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Speaker 1: league has come out now it's been reported to the

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Speaker 1: league denied. We didn't release any emails. They might have

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Speaker 1: been leaked, somebody might surreptitiously obtained them. However, everyone was

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Speaker 1: looking at it, and there is public pressure now on

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Speaker 1: the league that's release the six hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: pages of documents, including emails from the Washington football team,

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Speaker 1: whereas we all know, there was a culture of misogyny

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Speaker 1: there that had to be addressed, and that that's kind

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Speaker 1: of what I was headed towards that that people were saying, well,

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Speaker 1: what how did Daniel Snipe take it off? Scott. That's

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Speaker 1: the worst thing. They don't believe it, and I'm quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: and it was from a guy from another that wasn't

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Speaker 1: even working for the league at the time. Come on,

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Speaker 1: nobody believes it, and they want to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: they want to see for themselves what those si to

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Speaker 1: see them. It's gonna be very interesting to see how

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Speaker 1: transparent the league chooses to be with one of their investigations,

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Speaker 1: because you usually never it's never publicly uncovered as to

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Speaker 1: what an NFL investigation found. They'll publicize what their ruling is,

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Speaker 1: but the means by which they arrived at that decision

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Speaker 1: is rarely revealed in any way, shape or form. They

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Speaker 1: find the Washington football team ownership Dan Snyder ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars that's been reported, but that's all. We've heard nothing.

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Speaker 1: We don't know why, what, who wear, what forward all

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Speaker 1: of that, and people want to know. I think the

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Speaker 1: public pressure may get to a point where they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to do something. If if those records and

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Speaker 1: I understand why there's public pressure, and we've all seen

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Speaker 1: it a time after time, If those emails are out

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Speaker 1: there and they exist, somebody sometimes somewhere, some day is

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Speaker 1: gonna get them. They're gonna come out. It's just is

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Speaker 1: people could in journalists, investigative reporters. They dig until they

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Speaker 1: get something. So it's sooner or later it'll come out,

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Speaker 1: maybe a decade or whatever. But I'm it's gonna come out,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling it ain't gonna be pretty well. There

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Speaker 1: are enough motivated people that want to know what the

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Speaker 1: truth is. How far does this go? Is somebody and

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Speaker 1: they're willing to climb down the rabbit hole to find it.

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Speaker 1: Is somebody powerful enough ready to help them. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a good question as well. Other NFL news, Bucks quarterback

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady could be a bit of a question mark

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Speaker 1: for Thursday nights game. He said he's not planning on

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Speaker 1: missing the game, but he's got an injured throwing thumb.

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Speaker 1: It's on his throwing hand. He had it dunked in

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Speaker 1: ice during the game last week after I think he

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Speaker 1: hit it on a helmet, which is often what you

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Speaker 1: see quarterbacks suffer from. You know, they're follow through, they

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Speaker 1: hit a helmet, they jammed their thumb, they sprain their thumb,

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Speaker 1: they bend it backwards awkwardly. And you can't throw a

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Speaker 1: football without your thumb. If you cannot apply pressure to

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Speaker 1: the football with your thumb because it's all jacked up,

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Speaker 1: you can't throw. You just can't. And I'm not expecting

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady anytime soon to come out there and start

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Speaker 1: throwing left handed. So you know he's going to be

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Speaker 1: pushing arians to let him play. But if the ball

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Speaker 1: does not look right coming out of his hand, he's

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Speaker 1: got to do right by his team and sit out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you gotta sit out. You can't do that to

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Speaker 1: your team. I'll say this though, and I you know

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Speaker 1: I'm we hear in Buffalo, no love loss for tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: You can respect what he's done and all that. I

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Speaker 1: would be hard pressed to have him. And he was

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Speaker 1: nonchalant about it in the press count. He came out

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Speaker 1: and his thumb was wrapped when he came out to

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Speaker 1: meet the media, and obviously that was like, hey, what's

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Speaker 1: going on with that? And he was cavalier about his size.

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Speaker 1: Just a rap is gonna be fine. He expects to play,

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Speaker 1: or at least that's what he said, and I would

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Speaker 1: expect that to be the case. If if if he's

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Speaker 1: really struggling or in a race to get healthy enough

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Speaker 1: to play, we'll hear about it. Well. And it's a

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Speaker 1: short week, Yeah, it isn't a very short week. They

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Speaker 1: play tomorrow, So I don't think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: an issue. It may be a problem for him, but

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Speaker 1: it's like everybody. Tom Brady's no different than every the

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Speaker 1: player in some ways in that he's gonna play with

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Speaker 1: some baggage, some little aches and paint. Everybody else does it,

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Speaker 1: every quarterback does it, and he's no different. He probably

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Speaker 1: it's just hard to function. If your thumb's not right

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Speaker 1: on your that's a real issue. It's like having you know,

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Speaker 1: they may defendusted. Right, Baker Mayfield's got a shoulder harness

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Speaker 1: on his other shoulder, it's like nobody cares, nobody, even

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Speaker 1: nobody's even given him credit. But if he had a

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Speaker 1: hang nail on his pinky of his throwing hand, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, right, your thumb is even more important.

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Speaker 1: So it is. People are gonna be watching like a hawk.

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Speaker 1: You can bet the camera's gonna be rolling Thursday night

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Speaker 1: on his when he comes out of the tunnel for

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Speaker 1: the first time, what's his thumb looked? Like? What's he

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Speaker 1: got on it? And if he for some reason cannot

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Speaker 1: play his backup lane Gabbert would make the start a

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Speaker 1: journeyman quarterback. If ever, there was one former eleventh pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft? Is that right? I think he was

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Speaker 1: the eleventh pick in the draft something like that a while. Look, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna remember the year. I want to

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Speaker 1: say it was like, oh, seven eight somewhere in there.

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Speaker 1: So he would have to suit up and play. They

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Speaker 1: also have Kyle Trask, the former University of Florida product,

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Speaker 1: but I would expect Blaine Gabber to start if Brady cannot.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here. We do want

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Speaker 1: to remind you our Twitter conversation today, aside from those

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Speaker 1: that have already won Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmunds, Greg Russo,

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Speaker 1: who wins the next Player of the Week award for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills with the way they're rolling here on

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Speaker 1: offense and defense. Give us your pick at eight three

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

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Speaker 1: fifty or on the tweet sheet and One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna pass along some of

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Speaker 1: the sound we failed to get to yesterday from the

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Speaker 1: coordinators Leslie Frazier as well as Brian Dable with some

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Speaker 1: notable comments we wanted to pass along to you. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to those next. Here on One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chaster with

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Speaker 1: you here on a Wednesday, and Steve is going to

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Speaker 1: play the role of stat cat. I came up. This

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Speaker 1: came across my social media feeds from yards per Pass

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Speaker 1: Twitter account and they said asking for ready for a

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Speaker 1: wild stats about the Bill's defense. So here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: The Bill's opponents have turned the ball over on twenty

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Speaker 1: two point eight percent of their possessions versus Bills Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: defense twenty two point a almost twenty three percent of

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Speaker 1: the time the opponents have the ball, they turn it over. Now,

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Speaker 1: their opponents have scored on only nineteen point three percent

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Speaker 1: of their possessions. That means teams, when they get the

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Speaker 1: ball in a game against a Buffalo defense, they're more

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Speaker 1: likely to turn it over than they are to score

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Speaker 1: points on the drive. Five weeks into the season. There

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Speaker 1: have been a couple of teams who have done that.

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Speaker 1: Three teams in history have done that for the season,

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Speaker 1: for a whole season. The two thousand and six Ravens

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Speaker 1: did it. Now they were they lost fifteen to six

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs to Peyton Manning and the Colts, who

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl that year. Also, the two thousand

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Speaker 1: two Buccaneers did it, they won the Super Bowl. And

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Speaker 1: the two thousand Ravens did it they won the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So pretty lofty company there. Baltimore Ravens have done it twice.

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Speaker 1: Where you can get your opponents to turn the ball

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Speaker 1: over more often than they score points on any drive

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Speaker 1: that you get a gape, and the Bills have been

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Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, about three three percent difference. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's you talked about. They got fifteen turnovers. It's

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Speaker 1: not easy to sustain. But the Bills have one of

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Speaker 1: the easiest remaining strength of schedules. And as I mentioned

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Speaker 1: to Steve during the break, yeah, five of their remaining

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Speaker 1: twelve games are against rookie quarterbacks, two against Zach Wilson,

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Speaker 1: two against Mac Jones, and then Trevor Lawrence. So it's

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Speaker 1: almost half of their remaining games or against rookie qbs.

