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: because Michael Pittman is I think, very very reliable at

971
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: the fifty fifty ball. And you know, he has been

972
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: covered a lot in these receptions he's made a lot

973
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: of them have come when he's well covered. He just

974
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: does a good job of fighting off coverage and making

975
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: contested catches, not just jump balls per se. But even

976
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, on third down, which is I think

977
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: where you get the tightest coverage, you see a lot

978
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: of man coverage there. He has been automatic for Carson

979
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 1: Wentz on third down. And the confidence that Carson Wentz

980
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: has and Michael Pittman, that tells you all you need

981
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: to know. You know, when a quarterback goes to when

982
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: he goes to his go to guy on third down,

983
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: it tells you that's a guy he can count on.

984
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: And so to be doing that with a second year guy,

985
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: I think it says a whole lot about Michael Pittman

986
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: and his grow So he I believe, is leading the

987
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: NFL in third down yards if I'm not mistaken. That's

988
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Yeah, and they've got Jonathan Taylor, who is

989
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: really I mean, he's an elite running back in the NFL.

990
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: He's got you know, nine hundred and thirty seven yards

991
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: rushing he's got three hundred and change in past reception,

992
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: he's got ten touchdowns on the year, and Frank Reich

993
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: and went they're running those RPOs that they kind of

994
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: got off the ground in Philly when they made their

995
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl run. Of course, Fulls finished the season, but

996
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was playing an MVP level. How has that

997
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: offense and this offense like transformed from that? I mean,

998
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: I know Philip Rivers wasn't running RPOs last year, and

999
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, so how has this offense and everybody around

1000
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: it involved in it evolved from last year to this year. Well,

1001
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: you can add some elements that you just couldn't use

1002
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: with Philip Rivers last year. And I think if you're

1003
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: the defense, you have to account for some things that

1004
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: were not in the picture last season. For example, when

1005
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: they do run these RPOs, they're not running the quarterback

1006
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: generally when they do it, but you have to at

1007
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: least account for it, right and so so the defense

1008
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: has that to worry about. And then there are things

1009
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,760
Speaker 1: you can do like moving the pocket and having Wentz

1010
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: throw on these bootlegs, which he loves. He is one

1011
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: of I think the more talented quarterbacks in terms of

1012
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 1: throwing on the run. In fact, he's as accurate throwing

1013
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: on the run as he is, you know, with good

1014
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: mechanics in the pocket. So it's just kind of it

1015
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: just kind of suits his skill set. And so it

1016
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you know, he won't make a bad

1017
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: decision here or there, but but he definitely can do

1018
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: some things that give Frank Reich and Marcus Brady their

1019
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. He gives them, uh some some ability to

1020
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: to put some other things in their game plans that

1021
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: they just didn't have access to last year. So that's

1022
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: been a positive. And and the other thing that Wentz

1023
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: has done is you know, he's been aggressive and thrown

1024
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 1: for big yardage, but but done it without really being

1025
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,760
Speaker 1: too risky. Now he had that sort of bone headed

1026
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: play we've all seen a couple of weeks ago, and

1027
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,240
Speaker 1: he will do that. Okay, that's that's gonna be something

1028
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: that's just a reality with Carson Wentz. But for the

1029
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: most part, I think he's thrown three interceptions. I mean

1030
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: that if you would have told me through nine games

1031
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: or ten games that Carson Wentz would be sitting here

1032
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: with three interceptions. After what we saw last season, the

1033
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: Colts would take that and run right. Talking to the

1034
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: athletics senior Colts and NFL writer Stephen Holder, who joins

1035
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: us here and Steven, it looks like, and you tell me,

1036
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,479
Speaker 1: since you're much closer to it than we are, it

1037
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: looks like the Colts pass rush is really rounding into form. Here.

1038
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: The Bills weren't the only team that used their first

1039
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: two draft choices on pass rushers. The Colts did as well.

1040
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the progress that Quitti Pay and

1041
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: do Odiingbo have made for the Colts with respect to

1042
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: filling out out that pass rush and making it a

1043
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: fully well rounded unit. Yeah. I like what I'm seeing,

1044
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: and it's it's about time. They really did need to

1045
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: do that, because I do think they're secondary. Two things

1046
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: have happened. They have suffered some really key injuries in

1047
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: their secondary, losing Julian Blackman at free safety, who I

1048
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: think is one of the better young safeties in the league.

1049
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: And then right now carry Willis, they're they're strong safety.

1050
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: He's out, he's on IR for a little bit as well.

1051
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:32,479
Speaker 1: So Xavier Rhodes hasn't played. So I mean they they're

1052
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: really undermann in the secondary. So you have to sort

1053
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,919
Speaker 1: of help help out one the front or the back.

1054
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to get it from somewhere, and

1055
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: they just can't get it from the back end right now.

