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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Betty from Depew And I get it.

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Speaker 1: She's I'll say this if if in the first round,

429
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Speaker 1: when you get down to the Bills, there they I

430
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: don't think Naji Harris was available to Pittsburgh at twenty

431
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: four and we picked twenty seven or twenties. And I

432
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Speaker 1: believe the Jaguars took um Aten prior to the Bills

433
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Speaker 1: pick as well. And listen, I totally get it, Betty.

434
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: You're right. Great running backs make a big difference when

435
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Speaker 1: you can get them. There's not very many of them,

436
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: um and I and I said in the in the

437
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: off season, I thought it was more about the offensive

438
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: line not being able to block well enough than it

439
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: was about Devin Singletary and Zach Moss. But I'll say this,

440
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: if we had Dre Henry, I would feel differently. If

441
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 1: we had you know, uh Taylor, I would feel differently

442
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: if we had two of the biggest studs in the league.

443
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: And there's other guys around the league too. Uh. The

444
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: guy we're gonna see this weekend, he's a really good one. Um.

445
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: The guy in Cincinnati Mixon is a very effective running back. Um. So, yes,

446
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: anybody in San Francisco. But I'll say this too, what

447
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: happens if if you get a guy like well, even

448
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, although you know now that he signed the

449
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: big contract, he's played ten games in two years, not

450
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Speaker 1: even three. Um, se Quon Barkley, who was a generational

451
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: talent for the New York Giants, that's not enough. Hasn't worked,

452
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: He's had injuries, offensive line hasn't been good, his production

453
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Speaker 1: after year one. It's hard to find that guy, and

454
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: that and and it's and it's the Saquon Barkleys of

455
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: the world that make gms like Brandon Bean think twice

456
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Speaker 1: about making an investment in a position group that is

457
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: the most punishing position to play in this entire league,

458
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: not to mention the fact that even if you do

459
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: hit on a running back in round one, you're gonna

460
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: have to pay them more if you like them and

461
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 1: want to hold on to them, either by version, by

462
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: way of a fifty year option, or with a monster

463
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: second contract, which many times gms want to avoid. It's

464
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: a waste. Look at Zeke Elliott. Yep, Um, here's the thing,

465
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: and I get it. She's right, And that's this is

466
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: this is a whole this is opens up a whole

467
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Speaker 1: new conversation. But here here think about this. It would

468
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: you would be better to hit on a running back

469
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: like sae Quon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor. All that

470
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: get it to the point where that guy is the guy.

471
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: He's awesome, He's run and then say thank you. Run

472
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: him into the ground his whole rookie contract him through,

473
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: run him for the five years of his rookie first

474
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: round deal, make him a free agent, let him make

475
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: his money because that's gonna be it, and then find

476
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: another one and find another one. But that's and even

477
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just he may look he may have

478
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: lots of time left on him, a lot of years

479
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: on his chassis. But I'm telling you that's so. That's

480
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. A first round, top pick of

481
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Speaker 1: the draft that is going to be effective for the

482
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: first four, three or four or five years of his career,

483
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have to say goodbye to what

484
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: may be a superstar. Yeah, that's the best. That's hard

485
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 1: to do. You don't want to get backed into a

486
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: corner work because those big, long story short, those big

487
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: second contracts for running backs usually are the quintessential example

488
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: of diminishing returns. You pay a ton of money, You

489
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: pay the guy a ton of money for what he

490
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Speaker 1: did mainly in the past. You hope he can continue

491
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: to do it. But in actuality, more often than not,

492
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: on their second contracts, they're productive for a season or

493
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: two and then their production falls off a cliff. It's

494
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: just the wear and tear in nature of the position.

495
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: There are exceptions, there are freaks out there like Adrian

496
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: Peterson and others who have performed very very very well

497
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 1: at the highest level of the game after age twenty eight,

498
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: But the vast majority and the analytics will tell you this,

499
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: the vast majority of running backs after age twenty eight

500
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: fall off a cliff's But that's got to be your

501
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: philosophy there. But all Betty is thinking about is boy,

502
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: a stud running back would do a world of difference

503
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: for this offense. She's right. But the reason we're not

504
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: talking about it, Betty, is because it's not really something

505
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: they can effectively address at this point in the season.

506
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: The trade deadline past, they're not drafting anybody anytime soon,

507
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: and you go out on the street and there's not

508
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: a lot to choose from. That really makes you think, oh,

509
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: this guy is going to tilt the balance for us.

510
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: We let's sign him right away. Again, him in here

511
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: and go that's right. It's just not feasible at this point.

512
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: There's nobody. Yeah, you can't get one out of college

513
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: this month or for the next couple of weeks. And

514
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: you know, so, Betty, you should call us back in

515
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: March or April, right before the draft. Absolutely, we'll put

516
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: you back on. You can give us that seth Brandon

517
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: being just so you know. Yeah, and it's not Brian

518
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: Bean either. He said that a couple of times, but

519
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: that's okay. It was a good There was a passionate

520
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: call and that's where we want Eddie. We are going

521
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: to take a break here, but more are your phone

522
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: calls after the break, So Laura in Lockport, Cody in

523
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Jay and Buffalo Mike and Georgia Hank Tight.

524
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Speaker 1: We'll get to you guys in the next segment coming

525
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Speaker 1: up here on One Bill's Line, presented by Colloid to Health.

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00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

527
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and asking you today on the

528
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: Twitter conversation. It's the best way for the Bill's offense

529
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: to get back on track. We know you have opinions

530
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: on it. We're going to get right to them now.

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Speaker 1: As we go back to the phones and Laura in

532
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Speaker 1: Lockport leads us off. What do you have for us? Laura, Hi,

533
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: how are you guys? Good? Um I'm just happy to

534
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: talk to be able to talk to Steve. Taffy is

535
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: one of the best ones we ever here. You go. Thanks. Well.

536
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: My my thing is um uh I know that you know,

537
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: we all know we have the talent that we have

538
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: and um I says, I have a lot of faith

539
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: in those guys. And the coaches, and I think and

540
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: they and the you know, the players have their faith

541
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: and their and the coaches that they have, so I

542
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: think together, um, you know, I think things are going

543
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: to work as themselves out right. That's certainly the hope.

544
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: I think what worries fans. You know, you've got a

545
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: lot more faith than a lot of other fans right now.

546
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: But what worries the other fans is the fact that

547
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: over the last eight games, Laura, they've traded for losses

548
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: every week, and they want to see the consistency to

549
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: kind of restore their faith. But you think they're gonna

550
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: be okay, Yeah, I think so. And I just wanted

551
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: to say my brother and I were um, big fans

552
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: of going to the games, and he passed away a

553
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: few years ago, and so I just wanted to say

554
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: that he's looking down and hoping for the best too.

555
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: Well talent to put a good word into Saint Peter

556
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: and some other people that could pull some strings for us. Yes,

557
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Aora, We appreciate it. Eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty one eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty We go to Mike and Georgia, who's been

560
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: holding the longest. Next, Mike, what do you have for us?

561
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Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live Heny gentlemen, did the taught

562
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: to you again? It's been a little over a year.

563
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: I love listening to you guys. And see about a

564
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: big fan of yours. I'm a push up guy. I

565
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: called you a challenge you to push up cantus about

566
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: a euro ago, remember you from just something about pull

567
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,239
Speaker 1: ups with a beer or something like that. Anyhow, now

568
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of or is it because I'm

569
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm sixty two, I'm five nine, one hundred and eighty

570
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: five pounds. I'm about your size. And I always admired

571
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: your heart, I mean your ability on the field, but

572
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: also your heart and your desire. And if all the

573
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: Bill's players play with your heart and your desire that

574
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: you played with, this team's gonna win out. Okay, So

575
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: that's that's number one. You know, have the heart of

576
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: desire like Steve Tasker. There you go, amen, brother, go ahead, yeah,

577
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: amens right, because lords first every day. So the on offense.

578
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm looking at, Antonio Williams, And I'm really confused.