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Speaker 1: How are those guys gonna do? Yeah that rocky quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: are notoriously turnover machines, and we've seen it. Yeah, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, that's that's some lofty stuff for the Bill's

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Speaker 1: defense to get off to a start like this. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm and you and I are talking about it, and

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Speaker 1: I've said it in this show, and I'd be interested

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Speaker 1: to hear what you say. It's hard to play that

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Speaker 1: good for that long. I mean, it takes some mental toughness,

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Speaker 1: like nobody's business to get up and play play against

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Speaker 1: it by the time you get to jackson So you

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Speaker 1: get to Jacksonville, right, Jacksonville is gonna be let's see,

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Speaker 1: by the time the Bills get to Jacksonville, it'll be

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Speaker 1: week November seventh, it's week nine. They'll have eight games.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville might be oh and nine ten or one and two,

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Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta like rise up. And then

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Speaker 1: you got the Jets after that. Man, you do have

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Speaker 1: a win. You got to you gotta jump on it

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Speaker 1: to beat the Titans and overtime, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's man, oh man, you it's it's a long season.

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Speaker 1: But as of now, as we're just saying it's a

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Speaker 1: it's an incredible stat. Bill's opponents have turned the ball

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Speaker 1: over twenty almost twenty three percent of the time they've

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Speaker 1: possessed it every twenty three percent of possessions they've had,

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Speaker 1: and they've only scored on nineteen more often than one

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Speaker 1: in five possessions they turned the ball over. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you wonder why they're number one in red zone defense,

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Speaker 1: because that's red and in the years, last week was

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Speaker 1: a red zone takeaway, Greg Rousseau, right, and also it

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Speaker 1: was a red zone takeaway when and when Mahomes coughed

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Speaker 1: it up with a snap and another one down to

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Speaker 1: the Miami when Milano jumped on the forest. It's and

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Speaker 1: I'll say this too, it's you talk about the biggest difference,

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Speaker 1: and it is the play up front the guys are playing,

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Speaker 1: not the Mahomes fumbled snap that had nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with the Bills, but their their play up front is

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Speaker 1: the biggest difference in what's going on. Their secondary was

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say playing like you know, without

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Speaker 1: being supported by the front. They're just getting more help

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Speaker 1: in the back end this year than they have gotten

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Speaker 1: in years past, and I think that has made that

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Speaker 1: little exponential jump to get him into a spot where, man,

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Speaker 1: their teams are turning over a bunch. And Steve, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you mentioned that because that's going to serve as

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Speaker 1: the perfect segue to a comment made by Leslie Frasier

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Speaker 1: this week on the defensive line play against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: So let's hear what Leslie had to say about it.

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Speaker 1: In order for our secondary to play as well as

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Speaker 1: they did and to contain both Tyrek Hill and Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you need your defensive line really having a

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Speaker 1: great out of so Eric Washington alone, ID line coach,

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Speaker 1: really laying out the plan for our defensive line of

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Speaker 1: what we had to be able to do because this

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Speaker 1: quarterback had to go homes Man. He's a tough, tough

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Speaker 1: dude to CORRELLI contain, and you know, he's so explosive,

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Speaker 1: you can do so many things. But our D line

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Speaker 1: did a great job of finding ways to contain him

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Speaker 1: and to be able to get some hits on him

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Speaker 1: as well, which allowed our back end to have some success.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Greg Russo without standing throughout the game,

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Speaker 1: and Oliver did a terrific job. Jerry Hughes, just everybody

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Speaker 1: or I D line start, they all did a terrific

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Speaker 1: job for us. So there it is hard to argue too,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it is a big difference. It has been

637
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: a big difference, and it's not necessarily been in the

638
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: form of sacks. It's just been enough consistent pressure to

639
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: disrupt the timing of the opponent's passing game. Whether you're

640
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: making the quarterback hurry a throw, you're forcing him to

641
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: release it a half a second early. Maybe the receivers

642
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: hasn't even started to come out of his break yet.

643
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: That allows a defender to jump that route. Those kinds

644
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: of things are cropping up with this defense. The Bills

645
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: probably are not going to have a twelve or fourteen

646
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: sack guy on this roster this year because they spread

647
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: the wealth. So nobody plays enough, right, you know, the

648
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: high guy. It's a long season. But percentage of snaps.

649
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: I said this, the high is like fifty five percent.

650
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: I said this in the offseason. I said that Greg

651
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: Rousseau may come in and have more sacks than any

652
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: Bill did a year ago as a rookie. He may

653
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: not leave five and a half. That's a piece of cake. Yeah,

654
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: so seventeen games, right, so he's gonna do that, I think,

655
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: but I'll do it. I'll say this. You look at

656
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks in the league that are playing really well.

657
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: Josh Mahomes, even if you think he's playing well or not,

658
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert certainly, Lamar Jackson, good analyst Burrow, did you

659
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: say Burrow? No, Burrow, Aaron Rodgers. All the guys that

660
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: are playing well, even Dak Prescott. The guys that are

661
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: playing well have the ability to extend plays. They've got

662
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: the ability to get outside the pocket to make the

663
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: defensive line hurt you, or you know, to chase you

664
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: or just break contain or whatever. The Bills defensive line

665
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: has kept Pat Mahomes in check a lot of the time,

666
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: not all the time, but they're doing a much better

667
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: job and they're more capable this year of not letting

668
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: plays get extended. When the plays not extended, the quarterbacks

669
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: got to get rid of it or take a sack

670
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: that leads to turnovers. It leads to turnovers. And that's

671
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: what this team is capitalizing on right now, the fact

672
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: that the defensive line of the Bills is forcing the

673
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: ball out against a really good secondary and not letting

674
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: more often than not, letting quarterbacks run all over the

675
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: joint get loose, buy some time, and putting so much

676
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: pressure on the secondary they can't live up to it.

677
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: The secondary of the Bills is very good, and now

678
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: we're finding out how good because the ball has to

679
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: come out, whereas a year ago maybe didn't come out

680
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: quite so fast and they had guys extending plays and

681
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, puts too much an impossible amount

682
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: of pressure on your secondary. This year, that secondary, he's

683
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: not under that much pressure and the Bolts coming out

684
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: in a more desperate manner and they're capitalizing on it. Yeah,

685
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: flipping it over to the offensive side of the ball.

686
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 1: Brian Dable was asked this week about the chemistry between

687
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Dawson Knox. Obviously, when they score five

688
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last four games, or combined for five

689
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last four games, that's a question that's

690
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 1: going to be asked. So here is Brian Dable's take

691
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: on their on field chemistry. Yeah, I've told you guys

692
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: this since camp. I mean, he's this is a tough

693
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: position to play in this in this league, tight end,

694
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: and when you're coming from a from a school that

695
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: uses you a particular way, you're walk on quarterback. There's

696
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: a lot to learn in this game at that position,

697
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: and it takes time to develop. And he's smart, and

698
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: he's tough, and he's got a good skill set, and

699
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: he's he's worked really hard to, you know, try to

700
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: help our football team. You know, we have a lot

701
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: of confidence in him. You know, the amount of times

702
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: we use or don't use them again, that's you know,

703
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: one week, it could be a lot, one week it

704
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: might not be as much, but we have confidence in

705
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: all our guys. So I mean it's kind of that's

706
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: probably dable speaking in generalities, as he has want to

707
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: do at times. But I think you have to give

708
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: the majority of the credit to Knocks for developing his

709
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: personal game. You credit the coaching staff for player development

710
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: tight ends. Coach Rob boris chief among them, and the

711
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: light bulbs on now in year three, I mean, this

712
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: was a guy, as we've said several times, Steve caught

713
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: all of fifteen passes in college, and I mean was

714
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: not even option three or four in the scope of

715
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: an offense that at AJ Brown and DK metcalf in it,

716
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: so you can understand why. And he's also young at

717
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: the position. It's like, oh, yeah, we know you're a

718
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: walk on quarterback. We're gonna try a tight end. Now

719
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: make that work. Oh, by the way we watch it,

720
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: also played tight end at the highest level of football

721
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: even though you've only played it for three years, Right,

722
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: go get him. Yeah, I think there was a little

723
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: bit of that, And I'll say it again. I called

724
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: it in the off season he was gonna bust out.