1056
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: The sole the front end is going to have to

1057
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Speaker 1: pick up its end of the bargain and getting you

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00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: mentioned Diodengbo, getting him back in the lineup or in

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: the lineup coming off of the non football injury list.

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00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: They're excited about him. He had a game clinching force

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00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: fumble on Sunday against Trevor Lawrence to kind of end

1062
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: that threat at the end of the game and Quitty

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00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: pay their first round pick out of Michigan. He is

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Speaker 1: growing in confidence. And I just think with these young

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00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: pass rushers, and you're going through this too, you know

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00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: what's happening with Buffalo. The young pass rushers. It's a process.

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00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes with pass rush as fans and media,

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00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, we get caught up in sacks. Well, they're

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00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,479
Speaker 1: not going to have big numbers most of the time.

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Speaker 1: Are they affecting the game though? And I think they're

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00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: starting to affect the game and affect the quarterback. If

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00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: they do that, I think that's successful. And if they

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00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: can consistently do that, I think then you start to

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Speaker 1: see the Forrest Buckner now have a greater impact because

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00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: he has just drawn so much attention because they haven't

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00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: been able to take that attention away from him. So

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Speaker 1: it all works together, and if these guys can continue

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00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: to continue this push, I think they'll see some overall

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00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: progress over the first half of the season. He's through

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00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: these ten or eleven weeks of the season. The Cults

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Speaker 1: are now number two in the NFL in turnovers defensively

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Speaker 1: and the Bills are number one, So both these clubs

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01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: are kind of reaping the benefits of getting the ball out.

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Speaker 1: What has been the factor that has been the biggest

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a huge factor in the turnaround

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Speaker 1: for the Colts and starting to get turnovers, and that's

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Speaker 1: always a huge factor. Why have they been getting Is

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Speaker 1: it the secondaries, the pass rush? Is there any sort

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Speaker 1: of trend you can spot as to why Indianapolis has

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Speaker 1: been able to get the ball from their opponents so

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Speaker 1: much defensively? Well, the first answer is an easy one,

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Speaker 1: and there's there's two factors. I think the first one

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Speaker 1: is easy and it's Darius Leonard. Darius Leonard is he

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Speaker 1: just has a knack for finding the football. You know,

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Speaker 1: my colleague Bob Kravitz has the story out this week

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Speaker 1: about or interviewing Charles Tilman. You know p Nut Tilman,

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Speaker 1: who general manager here Chris Ballard actually scouted when he

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01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: was with the Chicago Bears, and he thinks that's one

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Speaker 1: of his greatest finds was Charles Tilman. And what is

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Speaker 1: Charles Tilman famous for? Right? He's famous for punching the

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Speaker 1: ball out. I think the only guy to do it

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Speaker 1: at that level, at Peanut Tilman's level is Darius Leonard

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01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: and he's not there yet, but but he's on pace

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Speaker 1: to do it at a level that that Peanut Tilman did.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it looks it's it sounds simple, just

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Speaker 1: punch at the ball, right, but everybody does it. Everybody

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Speaker 1: tries it, they don't do it successfully. There's something about

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Speaker 1: this guy that it's just an innate sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: It's an uncanny ability to time it and to do

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Speaker 1: it at just the right time and instinctively know when

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Speaker 1: to go for the football. But also now make the

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Speaker 1: tackle gay because you can go punching at balls all

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Speaker 1: day and if you if you missed the ball and

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01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: missed the tackle, well, then you're hurting your team. So

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01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: so that's a big factor. And he has also recovered

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Speaker 1: some fumbles, He's got a couple of interceptions, He finds

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Speaker 1: the football. He's just a really, really instinctive player. And

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Speaker 1: then the other factor here is I think it's cultural,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is probably true for the Bills too.

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Speaker 1: You have to preach. You have to preach what you

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Speaker 1: want from your team, and they consistently preach about turnovers

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Speaker 1: and and having you know, three, four or five men

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Speaker 1: run to the football. If you do that, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have some opportunities for turnovers. And look, when when two

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Speaker 1: guys are making the tackle, the third guy he can

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Speaker 1: go for the football and he's got the luxury of

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01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: not having to worry about getting the guy on the ground.

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Speaker 1: So so gang tackling I think breeds turnovers. And then

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Speaker 1: they also are a team that plays eyes on the

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Speaker 1: quarterback anyway, so they're gonna get some picks just by

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Speaker 1: virtue of doing that. So yeah, I mean, look that

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Speaker 1: it's it's a big part of what they are. It's

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Speaker 1: been it's a big part of what they're going for

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Speaker 1: with their defensive scheme. If their scheme doesn't get turnovers,

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Speaker 1: then one of the big tenants of their scheme has failed.

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Speaker 1: So so it's working right now. And then finally, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: they're special teams unit. Obviously, they make a big play

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Speaker 1: last week which was huge in the game, a block

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01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: punt that gets returned for a touchdown. Zaire Franklin and EJ.

