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Speaker 1: in the strated beer of normalcy here and welcome to

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Speaker 1: to you live from the Seneca Studios. Here in a

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Speaker 1: very soggy Orchard Park practice underway about fifty yards away

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Speaker 1: as to who's up, who's down, and who's looking good

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Speaker 1: for Sunday's game. The Big Division tilt against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: heavy is here? Look at who we're pulling in on midweek.

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Speaker 1: the fan base excited, and I think that goes on

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Speaker 1: to the players, especially without the fans being there. So

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Speaker 1: I think we just need to get back to our

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Speaker 1: fundamentals are basics, and really, you know hammer the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know, at the end of the day, we're

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Speaker 1: not the same old Bills. We're not just gonna let

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Speaker 1: the Pagriots gonna come in and Tom Brady just throw

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Speaker 1: all over us. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: if we go in thinking that we're gonna be cocky

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Speaker 1: and not give them their proper credit, they're gonna do something.

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Speaker 1: And that's just the feeling that we have here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, I think we

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Speaker 1: go back in, coming back in fresh Hungary, ready to go,

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Speaker 1: and we'll handle them all right. I appreciate Lewis, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the input there. What do you think about that, Tray? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he's right. I mean, like, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills are sort of in this psychological warfare with themselves,

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Speaker 1: right because it's the big bad Patriots as they've been

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Speaker 1: known over the years. But again, what Lewis said is

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Speaker 1: the most important thing. We're our team. If I'm Buffalo.

447
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Speaker 1: We're the better team. We are the better team this year.

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Speaker 1: We have the better quarterback, and we believe we have

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Speaker 1: a better roster and we just need to go out

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Speaker 1: there and show it. And I think all this stuff

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Speaker 1: that's swirling around and it's probably it's in fans way

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Speaker 1: more than it is the player. Yeah, let's be honest

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Speaker 1: about that. But they just have to believe we're the

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Speaker 1: better team, you know, like if we handle what we

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Speaker 1: can control, will win the game. And I know that's

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Speaker 1: a hard thing for so many Bills fans to think

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Speaker 1: because you've just been pounded into submission and had your

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Speaker 1: heartbroken so many times by this team. The game last

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Speaker 1: year up at Orchard Park where it took a you know,

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Speaker 1: a special team's touchdown by Matthew Slater for them to

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Speaker 1: eke out of victory, and that that was when Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen got hurt and Barkley came in the game and

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Speaker 1: you were still in the game in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you've just had your heartbroken so many times.

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Speaker 1: And the one was it was it a Saturday game

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Speaker 1: up at the Foxboro at the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: where I believe it was Yeah, yeah, they had the

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Speaker 1: two big plays for touchdowns and nothing in between. The

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Speaker 1: Bills are the better team. The Bills should win this game.

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Speaker 1: And to Lewis's point, if the Bills just adopt that mentality,

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Speaker 1: you not think about all the crap that's going on

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Speaker 1: from a Buffalo standpoint against the Patriots all these years.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be fine. Yeah, because, and you're right

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Speaker 1: about the players versus the fans. This is the monkey

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Speaker 1: on the back of Bills fans more than the players,

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Speaker 1: and they want to kick that thing off. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna feel good about it until you

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Speaker 1: know the clock's got triple zeros and the Bills have

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Speaker 1: more points than the Patriots on Sunday. And I get it.

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Speaker 1: Believe me, I get it. I've lived through all of it.

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Speaker 1: But I think that I think what gives Bills fans

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Speaker 1: a little bit of concern is the way they saw

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Speaker 1: that Tennessee game unfold a few weeks ago. The Bills,

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Speaker 1: you know, give Tennessee their credit. They did what they

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Speaker 1: had to do to win the football game. Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: played another great game. They did a lot to beat

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Speaker 1: themselves too, and coach McDermott even said as much. After

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Speaker 1: that game. I mean, seven of their ten penalties were

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Speaker 1: the pre snap variety. There was a stretch on offense

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Speaker 1: Trey where they had three friend guys commit false start

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Speaker 1: penalties in six snaps. I mean, it's very uncharacteristic of

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Speaker 1: a Sean McDermott coach team. And you look at that

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Speaker 1: and you're like, man, how many times are gonna shoot

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Speaker 1: yourself in the foot against the team? You know, again,

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Speaker 1: that's a press that's right now a contender in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: So they got past that, and then the next week

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Speaker 1: they just play lousy run defense because they're trying to

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Speaker 1: prevent everything cheap and deep. And then everybody feels as though,

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Speaker 1: even though the score wasn't impressive, that they kind of

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Speaker 1: got their bearings a little bit last week, kind of

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Speaker 1: like a get well typed game, even though it was

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Speaker 1: far from impressive in the win over the Jets. So

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Speaker 1: I think there's a little concern as to what do

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Speaker 1: you expect from this Bills team because the high flying

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Speaker 1: passing offense from the first month of the season. People

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Speaker 1: are looking for that to show up again. I just

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Speaker 1: don't know if they're convinced it's going to anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what has them a little uneasy

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Speaker 1: going into this one. Well, and again going back to

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee game, it did look like the Bills with

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Speaker 1: the team that hadn't practiced, and the Bills were the

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Speaker 1: team that had had massive disruptions in the clubhouse, not

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Speaker 1: Tennessee dealing with all the COVID tests. So yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was a real stunner for me. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: you can make plays against the Patriots defense. It what

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Speaker 1: Bill Parcel has always said, you never go broke taking

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Speaker 1: a profit right, and just whatever the defense is allowing

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Speaker 1: you to do, take it, you know it, don't force

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Speaker 1: the issue to your point. Against the Jets, they had

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Speaker 1: those sustained drives and probably one of the reasons they

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Speaker 1: couldn't finish them. I've had there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: sacks in bad situations, But I do believe the lack

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Speaker 1: of a group of tight ends was a real problem

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Speaker 1: for them in the red zone. And hopefully they'll get

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Speaker 1: that thing resolved and have those guys able to go

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Speaker 1: this week. But just you have to walk into the

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Speaker 1: game against the Patriots saying it's not Bill Belichick's mantra

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Speaker 1: has always been games more games, are lost than one.

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Speaker 1: And the thing he always preaches with his team is

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Speaker 1: let's just not make the mistakes. Let's just play fundamental

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Speaker 1: football and let this team fall apart and we just

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Speaker 1: do what we're supposed to do. And I think if

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Speaker 1: the Bills go into it with that mentality, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: not push it, let's not think about oh it's the

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Speaker 1: Let's just see what's available and let's take what they're

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Speaker 1: giving us and we should be fine. All right, we

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

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Speaker 1: will get to the tweet sheet as plenty of comments

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Speaker 1: coming in there on what could be the greatest danger

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Speaker 1: when the Bills host the Patriots on Sunday. And I

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Speaker 1: do want to talk to Tray about another aspect of

542
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Speaker 1: the Patriots that's pretty interesting. Their offensive line is shuffle

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Speaker 1: in the deck almost every single week through these first

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Speaker 1: six games that they have played. And what would a

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Speaker 1: loss mean for the Patriots to fall to two and five?

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Speaker 1: Is it time to say they're dead and buried as

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Speaker 1: far as the division race goes. We'll cover all that

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Speaker 1: when we return. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. I got

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown joined by guest co host

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Speaker 1: Trey Wingo for the first hour of the show, your

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Speaker 1: NFL studio host, So who else better to talk football

553
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Speaker 1: and Bill's Patriots this weekend? And Trey So, and I

554
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Speaker 1: wanted to bounce this off you, Trey, as I mentioned

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Speaker 1: in the teas before we got to the break in

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Speaker 1: the last segment, Let's just say the Bills come through.

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Speaker 1: They hand the Patriots their fifth loss in seven games.

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Speaker 1: We've already heard rumors about putting Stefan Gilmour on the

559
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: trade block that are out there, the Patriots maybe just

560
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: cutting bait all together. At two and five, Are they

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Speaker 1: definitively out of the division race, knowing they still have

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Speaker 1: the Jets two more times? Trey, Yeah, I see, I

563
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Speaker 1: can't much in the same way that Bills are suffering

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Speaker 1: from Patriots traumatic stress syndrome. I refuse to bury the

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Speaker 1: Patriots until they are completely buried. By the way, if

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Speaker 1: they lose on Sunday and again, the Bill should in

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Speaker 1: the Bill should win. They're the better team. But if

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Speaker 1: the Patriots lose, it'll be of four straight losses. That

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened again since two thousand and two, those three

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Speaker 1: game three game losing it was part of a four

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Speaker 1: game losing streak in O two, that's when they were

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Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champs, and they didn't make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs that next year, and that was the last time

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Speaker 1: they didn't make the playoffs, and the last time they

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Speaker 1: didn't well not excuse me, O eight, they didn't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs with eleven wins, the only team the current

577
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: plan format to not make the postseason with eleven wins.

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Speaker 1: So also the last time they didn't win at least

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Speaker 1: ten games in a season, which which means that was

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Speaker 1: seventeen straight seasons of at least ten wins. That clipped

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Speaker 1: the Niners mark of sixteen, which I thought would never

582
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: be broken. Yeah, so look, I get it, but I

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Speaker 1: just refused to bury the Patriots until it's officially official. Official.

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Speaker 1: Now that being said, you can make an argument that

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Speaker 1: they weren't maybe all in on this season to begin

586
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Speaker 1: what do they have nine guys opt out and some

587
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: of their best players like Dante high Tower right basically

588
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: say I'm not going to play this year, And a

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00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: lot of people were wondering, Okay, you know, is this

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00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: bill you know, sort of orchestrating puppet master here from

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Speaker 1: from behind somewhere. I just don't buy I can't buy

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Speaker 1: into that because I know how competitive he is and

593
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: he's never gonna not try to win. But this has

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Speaker 1: been a weird season all the way around for New England.

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Speaker 1: Should they be buried at two and five? Probably, But

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be the last guy out of that party.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've seen it too many times. I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to be the last guy out of that party

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Speaker 1: until until until the X by their name in the

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Speaker 1: standing says have been eliminated from playoff contention. Mathematically not

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Speaker 1: going to eliminate them. Yeah, they got to be mathematically

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Speaker 1: eliminated for me too. Correct. We do want to get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, which, as you know people, is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

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Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and we lead off

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Speaker 1: here with Nick Trey, who says, when asked what could

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Speaker 1: be the greatest danger when the Bills host the Patriots Sunday?

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Speaker 1: I just always get a bad feeling whenever we play

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, justified or not. Whole league and even their

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Speaker 1: own fans are doubting them. It's the perfect setup for

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Speaker 1: a bounce back game. See this is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get a full You're gonna get a full

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Speaker 1: entree of Bills fan angst in the next ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: But that's where Nick is clear. Let's be clear about

615
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Speaker 1: one thing. It's justified. Okay, it's a hundred percent justified.

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Speaker 1: But you just as a fan, you have to tell

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Speaker 1: yourself we're the better team. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's ever been a point when Brady and Belichick were

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Speaker 1: playing that you could literally say to yourself honestly as

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Speaker 1: a Bills fan, we're the better team going onto the

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Speaker 1: field Sunday. Now. Now, you could have had plenty of

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Speaker 1: times were saying, hey we can win, or hey we

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Speaker 1: can compete with them and we might be able to win,

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Speaker 1: or we could win. But can you, honestly, Chris, look

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Speaker 1: at me and say, at any time during this incredible

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Speaker 1: run where you had the Bills being what they were

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Speaker 1: and the Patriots being what they were, could you say,

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Speaker 1: I firmly believe the Bills as they walk onto the

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Speaker 1: field with a better team. I don't think so, it's right.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the first time you could actually

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Speaker 1: say that and be honest and accurate about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing about that is you look at the

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Speaker 1: last two wins that the Bills have against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: One was the Week four game when Jacoby Broussette had

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Speaker 1: to make his second career start in week four of

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Speaker 1: that season you were referencing earlier, and the Bills win

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Speaker 1: sixteen nothing. And the other game was the Doug Morone

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Speaker 1: sendoff game, which was a mail at end game for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in week seventeen when Brady only played the

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Speaker 1: first half. So those are the last two wins before

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Speaker 1: the big comeback by Fitzy and the boys in two eleven.

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Speaker 1: Here in Week three, when Brady had four interceptions in

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Speaker 1: the game. And then you go back to two thousand

644
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Speaker 1: and three and the season opener here the thirty one

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Speaker 1: nothing game, again Brady had four interceptions. So unless he

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Speaker 1: had four interceptions or something whacky happened at the end

647
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: of the season and they didn't know the game, didn't

648
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: need the game, those were the only times that where

649
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: the Bills We're gonna win the football game. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up two thousand and three because

651
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite numbers in all of football,

652
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: because that was the Lawyer Malloy trade and all that stuff,

653
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: and the Page were they were furious. That was the

654
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Speaker 1: one time that they really were openly questioning their coach

655
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Speaker 1: with the Lawyer Maloy situation. So Week one, the Bills

656
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: win thirty one to nothing, and of course the Page

657
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Speaker 1: was going to win the Super Bowl that year. But

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen it was the Bills at Foxborough thirty one

659
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Speaker 1: than nothing. The other way. That was one of the

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Speaker 1: more interesting sort of book ends starts and ends to

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Speaker 1: the finish to a season that I can ever remember. Yeah,

662
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: that's what Bills fans call it, the book ender. So yeah,

663
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: it's already got a moniker and everything. Back on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Jeremy, he says, with any luck, Cam

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Speaker 1: stays inefficient. Bill Belichick seems to lean on his QB

666
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Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Take that away, and I'm hoping it's

667
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Speaker 1: a good game for us. Last time we beat them

668
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: was with a rook key quarterback, and it showed, albeit

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Speaker 1: Cam isn't a rookie, but new to assist him that

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Speaker 1: he is showing little success with to this point. It's true,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting because I'll tell you this, and I know

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Speaker 1: that obviously Cam signing Cam was a huge deal, but

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Speaker 1: you know, they weren't very confident with Jared Stidham going

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Speaker 1: into the season. I don't think that the Patriots were

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Speaker 1: rushing to sign Cam. And Bill Belichick does a great

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Speaker 1: job of making sure if he signs guys, he signs

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Speaker 1: them on his terms, not on the players terms. So

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton was available as a former MVP for a

679
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Speaker 1: fraction of what he should have been paid, and so

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Speaker 1: Bill was like, all right, I don't think a flyer

681
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Speaker 1: on that. You know, it works out great. I'm not

682
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Speaker 1: sure it's the best thing possible for the Bills if

683
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Speaker 1: they do pull Cam and put Stidham in. All I

684
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: can tell you is they were very comfortable with the

685
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: idea if they didn't sign Cam, and it was sort

686
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Speaker 1: of a well, we'll try this thing. It wasn't like

687
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: they actively went out as soon as he was released

688
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: and picked him up. I mean, Cam sat out there

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Speaker 1: for a while he was available. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of faith in Jared Stidham in the Patriots organization going forward.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not sure that that if that

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Speaker 1: if that game goes poorly from the start and Stidham

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Speaker 1: comes in for Cam. I'm not sure if that's the

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Speaker 1: best thing for the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I'm thinking that

695
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: the hook will be a lot quicker than it was

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Speaker 1: last week, though, I mean for Camps. I mean he

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Speaker 1: gets off to allows he's start in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: I mean Stidham could be in there before the second

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Speaker 1: quarter starts, right, Yeah, I mean. Cam even said that

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Speaker 1: on his weekly appearance in Boston this week. He said, Look,

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Speaker 1: I gotta plays with my jobs on the line. I

702
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: gotta play as if you know I got I mean,

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Speaker 1: And some of those interceptions last week were just head scratchers.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta say the Niners did a great job

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Speaker 1: in really confusing Cam because he had time. I last year,

706
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Speaker 1: the themo of the Niners was our front seven is

707
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: just gonna wreck you, and you know you won't. Half

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Speaker 1: time watching that game last week, I saw a lot

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Speaker 1: of hesitation from Cam in the pocket, pat the ball one, two,

710
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: three times to look around. There was time to make throws.

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Speaker 1: But they did a great job disguising their coverages on

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Speaker 1: the back end, and that led to a lot of

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Speaker 1: those ran interceptions. Back to the tweet, sheet from Jack A.

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Speaker 1: He says, while I'm scared of their run game against

715
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Speaker 1: our seemingly toothless run defense, Belichick is still the real terror.

716
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: McDermott as yet to beat him in six tries. He

717
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: constantly out coaches us, and he will take away the

718
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Speaker 1: deep pass and Allan's running ability. So we will need

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Speaker 1: to run and stop the run this week. And that's

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00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: been another complaint, I guess, for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 1: from Bill's fans. Josh Allen more often than not, has

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Speaker 1: been the leading rusher round this football team, and he

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Speaker 1: was again last week against the Jets. So I think

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Speaker 1: it was encouraging to see Zach Moss healthy again after

725
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Speaker 1: coming back from the toe injury. Popped a couple of

726
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Speaker 1: runs against the Jets, but it wasn't like, all right,

727
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Speaker 1: we got some bread and butter. Now here we go,

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Speaker 1: single terror in Moss Let's roll. I don't know if

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00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: it's there yet. No, you're right, and to Jack's point,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, Yeah, Bill's gonna take away what he thinks

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Speaker 1: is the biggest threat, and I think that's the same

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Speaker 1: thing we've seen the last couple of games. Let's do

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Speaker 1: what we can to limit those vertical strikes, those huge

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Speaker 1: chunk plays, the bombs over the top, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's another thing to say, we're gonna take away Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's running ability. Well, I'm sure everybody says when they

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Speaker 1: play the Chiefs, we're gonna take away Patrick mahomes ability

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Speaker 1: to extend to play. You can try, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can successfully or let me put

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Speaker 1: it away. I don't think you can say with great certainty, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're definitely going to take away Josh's ability to run. No,

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Speaker 1: that's instinctual. That happens when the machine breaks down. That's

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Speaker 1: what made that's what's made Ben Roethlisberger a really good

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Speaker 1: quarterback for a lot of years. No one has been

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Speaker 1: better until the advent of Mahomes in my opinion, of

746
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: when the machine breaks down, and even though he's a big,

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00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: lumbering oath for lack of a better term, Ben's ability

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Speaker 1: to extend the play and just sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: make a schoolyard play when nothing there. And that's what

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Speaker 1: Mahomes does and to some degree, that's what Josh does

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00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: as well. So I think they'll try and limit it

752
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: to some ability, but I think they'll go into this.

