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Speaker 1: Dot time. Hi there, welcome, It's Friday. There's a home game.

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Speaker 1: You know what that means. You can feel it in

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Speaker 1: looks great as it always does. There's no snow to

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Speaker 1: be seen. I just kind of getting my shows, guy,

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Speaker 1: out watching prodcast standing there, going out, going out, Take

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Speaker 1: you'll last, You'll get You'll get drilled by rich Gannon's

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Speaker 1: in town. Rich Gannon, Kevin harn will get in down

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Speaker 1: town tomorrow. The broadcast crew. J Feeley, the sideline guy,

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Speaker 1: worked with those guys last year seventeen weeks. What a

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Speaker 1: their game for CBS, right It's one of the better

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Speaker 1: So and the Bills on Thanksgiving will get Jim Nance

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Speaker 1: top team, it's the top game. I we'll do this research.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Dallas game next week. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's that late Thursday Thanksgiving afternoon game has got

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Speaker 1: the regular season, right, more so than Sunday night football.

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Speaker 1: I know Sunday night's a huge audience, but Thanksgiving Day,

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Speaker 1: big game of Thanksgiving Day. It is the four thirty

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Speaker 1: Looking ahead, looking at the Dallas game, it'll be a

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Speaker 1: playoff positioning. Right. This is a game the Bills have

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Speaker 1: because it's different defense. They're three and seven. But like

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Speaker 1: this hour. Leonard Smith is the Bill's legend of the game.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna reminisce with Steve about their Super Bowl appearances,

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Speaker 1: He's out here watching practice doing his U think it's

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Speaker 1: questions there even if you do want to make that effort.

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Speaker 1: What's our question of the day. What's the biggest question

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Speaker 1: for the Bills heading into Sunday's game of the Broncos,

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Speaker 1: And can tell by the early voting here that it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a landslide. Can the offense keep momentum

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Speaker 1: the momentum they established in the Miami game? Can they

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Speaker 1: keep it going against a much better defense in the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos? What do you think? Give us a call?

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. You gotta call here

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Speaker 1: from Ed in Boston, New York. Hello, Ed, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air, Hi, guys. I appreciate those comments

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Speaker 1: on the two rookies. Very good draft selection. My comment

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Speaker 1: and I guess my question is, coming off that win

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Speaker 1: from Miami in a weaker defense, how does the Bills,

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00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 1: especially offensive line, adjust to a much better Broncos team?

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Speaker 1: Really the question of the weekend. Yeah, there you go, Ed.

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Speaker 1: You you should put together our Twitter polls. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean that is a question. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: tougher offensive test for the Buffalo Bills against Von Miller

447
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Speaker 1: and company than it was against the Miami Dolphins defense.

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Speaker 1: How they handle it is going to say a lot

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Speaker 1: about whether how far they're going to go and what

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Speaker 1: other people think about what we think of them. It's

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Speaker 1: going to affect our opinion. I think you can expect

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Speaker 1: that the Miami defense is about giving up about eighteen

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Speaker 1: points a game, you know, So think about what the

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Speaker 1: Bills are gonna do against that. They put up thirty

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Speaker 1: seven against the Dolphins team. But I don't know that

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Speaker 1: that means that this and this Denver team is going

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Speaker 1: to be able to hold him off the board. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think so. But I think, yeah, you're right, that's

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Speaker 1: the question. Where and we're asking the question ourselves. What

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Speaker 1: do you think is we think that everybody thinks that's

461
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Speaker 1: the biggest question ever? Can they keep this up offensively?

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Speaker 1: I think there's some doubt out there. Yeah, I gotta

463
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Speaker 1: say this. Von Miller is the household name he deservedly

464
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Speaker 1: sold with his great career in the NFL, but has

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Speaker 1: been pointed out to us by a couple of guests

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Speaker 1: and by my eyes watching I've watched three and a

467
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Speaker 1: half Broncos games already this week. He's not the von

468
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Speaker 1: Miller you may remember. He's good, he can wrest the passer,

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Speaker 1: he may come up with some sax. He's got like

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Speaker 1: five and a half sacks. But there are other players

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Speaker 1: on the Denver defense who are pretty good. An it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit like the Buffalo defense and that they

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Speaker 1: don't have a superstar, but they have a safety Justin Simmons,

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Speaker 1: a young guy who's playing really well, really well. On

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Speaker 1: the back end of that defense. They have a veteran

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Speaker 1: corner Chris Harris Junior, who's playing really well, and he

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Speaker 1: may just line up and follow John Brown all over

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Speaker 1: the field. Our guests on the show yesterday, Shelby Harris,

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Speaker 1: the guy with three sacks at Minnesota. He's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good player, a journeyman player, no doubt, a guy who's

481
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Speaker 1: sort of hung in there and found a spot now

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Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. But they've got other players besides

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Speaker 1: von Miller, and you could you wouldn't have to go

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Speaker 1: too far to argue that von Miller might not be

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Speaker 1: there their most threatening defensive player this week in this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Shelby the guy we spoke to yesterday. He's having a

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Speaker 1: career year for him. He's got five sacks, right, three

488
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Speaker 1: of them were this last week. Plus he's got thirty

489
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Speaker 1: six tackles or something. He's lighting it up. He's really

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Speaker 1: playing well. He's found a home in Denver and he's

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Speaker 1: liking it. He's playing defensive end in a four to three,

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Speaker 1: and he had a whale of a game against some

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Speaker 1: Minnesota vikings last week and he's been playing well for

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Speaker 1: them throughout this season. So there's another guy besides von

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Speaker 1: Miller that's gonna you gotta keep an eye on that

496
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Speaker 1: you can't forget about because he's good enough to take

497
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Speaker 1: advantage if you're not matching up with him. So, yeah,

498
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Speaker 1: this Denver. Listen, this Denver defense is great. They're really

499
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Speaker 1: good defense. You're gonna have to play well offensively. They

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Speaker 1: stopped the run pretty well, they stopped the pass pretty well.

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Speaker 1: They'd probably like to get more turnovers than they have,

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Speaker 1: but they're stout. They're very stout. They're well coordinated, and

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Speaker 1: they're head coach is a defensive guy, much like Buffalo's guy.

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Speaker 1: So you're up against it offensively. This week, Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Joe in the Northtowns. Hid Joe, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for taking my call. Sure. One of

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Speaker 1: the things I'd like to talk about is separation for

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Speaker 1: our wide receivers. Is it more of the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: or the defense that's called on that play, or I

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Speaker 1: just think it's when I'm watching it, it's a lack

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Speaker 1: of a good schemes. We don't We don't seem to

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Speaker 1: get our receivers open by running good schemes. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to hang up and listen to your response. Things

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Speaker 1: you bet um, I'll tell you from from my perspective,

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Speaker 1: every route that's called should have a chance of getting

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Speaker 1: open if the routes run right. And I think most

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Speaker 1: wide receivers would agree. You've got techniques if you're even

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Speaker 1: if the guy's playing a technique that should take it away.

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Speaker 1: You should have enough ability to make him think you're

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Speaker 1: running a different route, have him commit to the other route,

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Speaker 1: and then break off and run the route you were

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Speaker 1: supposed to route run. That's what playing wide receiver is.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of it. Sometimes for guys like John

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Speaker 1: Brown and Bob Foster and these guys you do it

525
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Speaker 1: is a about out running people. But at this level,

526
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Speaker 1: of course, there's a lot of fast guys. So you really,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy really has to be a slug

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Speaker 1: for you to just go out and outrun him. So

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Speaker 1: every route you run has techniques that they teach and

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Speaker 1: they practice and you can get you can get open

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Speaker 1: even if they run a technique that is meant to

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Speaker 1: take that exact route away. It's hard, no question, but

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Speaker 1: usually you don't or you're not asked to do it.

