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Speaker 1: is a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live, another overcast,

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Speaker 1: dreary looking day here in Orchard Park. Is I broadcast

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Speaker 1: one Steve Tasker who rejoins the program after a brief hiatus. Steve,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? Man? Oh No, Steve's Steve's jumping around

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Speaker 1: Steve was out of town for a couple of days

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Speaker 1: So he's there, I'm here, and we're here to take

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Speaker 1: but that's not unusual. But Micah Hide, Jerry Hughes, and

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Speaker 1: Cody for now Hughes. I mean, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: serious it is, but Cody Ford seems to be probably

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Speaker 1: the most significant starter who seems to be down, and

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how he does today or

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Speaker 1: when he's able to get back into into the game.

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Speaker 1: But now, yeah, it'll definitely be interesting. Other guys are

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Speaker 1: dropping to the wayside. Yeah, exactly, So glad that so. Jerry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is not out today, he's practicing today. He

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Speaker 1: was out yesterday. But yeah, it's Cody Ford, Josh Norman

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Speaker 1: and Micah Hide as the three guys who look like

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Speaker 1: their sideline today but running around and doing some activities.

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Speaker 1: So that's better than none. All right, Maddie, do your

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Speaker 1: best to stay dry out there. We're glad you got

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Speaker 1: proper rain gear, so stay warm, stay dry, and we'll

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Speaker 1: catch up with you. Yeah, you guys stay dry inside, Okay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a better go at it than

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Speaker 1: you will for sure. All Right, thanks very much, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: That's Maddie Glab on the sidelines for US at practice.

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Speaker 1: As you heard there, Josh Norman, Cody Ford, Mica Hyde

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Speaker 1: not participating in practice and as we could see there,

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Speaker 1: it looked like Ford and Hyde we're doing aerobic type exercising, which,

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Speaker 1: as we said earlier, would put Micah Hyde in step

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Speaker 1: three of the five step returned to participation protocol for

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Speaker 1: being in concussion protocol. You were kind of hoping he

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Speaker 1: would take another step and be out there doing some

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Speaker 1: football related activity which would put him in step four.

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Speaker 1: But not the case. And what that means, Steve is

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Speaker 1: they could be turning to either Dean Marlowe or Jaquan

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Speaker 1: Johnson at safety if Micah Hyde cannot get out of

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Speaker 1: protocol in time. And I know marlow has been rotated

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Speaker 1: in for certain person ll packages to defend against He

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Speaker 1: even had a half a sack last week because he

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Speaker 1: was used in some blitzing packages. So I would anticipate

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Speaker 1: it's probably him more of a veteran player, but I

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Speaker 1: know they do like Jiquan Johnson a lot, and he

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Speaker 1: plays a lot of special teams. Yeah, it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how they how they fold that in. I

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Speaker 1: just um the health of this team is his paramount.

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Speaker 1: I think I thought at the beginning of this season

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna have more depth than they do. But

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Speaker 1: when you get three corners that go down, then what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do? I mean, that's just been the story.

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Speaker 1: And I think that ripple effect has been felt all

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Speaker 1: over the defense, not just in the secondary as well.

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Speaker 1: I um so, I'm I tell you the truth, Brian,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of anxious to see Jikwan Johnson play. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to get on the field in this team when

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Speaker 1: you've got Hide and Poyer there. But if Hide can't go,

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Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see if they give Jikwan

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Speaker 1: Johnson a chance to get on the field. Also that

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Speaker 1: concussion protocolf Micah Hyde. It's all going to depend on

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Speaker 1: how he wakes up tomorrow and feels after he does

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Speaker 1: something today, right, I mean, so he wakes up tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: got headaches or any lingering symptoms, he stays, he stays

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Speaker 1: at level three or level four, wherever he's at. Now.

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Speaker 1: All the good news is he was riding the stationary

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Speaker 1: bike during the media viewing portion of practice yesterday, so

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Speaker 1: that was aerobic activity and now he's back out here

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Speaker 1: today doing aerobic activity again, and then they'll take another

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Speaker 1: baseline test. As you know, and they'll see where he's at,

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Speaker 1: and if it all lines up, then he could be

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Speaker 1: moved to Stage four. So if he's out there tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and he's doing even the slightest bit of football related activities,

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Speaker 1: then you know he's in step four and then all

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Speaker 1: he needs from there is full medical clearance. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: that can happen sooner rather than later and he's available

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Speaker 1: for the game. But at least they have options to

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Speaker 1: turn to there, you know, with Marlowe and with Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and you know Johnson to your point, Steve, he impressed

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Speaker 1: me in the season finale last year, you know, when

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Speaker 1: they benched most of the starters because their playoff position

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Speaker 1: had been secured via the win over the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks prior, so they sat everybody for

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen against the Jets, and Johnson got the start

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Speaker 1: and played pretty well. I mean he was around the

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Speaker 1: ball a lot, getting his hands in the passing lane.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know they think a lot of him,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he's a young player who's still learning

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Speaker 1: on the job, and he plays a ton on special teams,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, you could do a lot worse

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Speaker 1: than Dean Marlow or Jiquan Johnson, right. I think they

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Speaker 1: feel good about those guys, and certainly Jiquan Johnson if

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Speaker 1: you're if we've if it is like we've spoken about,

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Speaker 1: this is a club that really develops young players. He's

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Speaker 1: had a lot of time to develop. Plus, you're right, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: it makes a big difference if you've been on the

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Speaker 1: field in uniform playing special team, has been on the

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Speaker 1: sideline during the game watching the defense instead of being

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad in street clothes on game day.

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Speaker 1: You've always had that edge like you could go in

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Speaker 1: to the game. So it's not going to be that

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Speaker 1: biggest step for Jiquan Johnson to step on the field

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Speaker 1: and take some reps in defense because he's been playing,

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Speaker 1: and that's a That's a huge step towards making a

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Speaker 1: guy ready is having him on game day where you

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Speaker 1: know you don't need him to go in and play

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Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty or twenty five or fifty snaps on defense,

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Speaker 1: but on the field some it'll be just another day

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Speaker 1: for him and it won't be that big of an adjustment.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a huge asset for the Bills. The

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Speaker 1: other thing we're gonna have to keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: this week is the sudden shortage at defensive tackle. Quentin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson's battling a knee injury. Limited in practice but you know,

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Speaker 1: gutting his way through the week presumably, and Vernon Butler,

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Speaker 1: who popped up on the injury report as well with

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Speaker 1: a groin injury, was limited in practice yesterday. So even

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Speaker 1: if those two guys are able to play on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you have to believe that with their game day active players,

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Speaker 1: they're probably gonna go heavier than normal at that position.

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Speaker 1: And so a guy like Harrison Phillips, who has been

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Speaker 1: a healthy and active each of the last two weeks,

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Speaker 1: is probably going to be up for nothing for, if anything,

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Speaker 1: insurance more than anything else in case one of these

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Speaker 1: guys reaggravates something that's exactly right. I mean, they've got enough.

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Speaker 1: I think they got out of bodies they but can

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Speaker 1: they get enough guys to hold up at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and hold the line of scrimmage. They've struggled

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Speaker 1: doing that lately with a space it and that's why

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Speaker 1: they've been tinkering around with their rotation. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when those guys the only big guys you've got up

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Speaker 1: there are struggling to stay healthy. Everything comes into play,

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Speaker 1: and I'm, you know, like you, I feel okay with

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Speaker 1: Harrison Jefferson, Harrison Phillips in there. I think he'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: He's he knows the defense. He'll be he's a smart guy,

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Speaker 1: he'll be able to hold his own and he's probably

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Speaker 1: been working hard to get back to one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: after the two knee surgeries in the offseason. So I'm

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Speaker 1: they've got the guys to put out there, and you know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, Brownie Patriots are going to come out

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Speaker 1: and force them to stop it. They're gonna see what

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Speaker 1: they've got up front. They're gonna really test them. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that this. I mean, first

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Speaker 1: of all, I expected this to be a physical game

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be one and lost at the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage coming into it. Then you look at the forecast

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Speaker 1: forty nine and rain with twenty five to thirty five

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Speaker 1: mile per hour wins, and I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a rock'em sock 'em game even more so now, so

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Speaker 1: you better be bowing up at the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: or you're probably not going to come out with a

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Speaker 1: victory in this game. You're right. I mean that's that's

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Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: And they're got to be ready for it. And I

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Speaker 1: think they also this week other than any other. I

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Speaker 1: think they've gotta be ready for a running game out

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Speaker 1: of the quarterback position for the Patriots, I think Cam

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Speaker 1: they're gonna use him up. They got him one year deal.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna just use him up well, and

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't they? Yeah, right now, he's got the yips

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Speaker 1: as a passer. I mean, he can't hit targets consistently,

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Speaker 1: not that the targets are getting open all that often either,

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Speaker 1: So I would expect them to lean on what they

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Speaker 1: know he can still do pretty well, and that's run

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Speaker 1: the football. All right. We have to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll get to your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: As we are, asking you on the twitter poll, where

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Speaker 1: is this Bills Pat's matchup this week? Measure up on

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Speaker 1: the hype train and why We'll also hit the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet when we return. Here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live and Steve, before we get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet and the phone calls, I wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: a tweet to your attention. Andrew Siciliano from NFL Network

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Speaker 1: had an interesting tweet. He was looking back in history.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Dodgers just won the World Series on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night, and it's their first World Series title since

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. And so what Siciliano did was he

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Speaker 1: decided to go back and look at what happened elsewhere

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Speaker 1: in sports during that week eight of the NFL season

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, when the Dodgers won the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Also that week, are you ready? Cowboys were two and

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Speaker 1: five and they lost to the Eagles and finished the

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Speaker 1: season three and thirteen, which with each of their top

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks out for the foreseeable future, seems like a possibility.

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Speaker 1: And the last footnote, the first place Bills beat the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and finished that season twelve and four. Right at

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Speaker 1: eighty eight. Think about that too. There's a lot more

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Speaker 1: in there too. And it also the Browns made the

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Speaker 1: playoffs that year, and the NFC West had three teams

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Speaker 1: that won ten games and they're headed on their way

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Speaker 1: to that. Yes, and also the Lakers won the NBA title.

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Speaker 1: All happened in that year, which also happened this year

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Yeah, so we played the Twilight Zone theme here.

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Speaker 1: I'll sign up. I'll sign up for that. I'll sign

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Speaker 1: up for twelve and four. That's where it's gonna And

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Speaker 1: because do you know what happened else happened that year?

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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl was won by the Washington Redskins. Well, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that ain't happen. That is not happening. I would agree

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Speaker 1: with you on that if anyone from the NFC East

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Speaker 1: does anything. I mean, they are a one They are

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Speaker 1: a one team playoff division this year, and it's whoever

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Speaker 1: winds up with the best losing record at the top

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Speaker 1: of the division. Um, well it's yeah, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: at the team who gets into the playoffs from the NFC.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be like, really, well right. Kyle Brand

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Speaker 1: already made the prediction. If you remember a week ago,

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Speaker 1: he said, you watch that tie for the Eagles is

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Speaker 1: going to help them win the division. They will finish

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Speaker 1: with a six nine and one record, win the division

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Speaker 1: and host a playoff game. Yeah, they'll they'll beat us

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Speaker 1: seven and nineteen. Yeah, all right, we do want to

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Speaker 1: get to the phones because we do have some calls

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Speaker 1: waiting there at eight oh three five fifty one, eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty. Where does this Bill's

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Speaker 1: Pats matchup measure up on the hype train this week

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Speaker 1: in comparison to matchups of the past, and tell us

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Speaker 1: why we're gonna lead off with Al in Buffalo, Al,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bills Live. What do you have for us? Well?

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Steve because this is really similar

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Speaker 1: to what happened about thirty three years ago with us

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Speaker 1: in the Dolphins. And I believe you were on that

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Speaker 1: team when Jim snuck it in the end zone and

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Speaker 1: ended dead historic bad losing streak. And I mean the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach, the Hall of Fame coach here,

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly, Josh Allen, I was one of them. Do

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Speaker 1: you think if Jim has talked to Josh about getting

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Speaker 1: his job done this week? I don't know if they've

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Speaker 1: spoken this week, but that the play you're referring to,

646
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: it was that was some time after the Bills had

647
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Speaker 1: broken that winning streak where the Bills had beaten the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: maybe swept him in nineteen eighty seven or eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: and in eighty nine, eight year, thinking of the first

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Speaker 1: game in nineteen eighty nine, it was Opening Day in

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Speaker 1: Miami and Jim snuck it across. So the Dolphins were

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Speaker 1: ticked at the Bills for sweeping him in eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: and Jim did it again to him on in eighty

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Speaker 1: nine on Opening Day, and eighty eight the Bills were

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Speaker 1: It was that first year under Marv Levy, the Bills

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Speaker 1: actually got it together. We went twelve and four, and

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Speaker 1: it was subsequently just the year prior to them being

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Speaker 1: coming to us becoming the bickering Bills. So yeah, I

659
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Speaker 1: was on that team and it was the first time

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Speaker 1: when the talent of the Buffalo Bills got you know, showed,

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Speaker 1: and Teddy marcher Broda had a year under his belt

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Speaker 1: with Jim and all that stuff. So yeah, But I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Jim and Josh have spoken of late.

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Speaker 1: I know they have a really good relationship and Jim

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Speaker 1: is all about talking to Josh and helping him wherever

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Speaker 1: he can. But for right now, they're doing fine. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think you have to overstand. I think listen

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Speaker 1: to this, there's a lot has been made. And Brownie,

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Speaker 1: you probably read this article too and have heard all

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Speaker 1: the references to it. The Josh Allen after the last

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Speaker 1: game against the Patriots last year, or the game here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo where he threw three interceptions and you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of single handedly lost the game, a close game

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Speaker 1: for the Bills, he told reportedly told Brandon being in

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00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot says, listen, I'm not doing that again. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be a better guy. And this was that game

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Speaker 1: against the Patriots was a turning point for him. So

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Speaker 1: I think these games against the Patriots have a little

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Speaker 1: something extra in him for Josh, just impersonally with his

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Speaker 1: relationship to Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean. That's what I

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Speaker 1: would anticipate. So whatever Jim Kelly had to say about it,

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Speaker 1: I know this. Josh Allen uses this Patriots team I

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Speaker 1: think as a yardstick for himself. Yeah you just hope that,

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Speaker 1: Uh well, I think he did. I think he learned

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Speaker 1: his lesson in that Week four game last year when

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Speaker 1: he had four turnovers and they lose the game by

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Speaker 1: under around. For him, that is when it's Yeah, you're right,

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00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 1: because his interceptions and his turnover total went way down,

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Speaker 1: and you know the team profited from that obviously and

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Speaker 1: finished with a ten and six record. Time to go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, as we find out from you

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Speaker 1: where you feel this Bill's Pats matchup this week measures

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Speaker 1: on the hype train in comparison to matchups of years past,

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Speaker 1: And as always, the tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We lead off with Adam, who said, I

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Speaker 1: went in the middle here because for the last decade

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Speaker 1: and a half, the Bills Pats matchup has mostly been

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Speaker 1: a Bills Brady matchup. Now that he's gone and the

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Speaker 1: Pats aren't even contending for first in the division, it's

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Speaker 1: not as big a deal. Although a win versus Belichick

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Speaker 1: would still be exciting, there is some luster missing from

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Speaker 1: this Steve with no Brady, right, yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I think Bills fans feel like it's an opportunity that

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Speaker 1: got away. Not beating Brady or he's not being competitive

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Speaker 1: hit with him on a you know, just being able

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Speaker 1: to split that series more often than they did, or

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Speaker 1: at least once in a while, and I think they've

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Speaker 1: the Bills fans are I think most of them are like,

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Speaker 1: you know, good riddance, let him get out of here.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's try and get back on top of

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Speaker 1: this series between the Patriots and the Bills, because it

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Speaker 1: was it's been so lopsided for a couple of decades.

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Speaker 1: But it's different, no question about it. Don't you think,

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Speaker 1: Brownie the Patriots for the first time and what two decades,

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Speaker 1: they're in a rebuilding process. It's just it just it

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00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: doesn't even look right. I mean I was saying it

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Speaker 1: on the air yesterday. I was saying the two and

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Speaker 1: four Patriots. I mean, I didn't even sound right coming

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Speaker 1: out of my mouth. It was weird. It's different this year,

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Speaker 1: no question, it's different. Yeah, you still take the win,

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Speaker 1: believe me. And nobody's losing. Nobody's sitting here being sympathetic

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Speaker 1: or losing any sleep over how the Patriots have fallen

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Speaker 1: off this year, you know, falling into two and four

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Speaker 1: and losing three straight. You know, nobody's crying any tears

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Speaker 1: here in Western New York over it. But there's no

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Speaker 1: question it does change the matchup for this season, right,

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Speaker 1: And I believe me. I've even heard from fans, just

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00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: neighbors and such that live around me saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to beat them before Brady left. There's like

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Speaker 1: some of that, like people are still I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there are the majority of Bills fans are happy

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Speaker 1: he's no longer in the division tormenting everybody, but there

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Speaker 1: are there are a select few fans that say, man,

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Speaker 1: I really wanted to beat him, beat them with Brady,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to get one legit, like really good win.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about the ones that they did get,

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Speaker 1: you know, the thirty one nothing game in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three and then the thirty four thirty one game

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven when the team started three

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Speaker 1: and zero and beat him with the last second field goal.