579
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: The guy played one time last year at the end

580
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: of the year. I think against Miami he had had

581
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: a really good game. He looks pretty tough. I would

582
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: not mind substituting for Zack moss um, you know, And

583
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: also talking about Bill Belichick, the genius. He is a

584
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: great coach, no question. But he didn't cause Zach moss

585
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: to make the wrong decision when there was what they're

586
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: in the six yard line he went into the pilo

587
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: instead of going to the left and bouncing off and

588
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: walking in for a touchdown. H you know, and other

589
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: things that happened during that game to drop passes that

590
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: wasn't you know. I don't think Belichick caused to win

591
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: to Gus too Um at miss Field though, so but

592
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: but I think that that's a big thing. And I

593
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,479
Speaker 1: think Gabriel Davis warned the game. And I even think

594
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero, you know, you've got the height, You've got,

595
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, players with great heart, and I'd like to

596
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,239
Speaker 1: see those two guys more involved in the offense. And

597
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about that? And what do

598
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: you think about Antonio Williams giving him a shot? Yeah,

599
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not you know, I'm not opposed to it. Yes,

600
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: he had a very good week seventeen performance. I think

601
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: Steve would be the first to tell you that. It's

602
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: in the second half of a game that was already gone.

603
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: The Dolphins were warming up the bus by the third quarter.

604
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: They knew they weren't going to win that game. I'm

605
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: not saying they laid down, but the game had already

606
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: been largely decided. Human nature might make you play a

607
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: little bit differently at that point in time. I think

608
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: Williams has something to offer. I will say this, you

609
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: put him on the active roster, or you do a

610
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: practice squad call up for a week or two and

611
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: you want to kick the tires and see what he

612
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: can give you. I'm not opposed to that. And if

613
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: you do that, he would be the biggest back on

614
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: your active roster. He goes five eleven two fifteen. That

615
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: makes him ten pounds heavier than Zach Moss and it

616
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: makes certainly makes them bigger than Singletary and Britas. So

617
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: if you feel you need that, you like his explosiveness,

618
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: you feel he's a more decisive runner. They watch him

619
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: every day in practice. If you genuinely believe he can

620
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: make a difference, sure kick the tires. You got two

621
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: free practice squad call ups every year without even exposing

622
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: him to waivers. So you want to do that, do it? Yes?

623
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Speaker 1: I saw what you saw last year Week seventeen when

624
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: he ran rough shot and ran angry, ran physical downhill,

625
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: busting tackles, running with running with some anger. It was

626
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: It was fun to see. But that's all any of

627
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: us have seen of Antonio Williams. So the coaching staff

628
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: sees him every day, literally every day, And there's got

629
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: to be a reason why Antonio Williams is not in

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Speaker 1: the line of particularly given the willingness of the coaching

631
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: obvious willingness to try a new thing, try new guys.

632
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: I mean that Matt Brita was on the bench for

633
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: six or seven weeks, all of a sudden, he's a

634
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: weekly active now, Zach Moss has gone from getting the

635
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: most opportunities in a game to being deactivated. So the

636
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: next and then this last Monday night, all four guys

637
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: were active, including Taiwan Jones. All three of the other

638
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: guys were acting Brita, mosson singletary. So they are very

639
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Speaker 1: willing to try new people in new faces. It will

640
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: be interesting to see or it might be revealing to

641
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: know why Antonio Williams has not been included as of yet.

642
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he can't be at any moment. But

643
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: you're not the first person, you know, Mike, You're not

644
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: the first person who said, Okay, let's try somebody else.

645
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: And Mike Antonio Williams is the guy they point to

646
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: as because he's the next guy in. And I've also heard,

647
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: of course, Christian Wade is still out there, so right,

648
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: but I think he's on IR Yes, So yeah, I'm

649
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: with you, and this coaching staff has proven their willingness

650
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: to do that. Since they have not as of yet,

651
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm willing to think there's pretty good reason as to why. Yeah,

652
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones. We go to Jay

653
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Jay, what do you have for us? You're

654
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. This is Judy from Buffalo. Oh

655
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: it's Judy. Okay, well, I apologize, it's Jay on my screen, Judy,

656
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: But what do you have for us? I'm going to

657
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: treat this game as the Bill's Super Bowl game. One

658
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: way or another. This may be the closest they come

659
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: and the showing that they really are the team that

660
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: everybody at the beginning of the year thought they were

661
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: that they had the talent to be a Super Bowl contender,

662
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: because certainly along the way they haven't shown it. I

663
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: still have not recovered the nine to sixth game against

664
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. No serious contender should put themselves in that position.

665
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: But anyway, Sunday is my super Bowl game. Yeah, and

666
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: say this, Judy, and we've we've been making this and

667
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been listening, but we've made

668
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: this point. I want us hear what you think about it?

669
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: Are you're still there? Ye? Still? Okay? What do you

670
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: think about a team like every team that we were

671
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: talking about in the in the AFC, the conference the

672
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: Bills are in, and like the team they're playing on Sunday,

673
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: that team was seven and five a year ago, just

674
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: like the Bills are seven and five right now. The

675
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: tam streak in November, and they had a three game

676
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: losing streak in November, and all the other teams in

677
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: the AFC seem to have gone through at least stretches,

678
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: not just single games, but long stretches like a month

679
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: of when they didn't play very well. Chiefs lost four

680
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: in her own So what do you think about the

681
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: Bills in that context? And about you know this game

682
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: being the all important barometer. Well, I think if the

683
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: Bills could go five zero, then I agree with that

684
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: that points as you're making. But I see that the

685
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: Bills could flounder and go three two, which that best

686
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: puts them in the category of being almost an as

687
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: also ran Yeah and that, and I think that's why

688
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: everybody's faith is a little bit shaken, Judy, And thanks

689
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: for the call um. It's been up and down for

690
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: the last two months, the last eight games. They have

691
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: alternated wins for losses each and every week, and it's

692
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: hard for fans. I mean, they're not going to stop

693
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: rooting for the Bills, but it's hard for them to

694
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: feel confident about what they're going to see on the

695
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: field every week when you're when you're up one week

696
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: and down the next, and up one week and down

697
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: the next. It's a yo yo effect that I think

698
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: Bills fans want to get off, like, let me get

699
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: off and take a breath here with this up and

700
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: down nature of this team's play on the field, and

701
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the same side of the ball every

702
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: week that's causing the problems. Everybody seems to be taken

703
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: turns special teams has cost this team games. Offense has

704
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: cost this team games. Defense has cost this team games.

705
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: Everybody's taken a swing at it right, and that has

706
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: contributed to the to the overriding inconsistency that has been

707
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: win loss, win loss, win loss win lost the last

708
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: eight weeks. Yeah, and that's been that's been the most

709
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: disconcerting thing, even the loss to the Jaguars. If it

710
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: had just been that one and they'd and they'd have

711
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: come back and run through and won these other games,

712
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: it would have been Okay. You know, it's an aberration,

713
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: it's an anomal much like much like the Tennessee Titans

714
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: are looking at the Jet game the same way, you know,

715
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: and there are other teams who have done this's hack,

716
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: same thing. Drop dropped a game to those guys Minnesota

717
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: sitting there looking back at this last weekend and thinking

718
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: what are we doing? They lost three games on the

719
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: final play at the gun this year, Minnesota, the third

720
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Speaker 1: one being to the O tenant one Lions, who are

721
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: now one ten and one. Yes, um, yeah, it's a

722
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: rough week. And the memes coming out of Minnesota are

723
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: much like the ones coming out of Buffalo a little bit,

724
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: a little bit more pronounced in Minnesota because they I mean,

725
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: they're thinking about detonating the entire organization starting from scratch.

726
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: And more importantly, they have ground to make up right now.

727
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: The Bills are still in a playoff position. They have

728
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: some ground to make up too, and we're gonna have this.

729
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: This will I'll just I'm I'm using my sixth sense

730
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: here because I feel it coming down the road. We

731
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: got here, we're gonna have We're gonna have. The Twitter

732
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: question of the day is gonna be all right, so

733
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs. How likely is it the Bills

734
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: to get it all together and win four straight? Three straight? Whatever?

735
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: How how are you feeling now? Because it'll depend on

736
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: how the regular this next five games go. They go like,

737
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, like Judy said, five and oh, it's like

738
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be going, Ah, that's us, let's do

739
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: it right. If you go, if you win, win, win, win, win,

740
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: and then lose that last one, it's like, ah, it's

741
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: just the Jets. We still win. We're in. Let's go,

742
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, or you know, it depends on how that

743
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: this next five games go as to how confident any

744
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: of us are gonna be going in the playoffs, and

745
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: then it's gonna be like, oh, you know what we

746
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: got matched up with with Cleveland, we might make Yeah,

747
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: we got a chance at those you know what I mean,

748
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield beating John I don't think it's gonna happen,

749
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: or you know, you take your pick, right, Yeah, let's

750
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: take another swing at Tennessee in Buffalo this time that

751
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: could have you know, all that stuff could happen. So

752
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: how this thing shakes out is looking down the line. Now,

753
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: certainly the Bills have got to get in first and foremost.