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Speaker 1: And also if you're asked to run a route against

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Speaker 1: a technique or a coverage that is specifically meant to

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Speaker 1: take that specific route away, you've got an answer someplace else.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback will see that technique and he'll go to

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Speaker 1: his other answer, where you've got a technique that is

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Speaker 1: designed to be theirs. So that and that's what offense is.

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Speaker 1: So when you're talking about wide receivers that are not

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Speaker 1: getting open or not getting separation a it could be

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Speaker 1: that they're running the right technique against the route, or

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Speaker 1: be the receiver's just not running his technique good enough

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Speaker 1: to get open. And I'm sure all of that is

545
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Speaker 1: on in play and the things you're seeing, Joe, it's

546
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: not all one answer and it's not all one questions.

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Speaker 1: It's a combination of all these things. Certainly, they can

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Speaker 1: play a defense that takes away a route or a

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00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: concept even but that doesn't mean a guy doesn't think

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Speaker 1: he can get open. Now it's up to Josh to

551
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Speaker 1: see it. It's up to the quarterback to see it

552
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: and make the throw and make the read and come

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00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: off a guy who's covered, or have off a guy

554
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: who's being doubled, or or they're making a special effort

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00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: to take away. But you've got to have an answer

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Now if that's the case, if you don't

557
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Speaker 1: have an answer, then you got problems. But that has

558
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Speaker 1: not been the case in my opinion about this offense.

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Speaker 1: Make sure your call. We're gonna take a break care

560
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Speaker 1: we get more to this topic. What's the biggest question

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Speaker 1: for the Bills as they hit into Sunday's matchup against

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. What do you think it is. We'll

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Speaker 1: take your phone calls, we'll read your tweets, we will

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Speaker 1: check the Twitter poll as we move forward. Our next

565
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Speaker 1: guest played an important role in at least one Bills

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Speaker 1: game against the Denver Broncos going back some years. He's

567
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Speaker 1: gonna be one of the legends. He will be the

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Speaker 1: legend of the game This Sunday, the Bills getting set

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Speaker 1: to host Denver and getting set to hosts our next guest,

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Speaker 1: Leonard Smith, former Bill safety, gonna join us here on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines when we return. Come on Back One Bills.

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Speaker 1: I presented by Kalaida Hell from the Seneca Studio in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. John Murphy, steep Tasker. The Bills getting set

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Speaker 1: to play the Broncos and when they do, the legend

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Speaker 1: of the Game, a famous Buffalo Bill back to be

577
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Speaker 1: celebrated by Bills fans. We happen to ad him in

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Speaker 1: the studio with us right now. Leonard Smith, the hitman

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Speaker 1: for the Bills back in the Super Bowl. Are welcome, Leonard.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you, pleasure back in town. We head

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Speaker 1: John the show. You were reminded me on the phone

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Speaker 1: before this, first time you've been in studio. First time

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Speaker 1: in studio. What do you think pretty, I'm still kind

584
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: of at odd every time I come back. I'm at odd.

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Speaker 1: As to add, instead of things going around seeing all

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Speaker 1: the luxuries. Yeah, you know, if it wasn't for the

587
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: Big Tree, we wouldn't have eaten, but they got cafeteria.

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Speaker 1: They got your choice of what you like to have.

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00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: So I think that beverages had the big tree too, well,

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00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: that beverage, but that was that lunch and everybody was

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00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: getting the wings or whatever. Yes, very nice. You two

592
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: guys are former teammates. I'm seeing reminiscing. You came here

593
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: in a trade in the middle of a season. The

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00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: Bills sent Sean mcnanny and Roland Mitchell to Arizona. Was anonymous.

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00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: Can remember the year or what? We can't? Yeah, sure,

596
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: the little memories. That was a week three because we

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00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: played bits as Pittsburgh was the game. I came in

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Speaker 1: and I actually participated in. UM. I came in on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday about five o'clock, came right here and did

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Speaker 1: physical and then started studying with um and he played

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Speaker 1: that weekend. I played that weekend as as the diameback

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Speaker 1: nickelback and uh, pretty decent surgh thirty six twenty eight days. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and you're a first round pick of the Cardinals most

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Speaker 1: definitely well and they traded you for four years later?

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00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: Uh five five years five years later? Yeah, yeah, it

606
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: was some changes taking place. UM. Gene Stalin's now was

607
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: the head coach. Um when I went to the Cardinals

608
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: drafted um Jim Hannaffan was the coach, and you know

609
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't winning. Things took place and um Stalin's wanted

610
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: things a little differently. You know, they drafted Tim McDonald

611
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: a year prior um from US. Yes, c as a

612
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Speaker 1: second round pick. You know, couldn't take my job, so

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00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: they had to give him a job. You know, I've

614
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: never lost, and like a thirty year old grudge, I

615
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: never lost. I've never never lost the job. Any What

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Speaker 1: do you remember about coming to Buffalo because you always

617
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: hear the same thing, you know, guys like, wow, I

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Speaker 1: gotta go to Buffalo, and then when they get love Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: I was a little a little um taken back that

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Speaker 1: I came to Buffalo. The Raiders was trying to get me.

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Speaker 1: It was a whole lot of things going on. I

622
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Speaker 1: was actually building a home, trying to establish myself there

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix, and went to the all the hierarchy people

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Speaker 1: there in the organization, Oh yeah, go ahead and build

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Speaker 1: your home, Bill your home, and lowing behole. After the

626
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Speaker 1: third game coming out of Tampa, I heard a few

627
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Speaker 1: more rumors that I was getting traded, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you know lowing behole that that off day on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: I got a call that um I was being traded,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, Buffalo hadn't even came into the pitcher.

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Speaker 1: I had heard the host of other team, the Raiders,

632
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Speaker 1: was being one of the leading candidates. Trying to get

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Speaker 1: me what you think when you got here and the

634
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Speaker 1: seasons took play. It was early in the season and

635
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Speaker 1: it was eighty eight, so I was three and over

636
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: to the time I came in here. I just left

637
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and they were all and three, right, so

638
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: coming to something winning. And you know, I came up

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Speaker 1: here in eighty five and eighty six when Jim first

640
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Speaker 1: hit the field and the fans it's what I remember

641
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: all the time. Came up here. It was cold, people

642
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: have no shirts on, and they were just yelling at

643
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: the bus and I'm like, whoa true fans And I

644
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: love them to death now, but you know, it was

645
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: it was one of those things. I was kind of

646
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: excited about it. I was a kind of hurt because

647
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: I was the All Pro, I was the team captain.

648
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: I was all these things that you could be, and

649
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, within a heartbeat that I was

650
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: getting on the plane leaving Phoenix at eight o'clock in

651
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: the morning, and it was the craziest thing coming here

652
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, and it was already starting to get duck.

653
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: So it was a long Steve's talking about even before

654
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: you played for the Bills, that hit you put on

655
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly when you were playing for the Cardinals, broke

656
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: hand that game. I broke a hand the week prior

657
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: to I broke my hand the week prior to that

658
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: against the Rams, and I played with a hass. I

659
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: hit Jim twice, made him fum a once. We didn't recover,

660
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: and Pete metz Lord. I had actually knocked Pete out.