725
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: But I think also too, this is a situation now

726
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: where day Ball mentioned it in his sound right there

727
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: in this coaching staff under McDermot, And one of the

728
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: things I love about the program they've installed on the

729
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: way they do business is that if you're playing well,

730
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: you get more play. If you've got a hot even

731
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: during a game in one series, if you're doing well,

732
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: you're getting more time. You're getting it. They're going to you.

733
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: If you work hard, you get on the field. If

734
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: you're a practice squad player and you're practicing hard, you're

735
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: doing well, you're getting activated. They give you what you

736
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: earn week by week by week by week by week.

737
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: So you can bet that if Dawson Knox continues to

738
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: play like he's playing and practice like he's playing, you're

739
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna see more of him well. And I think a

740
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: sign that they had confidence that he was going to

741
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: be able to do what he's doing now is when

742
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: they parted ways with Jacob Hollister, when they reduced the

743
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: roster to fifty three. People are like, oh, why did

744
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 1: you read that guy? They signed him in free agency,

745
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: blah blah. It's because Dawson Knox looked like this in

746
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: training camp, right, That's why they didn't trade for Zach

747
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: Ertz and pay him agent in bucks. That's why they

748
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: didn't you know, they knew before any of us knew, Well,

749
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: any of you knew because I knew. That's right. Yes,

750
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: it's on the whiteboard. We know. We have to take

751
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: a break here when we come back. Read yes in

752
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: front of that sure or a big green check mark,

753
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: whichever one you want. Right, we have to take a

754
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, we'll play one more

755
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: comment from Brian Dable on the emergence of Emmanuel Sanders

756
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: in the scope of the offense. We'll get to that

757
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: when we return. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

758
00:42:46,320 --> 00:43:01,080
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760
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761
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00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,799
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763
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: g R five fifty, wanted to pass along one more

764
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: comment from one Brian Dable, who has been asked several

765
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: times about Emmanuel Sanders, but he was asked what it

766
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: means to have a veteran who's his experienced as Emmanuel

767
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: Sanders among the wide receiver group. Here was his thoughts

768
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: on that he's a pro. He really adds a lot

769
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: to our football team, particularly on the offensive side. But

770
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: I'd say just as a veteran leader in general, he

771
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 1: does everything the right way. He works already, he leads

772
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: by example, but he's also he's a vocal leader when

773
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: he needs to be. He's you know, you can tell

774
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: why he's been such a six scessful player twelve years

775
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: in a league or twelve plus, so when his numbers called,

776
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: he's ready to go and he made some big place

777
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: for us. So, Steve, we've seen Dawson Knox and Emmanuel

778
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: Sanders account for nine touchdowns over the last four games.

779
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: When do we expect the attention of opposing defenses to

780
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: swing more in their direction and further away from Stefan

781
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: Diggs and Cole Beasley. You're still talking about two guys

782
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: that at ninety two and one hundred and twenty seven

783
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: receptions last year. It's going to take a lot of

784
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: doing to get opposing defenses off of Diggs and Beasley

785
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: because they still hold a lot of respect. But you

786
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: cannot ignore if you're an opposing defense. What Knox and

787
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: Sanders have done, well, that's what you want to get

788
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: to as a point as an offense where you've got

789
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: too many weapons for a defense to take away. I

790
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: think what they'll do, and I think the philosophy for

791
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: defenses would be to force, you know, force Josh to

792
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: have to think a little bit before he drops back,

793
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: like you don't know who you're gonna guard. Now, Certainly

794
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: you can't leave Steph Diggs alone. The Chiefs found out

795
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: what that was, and he nicked him for a fifty

796
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: eight yard or sixty one yard catch down the middle.

797
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: It should have been it could have been a touchdown.

798
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: But I think what they'll do is they'll pick their

799
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: spots and I think they're gonna try and with all

800
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: those weapons, they'll try and anticipate with motion and shifts

801
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: and formation and personnel on the field. The defense they're

802
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 1: gonna say, Okay, in this formation and this personnel, our

803
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: priorities go Digs Sanders Beasley knocks or Digs knocks Sanders

804
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: Beasley and that and is up to Josh to figure

805
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: out which one's going to be open first, and trying

806
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: to figure out which guy they're gonna try and take

807
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: away on this place so you can get the matchup

808
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: you want somewhere else. And they're gonna try and put

809
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: it in Josh's plate to to sift through whichever guy

810
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: they think has got the best manage times last week,

811
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: where Josh had all day to survey his options, that's

812
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: a crush. A lot of times he had a pretty

813
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 1: he had a pretty clean pocket. We know he can

814
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: also extend the play when he doesn't have a clean pocket.

815
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: And just to quickly look at it, the Titans are

816
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: nineteenth and sacks per play. It's a small indicator as

817
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: to what kind of pass rush team they are. They're

818
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: in the bottom half of the league. Bud Dupree has

819
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: not come through as they had hoped here in the

820
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: early part of the season. Maybe that'll change as he

821
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: moves further and further away from his ACL knee surgery

822
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: in the offseason. But they're not They're not the defensive

823
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: front that they used to be Tennessee Well, nope. That's

824
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: one of the things that gets lost in all of this,

825
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: particularly if you sit here in Buffalo. We're kind of

826
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: getting accustomed to it. Even though you see a group

827
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: of guys that are still here from a year ago,

828
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: and maybe a smaller group that's here from two years ago,

829
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: and even smaller group that's here from three years ago.

830
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: These teams are different every year, and I think, for instance,

831
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: a team like Green Bay, a team like you know,

832
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: some of these others. I don't even like the Giants.

833
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: They have not evolved at all. And Buffalo has been

834
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: very willing even after thirteen and three season, even after

835
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: a ten and seven or ten and six season two

836
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: years ago where they got into the playoffs and got

837
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: put out by the Texans, they're very willing to wash

838
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: through the roster with some pretty prominent guys who have

839
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: really contributed. John John Brown last year and two years

840
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: ago and three years ago gone, and they just they

841
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: replaced him with a new player. A good player, no question,

842
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: but still that's a transformation that I think a lot

843
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: of teams are very hesitant to do. And I think

844
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: the Bills have embraced this thought that, listen, if a

845
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: good player comes in, we're gonna get the most out

846
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: of him no matter what. So they don't really mind

847
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: having new players in this But as a result, the

848
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: Bills team changes I think vastly from year to year,

849
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: more than most good teams do, and perhaps fingers crossed

850
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: for Bills fans, that leads them being able to sustain

851
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: this window even longer. We have to take a break here,

852
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: but when we come back, NFL UK reporter Neil Reynolds

853
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 1: is going to join us. He's going to talk about

854
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: the London game last week, the next one coming up

855
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: this week, as well as which German city could be

856
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: getting games as early as twenty twenty two. There are

857
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: three finalists. We talked to Neil about that and what

858
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: NFL teams are racing to market themselves in Germany. Talk

859
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: all of that with Neil. Next here on One Bill's Live,

860
00:48:40,200 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at

861
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all all over the fields,

862
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

863
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: player for you. St Steve a blimp. We're not even

864
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: in the stratoire of normalcy here all right, here we

865
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: are our number two here on one Bills Live. On

866
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Time for us to go to the other

867
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Speaker 1: side of the Atlantic where we're gonna be joined by

868
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: NFL UK reporter Neil Reynolds, who's going to join the

869
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Speaker 1: show Yoss Inside the Huddle and the Neil Reynolds Podcast.

870
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: He also has the Bills number one in his latest

871
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: power rankings over there, calling them the team to beat.

872
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: Let's welcome in, Neil. Now, all right, Neil, good to

873
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: have you things picked up on the other side of

874
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: the pond. There, you guys finally have NFL football back.

875
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: Jets at least made it a game last week. What

876
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: were what were the returns that you got maybe from

877
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: from the fans over there, from the entertainment value of

878
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: that one, just really well, first of all, happy that

879
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: it was back seven hundred and seven days between NFL games,

880
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: from when we waved goodbye to Houston and Jacksonville in

881
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to welcoming in the Falcons and the Jets.