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Speaker 1: Speed teaming up on that. The Bills have been a

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Speaker 1: victim of a block punt for a touchdown. It's the

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Speaker 1: big reason why they lost in Week one to the Steelers.

1143
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: But maybe just give me your thumbnail sketch of their

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01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: special teams unit. I know since Badgeley came in as kicker,

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01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: he's been perfect for them since Week six, So maybe

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01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: just assess for us the special teams unit and how

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01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: they've contributed. I like their special teams that they have.

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Speaker 1: They've had a few games lately where we're winning in

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01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: the special teams department. I think has really helped them

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01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 1: seal a win. You talked about getting that block punt

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Speaker 1: for a field goal or sciping for a touchdown on Sunday.

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01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: You know that's a one score game and that's essentially

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01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: the difference in the game. And he looked back at

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore loss and over time, so Rodrigo Blanketship, their

1155
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: kicker was hurt in that game, had some missues, so

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Speaker 1: that's the outlier. But they have a couple of things

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01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 1: going on special teams. Their return game is pretty good.

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01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: They've got some explosiveness back there with Isaiah Rodgers at kickoffs.

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Speaker 1: On kickoffs and Niheim Hines on punts. I mean, you

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01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: see Naheim Hines as a running back and receiver, and

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Speaker 1: I think he brings that explosiveness to the punt return game.

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01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: Had a game two years ago where he had two

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Speaker 1: kick or punt returns for touchdowns, which you just almost

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Speaker 1: never see. So he has that potential. It's been a while,

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01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: but he has that potential back there. So you have

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01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: to assess and think about and strategize whether you're going

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Speaker 1: to kick to him and what situation. And it's something

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Speaker 1: that you have to talk about, I think as a

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Speaker 1: as a staff when you're going up against return guys

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Speaker 1: like that. All right, Steven Listen, thanks very much for

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Speaker 1: the time. Look forward to the game this weekend. I

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Speaker 1: know you do too. In addition to that HBO series

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Speaker 1: coming up tonight, right, that Hard Knocks series Get season hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do you have any preview of what that's gonna look

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Speaker 1: like and what it's been like around the building. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's been interesting. You know, the cameras are

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Speaker 1: following everybody around. Um. I try to stay off of

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01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: them as much as possible. Episode we'll see if I

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Speaker 1: end up on if I end up within an HBO

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01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 1: a little HBO airtime. But I think it has been

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01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, I think players like this. I mean, let's

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01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: be honest. I mean they post everything on Instagram and

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01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: they post their entire lives. You know, they like it,

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01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: and you know, whether they admit it or not, they

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01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: like it. And so but I also think it has

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01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: managed to be a minimal distraction, which is good. But

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be some good stuff in there, I think,

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01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: and they've gotten a lot of access. I'm actually really

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Speaker 1: looking forward to watching. So yeah, all right, thanks to

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Speaker 1: always even for the help. We appreciate it. We'll catch

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Speaker 1: up with you down the line. Okay, guys, I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you so see Sunday. All right. So that's Stephen

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Speaker 1: Holder given us the four to one one on the Colts.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we will have Josh Allen off the practice

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Speaker 1: field and speaking to the media. We'll get that TNX

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Line, presented by Collid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. It is

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Speaker 1: time for us, though, to go out to the practice field.

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Speaker 1: Practice is wrapped up for the day, but one Josh

1202
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Speaker 1: Allen is addressing the media, so let's all listen in

1203
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: now to Josh, what was it like going to the

1204
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: Eliminate Power play yesterday or two days ago last night? No,

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01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: it was, Uh, it's really cool, to be honest. I

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01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 1: was getting massage yesterday and Kelly the Masseuse, she talked

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Speaker 1: about it and I'm just like one of her buddies

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Speaker 1: was playing in it. So I looked it up on

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01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: the internet Go figure, and uh, I thought it was

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01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And obviously they're they're raising money for a

1211
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: really good cause, and um, it's an off day, we

1212
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: weren't doing much. Thought i'd stop by show some support

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01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: to some of the players that are doing it, because

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Speaker 1: eleven days straight, that's that's pretty impressive. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: the whole operation was really cool. I got to talk

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01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: to a few guys that ran it. Um, you know,

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01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,080
Speaker 1: and it was it was a really cool EXPERI and

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01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I glad I went last time. Your relationship

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01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: was the fun we saw it. We saw it in

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01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: genuine fashion and on that side of kids cover you know,

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01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: him on your back and about you guys being in smiles. Um,

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01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 1: what I want? One thought I had before I get

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Speaker 1: to my what how long did it take for that

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Speaker 1: picture to develop? Um? Now, I know that was a

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01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: It was a cool shoot. Stefan asked me to do

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01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: it with him, and uh, you know, I don't really

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Speaker 1: like being on magazines and stuff like that, but I

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: do anything for my guy. And I know it was

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01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: a really fun shoot. It was pretty quick to be honest. Um,

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01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm glad we got to do that. It's

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01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: a really cool picture. And uh, you know that's that's

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Speaker 1: one of those cool, cool moments that you get. How

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Speaker 1: much does that reflect the relationship that you have? Was

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Speaker 1: the fun? Who's talked about? You know, when you when

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Speaker 1: you're searching for your way, he'll come up and try

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01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: to say, you know, we're let's just play the back.