754
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: But that's where we're gonna be. Yeah, we're gonna be

755
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: doing a big reset. And once that happens, I have

756
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: I've said it from the beginning. The Bills have got

757
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: some horses. If this is a horse race, they got secretariat.

758
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: Secretariat you think, yeah, oh yeah, Josh is thirty three

759
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: and a third lengths better than the next best quarterback. Yeah, okay,

760
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: I don't know he's a triple Crown winner anyone. I'm

761
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: not just saying about Josh. I'm saying about top to

762
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: bottom of the roster. They got the guys. They've got

763
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: the guys. That's Okay, they got it. They know if

764
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm willing to go secretary, they're riding the best all right,

765
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: American Pharaoh. Yeah, you want to give me a triple

766
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: crown winner whose races we're a little closer, I'll I'm

767
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm there with you. They're riding the best horse. But

768
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: best horse you know, hasn't been really you know, running

769
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: all that convincing me. That's that's what we're gonna be

770
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: looking at. All right, But as of now, with the

771
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: with standings that you just saw on the screen right there,

772
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Now you gotta get in. You gotta

773
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: get in. Cody in Kansas City will lead us off. Next.

774
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: Bob and Amhurst, Mark and West Seneca hang type. We'll

775
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: try to get all three in next. Here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

777
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,200
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778
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779
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's gonna jump right back on the phones here,

780
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: and Cody in kc joins us. What do you have

781
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: for us? Cody? Well, what I want to know is

782
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: how could anyone not be confident in the Bills because

783
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: we literally won at Kansas City and against Tennessee in

784
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: New England. We were right there. I mean, technically, to me,

785
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: we should have won both those games. And those three

786
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: are like three of the top dogs in the AFC.

787
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we're literally that close. I mean, that's pretty

788
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: much all you can ask for. And as long as

789
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: we get in the playoffs, it might even be a

790
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: better thing that we do play on the road, because

791
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: maybe the weather won't be horrible playing on the road

792
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: other than in Buffalo. Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss that as

793
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: a great sense. And then what I can't understand is

794
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: why didn't we use Stevenson like at all. I mean,

795
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: to me, you could have put him in the backfield.

796
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: You could have done it toss sweep with him. I

797
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: can't really remember us doing any kind of sweeps, you know,

798
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. Everything to me seemed like we just

799
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 1: handed it off up the middle, right, and I think

800
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: that was compromised once Brita effectively got bench following his fumble.

801
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: You want to run toss sweeps, you're doing it with

802
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: Matt Brita, who's got the speed to get to the edge.

803
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: Moss and Singletary do not so once Brita was essentially

804
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: bench following the fumble. You know, he did come back

805
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 1: in the game briefly, but was rarely heard from again

806
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and I think it eliminated

807
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: that as an option in the run game. Yeah, I'm

808
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Um, I'm with you, Cody, I'm I

809
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: still have a lot of faith in these guys, a

810
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: lot of it. I think they're you know, I'm I'm

811
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: anxious for them to get into the play, no question. Um.

812
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: A loss like that to the to the Patriots puts

813
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: the division title in jeopardy, and that gives you pause.

814
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: And because now you're looking at a wild card that

815
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: is in a crowded field, and that's you know, that

816
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: gives me pause. But I do have a lot of

817
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: faith in this team, Um, I do. I've I think

818
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: they got the talent to win, um, and I think

819
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna put it together. I'm I'm like you too.

820
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit frustrated with the conditions they've been

821
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: had they've been dealt this year. And I don't mean

822
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: injuries and COVID and all the end that stuff. I'm

823
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: talking about weather conditions, horrible weather and for home games

824
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: this year, right and every last one of them. Yes,

825
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: so you can say what you want it. They built

826
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: the team this way around this quarterback. I don't have

827
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: a problem with him doing that. And I know there's

828
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: going to be some people out there that say, how

829
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: can you possibly build a throwing football team when you

830
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: play in Buffalo. I mean, give me a break. They

831
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: built this team to play offense around one of the

832
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league. That's the way they're supposed

833
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: to do it, and that's what they were hoping to

834
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: be able to do when they drafted this guy, and

835
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: lo and behold, it came out just like they wanted it.

836
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: So I'll live with a tough stretch where they don't

837
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: get to spread their wings offensively because of forty mile

838
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: an hour winds in a snowstorm or a rain delay

839
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: in Kansas City or a windstorm against Washington. I get

840
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: all of that. I'll just I'll be patient because I

841
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: know sooner or later this talent's going to get a

842
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: chance to show itself, and it will. I got I

843
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: have confidence in that. I'm with you, Cody. Let's go

844
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: to Bob and Amherst. Next, Bob, what do you have

845
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: for us? You're on one Bills live they I'm totally

846
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: on board with you. Steve. You know you can't be

847
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: You're a Bill san. You have to believe that they're

848
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: gonna turn it around. This game was an anomaly, this

849
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: New England game. Do you know the last time I

850
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys talked about it, but the

851
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: last time that a game had two completions in a game?

852
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: Did you guys talk about that at all? It was

853
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: like four and Joe Namath was a quarterback. I think

854
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: that's right, You're right, and he completed two passes and

855
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: Joe Ferguson didn't complete one. That it was nineteen seventy

856
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: four and it was in Buffalo, and it was under

857
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: the same conditions. The only difference was it was in

858
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: September and it was a little bit warmer. But that

859
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: you know in in the Bills won that game because

860
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: they had O. J. Simpson and Jim Braxton and they

861
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: ran the ball right down the throats. They didn't have

862
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: to throw it. And this game was an anomaly for

863
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: this team because we're a passing team, like you said,

864
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: and I just think that that going forward, you got

865
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: to put this game behind you. Forget it. Let's move

866
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: on Tampa Bay week. Let's go beat Tampa Bay. All right,

867
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: we'll take that to the bank. Bob, thanks very much

868
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: for the call. While you may call it an anomaly

869
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: from a weather perspective, and unquestionably I would I would

870
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: agree with you, the bottom line is this at seven

871
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 1: and five and a super tightly packed AFC, the Bills

872
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: are aut of mulligans. They used one in Jacksonville. They

873
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: used one in this weather game. You can tell me

874
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: yes or no on the Indie game and what you

875
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: can make what you want to that, but that was

876
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: another subpart performance as well. Indie played great in that game.

877
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: Tip your hat to them. They played great. You got

878
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: out played and yeah, so on that Sunday, on that

879
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: Sunday and that day, certainly Indianapolis was the better team.

880
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: They're at a mulligans. They're at mulligan because the deeper

881
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: you get into the season, Now you're the last five

882
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, last third of the season. If

883
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: you don't keep winning, if you don't win and keep winning,

884
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: you're going to start to look at the scoreboards. Guysh

885
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: I hope this team wins, the other team wins, that

886
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna look for help, and that's where you're almost there.

887
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: Now we've all we've all been there, and now certainly

888
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: this is a year where you think, man, we could

889
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: get a lot of help. I mean, you win three

890
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: games in a row, or win three out of the

891
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: four games, three out of the five games, were four

892
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: out of the five games, and all of a sudden,

893
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: you're the one or two seed. I mean, that's how

894
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: this season's going. And there are there are other AFC

895
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: teams that have a lot more conference games to play,

896
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: so there's their situation could go south in a hurry

897
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: if they drop some conference games. The Bill on this

898
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: Bills only have two left, but they're five and five

899
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: in the conference. They got to win those last two

900
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: for sure, and hope that some of these other teams

901
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: knock each other off in the process. We got to

902
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back, we'll

903
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: be joined by a member of the Bucks Radio netwhere

904
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: can a former tight end of the Bills, Dave Moore,

905
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: will be with us in the second hour of the program.

906
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: Coming up next, You're on one Bill's Line, presented by

907
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: Collida Health. It's Buffalo Bills radio at A Steve Tasker

908
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

909
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role players for you.