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Speaker 1: But I think they wanted one here in recent memory,

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Speaker 1: or at least before he was out the door, and

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Speaker 1: that I think that sticks in the crawl a little

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Speaker 1: bit of some Bills fans, not a lot, but some

746
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: they wanted to beat him with you know, all all

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00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: barrels loaded, so to speak, and this year that is

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Speaker 1: not the case. So it's going to be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see if if people get fired up for pay Striots

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Speaker 1: week the way they used to from addicted to go ahead. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why I was going to read from addicted to gaul.

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00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: He's on it. He says, this is a huge game

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Speaker 1: for them. This is a chance to really put away

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Speaker 1: the Patriots potentially and really take a serious run for

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Speaker 1: the top of the division. The most this most definitely

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Speaker 1: can be one of the biggest games of the year.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it holds some symbolism like that, Brownie?

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Speaker 1: I do. Um, Yeah, well, I think because of where

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Speaker 1: the two teams currently sit. Yes, because and I know

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Speaker 1: we had We've discussed this on the air this week

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Speaker 1: while you were out. Um, you go four and o

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Speaker 1: in the division, and you dropped the Patriots to two

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Speaker 1: and five, and the margin of error left for a

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Speaker 1: New England team that has its share of problems. And

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Speaker 1: if you look at the rest of the Patriots schedule,

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Speaker 1: I know they have the Jets two times still left

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Speaker 1: on their schedule, but they've got Baltimore and a slew

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Speaker 1: of other content. They have the NFC West to deal with.

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Speaker 1: So just like the Bills, right, So you get to

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Speaker 1: five losses and the Patriots and the Bills are ahead

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Speaker 1: of you. I don't know if you're making it. There's

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Speaker 1: no dramatic turnaround here for the Patriots. Baltimore Houston is

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Speaker 1: a harder game now because that team's playing harder under

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Speaker 1: Romeo Crennell. The Chargers can put up points because of

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Speaker 1: the way Herbert's been playing Arizona the Rams. I mean,

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00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: it gets easy down the stretch there, but they've got

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00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: a gauntlet just like the Bills do. It looked a

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Speaker 1: lot worse coming into the season than it did because

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Speaker 1: we didn't know what's gonna happen to the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: We thought they'd drop off. But the Baltimore Ravens, the

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00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, the Chargers and the Rams, that's their stretch

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Speaker 1: where they've got to really make up some ground now

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00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: that if the Bills can beat them then go four

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Speaker 1: and oh in the division. That sets the Bills up

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00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: really really well going into the last month of the season.

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Speaker 1: And but you know, nothing's guaranteed. I mean, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: this is you got win your division games, and it's

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Speaker 1: like winning two games. So the Bills are three and oh.

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Speaker 1: If they go four and oh, nobody else in the

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00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: division is gonna go. You know, even four and two

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00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: in the division, I would think so you'd have to

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00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: think that's a big boost to your you know, to

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00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: your schedule. But the Bills are still the Bills have

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00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: still got the roughest schedule. Well yeah, I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have got the gauntlet to run. It's not

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Speaker 1: it's not like it's just the Patriots the Bills of

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Speaker 1: you know, we all know the Bills have got to

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Speaker 1: play Baltimore. They are not Baltimore. They've got to play

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. They've got to play the Cardinals, the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: the Niners, and the Steelers all in a row, all

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Speaker 1: in a row with a convenience. Yeah. Well, these these

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00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: two teams, these games against Patriots, you've got to win them.

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00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: You've got to win your division games. And that's no

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Speaker 1: different even when the teams are struggling. Just like that

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Speaker 1: Jet game last week was a big game for the

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00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: Bills to win. Yeah, the Jets were struggling, but you've

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00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: got to win. You gotta win, yeah, no question. All right,

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00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,439
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but we come back

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Speaker 1: more on this because I think if the Bills win

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Speaker 1: this week, it cements the division title as the team's

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Speaker 1: best path to the playoffs. We'll discuss that when we

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Speaker 1: return more of your comments at eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty and on the tweet sheet. It's coming up

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Speaker 1: next year. On One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown. Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you close Enough our number one of the program, and

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Speaker 1: some interesting news and notes around the league. Steve, We've

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Speaker 1: got some players testing positive. With the Giants. Left guard

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Speaker 1: Will Hernandez was sent home today after getting a positive

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Speaker 1: COVID test. Two of their position coaches also sent home

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Speaker 1: after the contact trace revealed that they were in very

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Speaker 1: close proximity to him for an extended period of time.

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Speaker 1: So they're left guard and two of their coaches not

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Speaker 1: at practice today due to COVID. And then the Chargers.

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00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: The LA Chargers just released a statement about an hour

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Speaker 1: ago saying that their Wednesday round of testing turned up

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Speaker 1: a player positive, although that player has not yet been identified.

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Speaker 1: We saw yesterday the Houston Texans had a player test positive.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately for them, they're on a bye this week, so

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Speaker 1: no scheduling issues could surface for them. But I think

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Speaker 1: as this infection rate climbs across the country. The law

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Speaker 1: of averages says that more and more of these NFL

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Speaker 1: clubs are going to run into these problems. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it is, they are, and it has been okay so

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Speaker 1: far because of the frequency of their testing and their protocols,

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Speaker 1: they have been able to keep a lid on it. Now,

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Speaker 1: certainly you've had instances like the Patriots or they're starting

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00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: quarterback Cam Newton's out. That stinks, that's worst case scenario.

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Speaker 1: But even for the Bills, remember last week they had

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Speaker 1: the tight ends all go down and by luck, Tyler

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00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: Croft had his wife had a baby and he wasn't

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00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: around those guys that week, so they could play. But

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00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: that's an issue, and that's what everybody was afraid of,

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Speaker 1: was that if a position group got whacked. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders with their offensive line last week, that's right,

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00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Now, they did they have their guys

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Speaker 1: were able to get back in the game. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: the next day, the very next day, they tested negatives,

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Speaker 1: so they were allowed to come back in the building

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Speaker 1: and then they were really no worse for the wear.

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00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: They were only down one player, and the Giants initially

852
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: thought they were going to be in the same boat

853
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: here with Will Hernandez testing positive. But the other four

854
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: players were allowed to participate today, at least from what

855
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: I understand, because they did not come up or get

856
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: red flagged in the contact tracing. So it looks like

857
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: they dodged a bullet there. Well, that's you know, that's

858
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: what you got to hope for. Now. The Bills have

859
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: everything set up in that building. Even when they meet

860
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: in groups and small groups, they're big groups because they're

861
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: spread out. You get five guys in a place to meet,

862
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: and they're spread out around a you know, a fifteen

863
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: yard by fifteen yard space talking to each other. They

864
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: never they're never near each other unless they're on the

865
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: practice field, so it's easier for them to stay socially distanced.

866
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: But because you know, you got the space in these

867
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: massive buildings that these NFL teams inhabit. But sooner or later,

868
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: everybody's going to get hit by this, and I think

869
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: the league has done a really nice job up till now.

870
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: They really dodged it. List Brownie. This is the eighth

871
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: game of the season coming up for the Bills in

872
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: New England. They're halfway home, so I think they're gonna

873
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: get a cha. I think they're gonna do this, and

874
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: which is unbelievable ye to see that they might get

875
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: it done. And speaking of the Bills and the game

876
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: this week, I firmly believe they win this game. Their

877
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: four and o in the division. Their path to the

878
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: playoffs is winning the division. Because if you can go

879
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: four and oh to start the season in with your

880
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: division record, you position yourself to win your division. Provided

881
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: you know you don't fall on your face in terms

882
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: of all overall record, you're in position to win the division.

883
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: And I think it lessens the pressure to win some

884
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: of these difficult games through the gauntlet stretch that we

885
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: just outlined in the last segment that included Seattle, Arizona, Pittsburgh,

886
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: you know, even the Chargers game, which looks like a

887
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: more challenging game. Now, I think it reduces the pressure

888
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: that the team and the players might feel because at

889
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: least if they can position themselves properly to win the division,

890
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: they don't feel like they've we got to go four

891
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: and two in this stretcher, five and one in this stretcher,

892
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: we're going to be up A creek can not have

893
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: a shot at the playoffs, if you preserve your division

894
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: records as in terms of where it is off the

895
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: bat here at four and zero, and even if you

896
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: go five hundred through that gauntlet stretch, you know where

897
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: they've got to play all those really good contending teams

898
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: in both conferences Seattle, Arizona, La, San fran Pittsburgh. If

899
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: even if you go two and three there, you're not

900
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: dead in the water at all, because after this week

901
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,959
Speaker 1: you win, you're six and two. So you go two

902
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: and three, you're still eight and five. So and then

903
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: you know after that you've got Denver, New England, Miami

904
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: at eight and five. I mean, I think most people

905
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: would take that. Yeah, here's you're sitting at five and

906
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: two right now with a two game lead. They've only

907
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: played six games, have the Dolphins, and they're they're gonna

908
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: start a rookie quarterback against the Rams, then the Cardinals,

909
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: then the Chargers and the Broncos. Two on the road,

910
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: two at home. You got to feel pretty good about it.

911
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 1: I know too. Us they've got a lot of hopes

912
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: for him, and they and a lot of people have said, hey,

913
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: the guy's got it, and maybe he does. Maybe he's

914
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: gonna be as good as Joe Burrow, as good as

915
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, and these guys, maybe two of will come

916
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: in and light it up. And certainly he's got fits

917
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: in his corner and they're gonna do everything they can

918
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: to support him. But you gotta like where you're sitting

919
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: at five and two with your nearest division rival, start

920
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: choosing to go with a rookie quarterback against the La

921
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: ramsh you know, we'll see. But if you win this game, yeah,

922
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: you gotta Even if even if the Dolphins do manage

923
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 1: to beat the Rams, you're still up on them. And so, yeah,

924
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: you gotta like where you're at in the division. But

925
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: you're right, Brown, you gotta win. You gotta win the

926
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: division to get in this playoffs. But the Dolphins are

927
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: the eighth spot in the AFC right now, they're eighth spot.

928
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: They're one shot, two and one spot out of the playoffs. Yeah,

929
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: at two and five, which is crazy to say, but

930
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: there is their extra playoffs in each conference. Yeah right.

931
00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: Mount Miami's three and three, yep, Yeah, so that's yeah,

932
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: they're they're thinking, man, let's shift gears and try and

933
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: make it in, try and sneak in with two as

934
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: our quarterback. They they've got to have a lot of

935
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: confidence in him. You don't make this move unless you

936
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: think you can shift gears with him. And I'll tell you, Brownie.

937
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: With Chan Gailey as their offensive coordinator, they've got, they're

938
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a different offense than they were with Fits.

939
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be schematically different. I think you're

940
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: gonna be called different plays. I think you're gonna have

941
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: a different menu, a different personality with at And think

942
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: about a left handed quarterback. Now, it's gonna give him

943
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: a little boost against a team like the Rams, who

944
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: hasn't seen a lefty quarterback at all. In plus, this

945
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: offense with him running it, it's not even in the preseason.

946
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: We have to take a break. We are at the

947
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: top of the hour. But when Steve and I return,

948
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 1: we'll get more of your comments on the tweet sheet.

949
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: We'll take more of your phone calls at eight oh

950
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: three five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two, five

951
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: fifty Well, I don't know where you feel. This game

952
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: this week ranks on the Bill's Patriots hype train. Does

953
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: it not have quite the gleam that the previous ones

954
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: have had? With no Brady as part of the equation.

955
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 1: We'll also here in the next segment from Josh Allen,

956
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, and Jerry Hughes about this week's matchup. All

957
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: coming your way next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello

959
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Sports Date. Your sports update from One

960
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Your injury update. A handful of players not

961
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: practicing here on Thursday for the Bills. Josh Norman, Micah Hyde,

962
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: Cody Ford, Vernon Butler, Mario Addison, and Quentin Jefferson all

963
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: not participating in practice. We'll have a full injury update

964
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: when the team releases. It's Thursday injury update for the

965
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 1: Patriots wide receiver and Keil Harry. Defensive tackle Carl Davis

966
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: not practicing on Wednesday, and news from today's practice in

967
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: New England. Julian Edelman not participating in practice. He was

968
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: listed on Wednesday is limited. He's been dealing with a

969
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: knee injury. One Giants player has tested positive for COVID nineteen.

970
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: The team announced that earlier today. Left guard Will Hernandez

971
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: was sent home and is now on the COVID nineteen

972
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: reserve list. Contact tracing has begun there and two Giants coaches,

973
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: outside linebacker coach Bret Bielma and defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson,

974
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: were sent home because they were deemed to be in

975
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: close contact. The LA Chargers have announced they too have

976
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: a player who tested positive from Wednesday's round of testing

977
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen. That player has not yet been identified.

978
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: X ray has taken this week revealed the Jacksonville Jaguars

979
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: quarterback Gardner Minsheu has multiple fractures and a strained ligament

980
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: in his right thumb. Minshew has had discomfort in the

981
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: thumb since October eleventh, but did not tell the Jags,

982
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: who were unaware of Minshew's injury. It's uncertain whether Minsheu

983
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: will be able to play when Jacksonville returns from its

984
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: by to host the Texans. Jacksonville's backup quarterback is Mike

985
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: Glennon week eate kicks off to night Is, the Panthers

986
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: host the Falcons. Carolina running back Christian McCaffrey will not

987
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: return to the lineup from his high ankle sprain. The

988
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: Panthers decided not to activate McCaffrey, meaning his likely return

989
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 1: will be next week against the Kansas City Chiefs. Cowboys

990
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: owner Jerry Jones said Wednesday evening that the team's release

991
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: of defensive tackle Dontari Poe was primarily because of pose,

992
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: weight and lack of production. Jones signpo to a two year,

993
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: eight point five million dollars deal as an unrestricted free

994
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,760
Speaker 1: agent in the offseason, but he had just seven tackles,

995
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: one pass rush hurry and no sacks so far this season.

996
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: And finally, the Buffalo Sabers have signed Victor Ollifson to

997
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: a two year deal, avoiding salary arbitration. Oullifsen coming off

998
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: a breakout season in which he had twenty goals and

999
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: forty two points in fifty four games. That is your

1000
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: sports update and time for hour number two of one

1001
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and you know,

1002
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,919
Speaker 1: we look at this game and I think we're both

1003
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: convinced that you win this game, and you have cleared

1004
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 1: your path to the postseason via the division title first

1005
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: and foremost, and that affords you maybe a little bit

1006
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: less angst, a little bit less pressure to try to

1007
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: get through this gauntlet of games that follows Sunday's game

1008
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: with the Patriots and looks very, very daunting, to say

1009
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: the least. Seattle, Arizona Bye week, Chargers, San fran Pittsburgh. Hello,

1010
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: is that is a stretch man? Holy cow? Yeah, that's

1011
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: are you kidding? We knew it coming in though it

1012
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: was gonna be a gauntlet, but oh my goodness when

1013
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: you see it now, because before the season starts, you

1014
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: never know how these games are gonna teams are gonna

1015
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: turn out, and certainly San Francisco took a dip when

1016
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: they had all those injuries happened. Now they're starting to

1017
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: get healthy. They'll be plenty healthy by the time the

1018
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: Bills see them. December seventh. The Cardinals just won a

1019
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: thriller over the Sea Hawks, and you gotta play those

1020
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: teams in succession. You gotta go Seahawks Cardinals, Bro Brownie,

1021
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: that's yeah, pretty good. That turns that turns into wow.

1022
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: And as much as you can talk about, you know,

1023
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: the Texans taking a downturn, which is an opponent on

1024
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots schedule, the Chargers have certainly had an uptick

1025
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: with the emergence of Justin Herbert. So that's a game

1026
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: that's complexion has changed dramatically from the beginning of the season.

1027
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he just won AFC Rookie of the Month, right,

1028
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: you know he go from Tyrod Taylor to that. Yeah,

1029
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: I mean he's slinging it right now. So that is

1030
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: a far more challenging game than was anticipated, even though

1031
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: you do get them here. But but switching back to

1032
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: Sunday's game, Steve, you know, I'm crunching the numbers all

1033
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: week and you know, trying to put together collins for

1034
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com. And this one almost made my

1035
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: eyes fall out. We knew Cam Newton was struggling, Okay,

1036
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't even look like Cam Newton last week.

1037
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: I mean he couldn't hit the side of a barn

1038
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: with a pass. And so I looked up his numbers

1039
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: game by game, etc. Looking for trends and stuff. Do

1040
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: you know every single week this season his passer rating

1041
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: has gone down Week one one hundred point seven, Week

1042
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: two ninety four point six, Week three seventy three point eight.

1043
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: Now then he left left because of COVID, comes back

1044
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:32,280
Speaker 1: fifty one point six, and last week thirty nine point seven.