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00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: The Patriots from a defensive standpoint, let's take away the

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Speaker 1: chunks and if Josh is going to extend some plays

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00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: by his legs, will live with that, as long as

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00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: they don't continually just go vertical on us and make

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: twenty five plus yard passing plays time and time again. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen that from the Patriots before. They're

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00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: happy to give up yardage and then they just bow

760
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: up in the red zone and make you kick field goals.

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00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: That seems to be the way they work it for

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00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: year on year on year on year. From Steve on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Cam is a competitor and the media

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00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: has been all over in the past few days. When

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: a guy like that is doubted, they usually reach down

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00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: deep and prove the doubters wrong. I hate that the

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00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: media is supplying the Patriots and Cam Newton with billboard

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00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: material this week. What do you say to stay there

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00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: to see what I deal with every day here from

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Speaker 1: to take a bath man like, here's here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: First of all, they all read it, there's no question

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00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: about that. But if you actually believe that's something that

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00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: we're and I'm using the collective way, the Royal we

774
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: as in the media, there's gonna be something that we

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00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: say or do that's going to tip the scales of

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00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: that game one way or the other. I have some

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00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: land in Florida I would really like to sell you.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't work that way. I mean, it just

779
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. So, I mean that's that's sort

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00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: of a creation of parent noia and phobia. And you know,

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00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: sometimes members of the media like to stoke it. At

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00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it means nothing. It means

783
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: nothing because the Patriots are willing to play because they're

784
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: paid to play, and the Bills are going to pay

785
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: play because they're paid to play, and they're all professionals,

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00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: and none of this stuff is really going to tip

787
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: the scales of the outcome one way or the other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you know, you you think about what the history

789
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: has been here, and you understand why why Brian says

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00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: this on the tweet sheet he voted for all of

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00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: the above choices ABC. He says, the Bills always have

792
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: trouble against Belichick's defense, and they have since the nineties.

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00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: The defense can't seem to stop the run unless it's

794
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: against the Jets, and Newton isn't always going to throw

795
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Speaker 1: three interceptions. This is going to be a tough game.

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Speaker 1: He's going all the way back to the Super bowls

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00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: now here, Trey, He's I mean, he's talking about struggling

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Speaker 1: against Belichick's defense in Super Bowl twenty five. Now, which,

799
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Speaker 1: by the way, for I'm sure most Bills fans know this,

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00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 1: but that that was the game that really put Belichick

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00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: on the map. Yeah, I mean, the story going into

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00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: that one was he told the defense leading up to

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Speaker 1: that game, we're going to let Thurman Thomas run wilds.

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00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: He potentially is going to be the MVP of the

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00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: game if they win. What we're going to do it

806
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: was working on to not let the k gun offense

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00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: just pick us apart. And that's exactly what happened. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, Thurmon Thomas should have been the Yeah,

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00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: there's one m VP of a losing team, and that

810
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: was Chuck Hawley and the Cowboys in Super Bowl five.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, I love OJ Anderson, don't get me wrong,

812
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: and he's long overdue for going into the Hall of Fame,

813
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: but the best player on the field in Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: twenty five was Therma Thomas. There's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna finish this tweet sheet. Trey on

816
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: an up note here, because I think Bernie is in

817
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: Bernie is in your camp, he said, I chose other.

818
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: They need to play with confidence. Josh can't be tentative,

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Speaker 1: and the defense needs to play with the same intensity

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00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: that they showed in the second half of the Jets game.

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Speaker 1: Both those things will kill the Darth Hoodie curse. He's right,

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Speaker 1: you you my friend, Bie, You're a genius. Just you're

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Speaker 1: the better team. I mean, I know it's so hard

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00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 1: to drive in, but you guys are the better team.

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00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's close. It's not close. If

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Speaker 1: you go up and down the roster, like who's the

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00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: better quarterback, who has the better receivers? Those are things

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Speaker 1: that you cannot argue. You cannot argue these things. Now

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00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: we're getting Patriot traumatic stress syntome. I get it. But

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00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: they are the better team. I cannot drill that into

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Speaker 1: these people's heads enough. And I think the players know this,

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00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: even though you know they Obviously you're not throwed with

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00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: the way they played against the Jets, but I think

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00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: they know they're the better team. I'm just trying to

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00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: convince the Bills mafia. You guys are the better team.

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00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: You are the better team, and that's why others the

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00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: right choice. All Right, we have to take a break,

838
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: but Trey and I will return for one final segment

839
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: here before the top of the hour, and we are

840
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: going to discuss some of this COVID stuff with Major

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00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: League Baseball and Justin Turrett, because that was just I

842
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was watching when I was watching

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00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: that on fold last night. So Trey and I will

844
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: cover that, and I mean, heck, it makes the NFL

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00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: look great by comparison, but we will we will discuss

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00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: that on the other side when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio First Brown here on One Bill's Live, joined

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Speaker 1: by NFL studio host Trey Wingo is kind enough to

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Speaker 1: join us here for the first hour of the program,

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Speaker 1: and we are going to switch gears a little bit

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Speaker 1: in a manner of speaking to the baseball world, which

853
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: somehow got over the finish line last night with the

854
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: Dodgers winning the World Series, but not without controversy. Justin Turner,

855
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Trey. I'm watching this thing

856
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: unfold last night. I'm like, he's back on the field,

857
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: what is what is going on? Oh my god, he

858
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: took his mask off for he's kissing his wife. What's

859
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: going on? I can't understand this. It was bizarre and

860
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: first of all, for people that are trying to figure out,

861
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: how can you test positive during a game? Well, they

862
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: put in the tests and the test results were delayed,

863
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: so the results of the final day's tests were going

864
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: to come out during the game. So that's why he

865
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: was pulled. Look, it is the ultimate twenty twenty sports image, right,

866
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: I mean you have a guy pulled from a potential

867
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: and eventually was gained clinching championship contest because of COVID,

868
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: and then he goes back onto the field to celebrate,

869
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: and as he's celebrating, we're showing the video of him

870
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: with his mask on. Uh. He eventually takes that mask

871
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: off and is sitting next to his manager. There's manage

872
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: manager Dave Roberts, who is a cancer survivor who is

873
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: at a higher risk of COVID nineteen and justin turn

874
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: is right there and he's just taking the mask off completely. Look, man,

875
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: he says he feels fine, and I I understand that. And uh,

876
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: you know kissing his wife, well, you know that's close

877
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: proximity no matter what, right, But it just it was

878
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: bizarre and it was It was the most twenty twenty

879
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: sports thing I can think of. And you know, he

880
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: was told to stay in the locker room and basically

881
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: they was the air quote honor system. Well that didn't work.

882
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: I understand from Justin Turner's perspective, how the Dodges have

883
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: been so close three out of the last four years

884
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: to finally winning it and be out there and celebrate.

885
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: I understand it. But this breaks literally every single level

886
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: of protocol we're supposed to have with this. Yeah, so

887
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: he gets yanked from the game in the eighth inning

888
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: and then he comes back out and does all that

889
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: stuff that you outlined. And I'm standing there going, I'm

890
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: sitting in my living room going touch points, touch points,

891
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: He's touching the trophy. What is going on here? Get

892
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: his hands on? Who's got a wipe? Somebody get a

893
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: lightsong wipe? What is going on? How many people have

894
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: touched that trophy? Yeah, it's just now I'm curious. Now

895
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: I'm literally and I don't know if we'll do this

896
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: now because the season is over and Major League Baseball.

897
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think it's an obligation to

898
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: test anybody anymore now, right, But I would be curious

899
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: used to find out, like, did this actually become an

900
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: infectious thing, because we've certainly seen in other situations in

901
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: a totally different realm that we're not getting into, where

902
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: people who are known to be tested positive and are

903
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: in close proximity to people lo and behold shockingly and

904
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: infectious disease tends to spread. Yeah, I don't I can't

905
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: even imagine if they had to play a game seven,

906
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: what the heck would have happen then? Yeah, I mean

907
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Say it's nuts, It's absolutely nuts. And I

908
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: have to say on some level, the NFL has been

909
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: remarkably resilient in their ability to battle this thing so far.

910
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: The fact that we have only had the disruptions that

911
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: we've had, I think has been a testament to obviously

912
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: being very stringent outside of Tennessee. Quite frankly, a lot

913
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: of good luck as well. Yeah, there was a positive

914
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: test in Houston today with the Texans, but fortunately they

915
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: are on the buy this week. So if you're gonna

916
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: have an issue. What better week to have it than

917
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: on your actual buy and all the schedule makers up

918
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: on Park Avenue are like show. Thanks for that. We

919
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: appreciate the help there, Texans. Good timing, guys, good on you.

920
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: One less thing we don't have to juggle down the stretch. Yeah, Trey, listen,

921
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: it's been a black asked having you in here for

922
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: the hour. We appreciate you pitching in and helping us

923
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: out today. Good to hear your voice. Good to see

924
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: you on the camera there. So thanks for all the

925
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: insight and input and trying to convince Bills fans it's

926
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Yeah, Chris, always a pleasure. TikTok. The

927
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: hour went by fast, but let Bills you're the better team.

928
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: Just the fans need to convince themselves of that. Going

929
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: into something fair enough. All right, Good to have you, Trey.

930
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: We'll catch up we get down the line here. That's

931
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,240
Speaker 1: NFL studio host Trey Wingo joining us for the first

932
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: hour of a Wednesday edition of One Bills Live. We'll

933
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we return, we will have

934
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: Charles Davis in the next hour. He's doing the game

935
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: with Ian Eagle on Sunday between the Bills and Patriots Day.

936
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: Tuned for that. Back in a moment here on One

937
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. He's in Buffalo Bill's Radio.

938
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: Healo Bills Radio Network Stories update your sports update from

939
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: One Bills Bills Back on the practice field, we saw

940
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: the return of Levi Wallace and del Shaun Phillips, although

941
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: those players remain on IR as of now. John Brown

942
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: also practicing today, Cody Ford and Josh Norman not participating

943
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: in practice yesterday. One player activated off of IR was

944
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: guard John Feliciano. The Bills also promoted Andre Smith, the linebacker,

945
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster, and released Dion Lacy,

946
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive and Jerry Hughes this week's AFC Defensive Player

947
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: of the Week for his Week seven performance against the Jets.

948
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: It's the first time honor for the defensive end after

949
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 1: he had his best game of the season with two sacks,

950
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: an interception, and a forced fumble along with six tackles.

951
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: Per report from the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Dolphins

952
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: are discussing whether or not standout cornerback's Avian Howard will

953
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: be part of the franchise's future, even though the organization

954
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 1: just signed him to a five year deal worth over

955
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars last offseason. The report says the

956
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: Dolphins are fielding offers for the pro bowled talent, who

957
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: has pulled down four interceptions in the last four game

958
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: games and sixteen picks in the thirty nine games he's

959
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: played in a Dolphins uniform. After trading Everson Griffin to Detroit,

960
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys now planned to move on from two more

961
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: defensive players the team in defensive tackle Dntari Poe and

962
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: cornerback Darryl Worley, that they will be released if they

963
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: can't trade them today, even though the trade deadline isn't

964
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: until November third. Carlos Dunlap had been looking for a

965
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: way out of Cincinnati, and the Seahawks gave him an avenue.

966
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: They swapped a seventh round pick and offensive lineman B J.

967
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: Finney in exchange for Dunlap. Dunlap was told to not

968
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: come to the team's facility on Wednesday as the Bengals

969
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: work to find a new home for him, and that

970
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: has now happened. Dunlap had been unhappy with a diminished

971
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: role in the Bengals defense. That is your sports update

972
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown with you for our

973
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: number two of a Wednesday edition of One Bills Live

974
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now as a

975
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: man who is going to be calling the game with

976
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: the Birdman. I an Eagle on CBS on Sunday between

977
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Patriots. He's an NFL Draft expert.

978
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: I'm Madden NFL twenty commentator for all you young gamers

979
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: out there, and h Charles will be on the call.

980
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: As I said with Iron Eagle, It's Charles Davis. Everybody.

981
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Charles. How you doing, man, I'm

982
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: doing well. Thanks for having me. It's great to join you.

983
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: Great to be back in the Empire State where I

984
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: grew up in beautiful New Paul's, New York Paul's Okay, Yeah,

985
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: I was wondering what the NP was for. Yeah. I'm

986
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: representing my hometown. And this is from my my high

987
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: school football coach, John Ford, a proud Niagara graduate, Okay,

988
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: and he's been struggled a bit lately, so I'm sending

989
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: all my best in my coach, the man and one

990
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be sitting here without him. Yeah, good on you, man,

991
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: Good on you. So let's let's jump right into this thing, Charles,

992
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: because it's it's a different kind of narrative here now

993
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: between this Bills and Patriots matchup, and the Patriots are

994
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know this maybe too strong of a term,

995
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: but they're floundering a little bit here. And we don't

996
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: usually use adjectives like that to describe the Patriots, but

997
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing right now, especially on offense. They

998
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,720
Speaker 1: have no passing offense to really speak of. It looks

999
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: like him Newton's got the yips in terms of his accuracy.

1000
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: What do you make of what is going on in

1001
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: New England on the offensive side of the ball for them,

1002
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 1: aside from their run game, which is which is doing

1003
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: all right? I think you frammed it up perfectly because

1004
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: how many teams in the league would we see what

1005
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: we've seen throughout the first six seven weeks of the

1006
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: season and not use a word life floundering, you know,

1007
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: or hesitant to use a word life floundering. That just

1008
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: tells you that we're talking about the Patriots because not

1009
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: used to it, it's hard for us to believe it

1010
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: and totally buy into it, and you almost feel like

1011
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: if you put it out there, they're gonna make a

1012
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: liar out of you there next time out, because they've

1013
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: made a career of doing that. How many times have

1014
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 1: we seen over the years where someone in our position

1015
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: has been that intrepid, bold person. The Patriots dynasty is over,

1016
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots are in Probowl. This is the year to

1017
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: get in the Patriots, and where do they end up?

1018
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,479
Speaker 1: Back in AFC Championship game, playing for a Super Bowl?

1019
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: Being in the Super Bowl in this case, it feels different,

1020
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: it looks different, But at the same time, I still

1021
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: remember talking with Brandon being the GM of Buffalo preseason. Yeah,

1022
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: I know everyone's picking us. I get all of that.

1023
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: We think that we're building towards that, but we are

1024
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: O and six in this regime against New England, and

1025
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: until you get it done, nothing matters, nothing counts. Sunday

1026
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: is a big, big game for Buffalo, and it's very strange,

1027
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: as you said, because now the pressure is actually on them,

1028
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: like everyone expects them to win this game. And that's

1029
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: a whole different ball game when you go into something

1030
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: like that, because you're still dealing with New England and

1031
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: you're still Leary. Bills fans who watch every single snap

1032
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: of this football team from start to finish every season,

1033
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: they're having a tough time getting a handle on just

1034
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: what the identity of this football team is. You know,

1035
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: they come out like a house on fire the first

1036
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: four weeks with their passing game. They're hanging thirty burgers

1037
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: on everybody, and then they fall back a little bit

1038
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: when they play some of the top flight teams in

1039
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: the AFC. The defense couldn't stop anything against the Chiefs

1040
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: with respect to their run game a couple of weeks ago,

1041
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: and then they lock it down last week, but it

1042
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: wasn't a convincing win over the windless Jets last week.

1043
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of their tape you've watched

1044
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: to this point, Charles. I mean, I'm sure you'll be

1045
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: ultimately prepared on Sunday, But what if you had to

1046
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: put your finger on it, what is the identity, if

1047
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: at all, of this Bills team. I think that you

1048
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: you nailed it again in the beginning, and I think

1049
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: that anyone who's wondering what it is, we'll keep we'll

1050
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: keep waiting to discover. I think they're sifting through this

1051
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: a little bit because, as you mentioned in the early

1052
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: part of the season, the ability of Josh Allen to

1053
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: throw the ball downfield to a plethora of people. It

1054
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: wasn't just the fine digs making big plays. Smoke was

1055
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: playing making big plays. Smoke Brown, Gabriel Davis emerged and

1056
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: made big plays down field. They were able to do

1057
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: those sorts of things. They were waiting for Dawson Knox

1058
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: to be one of those guys as well. He's had

1059
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: some bumps along the way, but Tyler Croft is starting

1060
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,240
Speaker 1: to fill in. But that's what you were getting then everyone,

1061
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna I'm gonna make an analogous to Kansas City.