910
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: Stave of a lily, stave a blimp. We're not even

911
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: in the strated beer of normalcy. All right, welcome to

912
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: our number two here on a Wednesday, Chris Brown, Steve

913
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: Tasker with you as always, Please to be joined now

914
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: by Buccaneers radio color analyst, former fifteen year NFL tight end,

915
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: two of those illustrious seasons. Two, I believe with the Bills.

916
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: Maybe it was three. I'll have to double chewo three

917
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: and four. I think, oh yeah, it was three. Um,

918
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: it's one. Dave Moore joining us on the line. Uh, Dave,

919
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: how you doing? Man? Doing well? Guys that we're doing

920
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 1: We're doing okay. First and foremost, congrats to your Pitt Panthers,

921
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: acc Champs. How about that? About about that? That was

922
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: pretty good? No, it was a big year for him.

923
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: Got a good quarterback. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how

924
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: he does. Coming up here very shortly. That other team

925
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: you cover's got a pretty good quarterback too. I can't

926
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, but he's pretty good. He

927
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: is like gonna be He's he's got the inside track

928
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: to MVP again. It's it's crazy, Um, you know, not

929
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: only is he a good player, it's just the whole

930
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: Tom Brady effect. Um, you know when he came in

931
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: last year, even with the veteran guys. But I know,

932
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, I've played fifteen years, and in my fifteenth year,

933
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: if I had Tom Brady come my team that had

934
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: been to nine Super Bowls at won six, I don't

935
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 1: care what came out of that guy's mouth. I was

936
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: going to listen to. He obviously knows something at the

937
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: level he plays, So as soon as he got here,

938
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 1: from the very first day, they played some sloppie football

939
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: early on, and you'd listened to his press conference, he's like, listen,

940
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: it's going to take some time. He's in a new

941
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: system offense. They're learning him, he's learning what they want.

942
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: He's trying to get chemistry with his receivers and the

943
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: offensive line and everybody. And you know, we watched it

944
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: happen over the course of the year last year, and

945
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the offensive line before Tom Brady got

946
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: here was playing average at best. But now you have

947
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive lineman turning around and looking at

948
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, a forty two year old, forty three year

949
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: old quarterback last year saying, and the best that's ever played,

950
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: I'm going to block a little bit harder for him.

951
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, that offensive line became very

952
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: good at pass balking, and they take care of them,

953
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: and really just the defense as well, knowing that if

954
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: they given the opportunity to have the ball back and

955
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: get that extra possession, Town Brady and company are going

956
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: to do something with it. So him showing up in

957
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: Tampa has really, you know, shifted the mentality of the

958
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: entire organization and of course to Town along with it. Yeah,

959
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: I got to ask you as well last year, and

960
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: we're because we're sitting here writing a little bit of

961
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,479
Speaker 1: a roller coaster with the Bills. They win one week,

962
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 1: they lose, the next week, they win, the next week,

963
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: they lose, the next week. It's been a roller coaster

964
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: of win, loss, win, lost for six or seven weeks.

965
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: This Buccaneers team lost famously lost three straight at one

966
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: point last year where the exact same place the Bills

967
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: are at now seven and five. Before getting together what

968
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: happened and how did they handle that low point of

969
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: the season to get it together to move on to

970
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: the World Championship, because that's exactly what this Buffalo team

971
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,479
Speaker 1: wants to do this year. Yeah. Well, the biggest issue

972
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: with the Bucks last year and even the three losses

973
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: they had this year were really about them. It was

974
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: penalties and it opportune times, not taking advantage of situational

975
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: football when they get turnovers. They weren't scoring turnovers themselves.

976
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: You know, Tom Brady in the games that the Bucks

977
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: didn't win, you know, the communication wasn't great reading the defense.

978
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: He you know, there's some interceptions and some fumbles. But

979
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: the biggest, really defining moment last year, they played the

980
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears on Monday night and the Bucks were in

981
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,439
Speaker 1: field goal range in the third quarter and they had

982
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: three straight penalties are holding, a personal foul and at

983
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: off sides, and it backed them out of field goal

984
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: range and ultimately they lost the game by one. But

985
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady went off on the sideline and was screaming

986
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: at hollering and then Bruce Arians and that, you know,

987
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: basically it came to a head in the locker room

988
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: of consistent mistakes, penalties at bad times, the turnovers, the

989
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: attention to detail, and they all kind of from that

990
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: point forward. It came out the next week and the

991
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: first time in franchise history, they had no penalties in

992
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: the game at all the following week, and from that

993
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: point forward, they just started playing a little bit better

994
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:24,399
Speaker 1: every week into the second half of the season, and

995
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: I want to finish winning the last eight games, which

996
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: includes the playoffs. So it was that defining moment that

997
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: they were like, if we're gonna have a chance of

998
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: doing anything we want to do, we got to correct

999
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: the things that are about us that are correctable. We

1000
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: can't control what the other team's doing, but we got

1001
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: to make sure we're doing our part right and playing

1002
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: a lot more clean football rather than the useless mistakes, Dave.

1003
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: I know it was a late arrival last year, but

1004
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: this year it appears as though they have found a

1005
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: way to incorporate Leonard Fournette into a bigger role within

1006
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: the scope of the offense, and he has really emerged

1007
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: as a dual threat that I don't know that most

1008
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: people around the league thought he was capable of. Can

1009
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: you just speak to how Fournette has kind of taken

1010
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: on a very prominent role in the scope of this offense. Yeah,

1011
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 1: and really to his credit, you know, he was never

1012
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: a guy that was a big touch the ball out

1013
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: of the backfield guy. He was the four course you

1014
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: know of that downhill run game traditionally, and when he

1015
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 1: got here, he didn't catch the ball particularly well. He

1016
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: would obviously come in him late. He wasn't really to

1017
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: to all of the responsibilities and protection, so you're running

1018
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: of football was between him and Ronald Jones. And then

1019
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: last year they had Lashawn McCoy who they used as

1020
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,959
Speaker 1: a third down back and really a passive situation back.

1021
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: And then this year they signed Giovanni Bernard and he

1022
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 1: did it earlier the year. But Fournette, after practice from

1023
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: last year to this year, does kind of a one

1024
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: on one session with Tom Brady and catches a ton

1025
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: of balls and he's really been a key park protection

1026
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 1: as well on third down. But really, to his credit,

1027
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: he's done a tremendous job working himself into that, you know,

1028
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: three down role rather than just rundowns. And he's picked

1029
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: it up. And you know, he was an NFC Offensive

1030
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: Player of the Week last week because he had one

1031
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty something yards from scrimmage, a hundred yards

1032
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: of Russian and caught seven passes in some key situations.

1033
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: So he's really worked himself into that role. And he's

1034
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: really done so himself because you know, Bruce arians came

1035
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: out and said that, you know, he when he got here,

1036
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready for that role, but he's you know,

1037
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: embraced it and worked his butt off to get it.

1038
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: And as we look at this your offense, Mike Evans,

1039
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, Rob Gronkowski and of course you just mentioned

1040
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournett, Tom Brady certainly has you know, enough guys

1041
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: to expect that somebody's going to be open when he

1042
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: when he drops back to pass. What has been Gronkowski's role?

1043
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: I know he's been in and out of the lineup

1044
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: a little bit, I think with injuries. How has his

1045
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: role changed with you know, with all these other guys

1046
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: around him. Well, he's still by far has the best

1047
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: chemistry with Brady. So when you look that, you know

1048
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,479
Speaker 1: Brady doesn't feel great about trying to force the ball

1049
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: in or get it over the top. He immediately goes

1050
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: to a security blanket and Gronkowski and he's so big

1051
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: and overbearing on pretty much everybody that is in coverage.

1052
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady just throws it and you guys would know

1053
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: better than anybody watching him do it in New England

1054
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: for so many years. But you can have a linebacker

1055
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: on him and Tom Brady will throw it right above

1056
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: the back of the head of the linebacker if he's

1057
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: running away for long to get a dB or safety

1058
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 1: on him one to one, you know, just throw it

1059
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: away from kind of like basketball boxing a guy out

1060
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: making a catch or the extended plays. You know, for

1061
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: some reason, Gronkowski has this chemistry with him that he

1062
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: just finds an open area on a broken route or

1063
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: an elongated play when Brady's getting to his third and

1064
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: fourth read that they always seem to be able to

1065
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: connect very well. And it hurt them really more so

1066
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: than losing Antonio Brown. It hurt the Bucks offensively more

1067
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: losing Gronkowski. And he was originally bought in last year.