882
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: So it was it felt like a real celebration. They

883
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: had a flyover, they had a national anthem, the US

884
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: anthem was sung from the top of the stadium. The

885
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: Lady was perched in the most incredible place, Marisia Wallace

886
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: singing the national anthem. So a real celebration. Yeah, for

887
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: a while it looked like the game was going to

888
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: be a struggle. Thankfully, the Jets kind of woke up,

889
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,479
Speaker 1: made it, made it a contest, and then at Lanta

890
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: had one more big drive to put it away. But

891
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: just really really glad that the NFL's back and the

892
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: fans deserve it over there over here, And yeah, it

893
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: was a it was a good, good day, good long day.

894
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: I was I was working from on Sky Sports from

895
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: about one thirty in the afternoon. We were on air

896
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: and I came off air about ten to one in

897
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: the in the morning. So yeah, but it was a

898
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: good one. Yeah, I agree with it was a long day.

899
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: A lot of football. It's started very early here and

900
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: ended very late. But are the what are the impressions

901
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: of this early in the season. We're five games into it.

902
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: We still have, you know, twelve games to go in

903
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,479
Speaker 1: the season, so a lot of football will be played.

904
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: What are your impressions of how the league is different

905
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: this year than it was last year, Which teams have emerged,

906
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: all other chargers, that kind of thing. Um, what are

907
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: your thoughts? Yeah, I think every year we get surprised,

908
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: don't We don't. We don't expect everything that is presented

909
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: to us. It feels like one of the more and

910
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but it feels like one of

911
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: the more incredible seasons taking shape. So many last minute finishes.

912
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: What we've had nineteen games in the last minute or

913
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: overtime decided that way. We've had Detroit punched in the

914
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: gut twice with long field goals to lose games. The

915
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: emergence of Justin Herbert is a real story that the

916
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: passing prowess of Mark Jackson has been a story. The

917
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: slippage from the Chiefs a little bit has been a headline.

918
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you guys are smiling happily because you are,

919
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: in my opinion, top dogs in the NFL. The Buffalo

920
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: Bills that number one in my power rankings have been

921
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. You see the magazine behind

922
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: me that way there is that's Josh Allen on the

923
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: cover of my preview magazine. As we discussed before I

924
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: picked Bills for the Super Bowl, I picked him for

925
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 1: the MVP. They're not letting me down right now. Yeah, Well,

926
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Speaker 1: I mean that's why we're having you on the show, Neil.

927
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing we're most excited about is that

928
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Speaker 1: the Bills are number one in your power rankings. I mean,

929
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: what higher honor is there I got. I don't know

930
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: that there is one. You guys got another one coming

931
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: up this Sunday. A familiar team in the Jacksonville Jaguars.

932
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: As we know Sean Kahan's inclinations of kind of putting

933
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 1: his team's stamp on UK fans. I don't know how

934
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: well that has taken in light of their struggles to

935
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: be competitive, but they've got the Dolphins in an all

936
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: state of Florida matchup. What would you say, Neil, in

937
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: your opinion, having observed the UK fans far closer than

938
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: I have or Steve has, what is your opinion as

939
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: to which team has taken well or maybe infiltrated the

940
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: fandom of UK fans best. So the Jags are certainly

941
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: trying to do that, and they've made gains in recent years.

942
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: But I think you can't go against some of the

943
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: history of where this sport kind of started in the UK.

944
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: You know, the real heyday of this sport was just

945
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: before you know, just before the Bills went on their

946
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: Super Bowl runs the late eighties, the mid eighties, and

947
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,280
Speaker 1: so there is a massive fan base for the Miami Dolphins.

948
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: And I think I've spoken to you guys about this

949
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: in the past. It's it's kind of ironic because it

950
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: was all started by Dan Marino and they struggled to

951
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: find that answer ever since. So yeah, I think it's

952
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: going to be a lot towards, a lot of effort

953
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: put towards the Jags. But I think this would be

954
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: a Dolphins crowd, and I'm hoping it will be a

955
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 1: competitive game because it's it's two struggling teams. Let's be honest,

956
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: this is two disappointing teams. So you know, I'm hoping

957
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: they at least serve up some entertainment. What are your

958
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: thoughts on the topic coming out and the news coming

959
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: out that the bill the NFL is going to go

960
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,280
Speaker 1: to Germany within the next few years. We've talked about

961
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: that in the past. How does that sit. Obviously it's

962
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: probably a good thing for the London football fans as well.

963
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: The more games in Europe, the better you're going to

964
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: be part of that mix no matter what going forward.

965
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Germany getting a game in

966
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? Really really excited? I think I think

967
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: it's hoping it. I'm hoping it's twenty twenty two. I

968
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: think they're still going to work out those logistics with

969
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 1: World Cup and a compressed football schedule, but they deserve it.

970
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: The fans deserve it. Some of the best nights I

971
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: ever had covering American football were in Germany in the

972
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: old NFL europe League, and I'm glad to see two

973
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: old friends of mine, bustled Off and Frankfurt make the

974
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: final three, along with Munich. And you're right to point

975
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: it out that way. This is not a competition between

976
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: the UK and Germany. This is an opportunity for British

977
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: fans to hop on a plane for an hour. You know,

978
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: we have fans come from Germany to the games in London,

979
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: we have fans come from Scandinavia, from Spain, across Europe.

980
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: British fans are going to have another game right out

981
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: on their doorstep. So we know we've got two games

982
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:47,720
Speaker 1: every year at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Very interesting now coming

983
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: up is the ability for up to six teams to

984
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: market themselves internationally in each market, so we could have

985
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: other teams vying for London games which fall outside the

986
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. So we're definitely going to have two,

987
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: maybe we have three, maybe we are four and we're

988
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: going to have a potentially a game in Germany. So yeah,

989
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: it's fantastic, and I'm pleased for the German fan base.

990
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: I think it was really tough for them when NFL

991
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: Europe closed because it was such a such a strong

992
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: place for American football. Yeah, I'm I'm already lobbying my

993
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: producers at Sky Sports. We are covering that game. I'm

994
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: going to be there, Neil. It leads me to my

995
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: next question, which I don't know if you've seen this,

996
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: but I know the sports business journal here in the

997
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 1: US has been reporting on this pretty heavily that NFL

998
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: clubs are already battling each other tooth and nail to

999
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: get the inn in Germany because it is a very

1000
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: untapped market in terms of developing a fan base or

1001
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: a fan following. But it's clear that these billionaire owners

1002
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: here of these NFL clubs in the US see the

1003
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: value in being first to the party, so to speak.

1004
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: So do you have any sense as to maybe who

1005
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: could have the inside track, who historically might be popular

1006
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: in Germany, if you have any knowledge in that at all.

1007
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: I really don't, but I think what I mean, I

1008
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: think again, their fan base was kind of growing not

1009
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: long after it was in the UK, So you know,

1010
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys maybe one. I honestly would be guessing on that, Fellas,

1011
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: but you're absolutely right to say that owners want to

1012
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: get in on the ground. I remember, I don't know

1013
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: if this was almost kind of forgotten now, but it

1014
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: was the Rams who made the multi year deal for

1015
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: the UK first, and then they figured out their stadium

1016
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: in situation in Saint Louis and suddenly they pulled out

1017
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: of that. And actually when they pulled out, that was

1018
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: music to Shard Khan's ears because he wanted in on

1019
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: the UK and the Rams kind of beat into the punch.

1020
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: So there is going to be competition for it, I think,

1021
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: and I think that's all going to be all going

1022
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: to be good because they are going to be multiple

1023
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: teams I think will vie for the UK as well.

1024
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: You know, if you think about the San Francisco forty

1025
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: nine ers have an interest in Leeds United, you know,

1026
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: in the Premier League team there, you've got the Glazers

1027
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: with Manchester United from Tampa Bay. You've got Stan Cronky

1028
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: with the Arsenal football team. So you know, I think

1029
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: there's going to be there's going to be teams queuing

1030
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: up to market themselves here in the UK, and there's

1031
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: going to be teams doing exactly the same in Germany.

1032
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: And I think it's just great for the European football fan,

1033
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, and who knows where we go down down

1034
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: the line. But you know, if you do still want

1035
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: to look that franchise route, then maybe you have a

1036
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: local rivalry between Germany and the UK. The one thing

1037
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: I think which would probably reduce British fans to tears

1038
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: is if the first game in Germany features the Green

1039
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, because the Packers are the only team that

1040
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: haven't played in London, so as well. We're just really

1041
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: it was still even though it's been years and years

1042
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: where we played American balls in the preseason. The league

1043
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: has been coming over for a couple of decades now,

1044
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: we've still I feel like it's only begun to scratch

1045
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: the surface of what the NFL could do overseas. Likewise,

1046
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: you're going to do a tour of the U of

1047
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: the US. You're gonna come over and do a Great

1048
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: Lakes tour coming in December. What are your thought when

1049
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: does that start? What are your stops going to be

1050
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: so first stop is a Monday night game in Buffalo.