1062
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: Everyone started to shift what they were doing with Buffalo

1063
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: and they're saying, Okay, we're gonna get back here a

1064
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: little bit and make you dump it underneath it and

1065
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: see what you do with that. And I thought last

1066
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: week was one of the better weeks for Josh Allen

1067
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,919
Speaker 1: in terms of doing that, having the patience being able

1068
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: to do it. But it didn't show up on the scoreboard.

1069
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the weirdest stat ever, isn't it. No punts, right,

1070
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: no touchdowns? The last time that happened. We're talking about

1071
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one and the Brooklyn Dodgers were a football team.

1072
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: Give me ball and his team beat the Brooklyn Dodgers

1073
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: three zip. Yeah. I mean, this is just a really

1074
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: unusual set of circumstances. I don't think you'll get this

1075
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: weekend and week out. And I don't think it's caused

1076
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 1: for alarm for Bills fans, because I think the formula

1077
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: is still right. They'll find ways into the end zone.

1078
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: But I do think the run game has to come

1079
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: up and complement it. And I notice they turned Josh

1080
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: Allen loose again a little bit more in the run

1081
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 1: game last week. And you can hold your breath all

1082
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: you want, but that's NFL football twenty twenty. If you've

1083
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: got a quarterback who can run, he's going to be

1084
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: part of the run game. Now. We're not gonna just

1085
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: totally take him out of it. Talking to NFL on

1086
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: CBS color analyst Charles Davis doing the game with Ian

1087
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: Eagle and Evan Washburn this Sunday on CBS Bills Patriots

1088
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: and Charles, why don't we expand on that run game

1089
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: a little bit? Because Zach Moss is finally back in

1090
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: the lineup and healthy coming back from that turf toe injury,

1091
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: popped a couple of runs against the Jets last week.

1092
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: I don't think it's reached the consistency level that they

1093
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: would like to make use of it with. I'm sure

1094
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: that at this point in the evolution of this offense

1095
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 1: is it's seen as a complimentary piece to the passing game.

1096
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: But where do you think it can go going forward?

1097
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: Because we talked a couple of alignment on this team, Charles,

1098
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: and they said, we really got hurt by no preseason

1099
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: because to work on those combination blocking schemes, we didn't

1100
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: really get the reps, And so it's almost as if

1101
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: they've used the first half of the season to get

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00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: those reps. Do do you kind of see the logic

1103
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: in that I do. It's a legitimate concern, and just

1104
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: getting linemen to actually admit it, you've done a heck

1105
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: of a job, because you know, a most team lineman

1106
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: don't speak at all, right, they'll like find each other

1107
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: if their name appears in the media. But it's a

1108
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: legit thing because there's probably no position that relies on

1109
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 1: continuity as much as an offensive line to be able

1110
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: to speak shorthand each other and understand what each is

1111
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: going to do with a look and a nod, and

1112
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: then you throw in the fact that you mentioned no preseason,

1113
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: but then throw in John Feliciano's hurt early. Then they've

1114
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: gone through some shifting about who's playing where Cody Ford,

1115
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: which side is he gonna be on? Is he right guard?

1116
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: Left guard? Brian Winters is playing Ike Bucker's play, So

1117
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: you have all of that going into it continuity again.

1118
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: But now you're getting Feliciano back. I'd be stunned if

1119
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: he doesn't start this week. The key is going to

1120
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 1: be as Cody Ford available not available? And if not,

1121
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: does that mean Brian Winter's plays left guard or right

1122
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: guard as Feliciano. So they're still searching for that. So

1123
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Speaker 1: I still think it's out there in front of them.

1124
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: I still think their ability to run the ball is there,

1125
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: and it's going to get better when they get that

1126
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: continuity and the right people in the right spots and

1127
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,479
Speaker 1: they play three, four or five weeks together. But Devin

1128
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: Singletary is one of the players that I loved coming

1129
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 1: out of Florida Atlantic, and I want to see him

1130
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: be able to get back to being that guy who

1131
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: makes you missing the hole, and I don't care if

1132
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: he's a four six guy, all right, he's he may

1133
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: be four sixth straight ahead, but side to side, dancing

1134
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: vertical make you miss, he's more like two three. I mean,

1135
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: this guy is amazing making that first guy missing the

1136
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: hole and then turning it into more. I expect to

1137
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: see more of those Devin Singletary runs as this offensive

1138
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: line starts to really gel together. Yeah, because early in

1139
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: the season, Charles and I don't probably don't need to

1140
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: tell you this, but the problem was, you know, defensive

1141
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: line penetration. So instead of making the guy missing the

1142
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: hole or missing at the second level, he had to

1143
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: make a guy or two miss in the backfield. And

1144
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,479
Speaker 1: that was Yeah, that was what was really hanstering in that. Yeah,

1145
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: you turned into a no, no gain run and you

1146
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: go back on film and he gets a plus next

1147
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: to his name to get it back to that and

1148
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: not a negative run. But that doesn't help him, that

1149
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: doesn't help the offense. Move to football. Yeah, flipping it

1150
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: over to the Patriots here, Charles, what do you make

1151
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton's struggles? I found it very interesting. Earlier

1152
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: in the week that Bill Belichick was asked by a

1153
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: media member in New England if Cam Newton, who fortunately

1154
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: has recovered from COVID, might be experiencing that brain fog

1155
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: that we hear some people dealing with after they recover from,

1156
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: you know, the virus, and Belichick dismissed it out of hands, saying,

1157
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: you know, he's been checked out by all the doctors.

1158
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: He's good to go. I'm probably not telling you anything

1159
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: you don't know, but I found the theory compelling because

1160
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: we are still learning so much about this virus as

1161
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: it unfolds and we're living through it, you know, in

1162
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: real time. But he doesn't look like the same person. Charles.

1163
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, not going to play one on TV.

1164
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: But let's call two and twenty what it is. It's

1165
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: a year where we're all learning day in and day out,

1166
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: aren't we. Yeah, every days is something different, especially when

1167
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: it involves COVID. So we really don't know. But you

1168
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: also have to remember the atmosphere of an NFL team

1169
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: and an NFL quarterback, Which one are you going to

1170
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: get that you ever met that's going to admit to

1171
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: you coming off of COVID that maybe I still have COVID.

1172
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: Morain and I'm out there playing, but I'm not really right.

1173
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen. Yeah, okay, we're not going to know.

1174
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: They're not going to tell us. Even if it is

1175
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,919
Speaker 1: something like that, it's just not something that's ever going

1176
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: to be admitted we might admit in our real lives.

1177
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: And all I can tell you is I've seen COVID

1178
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: up close in personal. I've seen it in my own family.

1179
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: And anyone who thinks that it responds the same way

1180
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: across a group of people, I will tell them from

1181
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: my experience is heavily mistaken. It responds differently with each

1182
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: and every person. You don't know how you're going to

1183
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: come out of it. You don't know how long it's

1184
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: going to take. You don't know what the lingering effects are.

1185
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: We're all still learning. So I can do nothing more

1186
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: than go off of what he's saying with Bill Belichick

1187
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: is saying. But as he playing well, the out of

1188
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: mine is no, not even close. The last three games

1189
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: have not been good for him. I think they to

1190
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: think about getting back to basics. As you mentioned, running

1191
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: the football for them, Cam being a big part of

1192
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: running the football. And I'll leave it at this three

1193
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: point shooters have missed ten in a row. You know

1194
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: what coaches tell him to do. Carry it to the

1195
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: basket and they'll get yourself a lay up and get

1196
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: started again. Yeah. I think for Cam getting back and

1197
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: being a bigger part of the run game may help

1198
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: him get going again so they can throw it because

1199
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: he was never at his never better this year than

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01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: the Seattle game, right, throwing and running it. They've got

1201
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: to get back to something like that, I believe, if

1202
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: he's physically capable of it. Yeah, almost a way to

1203
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: get him into an early rhythm that way. It's funny

1204
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: you mentioned that because last year, I know Josh used

1205
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: to tell Brian Davill, hey, give me a design run.

1206
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: I need to get hit so I can calm down

1207
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: a little bit so I don't start throwing rocket balls

1208
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: all over the place. Let me take a hit so

1209
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: I can kind of get into the flow of the game.

1210
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: I wonder if you know Belichick turns around and does

1211
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:51,919
Speaker 1: that with Cam, but taking their passing game a step

1212
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: further charles the Patriots, And I know, you know you

1213
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: can slice these next Gen stats anyway you want to,

1214
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: But next Gen stats had a number that said since

1215
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: Week three Patriots receivers are only getting open. What their

1216
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: definition of open is, I couldn't tell you, but they're

1217
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: only getting open thirteen percent of the time, which is

1218
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: shockingly low. But it's not like him has been getting

1219
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of help, it seems from his receiving corps.

1220
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: But see you this way, if they were remaking the

1221
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: movie Invincible right now, you would be over the stadium

1222
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: getting to try out if you wanted one with the

1223
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: Patriots receiver man. Because you know, I'm not trying to

1224
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: be you know, I'm not trying to go for the

1225
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: hot line or the snarky take or whatever. But as

1226
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: you said, take those numbers however you want. Bottom line

1227
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: has turned on the tape and ask yourself who's open?

1228
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: Ask yourself who's getting open. Julian Edelman's the number one

1229
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: receiver for them, but he's playing hurt, so he's not

1230
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: even their number one guy. Nikkil Harry's supposed to be

1231
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: a number one pick last year. He struggled throughout the

1232
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: season for the most part, and then he got hurt

1233
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: last week, so we don't know he'll go this week

1234
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: or not. Now you're talking about Jakobe Myers, demere Bird,

1235
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: who was never more than a low complimentary piece in Carolina.

1236
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: But Cam seems to trust him because he knows him

1237
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: from Carolina. But never once were you ever thinking demere

1238
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: Bird would be a huge part of your passing game.

1239
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: That's the struggle that they have. And you can't turn

1240
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: to the tight ends because Gronk left town and he

1241
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: didn't leave any someone to tight ends. You can catch

1242
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: the ball behind him because they're not throwing in that

1243
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: direction either. So a lot is going on there. Yes,

1244
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: Cam struggling, but out wide, not very many people getting

1245
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: open and helping out either. So and I know your

1246
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: time is short here, So the last one I have

1247
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: for you, Charles, And we're talking to Charles Davis, NFL

1248
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: on CBS color analyst doing the game with Iyan Eagle

1249
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: and Evan Washburn for Bill's Patriots on Sunday for CBS.

1250
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: Where do you kind of see this game going? Early?

1251
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm anticipating that the Patriots are probably going

1252
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 1: to try to get their run game going since the

1253
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: pass game has not been all that interesting or threatening.

1254
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: But I'm very curious to see how the Bills play

1255
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: them defensively. Do they bring eight in the box, something

1256
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: they don't do a terrible amount of to try to

1257
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: neutralize that. It's it's gonna it's gonna be very compelling

1258
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: the first couple of series here. What do you foresee?

1259
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: I remember I yet. I met coach Bill Parcels years

1260
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 1: ago when he was running the Miami Dolphins, and I

1261
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: got a chance to talk to him at a practice session,

1262
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: and he kept looking over at one of his defensive lineman.

1263
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: He'd he yelled at hey, hey, and then he'd make

1264
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: emotion on his pants like he was tying up his pants.

1265
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: And I kept looking at him, and he said, I'm

1266
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: telling him he'd better have his big boy pants on

1267
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: this weekend because they're coming for it. That's what I

1268
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: feel like. If you're the defensive front of the of Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: I definitely think big boy pants this week because this

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Speaker 1: will be the second week in a row. I think

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Speaker 1: New England will have their basic starting offensive line together.

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Speaker 1: You know, they got David Andrews back at center tune

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Speaker 1: he can go back to left guard, Mason at right guard,

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Speaker 1: you know, Isaiah Win at left tackle. That's their basic

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Speaker 1: and then they add in the rookie on when who

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Speaker 1: from from Michigan. This would be the second week in

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Speaker 1: a row they play together. They've got to mass together

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Speaker 1: and try and move people on the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: and get them back to basics. Because using Damien Harris,

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Speaker 1: James White, Rex Burkehead and Cam in the run game,

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Speaker 1: I think is their formula to try and get going

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Speaker 1: so they can create some space for those guys on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter who are having a hard time winning on

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Speaker 1: their own. So I would expect it to be a

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01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: very physical game right out of the gate, and big

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Speaker 1: boy pants are probably a good issue in the locker

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Speaker 1: room this week if you're playing on the front of Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that Sean McDermott, Leslie Frasier, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they'd listened to our show and go man.

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Speaker 1: That's a great idea from Charles Davis. I think they're

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Speaker 1: way ahead of us on that one. Probably probably Charles Listen.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the insight. We look forward to hearing you

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01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: on the call with Ian Eagle tell the Birdman. We said, Hi,

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Speaker 1: he's a friend of the show. We look forward to

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Speaker 1: hearing you on Sunday on CBS. Can to get there.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to this is gonna be a fun one

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot that's packed into this game, isn't there?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and this would be a good all right,

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Speaker 1: Safe travels and all the best to you and your

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Speaker 1: family there. Stay healthy out there, Okay, same to you

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01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: and yours and everyone who can hear our voices. Everyone

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Speaker 1: stay safe and we'll keep pressing forward. Thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: get to Buffalo, all right, that's Charles Davis. Thanks very

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01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 1: much for the time. As Charles will be on the

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01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: call on CBS with I and Eagle. Evan Washburn will

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01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: be well, he'll be in the first row. I don't

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01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,479
Speaker 1: think they're allowed on the sidelines to call the game

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01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday, so they'll be doing the game Bills Patriots,

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01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 1: so tune in for that, and yeah, I agree with them.

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01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: I think we're probably looking at a Rockham Sockhem type

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01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 1: game because the Patriots have been able to do absolutely

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01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: nothing through the air for the better part of the

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Speaker 1: last two games, and Cam Newton just doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: the same player, the same quarterback, and I know the

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01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: Bills fans are hoping that that doesn't change anytime soon.

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

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Speaker 1: we'll have Maddie Glab in studio here to give us

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Speaker 1: an update on what she saw at practice. Who's practicing,

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01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 1: who's not practicing, who's looking good? And how about some

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01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: of those IR players that are now practicing, like Levi Wallace.

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Speaker 1: Does he have any chance of coming back this week.

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Speaker 1: We'll check in with Maddie when we return here. On

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health, This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Backing on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown joined

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Speaker 1: by Mattie Glad fresh off the sidelines from Bill's practice

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Speaker 1: where it's not the nicest day. No, it's getting cold

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Speaker 1: out there. I'm thankfully warmed up by now, but I

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Speaker 1: brought a light jacket. I'm kind of a woos so

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01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: I might need to upgrade to the bigger jacket, even

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Speaker 1: though I have a patio heater at home. I am

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01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: wrapping up the lawn furniture in the Giant campus this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That is happening because it is officially over. There's snow

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Speaker 1: in the forecast. Oh my gosh, Yes there is on

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Speaker 1: Friday night, supposed to be like a lower twenty seven. Hello,

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Speaker 1: and I know it's supposed to be messy for Sunday's

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01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: games supposed to be rainy on Sunday as well, which

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Speaker 1: leads me to believe that both teams are gonna run

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Speaker 1: the ball even more than we anticipate already. But speaking

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Speaker 1: of Sunday's game, let's get to the practice report here.

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Speaker 1: I know that coach already ruled some people out for

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01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 1: practice today, so why don't you run down that list first? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so coach met with the media earlier today before practice,

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Speaker 1: and he said that Cody Ford and Josh Norman would

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Speaker 1: be out. Let's remember Quody Ford has that knee injury

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01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: and Josh Norman has that hamstring injury. He did say

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Speaker 1: John Brown would practice. John Brown was out there at practice.

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Speaker 1: Didn't look like he was held back at all. He

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Speaker 1: didn't have a red jersey on or anything. So it

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01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: was good to see him out there going through regular things.

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Speaker 1: Now we see special teams and individuals, so it's like

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01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: John Brown is out there on special teams or anything.

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01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: But he was out there with his teammates on individuals.

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Speaker 1: So okay, So that's that's first. And then we also

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Speaker 1: saw the announcement this morning that Levi Wallace and del

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01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 1: Shan Phillips, even though they're still on IR, Yes, they were.

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Speaker 1: So they were back there, back out practice today participating.

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Speaker 1: Neither of them were in red. There was really only

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Speaker 1: one person read Levi Wallace and del Shan looked like

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Speaker 1: they were back at it doing everything normally as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: good to see del Shan Phillips back out there. I

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Speaker 1: mean we haven't not seen him practice and so lost

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Speaker 1: week two. Yeah, he was a part of the like

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Speaker 1: original Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmunds group of injuries that

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Speaker 1: started wearing red or not really practicing. So it's been

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Speaker 1: a long time coming for del Shan Phillips. And with

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Speaker 1: Tyrell Dodson on the IR now, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: good to have del Shan Phillips in there for some

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Speaker 1: depth as well. As we saw that Andre Smith was

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Speaker 1: signed from the practice squad, so that is a right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got to kind of cover up for some of

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Speaker 1: the linebacker losses, so that's good to have depth there.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Levi Wallace, del Shaun Phillips back at practice again,

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. With the corners, you need depth there as well,

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Speaker 1: corner and linebackers. Spot you need some depth at Dane Jackson.