1068
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: Really it's kind of a role tight player. He was

1069
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: going to be a situational guy, and they were using

1070
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: OJ Howard for aught of the tight end screens and

1071
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: some of a short intermediate route and then O. J.

1072
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: Howard got hurt, so Brown kind of fell into being

1073
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: that every down guy again, and you know, it's just

1074
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: really invaluable for the Bucks offensive Brady having him out there.

1075
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that consistently makes big plays in

1076
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: the toughest situations like the tight red zone, and you

1077
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: know when a lot of the coverage is double in

1078
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: either Godwin or Mike Evans, which means the middle is

1079
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: open for Bronkowski to work. And they always seem to

1080
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: connect pretty well. Talking with Dave Moore, Bucks radio color analysts,

1081
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: also played for the Bills at tight end as part

1082
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: of his fifteen year career, and Dave, what is to

1083
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: become of this patchwork secondary of the Bucks. We know

1084
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: that they've been beset with injuries for the better part

1085
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: of the last month and a half. We know Richard

1086
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: Sherman still on ir starting to practice, but then coach

1087
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: Aaron says, oh, you might have to get some snaps

1088
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: at safety, which I don't know that anybody's seen him

1089
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: play in a regular season ad, And so we're like, geez,

1090
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: how bad is it in the in the Bucks secondary?

1091
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: Right now? They seem to be getting healthier, But then

1092
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: I saw Dean got a concussion last week, right and

1093
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: Dean actually Fortunately for the Bucks, they got Carlton Davis

1094
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: back from ir last week, so when Dean got hurt.

1095
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: You know, obviously Murphy Bunning is supposed to be the

1096
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: nickel corner in the slot corner, but he wound up

1097
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: starting to season on the outside, and he and Carlton

1098
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: Davis both have not played together since the first quarter

1099
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: of the Dallas game, which was the season opener. So

1100
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: Jamale Deane stepped in to do that. But now you

1101
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: have some guys that are beat up. Jamale Dean's a

1102
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: little beat up. But then you lost Jordan Whitehead at

1103
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: the safety position. He's been a starter along with Winfield.

1104
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: But you also lost Mike Edwards because he was suspended,

1105
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:36,919
Speaker 1: along with Antonio Brown. So they're getting real thin. They're

1106
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 1: getting their corners healthier, but now you've lost two safety

1107
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: So that's where the comment from Bruce Arians comes along,

1108
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: like we might need Sherman to play some safety because

1109
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: we have Andrew Adams and Antoine Winfield junior. But that's it.

1110
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty much they pay. They play cock

1111
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: roll back there. He's a veteran guy that he's really

1112
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: a nickel guy, but they can play some safety. But

1113
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: they're awful thin at that safety position, so if they

1114
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: get another injury, they're going to be you know, doing

1115
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: But to their credit both through the season last year,

1116
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: including the playoffs, and in this year, they pretty much

1117
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: played defense and back by committee. There's a number of

1118
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: guys they rotate through and it's you know, Cob Bowls Is.

1119
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: Defense is really predicated on pressure or being able to

1120
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: play that tight bump and run, and when you don't

1121
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: have your best guys out there, it can become that

1122
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: feast or famine style of defense. So the more of

1123
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: these they get, these starters back, the better this defense

1124
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: is gonna is gonna be. But they're doing it by

1125
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: committee now and have for most of the season. Is

1126
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: their pass rush is good enough to help those guys

1127
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: out enough to you know, get to Josh Allen rush

1128
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: the passer well enough to give those guys a chance

1129
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: in the back end. They've played extremely well up front. Yeah,

1130
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: and they haven't been as consistent as they were at

1131
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: the end of last year. You know, they got five

1132
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: sacks this past weekend, but you know, against Washington, the

1133
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: Washington football team, they weren't able to generate a lot

1134
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: of pressure, and that's really where the defense struggles because

1135
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: if you're a man a man of defense and you

1136
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: give a quarterback time, I don't care who they are,

1137
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: your your receivers are gonna get open unless you know

1138
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: there's pass interference, are holding or whatever else. But these

1139
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get open. So it is built on

1140
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: putting pressure on the quarterback and the Bucks, Blitz and Buffalo.

1141
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: There's a good job of picking them up where Josh

1142
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: is going to have some time, they're gonna get some

1143
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: big plays. But if the Bucks get there and you know,

1144
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: force Josh to hold onto it longer than he needs to, um,

1145
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have opportunities. But really the defense is one

1146
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: or lost for those five guys up front and get

1147
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: after a quarterback. Dave, we appreciate the time. If memory serves.

1148
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 1: You're a big deep sea fisherman guy, and what's the

1149
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: biggest thing you've caught in the last year. I've got

1150
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: a lot of fishing. You the Glida proopers. I think

1151
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: I did it. Oh show wanted to. We catch a

1152
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: lot of those glidaprooper. They're three or four hundred pound

1153
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: bo's and it's a tug of war. So it's an interesting.

1154
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: But we catch tarp and we catch all kinds of

1155
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: big stuff down here. You boats, harpen, how do you

1156
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: get them on the boat? Those things are fierce. Oh yeah,

1157
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: well you gotta wear them out. They tied themselves out.

1158
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: The glidaproopers are harder. But yeah, you know they're they're

1159
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: they're protected. Yeah. So we're the tarping. You're not. You're

1160
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: not keep the carpet anyway, all right, but yeah, we

1161
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: just we just like to catch him. We don't need

1162
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: to keep that's right. Yeah. I'd be happy to have

1163
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: a much longer conversation with you about that at another time.

1164
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: But thank you getting us up to speed on the Bucks, Dave.

1165
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We'll see you down there on Sunday's

1166
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: good guys. All right, that's Dave Moore from the Bucks

1167
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: Radio Network does the color commentary. Uh and former Bill's

1168
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: tight end. He was up here during the Greig Williams

1169
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 1: years and uh, you know, was a serviceable player for

1170
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: them at you know, in the mid thirties. We got

1171
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: to take a break here though, because when we come back,

1172
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: the Man and that will be calling the game on

1173
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: the NFL on CBS. We'll be joining us. It's one

1174
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: Jim Nance coming up next here on One Bill's Live,

1175
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

1176
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

1177
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: and please to be joined now by the man who

1178
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: will be calling the game for the NFL on CBS

1179
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: this weekend in that big old four o'clock window Bills

1180
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: at Bucks. It is Jim Nance joining us here on

1181
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: the show. Jim, thanks for joining us here. We're not

1182
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: going to ask you to play favorites, but I will

1183
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 1: mention we've got a couple of University of Houston players

1184
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: on the roster. I mean Ed Oliver and Marquez Stevenson,

1185
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: So you know, not asking you to play favorites, but

1186
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: just letting you know, well, thanks Chris, You're nice to

1187
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: even take note of that. I've been working on my

1188
01:05:55,880 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: board all day today. I'm ready to get Stephen in

1189
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: a little playing time. He's he is a playmaker at Houston.

1190
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: He did some dynamic things, return three kicks for touchdowns,

1191
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:12,919
Speaker 1: caught twenty two touchdowns. He's a playmaker and we're proud

1192
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: of that. Oliver two for the career that he had

1193
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: at our school, but excited as can be about this game.

1194
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,919
Speaker 1: This was as you know, these schedules are put out

1195
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: back into spring, and CBS is always trying to protect

1196
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: and make sure that it gets certain matchups that it

1197
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: wants to get. We don't get them all, but I

1198
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: can tell you that this one was number one. This

1199
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: was on our number one hit list and we got it.

1200
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: So here it is. We've been waiting for over a

1201
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: half a year for this game. So you, I know,

1202
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: you you do games all over the league, you get

1203
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: all you know, you get all the top flight games

1204
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: CBS has to offer, and you and Tony have seen

1205
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: a lot of what's going on in the conference, and

1206
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 1: it is an absolute horse race, not just for the

1207
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 1: number one seed, but also for just to get in

1208
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: the stay in the playoff tournament. Have you ever seen

1209
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: so many teams so close to being not only in

1210
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but even the one seed up until well

1211
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: up until Monday Night football when the Patriots kind of

1212
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:09,439
Speaker 1: took off and got a game and a half lead

1213
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: on the Bills. But man, oh man, what a race

1214
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: it is in the conference. I've never seen anything like.