1045
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: Now I know he's going against San fran last week,

1046
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: which is still a pretty good defense, even though they

1047
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: no longer have Bosa or Solomon Thomas on their defensive front,

1048
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: which which is saying a whole other thing entirely. You

1049
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 1: take two starting defensive linemen off a defense you know,

1050
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: arguably they're two best defensive linemen, and you got rid

1051
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: of DeForrest Buckner in the off season and you're still

1052
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 1: this good. That's scary, right, Nothing surprises me about what

1053
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: they're doing, but except the fact that it's not being successful.

1054
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: We've seen them do everything under the sun, brownie, and

1055
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 1: to see him beating not successful, I gotta wonder what

1056
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: the atmosphere is like in that building. They've got to be,

1057
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, because he absolutely was horrible last week. It's

1058
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,919
Speaker 1: a precipitous drop. Sing, this is a precipitous drop. I mean, yeah,

1059
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: you think about where he was at in twenty fifteen

1060
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: when he was and he was young man. He's not

1061
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: that old now, yeah, but man, his arm he's not

1062
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: even you talk about Josh Allen. These people can be

1063
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: criticize in Josh Allen for his accuracy. Goodness, gracious, did

1064
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: you see Cam Newton last week? Well, I mean, I

1065
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: don't know how I was shocked when I saw that

1066
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: his completion percentage was sixty percent last week. I said,

1067
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. There's no way it was.

1068
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: But it was because he only threw the ball fifteen times.

1069
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: He was nine to fifteen, but he threw forty eight

1070
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: yards and he had how many he had three completions

1071
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: to the other team, three pigs. So three of his

1072
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: fifteen pass attempts went to the other team. It's the

1073
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: fifth of its twenty percent of your throws. What the heck? Man?

1074
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, he and believe me. I just talking to

1075
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: the callers we had on the show yesterday, Steve. They

1076
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: they are all four. The struggles continuing for Cam Newton.

1077
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: The other thing that I discussed with some of the

1078
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: callers was the was coach McDermott's familiarity with Cam Newton.

1079
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: And as we know, the second game for Sean McDermott

1080
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: as head coach of the Bills was against the Carolina

1081
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: Panthers and Cam Newton. And this was pre shoulder problems,

1082
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: pre foot problems, you know, and all of that stuff.

1083
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: And yes, Cam threw for about two hundred and twenty

1084
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: eight yards and completed some passes, but they went over

1085
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: in the red zone. They had a very low through

1086
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: down conversion percentage and that game ended nine to three.

1087
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: So the Bills lost that game nine to three, but

1088
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: they firmly held Cam Newton in check. And that was

1089
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: that they had three years ago different Josh Allen at

1090
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:14,479
Speaker 1: quarterback seen, so they didn't even have Josh right, So,

1091
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's a second game the coach McDermott had

1092
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: his head coach of the Bills. Um, you had Tyrod?

1093
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: Was Tyrod? Right? Yeah? Yeah, you can't. That's that tells

1094
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: you a lot about what you could expect this game,

1095
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: I think. But the Patriots aren't the Carolina Panthers don't.

1096
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: They don't have a great goal right, and Cam is

1097
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: not where he was three years ago, and it was

1098
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: and it's precipitous. You're saying, you're right, it's there's a

1099
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: lot to be gleaned here. But the Bills are going

1100
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: to concentrate on what they see on film this year,

1101
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee that you're not gonna see Jared's

1102
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: did him at this point? Um, I wouldn't put that

1103
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: past him either, And like I said at the beginning

1104
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: of the show, they're gonna do something that the Bills

1105
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: do not expect. They've got to, and they're gonna try

1106
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: and win on the fringes. They're gonna win on important downs,

1107
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: third downs, They're gonna try and beat an incredibly efficient

1108
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: red zone defense. They're gonna do what they can to

1109
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: keep the Bills off the scoreboard, and they're gonna find

1110
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:17,919
Speaker 1: creative ways to get the ball out of Cam's hands

1111
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: and into somebody's hands who can do something with it

1112
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,439
Speaker 1: and kill Harriet Nikil. Harry will probably be a big

1113
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: factor this week because he's really they're only talented players.

1114
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: He's got a concussion. Physically match up, he's got a concussion.

1115
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: He may not play. And we've got more news from

1116
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,919
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter Steve adam Schefter from ESPN reporting Patriots wide

1117
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: receiver Julian Edelman underwent a precautionary standard knee procedure this morning.

1118
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: According to a source, it's expected to sideline Edelman for

1119
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,439
Speaker 1: some period of time, including Sunday's game against the Bill.

1120
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: So here's where we are in terms of the health

1121
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: of the Patriots wide receiving corps. Okay, healthy receivers on

1122
01:00:55,640 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots fifty three man roster. Demere Bird Gunneral Shusky,

1123
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: who's their return Man and Jacobe Myers. Those are your

1124
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: healthy receivers on the roster. Now, some of these guys

1125
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: that are limited or what have you, I suppose could

1126
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: come back, but you're looking at those three guys as

1127
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: your healthy receivers. No Edelman this week, according to Schefter,

1128
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: so he's out of the equation. If ever, there was

1129
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: a week to have cornerbacks still on the mend, it

1130
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: is this week against this team, because they don't have

1131
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: any receivers to even put out on the field. That

1132
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: this just to me, Brownie, this just reeks of catastrophe.

1133
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: You can't lose a game, right, I mean, if you

1134
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: lose this game, it's worse than losing to the Jets.

1135
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you're going that far. Yeah, because this is

1136
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: a team that is playing bad. It's a wounded animal. Yeah,

1137
01:01:58,040 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: and you gotta go in You're gonna go in there

1138
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: with what kind of expectations, I mean, what what kind

1139
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: of expectations you have? Now they don't have Edelman, They're

1140
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: gonna be have guys at receivers who nobody's ever heard of,

1141
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: unless unless Nikil Harry comes back and he can play

1142
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:20,959
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But Brownie, you can't lose this game

1143
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: to this team in this situation that I want him

1144
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: to bury him, just bury him. I want him embarrassing.

1145
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: We always want you always want that. I mean, you

1146
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: always want that. We never get it. Yeah, I was

1147
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: shocked at the score or the Niners game last week

1148
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: against these guys. I've never seen that. It's the worst

1149
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: loss in Bill Belichick's tenure as head coach of the

1150
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 1: Patriots last week. That that doesn't tend to happen, especially

1151
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row, to that guy, right, especially

1152
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: if the division game, especially in divisions. I was saying

1153
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: this just I am so I am so down about

1154
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: this game game now, because have you moved this to

1155
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: caboose territory or I'm starting a guy, I'm starting to

1156
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: about moving to the back of the hype train here,

1157
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 1: We're moving to the back of the everybody. Yes, I

1158
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: am gonna be I might be the little guy in

1159
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: the top of the caboose looking out the window. These

1160
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: games scare me to death. Oh, you're you're nervous. This

1161
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: makes you more nervous because every whenever anybody tells you

1162
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 1: there's no way you can lose, there's no way this

1163
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: team's gonna show up there's no way this team can

1164
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: play with your team. It's trouble, it's well, so you

1165
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: worry about this as kind of like one of those

1166
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 1: no win situation games. If you win, but you win

1167
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: by like eight, like they did against the Jets last week,

1168
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: nobody's happy with that because this is such a wounded animal.

1169
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: You should have beat them to a pulp. And then

1170
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: if you lose, you know the sky is falling. That's that.

1171
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: These are these are your concerns going in? Is that?

1172
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: What is that? Why you've had not quite all? Right?

1173
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: Lay it out quite? I think up the upside is

1174
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: much bigger than it was against the Jets. You win,

1175
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: it's still big. You beat the Patriots, I still believe

1176
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: that because it's four and no, your four and no

1177
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: in the division. You gotta strangle hold on it. And

1178
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: it's still the Patriots. So the upside is much better

1179
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: than it was against the Jets last week. The Jets

1180
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: upside was me you know. The downside though, drops I mean,

1181
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: that's it really, I think really crushes your your your

1182
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 1: forward momentum. Losing to a game, losing a game like

1183
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: that at home, right forget about the home field and

1184
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 1: the fans aren't there. Yeah, yeah, so this is just

1185
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: I think this game is just so scary. Now Edelman's

1186
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,439
Speaker 1: not gonna play. Why is it scary if Edelman's not playing,

1187
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: I think it's great. Yeah, I get it. I mean,

1188
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: all you gotta do in this game out him than

1189
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: you are with him. Yeah, I mean, all you gotta

1190
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: doing this game is stop the run, which I know

1191
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: sometimes has proven more difficult than it should be for

1192
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: this team. And they are a little beat up on

1193
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: their defensive line right now. You got Vernon Butler and

1194
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: Quentin Jefferson not practicing today. They're dealing with stuff. So

1195
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a lock they're going to be

1196
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: able to stop this rushing attack. But heck, I mean,

1197
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: even with a secondary that's still trying to get healthy,

1198
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: you could play a decent amount of man coverage this

1199
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: week because number one, and this was an interesting number

1200
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: that I uncovered this week, Steve. According to next Gen's stats,

1201
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots receiver since Week three have been quote unquote

1202
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: open as next Gen defines it. And I don't know

1203
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: what that criteria is, but they have been open thirteen

1204
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: percent of the time. It's last in the league. And

1205
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's QBR, which is an ESPN passer rating since

1206
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: Week three, is fifteen point three lowest in the league.

1207
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: So maybe play a little bit of man put eight box,

1208
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: stop the dang run game and let's go. Yeah, you're

1209
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: gonna match up, Okay, you got Tredavious, He'll match up.

1210
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: And then who then what are you gonna do? We're

1211
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: talking about Jamere Bird Gunner, Old Shovski. I mean, who

1212
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: who are we talking about here, Steve? Who are the

1213
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: threats A one armed Cam lewis Well. I mean, we're

1214
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: putting Dane Jackson out there, he of the the interception

1215
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,320
Speaker 1: and two pass breakups, probably if Levi can't get back

1216
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 1: and off of ir Um. I mean you're not You're

1217
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: not battling you know, the early eighties Chargers. I mean

1218
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: you're you're playing against Cam Newton, who can't hit the

1219
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: side of a barn right now, and demere Bird Gunner,

1220
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 1: Old Shoufski and Jacoby Myers, who sounds like a law firm.

1221
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I'm just murf, murf Brownie. I'm

1222
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: just telling you right now. I'm just telling you right now,

1223
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: this game is an absolute right now for me, it's

1224
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: a coin toss. Come on, I am not. They don't.

1225
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: They don't toss. They don't even lose three games in

1226
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: a row, let alone four. Look, I know what the

1227
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: history is. We have we have reached the tipping point though,

1228
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: haven't we We have we have to reach the tipping point.

1229
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: You got camp new back, who can't who can't complete

1230
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: a pass right now except to the other team. You

1231
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: got Julian Edelman getting knee surgery. He's not playing this week.

1232
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 1: You got three no names at wide receiver, and you're

1233
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: saying it's a coin flip. You're killing me. Here's the thing.

1234
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: It is so stacked in Buffalo's favor this week. It's scary.

1235
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: That's and I'm sitting in the scary. You're scared. It's

1236
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: so good your favor it's so stacked in your favor.

1237
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,520
Speaker 1: It's like it's you gotta wake up and say, wait

1238
01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minut, Wait a minute. It's a

1239
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's a total trap. If this was if

1240
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: we were in the wilderness, you would be looking around

1241
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 1: for a booby trap right now. You'd be looking around

1242
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: for a you know something snapper on you. I'm telling you,

1243
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: where's the snare? I'm telling you exactly you're gonna be

1244
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 1: end up. You're gonna end up hanging upside down by

1245
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: your foot in a snare with the kind of a

1246
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: nutcracker with the right dude, I never hit your gold

1247
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I'll never debate. I never

1248
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 1: want to be using the logic you're using right now.

1249
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: I would be in a dark room curled up in

1250
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: the fetal position if I thought that way too much.

1251
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:37,719
Speaker 1: I really would it. Hey, your own hold on a second,

1252
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, your own head coach used to

1253
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: say this, because I remember him saying this at press

1254
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: conference is back in the day. He used to say, well,

1255
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to say all the time,

1256
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: watch out for this, watch out for that, watch out

1257
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 1: for this, because then all you're doing is watching out

1258
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: and you're not playing the game. I'm not watching out

1259
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 1: for any of this stuff. I'm I'm playing him and

1260
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm beating him to a pulp this week. That there's

1261
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: some there's some just do that's got to be coming.

1262
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: There's retribution here over years that has to be paid

1263
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 1: back on Sunday, and I'm throwing it all out there. Brownie,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, I want him to beat

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Speaker 1: him a million to nothing. I want him to beat

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Speaker 1: beat him so badly that Bill Pelichick just throws his

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Speaker 1: headset down, says, I'm done. I'm I'm walking away from

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Speaker 1: the game. I'm retiring. I want him to be totally,

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01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: I totally demoralized. I want this game to leave marks

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Speaker 1: on their psyche. I want But yeah, I know this

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Speaker 1: it's a division game. This head coach and this staff

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Speaker 1: have not beaten this team ever. Yeah, they had two

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Speaker 1: good games last year. That game in Buffalo last year

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: snuck away from it. It's when Josh got a concussion, remember, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they just and they almost still and they was

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01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: down to one play and and uh Barkley missed the

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Speaker 1: play in the end zone. Couldn't couldn't complete the past

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Speaker 1: and the ends. It was a close game last year,

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01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: no question. But you've you've got to show up. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell this game to me comes down to how

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01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 1: good this offense can be against this Patriot defense in

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01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: twenty to forty mile an hour wins on a rainy

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01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: day in Buffalo. Yeah, when they struggle to run the football. Yeah,

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: the weather is going to play a factor, no question.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of this matchup. We want to get some player

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Speaker 1: comment on this, so we begin with Josh Allen, who

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Speaker 1: naturally was asked to assess this matchup this week knowing

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are a far different looking team than the

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: one they played a year ago. So here is Josh

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: on the matchup. Well, it's it's the most important game, um,

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,600
Speaker 1: because it's the next one. And that's the mindset we

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: have every time we play. So we're not trying to

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01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: make it a bigger deal or a smaller deal than

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01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:54,800
Speaker 1: one it needs to be. Um. You know, we we

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01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: gotta win. You know, our our goals to win every

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01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:58,640
Speaker 1: game and play. You know, we're not going out there

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: to lose. So um, well, like I said, we're focusing

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01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: on this week and trying to have a really good

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01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: week of practice and put in a really good game

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01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: plan and um go out there and try to execute

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01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: it on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, trying to keep the

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01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 1: even keel. I get it. But man, you gotta be

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01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 1: fired up to bury these guys man. Yeah. Yeah, even

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01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: that statement right there, Brown, I mean, so you can

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01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:26,639
Speaker 1: go out there and you're gonna you're gonna do something,

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01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: You're gonna press, You're gonna try and you're gonna try

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01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: and beat him on every play. Yeah, and you're gonna

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01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: do something stupid, and it's gonna set it up for

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01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 1: a tight game, and you're gonna they can steal it

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01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: at the end. Even that can happen. I'm just not there. Now.

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01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: We do know now, we do know that this figure

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01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: is to be a battle at the line of scrimmage,

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01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:46,920
Speaker 1: with the weather what it's supposed to be, with the

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Speaker 1: Patriots offense hamstrung at the receiver position and a quarterback

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01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 1: who's not throwing the ball all that well, the general

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01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 1: consensus is the Patriots are gonna probably run at forty

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01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:58,879
Speaker 1: to fifty times if they get that many plays on offense,

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01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: and so you better win at the line of scrimmage

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01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: this week. And the Bill's offensive line is a little

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01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,640
Speaker 1: nicked up right now. We know Cody Ford is not

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01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: practicing for a second straight day today. Brian Winters popped

1322
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 1: up on the injury report as a limited participant yesterday,

1323
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 1: and we'll see where that goes. But the good news

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01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: is John Feliciano is off of I are back in

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01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: the fold on the active roster. Josh Allen was asked

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01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 1: about the return of one of his favorite linemen. It's great.

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01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: Obviously we've missed John and just the mentality that he

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01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: kind of brings to the to the front five, the

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01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: knowledge communication aspects. I mean, you know, he's been itching

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01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: to get back out there, and he's been working his

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01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:40,880
Speaker 1: tell off to get back out there, and um, just

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01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,839
Speaker 1: seeing how hard, like I said, he's worked in rehab

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01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: and making sure that he's staying in contact with me

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01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,840
Speaker 1: and seeing what I trying to see what I seem

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01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: on the football field and vice versa. It's it's been

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Speaker 1: very promising obviously to be out there with him in practice,

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01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: and um, I'm super glad to hap him back because

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01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: he does, you know, bring him different to the line,

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01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: and um, there's a guy that's going to have your

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01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: back no matter the circumstances and a guy that everybody loves.

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01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: So um, we're super excited them back. Steve. I know

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01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: that you're a guy that was talking just last week

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: about how this defense needs some stone cold killers out there.