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Speaker 1: We saw was elevated from the practice squad to the

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Speaker 1: active roster on Sunday to play in the game. But

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Speaker 1: he's back on the practice squads, so getting Levi Wallace

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Speaker 1: back now, like you said, he is still on IR,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. Yeah, and the crazy

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01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 1: thing with that is the team does not have to

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01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 1: list the participation level in practice for IR players, so

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01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: it's going to really be hard for us to get

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Speaker 1: a gauge on what his likelihood is of coming off

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Speaker 1: of the IR to play this week. Right. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: looked like he was out there doing everything. We only see,

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Speaker 1: you know, twenty to forty forty minutes, so we can't

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Speaker 1: really even gauge that much anyways, since we watched special

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01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: teams in one individual period. But yeah, it's it's interesting

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Speaker 1: with those practice reports and what you can and can't

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Speaker 1: get from injury report wise, what we get on Twitter

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Speaker 1: once that injury report comes out after practice this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: he did have an interesting tweet that I saw some

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01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: funny retweet like it was him and a filter and

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01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: he was like, you had his hands up in the air,

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01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, nobody everywhere was trying to guess

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01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 1: what the heck, that meant like I'm back or what

1397
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: is you know, like a practicing What is he talking

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01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: about here? Because there were no words, so you're always

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Speaker 1: trying to decipher these social media posts. I think the

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Speaker 1: better social media post, Brownie though, was did you see

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01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: what John Feliciano tweeted when he was activated off of

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01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: IR He had the Joker gif fixing his hair and

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01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 1: getting ready to He's got long hair. Now. I was

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01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: looking at him in practice as they were going through

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01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 1: stretched and I was like, oh, John Feliciano kind of

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01:10:57,640 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: has like Joker hair. He doesn't look like the Joker,

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01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: but he's got that hair that just kind of like

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01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: falls down in his face. And I'm I would be

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Speaker 1: scared going up against John Feliciano. Let me say that

1410
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: I'm really pumped that he's back activated on this team.

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01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,759
Speaker 1: Hopefully that helps for Sunday, which should be a rainy

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01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:19,719
Speaker 1: game as we have. Yeah, great to see him off

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: of the IR. And now the question is with Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford a little iffy. He was not out there today.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see him at all. We heard coach McDermott

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Speaker 1: on Monday when he was asked about it, you know,

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Speaker 1: saying Hey, you know, if Cody Ford's a question mark,

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Speaker 1: does John Feliciano if he's good enough to come back,

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01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: because he was still on IR at that time. If

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Speaker 1: he's good enough to come back, does he slide into

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01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 1: his familiar right guard position that he played last year,

1422
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: or and does Winters flip over to left? Or does

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01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: Winterers stay where he is and John goes over to left?

1424
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 1: And he gave indication that John would step in at

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01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: the left side. It seems like they don't want to

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01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: switch two positions for the sake of filling one. So

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Speaker 1: I think if Cody doesn't play, it's probably John at

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01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: left guard, right, I would think so. I mean, he

1429
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: has the ability to be able to rotate through different positions.

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01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: I mean he's someone who from last year's starting in

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01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: all sixteen games, showed that strength that he has on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Can he do that coming back from

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01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: his first game though, that's a question mark. We haven't

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Speaker 1: seen him yet in a game this season. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think he's more than capable of playing left guard.

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01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: I mean, when he was with the Raiders, he was

1437
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: a swing guard and center. You know, he backed up

1438
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 1: Gabe Jackson, He backed up on the other side, and

1439
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:39,679
Speaker 1: he backed up the center, so it's not like he's

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01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 1: feig into playing left guard. I don't think it would

1441
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: be a tall task for him. I think the bigger question, though,

1442
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: Maddie is I mean, this guy hasn't played regular season football.

1443
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 1: No matter how much conditioning he's done here, it's not

1444
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: the same as playing a game. So I wonder is

1445
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: this guy going to be on a pitch count and

1446
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 1: maybe do they rotate in Butger to me again, yes,

1447
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: Cody can't play. Cody can't play. I think that would

1448
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: be something that could happen. I mean, what have we

1449
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: heard from this offensive line, in this defensive line so

1450
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: far after six seven games, is that it's hard as

1451
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: a line to play this season because you don't get

1452
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: those live reps that we've all been looking forward to.

1453
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: You don't have preseason games, so it's taken us four

1454
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,719
Speaker 1: or five games used to each other. Yeah, and then

1455
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: the tight end position is still a little shorthanded. They

1456
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: added the guy to the practice squad, Charles Jones Jones,

1457
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 1: so they have an extra body there. Any sign of

1458
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 1: Tim Sweeney or Tommy Sweeney excuse me out there at all,

1459
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Speaker 1: because this is the week coming off of reserve pup

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Speaker 1: where he would be eligible to begin practicing if he's

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01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: healthy enough to do so, was he doing anything, was

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01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: he seen anything? No sign of Tommy Sweeney out there,

1463
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: just Tyler Croft. When they broke into their individual period,

1464
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: you see everybody kind of run over to their position

1465
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: groups and you look at the tight eye group and

1466
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: it's just sad. It's just like Rob Boris and Tyler

1467
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,839
Speaker 1: Kroff because you know, Dawson is still on the COVID

1468
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: list and so are the other guys. So it'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see when Lee Smith, Nate Becker, and Tommy

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Speaker 1: Sweeney come off of him. Yeah, and Tommy Sweeney still

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Speaker 1: on reserve pup with the foot injury. So between week

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Speaker 1: seven and ten, that's the window in which, provided he's

1473
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: healthy enough, he could come and practice, and then that

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01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 1: would kickstart a twenty one day window for the Bills

1475
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: to make a decision. All right, does he look good enough?

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01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: Can we put him on the active roster? This, that

1477
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 1: and the other. So Reggie Gilliam kind of bounces around, right,

1478
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 1: He's not always with the tight ends, even though he's

1479
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 1: listed as one. He works with the running backs too, right, Yes,

1480
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam bounces around, so he is. It seemed like

1481
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: from what coach McDermott said, meetings wise, he's bouncing between

1482
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 1: tight ends, running back special teams meetings. So he's kind

1483
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:02,559
Speaker 1: of like a gadget player everywhere, bouncing around meetings and

1484
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: things like that. So you've got Tyler Craft, Reggie Gilliam,

1485
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: and Charles Jones now in that room, and then anybody

1486
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 1: else pop up today that was not doing anything or

1487
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:16,640
Speaker 1: was on the side or anything like any names that

1488
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 1: like we weren't expected. Yeah, So Matt Milano was in red.

1489
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's something that we weren't expecting.

1490
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: I mean he's been in and out of red for

1491
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I want to say last week.

1492
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 1: I don't think he was. I think that makes sense though, right.

1493
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's an upper body injury, it's a peck injury,

1494
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: and you don't want him engaging in practice and put

1495
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: more wear and tear on that if he doesn't have,

1496
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 1: so I guess that makes it. Yeah, So I think

1497
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: it's alarming he was in red. We'll see practicing, right,

1498
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: but practicing today they were in pads, so today was

1499
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 1: their heavy practice. This has been different than the last

1500
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:52,799
Speaker 1: two weeks because of the short weeks. Your Tuesday, your Wednesday,

1501
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: or Thursday or Friday have kind of been all mixed

1502
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: up because they played on Tuesday two weeks ago. They

1503
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: planned Monday last week. So it's been interesting with those

1504
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 1: short weeks with how the practices have been structured, with

1505
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: what's going to be padded, what's going to be walked through.

1506
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: So today was their regular padded practice on a Wednesday,

1507
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 1: So Matt Mlana was in red, and then the other

1508
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 1: two players who I wasn't necessarily expecting to pop up

1509
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:22,600
Speaker 1: on an injury list, not saying that we will, we

1510
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 1: haven't gotten any of that information yet, but it kind

1511
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:27,759
Speaker 1: of looked like a little bit more of a rest

1512
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 1: day for Jerry Hughes and Micah Hyde today. They weren't

1513
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: wearing helmets, they were off to the side for some

1514
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: of those individual drills. Micah Hyde was on the bike

1515
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: for quite some time. So all right, yeah, I would

1516
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: I would tend to think you're you're right about that

1517
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: because coach McDermott is one to give veteran players an

1518
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 1: extra day arrest on Wednesday, and then you know they're

1519
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: right back on the practice field Thursday, but we'll wait

1520
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: for the official injury report to come out to confirm that,

1521
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,680
Speaker 1: because you know, that's where it says it right there.

1522
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: You know, rest not injury related, and we've seen that before.

1523
01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, so we're up to speed there

1524
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: on the injuries. Anything else from coach McDermott today that

1525
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: raised your antenna a little bit with respect to this game,

1526
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: from what I understand, because we were getting ready for

1527
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 1: the show here, we didn't get a really chanced to

1528
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:19,600
Speaker 1: listen to him today when he spoke to the media.

1529
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 1: The general consensus though, was, you can tell it's Patriot

1530
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: week because coach is very plain and very close to

1531
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: the vest. Yes, I mean, of course, in this game

1532
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 1: from a fans' perspective, and I think also from the

1533
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: team's perspective, Like, let's be honest, like this game game

1534
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: means a little bit more just to everybody, I think,

1535
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: with what's on the line this season, with the type

1536
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:42,679
Speaker 1: of Patriots team we've seen with this questionable Cam Newton

1537
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: in the last couple games coming off of that COVID list, Like,

1538
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: this game means a lot to everybody, And coach was

1539
01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: asked about it a couple of times, and I mean

1540
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 1: anytime coach or any of the players really are asked

1541
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: about if this Patriots game mains a little bit more,

1542
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: or if when we played the Chiefs, if playing the

1543
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champions meant a little bit more. It's

1544
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 1: just no, this is the next game. It's the next week.

1545
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 1: So this is the next game, and it doesn't mean

1546
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: anything more than who we're playing. It's not any extra.

1547
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: We're not going to put any extra effort into this

1548
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: one because it's the Patriots. This win doesn't mean anything

1549
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: extra on my bio if we get it, so you know,

1550
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: and none of us are believing that for one second. No,

1551
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: it's a big game. Yeah, it is a big game.

1552
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: It is a big game for fans obviously because they've

1553
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: had to live through all of the Patriots domination, which

1554
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:43,799
Speaker 1: stretches long beyond coach McDermott's tenure here with the Bills.

1555
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: It's funny because we were talking about it being PTSD

1556
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: Patriots Traumatic stress disorder, and that's what the fans are

1557
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:54,040
Speaker 1: sitting in right now because they've just been beat up

1558
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:58,240
Speaker 1: so many times by this team, This Patriots team disappointing everybody,

1559
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: especially when the team has got off to decent seasons

1560
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: and then they come in and crash the party and

1561
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: wreck the whole thing and go to the playoffs and

1562
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: challenge for a super Bowl, which is what the crux

1563
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: of our Twitter poll is today. Anyway, we're asking fans

1564
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: what could be the greatest danger when the Bills host

1565
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots Sunday, And we did provide choices, So just

1566
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 1: give me your take on this one, Maddy. So you're

1567
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:23,840
Speaker 1: what do you think would be the greatest danger when

1568
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: the Bills host the Patriots? A Belichick's plan up is

1569
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: sleeveless hoodie be Cam Newton bouncing back or see the

1570
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: Patriots run game ability, which is leading the voting right

1571
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: now for fans. I think it's see And I brought

1572
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: this up yesterday on the show. The Bills have proven

1573
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: that they can stop a premiere running back, your one

1574
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: running back, that's your guy on a team who's going

1575
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: to get the bulk of the carries and Josh Jacobs

1576
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 1: in Derrick Henry. This defense hasn't proved that they can

1577
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: stop multiple running backs. And that's what I go into

1578
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 1: this game just a little bit worried about, and the

1579
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 1: fact that if this is going to be a rainy game.

1580
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:05,759
Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna be able to do. That's gonna

1581
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: be I mean, everybody's game plan going into this game

1582
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 1: if it's rainy. So stopping the run, I think is

1583
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:16,720
Speaker 1: going to be for the Bill's defense. The most important

1584
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: thing about this game. I don't know if they're going

1585
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: to stack the box or whatever. I think what we

1586
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: saw from the defensive line on Sunday makes me feel

1587
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: a little bit better about their ability to do that,

1588
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: just because the defense as a hole comes up with

1589
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: six stacks. You have Jerry Hughes, who is the AFC

1590
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,799
Speaker 1: defensive player the week, who showed a lot of passion

1591
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: in the way that he played, and we hope that

1592
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 1: momentum goes into this game. But I mean, you have

1593
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,640
Speaker 1: to stop Cam Newton. You have to stop Rex Burkhead,

1594
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: you have to stop Harris, you have to stop Sony Michelle. Like,

1595
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot of running backs on that team. I mean,

1596
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: James White is another player. Like, I feel like they

1597
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: can go to so many different players, and Cam Newton

1598
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 1: may just need a couple run games to get a

1599
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 1: couple run plays to get going in this game. Yeah,

1600
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,720
Speaker 1: let's go to the tweet sheet, which is brought to

1601
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1602
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:14,919
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, and Nate says the greatest danger

1603
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: and we've seen it many times before. Example Sean McVay

1604
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: with Bill Belichick out coaching younger, less experienced coaches. We

1605
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: are a more talented team than the Pats, but that

1606
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you get out coached. And there have

1607
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: been instances where you know, the Bills have been up

1608
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard, sometimes leading by thirteen, sometimes leading by eleven,

1609
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about years past, even before coach McDermott

1610
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: got here, and somehow the game gets turned around. But

1611
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: very often they've leaned on Tom Brady to deliver the

1612
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: goods in those situations, and he is not a part

1613
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 1: of the equation anymore. I just wonder about Cam Newton

1614
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: and the way he has played the last couple of weeks.

1615
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he just doesn't even look like the same player,

1616
01:21:56,200 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 1: and obviously Bills fans are all hoping, hey, you need

1617
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: to change anytime soon. He can continue struggling for all

1618
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: week care I just think the thing that gives fans

1619
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: a little bit of unease going into This is that

1620
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: Belichick usually finds a way to mask your strengths and

1621
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:20,040
Speaker 1: reduce them, and then they usually just play a style

1622
01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 1: of football where they wait for you to screw up.

1623
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 1: But I don't know if they can lean on that

1624
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: anymore because they just don't have the same horses that

1625
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: they used to. I mean, even Edelman, who most people

1626
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: would agree as their best receiver, has been playing hurt.

1627
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: He doesn't look the same. So I don't know if

1628
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: this Patriots team is as threatening as ones we've seen

1629
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: in the past by any stretch. Yeah, they may have

1630
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: to go in there with their own game plan as

1631
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: to how they're going to win this game rather than

1632
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: wait for the Buffalo Bills or whatever they're whatever team

1633
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,800
Speaker 1: they're playing to screw up. A coach, McDermott was asked

1634
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: just about Belichick's defense and how he can always rely

1635
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,679
Speaker 1: on that and how, like you said, this defense knows

1636
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: how to mask a team's strength, and McDermott said, I've

1637
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: I've watched what this defense can do. I don't know

1638
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 1: if there's any coach in the league who hasn't took

1639
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 1: the time to watch some Patriots defense film. When when

1640
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: they're at the top of the league and try and

1641
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: take take things from the way that they play. Yeah,

1642
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: and you have to believe that the Patriots are going

1643
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: to take a page out of the book that the Jets,

1644
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and the Titans utilized because it did hold

1645
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 1: the Bills down on the scoreboard. Because what are we

1646
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: talking about? Sixteen points against the Titans, seventeen points against

1647
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, eighteen points against the Jets. I wonder if

1648
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:43,160
Speaker 1: that means nineteen points this week. I hope so I

1649
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 1: remains more than nineteen quite frankly for the Bills to score.

1650
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: So I mean that formula has worked for the most

1651
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: part against the Bills because it's held them well below

1652
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: what their average was the first four weeks of the season,

1653
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: So I would anticipate more in the set, more of

1654
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: the same. It's just dressed up a little bit differently,

1655
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: you know, by the defensive coaches, which includes by the way,

1656
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's son, who's calling the plays on defense of

1657
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: all things. The pretty young guy to be doing that,

1658
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: but I guess he's learned from the best, so hard

1659
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:16,920
Speaker 1: to argue with it. But yeah, I mean, it's gonna

1660
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: be really interesting to see what their approach is especially

1661
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,400
Speaker 1: early in the game. Did they just sit back and

1662
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: keep everything in front of them. If that's the case,

1663
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: I really think the Bills run games got to come

1664
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 1: through this week. I think their defense is allowing around

1665
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,839
Speaker 1: twenty three points per game. The Patriots offense is scoring

1666
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Speaker 1: under twenty points per game the last three game. Three games,

1667
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense has averaged nine point three points per game,

1668
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 1: so they're under ten points per game if they continue

1669
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 1: on this trend. I mean, the eighteen points that the

1670
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: Bills scored last week is going to be enough to

1671
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: win this game. The question is do they continue on

1672
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:52,760
Speaker 1: this trend or does Cam Newton somehow break out of

1673
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: the funk that he was in last week. I do

1674
01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 1: think this offense scores in the red zone. When talking

1675
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 1: about the Bills offense, I don't know. If you can

1676
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: go two straight games without scoring in the red zone,

1677
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: you can't win games consistently in this league just kicking

1678
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: field goals. And the Patriots defense is good at that.