661
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: He actually you don't remember that, but Pete went to

662
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: the side. No, I don't remember that. I don't remember

663
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: that I did. It might be that I did. But

664
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: I got here and the nucles of the guys were

665
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: just great. They accepted me, and it wasn't hard to become.

666
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: It was quite the run too. You got here in

667
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: the nick of time, got here and I was just

668
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: talking with Jeremy um last night. I said that year

669
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: was the first time I had ever lost to someone

670
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: three times in a row. I lost to the Bengals

671
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals early in the year. We lost to

672
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals with the Bills, and then we lost to

673
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: him in the championship. Oh yeah, that's the only time

674
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: that had ever happened. I was like the Bengals. I

675
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: got tired hearing that this youngle song that they were singing.

676
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I got tired of looking at Ikey Wood dance and

677
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: so other than that. But I was in the playoffs

678
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: for the first time. I was one excited guy. Leonard

679
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: Smith is with us. He'll be the legend of the

680
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: game this Sunday when the Bills take on the Denver Broncos.

681
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, you spent a long time in

682
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: the back end of the Buffalo defense with my friend

683
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: Mark Kelso. You and you and he kind of opposite

684
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: type of guys, but really we're great teammates, right. He

685
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: really wonderful guy. Wonderful guy. You know, Um, I was

686
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: a little high strung, you know, he was kind of quiet. Yeah,

687
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: and still he still did made his deliverance the same way.

688
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, we had some great times. You know. We

689
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: was able to coordinate things. Even though plays call for

690
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: one thing, I would switch things out and let him

691
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,719
Speaker 1: roll somewhere differently than what the defense actually call Um

692
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: did garrocha every nine and then kind of got on

693
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: us a little bit about that. But overall, me and

694
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: Kelso had a wonderful time. But I had with everybody,

695
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, especially to fans here. Me Steve. I think

696
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: we were on about three or four posters together stuff.

697
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: You know. I was accepted here and I truly loved

698
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 1: the people of Buffalo and it's been great. They're working

699
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: right now trying to get a contract just for this weekend.

700
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: It's interesting. It's yeah, that's right. Um, if fans, you know,

701
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: some fans are young, they don't go back. And if

702
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: you go on YouTube is go go back to the

703
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in seventy seven seconds. It's a Denver Bronco game.

704
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: Nineteen nineties, the first Super Bowl year. We were kind

705
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: of getting it together right, and they were kind of

706
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: they were good team. Elway was there. They had some

707
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: guys right at water and those guys three as right,

708
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: the three Amigos, and we were getting pushed around the

709
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: whole game. We were right and they went to kick

710
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: a field goal to go way up, Yeah, and Nate

711
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: blocked at Cornelius runs it in for a touchdown all

712
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: the way down. I mean it was a yeah, the

713
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: kicker wasn't gonna catch Cornelius. That's the beginning, right, and

714
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: that was the start of it, and so you think, okay,

715
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: all right, instead of getting them getting three, we got seven.

716
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: There's a big like a ten point turnaround. And then

717
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: the next series we cover the kick. Elway drops back

718
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: and gonna throw a quick one, gets tipped by somebody

719
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: and right into your arms and you're in the end

720
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: zone standing there spiking it right, um, and then the

721
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: lid came off. The next I mean we had another

722
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: kickhook over. We cut, we tackled them down close and

723
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: they fumbled it or something. The series next series was

724
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: so loud. Yeah, they actually had to stop the game

725
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: and say good quiet, good quiet. And the next and snap,

726
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, he loses it. Cornelius scoops that and then

727
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: you know he's shaken. He scooped it. He fell down,

728
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: he fell On the next play, Jim's in. We throw

729
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: it in right, um, Kenny Davis. There was three touchdowns

730
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: and the game clock had and we moved less than

731
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: two minutes seventy seven seven minutes fifteen almost and that

732
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: game was over. That game was over, and you know,

733
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: it was kind of crazy early that year. If you remember,

734
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: we were getting the crap beat us in Miami and

735
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: we didn't want to come out of the game. Oh yeah,

736
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: that was Marvin gotten out. Yeah, Marko says something to Marvin.

737
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: Mark had addressing the team meeting. He said, you know,

738
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: we got fine that game. We was getting embarrassed on

739
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: defense and we didn't want to come out again. Everybody

740
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: was running in walk curves, sending guys in to replace us,

741
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: and we was trying to stay on the field. We

742
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: all got fine, and we didn't want that to happen again.

743
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: But now that was happening right here at home, right

744
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 1: but didn't stop. Yeah, it had all started with Nate

745
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: on the block, Cornelius taking it to the house and

746
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: the cards flipped on outside at that time, twenty points

747
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: in seventy seven seconds. Amazing. I got the Denver game

748
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: to ask you about the following year, the AFC Championship game.

749
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: That was just a defensive struggle ten seven final. You

750
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: played a role in that game, played a role in

751
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: that game. It was until Carton got the tip from

752
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: taking it in that's the only touchdown. Everything else was

753
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: field goals on both side. Yeah, that's one of a

754
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: few games they held Jim and that crew off the scoreboard. Yeah,

755
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: the whole game, it was just a tight game. No

756
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: one ever got to either twenty on either side. The

757
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: game was played right there in the middle of the

758
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: field the whole time. In fact, the last player of

759
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: the game that Ice did for the Bills was Kirby

760
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: Jackson Yield. He fell on and that was it. They

761
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: were driving to kind of, you know, tie win it

762
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: and we're forced to fumble, and that was it. That

763
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: was That was That was a really close champion That

764
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: was probably the good championship game as we played in

765
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: we've played Denver. Every time we've played them has always

766
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: been a tight game with those guys. You know from

767
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: the Monday night games on down that I got um

768
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: a little carried away and hit somebody. I guess they

769
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: said I was out of bound, but I don't know.

770
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: I didn't see it that way. Let Smith is our guest.

771
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the the legend of the game this

772
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Sunday when the Bills played the Broncos. And you've been back,

773
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: You've been the leader of the Charge. You've been back

774
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: for games. You actually hang around in Buffalo. Your wife

775
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: is a Buffalo native, right, yes she is. What is

776
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: it like coming back here now, all these many years later?

777
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: And what do you like about the atmosphere in that stadium?

778
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: Mon game day? Just love the fans, you know, understanding

779
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: that they love a team that's playing well. And right

780
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: now new team playing well. We're looking at the playoffs

781
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: right now. That's something that you know, it used to

782
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: be something you just knew you were gonna be in

783
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. Now it's something that fans are

784
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: truly looking to have again. And right now what a

785
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: team is rolling, it looks like that opportunity is going

786
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,959
Speaker 1: to rise again. So um, but coming back and seeing

787
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: the fans still just enthused with the team they have

788
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: and looking for brighter and better days. I love it.

789
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: I truly love it. It's good to see. Man. I'm

790
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: glad you're here here on the studio. What you got, Yeah, yeah,

791
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: you do. We were talking before the show. You do

792
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: real estate in like in Florida and Louisiana. Louisiana, Yeah,

793
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: have rental properties, Yeah, just you know, just kind of

794
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: live recovering from a bunch of surgeries, trying to repair

795
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: the body work. At least walk up right straight, look great. Yeah,

796
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: you know everybody with glasses, so you really a right

797
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: have fun this weekend. Most of it happened to be

798
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: with the show guy. Thanks Leonard Smith. The Hitman is

799
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: gonna be the legend of the game Sunday when the

800
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: Bills take on the Denver Broncos. We thank you for

801
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: joining us. We got a lot more to come on

802
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: the show. Come on back, One Goes Live, presented by

803
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: Kalaida Hell from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

804
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Goes Live.