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01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: Here's one of them. Here's one of your stone cold

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01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: killers who could be back in the lineup on offense

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01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 1: as early as Sunday. Yeah. He's Yeah, he's a tough guy,

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01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 1: and he's an aggressive guy, and he's a he's a

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01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: mix it up kind of guy too, and he is

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 1: one that will give you a little bit more grit

1350
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: without question. And when you see him doing that, it

1351
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: spreads around. I think one of the things that the

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01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: guys that he really helps is Cody Ford. If Cody

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01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:47,720
Speaker 1: Ford can get back on the field from his knee.

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01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: And it's just it's telling too that Feliciano's back now.

1355
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: Cody Ford's got a knee injuries, not practicing so, but

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01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:57,719
Speaker 1: Feliciano gives the offensive line a little bit of grit

1357
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: and when you have that, it's easy to run the football.

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01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:02,760
Speaker 1: He gives him a little bit more umph in the

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01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: running game. It gives him a little bit more camaraderie

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01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: when they feel like they're in it together. So I'm

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01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: I think him he's as big an asset to this

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01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:15,759
Speaker 1: offense in his own way as John Brown is getting

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01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: back on the fields. As much as John Brown adds

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01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,480
Speaker 1: to the passing game of this team, I think Feliciano

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01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: adds to both the run and the pass. All Right,

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01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: we have to take a break. When we return, we'll

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,360
Speaker 1: check in and see what the Freedo Lay crunch Time

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01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 1: play of the week was against the Jets. That more

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01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: of your phone calls, more of your comments on the

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01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: tweet sheet at One Bills Live, because we're asking you

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Speaker 1: to kind of assess this matchup for us. Where does

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01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 1: it land on the hype train? Is it a locomotive

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01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 1: or at caboose? He let us know back in a

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01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: moment here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health,

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01:14:50,560 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live Time.

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Speaker 1: Now for our crunch time play of the game, brought

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01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:11,719
Speaker 1: to you by Friedole. In the Bills game versus the Jets,

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01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: it was Jerry Hughes who came up with an interception

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01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: to help seal the win. On second and twenty two

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01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: and this passes receptor. Jerry Hughes has the ball and

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01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: he has goes down. He gets a late hit, but

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01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes comes up with the pick somehow. For me,

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01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: I was in my two point stands just because I

1384
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: wanted to have a really good get off. I didn't

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01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: want anything to mess with that, just because they had

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01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 1: a tide in it that in that chip position. With

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01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: that being said, I got off the ball. Que did

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01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:48,519
Speaker 1: a fantastic job of matching my speed and intensity. He

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01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: shot up the field and he put a hand on

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01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: the ball and tipped it and it was just floating

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01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: around in Elon territory. So I figured why not grab it,

1392
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: put this down so we could go ahead and wrap

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01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: this game up. And I think everything just worked out

1394
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: fantastically with the way that our backsetting was covering in

1395
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: Que timing up that pall and tipping that pass. Justin

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01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: thom and Jerry Hughes with that performance also on AFC

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01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Week. It's crunch time, Bills fans,

1398
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: don't forget the chips words to live by for sure,

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01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as the second half

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Speaker 1: of the show is underway and we're taking your phone

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01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,640
Speaker 1: calls at eight oh three oh five fifty one fifty

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01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: two five fifty about the magnitude of Sunday's game and

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01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: where it registers on your hype train. You know, are

1404
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: you all in front blowding coal into the oven there

1405
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: and plowing away on the locomotive, pulling on that train horn,

1406
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: or are you sitting back in the caboos going all right,

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01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: I'll take the game in but you know, it's not

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01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: what it used to be. And I don't know Brady

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01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: or a Grink or anything. I'm in a cabooz. Well

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01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: after Edelman went was just announced. In case you're just

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01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 1: joining us, there are reports out of New England that

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01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman just had a minor knee surgery and will

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01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: not play this week. Is supposed to miss a few weeks.

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01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: And if you're Julian Edelman, why aren't you doing that?

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01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: You're two and four. Doesn't look like you're going anywhere

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01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: get it done. So he is not going to be

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01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,600
Speaker 1: part of the equation this week. Yet another guy that

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01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: used to kill the Bills time and again. Him and

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01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 1: Gronk and Brady, that three headed monster was just a

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01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:33,880
Speaker 1: bear to deal with. And now you're only healthy receivers

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01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: for the Patriots coming into this game are Gunnerol Schufsky,

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01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: Demer Bird, and Jacoby Myers. And Jacoby Myers was the

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01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 1: leading receiver on this team last week with four catches

1424
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: for sixty yards. He had sixty of the ninety eight

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01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: passing yards that the Patriots had in their blowout loss

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01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. It's almost like it's a JV squad

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01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: coming in here, Steve, I don't even know what like,

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01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: I'm so yeah, I'm so thrown off by all of

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01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: this because it's just been such a constant in the

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01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: division for so long and now it's just not And

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01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 1: I don't think we're used to We don't know how

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01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: to deal with this. Brownie. Just be careful, I'm telling you, man,

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01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:18,799
Speaker 1: Just there's no Everybody said there's no way the Patriots

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01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 1: can beat this team. There's no they haven't want they

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01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: haven't lost to this team in three years. And I'm

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01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: they're saying, ah, there's no way the Patriot they're not

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01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: going to even the Patriots have nobody, they're not gonna

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01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,639
Speaker 1: show up that. I'm just I'm not going there. I'm

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01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: just not I'm if I'm I am. I get keyed

1440
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: up this. There's a lot, there's obviously a lot of

1441
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: stake in this game, and you can't forget that. As

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01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 1: a bill You've got to go through this process and

1443
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,759
Speaker 1: hope and I know Sean McDermott is keeping these guys focused.

1444
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: They're all saying the exact right things. There's no question

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01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 1: about it. They're showing an immense amount of respect for

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01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and why shouldn't they But you can't fall

1447
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: into the trap thinking there's no way this is even

1448
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:58,680
Speaker 1: going to be a competitive game. That's where kind of

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01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: where we're headed. Rights out and kill Harry's got a concussion.

1450
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: You've got three guys nobody's ever heard of playing wide

1451
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: receiver and Cam Newton who threw three picks last week

1452
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: and he's getting worse every passing week. You got Jared's

1453
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 1: did him in there? Who can't get on the field

1454
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: because Cam Newton's better than he is. Uh, you just

1455
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:21,440
Speaker 1: got all kinds of issues, and you know they're injured.

1456
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: They had five thousand guys opt out. Their defense stinks.

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01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: I don't I just can't get there. This is gonna

1458
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: be a good division game. It's exactly the Jets. You

1459
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: can't tell me the Jets are worse than the Patriots. Yeah, yeah,

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01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,840
Speaker 1: but what I don't understand. Look, and I got as

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01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: much respect for Bill Belichick and his coaching prowess is

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01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 1: the next guy. But my god, I mean, this guy

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01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: doesn't even have any bullets in the gun. What is

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01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: he what is he coming in here with? Like you

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01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: can't put lipstick on a pig. Steve they'll probably they

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01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 1: they may come in and run the wing tea or

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01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: the triple option with Cam Newton. They may go all

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01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Sooners nineteen sixties on us and you know, throw

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01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: four running backs out there and a couple of tight

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01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: ends and go like. They may do that. They may

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Speaker 1: do that, and I'm telling you it wouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: They have the ability they're gonna do something like that

1473
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: because they are they are undermanned, and they're injured, that

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01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: they're all the wrong places, and they're going to come

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01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: in and have a really good plan and try to

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01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: execute it against the Bills, and the Bills are better

1477
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: be ready for it. This is not gonna be a

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01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,639
Speaker 1: laugher for the Bills. I'm just telling you right now,

1479
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 1: it is not going to be a laugher. I hope

1480
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, and I hope they beat him a million

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01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: to nothing, but I don't think they. I don't think

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01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be that kind of game. All right,

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01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: So tell me this last week, San Francisco very successful

1484
01:20:56,400 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: in stretching this Patriots defense horizontally with pre snap motion,

1485
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, the jet sweep looks and all of that stuff,

1486
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 1: and really had their eyes in the wrong places. Now.

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01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: I know McKenzie is a little gimpy this week for

1488
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 1: the Bills, so maybe that kind of curtails what you're

1489
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 1: going to do in that aspect of the game. Although

1490
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: you have other people that can do it. I mean,

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01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts can execute that. But you know that the

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01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 1: Patriots are drilling that all week, but the consistency just

1493
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: is not there for them Defensively. I have to believe

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01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 1: that the Bills at least test them on that in

1495
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Yeah, I think the Bills

1496
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: would love to come in and get their running game

1497
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: going and not put it in the hands of Josh Allen,

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01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: particularly in forty mile an hour rainy days. On a

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01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: rainy day like that, you'd like to win well enough

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01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage to get it on film.

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01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 1: Even for the teams that are coming up that they

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01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 1: they do have a pretty good running game. They executed

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01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: it pretty well. They you know, we got to now

1504
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: we gotta prepare for that, but you got to get

1505
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 1: that done. I don't know how the Patriots are gonna

1506
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: match up, how they will view the Bills offense. Certainly

1507
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 1: they've got to be worried about the long ball. They

1508
01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 1: can't go in there thinking, Okay, the weather's gonna keep

1509
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: the Bills from trying to go deep on us. Well,

1510
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna try it. If the Patriots come

1511
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: up and throw eight guys in the lines, crimmage or whatever,

1512
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready for. But I think it's more

1513
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: likely that the Patriots invite the Bills to run because

1514
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,680
Speaker 1: they haven't been shown the ability to do that consistently

1515
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: and in a big way. And they may, you know,

1516
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: come out and do what they did to the Buffalo

1517
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: Bills in Super Bowl twenty five with Bill Belichick as

1518
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 1: the head as the defensive coordina, to come out with

1519
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: two down linemen and everybody else is an athlete, you know,

1520
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: and just dare you to run the football. It'll be

1521
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:49,560
Speaker 1: something along those lines. They'll they'll do something that the

1522
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: Bills have not seen on film, and they'll try to

1523
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 1: execute it to perfection and force the Bills to beat

1524
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: them left handed. And I don't know if the Bills

1525
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: have got a strong enough left hand to beat a

1526
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 1: team well. And they even lost another player on defense

1527
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:05,439
Speaker 1: this past week. Their linebacker Brandon Copeland was lost through

1528
01:23:05,439 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 1: the season to a season ending injury, so they're down

1529
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:09,640
Speaker 1: another guy on that side of the ball. But we

1530
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: go to the phones at eight oh three five fifty

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01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: one fifty two, five fifty and we lead off with

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01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: James on a cell. James, thanks for joining us. What

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01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: do you have sir? Hey guys, how you annoying? Good?

1534
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: Kind of I'm kind of with Steve on this one.

1535
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, you can't go in the game, you know,

1536
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: being bigheaded. Yeah, I would like to go and being confident,

1537
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: but you know, saying that we got this one. Like

1538
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: you said, Um, the Patriots is better than the Jets,

1539
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: and we struggle with the Jets. But one thing I

1540
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,600
Speaker 1: do like is, um, how we you know, made adjustments

1541
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,600
Speaker 1: unlike the other two losses. You know, we made adjustments

1542
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:52,719
Speaker 1: in the second half. That's one thing I M I noticed.

1543
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of, you know, not scared of the Patriots.

1544
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: But you know, Bill Belichick, he's a good coach. I

1545
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 1: gotta give it to even though I kind of hate

1546
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:05,160
Speaker 1: his gut. And when was the last time we've been favored?

1547
01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: It's kind of a like a this is a trick

1548
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: one for me, that's all. I just want to pay

1549
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: him that one. Yeah, No, I appreciate the call. James. Uh.

1550
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: Look like I said, I have as much respect for

1551
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick as the next guy, even though I can't

1552
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: stand him. You know, and there's stuff in the past

1553
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,720
Speaker 1: that makes you wonder if he was pressing the envelope on,

1554
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, the edge of the rule book with all

1555
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 1: the things that we hear about over the years, whether

1556
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: it's Jam. He admitted he had Jam and heads there

1557
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:38,559
Speaker 1: that he admits that they'll do. They're gonna do that

1558
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: every at every turn, They're gonna press the envelope of

1559
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: the rules. I mean, he said that in a press

1560
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 1: conference to the Boston media. But Jam, that's their mentality.

1561
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: But Jam and headset signals for the other coaches and

1562
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: the other coaches booth at the home stadium. I mean,

1563
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins talked about that. We know about the flake gate,

1564
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 1: we know about spygate, we know about the whole thing.

1565
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm not going to deny that he's probably the best

1566
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: coach ever based on the track record that he's put

1567
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:09,679
Speaker 1: together here. You know, nine conference championships, twelve Super Bowls

1568
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: counting his times there as an assistant coach, with two

1569
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: championships with the Giants. So I get it all, but

1570
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: this there's not enough left here for even the best

1571
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: coach in the history of the game to pull a

1572
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: rabbit out of the hat here. I think the only

1573
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: way you lose this game is if you beat yourself. Really,

1574
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:33,600
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just there's not enough bullets in the

1575
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: chamber for Bill Belichick to even fire as a warning shot,

1576
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: as a flare gun for help, whatever it is. There's

1577
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:44,640
Speaker 1: just not enough there. You play a sound for The

1578
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: Bills need to take the approach that the Patriots have

1579
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:49,200
Speaker 1: all these years. When they knew they were the better

1580
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:53,520
Speaker 1: team on paper, they played a consistent game. Nothing spectacular,

1581
01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: nothing super, you know, highlight worthy. We just play a

1582
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: steady game. Let the other teams screw it up, and

1583
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: we'll take advantage of their errors and win the football game.

1584
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:05,120
Speaker 1: The Bills are the better team on paper. They need

1585
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:08,280
Speaker 1: to go out and play that way, not screw anything up.

1586
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: Let the Patriots make mistakes because of their lack of continuity,

1587
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 1: the struggles that they've had on offense, the lack of

1588
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 1: communication on defense, which has led to big games at

1589
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: least last week for the forty nine ers, and win

1590
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: the dang game. You can't be scared of Belichick. You

1591
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: can certainly respect him, but go out and play your game.

1592
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 1: You're the better team. Win the dang game. All right.

1593
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but when we return,

1594
01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: we take more of your phone calls and we get

1595
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: to our favorite contest for you, the fans at eight

1596
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty. It's called Pats Fan, Jets Fani,

1597
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: Bills Fan, Pats Fan, Jets Fan, doll fan. Can you

1598
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:48,639
Speaker 1: guess who we're talking about with their various tweets out

1599
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 1: there in cyberspace. We'll get to that when we return. Two.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,919
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and time to play

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01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 1: everyone's favorite contest. It's called Dolphan Jets Fan Pats Fan.

1604
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 1: You can call us at eight oh three five fifty

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01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 1: for a chance to win a Bill's Fan Box. It's

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,559
Speaker 1: going to be the Cody Ford edition, which hasn't even

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01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: been released yet. It'll be released next week, but your

1608
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 1: chance to win that is right now. And for those

1609
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: that aren't familiar with the contest, what we do is

1610
01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:38,920
Speaker 1: we read you a tweet that is online and it's

1611
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: either from the Jets, the Patriots, or the Dolphins fan

1612
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: pages on Twitter. And you listen to what the tweet

1613
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: is and you tell us if you think that's a

1614
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: Jets fan, a Patriots fan, or a Dolphin. If you

1615
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: guess correctly, you are the winner. Eight O three oh

1616
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: five fifty to get on board here and first in

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01:27:58,080 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: the queue is Bob in cheek to waga, Bob, are

1618
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 1: you ready to play, sir? Okay? So here we go.

1619
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 1: Clue number one. Here is the tweet. Imagine how large

1620
01:28:12,400 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: this spread would be if our team didn't have such

1621
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: an innovative head coach. Is that a Jets fan, a

1622
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:22,680
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, or a Doll fan? That would be a

1623
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:27,440
Speaker 1: Patriots fan? All right, Bob, I'm sorry you are incorrect.

1624
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 1: It is a Jets fan talking about the gigantic spread

1625
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: this week between the Jets and the Chiefs. And he's

1626
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:41,640
Speaker 1: being supremely sarcastic. Thank you, thank you for playing, but

1627
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: we do have to let you go and move on here.

1628
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 1: So Steve, you are going to be giving the clue

1629
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: to Nick on a sell. So Nick, welcome in. How

1630
01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: are you doing? Nick? Turn your radio down you're up

1631
01:28:56,200 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 1: and playing, Nick, Nick, go to the next guy. Oh, Nick,

1632
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:05,640
Speaker 1: I gotta put you on hold. I'm sorry, dude, You're

1633
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: gonna go back of the line. Here we move forward

1634
01:29:09,360 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: and we go to Oh, we got Mark here in

1635
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:16,720
Speaker 1: north Tonawanda. Mark, Are you with us? Yeah? Sam? All right,

1636
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 1: So Steve is gonna give you the next clue. You

1637
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: have to guess if this is a Jets fan, a

1638
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, or a dolphan. Okay, all right, here we go,

1639
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 1: Mark it is. Here's the tweet, starting to lose that

1640
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 1: feeling our team can come back from anything, and that

1641
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:36,679
Speaker 1: no game is dead until the clock hits zero. Who

1642
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 1: is that? Is that? A Jet fan, a Patriot fan,

1643
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: or a Dolphin fan? Dolphin? Oh boy, not right, Mark,

1644
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, right incorrect, Thanks for playing. We are still

1645
01:29:53,280 --> 01:29:55,719
Speaker 1: looking for a winner here, So we're gonna move along.