1215
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: As Steve and I've been covering the NFL since back

1216
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: in the days when you were playing, since back in

1217
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: the eighties. So it's it's been a fascinating year. A

1218
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: lot of things that are beyond explanations some of the

1219
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: results that came with it. Listen the Jacksonville game down

1220
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: there this year, Baltimore going sideways after a game to Miami,

1221
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: the Jets beating the likes of Cincinnati and Tennessee when

1222
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,440
Speaker 1: they were hot. I mean, you just can't figure it out.

1223
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: And it's got such a long way to go. I

1224
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: know that the Bills mafia right now is thinking, wow,

1225
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 1: where are we now after losing that game on Monday Night.

1226
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 1: But you know, don't forget last year there was a

1227
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: team that was seven and five they ended up winning

1228
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That's a team that you guys were

1229
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: facing this week, and that's the Tampa Bay Bucks. They

1230
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: were kind of looking like they were in no man's

1231
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: land when they lost to Kansas City on the Thanksgiving

1232
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: Sunday last year. Tony and I did that game a

1233
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,959
Speaker 1: little did we know we would see that same matchup

1234
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in February of the seventh. So

1235
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: a lot to be decided. I'm still waiting for one

1236
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 1: team to get the hot hand and maybe that team

1237
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: will be Buffalo. Yeah. So, Jim, with that in mind,

1238
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: knowing you did the Super Bowl last year, what did

1239
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,839
Speaker 1: you hear in your preparations and interviews with the Bucks

1240
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: players in preparation for the Super Bowl that maybe they

1241
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: felt changed for them and put them on that track

1242
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: compared to it back when you went and did their

1243
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 1: game in November. They just got hot. You know. They

1244
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,759
Speaker 1: never lost again after that game on the last Sunday

1245
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: of November. So they came in on a role. They

1246
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: came in with playoff road wins at the Orleans and

1247
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: at Green Bay, so they were highly confident. Of course

1248
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: they had number twelve too, so he'd been in that

1249
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: position many times. I have to tell you, we did

1250
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 1: not expect the game to be anything like what it

1251
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: turned out to beat. We thought, this is gonna be

1252
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: highly competitive in both teams who'll be putting a lot

1253
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,640
Speaker 1: of points on the board. And of course, you know,

1254
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,640
Speaker 1: Kansas City's offense never mustered anything and the game was

1255
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: one sided, and it just was again something we couldn't

1256
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 1: have foreshadowed. Well, you've covered Tom Brady probably, You've probably

1257
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: done more of his games than any other broadcaster. That's

1258
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 1: that's kind of a You've got to be at least

1259
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: in the conversation, right, There's no way anybody's covered in

1260
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: more than you, actually, Steve, I know the answer to this.

1261
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: I had my one hundredth Brady game. I believe it

1262
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: was the game in the regular season against Kansas City.

1263
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: This will be our third game of the Bucks this season.

1264
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: So I'm somewhere around number one oh four coming up. Basically,

1265
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: I've done about thirty percent of Tom's career, which is amazing. Now,

1266
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: just to give you some perspective, I'm at somewhere in

1267
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Speaker 1: a similar number with the Patriots, with the great majority

1268
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: of course being Bubba Check and Brady together. But I'm

1269
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: over a hundred and there was a writer in Boston

1270
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: to looked it up and the second closest played by

1271
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: play guy was at somewhere around fifty nine in the

1272
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: high fifties. I'm over a hundred, and that's all time.

1273
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: That's not just since Bubba Check and Brady. So yeah,

1274
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of Humber twelve, that's for sure.

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01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: What are your I got to ask you, what are

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01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: your impressions of him? Now? As this guy who is

1277
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 1: considered maybe the greatest, well the greatest of all time.

1278
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: What are your impressions of him and the evolution you've

1279
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: seen him, because he seems like that, you know, the

1280
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: same guy to everybody. You know, everybody hates him here,

1281
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: so be careful of what you say because we'll get

1282
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: calls after you get off. But but you know, what

1283
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: are your impressions of how he has evolved as a

1284
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 1: human being, as a player, as a professional, and plus

1285
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: his presence and aura about what it is to be

1286
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: not just Tom Brady, but this TB twelve guy. You know, yeah,

1287
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: I know you probably people don't like hearing the you know,

1288
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: the abbreviated version there TV twelve. But I think he's

1289
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 1: the same guy. I think he's not the same player.

1290
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: I think he's actually better now. When I say I

1291
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: think he's better, I think he's better than he was

1292
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: that last year that he's with New England two years ago.

1293
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: I think he's sewing the ball better. I think he's

1294
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 1: better than than the quarterback that that won the Super

1295
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: Bowl the year before that in twenty nineteen when they

1296
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 1: beat the Rams in the Super Bowl. I think he's

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01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,680
Speaker 1: at another notch above that, and maybe that's the equivalent

1298
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: of the guy that was playing seven, eight, nine, ten

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01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 1: years ago. There is there is no drop off, and

1300
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: if there's anything, there's an uptick. So you know, it's

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01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,560
Speaker 1: it defies all logic, you know that the Steve it

1302
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 1: just you can't make any sense out of it. That

1303
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 1: this guy has been all the stand up right, and

1304
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: they'll absorb a lot of hits except for one in

1305
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: his entire career, not one against Kansas City in Game

1306
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: one of two thousand and eight. Other than that, the

1307
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 1: guy has been indestructible. And you know, you would think

1308
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 1: at this point his body would be breaking down or

1309
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: to be some sort of issue. You look at certain

1310
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: players around the league are always injured. They just can't

1311
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: get one hundred percent healthy. Now we know he's not

1312
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: really truly ever one hundred percent. Because he is, he's

1313
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: able to kind of hide and maybe that's too strong

1314
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 1: a word, but I think he's able to kind of

1315
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: keep it to himself a little bit when he's hurting.

1316
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: We may not know these things, as like the need

1317
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: that he had last year that got operated on after

1318
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 1: the season. We didn't have any idea of that. But

1319
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: he doesn't complain about it. He doesn't make a big

1320
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 1: fuss about it. He just wants to go out and play.

1321
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: And hey, I thought this. I thought when the schedule

1322
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 1: landed and we got the game, we wanted this one.

1323
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: I'm talking back at the end of April, that this

1324
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 1: would be like our Kansas City Tampa regular season game

1325
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 1: last year. I thought this would be a Super Bowl preview.

1326
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm not convinced otherwise right now.

1327
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: I still think this very well could be the game

1328
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: that's going to be in Los Angeles in a couple

1329
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: of months on February thirteen. So Jim, give us the

1330
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,959
Speaker 1: bird's eye view, because obviously we suffer from Bill's myopia

1331
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 1: here and fans are concerned after seeing this team alternate

1332
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: between wins and losses for the last two months. It

1333
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: does seem on a national level like a lot of

1334
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: people still have a ton of faith in what this

1335
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: team can be with five games left in the regular season.

1336
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: So maybe shed some light on that for us from

1337
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 1: a national perspective. What people think of the Bills as

1338
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: it sits right now, Well, it's a good question, Chris.

1339
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: I certainly haven't given up on them. I know, watching

1340
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: the game on Monday, night of who was just riveting

1341
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:59,679
Speaker 1: watching it. I kept thinking the entire time that Buffalo

1342
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 1: was going to figure out a way to win the game.

1343
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 1: At the end, I really did. Well, that's going to

1344
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: be some second game coming up on the twenty sixth.

1345
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: But I think what you look at from a national

1346
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: perspective is you look at a great coach and Sean

1347
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 1: McDermott and a great staff, and you look at number seventeen.

1348
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: Who you couldn't have as as far as a football fan,

1349
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: someone that likes to see great young talent come along

1350
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,839
Speaker 1: and af their head on straight. I couldn't. You couldn't

1351
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: have a bigger fan than me. For John Shamma, I

1352
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: got to know him a little bit away from football

1353
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: through golf, and he's you know, I don't have to

1354
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: sit here and extol what his physical talents are or

1355
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: his leadership qualities are. I can just tell you as

1356
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: a as a young person who's still knew at this

1357
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:49,799
Speaker 1: knew in the league, he's going to be a shining

1358
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 1: star for the league and so many levels for years

1359
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: to come. And look, Buffalo, you guys got to realize

1360
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: that you're going to be in the mix here for

1361
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: a long, long time and maybe this is your year.