1679
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean they are twelfth and points allowed. Even when

1680
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: this defense struggles in several other areas like yards allowed

1681
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: or rushing defense, there's always somehow, some way they find

1682
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 1: ways to keep teams out of the end zone, and

1683
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: that's how they stay in games. And you know, the

1684
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 1: numbers proof that they're twelfth and points allowed. So despite

1685
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: all their struggles and getting no help from their offense,

1686
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 1: they're still doing a pretty good job on the defensive

1687
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:33,679
Speaker 1: end in terms of keeping people out of the end zone.

1688
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:35,200
Speaker 1: I think one thing we're going to have to remember

1689
01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: for this game for the Patriots defense is that they're

1690
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:40,799
Speaker 1: going to try like heck to take the ball away.

1691
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean, they have what twelve takeaways in six games.

1692
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 1: They have eight interceptions. J C. Jackson has three, Stefan

1693
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: Gilmour has one, Devin Cordy has two. I think, so

1694
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,599
Speaker 1: they're going to try and get a takeaway and that's

1695
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:58,680
Speaker 1: the strength of their defense. The back end kind of

1696
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,080
Speaker 1: it's similar to the Bills the way they're constructed. You know,

1697
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: they're designed to stop the pass. And yeah, their secondary

1698
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:06,759
Speaker 1: is still the strength of their defense because it's probably

1699
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: the part of their defense that has had the least

1700
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: amount of turnover. With the exception of Patrick Chung opting out,

1701
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: everybody's pretty much the same back there. All right, we

1702
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but one more segment with

1703
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 1: Maddie when we return. We'll get more of your comments

1704
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet when we come back here on

1705
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,799
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1706
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Back on One Bills Live Chris Brown with

1707
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,680
Speaker 1: Maddie Glad for one more segment here, and we do

1708
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,679
Speaker 1: want to get back to the tweet sheet and get

1709
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: your comments on what you feel is the greatest danger

1710
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: entering this game for the Bills with the Patriots on Sunday.

1711
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 1: Is it a plan up the Evil Hoodies sleeveless shirt,

1712
01:26:57,160 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: is it the running game of the Patriots, or is

1713
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:05,680
Speaker 1: it Cam Newton and a possible bounce back performance this

1714
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Bills after a couple of dreadful ones

1715
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: each of the last two weeks. So Nate says, oh no,

1716
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,920
Speaker 1: I read that one. Sorry. Jonathan says, Buffalo can sell

1717
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: out to stop the run and play man across the board.

1718
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: No reason why this defense can't hold New England under

1719
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 1: two hundred total yards. I'll say this, This receiving corps

1720
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 1: is not what it used to be. And even if

1721
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace can't play, even if Josh Norman can't play,

1722
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying play man all game. But I'm not

1723
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 1: scared to play some man defense and tell Dane Jackson

1724
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 1: and Dredavious White go man up and we're gonna go

1725
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:49,120
Speaker 1: stop this run game. I'm fine with that. I think

1726
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: it can totally work. I mean, yeah, this receiving corps

1727
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: is really not what it's used to being. I mean,

1728
01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: like you said already, Brownie Edelman hasn't had a year

1729
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: to remember by any means, Nikkil Harry really hasn't come

1730
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: on like a lot of people have thought he would.

1731
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:10,200
Speaker 1: And he got hurt last week with a head injury. Yeah,

1732
01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 1: he might have a concussion this week. We don't know

1733
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: if he's in the protocol yet. I guess we'll find me.

1734
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: Rex Burkehead has a hundred and some change receiving yards,

1735
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: but there's like your leaders right there, and they don't

1736
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:25,600
Speaker 1: have any splash plays. Their yards per reception average is

1737
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:29,080
Speaker 1: not that great. I think they have one player who's

1738
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: averaging over twelve yards per reception whose mind is escaping

1739
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:35,879
Speaker 1: me right now. But well, demre Bird is very averaging

1740
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: twelve point nine. Edelman surprisedly is averaging fifteen yard fifteen

1741
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: yards catch, but it's due in part to the fact

1742
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: he's only caught twenty one and he still leads the team.

1743
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: You can make the argument if Edelman is still nicked

1744
01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: up in not one hundred percent, you can make the

1745
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: argument James White is their best receiver and he's a

1746
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: running back. I mean, I know he catches well. At

1747
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: least when Brady was there, he would catch seventy five

1748
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 1: eighty balls a season. I don't know if that's going

1749
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: to happen this year. We know James White has gotten

1750
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: us before. Yeah. So, but even saying that, yes, their

1751
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 1: receiving corps is no star studded lineup like the Buffalo

1752
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: Bills have at receivers, So you put corners in a

1753
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,800
Speaker 1: man situation for all the game part of the game,

1754
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 1: I think you can get away with it and be successful. Yeah.

1755
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: And I think Dane Jackson, if memory serves, played a

1756
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 1: good deal of man defense at pitt In College, so

1757
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: it's not like it's a foreign concept to him. He

1758
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 1: actually likes to get up in the face of a

1759
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:33,640
Speaker 1: receiver and play physical. And I saw I mentioned this

1760
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: when I had Charles Davison earlier this hour. The next

1761
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,600
Speaker 1: gen stat that almost had my eyes fall out of

1762
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 1: my head was since Week three, the Patriots receiving corps

1763
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:49,800
Speaker 1: is getting open only thirteen percent of their routes, which

1764
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: is an anemic number. And it helps to explain why

1765
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:56,680
Speaker 1: Cam Newton has struggled, because he hasn't gotten a lot

1766
01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: of help. And yeah, I mean, I think that's why

1767
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:01,800
Speaker 1: we all believe they're gonna try to pound the rock

1768
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday at least to start and hope they can

1769
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 1: work some kind of play action pass game into that.

1770
01:30:07,240 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: I think we're all just hoping that, you know, Cam

1771
01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 1: Newton doesn't get on track by running the ball effectively.

1772
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this, there are a lot

1773
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:20,599
Speaker 1: of big players in the NFL. You're used to being

1774
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: around big bodies and all that stuff. Cam's a different story.

1775
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 1: He is like he's one of like the three or

1776
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 1: four dudes that you stand next to him, You're like,

1777
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: is this guy even human? Like just six foot six

1778
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:36,559
Speaker 1: legs that go on for days and they're like tree trunks.

1779
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: And usually players that are that long, they're not cut up.

1780
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 1: You know, their muscles are very long. It's hard to

1781
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: get definition. And he is just he looked like he

1782
01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 1: got carved out of marble. It's crazy, but I'm hoping

1783
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,080
Speaker 1: that he's the Cam Newton we've seen the last two

1784
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 1: weeks and doesn't get back to his old form, because

1785
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 1: if he does, I think it could be a different game.

1786
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:03,479
Speaker 1: I think one player that we could see get involved

1787
01:31:03,560 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 1: maybe in some different types of plays. I just remembered

1788
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:08,760
Speaker 1: him because I just saw a highlight of him, the

1789
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:13,760
Speaker 1: fullback Jacob Johnson. So, Yacob Johnson played at Tennessee when

1790
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: I worked at Tennessee and he was part of the

1791
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:21,120
Speaker 1: International Player Pathway program. He was playing in He's from Germany,

1792
01:31:21,160 --> 01:31:24,000
Speaker 1: so he was playing in Germany after he graduated from

1793
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee and was picked up by the Patriots. He's in

1794
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 1: his second year of the program, but he was on

1795
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 1: the active roster last year and this year, and they

1796
01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: like to use him in different types of situations. They

1797
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: use him in the red zone on the goal line

1798
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 1: of course, being a fullback, trying to get those short,

1799
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 1: tough yard situations. But they'll roll him out in different

1800
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:49,679
Speaker 1: ways and kind of try and confuse you with that.

1801
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: So I would expect maybe Yacob to be used. Well. Yeah,

1802
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,559
Speaker 1: and they lost their long time fullback last year, James Devlyn,

1803
01:31:57,560 --> 01:32:00,360
Speaker 1: to a neck injury. And I think his career is over,

1804
01:32:00,479 --> 01:32:02,640
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be looking for somebody like that to

1805
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: plug into that role. All right, Mattie, Well, really good stuff.

1806
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing us up to date on practice. We

1807
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:12,479
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm kind of encouraged by how many guys

1808
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 1: are participating right now. I'm encouraged that pretty healthy. They'll

1809
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: have a few more bodies than they did last week.

1810
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 1: And obviously the COVID thing has to work itself out

1811
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,200
Speaker 1: with the tight ends. But still in all I think

1812
01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: the defense will be better off coming into this week.

1813
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: And as we know, John Feliciano should be back in

1814
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 1: some capacity, and that's always good. All right, So we

1815
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:32,839
Speaker 1: will take a break. Thanks again, Mattie. When we return,

1816
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: we will have Matt Chatham joining us, former Patriots linebacker

1817
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:40,599
Speaker 1: and special teamer. He'll give us the lowdown on just

1818
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 1: what's going on up there in New England. When we return.

1819
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:45,800
Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health,

1820
01:32:46,000 --> 01:33:00,719
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network. Sports Update,

1821
01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 1: Your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Bills. Back on

1822
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 1: the practice field, we saw the return of cornerback Levi

1823
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: High Wallace and Del Shaun Phillips to practice, although those

1824
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: players remain on IR John Brown practicing today, Cody Ford

1825
01:33:13,479 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 1: and Josh Norman not participating. Matt Milano is practicing but

1826
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: in a red, non contact jersey yesterday. One player activated

1827
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 1: off of injured reserve was guard John Feliciano. He's practicing today.

1828
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,679
Speaker 1: The Bills also promoted linebacker Andre Smith to the fifty

1829
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: three man roster and release Dion Lacy. Bill's defensive end

1830
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:35,760
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes this week's AFC Defensive Player of the Week

1831
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: for his Week's seven performance against the Jets, the first

1832
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:40,280
Speaker 1: time honor for the defensive end after he had his

1833
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,600
Speaker 1: best game of the season with two sacks, an interception,

1834
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 1: and a force fumble along with six tackles. According to

1835
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: the South Florida Sun sent and all, the Dolphins are

1836
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:51,639
Speaker 1: discussing whether or not stand out cornerback Xavian Howard will

1837
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 1: be a part of the franchise's future, even though the

1838
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:56,680
Speaker 1: organization signed him to a five year deal worth more

1839
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 1: than seventy five million last season. The report says that

1840
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: the Dolphin field offers for the Pro Bowl talent, who

1841
01:34:03,400 --> 01:34:06,599
Speaker 1: has pulled down four interceptions in the past four games.

1842
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:11,880
Speaker 1: After trading Everson Griffin to Detroit, the Cowboys may also

1843
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: be moving on from two more defensive players. The team

1844
01:34:14,760 --> 01:34:19,280
Speaker 1: informed defensive tackle Dontari Poe and cornerback Darryl Worley that

1845
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 1: they will be released if they can't trade them today,

1846
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:25,799
Speaker 1: even though the trade deadline isn't until next Tuesday. Carlos

1847
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:28,200
Speaker 1: Dunlap has been looking for a way out of Cincinnati

1848
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks have been looking for pass rushing help,

1849
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: so it's no surprise that they've found each other. According

1850
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,720
Speaker 1: to reports, the Bengals have agreed to trade him to

1851
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 1: Seattle in exchange for offensive lineman b J. Finney and

1852
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:44,760
Speaker 1: a seventh round draft choice. Dunlap has been unhappy for

1853
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 1: several weeks now due to his diminished role in Cincinnati,

1854
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: so he'll get a fresh start in Seattle and finally

1855
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:53,599
Speaker 1: to baseball. Last night, the Dodgers won their first World

1856
01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:55,920
Speaker 1: Series title since nineteen eighty eight, and the moments after

1857
01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:58,360
Speaker 1: it was revealed the Justin Turner, the team's third baseman,

1858
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:01,600
Speaker 1: had contracted COVID nine team. He was pulled from the

1859
01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 1: game in the eighth inning told to isolate, but he

1860
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:07,280
Speaker 1: did not abide by that. Instead, joining his teammates who

1861
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 1: were celebrating on the field after their three one victory

1862
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 1: over the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.

1863
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,559
Speaker 1: That is your sports update, our number three now beginning

1864
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,679
Speaker 1: of one Bills live here on a Wednesday and joining

1865
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:23,440
Speaker 1: us now on the line, former Patriots linebacker and contributor

1866
01:35:23,479 --> 01:35:25,720
Speaker 1: to the Athletic and the New England Sports Network. It

1867
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 1: is one Matt Chatham joining us. Matt, thanks for taking

1868
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:33,839
Speaker 1: the time, appreciate it. How you doing? Go onderful Christmas?

1869
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Good to talk about an opponent and get off the

1870
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: problems last few weeks. Yeah, well, unfortunately, I'm probably gonna

1871
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: spend at least part of our time together asking you

1872
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:45,599
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on in New England. This

1873
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: is uncharted territory, you know, for this franchise that is

1874
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:53,320
Speaker 1: perennially a power in the AFC, and you know two

1875
01:35:53,360 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 1: and four record this time of year is not normally

1876
01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 1: seen from this club either. We know the changes that

1877
01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 1: have been made, we know the opt out that happened

1878
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. How much of it

1879
01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 1: is the turnover and how much of it is real

1880
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:12,760
Speaker 1: problems that the current roster is experiencing right now? Yeah,

1881
01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: it's a tough question. I think important because they felt

1882
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,960
Speaker 1: like they were cresting after that Raiders game. And this

1883
01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 1: is going to sound excuse, it is excuse, but COVID

1884
01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:25,559
Speaker 1: hit the locker room and they had a really bad

1885
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:28,479
Speaker 1: fourteen day span. And that fourteen day span where you

1886
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 1: know you lose basically you're starting quarterback, you lose Cam

1887
01:36:31,479 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: Newton on the eve of a game there against the Chiefs,

1888
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:37,719
Speaker 1: and then you roll into another practice this week where

1889
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,720
Speaker 1: you get one on field session, and they really did

1890
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 1: not respond well to either of those two situations. And

1891
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 1: then we're back here a week ago. Everyone's fired up,

1892
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:48,160
Speaker 1: get a week of practice, it's going to be sort

1893
01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 1: of back to back to where you expect them to be.

1894
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,479
Speaker 1: And it was atrocious. I think it was really really poor.

1895
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:55,640
Speaker 1: And you know, for all the years that you know

1896
01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:57,800
Speaker 1: when I played with the team, but then also covering them,

1897
01:36:57,840 --> 01:36:59,800
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things they've always sort

1898
01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:01,880
Speaker 1: of been known for his ball security and they take

1899
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 1: it off you and they generally try to hold onto it.

1900
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:07,719
Speaker 1: And it's been sort of an unfortunate team that's crept

1901
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,800
Speaker 1: in where you know, we can in good conscience here

1902
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:13,839
Speaker 1: and all this time thinking about best game plan, best approach,

1903
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 1: play types, all these things that they're going to do

1904
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: that would work and fit for them. Giving them away

1905
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:20,880
Speaker 1: on a second or third play of a series, you know,

1906
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 1: on a tip play, on a screen pass, or thrown

1907
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:25,840
Speaker 1: into four underneath coverage, you know, really really early in

1908
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: a sequence. It's just sort of throw, you know, take

1909
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:29,760
Speaker 1: your papers, throw them up in the air because you

1910
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: cannot overcome that. Yeah, and I get it. And they

1911
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:35,519
Speaker 1: are still taking the ball away. I mean, they have

1912
01:37:35,560 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 1: twelve and six games, but the problem is they're giving

1913
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 1: it away. They've got fourteen, so they're on the minus

1914
01:37:40,400 --> 01:37:43,320
Speaker 1: side of that ledger there, which is again uncharacteristic for

1915
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 1: a Bill Belichick coach team. How much do you feel

1916
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:50,640
Speaker 1: they've been a victim of circumstance including I mean, you

1917
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:54,600
Speaker 1: mentioned COVID already, But it seems as though Josh McDaniels

1918
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 1: is still trying to get a feel for for Cam

1919
01:37:57,320 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: a little bit here. It seemed to start well, I mean,

1920
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:02,680
Speaker 1: he played great against Seattle. Yeah, and I know the

1921
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 1: prevailing opinion up there the last couple of weeks is

1922
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: he just doesn't look like the same guy, right. It

1923
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 1: was interesting to hear the sort of coaches commentary yesterday.

1924
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:16,640
Speaker 1: It was a level of Canada we don't often hear

1925
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:19,599
Speaker 1: around here as far as player eval, especially during a week,

1926
01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: especially after you know, two bad weeks. But they talked

1927
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 1: a lot about Cam and sort of the decisiveness and

1928
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:27,439
Speaker 1: the ability to you know, we know where a ceiling's at,

1929
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 1: we know where he is at when he's when he's smoking.

1930
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:32,000
Speaker 1: Seattle game is a great example of that. Really the

1931
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:34,280
Speaker 1: first the first few weeks there of September, that was

1932
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 1: what we thought we were getting things recresting. But there's

1933
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 1: been issues lately with just not pulling the trigger, you know.

1934
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 1: And Josh's argument from a quarterback coaches sort of standpoint

1935
01:38:44,080 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: is a lot of mechanics, all the quick things, a

1936
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 1: lot of the small things that need to slow down

1937
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 1: for him. So from his standpoint, yeah, maybe we just

1938
01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:53,040
Speaker 1: need to go re engineer this a bit, to take

1939
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 1: out the play types that were struggling with and go

1940
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,840
Speaker 1: just major in the things that we really do well.

1941
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 1: I think that's where they're at with things right now.