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Speaker 1: It's like we're alone in the backyard kind of ground.

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01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: How how pretty cool is that? How much of a

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Speaker 1: relationship have you developed? Yeah, well, I've been a big

1240
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: believer in off field relationships paying dividence on the field,

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01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: and I think that ours kind of speaks volumes. But

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01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: it just kind of proves my thinking. Like we're we're

1243
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: a pretty tight knit group this team. Obviously in Buffalo,

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01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: there's not a whole bunch of doing, not a whole

1245
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 1: lot of distractions. We get to hang out with each

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01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 1: other a lot um, you know, and develop those types

1247
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: of bonds and relationships, and again it shows up on

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01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 1: the field. But he's able just to talk to me

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01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: like a normal person. He's not talking to me from

1250
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: a wide receiver to a quarterback perspective. It's a it's

1251
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: a friend a friend perspective, like hey, we need we

1252
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: need you to get going. Hey, if you look on

1253
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: at me on this route, I'm gonna do this. And

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01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: it's just that open line of communication that we have

1255
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: that there's no ego involved, there's no needs to be

1256
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: done one way, the bond needs to be put in

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01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: a certain spot. It's hey, give me a chance. Hey,

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01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: it's I'm gonna give you a chance. Um, and I

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01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,799
Speaker 1: really feel like, you know, just that type of relationship

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01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: we have, it's it's special and it shows on the field.

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01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: Last thing, look with the offense, with all the questions

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01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: that you guys face last week, go after the Jackson

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Speaker 1: Bill game, but and I know it's it's it's just

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01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: sort of the guy who's opened and all this stuff

1265
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: that will the offense see that a spark the most

1266
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:20,519
Speaker 1: you went to step on Um and really fed him

1267
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: the ball because he was open um but the opportunite,

1268
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: but he wasn't always open, especially a little type of times. Um.

1269
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: The trust that you have in him and the importance

1270
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: of one to stepond will the open seated at most. Yeah, Again,

1271
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: the more I can throw to him, it seems like

1272
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:39,200
Speaker 1: the more success that we have. And I'm gonna trust

1273
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: him in those fifty fifty balls in place. It like

1274
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:44,879
Speaker 1: with with everything I have, you know, because more often

1275
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: than not, he's either coming down with it or nobody is.

1276
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: And it's just that that type of trust that I

1277
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 1: have in him, and he's showed it over and over

1278
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: you know in practice in games that it's his ball

1279
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: or nobody's balling. Um. He's gonna protect the team that

1280
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: way as well. Steve Bets does a really good job

1281
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 1: and tarts. How are they able to do that it's

1282
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: such a high play. Well, I obviously they're a very

1283
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 1: talented group. Um. You look at Darius Leonard, I know

1284
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 1: he had some sort of record, whether it be six

1285
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,759
Speaker 1: or seven straight games with whether it be an interception,

1286
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: forced fumble, or a fumble recovery. Um, he is all

1287
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: over the field. When you watch the type, he's a

1288
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: special player. Maybe the best, if not the best linebacker

1289
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: in the league right now. UM. And again, just the

1290
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: the detail that they put into punching the ball out

1291
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,600
Speaker 1: and when the ball's in the air. Um, they do

1292
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: a really good job of being aggressive and going after it.

1293
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: So we got to be ready for that. You know,

1294
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: it's a big emphasis. I think that any any team

1295
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: that plays them, they have to understand that they're gonna

1296
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 1: punch the ball. UM. And it's not gonna just be

1297
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 1: one play, It's gonna be every single play. There's there's

1298
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: hands flying at the ball. UM. Inside, they got a

1299
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: couple of guys that are very very big disrupt their

1300
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: run game. UM. You look at the Forrest Buckner. You

1301
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 1: know he's he's been a menace all year. So again

1302
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: we got we got to put together a pretty good

1303
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: game plan and just go out there and execute the

1304
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: best that we can. But again, the emphasis on ball

1305
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: security with this team, especially Jodan mentioned in regards to

1306
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: the takeaways, especially the secondary really always has their eyes

1307
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: on the quarterback obviously, does that how much of an

1308
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: added element does that put on your plates to almost

1309
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: have to work your eyes even more so than maybe usual?

1310
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: I think really, especially with this team just being on

1311
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 1: time and accurate, I think that the longer you hold

1312
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 1: the ball, the longer you stare down receiver. You know,

1313
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: giving their rules, they are flying, you know, they're they're

1314
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: staring at my eyes and they are moving with me.