1051
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: So never been to a Bill's home game. Cannot wait.

1052
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: So the game against the Patriots in December. I've I know, yeah,

1053
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: I've always always said. I always say from the warmth

1054
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: and comfort of a studio. I love games in cold weather.

1055
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: It's football weather. It's great because I don't have to

1056
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: sit through it. Well, now I'm going to sit through

1057
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: a Monday night game in Buffalo. But I can't wait.

1058
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: I might even cover my self in ketchup and mustard.

1059
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Speaker 1: There's no need to do that. No, don't feel like

1060
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: you have to go to those lengths. That's just that's

1061
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: not that's not insane mind or body. That may be

1062
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: a step too far, but I mean, you can do

1063
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: what you want, Neil, but yourself, I wouldn't reco obliged.

1064
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: I felt obliged. I'm going to go from there. Then

1065
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: we're going to go to the Thursday night game between

1066
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a Minnesota. Luckily that's indoors. So yeah, this is

1067
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: a cold trip, this one, and then the trip finishes

1068
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: up at lambeau Field for the Bears of the Packers.

1069
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 1: I won't be on that leg of the tour because

1070
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be back in the Sky Sports Studios

1071
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: doing my regular Sunday gig. But yeah, looking forward to

1072
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: catching some live action, and yeah, looking forward to seeing

1073
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's grumpy face in the cold as the Bills

1074
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: put forty on his team. So it's gonna be different

1075
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: as a fan, naturally, in the in the throes of

1076
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: or in the throng of the fans that are largely

1077
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 1: be Bills fans. I recommend insulated boots, so do your

1078
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: to find a pair of those, because your feet are

1079
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: what seemed to get cold the fastest. Neil. If here's

1080
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: the here's what you find out when you live in Buffalo.

1081
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: If your hands, your head, and your feet are warm,

1082
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: the rest of your body will be fun. Yeah, you're fine. Gloves, boots, hat,

1083
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: take care of your feet, your head, and your hands,

1084
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: and you're good to go. Um, and we've had a

1085
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: warm fall, so I don't know if we're gonna get

1086
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: to snow by the time you get here in December.

1087
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: I mean, naturally, I'll be hoping for it for you,

1088
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: just to add to the ambiance. Um, Neil, We're gonna

1089
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: make it easy for Neil, right, Brownie's trying to exact

1090
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 1: Browny's sugarcoating it. Right now, you're gonna get snowy, Yeah

1091
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: you might. You're gonna freeze. I might as well get

1092
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: the full experience when you got to hear what you'll say.

1093
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: And I don't need to make it worse for myself

1094
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 1: by covering myself and ketch up. Yeah, we don't need to.

1095
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: We don't need to make will love you just the

1096
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: same if you don't cover yourself in mustard and ketchup. Yeah,

1097
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: but it'll be good. You'll you'll have a great time.

1098
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: The energy here doesn't change based on the weather because

1099
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: people still turn out in droves, especially with the team

1100
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: playing as well as they are. I wanted to get

1101
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: your I know you kind of keep a really close

1102
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: ear to the ground on the league. So what are

1103
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the pecking order in the AFC. We

1104
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: don't have an undefeated team in this conference anymore. Arizona

1105
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: is the loan remaining unbeaten and they're over in the NFC,

1106
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: as you know, But what do you think of the AFC,

1107
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: at least the top tier as you see it? You know,

1108
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: I know you have the Bills number one in your

1109
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: power rankings, but maybe just take it a step further.

1110
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: Just tell me who you feel is in the mix

1111
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: to contend in the top tier of the conference. Yeah

1112
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: so yeah, Like I said, I have the Bills at

1113
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: the top. I think the Bills are the clear number

1114
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: one team in the entire NFL for me, but the

1115
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 1: AFC is still going to be a wild playoff pitcher

1116
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: when we get I believe in Justin Herbert. I believe

1117
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: he's so special. You know, if you think he missed

1118
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: the first game of his rookie year, he didn't. He's

1119
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: only what five games into his second season, and he

1120
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: already has the most three hundred yard passing days of

1121
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: any player in the first two seasons. He's had eleven

1122
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: three three hundred yard passing days. He's the real deal.

1123
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: It's incredible what he's done. So I think he and

1124
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: the offensive weapons make the Chargers dangerous. I don't trust

1125
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: Baltimore's defense, but they're looking like they're putting up points,

1126
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure about Baltimore. I think they'll be

1127
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: in the mix. So I'd say Charges are the most

1128
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: the strongest contender. Cleveland are strong and I'm not going

1129
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: to write off the Chiefs, because if they stop shooting

1130
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot and we know how quickly they

1131
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: can score points, I think Buffalo and Kansas City might

1132
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: meet again. They're just going to have to do it

1133
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: in really, really cold weather and with lots of noisy, red, White,

1134
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: and Blue fans. I think so those would be those

1135
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: would be the leading ones for me. But I have

1136
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: been very impressed with the Bills. I just hope teams

1137
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 1: like the Chargers, teams like Dallas, if we spread it

1138
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: out to the rest of the league, I hope that

1139
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: teams that look really good right now with their star

1140
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: players don't suffer a season altar and injury, because that's

1141
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: when I think it's really depressing when you see a

1142
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: team knocked off what could have been the championship. Course,

1143
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: But we're in for a really exciting season. There's there's

1144
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: some real quality teams at the top. You know. One

1145
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: of the things I've noticed as well, and I mentioned

1146
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 1: this on an interview I did this morning, that it's

1147
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: hard to imagine a team well, we've seen the Chiefs

1148
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: do it. We've seen some other teams do it for stretches.

1149
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: Last year, the Pittsburgh Steeters got off to eleven and

1150
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: oz start and then stumbled to the finish. It's hard

1151
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,919
Speaker 1: to play such a long season at such a high level,

1152
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: and I think one of the things that the Buffalore

1153
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: Bills have to fight against now is the length of

1154
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: the season and continuing this high level of play on

1155
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. What are your thoughts about,

1156
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, just the length of the season, extra regular

1157
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: season game. Yeah, you do get an extra playoff team

1158
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 1: this year there are seven instead of six. All of

1159
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: that stuff goes into the mix. But this is a really,

1160
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: really difficult season to be playing so well so early

1161
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: and hope that you can sustain it. Yeah. I was

1162
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: thinking about that actually the other day driving into Sky Sports.

1163
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: It was we were four weeks in and we were

1164
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: down to one undefeated team. Yeah, so everyone can knock

1165
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: everyone else off, which is incredible, And I was kind

1166
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: of thinking that, obviously we do this, or we have

1167
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 1: to do this. In the media, fans want to talk

1168
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: about the sport, they want to talk about the game.

1169
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, we fill hours and hours. We are on

1170
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: air for seven and eight hours live every Sunday night

1171
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: on Sky Sports. But I was thinking, where a team

1172
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: is in week four, week five Week six, you know,

1173
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: or or we react instantly to a team losing. Well,

1174
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 1: the Bucks lost, they got hammered by the by the

1175
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: Chiefs in Week twelve last year, and they went and

1176
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: won the whole thing. So I think you're absolutely right

1177
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: that old kind of Bill Belichick classic phrase, the season

1178
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: doesn't start until Thanksgiving. I mean every game is still important,

1179
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: of course, but sometimes what we react to now is

1180
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: not going to Matt. There could be someone hiding in

1181
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: the pack. I mean, I don't think there is. I

1182
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: think the quality of the league is the quality of

1183
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: the league. But someone can get hot and someone could

1184
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: get very cold, and that's yeah, I get the I

1185
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 1: get the the kind of trepidation there that you you know,

1186
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: if you start off red hot, you know, can you

1187
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: maintain that. It's certainly how you finish that's going to

1188
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: count this year. Yeah, I mean you mentioned the Bucks.

1189
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: They were on a three game losing streak during that

1190
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: last year and turned it all around. It's pretty remarkable. Um.