1942
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 1: The thing, and this is an old quote that the

1943
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:05,599
Speaker 1: coach Belichick always used to use with us, So say

1944
01:39:05,640 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: we were coming up against an opponent that had a

1945
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: guy that leak wide. There was a ton of respect

1946
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:12,120
Speaker 1: for God. We knew it was good, but that had

1947
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: a couple really crappy weeks in the in the weeks prior,

1948
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 1: he knew the media would latch onto that and say,

1949
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, don't you dare to look over overlook them.

1950
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:21,040
Speaker 1: That's still the same That's still the same coach that

1951
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:23,200
Speaker 1: I've coached against for twenty years. He's still really good,

1952
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:25,800
Speaker 1: So expect their best. I think that's kind of where

1953
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,120
Speaker 1: they're at with Cam. It's like he's not a different human.

1954
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:30,800
Speaker 1: It's not a different system than what was there just

1955
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:33,760
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. But he just had really, you know,

1956
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:36,479
Speaker 1: two really bad weeks of work. They've got to get

1957
01:39:36,520 --> 01:39:38,679
Speaker 1: off that track and get back to stuff he's comfortable

1958
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 1: with where he getting scelled. So with that in mind,

1959
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:44,120
Speaker 1: are you anticipating that at least to get in an

1960
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 1: early rhythm that they just start pounding the rock in

1961
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: the starting of you know, the early stages of this

1962
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:53,600
Speaker 1: game and even use Cam on some design runs or

1963
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 1: read options or things of that nature. Is that the

1964
01:39:56,000 --> 01:40:00,120
Speaker 1: anticipation here, I certainly think it has to be a part.

1965
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:02,280
Speaker 1: I think if you roll things back two weeks for

1966
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:06,799
Speaker 1: this team, defenses were starting to pressure them to stop

1967
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:08,800
Speaker 1: the run, so you know, bringing a fifth or six off.

1968
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:10,920
Speaker 1: The teams blitz basically to stop passes right to go,

1969
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:12,960
Speaker 1: get sacks and things like that. But you saw a

1970
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 1: team start to blitz the run. Now they're gonna blitz

1971
01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:17,479
Speaker 1: the run and it transitions into a pass. You're stuck

1972
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: in some situation where you're not gonna be able to

1973
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: get out of it. If you were if you're hoping

1974
01:40:21,479 --> 01:40:23,800
Speaker 1: to throw twenty five or thirty yard pass or some

1975
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: sort of downfield element, it's not going to be there

1976
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: for you have to quickly get out of it. So

1977
01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:30,640
Speaker 1: to your point, I think it's what are they going

1978
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:32,720
Speaker 1: to lead with so that they don't get caught in

1979
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: those scenarios. And it was a really odd sequence at

1980
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 1: last weekend's game against the Niners where they had a

1981
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 1: twelve yard run I believe it's twelve yard run first down,

1982
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: seven yard run on second down, and they didn't They

1983
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: didn't run the ball again through the entirety of that

1984
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:50,400
Speaker 1: series and ended up in a field goal. I think

1985
01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:53,400
Speaker 1: it's probably most like they may my best guests of

1986
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:56,200
Speaker 1: what they do best is to lead with the run.

1987
01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:58,599
Speaker 1: Stuff doesn't have to be vanilla run, but some sort

1988
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:01,360
Speaker 1: of game plan runs where that's what they roll with

1989
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:03,799
Speaker 1: and they don't roll out of it until it stopped.

1990
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: You touched on the notion of Camas runner. I think

1991
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:07,800
Speaker 1: that would have to be a part of it. We

1992
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:10,680
Speaker 1: haven't seen much move the pocket, and oftentimes when a

1993
01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:13,840
Speaker 1: passer is struggling, you know there's you intentionally run dash

1994
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 1: or boots or things like that create sequencing to one

1995
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,400
Speaker 1: half or one quarter of the field that you're reading

1996
01:41:19,680 --> 01:41:21,879
Speaker 1: and if it's not there, go because he's a uniquely

1997
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: talented guy. But the straight dropback stuff read the field

1998
01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 1: two man routes with the late leaker, that stuff has

1999
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:29,960
Speaker 1: not been working. I'd expect to see less of it.

2000
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:32,559
Speaker 1: And just to talk maybe a little bit more on

2001
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:34,679
Speaker 1: the positive side of the ledger. I mean, there's gonna

2002
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 1: be a lot of names that are going to be

2003
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 1: out on the field on Sunday that Bills fans are

2004
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: gonna be like, who's that guy? Who's that guy? I mean,

2005
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 1: we know what the roster you guys know what the

2006
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:44,760
Speaker 1: roster turnover has been up there in New England. But

2007
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: for Bills. Fans are gonna be like, where where are

2008
01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:49,479
Speaker 1: the prominent players? Where are the names we see every

2009
01:41:49,479 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: single year? And there's gonna be a lot of new

2010
01:41:51,320 --> 01:41:55,439
Speaker 1: names on the field. So in that group, who has

2011
01:41:55,520 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 1: kind of been a pleasant surprise? I guess through the

2012
01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:02,439
Speaker 1: first six games, either offense or defense, well, I would

2013
01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 1: say what they've cycled through on the offensive side of

2014
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 1: the ball is really efficient running. I thought for a

2015
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 1: span there they one of the better running teams in

2016
01:42:09,439 --> 01:42:11,840
Speaker 1: the NFL, but they got away from it right And

2017
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:13,559
Speaker 1: I think Damian Harris is a name that a lot

2018
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:15,519
Speaker 1: of fans may not be aware of unless you were

2019
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: a hardcore college guy watching NFL stuff. But Harris has

2020
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 1: been really good. He's been special. Sony Michelle, who gets

2021
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of heat around here because

2022
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:27,840
Speaker 1: he was a first rounder, and he has been good,

2023
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:30,080
Speaker 1: but not great. You know, he went out on a

2024
01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 1: high note, you know he was he's on iron now,

2025
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: but he had gone there with a high hundreds a day,

2026
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:36,639
Speaker 1: as big as day as a pro. So it's been

2027
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:38,840
Speaker 1: a matter of sort of in the games where they

2028
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 1: committed to this run stuff. Harris or heavy Sony Days

2029
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 1: or Rex Burkheads had great days and then sprinkling James

2030
01:42:45,320 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 1: White back in there. It's a really talented backgroup. It's

2031
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:50,840
Speaker 1: really the strength of the team. But I mentioned all that,

2032
01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 1: and if you were to look again back into the

2033
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:56,280
Speaker 1: week where they struggled, the run leading portion is obviously

2034
01:42:56,320 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: a big part of what they do best, but another

2035
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:00,160
Speaker 1: would be screen game. And again it was a game

2036
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 1: where they failed and failed and failed on several sequences

2037
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 1: and didn't get back into screen him. So you know, again,

2038
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: I think you'll you'll you'll not recommend and recognize as

2039
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:10,559
Speaker 1: many necessarily targets. It's not an Edleman year where he's

2040
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,719
Speaker 1: going to catch one hundred balls necessarily, but it really

2041
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 1: needs to be more of a back focus group. And

2042
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 1: Harris is probably your newest team. And then, uh, we're

2043
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:22,240
Speaker 1: talking with foreign Patriots linebacker and special team or Matt

2044
01:43:22,320 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 1: Chatham here joining us on the show contributed to the

2045
01:43:24,760 --> 01:43:28,800
Speaker 1: Athletic and New England Sports Network being a special teamer here, Matt,

2046
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 1: why don't you kind of fill me in on what

2047
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:32,920
Speaker 1: they've done there because I know they have the veteran

2048
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: Nick Folk who's been kicking for them. I saw the

2049
01:43:36,080 --> 01:43:39,559
Speaker 1: comments from your former teammate Matthew Slater saying, hey, we

2050
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 1: got to buck up with our preparation here where not

2051
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 1: enough guys are getting the job done. But how have

2052
01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: they been, you know, flipping the field in the return game,

2053
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:55,080
Speaker 1: those stores of things. Gnaroschowski is their kick returner, pump

2054
01:43:55,120 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 1: returner type, and he's electric, he's fun. Hasn't broken any

2055
01:44:00,160 --> 01:44:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, out past the fifty or anything like that,

2056
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 1: but they've had a handful of nice returns. I think

2057
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: they're sort of on the cusp there. You know, Matthew

2058
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:08,760
Speaker 1: Slayers is a great leader. I think he's probably the

2059
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:10,439
Speaker 1: kind of guy who's going to come to front say,

2060
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, we see what's going on the other two sides.

2061
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 1: We got to generate something ourselves. Like you kind of

2062
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 1: feel that pressure as a special teams group when you

2063
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 1: know things aren't going great. Your job is a great

2064
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 1: new fuel field position, and they haven't done a lot

2065
01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:22,840
Speaker 1: of that. I granted, they haven't given up a lot either.

2066
01:44:22,840 --> 01:44:25,000
Speaker 1: I would say it's been a pretty positive day or

2067
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:27,639
Speaker 1: season thus far for the team's guys. Jake Bailey's their

2068
01:44:27,880 --> 01:44:31,479
Speaker 1: their kickoff guy. Blasted through he's been field flipping all

2069
01:44:31,479 --> 01:44:34,040
Speaker 1: the time as a punter, he's he's really special. He's

2070
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: got a monster leg and has really kept them in

2071
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: some situations that weren't ideal. And as you mentioned, Nick

2072
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 1: Folks a kicker, and he's been study. You know, he's

2073
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:44,200
Speaker 1: not bombing fifty five yarders while he's making everything he should.

2074
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:47,840
Speaker 1: And then what about the reports that you know have

2075
01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:51,280
Speaker 1: been circulating about Stefan Gilmore being on the trade block.

2076
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: This is not uncommon territory. I mean, Coach Belichick hasn't

2077
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:58,960
Speaker 1: been shy about moving on from veterans, and very often

2078
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: he does it a year too early than a year

2079
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:06,720
Speaker 1: too late. What kind of traction do you think that kind?

2080
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's one of your best defensive players,

2081
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:11,719
Speaker 1: that's going to get a lot of attention. How how

2082
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: is it being received in the New England area from

2083
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:17,280
Speaker 1: the fan base. It's the kind of thing where I say,

2084
01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:20,679
Speaker 1: my first initial reaction was appause on that that's probably

2085
01:45:20,720 --> 01:45:23,240
Speaker 1: not real. But then you saw there's a Zillo listening

2086
01:45:23,240 --> 01:45:25,320
Speaker 1: for the guy's house, which has got a lot of

2087
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:28,679
Speaker 1: local talk that hey put his house on and all

2088
01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:32,799
Speaker 1: offers are due by the eve of the trade deadline,

2089
01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:35,960
Speaker 1: so he must or his side may know something that

2090
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:39,559
Speaker 1: we don't publicly yet and yet no. Now, the Patriots

2091
01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:43,240
Speaker 1: are generally actually pretty active, surprisingly so at the trade deadline,

2092
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:45,599
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously in years past their buyers, right,

2093
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:47,439
Speaker 1: so I think it's something like eight of nine or

2094
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: seven or eight or something like that years where they've

2095
01:45:49,280 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 1: done something at the deadline. This would be a tough one,

2096
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:55,120
Speaker 1: I think, in part because it's certainly not a lost

2097
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,960
Speaker 1: season yet, just a disappointing couple of weeks, plenty of

2098
01:45:58,040 --> 01:46:00,000
Speaker 1: room to roll obviously buffaloes out in front of the

2099
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,120
Speaker 1: vision right now. But in the event that they were

2100
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:04,840
Speaker 1: to get this game, you're back into competitive situation with

2101
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:07,920
Speaker 1: them in Miami. So it would it would be a tough,

2102
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,720
Speaker 1: tough sell, I think for the market to move on

2103
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,559
Speaker 1: from that guy. We're the Patriots to get by the

2104
01:46:12,560 --> 01:46:14,639
Speaker 1: Bills this week. I think if the Bills get this game,

2105
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,560
Speaker 1: then the tenor here might change quite quickly, and it

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01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 1: is starting to look at future assets. But he's a

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01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:21,880
Speaker 1: great teammate, great player. I don't think anyone around here

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01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,760
Speaker 1: would look forward to the idea of him not. So

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01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 1: with that in mind, let's take it a step further.

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01:46:27,439 --> 01:46:29,639
Speaker 1: Let's just say that the Bills do get the win.

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01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:32,960
Speaker 1: Up here on Sunday, you could see the Patriots kind

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01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:34,760
Speaker 1: of pulling the rip cord on a few things at

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01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:39,240
Speaker 1: two and five. Well, the unusual thing here, We'll just

2114
01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:41,920
Speaker 1: sticking to a guy like Stefan. He's thirty, right, and

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01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:44,160
Speaker 1: I think that does change the calculus with a guy

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01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 1: like him relative to like a Jalen Ramsey that's happened

2117
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:49,599
Speaker 1: in years pass another super high end guy we're coming off.

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01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:52,400
Speaker 1: You know, Gilmore is the best of the best a

2119
01:46:52,479 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 1: year ago and we're just a handful of games in

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01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:57,200
Speaker 1: the next season. He's still that guy. The difficulty, I

2121
01:46:57,240 --> 01:47:00,680
Speaker 1: think gets into sort of valuation and a trade. You know,

2122
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,000
Speaker 1: the young guys, you're twenty four, twenty five, twenty six,

2123
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:07,000
Speaker 1: they'll throw multiple first rounders at you when you're thirty people,

2124
01:47:07,040 --> 01:47:09,599
Speaker 1: they'll tend to do that as good as Gilmour's bend.

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01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:12,640
Speaker 1: It's just that hesitation that I think the organizations have,

2126
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 1: but what they're going to get in those years thirty two,

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01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 1: thirty three and thirty four from that particular position. So

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01:47:17,800 --> 01:47:20,040
Speaker 1: it's a tough call, I think from an organization standpoint.

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01:47:20,280 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 1: If you were making that decision, because you're now two

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01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 1: and five and this hypothetical and you have, you know,

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01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:29,080
Speaker 1: a first round or whatever thrown at you. Yeah, maybe

2132
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: you pull that, but if we're talking about future thirds

2133
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: or force or package twos and sevens or something like that,

2134
01:47:35,560 --> 01:47:37,760
Speaker 1: he's just too good for that my view, even if

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01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:39,479
Speaker 1: you're not winning games, just to be able to go

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01:47:39,520 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 1: out there and be extremely competitive for a year, it

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01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:43,880
Speaker 1: seemed like a third or later pick would be kind

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01:47:43,880 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 1: of a throwaway. But I hope they don't go that route,

2139
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:47,720
Speaker 1: but it'll be a tough call they'll have to make.

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01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: Right And then just what is the New England perspective

2141
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:53,920
Speaker 1: on this Bill's team. I mean, it's a team that

2142
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: was lightened it up in the passing game the first

2143
01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:58,759
Speaker 1: four weeks, then fell back down to earth playing against

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01:47:58,760 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 1: two of the powers in the AA. See, they kind

2145
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 1: of fell victim to some of what the Patriots did

2146
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:06,280
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs week when they didn't have cam, you know,

2147
01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:08,639
Speaker 1: when they were caught up in the whole COVID mess,

2148
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:11,080
Speaker 1: and so was so was the Bills going into that

2149
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:12,920
Speaker 1: Titans game. Oh we might be playing them, Oh the

2150
01:48:12,960 --> 01:48:14,799
Speaker 1: game might be off. We might be playing the Chiefs

2151
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I think it totally screwed up their whole

2152
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:20,520
Speaker 1: psyche in preparation for the game. Not to make excuses,

2153
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:24,880
Speaker 1: but it's hard to really pin down what this Bill's

2154
01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:27,600
Speaker 1: team is going to be. So what is it? What

2155
01:48:27,640 --> 01:48:29,920
Speaker 1: does it look like? From through the New England Lens,

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01:48:32,040 --> 01:48:34,880
Speaker 1: I would say there are years where conversations like that

2157
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 1: sound excuse you. I think this is a year where

2158
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:40,080
Speaker 1: that's real. That's happening, right. So for a team to

2159
01:48:40,080 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 1: be kept in limbo like that, that's that's legitimate. It's

2160
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:45,759
Speaker 1: not it's not making excuses for yourself. You are actually

2161
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:48,599
Speaker 1: deleted with something that other teams are. And I think

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01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:50,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo was a team that's looked at as tough, They're

2163
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:53,200
Speaker 1: looked at as talented, especially on the defensive side of

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01:48:53,240 --> 01:48:56,360
Speaker 1: the ball. There's an extreme amount of respect around here,

2165
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: especially for myself, for Brian Dable. You know, I was

2166
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 1: with him in New England and in New York with

2167
01:49:01,080 --> 01:49:04,760
Speaker 1: the Jets, and a pretty high appreciation for what he's

2168
01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:07,040
Speaker 1: done with Josh over these first over these last couple

2169
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: of seasons, he looked like an accurate thrower. He looked

2170
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 1: like he'd sort of found, you know, his play type

2171
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:14,439
Speaker 1: and him to sort of lead things to get him

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01:49:14,439 --> 01:49:16,000
Speaker 1: to where I want to go. Obviously, Digs is an

2173
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:19,440
Speaker 1: upgrade there, so there's there's a feeling that they're cresting,

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01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, the last two weeks aside, I guess at

2175
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 1: the right time as New England's go in the other direction.

2176
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:28,360
Speaker 1: But all that said, as bad as New England's offense

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01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:30,880
Speaker 1: has been for these last couple of weeks, you know,

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01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:33,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo would be you know, one of those other teams

2179
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL that had really fallen off the table.