1315
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: So again, that's how they've been able to produce a

1316
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,520
Speaker 1: bunch of turnovers is quarterbacks looking at one guy backside

1317
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: corner or safety seeing that and just jumping it and going.

1318
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 1: And again they're very aggressive play style side to side

1319
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 1: that they move extremely fast. So we're gonna have our

1320
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: handsful and we've gotta be detailed in our routes and

1321
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: especially with me just being on time and accurate, this

1322
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: off mats to be the best version it can be.

1323
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: Do you guys need to stretch the fields kind of

1324
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: like you did against the Jets or is that just

1325
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: what they gave you? So yeah, I think it's just

1326
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, um, whatever day we'll see is we gotta

1327
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: go out there and execute, whether it be a past

1328
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: thirty yards, down field, past three yards in front of

1329
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, just being detailed, trying to stay

1330
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: efficient on first and second down, skipping third downs, and

1331
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: then when we do have their downs, being smart with

1332
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 1: the football and trying to end every every possession in

1333
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: a kick, whether it be a punt field or pat so. Um,

1334
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: you know, whatever opportune moment kind of presents itself during

1335
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: those games, obviously we have to we have to take advantage. Um.

1336
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 1: But again this is a defense that there's there's very

1337
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,760
Speaker 1: little opportunity. So again we got to be patient, um,

1338
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 1: protect the football, and um, like I said, be very

1339
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: cautious of the football. The cluttered yard games. For Gabriel Davis,

1340
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: where grow the boats? I think mentally, Um, you know,

1341
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: obviously he made a lot of really big plays for

1342
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 1: us last year and he's going to continue to make

1343
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 1: place for us this year. But just staying in the moment,

1344
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,480
Speaker 1: trusting what's going on, and being patient with his opportunities

1345
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: because he hasn't had many opportunities this year with what

1346
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: we've got, and um, you know how how big a

1347
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: Manuel has been for us this year. But when he's

1348
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: been in the game, you know, he's going in there

1349
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: and digging out a linebacker or safety. He's making some

1350
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: spectacular catches along the sideline, catching touchdowns for us. He's

1351
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 1: able to do a lot of different things for us.

1352
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 1: So again, just the patience and that virtue of you know,

1353
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 1: playing a certain role. You know it's gonna help him,

1354
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna pay dividends in the long run, and we're

1355
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna need him um more going forward. You've prepare any

1356
01:13:46,160 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: differently this week in terms of maybe maybe not quite

1357
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: as many reps knowing that you have another game four

1358
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 1: days later, or is it now business as usual? We

1359
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta focus and turn our attention to Sunday

1360
01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: and do whatever we can or whatever happens next week

1361
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: is next week. And again, I think as a team

1362
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: right now, we're we're extremely focused on the task at hand,

1363
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: and that's uh. The Indianapolis Colts here at home. Yeah,

1364
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: offense can get into a better rhythm when you can

1365
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: score points earlier in games. Yeah, I mean I think

1366
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:18,680
Speaker 1: you know league, why that that's a good feeling. When

1367
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: you're able to put up seven in the first first quarter,

1368
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: maybe fourteen the first quarter. What that does the other

1369
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: team forces? You know, coach coach mc gimmer talks about

1370
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: one dimensional all the time, trying to force them to

1371
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: be one dimensional. Um, and then allowing us to do

1372
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: really whatever whatever we want, whether it be running the

1373
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: ball or passing the ball in any situation and not

1374
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: like we're forced to just throw the ball. UM. So yeah, again,

1375
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: scoring early just want it put you ahead of the chains,

1376
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: ahead of the And there's statistics that show, you know,

1377
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 1: the first team that usually score has got a better

1378
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: percentage of winning that football game. So getting off to

1379
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: a hot start is very very critical prod as well.

1380
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: He's still a Bills fan, um, And it's he texted

1381
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:10,719
Speaker 1: Jim told that he thought that the Bills wouldn't futally

1382
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: have something. Um. What's it need to have something of

1383
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: Frank Wright's statures to say that about you? Yeah, I

1384
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:24,480
Speaker 1: mean it's it's Um. I didn't know that, but that's UM,

1385
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: very humbling, very rewarding for sure, you know, given what

1386
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 1: Frank really means to this fan base in this city.

1387
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: For uh, you know some of the games that he

1388
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:35,679
Speaker 1: played here, um, most notably the big comeback right and

1389
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: and helped and he's he's really known for that, and

1390
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: like that's that's such a cool thing that he did. Um.

1391
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: So to hear that coming from minutes, it's pretty cool. Um,

1392
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: But doesn't change my feelings on Sundays we had to

1393
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 1: go out then try to shooting the football game. Yeah,

1394
01:15:52,880 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: but the offensive success you guys found any is there anybody? Yeah?

1395
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: I mean every game we got to keep learning, keep growing.

1396
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: I think this is a team, like I'll repeated over

1397
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: and over two professionals, Um, as long as we're learning

1398
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: from our previous games and not making the same mistakes twice,

1399
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna be a pretty pretty dang dang good football team.