1191
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your take, Neil on the rookie

1192
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are playing an awful lot. You've got an

1193
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: up close look at Zack Wilson this past weekend you're

1194
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: going to get a look at Trevor Lawrence this week,

1195
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 1: so maybe just give me your thumbnail sketch of your

1196
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: impressions on the rookie quarterbacks who you know. I think

1197
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: we all expect rookie quarterbacks to go through their share

1198
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: of personal struggles as well as team struggles because they're

1199
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: usually going to teams that need the help. Yeah. Yeah,

1200
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: and they're getting they're getting a lot of pressure on them.

1201
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: You know, they get a lot of pressure to produce,

1202
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: but they're getting physical pressure literally every other snap as well.

1203
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: I think Zach Wilson when I saw him last week,

1204
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 1: and I watched him practice the day before, just very,

1205
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 1: very talented. He made one throw early in the game

1206
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, roll into his left It was actually called

1207
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: back for offensive holding, but he kind of threw against

1208
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: his body to the sideline. It was fantastic, just the

1209
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: natural talent. I'm very interested to see him say that

1210
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: he's overthinking things. I saw that comment after the Atlanta

1211
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: lost because there was just a split second where I'm

1212
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: often watching on TV, I'm not in stadiums, and we

1213
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: were in the stadium and you see receivers flash open

1214
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: and then you're expecting him to deliver the ball and

1215
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 1: he didn't, and that was glaring to me when I

1216
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,759
Speaker 1: didn't kind of stand out when I watched him on TV.

1217
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: But you could argue he's probably he probably needs to

1218
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: think a little bit more because he's been a bit

1219
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 1: reckless with the football and he was on Sunday. He

1220
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: doesn't take the eight yard hitch, he doesn't take the

1221
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: five yard out. He's going for it a lot of

1222
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: the time, and you can't do that in the NFL

1223
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,679
Speaker 1: all the time without paying a price for it. Trevor Lawrence,

1224
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be another I think he's

1225
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: We've seen enough there to kind of I think he's

1226
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: going to be good again. Slow to process some stuff.

1227
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: He's just in a really difficult situation because, you know,

1228
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 1: I hear him say there's no reason to panic. Then

1229
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: I hear her but Maya saying we need to panic.

1230
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: Then I hear aber Mayer saying we haven't practiced the

1231
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: goal line sneak, and then I hear Trevor Lawrence saying

1232
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: we practiced the gold line sneak. Just fine. I mean,

1233
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: that's a mess there at the moment, and for a

1234
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, to walk into that and then have to

1235
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: deal with that. Yeah, I think that's really tough on him.

1236
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: So it's I think Trey Lance wasn't ready and we've

1237
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,679
Speaker 1: seen that. I think he's going to need time. And

1238
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: mac Jones is on a team that's kind of steady

1239
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: but not very spectacular, which I think has been him

1240
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: early in this season. What about justin fields in Chicago?

1241
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 1: They the Chicago Bears fans clamored day and night for

1242
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 1: him to get on the field. They got their wish,

1243
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 1: changed play callers because she went to Bill Laser. That's right.

1244
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: So a lot of things going on in Chicago. What

1245
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: are you What are your thoughts about the Bears. I

1246
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 1: knew i'd forget one of the rookie Corsebacs who went

1247
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: for them, So thanks Steve for bailing me out. No, no, no,

1248
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: it's it's a long way obviously. Yeah, yeah, no, it

1249
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: has been. Yeah. I think he's I don't see the

1250
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: harm in letting him play this out now, because I

1251
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: think if you change the system for him, change a

1252
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: few plays for him. You know, the touchdown he threw

1253
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: to Jesper Horsted in the end zone last week was

1254
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:12,600
Speaker 1: a laser. It was an amazing throw. But here's the

1255
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: most pressured quarterback in the NFL since he's been in there.

1256
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: So again, tough situation, but I don't see I don't

1257
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: see the point in hanging around with Andy Dalton at

1258
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: the moment. I think I would if it doesn't break

1259
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 1: him and if it doesn't damage him too much in

1260
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: terms of mentally in processing everything. I'd like to see

1261
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: the best If Justin fields a run, I think he's

1262
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: got something there. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to finish up

1263
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: with a two part question. First, I know, speaking of quarterbacks,

1264
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Leaf was the latest guest on the Neil Reynolds podcast,

1265
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: and we know the personal demons that he's had to

1266
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: deal with personally talk about pressure for rookie quarterbacks. Fortunately,

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Speaker 1: it seems like he's come out on the other side

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Speaker 1: of that. Okay, First, tell us some of the ground

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Speaker 1: you covered to kind of preview that interview for people

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Speaker 1: that want to take a look at that on the

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Speaker 1: Neil Reals podcast. And then second, I'm terribly curious as

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Speaker 1: to how you handle the viewing of primetime games in

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01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: the States because it's like one or two in the

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Speaker 1: morning over there for you. So I need the honest truth.

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Speaker 1: Are you such a fanatic that you stay up and

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Speaker 1: watch it live or do you DVR it and catch

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Speaker 1: it the next morning? Right, I'll give you that answer first. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I have one hundred percent DVR and watch it the

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Speaker 1: next morning. Even to the point I caught myself the

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Speaker 1: other day doing a promotion. I was doing a promo

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Speaker 1: read during our live coverage from Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and

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Speaker 1: I was talking about the games. We had four Life

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Speaker 1: games on Sunday. We had the Jets and the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: the Packers and the Bengals, the Giants and the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: then the Bills and the Chiefs. And in my promo read,

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Speaker 1: I then said, and then we'll get a few hours

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Speaker 1: sleep and then we'll go again and watch Indianapolis Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: And in the back of my mind, I'm like, there's

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Speaker 1: no way I'm watching that game Life. So I know

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Speaker 1: I DVR and I watched them the next day, and

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Speaker 1: I watched them throughout the course of the week if

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Speaker 1: I need to as and when I need to research

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Speaker 1: those games. As far as Ryan Leaf was concerned, Ryan's

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Speaker 1: been a kind of remote guest by a Zoom and

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Speaker 1: Skype on sky Sports NFL this year, looking to get

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Speaker 1: him involved a bit more. And I actually started the

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Speaker 1: conversation with him on my podcast saying, I'm glad I've

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Speaker 1: got to meet you, because the person I've got to

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Speaker 1: meet is a really nice guy. And I said, and

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Speaker 1: the person I thought you were reading the headlines, I said,

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Speaker 1: you were not that, you were anything but that. And

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,600
Speaker 1: he fully admits he was a pain in the backside

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01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: when he was, you know, a younger guy, and he

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01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: just didn't appreciate what he had. He didn't he thought

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Speaker 1: he could. He even said that we talk about an incident.

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Speaker 1: There's a famous incident where he's towering over a reporter

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, screaming at him. It was all

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01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: caught on camera. Junior Sale comes in and drags Ryan

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Speaker 1: Leaf away, and I asked you, I said, what did

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Speaker 1: you What did you think when you saw that? It's

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01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 1: like embarrassed him. But so that's why I thought I was.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was the big man. I thought I

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01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: could shout everyone down. He writed a few wrongs in

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Speaker 1: the podcast as well. And there's the famous Vegas trip,

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Speaker 1: which was kind of described as a was I've heard

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Speaker 1: it described as like a week long party or an

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Speaker 1: all night to where he was drunk. And he actually

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Speaker 1: went to Vegas with his family on the plane that

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Speaker 1: was charted for him by the It was a private

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Speaker 1: jet of the team owner of the Chargers. He didn't

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Speaker 1: drink all night. He went there, had some family time

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Speaker 1: with his dad and his brothers and his cousins, and

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Speaker 1: the next morning went to the Charger's facility. It was

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Speaker 1: never a problem, it never got raised. It was never

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01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: an issue until he started playing badly. Then it became

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Speaker 1: a weapon to kind of beat him with and a

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Speaker 1: stick to beat him with. So, yeah, he's a nice guy, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: He's a really good guy, and he's obviously been through

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Speaker 1: a lot, and I'm glad he's I didn't know him before,

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01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: but I'm glad I know now. Yeah, I would agree

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01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 1: with that. I covered him in his first game as

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01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: a as a professional athlete, and he had a long

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01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: way to go, but so do a lot of rookies.

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01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: We didn't know how I was going to turn out.

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Speaker 1: Then his first win, his first win was against the

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01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: Bills fourteen. I was in the booth, Yeah, that was.

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Speaker 1: He came on the second half and to rescue him.