1646
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 1: We go to Logan in deput Logan, are you with us?

1647
01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 1: You're to play? Yep? All right? So Jets fan, Pats fan,

1648
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 1: or Dolphin. Here is the clue the tweet that was

1649
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: given by this unnamed fan as his follows, there's no

1650
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: locker room discord for this team. TV programs just love

1651
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: to hype up the drama. That would be a Pats fan.

1652
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's the Dolphins fan that gave that one.

1653
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 1: All right, we appreciate your playing, Logan. Thanks for the call. Steve.

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01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: You're up next as we go to round two. All right,

1655
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 1: so our next contestant for Steve is Evan in Buffalo. Evan,

1656
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:43,719
Speaker 1: are you with us, sir? Yes, I'm with you guys. Okay, Steve,

1657
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:47,559
Speaker 1: give him the next clue. All right, Evan, here's the tweet.

1658
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 1: Makes me wonder if other neglected quarterback talents. David Carr

1659
01:30:55,840 --> 01:31:00,559
Speaker 1: undeniable pedigree holds two of three all time sacked totals.

1660
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 1: That might be a confusing one. Makes me wonder if

1661
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: other neglected quarterback talents makes me wonder of other neglected

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01:31:09,240 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: quarterback talents. David Carr question mark undeniable pedigree holds two

1663
01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: of three all time sacked totals. Doll fans, pat fan

1664
01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: or Patriot fan definitely features fan. Oh even the Jets fan.

1665
01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: He's he's uh, he's worried about Sam Darnald there and

1666
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: he's saying it makes me wonder about other neglected quarterback

1667
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: talents Like David Carr. They're worried that Darnold is a

1668
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:44,599
Speaker 1: neglected quarterback talent as well. Exactly all right, we're still

1669
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: looking for a winner. Here we go to Jim in Batavia. Jim,

1670
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: I've got a good feeling about this. I think you

1671
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: can take us. Are you ready? Yes? All right? So

1672
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 1: here is the tweet. I miss a secondary that could

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01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: cover and affront seven, could either stop the run or

1674
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: get pressure. Is that a Jets fan, a Patriots fan

1675
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:09,680
Speaker 1: or a doll fan? Jets fan, it's not. It's a

1676
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: Patriots fan. Their defense is struggling mightily. Holy cow, we

1677
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,600
Speaker 1: may have to go into the extra archives here for

1678
01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 1: more clues. We need a winner here. Might just have

1679
01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:23,800
Speaker 1: to declare no winner this week. I don't want to

1680
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 1: do that, Steve. I don't want to do that, all right,

1681
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:32,640
Speaker 1: So our next contestant Jeff in Bloomfield. Jeff, Steve is

1682
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 1: going to give you the next clue, and we hope

1683
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:41,639
Speaker 1: you can get it here. It is here, it is, Jeff.

1684
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:47,640
Speaker 1: Where are my team's fans at about to see the

1685
01:32:47,720 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty version of the Greatest Show on Turf? Pats fan,

1686
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: it's a dolphan, actually a Dolphins fan. He's all fired up. Yeah,

1687
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,760
Speaker 1: he's all fired up about two Otago Voloa coming into

1688
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 1: the lineup and becoming the greatest show on turf. All right,

1689
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 1: I've got a bonus clue here because we've we've run

1690
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 1: out of our initial list of clues, but I've got

1691
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 1: one more here, so we will go to Jim and Rochester. Jim,

1692
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 1: I feel like Princess Leiah in Star Wars. Help me,

1693
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:34,639
Speaker 1: Obi wan Kenobi, You're my only hope. So here we go.

1694
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:40,799
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I guess? All right, So here's the clue.

1695
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: The team has no rush to trade him other than

1696
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: for cap space. Teams are gonna have to give up

1697
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 1: big for him, or our team will just wait until

1698
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:54,599
Speaker 1: next season to trade him. Is that a Bills fan

1699
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: or Bills fan? Is that a Dolphan, a Jets fan

1700
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: or a Patriots fan? Patriots fan? Stephen Gilmore, there it is.

1701
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 1: We have a winner. I knew I could trust. Jim. Congratulations,

1702
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 1: you are corrected. As a Patriots fan. They're talking about training, Gilmore.

1703
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 1: You have to be up on current events around the

1704
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:16,320
Speaker 1: division to get what these tweets mean, because if you're

1705
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: not up to speed on what's going on in New England,

1706
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,599
Speaker 1: Miami or New York. These are pretty tricky to guess,

1707
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:24,760
Speaker 1: but after seven tries we have a winner. It's Jim

1708
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: and Rochester. So Jim, hang on the line. If you

1709
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:31,479
Speaker 1: get disconnected, just call back, and we remind everybody that

1710
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 1: for the full rules on the contest, you go to

1711
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com slash ob l contest for all

1712
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:42,280
Speaker 1: the rules and information. But Jim will win a Cody

1713
01:34:42,320 --> 01:34:45,439
Speaker 1: Ford fan box, so congrats to him. We have to

1714
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 1: take a break, but when Steve and I come back,

1715
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:50,760
Speaker 1: we'll be talking with Dan Wetzel from Yahoo Sports, who

1716
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:54,639
Speaker 1: thinks those very Patriots should be sellers not buyers at

1717
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. We'll get into it with him with

1718
01:34:57,400 --> 01:34:59,679
Speaker 1: him on that when we return. Here on One Bills

1719
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:12,160
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello,

1720
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network Sports your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1721
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 1: A handful of players not practicing here on Thursday. Josh Norman,

1722
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 1: Micah Hide, Cody Ford, Vernon Butler, Mario Addison, and Quentin

1723
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:27,719
Speaker 1: Jefferson all not participating. We'll have a full injury update

1724
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:31,640
Speaker 1: when the team releases. It's Thursday injury report for the Patriots.

1725
01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: The news not good for Julian Edelman's availability on Sunday.

1726
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:38,200
Speaker 1: Multiple reports say that Edelman underwent a procedure on his

1727
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:40,240
Speaker 1: knee and will miss a few games, so he is

1728
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:44,519
Speaker 1: not expected to play on Sunday. Meanwhile, wide receiver Nikil

1729
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:49,760
Speaker 1: Harry and defensive tackle Carl Davis did not practice on Wednesday.

1730
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: We'll get an update from New England as well later

1731
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:55,200
Speaker 1: this say afternoon. One Giants player has tested positive for

1732
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:59,040
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. The team announced left guard Will Hernandez was

1733
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 1: sent home as he's now going to be placed on

1734
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 1: the reserve COVID list. Contact tracing has begun as well,

1735
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:08,400
Speaker 1: and two Giants coaches outside linebackers coach Bret Bielman defensive

1736
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:11,679
Speaker 1: backs coach Jerome Henderson sent home because they were deemed

1737
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:14,799
Speaker 1: to be in close contact. The LA Chargers have announced

1738
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: they too have a player who tested positive from Wednesday's

1739
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: round of testing for COVID nineteen. That player has not

1740
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:24,639
Speaker 1: yet been identified. X rays taken this week revealed Jacksonville

1741
01:36:24,720 --> 01:36:27,679
Speaker 1: Jaguar's quarterback Gardner Minshew has multiple fractures and a strained

1742
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: ligament in his right thumb. Minshew had discomfort in the

1743
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 1: thumb since mid October, but didn't tell the Jags, who

1744
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: were unaware of Minshew's injury. Jacksonville's backup quarterback is Mike

1745
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Glennon Week kicks off tonight as the Panthers host the Falcons,

1746
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: but they'll do so without running back Christian McCaffrey, who

1747
01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:46,479
Speaker 1: is not yet ready to return from a high ankle

1748
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: sprain injury. The Panthers decided not to activate McCaffrey, who's

1749
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 1: expected to make his return next week against Kansas City.

1750
01:36:53,880 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 1: And the Buffalo Sabers have signed former or have signed

1751
01:36:56,960 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 1: forward Victor Olafsson to a two year deal avoid salary arbitration.

1752
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:03,839
Speaker 1: A seventh round pick of the Sabers in twenty fourteen,

1753
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:07,559
Speaker 1: Olipson made his NHL debut during the twenty eighteen twenty

1754
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: nineteen season. And that is your sports update here from

1755
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:12,800
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you our

1756
01:37:12,880 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 1: number three of the program. And joining us on the

1757
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:18,960
Speaker 1: line right now from Yahoo Sports is Dan Wetzel, who

1758
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:23,320
Speaker 1: recently put together a right up on the Patriots, basically

1759
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:26,559
Speaker 1: insisting it's time for the Patriots to be sellers instead

1760
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: of buyers at the trade deadline. Dan, thanks for joining us,

1761
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: how you doing doing great? How are you guys doing.

1762
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: We're doing okay, We're hanging in there here. Bills are

1763
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:38,719
Speaker 1: five and two, so no complaints for the most part,

1764
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 1: even if last week wasn't a pretty win for them

1765
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 1: over the Jets. But the Patriots come to town and

1766
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 1: Steve and I have been talking about this all day, Dan,

1767
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 1: this game has lost a little bit of its villainry luster,

1768
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: if you will. There's no Tom Brady to hate, there's

1769
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:56,680
Speaker 1: no Gronk hometown boy to be angry with, and now

1770
01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 1: there won't even be Julian Edelman. So this game is

1771
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:01,559
Speaker 1: lost a little bit of its luster, even though the

1772
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: Bills are still trying to beat the Patriots in the

1773
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:06,559
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott era. How does it how does it grab you?

1774
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:08,800
Speaker 1: And you know, taking a close up look at this

1775
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: team for the right up you most recently put together.

1776
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, I think if you when I

1777
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 1: looked back a couple of weeks ago, when when it

1778
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: was clear Buffalo was was you know, I think, growing

1779
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: off of last year and improving, it was going to

1780
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:28,439
Speaker 1: be a serious force to win the AFC East, which

1781
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots have obviously owned. I remember looking at this

1782
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 1: game assuming the Patriots maybe would be four and two

1783
01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:38,080
Speaker 1: or something like that, and this would be like that

1784
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 1: statement kind of pass the baton, you know, like the

1785
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: old wrestling ladder fight kind of game where Buffalo come

1786
01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: out and make that statement, Look, we're better than you,

1787
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 1: not anymore. Brady's gone. You're not going to own this.

1788
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: It's been two decades. You're not going to own this

1789
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:58,600
Speaker 1: division and it had I mean, I think Buffalo fans

1790
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:02,640
Speaker 1: well will take no less joy if they win on

1791
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 1: set on Sunday. But I think if you look at

1792
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 1: it the way the Patriots have played in this three

1793
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: game losing streak, and particularly the last two weeks with

1794
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:14,679
Speaker 1: Cam Newton back, you look at him and go, boy,

1795
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:17,800
Speaker 1: this isn't really a match for Buffalo. Now it's still

1796
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 1: the Patriots again. Enjoy, Enjoy if you win. Don't take

1797
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:26,200
Speaker 1: anything for Granted, we've seen New England struggle early before,

1798
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 1: but it's not quite the game that we thought maybe,

1799
01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:32,000
Speaker 1: you know, three weeks ago. Where does this game leave

1800
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:35,479
Speaker 1: the Patriots? They certainly they do have their issues. Edelman's

1801
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:38,759
Speaker 1: out again now this week we've just found out they

1802
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, Cam Newton is a one year deal they

1803
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:42,840
Speaker 1: signed him to see what they could get out of him.

1804
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:46,760
Speaker 1: I anticipate they'll use him up. If they need to

1805
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 1: have him run the football twenty five times in the game,

1806
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:52,640
Speaker 1: they won't hesitate to do then. I would expect that

1807
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: they are going to come up with some unexpected game plan,

1808
01:39:57,040 --> 01:40:00,839
Speaker 1: at least offensively, to compat of Bills team that's struggled

1809
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,439
Speaker 1: to stop the run and got a pretty good secondary,

1810
01:40:02,439 --> 01:40:05,080
Speaker 1: although it's finned out at corner because of injuries. How

1811
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: do you expect the Patriots to come into this game?

1812
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 1: They're the only team in the league we've seen consistently

1813
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:11,640
Speaker 1: change their identity from week to week. What do you

1814
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:14,479
Speaker 1: think their identity will be this week? Yeah? I agree.

1815
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:16,479
Speaker 1: I think if Cam's not throwing the ball and he

1816
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:18,920
Speaker 1: hasn't been, then he's gonna run and they're gonna have

1817
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:23,479
Speaker 1: to run. Their receivers really aren't very good, and you

1818
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: know Newton brings that dynamic look. Bill Belichick is always

1819
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:30,120
Speaker 1: going to play to win and there is zero doubt.

1820
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of a must win game.

1821
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,599
Speaker 1: You can't we have seen there's always this hesitation, right,

1822
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:37,720
Speaker 1: You don't want to write off New England. We have

1823
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 1: seen them. It was like two couple of years ago

1824
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: they lost to our bad Detroit team to fall two

1825
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:46,599
Speaker 1: and two, and people were writing them off. All right,

1826
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:48,760
Speaker 1: this is it. They won the Super Bowl. Okay, like

1827
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 1: you can't write But if you go down two and

1828
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: five and you're this far behind Buffalo in the AFC East,

1829
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:57,559
Speaker 1: it's a whole different ball game. To me. It's like,

1830
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: you have to prove you can win this week or really,

1831
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:04,639
Speaker 1: what are we doing? And that's why the trade deadline

1832
01:41:04,640 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 1: on Tuesday becomes such a factor, because you say, if

1833
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:10,600
Speaker 1: you if you can't beat Buffalo and you're two and

1834
01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 1: five and there's virtually no path other than you suddenly

1835
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: get white hot and rattle off like eight straight wins

1836
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: to get back into the to win the division. What

1837
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:23,759
Speaker 1: are you trying to accomplish if the New England Patriots

1838
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: this year? And that's where I think decisions get made.

1839
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:30,759
Speaker 1: So speaking of that and selling off assets, obviously Stefan

1840
01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:33,240
Speaker 1: Gilmore comes to mind, and he's already been mentioned in

1841
01:41:33,280 --> 01:41:38,000
Speaker 1: trade rumors and even as early as last spring apparently

1842
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 1: this was broached as a subject in the Patriots personnel offices.

1843
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:45,040
Speaker 1: You know, and the Patriots are known as a team

1844
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 1: that parts with high price veterans a year or two

1845
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:50,040
Speaker 1: earlier rather than a year or too late. What do

1846
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:53,000
Speaker 1: you think the likelihood is that Gilmore is out of

1847
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:58,400
Speaker 1: a Patriots uniform by next week. I think if there's

1848
01:41:58,439 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 1: the right offer, they will trade anybody. They remember they

1849
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: almost trade Gronk Detroit. Gronk wouldn't do it, he said

1850
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: he'd retire. They've cut everybody. There's no law. They basically

1851
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:12,720
Speaker 1: let Tom Brady leave. I mean, that's by far the

1852
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:15,360
Speaker 1: greatest Patriot ever. They'll name a bridge or something in

1853
01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Boston after the guy. Belichick is going to do this,

1854
01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 1: and I think this is the key. Belichick's always been

1855
01:42:21,240 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: very very smart at dumping guys a year early rather

1856
01:42:24,479 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: than a year late. And my question is do you

1857
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 1: rehab this whole organization half a season early rather than

1858
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: a half a season late. Because if they're two and five,

1859
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,400
Speaker 1: what are you playing for? As I wrote in the column,

1860
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 1: to me, New England plays at a different standard than

1861
01:42:41,920 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 1: everyone else because they're fans. The expectations are you at

1862
01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:49,880
Speaker 1: least reach a super Bowl, if not win a Super Bowl.

1863
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 1: They had an eight years in a row AFC Championship game,

1864
01:42:53,640 --> 01:42:56,120
Speaker 1: just trying to piece together a team that ends up

1865
01:42:56,160 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 1: like seven and nine or eight and eight and sneaks

1866
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 1: into a wildcat card spot and it gets blown out

1867
01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:04,760
Speaker 1: by Baltimore or Pittsburgh or Kansas City in the first

1868
01:43:05,160 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 1: that's not a season for New England. That's not a

1869
01:43:07,320 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 1: satisfying goal. So this team does not look and certainly

1870
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:14,679
Speaker 1: if they lose Sunday, will not look like a team

1871
01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:17,759
Speaker 1: that's capable of winning the AFC. So what are you doing?

1872
01:43:18,280 --> 01:43:21,760
Speaker 1: Trade gil? Maybe you trade Gilmore. Thuny on the front

1873
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:24,680
Speaker 1: on the offensive line is pretty good. Edelman, as much

1874
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:27,760
Speaker 1: as he's injured. Maybe he's a mid round pick because you're,

1875
01:43:27,840 --> 01:43:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, some contenders getting a veteran clutch guy Rex Burkheads.

1876
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll load up on draft picks, you'll wind up bad,

1877
01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 1: and you end up in the top ten of the draft.