1400
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 1: So again, whether it be playing in a few close

1401
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: games I'll be at the Titans and the Jaguars games,

1402
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: or learning how to finish games. Um. But again, I

1403
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: feel like we've experienced quite a few different situations this

1404
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: year and it's only going to help us in the

1405
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: long run. So I'm sure we're going to see a

1406
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: different situation this Sunday. It seems like every week it's

1407
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 1: something new, and we got to continue to to you know,

1408
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: ride those emotions and adjust and find a way during

1409
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: the game because you know that's usually when the game's won.

1410
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: Assessman players, it's great, you know, best best formation in

1411
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 1: all football, victory formation. He did a good job with it.

1412
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: I think he lost a couple of yards, but it's whatever. No,

1413
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,640
Speaker 1: I was super happy for him, obviously, He's been a

1414
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: fantastic teammate, um fantastic person off the field for me.

1415
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: Uh and I loved seeing him get in the game,

1416
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: especially against one of his former teams, you know, a

1417
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: team that drafted him or not dropped to him. He

1418
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:19,719
Speaker 1: was drafted by the Giants. They went to the Jets,

1419
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 1: um so. But now he's now he's in New York,

1420
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: real New York, and I was glad to see him

1421
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: out there. I take a few snaps. It's different. I

1422
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: do so and going back to college and Larry, you know,

1423
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 1: coach Ball would always say, if you want to win

1424
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,839
Speaker 1: in the Northern Atlantic, you better train in the Northern Atlantic.

1425
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 1: So you know, we get the opportunity to come out

1426
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: here and and feel what it's going to be like

1427
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday before it happens. Um, you know, we'd understand

1428
01:17:59,920 --> 01:18:02,599
Speaker 1: that we're in an outdoor stadium. Weather, it's just part

1429
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: of the element here and whether we win snow rain, um,

1430
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, we got to find a way to adjust.

1431
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 1: Like I said that, just it's part of football. You

1432
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: got to deal with a whole bunch of different obstacles

1433
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: in your way and you got to figure it out.

1434
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 1: You describe this quarterback round like what's the five l Yeah,

1435
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: I mean, we we got a really good room. I'm

1436
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: extremely happy with the guys that we got. We keep

1437
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: it pretty light for Dorsey and Shay in there, and

1438
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,679
Speaker 1: um give them a hard time sometimes. But again, we're

1439
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:35,839
Speaker 1: a group that loves having fun. We love playing football,

1440
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 1: we love throwing the ball, competing in our drills. You

1441
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: guys see it every every day. Um. Yeah, we just

1442
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: got a bunch of really good dudes that are just

1443
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: awesome football players too. I guess all right, that's Josh

1444
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 1: Allen addressing the media here today. And you know that

1445
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 1: is one thing we did not bring up the fact

1446
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 1: that you know, the Colts are a dome team. Um,

1447
01:18:57,439 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: might not mean a whole lot with a team that

1448
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: runs the ball as well as they do. But yeah, yeah,

1449
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: a little wind. Carson went I mean, Carson Wentz also

1450
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: played his college ball in the Dome. I mean, I

1451
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:10,759
Speaker 1: know he played the first part of his career in Philly.

1452
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 1: But South Dakota, North Dakota State, CODA State, they're in

1453
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 1: the Dome. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's maybe minor,

1454
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: maybe you know that, maybe for Carson it's a little

1455
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: bit rough, but everybody else's you know, yeah, I don't

1456
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: know what. It's gonna depend on how bad the weather is.

1457
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: If it's bad out, yeah it's gonna affect him, but

1458
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: it'll affect the bills too. Everybody's playing it and it's

1459
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 1: not like, you know, Carson Wentz is like fresh off

1460
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 1: the turnip truck driving back from the farm, you know,

1461
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy, the guy's been in the league

1462
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 1: for a handful of years. Right, So how about this

1463
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: for forecast for Sunday, forty six and sixty percent chance

1464
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: of rain. Well, we've gotten got a lot of rain

1465
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: for home games, rain home games, right, and went wanted

1466
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: it was like was a Houston or Washington. It was

1467
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,559
Speaker 1: a blow in like thirty five mile an hour Houston.

1468
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: It was missing and drizzling for a good portion of

1469
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 1: the day. It's like we live in Buffalo for crying.

1470
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: Now we haven't had a we haven't a sunny home game,

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Speaker 1: have we. Well, we're not going to this year. Oh yeah,

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01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: we're already passed the point of no return. Halloween is

1473
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: the line of even the Steelers game wasn't wasn't it

1474
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: like rainy that day? Yeah? It wasn't great, and it

1475
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: wasn't great eight oh three oh five fifty one eight

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01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty question. We're asking which

1477
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive player will lead the way the second half

1478
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: of the season. Let's go to the phones, waiting patiently.