805
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker. I've always good to see

806
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: Leonard Smith. I know you've got you guys such a

807
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: bond with that team, and you know you always talk

808
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: about what do you call him, the Seven Presidents. Yeah,

809
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: Leonard's not one of the seven Presidents, right, No, he's not,

810
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: but he was an important part of those teams, I think, no,

811
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah, for sure he was. He came

812
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: in and gave him an edge in the back end.

813
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, well, you know Kelso was a thinker and

814
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: he's more of a finesse player, right, and Leonard was

815
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: everything but that. He was a he was a hitman,

816
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: you know, they called his nickname was the hitman. And

817
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: he would he was laying people out. He'd take the

818
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: occasional personal file too. He got tossed out of a

819
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: game after he chopped somebody in the neck. You know,

820
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: he says, the guy wouldn't out of bound. Whatever. He

821
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: was one of those guys that played on the on

822
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: the jagged edge of acceptability, you know, and we needed it.

823
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: We actually we needed it. We needed that in that

824
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: part of our defense, and he provided it. And he

825
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: was he was a great addition. And of course he

826
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: was a first round draft pick. He was a great

827
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: athlete and a and a you know, fantastic tackler and

828
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: all that stuff too. So yeah, he was a a

829
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: one of a number of key ingredients to put that

830
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: team over the top. Good to hear from Glad we

831
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: had him in there. He'll be the legend of the games. Sunday,

832
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott and the Bills have just wrapped up there

833
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: Friday practice moments ago, McDermott telling Chris Brown and others

834
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: that offensive lineman tie and Seki is out for Sunday's game.

835
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: We knew that safety Sir and Neil is out. He

836
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: remains in concussion protocol. McDermot said. Everyone else is expected

837
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: to be ready to go, including Jerry Hughes, who we

838
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: haven't seen. I'm guessing he'll be limited today after not

839
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 1: practicing Wednesday Thursday. But Jerry Hughes, with a groin injury,

840
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: should be good to go. And Jordan Phillips, who was

841
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: limited yesterday with his toe, should be good to go.

842
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: So fairly healthy group for the Bills. We want to

843
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: open you. What's the biggest question I had a Sunday's

844
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: game against the Broncos. What do you think? Let's go

845
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,479
Speaker 1: to a call here from Steve and silver Creek. Hello, Steve,

846
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: go ahead, Hey, how are you doing okay? Great? I

847
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: want to talk about something that seems to be forgotten

848
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: about special teams. If you look into three lasses, special

849
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: teams have been a major factor at two of them

850
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: against obviously New England, the block punt that was the

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. So teams has been second best. I guess

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Speaker 1: you could say it at the best. I mean, where's

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Speaker 1: the improvement here? What are they doing about that? I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna hang up and hear what you say. Thank you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they got to get short up. You're right, And I

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Speaker 1: think the coverage you put that on the players on

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Speaker 1: a kickoff coverage you got to be ready for that.

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Speaker 1: The field goals and what you say, you got to

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Speaker 1: put that on the players as well. The blocked kick

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Speaker 1: that was and we talked about it at the time.

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Speaker 1: The block punt in the New England game was a

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Speaker 1: by the Patriots, no question about it. And then also

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Speaker 1: it was a bad snap with a left footed punter,

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Speaker 1: so they had a couple of things working against them.

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Speaker 1: The way the bad snap was and the way that

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Speaker 1: you know, the roll of the dice by the Patriots

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Speaker 1: turned into a touchdown for them. So you got to

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Speaker 1: tip your hat to them for that. Not only they

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Speaker 1: roll the dice, they got a little lucky as well,

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Speaker 1: but that was a great play call by them. And

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Speaker 1: you're right, specialty, you have to hit, you have to

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Speaker 1: hit on all cylinders and the Bills right now because

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Speaker 1: their structured the way they are and the way their

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Speaker 1: defense plays and the way their offense plays, you got

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Speaker 1: to hit on more cylinders, and points are more of

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00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: a premium when it's taking fewer points to win games

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Speaker 1: by either team. So yeah, your special teams has to

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Speaker 1: hit on some on all cylinders or it's gonna cost you.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen they've dodged it for the most part.

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Speaker 1: They dodged it last week in the kickoff return, but

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Speaker 1: you can't expect that to happen every week. You'd love

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Speaker 1: to get one where it goes in your favor. Andre

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Speaker 1: Roberts gives them a chance for that. Their league leaders

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Speaker 1: in average perturn yard per kickoff return, so they've got

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Speaker 1: some They've got some positives going for him. Corey Burkez

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Haushka seems to be back on track,

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Speaker 1: so they're working on it. But you're right, the way

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Speaker 1: this team is and these games where they get to

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Speaker 1: where there's slow scoring games and for the most part

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Speaker 1: hit it when you're on special teams, You've got to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you're on point. I'm just gonna say

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Speaker 1: that it's not all dark spots on special teams. Kick

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Speaker 1: per return Onry Robertsman. Solid, but there is definite room

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Speaker 1: for improvement, especially when it comes to coverage. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Asking any question today,

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest question I had a Sunday's game with

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Speaker 1: the Procos. Will tweets in? The offense? Will do enough

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Speaker 1: to win? Can the defense hold the lead or stop

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Speaker 1: the run? So he's worried about the defense, the number

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Speaker 1: three defense the Bills have. Okay, all right, right, we're

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Speaker 1: all in a different place, Murph, we are in a

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Speaker 1: different place. We're all in different place. Tiffany says, it's

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Speaker 1: the next step game for Josh and the offense. They

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Speaker 1: need to continue building on the success of last week's

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Speaker 1: game against a quality defense by protecting Josh and putting

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Speaker 1: up points. The next six games will tell if we're

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Speaker 1: going to be a contender or pretender in the playoffs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's a big picture look from Tiffany. I'm kind of more.

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Speaker 1: I'm more on board with Tiffany than I was from

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Speaker 1: Will about the questioning the defense. Let's get the Great

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Speaker 1: co Sell's take on the Bills and Broncos. He's coming

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Speaker 1: up next after the top of the hour break Here,

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Speaker 1: come on back, Great co Sell ESPN NFL matchup, going

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Speaker 1: to join us in a couple of minutes. One Bills

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Speaker 1: Network Sports Update from One Bills Drive. The Bills have

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Speaker 1: wrapped up there practice day inside the a Pro Sports

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Speaker 1: Training Center, working indoors today getting set for the Denver

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Speaker 1: Broncos on Sunday. Jerry Hughes, who did not practice Wednesday

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Speaker 1: and Thursday, should be good to go. He has a

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Speaker 1: bit of a groin issue, but he should be good

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Speaker 1: to go. Head coach Sean McDermott rually out a couple

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Speaker 1: of players after practice today, including the offensive lineman Tian

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Speaker 1: Secki with his ankle. He's gonna be week to week obviously,

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Speaker 1: and defensive backs are and Neil in concussion protocol still

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Speaker 1: Broncos three and seven this year, coming to Buffalo to

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Speaker 1: play the seven and three Bills. The Broncos have been

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Speaker 1: outscored by a total of twenty five points so far

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Speaker 1: this season. That means they lose by an average margin

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Speaker 1: of two and a half points per game some close losses.

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Speaker 1: Denver has lost three games this year on opponent's field goals.