1878
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:39,400
Speaker 1: You have two first round picks. You start being able

1879
01:43:39,439 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: to rebuild this thing really quickly. You come back next

1880
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 1: year when five really key CODs of that defense opted out,

1881
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're back a lot quicker

1882
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:50,600
Speaker 1: than if you sit there and try to play this

1883
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:52,639
Speaker 1: out and try to go seven to nine or something.

1884
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:56,759
Speaker 1: Because if they're two and five, what is new England

1885
01:43:56,760 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: playing for maybe another franchise could but not this one.

1886
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:02,919
Speaker 1: How do you think this season plays out for the Patriots?

1887
01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:05,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if they go down to a six and

1888
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: ten or a five and eleven record, and they don't

1889
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,240
Speaker 1: get quite into the top ten in the drafts, what

1890
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 1: do their's draft picks look like going forward? I mean,

1891
01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:15,679
Speaker 1: I don't even know what kind of draft picks they're

1892
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: looking at. Do they have the ones all their picks

1893
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty one? And and if they do, everybody's

1894
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 1: shutters at the thought that they trade enough assets to

1895
01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 1: somebody to get a shot at Trevor Lawrence. Well, I

1896
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:31,880
Speaker 1: don't think I think the Jets will end up with

1897
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:34,200
Speaker 1: that in the one pick. And if honestly, the Jets

1898
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:37,960
Speaker 1: have done some dumb things, but allowing their division rival

1899
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 1: to get Trevor Lawrence would be the all timer, the

1900
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:45,560
Speaker 1: jetsiest Jet, the all time. And that's saying something. I

1901
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:48,800
Speaker 1: mean they did. The Patriots did steal Bill Belichick from

1902
01:44:48,840 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 1: the Jets, right, so that was bad enough, but that

1903
01:44:51,040 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 1: would be the the second worst thing to ever happen

1904
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:57,400
Speaker 1: in the Patriots Jets. You know, No, I don't think

1905
01:44:57,439 --> 01:45:00,679
Speaker 1: they can get Trevor Lawrence. But there are three four

1906
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:04,080
Speaker 1: five first round quarterback picks. Obviously they need a quarterback.

1907
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 1: They have Jared Stidham and he was he was kind

1908
01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:10,679
Speaker 1: of hyped up in the off season. Is this he's

1909
01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:13,840
Speaker 1: the next mid round guy? This? If Jared Stidham was

1910
01:45:13,880 --> 01:45:19,040
Speaker 1: that good, wouldn't need be playing. I mean Cam Newton

1911
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 1: threw for ninety eight yards last week. If Jared's you

1912
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 1: know when when when when Cam Newton had COVID they

1913
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:28,120
Speaker 1: put Brian Hoyer. And I'm not saying Jared Stidham could

1914
01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: be I have no idea. Nobody's seen the guy play.

1915
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:33,120
Speaker 1: He's just in practice. But if Belichick really thought he

1916
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:36,120
Speaker 1: had that guy, he'd put him in and say take

1917
01:45:36,160 --> 01:45:37,960
Speaker 1: the job. That's what he did with Bellich, That's what

1918
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:41,240
Speaker 1: he did with Brady and and they had they had Bledsoe,

1919
01:45:41,320 --> 01:45:44,519
Speaker 1: a great player. So you know, we'll see if they

1920
01:45:44,520 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 1: have to get a quarterback. Yeah, you want to get up.

1921
01:45:46,600 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: You may not get Newton, but you might get justin

1922
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:52,040
Speaker 1: Fields or you might get the kid from Byu. And

1923
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:54,479
Speaker 1: I mean there's a bunch of good quarterbacks out there

1924
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 1: and you you have to get one in the future.

1925
01:45:56,960 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 1: I just think these next six days, what have Sunday

1926
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:04,000
Speaker 1: and what they decided to do Tuesday could really speed

1927
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,000
Speaker 1: up that rebuild quickly by just writing off a seat

1928
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 1: this season. Now, you mentioned Trevor Lawrence, and I know

1929
01:46:09,520 --> 01:46:11,840
Speaker 1: you did write a column on that as well. You know,

1930
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:14,120
Speaker 1: we've heard all this stuff like, oh my god, Trevor

1931
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 1: Lawrence should avoid the Jets like the plague, go back

1932
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:19,679
Speaker 1: to school for another year and rack up stats at Clemson,

1933
01:46:19,720 --> 01:46:22,360
Speaker 1: maybe win another national title. You went the other way,

1934
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:25,760
Speaker 1: you said, Trevor Lawrence should kind of lean into this

1935
01:46:25,880 --> 01:46:29,519
Speaker 1: challenge of being the quarterback or the future quarterback of

1936
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:34,400
Speaker 1: the Jets's what's the drive there? What's the what's the angle? Well,

1937
01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:37,160
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, look, anyone you're gonna join Trevor

1938
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 1: Lawres going to join a bad team. It's not gonna

1939
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:44,679
Speaker 1: get the benefit of being Lamar Jackson or or Patrick Mahomes. Okay,

1940
01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a bad team. They're gonna get a

1941
01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 1: new coach or the Jets. You know, Jets ownership has

1942
01:46:50,360 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 1: not been great, but they have won at past. I

1943
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:57,240
Speaker 1: just not a believer in necessarily that all franchises are irredeemable.

1944
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:00,759
Speaker 1: If you're good enough, you can do it. And quite honestly,

1945
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 1: if you can be the big star quarterback in New

1946
01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: York City, you know that's a big deal. So to

1947
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: me's if Trevor Lawrence wants to wants to sit out

1948
01:47:10,520 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 1: or come back to college because he loves playing at Clemson, great,

1949
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:16,799
Speaker 1: that's his decision. I don't blame him, but he shouldn't

1950
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:18,640
Speaker 1: sit there and say, well, I don't want to go

1951
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:20,040
Speaker 1: to the I don't want to go to get where

1952
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: do you want to go? And first of there's no

1953
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:24,320
Speaker 1: guarantee a year from now that Jets aren't number one

1954
01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 1: pick again, So you know, what do you want to do?

1955
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:31,479
Speaker 1: I don't think you get scared of the New York

1956
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:34,679
Speaker 1: Jets if you can be a big I mean, Joe

1957
01:47:34,760 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 1: Namath won a Super Bowl in nineteen sixty eight. If

1958
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:40,400
Speaker 1: you ever look at his career numbers, he wasn't even

1959
01:47:40,439 --> 01:47:43,599
Speaker 1: any good. He threw more picks than tds, they lost

1960
01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:46,240
Speaker 1: more games than he won. With the Jets. He still

1961
01:47:46,280 --> 01:47:50,439
Speaker 1: owns Man Patton like he's still Joe naman So if

1962
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: you could be the star quarterback in New York, it's

1963
01:47:53,120 --> 01:47:54,840
Speaker 1: it's a good deal. Yeah. As we look at the

1964
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 1: AFC East and the Patriots and the Bills and what

1965
01:47:57,120 --> 01:47:59,000
Speaker 1: that's happening with the Jets and how that's going to

1966
01:47:59,080 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 1: go forward. Also, the other Eastern division in the league,

1967
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:06,719
Speaker 1: the NFC East, is sitting there just stinking up the joint.

1968
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:10,040
Speaker 1: You look at the Cowboys, where who you know for

1969
01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:12,600
Speaker 1: Bill's bands. Nobody's got any love loss for the Cowboys.

1970
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 1: But Mike McCarthy really seems to half a season into

1971
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:21,360
Speaker 1: his tenure, almost lost control of what's going on there

1972
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:24,479
Speaker 1: in the Cowboy locker room. It seems like it. I mean,

1973
01:48:24,560 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Andy Dalton getting hit

1974
01:48:28,479 --> 01:48:30,240
Speaker 1: with the late hit, or not that late hit, but

1975
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 1: the shots of the head in last Sunday's game, and

1976
01:48:33,920 --> 01:48:38,479
Speaker 1: not a single Cowboy stepping up and even barking at

1977
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 1: Bostic and saying, hey, you can't do that to our quarterback,

1978
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:44,320
Speaker 1: let alone pushing on, punching or whatever you would normally

1979
01:48:44,320 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 1: do in football. Right you played? You know that's that reaction.

1980
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 1: That reaction isn't allowed in fifth grade, Pop Warner. I mean,

1981
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 1: someone's got at least say something. You can't just sit

1982
01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 1: there and take let your quarterback get drilled and everyone

1983
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:01,880
Speaker 1: stand around and go, oh, well, what ever that to

1984
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:07,040
Speaker 1: me is a team that lacks continuity, brother ship, you know, unity,

1985
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: all those things that you need to do. He's got

1986
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,080
Speaker 1: to figure that out. And I also think what's happened

1987
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,439
Speaker 1: is mccarthury was supposed to take this team to the

1988
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:15,439
Speaker 1: next level. It's fallen back. And I think it was

1989
01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:19,839
Speaker 1: also illustrates his Dak Prescott held that place together. If anything,

1990
01:49:19,920 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's value to the Cowboys goes up. He's the

1991
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,479
Speaker 1: guy that was running that team in a lot of ways,

1992
01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:28,720
Speaker 1: and so this, this shot to Dalton is unfortunate, but

1993
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:31,519
Speaker 1: the reaction if you're a Cowboy fan and you're a

1994
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:35,559
Speaker 1: Cowboys is pretty embarrassing. Does this mean an extension for

1995
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:39,320
Speaker 1: Dak this offseason? Would? I would think Dak's value goes

1996
01:49:39,439 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: up every single week even as he's just sitting there.

1997
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 1: And it's interesting. They're gonna have to make a decision

1998
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:47,480
Speaker 1: before they can actually see him play. So they either

1999
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 1: franchise him for a year, which I think was probably

2000
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:52,200
Speaker 1: what happens, but he gets like thirty nine million dollars.

2001
01:49:52,400 --> 01:49:55,479
Speaker 1: People talk, oh, poor Dak hasn't signed that long term deal.

2002
01:49:56,360 --> 01:49:59,759
Speaker 1: You know, two straight years a thirty plus million You're okay,

2003
01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,840
Speaker 1: ask Kirt. Yeah, ask Kirk Cousins how that works out. Yeah,

2004
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:04,680
Speaker 1: your grandkids are not going to spend that kind of

2005
01:50:04,760 --> 01:50:07,240
Speaker 1: that money, so he'll be all right. But they either

2006
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:09,559
Speaker 1: I think they have to give him the deal long

2007
01:50:09,680 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 1: term before even seeing him, because again, I think his

2008
01:50:12,840 --> 01:50:14,640
Speaker 1: value has improved in the last three weeks. And if

2009
01:50:14,640 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 1: you look at it before, they're at least competitive. Now

2010
01:50:17,040 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 1: they're not even competitive. But that division is still winnable.

2011
01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:23,240
Speaker 1: As you said, it's it's it's a disaster of a division.

2012
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:24,960
Speaker 1: What you do You know you're gonna end up posting

2013
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:26,760
Speaker 1: a game and losing, but I guess at least you

2014
01:50:26,840 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. We're talking to Dan Wetzel from Yeah

2015
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: Who Sports and Dan obviously the other quarterback situation that

2016
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,800
Speaker 1: impacts the rest of the AFC East is the turn

2017
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:39,680
Speaker 1: by Miami to Tua. And you know, this left some

2018
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 1: people scratching their heads. But you know, a bye week's

2019
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:44,680
Speaker 1: a good time to get your young guy ramped up

2020
01:50:44,680 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: and ready for a game. But hello, Aaron Donald and

2021
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:50,160
Speaker 1: the Rams, like, this is the first game you're gonna

2022
01:50:50,160 --> 01:50:52,080
Speaker 1: throw this guy out there. I mean, you must really

2023
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:54,599
Speaker 1: believe he's got the goods and let's not forget they

2024
01:50:54,640 --> 01:50:57,599
Speaker 1: got to play the Cardinals the following week, and then

2025
01:50:57,640 --> 01:51:00,400
Speaker 1: suddenly the high flying Chargers with Justin Herb from the

2026
01:51:00,439 --> 01:51:04,120
Speaker 1: same draft class, a good Vic Fangio defense in the Broncos,

2027
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 1: and I know, look, I know they got the Jets

2028
01:51:06,479 --> 01:51:08,559
Speaker 1: and the Bengals and even the Patriots in there, who

2029
01:51:08,560 --> 01:51:10,240
Speaker 1: are floundering right now, but they still got to play

2030
01:51:10,280 --> 01:51:13,679
Speaker 1: the Chiefs too. I mean, I guess they're really people

2031
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:17,000
Speaker 1: are talking playoffs already in Miami and they've kind of

2032
01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: lost their shirt. What is your anticipation here? I think

2033
01:51:22,160 --> 01:51:26,080
Speaker 1: it tells you how highly they think of Tuatagavloa. I

2034
01:51:26,080 --> 01:51:29,439
Speaker 1: mean it's we've talked about why Stidham not playing for

2035
01:51:29,439 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 1: the page, Well they're not waiting down there. I mean,

2036
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:35,000
Speaker 1: Fitzmagic was going all right, three and three one two

2037
01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:38,360
Speaker 1: straight games. He's playing pretty good. The Dolphins have a pulse.

2038
01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: But they were gonna make this move if if, if

2039
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:44,439
Speaker 1: TWA was healthy, and they had the time, I think

2040
01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:46,000
Speaker 1: on the bye week, and so they just made it.

2041
01:51:46,040 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 1: He's thrown two career passes. We don't know. Look, this

2042
01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:50,760
Speaker 1: is a guy if you've ever been around him, and

2043
01:51:50,760 --> 01:51:55,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't a cover college football. He's extremely mature. This

2044
01:51:55,080 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 1: is a guy as a freshman stepped into the National

2045
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 1: Championship Game on the fly and won it for Alabama.

2046
01:52:02,680 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: He's a terrific leader, he's a he's just a very

2047
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:09,760
Speaker 1: impressive person. I don't think the I don't think mentally

2048
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:13,760
Speaker 1: or or emotionally, or the stage or whatever that is

2049
01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 1: it's going to scare. I think what's what it's is

2050
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 1: he is he ready to read the plays? Is he

2051
01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:23,960
Speaker 1: ready physically? You know, capability wise, ready physically, but capability

2052
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:26,800
Speaker 1: wise to do it. We're gonna see very bold move

2053
01:52:26,880 --> 01:52:29,720
Speaker 1: by Miami um. But clearly they think this is the

2054
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:32,639
Speaker 1: guy that can get them through this stretch where they

2055
01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 1: weren't going to win with fits. One last one from

2056
01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:39,360
Speaker 1: me about the two guys that really inflicted a lot

2057
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:43,160
Speaker 1: of scar tissue on Buffalo is uh Tom Brady and

2058
01:52:43,240 --> 01:52:45,960
Speaker 1: Rob Grunkowski. They seem to be starting to catch fire

2059
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:48,439
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay. They we knew it had they had

2060
01:52:48,439 --> 01:52:50,720
Speaker 1: a really nice roster. Now they've added a couple of

2061
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:52,679
Speaker 1: pieces to it, even on the fly during the season.

2062
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,240
Speaker 1: How do you what do you think the Tampa Bay

2063
01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:58,800
Speaker 1: Buccaneers are going to end up doing? I mean, I

2064
01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:01,640
Speaker 1: think right now they're they're certainly among the teams to

2065
01:53:01,720 --> 01:53:05,960
Speaker 1: beat in the NFCUM, Gronk looked did not look good

2066
01:53:05,960 --> 01:53:07,679
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. I mean I thought

2067
01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:10,559
Speaker 1: those first couple of games, Brady wasn't even looking at him.

2068
01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: He targeted him on one target in the second game

2069
01:53:13,680 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 1: of the year. Um, he didn't look physically ready and

2070
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:18,879
Speaker 1: he just said, all right, you know what this happens.

2071
01:53:18,880 --> 01:53:21,160
Speaker 1: But he has rounded into shape. They have touchdown passes

2072
01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:23,960
Speaker 1: each of the last two games. And as we know,

2073
01:53:24,040 --> 01:53:27,800
Speaker 1: when Gronk can can can play. He's not not just

2074
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:31,280
Speaker 1: a great weapon through the air, but a tremendous blocker

2075
01:53:31,320 --> 01:53:33,479
Speaker 1: who can add a lot to the run game. There's

2076
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 1: so many weapons here and now you're adding Antonio Brown.

2077
01:53:36,880 --> 01:53:40,880
Speaker 1: And you know last year he was a huge spark

2078
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:43,800
Speaker 1: to New England in the one game he was there.

2079
01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:47,080
Speaker 1: And then obviously off field props if he can stay

2080
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 1: out of trouble. And last year he basically got suspended

2081
01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 1: for for tweet for texting and tweeting like someone take

2082
01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:56,519
Speaker 1: his phone away, but Brady clearly wants them. It's one

2083
01:53:56,600 --> 01:53:59,880
Speaker 1: more weapon. Is there enough footballs? There is there? I mean,

2084
01:54:00,160 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's going to work. But they

2085
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 1: have an embarrassment of riches and Tom Brady, who had

2086
01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:07,760
Speaker 1: virtually nothing to throw to last year, looks very, very

2087
01:54:07,760 --> 01:54:09,280
Speaker 1: happy with all the guys he can go to, and

2088
01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:14,719
Speaker 1: that includes a revamped and rested up groc Dan, thanks

2089
01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: for taking the time to join us today. We appreciate

2090
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:19,639
Speaker 1: the insight and kind of spinning us around the league

2091
01:54:19,640 --> 01:54:23,080
Speaker 1: there for the latest, Hey anytime, guys really appreciate it

2092
01:54:23,080 --> 01:54:25,719
Speaker 1: being on the show, all right, Dan Wetzel from Yahoo Sports.