1479
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: There has been Bob in Queensberry. Bob, what do you

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01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Yes, thanks

1481
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 1: Steve and Chris for taking my call. Sure, long time

1482
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's fan here since days of Buster Ramsey thing.

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01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, all right, I just wanted to comment.

1484
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: I had the same difficulty as you trying to come

1485
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:55,720
Speaker 1: up with a player to defensive players going to lead.

1486
01:20:55,800 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: I think it's the masterful coaching of coach Frazier. Okay,

1487
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:06,480
Speaker 1: he's done. A terrific job with matchups and in game adjustments,

1488
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: halftime adjustments. I think you cannot say enough about him,

1489
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:13,640
Speaker 1: and I'm a little worried that he's so good to

1490
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: be tough to keep him after this year. But he's

1491
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:19,639
Speaker 1: been the best. And I don't know what your thoughts

1492
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 1: are about. He hasn't been brought up a lot of

1493
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: given the credit that he deserves. What do you think, Yeah,

1494
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:30,800
Speaker 1: I think that's a good call, Bob. Yeah, Frazier has

1495
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: done a great job again this year. He's done a

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01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: great job just about every year he's been here. Last

1497
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: year was a little trying with COVID, some opt outs

1498
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: like Star Latoula, and had to try to recover from that,

1499
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: had some bad injuries to Tremaine, Edmonds man Milano out

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01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: of the lineup. I think it compromised some of the

1501
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: effectiveness of the union last year. But they're right back

1502
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 1: to where we have expected come to expect them to

1503
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 1: be this year, much like the first two years, you know, seventeen,

1504
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: eighteen and even nineteen. The first three years were all

1505
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,560
Speaker 1: good for the defense. It's just last year was a

1506
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 1: little bit of a hiccup. And even that they were

1507
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:07,440
Speaker 1: like middle of the pack at worst in some categories,

1508
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 1: and now they're back to being top unit in the league.

1509
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: And your point about keep hanging onto him is well

1510
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: founded because right now the Bills are playing with house

1511
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: money with both their offensive and defensive coordinators. They're lucky

1512
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: they have them this year. I was surprised that one

1513
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: of them didn't get named a head coach last year.

1514
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: The only thing we have going force with Leslie Frasier

1515
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: is perhaps his age. Maybe some organizations want a younger

1516
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: guy than Leslie Frasier, and the more times they get

1517
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: passed over to me maybe I don't know. I kind

1518
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: of was convincing myself as I was thinking about this

1519
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: that maybe the more times they get passed over, the

1520
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 1: less likely it is they're gonna get taken by anybody.

1521
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: Perhaps perhaps the thing that scares me now is one

1522
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: of those guys getting tabbed and like a school like

1523
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:06,679
Speaker 1: USC or Virginia, you know, one of these Virginia Tech

1524
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: or Oklahoma. Yeah, I don't see one of those. Are

1525
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,120
Speaker 1: those guys taking that kind of a job. I don't either.

1526
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: They can throw a lot of money around, though, yeah,

1527
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: and that's like like life changing money. I'm gonna tell

1528
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: you a funny story here real quick. So my wife

1529
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: watches the Bills game. She's a Bills fan. You know,

1530
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 1: she doesn't keep her ear to the ground like we do.

1531
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: You know, this coach got hired here, this coach got

1532
01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: hired there. What she sees we're watching, We're watching, I'm

1533
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: watching Sports Center. This morning. She comes into the room

1534
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 1: and she sees head coach of Virginia Tech has been

1535
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: you know, relieved of his duties, no longer coaching football

1536
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. The buyout was eight point seven five million dollars.

1537
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: She goes, what they're paying that guy almost nine million

1538
01:23:55,920 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 1: dollars to not work for them. I said, yeah, that's

1539
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:02,679
Speaker 1: how it works to say goodbye. She's like, good lord,

1540
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: we're on the wrong. She goes, this incentive to get

1541
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: into coaching. Yeah, so, uh, they can. Those big schools

1542
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: can throw a lot of money around and convince people

1543
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 1: with the almighty dollar. But I just think those guys

1544
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: that are looking to stay at this level. If I

1545
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 1: say this too, coaches, and you know you know this

1546
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: when you're in it around and I've said it a ton,

1547
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: It's not a job, it's not a career, it's a lifestyle.

1548
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 1: Once you become a coach, you'll you have a job

1549
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: that is never finished. It's never done, it's never over.

1550
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna go into that line of work,

1551
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: I don't even there's nothing that I can equate it to.

1552
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's even for me. It's like it's

1553
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 1: beyond being a priest. I mean, I mean it's like that.

1554
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 1: I mean you're on and and you're you're gonna move

1555
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: around the country. You're gonna be a nomad, and it's

1556
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 1: it's you have to give one hundred and ten percent,

1557
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day. I mean, it's unbelievable the

1558
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: amount of because at this level, everybody else is too.