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Speaker 1: Last one. We've talked about everybody in the league except

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Speaker 1: for the last game that took place this last week

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Speaker 1: in the Monday night football game Indianapolis or Indianapolis at Baltimore,

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01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson came out in the second half and

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Speaker 1: for those people who didn't see it, put on a

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Speaker 1: display of quarterbacking that I would say, I would submit

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01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 1: that a large percentage of football fans around the planet

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01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 1: did not think he could perform. He threw the football

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Speaker 1: extremely well, completed eighty plus percent of his passes, eighty

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01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: six percent of his passes in the in the game,

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Speaker 1: he just put on a performance that was unparalleled in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. What are your thoughts about Lamar Jackson? And

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01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 1: certainly he is probably the most important player on any

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01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 1: team in the league to his team, Without him, they

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01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: would they are done. But what about his performance on

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01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: Monday Night? I think it probably even despite the fact

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Speaker 1: that Josh Allen and other guys put up great numbers

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Speaker 1: this last weekend, I think Lamar Jackson's performance on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night was probably a standalone performance. Yeah, I would degrase Steve.

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Speaker 1: He had had a game in the second half. He

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Speaker 1: had the game's worth of numbers in the second half alone,

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Speaker 1: And I would take your point, which is one hundred

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01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: percent correct. Fans would not think he was capable of

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Speaker 1: doing this. I would extend that and say there are

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Speaker 1: a fair amount of coaches around the NFL that didn't

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01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: think he could do this, And I think they'll watch

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01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: this film and they'll be thinking, how do we now

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01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: prepare for the Baltimore Ravens because we always had this thing.

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Speaker 1: Put it on Lamar shut down the run, you know,

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Speaker 1: as he really shown us he can be an every

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Speaker 1: down passer. Yeah he has, he won from behind, is

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01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: he a front runner? All of it goes out the window,

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Speaker 1: and not just from this game. You know, He's done

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Speaker 1: it a few times now this season. Came back against

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Speaker 1: came back against the Chiefs as well. So I'm if

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Speaker 1: I'm watching that as another coach in the NFL, I'm

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Speaker 1: concerned about how I defend the Ravens if I'm a

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Speaker 1: Baltimore fan or a fan of exciting football, I mean

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01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: just exciting football. I mean it makes you He makes

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01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: you say wow four or five times in every game,

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01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 1: but especially on Monday Night. I mean it was incredible.

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01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: It really was. Yeah. I hope I hope it lasts

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01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 1: because you know that was one of the big offseason narratives,

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01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: wasn't it. Oh well, you know Baltimore thirty second in

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01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,799
Speaker 1: passing last year. They can't pass the football. Can they upgrade?

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01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: Well if they can. And also they didn't look that

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01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: impressive in Week one losing to the Raiders, and they

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01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,680
Speaker 1: look like they haven't got very much or certainly not

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01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: what they used to have on defense. And here they

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01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: are at four and one. They just have winning in

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01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: their DNA. The Baltimore Ravens, I would submit they are

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01:16:57,200 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: probably one of the most mentally toughs in the league

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01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,759
Speaker 1: by far, and I think it wills them to victory

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: sometimes when most people don't think they have a chance.

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01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 1: Because I had him dead and buried in that game,

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01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: I went to bed. Speaking of not staying up for games,

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01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: I didn't make it for that one. I was still

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: I was still trying to recover from a wee hour

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01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: of the morning assignments on Sunday night into Monday. So

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01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: I had to bail on that one. But surprised, to

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01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: say the least, that Lamar Jackson threw for over four

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01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: hund or forty yards. Neil as always, thank you for

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Speaker 1: the perspective from the other side of the Atlantic. I'm

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01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: sure you'll be keeping your ear to the ground on

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01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: the developments in Germany, so we look forward to catching

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01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 1: up with you in the future when those developments become

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01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: more concrete. Thanks as always for the time. All right,

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01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,160
Speaker 1: thanks having me on. Good guys, good to see agin.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's Neil Reynolds, NFL UK expert. We have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: more of your comments on the tweet sheet and some

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01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: players sound hopefully in the near future if one builds

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Speaker 1: Live presented by it's a lot of help just Buffalo

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Speaker 1: the League. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and time to get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Steve, because we threw the topic out there

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01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,600
Speaker 1: and we haven't really had a chance to discuss it.

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01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,920
Speaker 1: We've been jammed up here all day long, aside from

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01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 1: those who have already won Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmonds, Greg Russo,

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01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: who wins the next Player of the Week honor for

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Speaker 1: the Bills And we go to the tweet sheet now,

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Speaker 1: which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official equipment moving provider of the Buffalo Bills, and Mark says,

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Speaker 1: my hope is that it's Stefan Diggs. Even with all

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01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,799
Speaker 1: of our success, he still hasn't broken out this season.

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01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: I feel like it's coming and coming soon. Go Bills.

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: How close do we think we are to a Stefan

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01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: Diggs breakout game? Well, I don't think he needs to

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01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: break out. He's he's like a big production game, you

1427
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yards He may be a guy

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01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: the teams just do too much to take away. And

1429
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Some of the teams you see that

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01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: feed guys target after target after target after target. They

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: do that because they don't have other options, or at

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01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 1: least as viable other options. It's you can throw to

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01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: a covered Steph Diggs or something like that, or you

1434
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: can throw to a wide open Dawson Knox or a

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01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: wide open Emmanuel Sanders. That's just the way it's going

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01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 1: right now. Look at think about what you know. Think

1437
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 1: about what Cole Beasley is going through today. Um, he

1438
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: had like just twenty two snaps for the entire game,

1439
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:44,640
Speaker 1: had one target, one catch. Um. That's where being unselfish

1440
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: goes a long way toward helping the team. Be successful.

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01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs and his captaincy has taken, you know, a

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01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: more vocal role in leadership. The leadership he's gonna have

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01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: to display now as patients and grace knowing that there's

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01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:00,280
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of weeks where he don't doesn't

1445
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: get the number of targets that he who would he

1446
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: would like to get, But he's still out there and

1447
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 1: he's still contributing because the defense still focuses on him.

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01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know the Steph dig is gonna

1449
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:12,679
Speaker 1: He's not gonna lead the league and catches and yards

1450
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 1: this year like he did a year ago because of

1451
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 1: the way defenses see the Bill's offense, but his presence

1452
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 1: on the offense is still a huge factor in their success.

1453
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 1: Brad on the tweet Sheet says, I think one of

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01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: the running backs is due. We will have a big

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01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 1: running game this season. The guys are getting better and better.

1456
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: Moss is improving so much each game, and Motor has

1457
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: improved a lot. It'd be nice to see them get

1458
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: an award. I think if they do, they're gonna have

1459
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: to have multiple touchdowns and they're probably gonna need three

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01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 1: or four receptions for some decent yardage as well. I

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01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: gotta say I've I've been pretty impressed with what Moss

1462
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: has done, you know, as a swing pass, safety, valve

1463
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: checkdown option in the passing game. He had a couple

1464
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 1: of nice plays in the Sunday night game again as

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01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and I remember watching his college tape and

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01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 1: while he can be a bruising runner, I think he

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01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,959
Speaker 1: is underrated as a pass catcher out of the backfield. Yeah,

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01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: the Bills have never used those guys that much in

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01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 1: their passing game. They throw them swing passes and screen

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01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:17,320
Speaker 1: passes and that kind of thing. They threw him a

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Speaker 1: couple of times to this last week against the Kansas

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01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, but they've never been you know, a team

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01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:26,920
Speaker 1: that splits their guy out widen hasn't run routes. That's

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01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 1: a hard thing to do for a running back, especially

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01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: the guys the ones that the Bills have in Singletary

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01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: and Moss. Those guys aren't built for it, and it's

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01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: not their skill sets. So that's why they're not getting

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01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: asked to do it. I think if a running back

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01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 1: is going to get Offensive Player of the Week in

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01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 1: the AFC, you're gonna have to light it up I

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01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: mean big time, and you're gonna have to make your

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01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: battle and people every week like Derrick Henry Well forget no,

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01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: you're drab battling people like Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson

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01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert. And for running back to get that,

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01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you just railed off quarterbacks. That's funny.

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01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna You're not gonna beat those

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Speaker 1: guys out for the FC Offensive Player of the Week.

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01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: And I light it up for a couple hundred yards

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Speaker 1: and a couple of touchdowns, and probably one of those

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01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: touchdowns has to be in the waning moments of a

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01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: close game where you break five tackles. You know, it's

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01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: hard for running back to win that. Yeah, no matter

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01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: how well they play. I mean, they could bust out

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01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: and and sometimes they'll get a little mileage out of it.