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Speaker 1: With less than half a minute to play, Bill's Broncos

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Speaker 1: Sunday at one o'clock. The weather going to be mostly

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Speaker 1: cloudy a high of forty two. The radio broadcast here

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Speaker 1: on their flagship UGR Sports Radio five fifty. I'll have

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Speaker 1: the call of the play by play Eric Wood in

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Speaker 1: the boots with me sal Capaccio on the sidelines. Brown's

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Speaker 1: defensive en Miles Garrett's indefinite suspension has been upheld. Steelers

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Speaker 1: center Marquis Pouncey's man has been reduced to two games

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Speaker 1: after appeals. According to the NFL, the announcement came late yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That means that Garrett will be suspended without pay for

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Speaker 1: at least the remainder of the season. They left to

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Speaker 1: meet with the Commissioner's office before being reinstated. Texans quarterback

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Speaker 1: to show on. Watson has a couple of big time

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, so DeAndre Hopkins role has been a little

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Speaker 1: different this year, but last night Hopkins was the star

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Speaker 1: as the Texans beat Indie twenty to seventeen on Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. The Texans take over first place in the

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Speaker 1: AFC South with win on Thursday Night Football. Cowboys linebacker

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Speaker 1: Laton vander Esh will not play the Sunday at New

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Speaker 1: England because of a neck injury. His status is week

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Speaker 1: to week. His neck flared up in practice, leading to

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Speaker 1: an MRI. I'll have another MRI in three weeks, according

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Speaker 1: to a source. And the Buffalo Sabers lost in Boston

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Speaker 1: last night three two. The final score Rastmuster Rista Lineon

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Speaker 1: scored on the power play. Brandon Montor also scored. Road

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Speaker 1: Trip continues Sunday night when the Sabers play Florida in Florida.

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Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's

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Speaker 1: team tasker in our one Buffalo Studio. Here our regular

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Speaker 1: Friday guest, Dandy Mayi is executive producer analyst of NFL

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Speaker 1: Matchup on ESPN, longtime senior producer at NFL Films Greg

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Speaker 1: ko Salas with us. Hello, Greg, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Murph Steve, what's happening? Seven to three? That's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Course bills are seven and three. Yeah, say yeah. You

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Speaker 1: play who's on your schedule and you keep winning games.

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Speaker 1: That's why it works in this league. No apologies, comings, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're told you told us that this week's NFL Matchup

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Speaker 1: Show you've got a special feature on a couple of

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Speaker 1: throws from Josh Allen. Tell us what you have in

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Speaker 1: mind there, please, no, Well, first of all, they're seven

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Speaker 1: and three, so it makes perfect sense to do them

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Speaker 1: in the Matchup Show when we only have a limited

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Speaker 1: number of games. And so I did two throws. I

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Speaker 1: did a twenty six yard completion to Cole Beasley in

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland game, and then I did the forty yard

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Speaker 1: or to John Brown for a touchdown in the Miami

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Speaker 1: game this past Sunday. What did you see on those

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Speaker 1: two throws? Start with the Cleveland game, I guess, well,

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland game had a lot of elements to it.

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Speaker 1: That particular throw that we did because he was actually

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Speaker 1: looking to the boundary side of the field and wanted

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Speaker 1: to throw it there and did not like what he saw,

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Speaker 1: and then came back to Beasley and hit him in

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Speaker 1: between the underneath defenders and his own void. And it

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Speaker 1: was a really nice job by Josh Allen. I go

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Speaker 1: into more detail with visuals of course on the matchup

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Speaker 1: show so people can look at it. And then of

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Speaker 1: course the touchdown throw to John Brown, that was a

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Speaker 1: pretty big time throw. What do you see? Not many

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Speaker 1: guys as we're looking at it now, I mean this

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Speaker 1: was a rifle shot, a whole shot in the outside

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Speaker 1: void and cover two, and not many guys make that throw.

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Speaker 1: That ball was thrown with a lot of juice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what are you seeing from Josh Allen and his development? Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I mean the tools, like you said, the big ARMI

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Speaker 1: ser what else do you see from him? Both on

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Speaker 1: the positive side in his development, He's getting better in

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Speaker 1: certain areas. He's cut out his interceptions, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: What are you seeing that's the cause for that? And

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Speaker 1: also what about the other side, the stuff that he

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Speaker 1: still needs has glaring deficiencies in Yeah, Steve, I think

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Speaker 1: you know the Dolphins game was somewhat representative of sort

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Speaker 1: of the incremental improvements that Josh Allen is making on

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Speaker 1: a week to week basis, you saw him make some

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Speaker 1: outstanding throws. We just saw one of them. Obviously that's

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Speaker 1: a big time throw. He used to his legs effectively,

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Speaker 1: and they obviously ask him to use his legs by

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Speaker 1: design as well. He did not turn the ball over.

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Speaker 1: So that's five weeks in a row. Now he is

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Speaker 1: not thrown in interception and that's a real, real positive.

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Speaker 1: Then you still see some of the negative things where

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Speaker 1: he continues to be a little erratic and inconsistent with

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Speaker 1: his ball placement on some routine throws, and I think

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Speaker 1: those things have to be cleaned up. You'd like to

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Speaker 1: get him to the point where he doesn't miss those throws.

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Speaker 1: I'd hate to say that he's always going to be

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Speaker 1: like that. I think you can clean that up. But

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Speaker 1: you're starting to see on a weekly basis Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: makes some really really good throws and start to recognize

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Speaker 1: some things. I think that's part of the piece I

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Speaker 1: did for matchup is that those two plays show some recognition,

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Speaker 1: which will be a big factor as we transition to

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Speaker 1: this week against a VIC Fan Joe defense, because he

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Speaker 1: blurs the lines with his safeties as to what the

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Speaker 1: coverage is until the ball snapped, and you have to

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Speaker 1: be aware of that or he'll cause problems for you.

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Speaker 1: One more Josh Allen in question for you, I guess

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Speaker 1: it's an overall Buffalo offense question. We had to your

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Speaker 1: partner in NFL matchup, Matt Bowen on the show with

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Speaker 1: us the other day, Greg, and he talked about well,

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Speaker 1: I asked him, what do the Bills look to get

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Speaker 1: better offensively? How can they get better? He mentioned the

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Speaker 1: quick game, the quick passing game. Yeah, what do you

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Speaker 1: see there? And I think that's a valid point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately what you want to be able to

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Speaker 1: do is have a multidimensional pass game. Josh Allen is

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Speaker 1: a big armed kid. He can drive the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field with great velocity. He can move around and

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Speaker 1: drive the ball down the field. But what you'd ultimately

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Speaker 1: down and distance type throws where it's a quick three

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Speaker 1: step drop ball comes out, it's a quick five step

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Speaker 1: ball comes out. Those kinds of throws, the kinds of

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Speaker 1: throws that we see the Tom Brady's, the Drew Breeses make,

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Speaker 1: just as a matter of course, the easy kinds of throws,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's something you definitely want to work on.

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Speaker 1: Those throws require more pace and touch. I mean, I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a good example, which is a real positive

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Speaker 1: to me. He hit Brown for twenty four yards on

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Speaker 1: second and seven on the first play of the second quarter.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember the specific play,

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Speaker 1: but it's a play that we kind of call boundary

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00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: x key or a smoke concept. Steve knows exactly what

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00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It's a called run play, but you

1064
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: read the defense and he threw the tag slant to

1065
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: Brown versus the off coverage corner, and you know throws

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00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: like that. That throw had some touch on it. He

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00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 1: did not drill it, and that's the kind of throw

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00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: you want to see him make more of. Well, as

1069
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: we turned the page and and talk about what he

1070
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: did last week, it was against the Miami defense, which

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00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: is going to be much different than the Denver defense

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00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: they faced this week. And the question we've been wrestling

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00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: with all week is what do you think this is

1074
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: going to look like against a really good defense. Have

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00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 1: they improved enough to hold their own and score enough points? Well?