2093
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Speaker 1: One of his most recent columns was on the Patriots

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01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:32,600
Speaker 1: and how they should be sellers ahead of the trade deadline,

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01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,840
Speaker 1: which comes up on Tuesday. And it is going to

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01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:38,320
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the Patriots decide to do,

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01:54:38,360 --> 01:54:41,360
Speaker 1: and some of their decisions may hinge on the outcome

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Speaker 1: of Sunday's game. And I don't know how you feel

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Speaker 1: about it, Steve, but I think if they dropped this

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Speaker 1: game Sunday, I could see them pulling the trigger and

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Speaker 1: selling off some assets. Yeah. I think it's very going

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01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 1: to be very telling on Tuesday. What happens between Sunday

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01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:01,480
Speaker 1: and Tuesday. I think they're no question they're they're picking

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Speaker 1: up the phone and running some guy's names out there. Certainly,

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01:55:05,160 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: Dan Wetzel just made a great point. They got a

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01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:09,520
Speaker 1: ton of guys that opted out that are really good

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01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:13,360
Speaker 1: football players, and you wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me if

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01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:14,600
Speaker 1: you get the right deal to trade one of the

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01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:18,720
Speaker 1: guys that opted out. Two you've got all those assets

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01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 1: to work with. You can trade their rights as well.

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01:55:21,080 --> 01:55:23,000
Speaker 1: So they've got a lot of guys that they can

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01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:25,320
Speaker 1: get ready and move up in the draft and start

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01:55:25,320 --> 01:55:28,200
Speaker 1: to accumulate some capital to get better very quickly. But

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01:55:28,320 --> 01:55:30,000
Speaker 1: by the same token, even the guys that they've got

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01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:32,200
Speaker 1: on the field, now there's a couple of pieces that

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01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:35,640
Speaker 1: could set them up for some success. So rebuilding won't

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01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:39,160
Speaker 1: take as long as people might think in New England,

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01:55:39,200 --> 01:55:41,920
Speaker 1: particularly if they get a quarterback that they like in

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Speaker 1: this draft. This inherent faith in Tua is really intriguing

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01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:50,960
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, I believe me. I know everything

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01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: that he achieved at the college level and it was

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01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 1: all very impressive, But this is a jump for any quarterback,

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01:55:57,360 --> 01:56:00,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe it's buoyed by the fact

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01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:03,240
Speaker 1: that Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow have done so well

2125
01:56:03,280 --> 01:56:06,400
Speaker 1: from the same draft class. Maybe that's part of it here.

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01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:12,360
Speaker 1: I just I can't wrap my head around just chalking

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01:56:12,440 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 1: it up and saying, you know what, he's gonna take

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01:56:14,200 --> 01:56:17,080
Speaker 1: off like a rocket and be great from the word go.

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01:56:17,320 --> 01:56:20,080
Speaker 1: I just I'm not buying that. I just I can't

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01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:24,000
Speaker 1: see it right away. And I also worry about his

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01:56:24,160 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 1: fragility physically. I mean, he's the smallest quarterback that was

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01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 1: taken in Round one, and I mean he's got an

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01:56:32,080 --> 01:56:35,760
Speaker 1: injury history. I if I'm the Dolphins, I'm drafting offensive

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01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:38,360
Speaker 1: tackles until I know I've got three really good ones.

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01:56:38,480 --> 01:56:41,080
Speaker 1: If two is my quarterback for the long term here.

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01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:45,400
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting as well that most of what,

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01:56:45,720 --> 01:56:49,160
Speaker 1: well almost all of what teams and people who know

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01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:53,920
Speaker 1: to us say about him is that emotionally he's impressive.

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01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:57,320
Speaker 1: He's a mature guy. He seems to be far ahead

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01:56:57,360 --> 01:57:00,000
Speaker 1: of where you know players even you know like Josh

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01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:01,280
Speaker 1: Allen who came in and he was a little bit

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01:57:01,320 --> 01:57:03,800
Speaker 1: of Opie Taylor, you know, Josh Allen walking in saying

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01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,280
Speaker 1: Gilligee kind of. Tua doesn't seem to have had to

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Speaker 1: go through that, as Joe Burrow didn't seem to have

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01:57:09,160 --> 01:57:11,040
Speaker 1: to go through that. Justin Herbert didn't seem to have

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01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:15,040
Speaker 1: to go through that. But and Tah, the most impressive

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01:57:15,080 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: thing about him is the guy he is off the

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01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:19,560
Speaker 1: field and in the meeting rooms. And certainly you can

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01:57:19,640 --> 01:57:21,600
Speaker 1: bet that the Dolphins are gonna have a little bit

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01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:25,040
Speaker 1: of an uptick in emotion for a couple of reasons. One,

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01:57:25,080 --> 01:57:28,640
Speaker 1: this young quarterback who everybody seems to really like, including

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01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:32,240
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, the guy he replaced. Everybody has had glowing

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01:57:32,280 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 1: reports about the kind of guy he is. And also,

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01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna have an extra week of rest going into

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01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:38,840
Speaker 1: the Rams game to begin with, so they'll be healthy,

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01:57:39,720 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 1: they'll feel like they get a new lease on life,

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01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:44,800
Speaker 1: and they're one game out of the final playoff spot,

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01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:48,240
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have some motivation and some real emotional

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01:57:48,280 --> 01:57:50,959
Speaker 1: impact in this game against the Rams coming into Miami

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01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 1: a home game for the Dolphins as well. So yeah,

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01:57:54,040 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: it may get off to a really nice start in

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01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:59,000
Speaker 1: Miami for Tuah, I'll have to wait and see how

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01:57:59,040 --> 01:58:01,440
Speaker 1: it goes long term. All right, we have to take

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01:58:01,440 --> 01:58:04,600
Speaker 1: a break, but when Steve and I return, we'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up the tweet sheet and maybe get to a little

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Speaker 1: NFL true false. And also we have Maddy Glab with

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01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:15,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots Beat reporter to get the lowdown on them.

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Speaker 1: All of that coming up next here on One Bill's Live,

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01:58:17,600 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, final half

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01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:34,280
Speaker 1: hour of the show, and we do want to get

2172
01:58:34,320 --> 01:58:36,320
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And Steve. We're up to Jack here.

2175
01:58:42,400 --> 01:58:44,840
Speaker 1: When we were asking everybody where does this Bill's Pats

2176
01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 1: matchup measure on the hype train? And he says, what

2177
01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:51,040
Speaker 1: hype until we beat them and exercise the hoodie demon.

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01:58:51,440 --> 01:58:54,160
Speaker 1: I can't get hyped up. I hate the Pats. I

2179
01:58:54,920 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 1: want the Bills to bury them. But we've been down

2180
01:58:57,520 --> 01:59:00,680
Speaker 1: the hype road before, and Belichick has, by hook or crook,

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01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:04,320
Speaker 1: crushed our dreams and broken our spirits. Until the Bills

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01:59:04,360 --> 01:59:09,440
Speaker 1: do it, I will have anxiety. Wow, it's a lot

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01:59:09,440 --> 01:59:14,360
Speaker 1: of pent up stuff. Scar tissue, Brownie, It's scar tissue. Yeah,

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01:59:14,400 --> 01:59:16,360
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Hey, We've got I get it.

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01:59:17,960 --> 01:59:19,760
Speaker 1: I get it. It's gonna it's gonna be a long

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01:59:19,800 --> 01:59:26,200
Speaker 1: time before the Patriots devolve into just another team, whether

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01:59:26,240 --> 01:59:29,560
Speaker 1: they're good one year, bad one year, or what have you.

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01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:32,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a long time for Bills fans to

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01:59:32,560 --> 01:59:34,920
Speaker 1: start thinking about them in any different way than they

2190
01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:38,320
Speaker 1: do now as a team that you just can't seem

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01:59:38,360 --> 01:59:42,040
Speaker 1: to get over the hump against. Yeah, I see that,

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01:59:42,160 --> 01:59:44,879
Speaker 1: and I believe me, I share some of that anxiety

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01:59:44,960 --> 01:59:47,120
Speaker 1: some of the time going into this one. I don't

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01:59:47,120 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: know why I feel differently, I just do. I just

2195
01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:52,880
Speaker 1: don't think they can threaten you the way they used to.

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01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:55,800
Speaker 1: And even though Belichick can draw stuff up, the bottom

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01:59:55,840 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: line is, it's a matchup league, and I just don't

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01:59:57,760 --> 02:00:00,000
Speaker 1: think they have the horses to match up in an

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02:00:00,200 --> 02:00:03,920
Speaker 1: places on the field. So unless you completely beat yourself

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02:00:04,080 --> 02:00:06,560
Speaker 1: and shoot yourselves in the foot time and time again,

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02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:10,520
Speaker 1: which I guess is always possible, I can't see the

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02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:14,760
Speaker 1: Bills losing this game. From Steve from Steve on the

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02:00:14,760 --> 02:00:17,720
Speaker 1: tweet chet, he says this game did not terrify me

2204
02:00:17,840 --> 02:00:20,200
Speaker 1: until I started seeing the weather report for Orchard Park

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02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday, which, for those who don't know, is forty

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02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:25,160
Speaker 1: nine in rain with twenty five to thirty mile per

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02:00:25,200 --> 02:00:28,000
Speaker 1: hour wins. The Weather Report has put this game in

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02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:33,440
Speaker 1: full locomotive mode. For me, Steve, I think this increases

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Speaker 1: the importance of being physical and winning at the at

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02:00:36,680 --> 02:00:39,000
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage in this game. This is something

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02:00:39,040 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 1: the Bills have shown an ability to do and have

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02:00:41,240 --> 02:00:44,320
Speaker 1: fallen short in some games as well. They better bring

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Speaker 1: their heartat on Sunday because this is going to be

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02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:49,240
Speaker 1: a mash it up game as I see it. I agree,

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02:00:49,280 --> 02:00:50,840
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a run game. The

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02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:53,560
Speaker 1: over under on this game maybe you know two hours,

2217
02:00:54,680 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that it's gonna go running clock.

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02:00:57,480 --> 02:00:59,920
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna get tackled, Andre gonna get tackled

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02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:02,440
Speaker 1: in bounds. There's not gonna be any incomplete passes because

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Speaker 1: each team, the Patriots may throw it three times, you know,

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02:01:05,880 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: I mean, right, so right, so after the same I'm exaggerated.

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02:01:10,240 --> 02:01:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating to make a point, but you get you

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02:01:12,200 --> 02:01:13,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think the Patriots is gonna

2224
02:01:13,800 --> 02:01:16,840
Speaker 1: come in here with a different type of offense than

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02:01:16,880 --> 02:01:19,200
Speaker 1: they've been running lately. That offense they're trying to run

2226
02:01:19,240 --> 02:01:22,120
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton is not working, particularly with this group

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02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 1: of receivers and they got worse with Edelman out of

2228
02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:28,600
Speaker 1: the lineup. It's gonna be I have no idea what

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02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:31,680
Speaker 1: to expect from this Patriots team coming in here on Sunday,

2230
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 1: and I think I don't know that the Bills would

2231
02:01:35,320 --> 02:01:37,120
Speaker 1: will have an idea either. They're gonna have to wait

2232
02:01:37,160 --> 02:01:40,040
Speaker 1: and see and adjust on the fly. But I have

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02:01:40,720 --> 02:01:43,360
Speaker 1: this is a game where, particularly with John Feliciano, if

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02:01:43,360 --> 02:01:45,360
Speaker 1: he is indeed on the field and starting for the

2235
02:01:45,400 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 1: Bills as a guard, they're gonna they're gonna try and

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02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:52,200
Speaker 1: push the Patriots around up front and run the football

2237
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: and not turn it over and only throw it when

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02:01:55,680 --> 02:01:57,640
Speaker 1: they can unless they get a match up or something,

2239
02:01:57,680 --> 02:02:00,560
Speaker 1: and then they'll they'll take their shots. But the conditions

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Speaker 1: speak to that, and so do the position of both

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Speaker 1: these clubs with their offenses. And speaking of those Patriots,

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02:02:06,440 --> 02:02:09,320
Speaker 1: it's time now to get an update on what the

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02:02:09,320 --> 02:02:11,640
Speaker 1: Bills could be looking at Sunday. So for that, we

2244
02:02:11,760 --> 02:02:15,240
Speaker 1: turned to Mattie glab who's with Patriots beat reporter Megan O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: We've got Megan O'Brien from the Patriots with us to

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02:02:19,760 --> 02:02:22,160
Speaker 1: help us break down all the storylines we need to

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02:02:22,200 --> 02:02:26,360
Speaker 1: know on the Patriots side of things before kickoff on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right, Megan, and the Patriots are two and four

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Speaker 1: through six games, not necessarily the Patriots team that a

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Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans are known to facing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what has been their struggle not being able to pick

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02:02:36,560 --> 02:02:39,480
Speaker 1: up more wins? This is still a Bill Belichick team

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02:02:39,560 --> 02:02:43,000
Speaker 1: even without Tom Brady. They're known for their defense. So

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Speaker 1: I guess you've seen this team since the start of

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Speaker 1: the season in training camp. What can you point your

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Speaker 1: finger on as to maybe why they haven't been as

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Speaker 1: successful as some people has thought they would in the

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Speaker 1: first six games. Well, you say it right there, Maddie.

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02:02:58,000 --> 02:03:02,520
Speaker 1: Two and four Patriots. That doesn't sound right. And when

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Speaker 1: you watch the game on Sunday, it didn't look like

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Speaker 1: a typical Patriots team. And yesterday I was actually doing

2262
02:03:08,520 --> 02:03:11,440
Speaker 1: an interview with someone from the Buffalo media group and

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02:03:11,480 --> 02:03:14,960
Speaker 1: I asked him, is this still the big bad Patriots

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02:03:14,960 --> 02:03:18,320
Speaker 1: who dominate the AFCs? Is this how the Buffalo Bills

2265
02:03:18,360 --> 02:03:21,200
Speaker 1: are approaching this game? And he said that coach McDermott

2266
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:25,120
Speaker 1: is approaching it that way, but it certainly is a

2267
02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:28,560
Speaker 1: different team for starters, there's no Tom Brady, which changes

2268
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:31,680
Speaker 1: the dynamic of the team. There is Cam Newton, and

2269
02:03:31,800 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 1: heading into the season, there was a lot of promise

2270
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:38,200
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton at quarterback, but things just haven't clicked together.

2271
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:40,880
Speaker 1: I was willing to give them a pass after they

2272
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:44,360
Speaker 1: lost the game against Denver. Just leading up to that game,

2273
02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:46,800
Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of practice, they didn't have

2274
02:03:46,920 --> 02:03:50,760
Speaker 1: preparation time. They were dealing with a coronavirus outbreak, which

2275
02:03:50,800 --> 02:03:54,160
Speaker 1: is stressful for a team. But then the performance they

2276
02:03:54,200 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 1: put together last week against the forty nine ers, there's

2277
02:03:57,360 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: no excuse for that. That didn't look like well executed

2278
02:04:01,000 --> 02:04:04,160
Speaker 1: football game with the turnovers were certainly a problem and

2279
02:04:04,240 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots have a lot of questions to answer. Stephon

2280
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 1: Gilmore the reigning deep boy, he hasn't played up to

2281
02:04:10,000 --> 02:04:14,880
Speaker 1: expectations and it all really starts though with Cam Newton. Now,

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02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: he isn't the only problem. There are certainly other problems

2283
02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:20,840
Speaker 1: on the team. They have a lack of weapons, Their

2284
02:04:20,920 --> 02:04:23,360
Speaker 1: tight ends have not been involved at all. The running

2285
02:04:23,360 --> 02:04:26,120
Speaker 1: game hasn't been able to get started. But it starts

2286
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:29,400
Speaker 1: with Newton and not turning over the football. Yeah, well,

2287
02:04:29,440 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: let's talk about Cam Newton. He had a tough go

2288
02:04:31,760 --> 02:04:34,160
Speaker 1: in last week's game against the forty nine ers. The

2289
02:04:34,200 --> 02:04:37,520
Speaker 1: Patriots over the last three game are over the last

2290
02:04:37,520 --> 02:04:40,920
Speaker 1: three games are averaging under ten points a game. Based

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02:04:40,960 --> 02:04:43,240
Speaker 1: on what Cam has said and what you've seen of

2292
02:04:43,320 --> 02:04:46,000
Speaker 1: him in practice, do you have a handle on maybe

2293
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:48,960
Speaker 1: why we haven't seen the Cam Newton that we did

2294
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:52,560
Speaker 1: see in the beginning of the year. Many I've been

2295
02:04:52,600 --> 02:04:55,200
Speaker 1: thinking a lot about that, and it's tough to listen

2296
02:04:55,240 --> 02:04:57,920
Speaker 1: to what he says, because he says all the right things.