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01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, hey, he busted out and had a

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01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: great week. Okay, give it to him kind of thing, like,

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01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, a kind of one off week. Yeah, but

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01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: where none of the quarterbacks do anything. How rare is that? Right?

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01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 1: There's a confluence of events that may lead to that,

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01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I like Moss, I like single

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01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: tarre those guys. But man, that's an uphill battle trying

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01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 1: to win that award. You've got to you've got to

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01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 1: be a receiver that has you know, twelve catches for

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01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,400
Speaker 1: a buck sixty five and a couple of touchdowns and

1505
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: then including a game winner or or one of those

1506
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: plays that stands out like yeah, and you throw for

1507
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: one on a reverse right, so that's it's a quarterback. Yeah.

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01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean Dawson. Think about the game Dawson Knox had

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01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: this last week. Didn't get a sniff, not even a sniff,

1510
01:23:05,439 --> 01:23:07,839
Speaker 1: because he had two guys throw for over four hundred.

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01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:11,559
Speaker 1: He's like eighth on the list. If he gets on

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: the list, and you know the other seven guys or quarterbacks,

1513
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: it's yeah, so it's good luck. Yeah. From Bill's Fan

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01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: twelve to eighty three, I'll go with Matt Milano because

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01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 1: he has played so well already this year. As long

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01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: as he can stay away from injuries, he will fill

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01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: up the stat sheet. I like Milano as an option here,

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01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be very interesting to see if he's

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01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: healthy enough to play this week. Hopefully he is. Um.

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01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 1: That was a coup, huh, beating the Chiefs and saving

1521
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: Milano's hamstring for a week. I mean that's yeah. He

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01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: struck goal twice there. Yeah, that's yeah. Milana Milano is

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01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: he hasn't missed that many games over the course of

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01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: his career. I was surprised. It seems like he's alway

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01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 1: he always misses one or two a season, but he

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01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: doesn't miss an entire season. The only one broke his

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01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: leg one time. That's the one year, one time. That

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01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: the rest of it has been one game here, two

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01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,400
Speaker 1: games here there. I think he's missed a total of

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01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:11,719
Speaker 1: ten games out of fifty possible or fifty five possible

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01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: something like that. Um, still twenty percent. I don't know

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01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 1: if it's even that much, but yeah, so that's um.

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01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: And it's been over his two games. Like I said,

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01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:22,639
Speaker 1: you know, he missed I think like what six games

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01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: his rookie year and it's only been four s eighteen. Yeah. Yeah.

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01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 1: When he is on the field and on the field

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01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,639
Speaker 1: for a long time. The guy is a ball hawk.

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01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: And I think you put you mix Milano up or

1539
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: put him in the mix along with Power and Hide.

1540
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,240
Speaker 1: You got three guys in the middle of your defense

1541
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: along with Edmunds, four guys that are really rangy. Yeah,

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01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: they're ball hawks too. They got ball skills and they

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01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: can all run, you know, and they're all in the

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01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 1: middle of it. And you add in, you sprinkle on

1545
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 1: top of that the added production they're getting out of

1546
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: their pass rush and the and the quickness of the

1547
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 1: ball has to come out. Now either guy's going down

1548
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:05,680
Speaker 1: or he's busting out. He's you know. That leads to

1549
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: a lot of productivity for those middle guys. Pour your

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01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: hide Milano, aj Klein last week, and of course Edmonds

1551
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: as well. So I think it's that Milano's a really

1552
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: interesting character because we see him do so many great

1553
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:22,880
Speaker 1: things when he's in there, yea, and when they're out

1554
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:25,479
Speaker 1: to win a game like that with him out of

1555
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 1: the lineup, I think it does say something about their

1556
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: depth and about their quality of guys around him. It's

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01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: not just about Milano, Jack says, it's gotta be Dawson

1558
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: Knox with his athleticism and the way he's finding the

1559
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 1: end zone right now. Plus Allen is looking for him

1560
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 1: in all situations. He's becoming a go to guy. I

1561
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,599
Speaker 1: have no doubt I'll explode for seven to ten catches

1562
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 1: for like one fifty and two or more touchdowns in

1563
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: a game and get that recognition. Those are the kind

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01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:51,639
Speaker 1: of numbers it is going to take. Yeah, he'll get

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01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: if he has like double digit catch game, if he

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01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: has ten catches, forget about the artist. If it's one

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01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards, one hundred and fifty and a

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01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,480
Speaker 1: couple of touch downs, yeah, then he's in the conversation

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01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: and a game the Bills win. Yes, Yeah, tight end

1570
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: is easier to win the award than it would be

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01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: a running back. Yeah, I would agree with that. It's

1572
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 1: passing leak. Yeah. JT says, I'll throw in a wild card.

1573
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,719
Speaker 1: Isaiah mackenzie is gonna go off one of these games.

1574
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: He's predicting another Week seventeen special. Apparently, I think about that.

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01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: He didn't get it that week. Yeah. The Dolphins are

1576
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: coming Yeah he didn't. The Dolphins are coming up. They

1577
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: may have a little scar tissue from Isaiah McKenzie, but

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01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 1: it's in there. I mean he with a return with

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01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 1: a kick return, a couple of kick returns and bust

1580
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:43,880
Speaker 1: one for the going the distance, and plus have a

1581
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: couple of other returns that are really good. Yeah, McKenzie

1582
01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 1: could win. It doesn't Special teams and I'll say this

1583
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 1: as a guy who knows it only takes like two

1584
01:26:53,439 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: or three plays for a special teams guy to get it.

1585
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 1: Speaking of special teams, Robert says, big Leg Bass for

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01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 1: Special Teams Player of the Week. That could happen in

1587
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: a week where maybe they're not killing it in the

1588
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 1: red zone. He did. Did he get it last week?

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01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: Last year in that Arizona game when he had the

1590
01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:12,679
Speaker 1: three no because they lost the game three fifty plus yarders?

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01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: He can get it? He lost? Did he win in

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01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: the Jet game where he was six of eight? I

1593
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: think that's when he won. That might have been it.

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01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: I think that was so a game like that happens.

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01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: And yeah, he could get it. All right, I'm gonna

1596
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 1: make more than six of eight. Good contributions there on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Thanks for those. We have to take

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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back. Steve and I close

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Speaker 1: it up for a Wednesday here on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,640
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:51,759
Speaker 1: Some interesting news out in Las Vegas concerning the Raiders.

1603
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: As we know, John Gruden resigned Monday night. Rich Bisaccio,

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01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: the special teams coordinator, now running things there. But My

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01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: Garafolo from NFL Network is reporting that Raiders GM Mike

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01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: Mayock says Carl Nassef has requested and was granted a

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01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 1: personal day today because he has quote a lot to

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01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 1: process following the John Gruden email situation. For those that

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01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 1: don't know, Karl Nassib, defensive lineman for the Raiders, is

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01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 1: openly gay. Came out in the spring and was applauded

1611
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:29,679
Speaker 1: for doing that as that cannot be easy. I can't

1612
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 1: put myself in his shoes, but that still to this

1613
01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:34,760
Speaker 1: day is not an easy thing to do in our society.

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01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 1: So he was roundly applauded for that, even including by

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01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:45,160
Speaker 1: Commissioner Goodell. Can't imagine what's going through his head after

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01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:50,799
Speaker 1: this latest email news on John Gruden's behavior on email,

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01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: which included homophobic remarks. Yeah, this is this is gonna

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01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: stick around for a while. It's got some legs and

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01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:58,519
Speaker 1: this Raiders are gonna have to finish the rest of

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01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:00,640
Speaker 1: the season, most the bulk of the season with a

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01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 1: different an interim head coach. So we'll watch the Las

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01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders see how they handle this. They have always

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01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,479
Speaker 1: been an organization that has been all about diversity. Yeah,

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01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:15,440
Speaker 1: and to see them go through this is pretty disturbing. Yeah,

1625
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 1: we will have practice field coverage tomorrow. We'll see what

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01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 1: the status is on Matt Mulano, coach mcdermotts sound as

1627
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:25,760
Speaker 1: well as players sound, including that from Josh Allen. And

1628
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: we've got an interesting announcement to make Steve and I

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01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 1: will get to that tomorrow. Don't miss it on Thursday