2180
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,240
Speaker 1: They've been a team's offense for the last three weeks

2181
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 1: in a row. So it kind of you know, this

2182
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: game hits it a weird time if we're having this

2183
01:49:42,040 --> 01:49:45,360
Speaker 1: conversation where these teams were at three weeks ago. Wow,

2184
01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:46,640
Speaker 1: this is you know, two of the better teams in

2185
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:49,519
Speaker 1: the AFC. Here we go the Bill's friendly, going to

2186
01:49:49,560 --> 01:49:52,280
Speaker 1: get past New England and all that. Instead, I think

2187
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:55,120
Speaker 1: we're going into a game here where both teams are

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01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: kind of looking for themselves in Buffalo with it sort

2189
01:49:57,920 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 1: of timeless. Are they for real or not? A conversation

2190
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:04,320
Speaker 1: and Patriots find themselves in a position they've never been.

2191
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:06,840
Speaker 1: But I think the respect level is pretty hot. I

2192
01:50:06,840 --> 01:50:09,800
Speaker 1: would say Buffalo, even going into the season before they'd

2193
01:50:09,840 --> 01:50:11,719
Speaker 1: taken a snap, was looked at the very serious contender,

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01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 1: especially being a playoff team a year ago. And then

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01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:17,599
Speaker 1: just with I mean, the anticipation here in Buffalo is that,

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01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, Belichick, as is usually his calling card, is

2197
01:50:20,040 --> 01:50:22,599
Speaker 1: going to take away something that you do great. And

2198
01:50:22,680 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people believe that, you know, whether he's

2199
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna bracket Digs or whatever, he's going to take Digs

2200
01:50:27,080 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: out of the football game in some way, shape or form.

2201
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:36,160
Speaker 1: Have the Bills stacked their offense to the degree that

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01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:39,679
Speaker 1: there are too many answers for the Patriots to cover

2203
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:43,920
Speaker 1: all the bases, or knowing that the Patriots secondary is

2204
01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 1: largely unchanged without you know, not counting the absence of

2205
01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:49,960
Speaker 1: Chung Wo opted out, and it is clearly the strength

2206
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:52,760
Speaker 1: of that defense, can they cover all the bases and

2207
01:50:52,800 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: really neutralize this Bill's offense? Yeah, the Patriots defense, you know,

2208
01:50:58,080 --> 01:50:59,760
Speaker 1: as much as we sort of suck the air out

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01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:02,600
Speaker 1: of all offensive talk, the defense last week had a

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01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:05,880
Speaker 1: major step back and looked very vulnerable. And it's been

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01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 1: the strength of a group. I mean, you go back

2212
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,720
Speaker 1: two weeks and they lost to the Broncos and I

2213
01:51:09,720 --> 01:51:11,960
Speaker 1: believe it was eighteen points given up on six field,

2214
01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:15,559
Speaker 1: tremendous and the red zone. Right. So, I think when

2215
01:51:15,560 --> 01:51:18,720
Speaker 1: you match up against the Bills on a normal year

2216
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: week or a normal's conversation, we'd say, hey, you know

2217
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:24,799
Speaker 1: you get digs Beasilely's a guy that's very, very dangerous,

2218
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 1: especially in the short area. Singletary is a guy to respect.

2219
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:30,320
Speaker 1: Out of the backfield. They can, you know, they can.

2220
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:31,880
Speaker 1: They can hurt you a number of ways, and now

2221
01:51:31,920 --> 01:51:35,120
Speaker 1: they're deeper than years past. But I just don't think

2222
01:51:35,160 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 1: that they're a group that fears you unless you're a

2223
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:40,320
Speaker 1: four or five really going to hurt you. Kind of

2224
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:44,719
Speaker 1: Eliable's team, eligibles team right now. The greater concern, especially

2225
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 1: as you know, as day Ball's probably studying that Niners film,

2226
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:51,679
Speaker 1: is they were creating vertical gap or excuse me, horizontal gaps,

2227
01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:54,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of movement, not picking up scheme plays.

2228
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:57,120
Speaker 1: They got beat up on the ground, and that's something

2229
01:51:57,160 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 1: where if you're not answering that question, you may not

2230
01:52:00,439 --> 01:52:03,840
Speaker 1: even get into the who covers food portion. Wow. So

2231
01:52:04,000 --> 01:52:06,640
Speaker 1: knowing Matt and this will be the last one I

2232
01:52:07,040 --> 01:52:10,280
Speaker 1: ask you, I appreciate the time knowing that there is

2233
01:52:10,800 --> 01:52:13,920
Speaker 1: some inconsistency with the Patriots, and knowing that the Bills

2234
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:17,400
Speaker 1: have kind of been a series of fits and starts

2235
01:52:17,479 --> 01:52:22,640
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, what should we expect on Sunday? Like,

2236
01:52:23,040 --> 01:52:26,240
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I know what to expect here now.

2237
01:52:26,479 --> 01:52:28,559
Speaker 1: You know, obviously for nesting, we do our you know,

2238
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:30,400
Speaker 1: pregame picks and things like that. I have no clue.

2239
01:52:30,400 --> 01:52:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm just going to stay on points this week as

2240
01:52:31,920 --> 01:52:34,479
Speaker 1: far as point totals over and because what we could

2241
01:52:34,479 --> 01:52:36,879
Speaker 1: get from either of these teams is terrifying, quite frankly,

2242
01:52:36,960 --> 01:52:39,880
Speaker 1: because you know, again I've said, Buffalo has been a

2243
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 1: team's offense for three weeks and the Patriots defense doesn't

2244
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:43,759
Speaker 1: looked good. So are they going to be a capable

2245
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:45,880
Speaker 1: to keep them to their norm or you know, or

2246
01:52:46,120 --> 01:52:47,720
Speaker 1: what are we going to see here? And I think

2247
01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense has pieces to be that kind of

2248
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:53,680
Speaker 1: lead first run team that can run for easily one

2249
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:57,080
Speaker 1: eighty to twenty kind of day. And Buffalo has had

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Speaker 1: their issues with stopping the football on the ground. So

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01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:03,120
Speaker 1: it just kind of depends on commitment and in ball security.

2252
01:53:03,120 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: We talked about that again. I looked at Josh Allen's

2253
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,080
Speaker 1: what was it put on the ground last week? On

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01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:08,680
Speaker 1: a think it was either just a three or four

2255
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:10,599
Speaker 1: man rash, you know, And that's the kind of scenario

2256
01:53:10,720 --> 01:53:12,680
Speaker 1: three if he's given it away, what's the same as

2257
01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 1: if Cam's given it away. I think that changes the

2258
01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:17,840
Speaker 1: conversation in all of us. I know they're telling both

2259
01:53:17,880 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 1: sides don't do that, but who will listen best? I guess, yeah,

2260
01:53:22,040 --> 01:53:24,320
Speaker 1: Well listen, Matt. We appreciate the insight and bringing us

2261
01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:26,320
Speaker 1: up to speed on what's going on up there in

2262
01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:29,160
Speaker 1: New England. We appreciate it and enjoy the game on Sunday,

2263
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:33,920
Speaker 1: right pleasure? All Right, that's Matt Chatting, former Patriots linebacker,

2264
01:53:34,200 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: contributor for the Athletic and New England Sports Network, kind

2265
01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 1: of giving us the four one one on what's going

2266
01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:42,280
Speaker 1: on with the Patriots. And I'll just say this, I

2267
01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 1: am somewhat encouraged that the defense for the Patriots had

2268
01:53:46,840 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 1: a hiccup last week in their front seven, which I

2269
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:53,439
Speaker 1: guess if you were going to guess where they might

2270
01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:55,519
Speaker 1: have problems, it would be in the front seven where

2271
01:53:55,560 --> 01:53:58,520
Speaker 1: they've had all that turnover to this point. The secondary

2272
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:03,360
Speaker 1: is clearly the strength of the Patriots defense, it's largely unchanged,

2273
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:07,880
Speaker 1: it remains supremely talented, and so you would say, all right, well,

2274
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:10,519
Speaker 1: that's a good matchup for them against Buffalo's passing games.

2275
01:54:10,560 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: So running the football is going to be of extreme

2276
01:54:13,560 --> 01:54:16,760
Speaker 1: importance here this week. And whether you're doing it and

2277
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:20,439
Speaker 1: stretching him horizontally with Isaiah McKenzie getting end around carries,

2278
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:24,439
Speaker 1: or whether you're bringing Zach Moss and Devin Singletary on

2279
01:54:24,479 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 1: the field at the same time and running a split

2280
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:29,840
Speaker 1: back look to try to throw the Patriots front seven off.

2281
01:54:29,880 --> 01:54:32,720
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. And the weather is supposed to

2282
01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:34,880
Speaker 1: be raining on Sunday. It's not supposed to be a

2283
01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: nice day, so that might be even more inclination to

2284
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:41,360
Speaker 1: go that route. And I think everybody is anticipating the

2285
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 1: Patriots or at least going to try to start the

2286
01:54:43,040 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 1: game out that way. And we can't forget Cam Newton

2287
01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:50,960
Speaker 1: is still the leading rusher for the New England Patriots

2288
01:54:50,960 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: and he's averaging almost five yards a carry. So we

2289
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:57,120
Speaker 1: come into a game this week where you know you

2290
01:54:57,240 --> 01:55:01,400
Speaker 1: have Cam Newton as the leading rusher for the Patriots

2291
01:55:01,760 --> 01:55:05,520
Speaker 1: and then for the Bills. Josh Allen is the most

2292
01:55:05,560 --> 01:55:08,840
Speaker 1: successful rusher from a yards per carry perspective, averaging four

2293
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:12,040
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry, which is higher than Singletary

2294
01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:14,720
Speaker 1: or Moss. And so I think what we're going to

2295
01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: probably see, at least in the early stages, is a

2296
01:55:18,040 --> 01:55:22,000
Speaker 1: rock'em sock'em physical football game where you better win the

2297
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:25,240
Speaker 1: battle at the line of scrimmage, which at times has

2298
01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:27,640
Speaker 1: been a problem for Buffalo. They didn't win the battle

2299
01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:29,760
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage in the Titans game and

2300
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:32,520
Speaker 1: got run off the field. Even though they played good

2301
01:55:32,600 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: run defense. They didn't win the battle of the line

2302
01:55:35,240 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and could not get to the passer to

2303
01:55:38,560 --> 01:55:41,840
Speaker 1: affect the quarterback. And then on offense they couldn't run

2304
01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:43,920
Speaker 1: the ball. And then against the Chiefs they had a

2305
01:55:43,960 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 1: similar problem. They could not stop the line of scrimmage

2306
01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:52,040
Speaker 1: and they had trouble scoring consistently on offense and again

2307
01:55:52,160 --> 01:55:55,800
Speaker 1: running the ball. So they moved the ball very effectively

2308
01:55:55,800 --> 01:55:58,720
Speaker 1: against the Jets last week and they stopped the run.

2309
01:55:59,480 --> 01:56:02,880
Speaker 1: And new realize the Jets offense, they're gonna need a

2310
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:06,160
Speaker 1: repeat performance at the line of scrimmage this week because

2311
01:56:06,200 --> 01:56:08,800
Speaker 1: if you don't, this Patriots team can run it up

2312
01:56:08,800 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 1: on you. We just heard Matt Chatham say that this

2313
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: is a rushing attack for the Patriots that was one

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Speaker 1: of the best in the league through the first few

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Speaker 1: weeks of the season, and even though they've kind of

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01:56:17,760 --> 01:56:20,160
Speaker 1: stubbed their toe the last couple of weeks, they're still

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01:56:20,240 --> 01:56:22,760
Speaker 1: ranked fourth in the league and rushing. So you've got

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01:56:22,760 --> 01:56:25,680
Speaker 1: a top five rushing offense coming in here this week.

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01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:29,040
Speaker 1: With an offensive line that is getting healthier. They may

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01:56:29,080 --> 01:56:31,720
Speaker 1: be able to field their starting five for the first

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01:56:31,720 --> 01:56:35,440
Speaker 1: time in about four weeks, with their center David Andrews

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01:56:35,480 --> 01:56:38,200
Speaker 1: back from injury, and it looks like Isaiah Winn is healthy.

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01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney might be a little bit more of a

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01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:42,160
Speaker 1: question mark, but if he can line up at left guard,

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01:56:42,200 --> 01:56:45,520
Speaker 1: their pro bowler, these guys might be able to present

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01:56:45,560 --> 01:56:49,120
Speaker 1: a challenge to Buffalo's run defense. So we'll have to

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Speaker 1: see where that goes. Eight oh three, five fifty the

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Speaker 1: number to get on board. We are asking you what

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01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:58,920
Speaker 1: you feel is the biggest danger presented to the Bills

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01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: in Sunday's game against the Patriots, and your choices are

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01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:06,320
Speaker 1: Belichick's plan up his sleeveless hoodie, Cam Newton has a

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01:57:06,360 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 1: bounce back game or the Patriots run game ability, And

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01:57:10,080 --> 01:57:12,400
Speaker 1: right now, it's it's the running game of the Patriots

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01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:16,640
Speaker 1: that's instilling the most concern in the minds of Bills fans,

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01:57:16,640 --> 01:57:18,840
Speaker 1: and I get why getting almost forty two percent of

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01:57:18,840 --> 01:57:22,800
Speaker 1: the vote. Something else is pulling up the rear at

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01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:26,400
Speaker 1: just under five percent. And we'll get to more of

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Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet when we return. We

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01:57:29,280 --> 01:57:31,000
Speaker 1: will take a break now, but get to your comments

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01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:33,880
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. Take your calls when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, This

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01:57:36,960 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Back Here on one Bills Live,

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01:57:54,160 --> 01:57:56,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown taking it home through the final half hour

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01:57:56,720 --> 01:58:01,520
Speaker 1: of the program eight oh three, five fifty one fifty

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01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,400
Speaker 1: If you want to hop on board and talk about

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01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 1: this game on Sunday, as we are discussing what the

2347
01:58:08,040 --> 01:58:11,720
Speaker 1: greatest danger might be, and from most of our guests today,

2348
01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:15,080
Speaker 1: the general consensus is that the Patriots are going to

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01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:17,640
Speaker 1: try to come out and run the football, and the

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01:58:17,680 --> 01:58:21,200
Speaker 1: Bills did relatively well against the Titans in terms of

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01:58:21,240 --> 01:58:24,640
Speaker 1: stopping the run, not so well against the Chiefs, and

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01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:28,080
Speaker 1: then last week against the Jets, did pretty good first

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01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:31,600
Speaker 1: basically a half of good football against the run. Second

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01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: half obviously, with that being because the first half there

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Speaker 1: were times where Frank Gore, you know, looked like he

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01:58:36,960 --> 01:58:40,160
Speaker 1: was twenty five again. So I think there's gonna be

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01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:43,320
Speaker 1: enough film evidence for the Patriots to feel compelled to

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01:58:43,440 --> 01:58:47,040
Speaker 1: put their fourth ranked rushing attack on display and challenge

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01:58:47,080 --> 01:58:48,760
Speaker 1: the Bills to stop it. So it's gonna be very

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01:58:48,800 --> 01:58:52,920
Speaker 1: interesting to see what Leslie Fraser and coach mcdermot's approach

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01:58:52,960 --> 01:58:56,240
Speaker 1: is going to be to try to neutralize the effects

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01:58:56,280 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 1: of what essentially is like a three headed monster. We

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01:58:59,080 --> 01:59:01,160
Speaker 1: know that Sony Michelle is on IR and will not

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01:59:01,240 --> 01:59:04,920
Speaker 1: be a part of the equation for the Patriots, but

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01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, they do have Damian Harris, who has been

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01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:11,040
Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise this season, Rex Burkehead who's kind of

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01:59:11,040 --> 01:59:14,200
Speaker 1: their bulldozing back, and then James White who's obviously they're

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01:59:14,280 --> 01:59:18,680
Speaker 1: very accomplished receiving back out of the backfield. So there's

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01:59:18,680 --> 01:59:20,560
Speaker 1: a group there that is going to have to be

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01:59:20,640 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: dealt with, and that's not even counting Cam Newton, who

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01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:26,320
Speaker 1: is the leading rusher on the team. But let's go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet. As we've been asking what the

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01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:32,560
Speaker 1: feel the biggest danger is entering this game from the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and the tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills,

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01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: and from Sonny. Sonny says, how important is McDermott against Cam?

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01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:49,640
Speaker 1: Having been coordinator for Carolina all those years has to

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01:59:49,680 --> 01:59:52,640
Speaker 1: help in some way. The last time we played Cam Newton,

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01:59:52,680 --> 01:59:56,920
Speaker 1: our defense was exceptional. What are your thoughts. My thoughts

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01:59:56,960 --> 01:59:59,800
Speaker 1: are You're absolutely correct, because I was at that game.

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02:00:00,040 --> 02:00:02,680
Speaker 1: I remember it and it was a defensive struggle, to

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02:00:02,840 --> 02:00:06,320
Speaker 1: say the least. I believe if memory serves, it was

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02:00:06,400 --> 02:00:11,640
Speaker 1: Week two of the twenty seventeen season, and I'm going

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02:00:11,680 --> 02:00:13,440
Speaker 1: to try to find it. Yep, I found it. So

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02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:18,520
Speaker 1: this was a nine to three ball game, okay, nine

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02:00:18,640 --> 02:00:22,120
Speaker 1: to three, and the Bills did have several chances to

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Speaker 1: win that football game. I even remember Zay Jones dropping

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02:00:26,640 --> 02:00:28,200
Speaker 1: a pass in the end zone which could have been

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Speaker 1: a touchdown that would have given them essentially a ten

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Speaker 1: nine victory. I'm not going to remember where in the

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Speaker 1: game that that happened, but your point is well noted.