1559
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, and they're always thinking of more and more

1560
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: things to do, like a yes, they're always evolving, analytics

1561
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,759
Speaker 1: and this and that. Study then study this, study yourself,

1562
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 1: study the other guy, Study the other guy that the

1563
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: guy played, Study the guy that the guy coached, Study

1564
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 1: the last place the guy was at. What they do that,

1565
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's that. And then let's get our players, like,

1566
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: how do you get our guys to be more physical?

1567
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: How do you get guys to be more protectend to go?

1568
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: How do you get them me more discipline, and it's

1569
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: like it is never ending. It is an absolute lifestyle

1570
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: in a mindset. You know, people ask me, do you

1571
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: everything about coaching? You know, because they always ask every

1572
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: player that's out you're gonna go into coaching. I'm like,

1573
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:50,599
Speaker 1: I'm good, No, I don't want to. First of all,

1574
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with donkeys like me. Secondly, secondly,

1575
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 1: I mean I got you know, I had a big family.

1576
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want want to, you know, have

1577
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: my wife raising my kids and me doing a part time.

1578
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a commitment like Noah, it is.

1579
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:10,639
Speaker 1: It is. There's no question about it. Um. And that's

1580
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 1: why you know, people at the highest level get paid

1581
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: big bucks because it is. You gotta be all in

1582
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 1: or it's never gonna work. And it's and you play

1583
01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 1: your life out in some sort of public way as

1584
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: well that you are on the public chopping block and

1585
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: the only the best you can hope for is a

1586
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:31,840
Speaker 1: reprieve for a week. Right. Wow, it's gonna convince a

1587
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 1: lot of people out there to get into coaching. Now,

1588
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I know this though too. When it

1589
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: goes well, there's nothing more rewarding and fun, and that's

1590
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: what everybody's chasing. Yeah, all right, we gotta take a break.

1591
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:46,280
Speaker 1: Steve and I to close things up here on a Wednesday.

1592
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 1: Next on One Bill's Live, presented by Collot of Health,

1593
01:26:48,800 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Every so often there's a weird

1594
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 1: and wacky story we like to bring to your attention

1595
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: those of our loyal listeners. Remember salmon arm among others.

1596
01:27:11,200 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: This one also involves an animal, a deer. Steve ran

1597
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:20,280
Speaker 1: through a Louisiana hospital. They actually have security cam video

1598
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 1: of this. It's outstanding. Um I'll try to pull I'll

1599
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:26,679
Speaker 1: post the link on our One Bill's Live Twitter account

1600
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 1: so everybody can watch that. But basically, the sliding doors

1601
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 1: open and this thing was running headlong across the parking lot.

1602
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: Comes right, you know the circles that you usually have

1603
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 1: at a you know, the drive through circles you have

1604
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 1: at most hospitals. Drop somebody off and keep on trucking.

1605
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 1: Tears through the circle right to the front door. And

1606
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,720
Speaker 1: it's one of those automatic openers, so to you know,

1607
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 1: four hundred pound deer gets on the thing. It's whatever

1608
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,760
Speaker 1: it is. Anyway, two hundred pound deer comes on open

1609
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: doors open, goes right by five people. Of course, it

1610
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: hits the tile floor. You know, the hooves her out,

1611
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, she's belly flopping all over the floor, takes

1612
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: the escalator up to the second floor. You are takes

1613
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:12,679
Speaker 1: takes the escalator, uh two feet at a time, making

1614
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: her way up. She wisely chose the up escalator and

1615
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 1: uh basically hospital staff because the fortunately the deer had

1616
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: trouble keeping its feet because it was slippery with the

1617
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 1: tile floor and hooves they don't really match do well.

1618
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 1: They just pinned her down until the people from the

1619
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 1: Wildlife and Fisheries Department showed up. The best part of

1620
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: this story is this they how do you take a

1621
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: deer away in a hospital? Like, there's no real effective

1622
01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: way to do it. You're in there, you're on the

1623
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: second floor of a hospital. You can't wheel whatever greater

1624
01:28:47,640 --> 01:28:49,720
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you just got to like carry it.

1625
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 1: They put it on stretcher stretcher stretch and wheeled it

1626
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:02,439
Speaker 1: out of the hospital. The quote the quote was our

1627
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: team members are always ready for the unexpected. Thank you

1628
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:07,720
Speaker 1: for all your care and concern into Louisiana Department of

1629
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: Wildlife and Fisheries for their quick response. The deer wasn't injured,

1630
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 1: so that's good. What are we doing tomorrow? Oh, we

1631
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: got a full show tomorrow, Steve ESPN's Field Yates with

1632
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 1: his daily fantasy lineup, Hall of Famous Thurman Thomas joins us,

1633
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,719
Speaker 1: and a man who's killing it on special teams. Siran

1634
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,599
Speaker 1: Neil will join us on the show tomorrow. We'll see

1635
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 1: it one