1362
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not, but it could be next year, or

1363
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: the year after that, or the year after that, or

1364
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: maybe a combination of those years. Because it starts with him,

1365
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 1: and when you got to you got a good player

1366
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: like Dawson Knox, very underrated nationally. I think he's going

1367
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: to be one of the premier elite tight ends years

1368
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: to come. We know that Diggs is already elite. You know,

1369
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,640
Speaker 1: he's in the top five, top two. What are you

1370
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:23,640
Speaker 1: going to say? As well as a wide receiver. And

1371
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 1: I like the defense, I really, I mean, I just

1372
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: think there's some great leads on that defense. And I

1373
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,719
Speaker 1: know they've gone into the draft and gone young and

1374
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: some of these young guys are producing, and like the

1375
01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: foundation is there. I mean, I'm a big believer in

1376
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: what Buffalo is doing. I'm sorry to say this is

1377
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: the first game that we've been assigned this year. We

1378
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: don't have Tony and I don't have anything to do

1379
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: with the game assignments. We go where they send us, Steve,

1380
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: you know how that works. It's interesting. This is actually

1381
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: gonna be our one hundred game together with Tony and

1382
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: Tracy and myself. Game one hundred Sunday. So someone did

1383
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,719
Speaker 1: a little study about which teams have you done the most? Again,

1384
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: we have nothing to do with this, but the Bills.

1385
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: I think we're fourth or fifth most of the teams

1386
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: that we've done. That surprised me a little bit because

1387
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: I've always felt like the Buffalo fans that I run

1388
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 1: into that they think that we don't get their games

1389
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: all that often. And I hear the same thing from

1390
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: the Ravens. So the Ravens and the Bills were four

1391
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:27,720
Speaker 1: and five. I'm not sure which order it was as

1392
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,519
Speaker 1: far as the most the teams we've seen the most,

1393
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: and I expect to see a whole lot more of them,

1394
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 1: not only the rest of this year, come playoff time,

1395
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 1: but many, you know, appearances in the years to come. Well, Jim,

1396
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,720
Speaker 1: before you guys, just want one last thing. You've been

1397
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: doing the thing with CBS for so long, and you've

1398
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: and you've crossed over. You do the you know obviously

1399
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 1: do the Masters, and you do you know, you've been

1400
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 1: sports Cast of the Year multiple times. Give us you know,

1401
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 1: or what are the things that you enjoy most? I mean,

1402
01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 1: because I know this that people think it's in all

1403
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: this glamorous life. Travel is not the best part of

1404
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 1: the job that you do. I know that, But give

1405
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:07,640
Speaker 1: us some of the more memorable things and more enjoyable

1406
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: things you like about your job that you've been doing

1407
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: for so long. Certainly it's the relationships, of course, but

1408
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: give us some of the things that you do that

1409
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: you think most people would think, Yeah, that's pretty cool.

1410
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 1: I think the best thing is I still have that

1411
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 1: unbridled enthusiasm for being in the arena, just feeling fortunate

1412
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: enough to have a ticket to the game. I can

1413
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: still remember the first game I ever went to. I

1414
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: was eight years old. It was the first game and

1415
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 1: you are on Saint's history back in September of nineteen

1416
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 1: sixty seven, eight years old, holding my father's hand, standing

1417
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: room only tickets. I still can feel that day, what

1418
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:47,719
Speaker 1: it was like. I can still smell the hot bogs

1419
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: on the grills. I can still feel that experience, and

1420
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: I think of it often when I show up into

1421
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: a stadium every Sunday. How fortunate, how lucky I am

1422
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: to be living out the childhood dreams that after this

1423
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: is my thirty seventh year now, it's never gotten all

1424
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: the fact that I think as you get older, into

1425
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: it longer into it, you appreciate it more because you

1426
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: know you don't have thirty seven more years to do it.

1427
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: It's it's just it's such a gift, and I don't

1428
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: take it lightly. I don't start my days without putting

1429
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 1: my feet on the floor without first saying my thanks

1430
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: in a moment of prayer, prayerful introspection. I'm grateful. But

1431
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: then when you get on the road, the joy of

1432
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: getting to have friends in different cities and places you'd

1433
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: like to go. I still get a kick out of

1434
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: going around and seeing the country and having two or

1435
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: three visits a year, and in many of the great

1436
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: places in this country. I haven't been the Buffalo in

1437
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: a while. I've got friends there, like you, Steve my

1438
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: Man Hutch that has that maybe my favorite restaurant my country.

1439
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,720
Speaker 1: He's there. Didn't mean to give him a free plug part.

1440
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: I love that place, and I can't wait to get

1441
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: the Buffalo. I'm hoping that perhaps before the seasons out,

1442
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:05,639
Speaker 1: we'll get a home game. All right, Jim, Well, listen,

1443
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. We look forward to

1444
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: hearing you on Sunday. Bills Bucks for twenty five kick

1445
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 1: We'll be listening. Thanks, Thanks Jim, appreciate it. Hey, Gress, Steve, Thanks,

1446
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia. Don't beat distraught man. One week, it can change.

1447
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: Remember seven and five last year ended up winning a

1448
01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and this team can do it. All the

1449
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 1: best everybody. That's a good one, Dan John, thanks again, Jim.

1450
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: Jim Nance from the NFL on cebus calling the game

1451
01:19:29,439 --> 01:19:32,440
Speaker 1: on Sunday with Tony Romo and Tracy Wilson on the sidelines.

1452
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 1: Steve and I we got to take a break here, sir,

1453
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: but we'll be back. We'll get to some more phone

1454
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 1: calls before we close up shop for the day. We'll

1455
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 1: step aside here, but get back to the phones as

1456
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: we're looking for your offensive suggestions to get this offense

1457
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:50,599
Speaker 1: back on track. That's next here on One Bill's Live.

1458
01:19:50,680 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: Stay tuned all right, back to the phones as we're

1459
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 1: asking you today for your suggestions to get Buffalo's offense

1460
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 1: back on track. And waiting patiently is Mark and West Seneca. Mark,

1461
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,880
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hi, guys,

1462
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: how are you good? Hey? I would be remiss if

1463
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: I didn't mention this. I don't know if you guys

1464
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: know them. My son, just let me know that Mark

1465
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: Pike passed away. Yes, we are aware of that. We

1466
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:30,559
Speaker 1: were going to address it here shortly on the show. Yeah,

1467
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: I as somebody who was in that stadium for forty

1468
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: years and through the Super Bowl years. He was a

1469
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 1: great football player from what I understand, and even better man,

1470
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: I know, I'm pretty sure that Steve was very close

1471
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: to him. So I just want to wish a lot

1472
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,599
Speaker 1: of prayers and love from Bill's nation out to Mark's

1473
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: family and friends, because that's a real downward especially at

1474
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 1: this time of year, exactly, no question about it. So

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Speaker 1: what I called about is something that I feel the Bills,

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01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,639
Speaker 1: especially an offense that's been doing all season long, which

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01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: is run away from their identity. I don't know how

1478
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: this has seeped into our mentality and our culture of

1479
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: our team and everything we have built. I should say,

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01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: we being and McDermott built an offensive juggernaut based on

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01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's more of a finesse offensive line

1482
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that can pass block, and we have

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01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: gotten just swallowed up in this whole thing about we

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01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,799
Speaker 1: have to run the football. Now. I'm not talking about numbers,

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01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:36,599
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about how often they do one as

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01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: opposed to the other. I'm talking about in games when

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01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 1: we've struggled, or when we've done things like we've struggled

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01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: in the first half, we've deferred, and you've get the feeling, Okay,

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01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: now we're gonna come out and we're going to really

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01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: attack the defense. And we come out in the second

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01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: half and we run the ball into the line between

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01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 1: the tackles and the less which is our biggest weakness

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01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: in running the football, and we don't go at teams

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01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 1: like we used to. You can't explain. Somebody needs to

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01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: explain to me. And I'm not professing for anybody getting fired.

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01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm not. And I also know I can only go

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01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: on the information I have as a fan and what

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01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: I'm watching. I know there's decisions being made for these

1499
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: things I'm talking about behind the scenes, which y'all never know.