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00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: I guess we don't know that, Steve, but I mean,

1077
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: all you can hope for is that you continue to

1078
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: see improvement from not only Josh but the rest of

1079
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: the offense. Obviously Singletary had a pretty good game this week.

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00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 1: You want to have a balanced offense. Josh Allen is

1081
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: not at the point in his career where you can

1082
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: go into a game and say, hey, we need Josh

1083
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: to drop back forty times where we can't win. You

1084
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: don't want to be in that situation. So I think

1085
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: you won your offense to still be balanced. You want

1086
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: Josh to be able to make the kinds of reads

1087
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: and throws that continue to show improvement. And that's why

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00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: I mentioned that Brown twenty four yarder, which was a

1089
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: tagged slant. Things like that. You have to be able

1090
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: to understand defenses, see the defense people. At this point,

1091
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: we are just going to look back at the New

1092
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: England game and say he's not ready for the big time. Well,

1093
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: that was five or six six games ago, I believe,

1094
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: because he hasn't thrown an interception in the last five.

1095
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: So you're just hoping that now when you get to

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00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: bigger games, and certainly the Denver defense, while it's not

1097
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: overly talented. VIC Fanjoe is very good with his use

1098
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: of safeties to blur the coverage lines and make it

1099
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: difficult for quarterbacks at times online with great Cosal executive

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00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: producer analysts ESPN's NFL Matchup. You can watch that show

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Speaker 1: tomorrow seven am on ESPN two Sunday four am and

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Speaker 1: six thirty am on ESPN. A question again, one more

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00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 1: question about the Buffalo offense, and you know, we look

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00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: for options for Josh Allen. I guess avenues for this

1105
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: offense to grow. And maybe it's wishful thinking, but I

1106
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: keep thinking that rookie third round pick Dawnson Knox has

1107
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: a lot more to offer this offense. What do you think? Right?

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00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I really liked him coming out

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00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: of Old miss He's a very athletic tight end. I

1110
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 1: think you can start to do more and more with him.

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00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: I know he caught the touchdown this week which I

1112
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: were taking a lookout, which I'm not sure exactly what

1113
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: Miami thought they were doing on the play. It might

1114
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: have been zero, it may not have been. I don't know,

1115
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: but I think he's an athletic tight end who you

1116
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: can line up all over the formation. You can line

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00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: him up as a line of scrimmage tight end. You

1118
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: can line him up detach from the formation. I think

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00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: he's athletic, I think he fits into today's NFL, and

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Speaker 1: I think he's a player that I would assume would

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00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: continue to improve. What did you think about John Brown's

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00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: performance last is his best game of the year, at

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00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: least statistically it was his best game of the year. Yeah.

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00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: I like John Brown. I liked him in Arizona quite

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Speaker 1: a bit. I think he's one of those receivers that

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Speaker 1: gives you the vertical dimension. Plus, I think he's got

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00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: great quickness as a route runner and can win on

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00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: a number of different kinds of routes. But I think

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00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: the vertical dimension is critical. They needed that player because

1130
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: they have a quarterback who does like to push it

1131
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: down the field. Now, as we spoke last week, an

1132
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: area that they obviously need to continue to improve because

1133
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: they're not very good at it. Our downfield throws. Obviously,

1134
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: that forty yard whole shot, that's not a true vertical

1135
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: throw in the sense of let's say a deep post.

1136
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's where Josh Allen needs to continue

1137
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: to improve, because you're going to need to be able

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00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: to hit some of those throws in games. Hey, Greg,

1139
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense seven sacks against Miami last week. They

1140
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: have fifteen different players who have recorded at least one

1141
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: sax so far this season, and there's seventh in the

1142
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: league in sec percentage. I'm not telling you they're, you know,

1143
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: again after the pastor type of defense. But they're okay

1144
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: in that department now, aren't they. Yeah? I thought last

1145
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: week was very interesting watching the tape. I mean, there

1146
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: were a couple of assignment busts by the Dolphins, but

1147
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: those things happen. But I thought that the Bills were

1148
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: really aggressive with their front looks, a lot of different

1149
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: front looks. Lano and Edmonds were very active in those

1150
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: front looks. You saw them in the double mug fronts,

1151
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: you saw the fire x crossdog blitzes. They showed a

1152
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: lot of different fronts, which I don't think it's what

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00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: they normally do. Now. I don't know if it's a

1154
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: function of the opponent or if it's something will continue

1155
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 1: to see more of. Is the season progresses, will that

1156
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: be able Will they be able to duplicate that against

1157
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: this front? For the Denver Broncos, Brandon Allen is going

1158
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: to have it, is he going to be able to

1159
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: set the Has he shown the ability to set the

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00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: protections well enough to keep himself safe facing the Bills defense.

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Speaker 1: Probably not. And I think that the old line for

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00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: the Broncos is very erratic up and down. I think

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00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: they can be beaten, so I think you might continue

1164
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: to see that. Certainly, it'll be situation based, Steve, but

1165
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: I think that you know what they ask Brandon Allen

1166
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: to do is they design a lot of defined reads

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00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: and throws for him as a young quarterback. Now, he

1168
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: did have a lot of success as a three year's

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00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: daughter in the SEC. He came out, I guess in

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00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen, so he hasn't really played

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00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: in the NFL very much. But he's a smaller quarterback,

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00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: not a big arm so you try to design things

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00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: and throws for him to make that give him his

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00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: primary read. And Sean McDermott and Leslie Fraser will know that.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think that this is a situation

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00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: where their defense can probably do a really nice job

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00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: both from a personnel standpoint and a schematic standpoint against

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Speaker 1: the offensive line of the Broncos. He's got some some

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00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: offensive weapons to work with Greg. I really like Courtland

1180
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: Sutton in his second year, kind of a long like

1181
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: he receiver. It seems they have pretty good hands. Huh yeah,

1182
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: he's a big kid. So what'll be interesting is normally

1183
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: what they do is they match up to Davious White

1184
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: on the number one receiver for the opposing offense. My

1185
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: guess is they'll do that now. Obviously we saw this

1186
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: week Kevin Johnson play a lot more snaps outside opposite White,

1187
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,479
Speaker 1: so obviously Levi Wallace they're trying to light a fire

1188
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: under him. But we saw Kevin Johnson play a lot

1189
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: more snaps outside, so he's a little bit bigger corner

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00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: in terms just of length, So it'll be interesting to

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00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: see how they match up. They also have two tight ends.

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00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: I really like Noah Fan can run. We know that

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00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: that's he was a first round pick. But Troy fu

1194
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: mcgalley came out of Wisconsin a few years ago and

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00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: they play a lot of two tight end sets, and

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00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: I like fu mcgoalley. He's an athletic receiver as well.

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00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: Not quite the same pure speed as Fan, but there's

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00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: an athletic system to him as well. So they can

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Speaker 1: line up in two tight end sets. With tight ends

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Speaker 1: that both have good movement skills. How good is Noah

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00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: Fan I know he's a fast guy. We've seen him

1202
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: catch some passes. He is he good enough to be

1203
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: a three down tight ends? Good in the run game?