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02:00:38,720 --> 02:00:42,320
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott and his defensive staff, which at the time

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02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:46,560
Speaker 1: included Leslie Frasier did a great job of keeping them

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton under wraps. So I'm not at all surprised that.

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Speaker 1: And that was back before Cam started suffering from the

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02:00:53,200 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 1: shoulder injury and the foot injury, and really wasn't the

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Speaker 1: same guy his last couple of years in Carolina when

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02:00:59,120 --> 02:01:01,960
Speaker 1: he missed a lot of games. So you look at

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Speaker 1: that and you say, Okay, well, why couldn't he do

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02:01:05,440 --> 02:01:08,880
Speaker 1: it again here? Now? I don't think at that point

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02:01:08,920 --> 02:01:11,600
Speaker 1: in his career he was running quite as much. I'm

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02:01:11,600 --> 02:01:14,080
Speaker 1: trying to pull up the game book to see if

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02:01:14,080 --> 02:01:15,760
Speaker 1: that in fact was the case, But of course my

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02:01:15,800 --> 02:01:18,440
Speaker 1: computer is slow as molasses and it's not helping me

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02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:21,600
Speaker 1: at all in getting those stats to you. If they

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02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: do load, I'll get back to you on that. But

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Speaker 1: I do think, yes, they are familiar with what Cam

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02:01:27,400 --> 02:01:31,360
Speaker 1: does and doesn't do well, and hopefully that can manifest

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02:01:31,400 --> 02:01:34,400
Speaker 1: itself in Sunday's game, even though he's with a completely

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02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:37,680
Speaker 1: different roster, a completely different play caller, and a completely

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02:01:37,680 --> 02:01:42,400
Speaker 1: different head coach. But there has to be some measure

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Speaker 1: of advantage for having familiarity with the quarterback and all

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Speaker 1: of that. He can and cannot do. So. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think there's something to be said for that. So thanks

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Speaker 1: for bringing it up, Sonny, we appreciate it. From Tick

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, Tick votes a which is Bill

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02:02:00,560 --> 02:02:04,720
Speaker 1: Belichick has something up his sleeveless hoodie in three games.

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02:02:05,280 --> 02:02:10,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's career stats against the Patriots in Belichick three touchdowns,

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02:02:10,720 --> 02:02:15,440
Speaker 1: five interceptions, forty six of ninety five passing, which, for

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Speaker 1: those of you that don't want to do quick math,

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Speaker 1: is a forty eight percent completion percentage, eight sacks and

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02:02:21,560 --> 02:02:24,120
Speaker 1: an O in three record. The Bill's offense is in

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02:02:24,200 --> 02:02:27,560
Speaker 1: a funk, and Belichick knows how to game plan better

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Speaker 1: than anyone. Although I'm not terrified, I'm still concerned. That's

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02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 1: from Tick and I would agree I'm concerned too. You know,

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Speaker 1: the stats aren't great. I think Josh has proven that

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Speaker 1: he's taken a step with his playing ability, so I

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02:02:44,600 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 1: think there has to be something said for that as

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Speaker 1: it slipped up the last couple of weeks. Yeah, I

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02:02:49,200 --> 02:02:54,520
Speaker 1: think it has. But I think that Josh learned his

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02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:58,840
Speaker 1: ultimate lesson against Belichick and the Patriots in Week four

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02:02:59,360 --> 02:03:02,560
Speaker 1: last season. Tried to play hero ball, tried to do

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Speaker 1: too much and the results were an unfortunate loss that

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Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have been a loss because the Bills outgained

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in that game, outperformed them, and they lost

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02:03:15,120 --> 02:03:21,000
Speaker 1: a game sixteen to ten. So that was tough to take.

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02:03:21,040 --> 02:03:27,000
Speaker 1: And Josh, to his credit, improved his giveaway problems that

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02:03:27,080 --> 02:03:29,440
Speaker 1: were plaguing him because he had four giveaways in that

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02:03:29,520 --> 02:03:32,600
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots, four turnovers. So I think he's

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02:03:32,640 --> 02:03:36,120
Speaker 1: cleaned that up to a great degree. I think his

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02:03:36,160 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 1: accuracy is significantly better than was witnessed in those games.

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02:03:40,800 --> 02:03:43,080
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that Belichick isn't going to be

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02:03:43,120 --> 02:03:44,960
Speaker 1: able to draw something up in the passing game that's

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02:03:44,960 --> 02:03:46,720
Speaker 1: going to be able to confuse him. I think he

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02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 1: may cross him up on a few occasions. But that

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02:03:50,160 --> 02:03:52,960
Speaker 1: all being said, I think this Bill's offense has taken

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02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:55,760
Speaker 1: a noticeable step forward to the point where I do

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Speaker 1: think they're going to be able to string plays together,

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Speaker 1: stay on the field, stay on schedule in terms of

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02:04:00,520 --> 02:04:04,080
Speaker 1: down and distance, and if they can demonstrate and take

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02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:08,320
Speaker 1: another step in terms of running the football, which I

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02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:10,040
Speaker 1: thought they did last week. I thought they took a

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02:04:10,080 --> 02:04:13,080
Speaker 1: small step, but a step nonetheless, So I believe that

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Speaker 1: if they can take another small step this week, and

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Speaker 1: maybe the addition of Feliciano helps in that regard that

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Speaker 1: they can be a little bit more balanced and a

2457
02:04:20,360 --> 02:04:23,920
Speaker 1: little bit tougher to predict defensively, because this is a

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Speaker 1: team through the first seven games is still throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball more than sixty one and a half percent of

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02:04:28,280 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: the time. So if they can run it a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, I think it makes for a better fortune

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Speaker 1: at the end in terms of being ahead on the scoreboard. Now,

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Speaker 1: I did pull up the nine three game between the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the Panthers, coach McDermott's first year as head coach,

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Speaker 1: second game as head coach. This game was down in Carolina,

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Speaker 1: and here was Cam Newton's stat line for that game.

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Speaker 1: Five rushes for twenty seven yards with a long of

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Speaker 1: fifteen twenty of thirty two passing for two hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty eight yards. He was sacked six times by the Bills.

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Speaker 1: So that was, you know, twenty seventeen. We're talking years

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Speaker 1: in the rear view mirror here, and I think we'd

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Speaker 1: all agree if you've paid any attention to Cam Newton

2473
02:05:19,680 --> 02:05:22,520
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, he has not been the same guy,

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Speaker 1: which is why the questions are surfacing up there. But

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Speaker 1: as far as some of the other numbers. On third down,

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Speaker 1: the Panthers were seven for sixteen. That's not bad forty

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Speaker 1: four percent conversion and then yards gain per pass play

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02:05:38,680 --> 02:05:41,080
Speaker 1: four point seven yards. So the Bills did a good

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02:05:41,120 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 1: job of keeping Cam newtonham did in in terms of

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02:05:43,520 --> 02:05:45,800
Speaker 1: the passing game. And in the red zone, obviously they

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02:05:45,840 --> 02:05:48,040
Speaker 1: went over. They did not have a touchdown. They went

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Speaker 1: over three in the red zone even though the Panthers

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02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:55,200
Speaker 1: had the ball almost thirty nine minutes in that game.

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02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:58,640
Speaker 1: So if they can duplicate that kind of performance, the

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02:05:58,680 --> 02:06:01,960
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win the football game. I'm not convinced

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02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:04,480
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, but it could if the Bills

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02:06:04,560 --> 02:06:09,480
Speaker 1: carry the second half momentum against the Jets defensively into

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02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:13,040
Speaker 1: this game this week against the Patriots. Let's go back

2489
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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet and from Nick, he says, my

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02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: I believe the greatest danger is Bill Belichick with Oh,

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02:06:20,560 --> 02:06:22,480
Speaker 1: this isn't a concern based on what he's written here.

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02:06:22,680 --> 02:06:26,160
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick with no Brady equals mediocre coach. I'm gonna

2493
02:06:26,240 --> 02:06:29,560
Speaker 1: laugh when New England is picking top ten in the draft.

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02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:32,920
Speaker 1: That's from Nick. All right, well, Nick's pretty confident. Good

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02:06:32,920 --> 02:06:35,120
Speaker 1: on you for being that confident. And as we heard

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Speaker 1: Trey Wingo say in the first hour of the program,

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02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:41,360
Speaker 1: the Bills are the better team on paper. They are

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02:06:41,480 --> 02:06:47,960
Speaker 1: unquestionably the more talented team here. But the Patriots history

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02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:52,080
Speaker 1: under Belichick has been playing mistake free football, or at

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02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:55,240
Speaker 1: least they minimize their mistakes. They rely on the other

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02:06:55,320 --> 02:06:58,880
Speaker 1: team to make unforced errors or just errors in general,

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02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:01,560
Speaker 1: and then they pound on those. I think the difference

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02:07:01,600 --> 02:07:04,680
Speaker 1: here is I don't know if they can make you

2504
02:07:04,800 --> 02:07:07,440
Speaker 1: pay for your mistakes in the same way that they

2505
02:07:07,480 --> 02:07:10,080
Speaker 1: have in the past, and that might be part of

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02:07:10,080 --> 02:07:13,000
Speaker 1: the reason why this team is two and four and

2507
02:07:13,200 --> 02:07:16,280
Speaker 1: looking up at everybody in the division except the Jets,

2508
02:07:16,960 --> 02:07:19,160
Speaker 1: than being the other way around with a four and

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Speaker 1: two or even a five and two record. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to even say that the Patriots, if they lose this week,

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Speaker 1: could be two and five. But those are the facts.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for those contributions on the tweet sheet. I

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Speaker 1: think we have a couple more here that we're going

2514
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Speaker 1: to get to from Pat pat says the greatest danger

2515
02:07:37,240 --> 02:07:39,000
Speaker 1: here is beating ourselves. That was the point I was

2516
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:42,600
Speaker 1: just making getting out of character and making mistakes, penalties, turnovers,

2517
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:45,240
Speaker 1: and frustration. We didn't see that in the first four games.

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02:07:45,600 --> 02:07:48,280
Speaker 1: Josh needs to control the game like Jim Kelly used to.

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02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:50,960
Speaker 1: I think Josh has done a pretty good job of

2520
02:07:51,040 --> 02:07:54,560
Speaker 1: controlling the tempo and tenor of games from an offensive perspective.

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02:07:54,960 --> 02:07:56,800
Speaker 1: The problem was there was no way to do that

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02:07:56,880 --> 02:08:00,440
Speaker 1: from a deep defensive perspective. It seemed against the Titans,

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Speaker 1: where you know, the defense was handed short fields, it

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Speaker 1: really wasn't a fair fight. And then in the Chiefs game,

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Speaker 1: they just could not get off the field on third

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Speaker 1: down because they were giving up so many yards in

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Speaker 1: the run game. Last week they did a much better

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Speaker 1: job of getting off the field on third down. I

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Speaker 1: think the Jets were three of eleven or something on

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Speaker 1: a third down and they didn't have a conversion in

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Speaker 1: the second half. So, you know, if they can do

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Speaker 1: that and play a little more mistake free. Probably still

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Speaker 1: too many penalties last week ten for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: six yards, which is more than they've had since I

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02:08:34,040 --> 02:08:36,600
Speaker 1: think Week twelve was the last time they had double

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Speaker 1: digit penalties, So they've got to get that cleaned up

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Speaker 1: for sure, because if you have ten penalties and over

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Speaker 1: one hundred penalty yards, it affects field position, and it

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02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:49,120
Speaker 1: affects the number of possessions you have because it's a

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Speaker 1: drive killer faster than just about anything but a turnover.

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Speaker 1: So thank you Pad for that. And then from David,

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Speaker 1: he says, easily, the Patriots run game is scary. The

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Speaker 1: Bills have been suspect against the run, and now they

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02:09:03,400 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 1: are facing a desperate football team that needs a win

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02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:09,360
Speaker 1: to get going. So his choice is the run game.

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Speaker 1: And as we look at the Twitter poll for our

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Speaker 1: MSG viewers, it's led the way in the voting since

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Speaker 1: we began the poll almost three hours ago. Forty one

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02:09:20,360 --> 02:09:24,280
Speaker 1: point six percent say the greatest danger when the Bills

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02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:27,000
Speaker 1: host the Patriots is their run game ability. And I

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02:09:27,040 --> 02:09:29,120
Speaker 1: get it. I mean fourth in the league and rushing

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02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:31,760
Speaker 1: and that's with a couple of down weeks these past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks against the forty nine ers and against

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. But early in the season they were

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02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:41,720
Speaker 1: running it like nobody's business. And even despite those last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks where they have been down in terms

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Speaker 1: of rushing production, they're still averaging one hundred and fifty

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02:09:47,280 --> 02:09:49,840
Speaker 1: five yards on the ground. The thing that attracts me

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02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:53,040
Speaker 1: is the Patriots run defense is allowing over one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty two yards a game on the ground. That's

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Speaker 1: where I think the Bills can really make some hay

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02:09:58,960 --> 02:10:01,720
Speaker 1: this week and take their running game to another level.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we have to take a break, but when

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Speaker 1: we come back, it's time for what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: We will get to that when we return. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live Pretended presented by Kalid to Health is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio time for What Have We Learned? Brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Had a full slate of guests

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Speaker 1: on the show today and in the second hour of

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02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:43,760
Speaker 1: the program, we had Charles Davis, who will be calling

2572
02:10:43,800 --> 02:10:48,520
Speaker 1: the game with Ian Eagle and Evan Washburn on CBS

2573
02:10:48,600 --> 02:10:52,360
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and he talked about this matchup, you know,

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02:10:52,640 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 1: the many layers of it, of course, but he addressed

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02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:58,400
Speaker 1: the perception of the Patriots and how it is different

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Speaker 1: this season. In this case, it feels different, it looks different.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I still remember talking with

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Speaker 1: Brandon being the GM of Buffalo preseason. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: everyone's picking us. I get all of that. We think

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Speaker 1: that we're building towards that, but we are o and

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02:11:18,240 --> 02:11:21,880
Speaker 1: six in this regime against New England, and until you

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02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:27,000
Speaker 1: get it done, nothing matters, nothing counts. Sunday is a big,

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Speaker 1: big game for Buffalo, and it's very strange, as you said,

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Speaker 1: because now the pressure is actually on them, like everyone

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02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:36,480
Speaker 1: expects them to win this game. And that's a whole

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02:11:36,480 --> 02:11:39,160
Speaker 1: different ballgame when you go into something like that because

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Speaker 1: you're still dealing with New England and you're still leary. Yeah,

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02:11:42,720 --> 02:11:46,960
Speaker 1: still very leary. But hey, the Bills are the better

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Speaker 1: team on paper, and so while they might be the

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02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:54,400
Speaker 1: better team on paper, you gotta beat the best to

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Speaker 1: be the best, and the Patriots have been the best

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02:11:56,760 --> 02:11:58,920
Speaker 1: in the AFC East. So I don't think the Bills

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02:11:58,920 --> 02:12:03,320
Speaker 1: feel any pressure what's soever playing this Patriots team on

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Speaker 1: Sunday like they're the ones that are expected to win.

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Speaker 1: We also had Trey Wingo on the show, NFL studio

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Speaker 1: host who was nice enough to join us for the

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Speaker 1: entire first hour of today's program, and he addressed our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, which was what you feel the greatest

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Speaker 1: danger is going into this game with the Patriots, you're

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Speaker 1: the better team. I mean, I know it's so hard

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Speaker 1: to drive in, but you guys are the better team.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think it's close. It's not close if

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Speaker 1: you go up and down the roster, like who's the

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02:12:34,800 --> 02:12:39,240
Speaker 1: better quarterback, who has the better receivers? I mean, are

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Speaker 1: those are things that you cannot argue. You cannot argue

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Speaker 1: these things. Now we're getting Patriot traumatic stress syndome. I

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02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:50,520
Speaker 1: get it, But they are the better team. I cannot

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02:12:50,600 --> 02:12:53,920
Speaker 1: drill that into these people's heads enough. And I think

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Speaker 1: the players know this, even though you know they obviously

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Speaker 1: you are not throwed with the way they played against

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Speaker 1: the Jets, but I think they know they're the better team.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to convince the Bills mafia, you guys

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Speaker 1: are the better team. They are the better team on paper.

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Speaker 1: But you know, as we heard even Brandon Bean and

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott addressing the media today, was not going to

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Speaker 1: bite on that either. He's not trying to provide any

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Speaker 1: bulletin board material to the Patriots number one and I

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Speaker 1: think number two, that's the message he wants to convey

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Speaker 1: to his own football team. He does not want this

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Speaker 1: team thinking they've arrived before they arrived. He wants them

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Speaker 1: to prove it on the field and then people can

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Speaker 1: talk and all of that stuff. It's just like Dennis

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Speaker 1: Green said, you want to crown him, crown him. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to crown anybody prematurely. And there's still a

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Speaker 1: lot of football to play with another seven games after

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Speaker 1: the one this week, or another eight games. My thanks

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Speaker 1: to George Blasts, Jeff Colton, Act, Tom Hollander, and Jay

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Speaker 1: Harris for putting this one together with me. Steve's back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then here on One Bill's Live