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01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: But nobody can explain to me why Gabe Davis doesn't

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01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 1: see the field per halfs the season. Nobody can explain

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01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: to me why we don't attack the edges in the

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01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: red zone with Josh like we did. Everybody knows who's

1504
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: been watching football their whole lives. The biggest stress on

1505
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 1: the defenses of red zone is a quarterback who can

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01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:38,640
Speaker 1: run and throw the ball, and we have sort of

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01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: taken that threat. Oh wait, we've turned Josh into a

1508
01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:44,559
Speaker 1: drop back passer who most often than not doesn't even

1509
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,559
Speaker 1: throw the ball in the end zone in the red zone.

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01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 1: These are strategy questions. What's going on here? We signed

1511
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: Brita to give us speed, We don't attack edges, we

1512
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: don't seem to want to do the things that made

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01:22:57,200 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: us successful last year to this year. And lastly, on

1514
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, I've always felt Leslie

1515
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: Frasier is not as much of an attack guy as

1516
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: I would like, but he seems to want to stay

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01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 1: in his base defense as much as possible. The New

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01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: England game that just passed, Is there any reason why

1519
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 1: we can't put a fifth defensive end or defensive linemen

1520
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: on the field with three linebackers and three dbs. One

1521
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: day I was showing us they're refusing to throw the football,

1522
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: and then make them try and if it doesn't work,

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01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: you do it for a couple two or three plays

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01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 1: and then you get it off the field. Okay, changing

1525
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:37,360
Speaker 1: the defensive around in different situations is not a big deal.

1526
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 1: I called you guys last week about possibly running as

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01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:42,880
Speaker 1: three to four, and you guys pooh pooed it and

1528
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 1: shot me down, which I understood why. But in the

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01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: biggest game of one of the Bills historic games, super

1530
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:52,840
Speaker 1: Bowl twenty five, Belichick only put two defensive linemen on

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01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: the field. So you do things to stop the other team,

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01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: You try him. If they don't work, you resort back

1533
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,639
Speaker 1: to the things that have made you successful, and then

1534
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: you play to your strengths. But you can't be afraid

1535
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: to try different things, especially on defense when you're getting

1536
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:15,080
Speaker 1: run over. There's just no logic to these kinds of things,

1537
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: all right, Well, and then can one last thing I

1538
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: know I've been going on. We know we don't run

1539
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: the ball. Well. I believe Davil's biggest mistakes so far

1540
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: in his tenure in Buffalo is not developing a three

1541
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: to five step quick passing game where we need to

1542
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: use it in place of a running game. With Josh Allen,

1543
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: they've started bringing them under center that's where you run

1544
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,679
Speaker 1: that from, and we still have yet to even see

1545
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:41,680
Speaker 1: it at all in any situation with Josh in the

1546
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:44,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And I believe Josh could be awesome at it,

1547
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: especially with a bunch of receivers who are separators. Thank

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01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: you for my time, Love and prayers out to my

1549
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: Mark family. Yeah, thanks, Mark, appreciate it. All right, a

1550
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:59,800
Speaker 1: lot to unpack there, probably like seven suitcases worth, but yeah,

1551
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: there's a steamer trunk there. We we kind of addressed

1552
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: some of the defensive scheme stuff. I'm not opposed. You

1553
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: want to throw a fifty front out there, you can

1554
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: you do that? Stop if you can't stop the run,

1555
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: the way the build and I don't know if you

1556
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: were watching how closely pack the Bill's defense was around

1557
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: the lion scream as they had like nine guys in

1558
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 1: the box and still struggle to stop it. I mean

1559
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: they did. I mean, I know they ran for two

1560
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:25,559
Speaker 1: hundred and what twenty yards or whatever it was with

1561
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:27,680
Speaker 1: a sixty four yard with a sixty four yard or

1562
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: piled on top. I am yeah, I am not unhappy

1563
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:37,759
Speaker 1: with the way the defense played. I know that people

1564
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:39,560
Speaker 1: are all like going, you know, and you know the

1565
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: question that Jerry Sullivan asked about, how aren't you embarrassed?

1566
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: It's no two field goals in a touchdown. That's a

1567
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: good game by that defense. This was an offensive problem. Yeah,

1568
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:53,800
Speaker 1: and you can say what you want about the forty

1569
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 1: mile an hour wins. Okay, if that doesn't count. I

1570
01:25:57,400 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: get it. This is a team that's built to Mark

1571
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:01,680
Speaker 1: is right. This is a team that was built to

1572
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: throw the football. You got a quarterback that can throw it.

1573
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,839
Speaker 1: And if they're not doing certain things in their offense

1574
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: is because either a their quarterback doesn't like it, or

1575
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: b can't do it, or isn't as good doing that

1576
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 1: as he is doing something else. And that goes for

1577
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,479
Speaker 1: the running game and the quick passing game, and the

1578
01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: inside the tackles or the edge rushing rushing and Josh

1579
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: rushing in the red zone. Though we've heard that from

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01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 1: a lot of fans. I get that. And I'll say this,

1581
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: and I'm I don't know if I'm if I own

1582
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: the team, I'm tom. Don't you dare put that guy

1583
01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: in paying two or fifty eight million dollars If he

1584
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:37,840
Speaker 1: goes in there and you're rushing him three times in

1585
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: the red zone and he comes up with a snapped ankle,

1586
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be mad at some people in this room. Yeah,

1587
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:47,559
Speaker 1: Josh is a great it's a great threat to have him.

1588
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: I get it. And you don't want to undersell what

1589
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:51,640
Speaker 1: he brings to the table, particularly if you don't want

1590
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 1: to take that toolbox out of your that tool out

1591
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: of your toolbox of him running down in close, but

1592
01:26:57,240 --> 01:26:59,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna run it three times down there in a row.

1593
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: And I get it. It might have worked, might not have.

1594
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: But I know this, Your quarterback is gonna get whacked

1595
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: and whacked hard, and I think they want to try

1596
01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 1: and get in there find different ways to do it.

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01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 1: I'm with you. One of the things that has made

1598
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: him so effective, and particularly in the red zone this

1599
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: team is his ability to run. It's what made Cam

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01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: Newton one of the great quarterbacks over right, and I

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01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:24,840
Speaker 1: would agree. I think every so often you gotta call

1602
01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: a play for him to tuck it under his arm

1603
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:29,800
Speaker 1: and go. I'm not a frano of sitting here saying

1604
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: they had first and goal on the six three straight

1605
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: runs and he's in. I'm not giving the ball to

1606
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on three straight runs in the red zone

1607
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: unless it's that same situation and it's the Super Bowl.

1608
01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: I'll do it then, because there is no game after that.

1609
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 1: There ain't no game after that. I won't even do

1610
01:27:45,080 --> 01:27:49,120
Speaker 1: it in the championship game. So I get it. Everybody's like,

1611
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 1: just you know, use him up. I'm not on that program,

1612
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: but yes, his running, particularly in the red zone, is

1613
01:27:57,120 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: absolutely critical to why they were successful. Lest right, we

1614
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:01,719
Speaker 1: gotta a minute left here, Steve, I know you wanted

1615
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: to address the passing of Mark Pike today. Unfortunate for sure,

1616
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: being only just fifty seven years of age after a

1617
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 1: courageous battle with cancer. Yeah, he was battling non Hodgkins

1618
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: lymphoma and he and he had complications due to that.

1619
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: He's been battling hard for the last fifty or so days.

1620
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: He was a close friend of mine. I loved him

1621
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:27,640
Speaker 1: like a brother. He was a great example to his

1622
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,880
Speaker 1: entire teammates. He was a huge contributor to the teams

1623
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: that I was a part of, the AFC Championship games

1624
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: that we were in, the Super Bowls that we were in.

1625
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:41,760
Speaker 1: Mark Pike was an absolute ferocious player and one of

1626
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: the most beloved players in that locker room because of

1627
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 1: the person he was off the field, Sharon, his wife,

1628
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: his son's Zeke and Malachi, and his daughter Kramer. I

1629
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: feel form our team is going to miss them. The guys,

1630
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: those old guys that were with I've texted the Five

1631
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: Presents were all aware of it. I may be gone

1632
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 1: and in parts this week to go to his funeral,

1633
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: but I just want to wish everybody well. We lost

1634
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: a good one. The world is the worst place today

1635
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 1: than it was yesterday because he's gone. You can read

1636
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 1: some more on Buffalo bills dot com about that, But

1637
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:15,720
Speaker 1: as I said, it's Steven him on special teams back then.

1638
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:18,719
Speaker 1: We're like Batman and Robin. We'll see you tomorrow one pm.