1204
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: Does he have that well rounded ability? Not yet, Steve.

1205
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's the kind of tight end

1206
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: that at this point his career he's more of a

1207
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: detached player or a flexed player. But obviously you can

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00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: design things for him. On this particular play that we're

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00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: looking at, which was on their first series, he was

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00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: aligned on the line of scrimmage, but it was a

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00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: pass concept and it was a really well schemed pant

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00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: concept to break down his own coverage. So you know,

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00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: he's a guy who can run and you have to

1214
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: be careful because he can get vertical and get over

1215
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: the top of you. And another similar question about Philip Lindsay,

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00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: the second year running back. How much of a threat

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00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: does he present you think to the Bill's defense. Well,

1218
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: they want to run the ball, there's no question about that.

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00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: And they use two backs. I think Lindsay's one and

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00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: Freeman is kind of one a but Lindsay is a

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00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: real fireplug, kind of back. I think lindsay is that

1222
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: he's a tough, physical, hard nosed, aggressive runner. He's short,

1223
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: but he's not small, and he runs with a lot

1224
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: of heart and a lot of effort, and he's a

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00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: good finisher. You need to get bodies to him to

1226
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Speaker 1: get him to the ground. How good has von Miller

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Speaker 1: planned these days? I think their defense after the first

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01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: three four weeks really has started to get a feel

1229
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: for what Vic Fangio's defense is. And look, the bottom

1230
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: line with Miller is he's a great rusher off the edge.

1231
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: He's got great bend, great flexibility he gets off the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean's He'll be an interesting matchup for Cody Ford

1233
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: in those critical down in distance situations because obviously the

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01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: SEC's out, so the rotation that they've been using will

1235
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: not happen this week. I imagine it will be Ford

1236
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: on pretty much every snap and that'll be a very

1237
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 1: intriguing test. I'm anxious to see if the offensive staff,

1238
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: depending on down in distance, helps forward because Miller can

1239
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: wreck your offense if you allow him to, but with

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Speaker 1: great cosal. Executive producer Analyst's NFL Matchup on ESPN. Senior

1241
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: producer at NFL films. I think you can tell we're

1242
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: pretty pumped about this Buffalo Denver game, Greg, But there

1243
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: are other games, including maybe the highlighted game of the

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01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: week Dalla at New England four twenty five pm on Sunday.

1245
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: And I've seen that you and your partners are an

1246
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: NFL matchup. Thinks it's a good matchup between the Cowboys

1247
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: receivers and the Patriots back end the back end of

1248
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: their defense. Uh yeah, I think it's the best unit

1249
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: matchup of the weekend, Murph. The Cowboys have high, high

1250
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: level talent. You could argue that only the Chiefs maybe

1251
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: have more talent at the receiver position than the Cowboys.

1252
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: Plus they've got a very good old line, and they

1253
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: still have Ezekiel Elliott, who even though the numbers the

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01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks haven't been great, no one's is

1255
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: going to say he's not a high level back. So

1256
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:36,439
Speaker 1: this is a really talented offense and now they're playing

1257
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: a defense that's obviously putting up historic numbers this year.

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Speaker 1: So I'm fascinating to see what Bill Belichick will do.

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01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: I can't presume to get into his head. I did

1260
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: make the point that it wouldn't surprise me to see

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01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: Gilmore line up more on Michael Gallop than a Marii Cooper.

1262
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: But again, that's just a gut feeling based on nothing,

1263
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not smart enough to get into Belichick's head.

1264
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody wants to, Greg, what do

1265
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: you think Tom Brady is missing from his offense? His

1266
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: complaints after last Sunday's game about the Patriots offense. What

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01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: do you think he sees? Do you see what he's seeing? Well?

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Speaker 1: Number one, they're not running the ball and over the

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01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: last seven eight games down the stretch last year, they

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Speaker 1: were actually a running football team, so they they have

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Speaker 1: not been able to run the ball with any consistency

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Speaker 1: this year. Number Two, I think the pass protection hasn't

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Speaker 1: been quite as good and that's made Brady play a

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Speaker 1: little faster. And I think that when Brady starts to

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Speaker 1: feel pressure, he starts to play even faster. So I

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Speaker 1: think that that's the result of the pressure and him

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01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: not truly trusting his offensive line right now. And I

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01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: think that's the concern in their pass game. I mean, Brady,

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Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, he had more incompletions in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter against the Eagles last week than in any

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Speaker 1: game in his career, and he's throwing the ball away

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Speaker 1: a lot more. He's just not willing to stand there.

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Speaker 1: So that tells me he's not trusting his whole line

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Speaker 1: very much. Who do you give the edge in that matchup?

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, Steve. I'm hoof. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: good prognosticator, but I'm really fascinating to see that Dallas

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Speaker 1: offense in the New England defense, just because I think

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Speaker 1: Dallas has so many good weapons. Well, we're headed forward

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We're looking forward to the Denver Bronco matchup,

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Speaker 1: but the weekend really are already started last night. Did

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Speaker 1: you see any of the game last night where the

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Speaker 1: Texans really used the big play to beat their division

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Speaker 1: rival Indianapolis Colts? Dad intee the tape. I saw a

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01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: good amount of it on TV, and Watson made some

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Speaker 1: good throws. But I gotta tell you, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know how they deal with this. It's always hard when

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Speaker 1: you have a quarterback who can move. But to me,

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Speaker 1: and I've watched every game on tape up until last night,

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01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: Watson is starting to me to move too much. There

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01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 1: are so many times he doesn't even plan his back

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01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: foot steam. He just drops back and sort of gets

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Speaker 1: into that superhero mode and starts to move, and of

1303
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: course then his offensive line takes all the heat, and

1304
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: that's wrong. So I'm anxious to see the tape. He

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01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 1: did make a couple of really good pocket throws, obviously,

1306
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: and he's I think he's a very good thrower, but

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01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: he's just starting to move in my view too much.

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01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: But again, I don't know how Bill O'Brien feels about that,

1309
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know how he's coached with Great Cosell.

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Speaker 1: A couple of minutes left, as we move around the

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Speaker 1: NFL talk about some of the matchups. Gregg is Go hosts,

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Speaker 1: executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN. Want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about the Seattle game at Philadelphia one o'clock kickoff

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field, And what is Philadelphia hit its stride

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01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: now at five and five? And do they have enough

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Speaker 1: to handle Seattle at home? Do you think? I think

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia offensively is really lacking a lot of what you'd want.

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01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 1: They have no speed on the perimeter. You can make

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01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: the argument even if Jeffrey returns that they're receiving corps

1320
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Speaker 1: is among the worst in the league. And what makes

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01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: it even worse is they have no speed whatsoever, So

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01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: they're very, very limited on offense. They almost have to

1323
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: become a running football team. And Jordan Howard was out

1324
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: last week. I believe he'll be back this week. But

1325
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: they have a lot of talent limitations on the offensive

1326
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and it makes them makes it

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Speaker 1: very difficult for them. Sunday at four, the Bill's got

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01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on the Tennessee Titans, who are

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Speaker 1: at five and five Tennessee home against Jacksonville. Tannehill. Is

1330
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: he the answer for the titans See's age and do

1331
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: they have enough to make a run at a wildcard spot. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's the answer now and he'll be the starting quarterback

1333
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: and he's actually played well. I think they would like

1334
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: their offense to run through Derrick Henry. He's averaging about

1335
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty carries a game. I think they'd like to

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Speaker 1: continue to do that. I think in the case of Jacksonville,

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01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: they got a little lot of wack last week. Foles

1338
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: came back Nick Foles, but their run pass ratio was

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01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: way out of balance. I think they would like their

1340
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 1: offense to work through Leonard Fournette. It did not last

1341
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: week in what was a relatively close game for most

1342
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Speaker 1: of it until later in the third quarter and fourth quarter.