2297
02:04:58,200 --> 02:05:00,320
Speaker 1: When he plays bad, he's the first one to go

2298
02:05:00,360 --> 02:05:03,240
Speaker 1: in the radio or confess in any interview that he

2299
02:05:03,320 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 1: didn't play well enough. There's no hiding it for Cam Newton,

2300
02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:09,200
Speaker 1: and he's one of the best interviews or sound bites

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02:05:09,240 --> 02:05:11,520
Speaker 1: out of any of the Patriots in that locker room.

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Speaker 1: But to me, Cam Newton hasn't really changed his play

2303
02:05:17,080 --> 02:05:20,640
Speaker 1: all that much. We saw these struggles in training camp.

2304
02:05:20,880 --> 02:05:24,080
Speaker 1: We saw many passes get batted down at the line

2305
02:05:24,080 --> 02:05:27,320
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. We saw him struggling to adapt to the

2306
02:05:27,320 --> 02:05:30,720
Speaker 1: New England system. Now, obviously Cam Newton is a specimen

2307
02:05:30,840 --> 02:05:33,000
Speaker 1: and he's a heck of an athlete. So we won

2308
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:36,240
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback position in New England. That was deemed

2309
02:05:36,240 --> 02:05:39,839
Speaker 1: a competition between Brian Hoyer, jarrets Did and Cam Newton.

2310
02:05:40,080 --> 02:05:42,080
Speaker 1: It was obvious to me that Cam Newton was going

2311
02:05:42,160 --> 02:05:47,040
Speaker 1: to win the starting quarterback position. But that game against Miami,

2312
02:05:47,160 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: the one that opened the season, I look back and

2313
02:05:49,280 --> 02:05:54,040
Speaker 1: I think, did the Patriots steal a game because Miami

2314
02:05:54,200 --> 02:05:57,680
Speaker 1: didn't account for Newton the runner and they didn't account

2315
02:05:57,760 --> 02:06:01,320
Speaker 1: for the running game that the Patriots had. Because since then,

2316
02:06:01,720 --> 02:06:04,480
Speaker 1: Newton hasn't been very productive. You can point to the

2317
02:06:04,480 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 1: Seattle game and say, wow, the Patriots were right there.

2318
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:10,680
Speaker 1: They were one play away, but they were chasing the

2319
02:06:10,920 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 1: entire fourth quarter, and Newton was able to connect with

2320
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:17,480
Speaker 1: Edelman on some chunk plays. He connected with Mickel Harry,

2321
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,640
Speaker 1: which was a promising site, but they really weren't in

2322
02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:23,400
Speaker 1: that game. In the game against Las Vegas, Newton had

2323
02:06:23,440 --> 02:06:25,040
Speaker 1: little to do with the win. And then you have

2324
02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:27,360
Speaker 1: the last two games against Denver and the forty nine

2325
02:06:27,440 --> 02:06:30,480
Speaker 1: ers where Newton's been a disappointment. Obviously, you take out

2326
02:06:30,480 --> 02:06:34,200
Speaker 1: the Kansas City game because he wasn't involved in that game,

2327
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:37,440
Speaker 1: but the Patriots held their own against the Chiefs without

2328
02:06:37,480 --> 02:06:40,800
Speaker 1: their starting quarterback. To me, it just seems like he's

2329
02:06:40,880 --> 02:06:45,160
Speaker 1: thinking too much. He's struggling to adapt and he's not

2330
02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:48,200
Speaker 1: playing as confident as the Cam Newton we saw in

2331
02:06:48,280 --> 02:06:52,560
Speaker 1: Carolina was playing. Yeah, I mean Cam is very important

2332
02:06:52,600 --> 02:06:54,960
Speaker 1: to this team. Of course, he's the quarterback. He's back

2333
02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:58,360
Speaker 1: on the field after being off the field with COVID nineteen.

2334
02:06:58,440 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: But you also have to rely on those webpins. I mean,

2335
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:04,040
Speaker 1: Edelman has struggled a little bit, so as nikkil Harry,

2336
02:07:04,080 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: you have a running game that you guys can use,

2337
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: but it seems like the running game kind of goes

2338
02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:10,720
Speaker 1: through Cam Newton and he's got to get those first

2339
02:07:10,760 --> 02:07:13,440
Speaker 1: couple carries on the ground for that run game to

2340
02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 1: really get started. So what do you think is the

2341
02:07:15,440 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: key for the Patriots to be able to put up

2342
02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:22,120
Speaker 1: a fight in this game against the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, Maddie,

2343
02:07:22,200 --> 02:07:24,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned the run game. One of the issues with

2344
02:07:24,720 --> 02:07:26,800
Speaker 1: the running game is they've had a lot of moving

2345
02:07:26,840 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: parts on the old line. David Andrews was out with

2346
02:07:29,360 --> 02:07:33,040
Speaker 1: a thumb injury, Joe Tuney left the game, They've inserted rookies,

2347
02:07:33,280 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: and it's just been a makeshift line for the past

2348
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:39,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and I think that's definitely impacted the

2349
02:07:39,480 --> 02:07:42,520
Speaker 1: running game as well. Damian Harris is a second year

2350
02:07:42,520 --> 02:07:45,040
Speaker 1: player who's had a lot of promise. He's looked okay.

2351
02:07:45,160 --> 02:07:47,600
Speaker 1: I would say he's looked okay. But the running game

2352
02:07:47,640 --> 02:07:51,240
Speaker 1: overall needs to be better. And it does start with

2353
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: Cam Newton Edelman. He's banged up. He's been banged up

2354
02:07:55,200 --> 02:07:57,600
Speaker 1: for really the last three to four years of his career,

2355
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:00,760
Speaker 1: but it seems to have taken on a different, a

2356
02:08:00,840 --> 02:08:05,520
Speaker 1: different level this season for Edelman. The productivity just hasn't

2357
02:08:05,520 --> 02:08:08,320
Speaker 1: been there. And Nikiel Harry, he's a second year player

2358
02:08:08,320 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 1: who really hasn't caught on yet. The first round pick.

2359
02:08:10,880 --> 02:08:13,440
Speaker 1: We waited all last year to see when the Nikil

2360
02:08:13,520 --> 02:08:15,960
Speaker 1: Harry game would be Who's an IR for the first

2361
02:08:15,960 --> 02:08:18,800
Speaker 1: half of the season, and it still hasn't come yet.

2362
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:23,000
Speaker 1: So nikkil Harry now dealing with a concussion. You look

2363
02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:26,680
Speaker 1: at the Patriots weapons and you don't have much. I

2364
02:08:26,720 --> 02:08:28,800
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are going to need to find a

2365
02:08:28,840 --> 02:08:31,800
Speaker 1: passing game. They're going to need to establish the run.

2366
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:35,080
Speaker 1: And it starts on defense too. Because you mentioned at

2367
02:08:35,080 --> 02:08:38,000
Speaker 1: the top of this Bill Belichick's teams are known for defense.

2368
02:08:38,400 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: Where was the defense against the forty nine ers there's

2369
02:08:41,160 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 1: all kinds of issues on this Patriots team, but they

2370
02:08:44,920 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: have to play ahead. They have to have a solid start,

2371
02:08:47,800 --> 02:08:51,400
Speaker 1: put themselves in a position to play with the Bills.

2372
02:08:52,000 --> 02:08:55,800
Speaker 1: Established the run, take care of the football, no turnovers,

2373
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:59,839
Speaker 1: and the Patriots with a Bill Belichick and the Patriots

2374
02:09:00,080 --> 02:09:03,040
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick as their coach, they can compete with anyone

2375
02:09:03,320 --> 02:09:07,840
Speaker 1: if they do those things. Yeah, I'm thinking as game

2376
02:09:07,880 --> 02:09:10,760
Speaker 1: planning wise, what Sean McDermott and and his team are

2377
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:13,240
Speaker 1: trying to do is of course, stop that run, because,

2378
02:09:13,280 --> 02:09:16,000
Speaker 1: like you said, the passing game has struggled as of

2379
02:09:16,080 --> 02:09:18,440
Speaker 1: late with some players who are banged up who won't

2380
02:09:18,480 --> 02:09:20,760
Speaker 1: be able to play in this game. But you point

2381
02:09:20,760 --> 02:09:23,080
Speaker 1: to that offensive line. It seems like they're going to

2382
02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:26,600
Speaker 1: be together again for what the second straight games, So

2383
02:09:26,880 --> 02:09:29,080
Speaker 1: maybe that's something that will help out the run game.

2384
02:09:29,120 --> 02:09:32,320
Speaker 1: But thinkers crossed that our defensive line can stop those

2385
02:09:32,360 --> 02:09:35,240
Speaker 1: offensive linemen. But who do you think is a Patriots

2386
02:09:35,240 --> 02:09:38,320
Speaker 1: player that many might not know that the Bills will

2387
02:09:38,320 --> 02:09:41,720
Speaker 1: need to look out for in this one. Well, ever

2388
02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:45,600
Speaker 1: since Rob Gronkowski left the Patriots and retired and then

2389
02:09:45,640 --> 02:09:49,400
Speaker 1: eventually became a Tampa Bay buccaneer, the Patriots have had

2390
02:09:49,480 --> 02:09:52,720
Speaker 1: a hole at the tight end position now. Back in

2391
02:09:52,760 --> 02:09:55,240
Speaker 1: the spring, they trade it up and drafted two tight

2392
02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:58,640
Speaker 1: ends and Devin Asiassi and Dalton pa We haven't seen

2393
02:09:58,760 --> 02:10:04,040
Speaker 1: either make an impact on this season, but Dalton Keene

2394
02:10:04,200 --> 02:10:07,080
Speaker 1: was active last week and I think he showed a

2395
02:10:07,120 --> 02:10:10,360
Speaker 1: little bit of promise. He played just over twenty snaps

2396
02:10:10,680 --> 02:10:13,640
Speaker 1: and I think he's a building piece that the Patriots

2397
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:16,200
Speaker 1: offense can work around. I'd like to see him get

2398
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:21,320
Speaker 1: involved and have some tight end contributions. Unfortunately, our Bill's

2399
02:10:21,400 --> 02:10:24,440
Speaker 1: defense has allowed quite a few tight end yards. In

2400
02:10:24,560 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 1: part that's because one of our linebackers, Matt Milano, has

2401
02:10:27,480 --> 02:10:30,080
Speaker 1: been out in and out with an injury the last

2402
02:10:30,080 --> 02:10:32,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But I think he's going to be

2403
02:10:32,120 --> 02:10:34,960
Speaker 1: healthy for this one, so he could be somebody who

2404
02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:37,320
Speaker 1: would go up against that tight end. But you spoke

2405
02:10:37,360 --> 02:10:41,560
Speaker 1: about it in the beginning of this and Bills media,

2406
02:10:41,640 --> 02:10:44,920
Speaker 1: Bills fans maybe thinking this isn't the same Patriots, this

2407
02:10:45,000 --> 02:10:47,880
Speaker 1: might not be the same matchup. But hey, even if

2408
02:10:47,920 --> 02:10:50,720
Speaker 1: it's not the same matchup, even if there's no Tom Brady,

2409
02:10:50,840 --> 02:10:53,560
Speaker 1: even if this Patriots team is tune and four, the

2410
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:57,520
Speaker 1: Patriots have won pretty much every game against the Buffalo

2411
02:10:57,560 --> 02:11:00,840
Speaker 1: Bills since twenty sixteen. That's the last time the Bills

2412
02:11:00,880 --> 02:11:02,880
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots, And a lot of people say, oh,

2413
02:11:02,920 --> 02:11:05,760
Speaker 1: that's not even really a win because Tom Brady wasn't

2414
02:11:05,760 --> 02:11:08,360
Speaker 1: on the field for that game. But is this year's

2415
02:11:08,440 --> 02:11:11,480
Speaker 1: matchup a little more intense than last year? Maybe just

2416
02:11:11,560 --> 02:11:14,840
Speaker 1: because the Patriots look quite different and they're going up

2417
02:11:14,880 --> 02:11:17,880
Speaker 1: against the current division leaders. Maybe the tables are a

2418
02:11:17,880 --> 02:11:21,120
Speaker 1: little bit flipped on this one and that the Patriots

2419
02:11:21,160 --> 02:11:23,480
Speaker 1: are the ones who are coming from behind to face

2420
02:11:23,520 --> 02:11:28,040
Speaker 1: the Bills. Usually it's the other way around. Well, Maddie,

2421
02:11:28,120 --> 02:11:31,320
Speaker 1: what's interesting is for the first time in twenty years,

2422
02:11:31,800 --> 02:11:36,160
Speaker 1: there's questions about what the goal is of this season

2423
02:11:36,280 --> 02:11:39,240
Speaker 1: in New England. For the last twenty years, the goal

2424
02:11:39,280 --> 02:11:41,960
Speaker 1: has been to win a Super Bowl, and the Patriots

2425
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:44,280
Speaker 1: have done a pretty good job of that. But you

2426
02:11:44,440 --> 02:11:48,480
Speaker 1: look the November third trade deadline. What are the Patriots

2427
02:11:48,480 --> 02:11:51,160
Speaker 1: going to do? If they beat the Buffalo Bills, they're

2428
02:11:51,240 --> 02:11:53,640
Speaker 1: right back in the division hunt. If they lose to

2429
02:11:53,680 --> 02:11:56,560
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, are you trading stuff on Gilmour? Are

2430
02:11:56,560 --> 02:11:59,000
Speaker 1: you looking at your roster and saying, how can we

2431
02:11:59,040 --> 02:12:01,879
Speaker 1: build for the few chair, So I think a lot

2432
02:12:02,240 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 1: is predicated on this game and how the Patriots performed,

2433
02:12:05,560 --> 02:12:07,480
Speaker 1: and it's going to tell us a lot about the

2434
02:12:07,480 --> 02:12:10,680
Speaker 1: rest of the twenty twenty season for the Patriots, Megan,

2435
02:12:10,840 --> 02:12:14,080
Speaker 1: is going to be an interesting match, to say the least,

2436
02:12:14,520 --> 02:12:16,840
Speaker 1: so much as stake for this one. I mean, the

2437
02:12:16,880 --> 02:12:20,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills can go undefeated in the AFC East with

2438
02:12:20,120 --> 02:12:22,600
Speaker 1: the win. If the Patriots grabble win, like you said,

2439
02:12:22,600 --> 02:12:26,200
Speaker 1: they're back in the hunt for that division title, Shirley.

2440
02:12:26,280 --> 02:12:30,960
Speaker 1: This AFC East looks completely different this season, so many

2441
02:12:31,080 --> 02:12:34,520
Speaker 1: question marks for the Patriots, for the Bills, for the

2442
02:12:34,560 --> 02:12:37,880
Speaker 1: Dolphins with two of finally playing for the Jets, not

2443
02:12:38,080 --> 02:12:41,320
Speaker 1: so much. But we'll see how this Sunday matchup goes. Megan,

2444
02:12:41,400 --> 02:12:45,080
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. Appreciate it. Mattie,

2445
02:12:45,160 --> 02:12:48,720
Speaker 1: thanks so much. All right, that's Maddie glab with Megan

2446
02:12:48,760 --> 02:12:53,920
Speaker 1: O'Brien from the Patriots covering the Patriots up there, and yeah,

2447
02:12:54,000 --> 02:12:56,000
Speaker 1: tough start for them at two and four is Steve

2448
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:58,360
Speaker 1: and I have discussed all afternoon, but we have to

2449
02:12:58,400 --> 02:12:59,920
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back, Steve and I

2450
02:13:00,040 --> 02:13:02,920
Speaker 1: will close up the show with what have we learned?

2451
02:13:03,120 --> 02:13:05,240
Speaker 1: That's coming your way next here on One Bill's Live,

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02:13:05,320 --> 02:13:19,280
Speaker 1: presented by Collot of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio Time

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2455
02:13:25,360 --> 02:13:29,720
Speaker 1: and Steve. We learned that no Edelman will be playing

2456
02:13:29,880 --> 02:13:32,640
Speaker 1: in Sunday's game, so that takes even more luster off

2457
02:13:32,640 --> 02:13:34,280
Speaker 1: this one, but we do have a jam packed show

2458
02:13:34,320 --> 02:13:38,640
Speaker 1: for everybody tomorrow to enjoy. Yeah, it's this is going

2459
02:13:38,720 --> 02:13:43,200
Speaker 1: to be a really interesting Patriot Bills fans bos Bill

2460
02:13:43,240 --> 02:13:45,040
Speaker 1: games because of what the Patriots are gonna have to

2461
02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:46,680
Speaker 1: do to beat them. They're gonna have to do something

2462
02:13:46,720 --> 02:13:49,400
Speaker 1: we haven't seen them do this season, maybe ever. Yeah,

2463
02:13:49,840 --> 02:13:52,160
Speaker 1: but it'll be interesting to see what Bill Belichick comes

2464
02:13:52,240 --> 02:13:56,240
Speaker 1: up with, Tasker's teammate Greg Coseell, Lorenzo Alexander, what's the

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Speaker 1: scoop tomorrow? And Football Crisis Hotline See you then and