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: So I would expect on the road for Jacksonville to

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01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 1: really go back and make four net the foundation of

1345
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 1: their offense. Well. One of the teams has been interesting

1346
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: to see play this year has been the San Francisco

1347
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: forty nine. Their defense has really almost kept pace with

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Speaker 1: that historically good New England defense. They played really well,

1349
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 1: but this week they're gonna play something. Is it going

1350
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: to take a player like Aaron Rodgers to figure out

1351
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 1: the forty nine or defense or is it just strictly

1352
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: just too talented for these teams to handle well. They're

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01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: going to be without d Ford, and I think that's

1354
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: a big loss. They're a team that can rush the

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01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: quarterback with four really effectively. They play more zone than

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01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: man Steve. They play a lot of Cover three, but

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01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: in recent weeks they've been playing a lot more with

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01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: two split safeties and then a little of what we

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01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: call Cover four quarters. As you know, but they're a

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01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: team building moore on just their front. They're still very

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Speaker 1: fast with their front and including their linebackers. To me,

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01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: I think Green Bay is at their best when their

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Speaker 1: offense is balanced, in the run game is effective. And

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Speaker 1: I think they have two very good backs a little

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01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: different stylistically, Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams, but I think

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Speaker 1: they have two very good backs. And Greg help me

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01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: out here as we wrap things up. We're in the

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Speaker 1: home stretch here, the Bills sitting in the wildcard spot

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01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: now with the fifth wildcard spot. Who and you watch

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Speaker 1: all of these teams, you know who's up who's down.

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Speaker 1: I know it's mostly matchup game for you. But who

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Speaker 1: should Bills fans keep an eye on? Do they keep

1373
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: Should they keep an eye on Houston after they win

1374
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: last night? The Raiders? The Steelers? Should you worry about

1375
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland catching fire? Who do you think I should keep

1376
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: an eye on? I like the Raiders a little bit.

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01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've got a very professional quarterback

1378
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: in car I think Josh Jacobs to me, is a

1379
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: top five runner in the league right now. They've got

1380
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 1: a very big old line. It might be the biggest

1381
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: in the league. Certainly, they are two offensive tackles. There's

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01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: no one bigger than their two offensive tackles and I

1383
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: think their defense is it's not great, but I think

1384
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: it can hang in there for them as it continues

1385
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: to develop with young players. So the Raiders I find

1386
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: to be a pretty intriguing team right now. You can

1387
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: imagine how much fun we're having with this season up here,

1388
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: right Greg, we don't get this. We haven't had this much.

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01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: You're in buffal Awesome. Yeah, it's fun. I mean seven

1390
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: and three, come on, it's it's great. You know all

1391
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: you can do, guys, And you know this. You can

1392
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: hear people say schedule and all that, this is the schedule.

1393
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: You've won seven of the first ten and you know

1394
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 1: what that. Then there's a confidence that builds. And Steve

1395
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: knows all this from playing. I mean you just start

1396
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: to get a good feeling. It counts. I know that.

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01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 1: All seven count. All count. Guys. Thanks Greg, we'll talk

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01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 1: to you next Friday. Have a great Thanksgiving. We'll talk

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01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 1: to you next Friday. You two guys, thanks so much,

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01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Great Coal Executive producer NFL Matchup on ESPNI

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: is an analyst there. You'll see him on that show.

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01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: Senior producer at NFL Films The Matchup Show. The usual

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: schedule now tomorrow seven am on ESPN, two Sunday four

1404
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: am and six thirty am on ESPN, And as Greg said,

1405
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 1: he got in depth with Josh Allen on a couple

1406
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: of particular throws, one against Cleveland and the forty yard

1407
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to John Brown against Miami last week. That'll

1408
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: be seen to hear what Greig says about him. He

1409
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 1: had good things to say about Josh. They did. And

1410
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: I think, slowly but surely, you and I you think

1411
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 1: about what we go through, Murph. We talk about Josh

1412
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: and with the bills all the time, and you get

1413
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: occasional articles from somebody outside of the sphere of influence

1414
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: of the Bills, right, I mean you get a guy

1415
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 1: from you know, from all the websites, from SI from

1416
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: you know, the ringer from the Athletic National guys from

1417
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, all these guys from CBS, Sports, from Fox,

1418
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: all these guys that chime in when they start watching film,

1419
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: and slowly but surely you can tell me I'm not right.

1420
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: It's been much much easier now as these weeks have

1421
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: grown on to find positive thing. People are starting to say,

1422
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: you know, well he's yeah, the guy hasn't thrown a

1423
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: pick and he's got two to one interception to touchdown ratio.

1424
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:52,120
Speaker 1: He's knocking out all these statistical issues that people were

1425
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: throwing at it at him, and people, eat writers and

1426
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:59,559
Speaker 1: observers are starting they're his detractors are pretty quiet right

1427
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,639
Speaker 1: about it, you know. Yeah, and that we still see

1428
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:03,720
Speaker 1: warts on his game. I mean we can get it. Well.

1429
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: You see the stats, the lack of turnovers. That's all great,

1430
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 1: But you know what you see if you're in look,

1431
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: we are locked into this Bills team. You see improvement, fairly,

1432
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: steady improvement I would say, miles ahead of where he

1433
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:17,839
Speaker 1: was a year ago at this time, and steady improvement

1434
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: from September eighth when the season began this year. I

1435
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: think you see improvement has him in a straight line.

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01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: There there are some I'm sure some Valley's coming. I

1437
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: bet you've said it. There's an interception down the line

1438
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,600
Speaker 1: here coming up for Josh Allen. We know that, but

1439
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:32,919
Speaker 1: you do if you watch this team, you see steady improvement.

1440
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: And yeah, people are picking up out in the round

1441
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, and I think we see it and

1442
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 1: we can talk about it. But to have other people, wow,

1443
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, they come back and they like I say,

1444
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 1: you think they show up, you know, a couple of

1445
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: weeks later it's like, oh wow, that's different. You know,

1446
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: he's a little different, isn't And more and more. And

1447
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: the thing I said early in the season when we

1448
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: were riding, I called it a roller coaster. If he

1449
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 1: just cut those bottoms out, you know, and he has

1450
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't throw it. He didn't turn it over and

1451
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,679
Speaker 1: hasn't been turned it over. This is important for Josh's development.

1452
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: The coaching has been good for him for a couple

1453
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: of years now, and the Steady and Dorsey this year

1454
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,799
Speaker 1: and it's Brian dayball, and you know the people complain

1455
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: about play calls. You know what's more important than play

1456
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: calls for Brian Dable developing Josh Allen. It is immeasurably

1457
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 1: more important for him to make sure Josh Allen is

1458
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: getting better than it is for what he's calling on

1459
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: third and four at the eighteen yards. Yeah, because when

1460
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: really it's much more Even if you don't have the

1461
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,759
Speaker 1: right play call, you've got enough talent and enough players

1462
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: to pull it off. More often than not you should have,

1463
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: particularly against a team like you know, Miami or Washington

1464
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: or those time you can. You know it's about you

1465
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: got a certain coin. It is about Josh and only

1466
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: about Josh. But for the most part, for this coaching staff,

1467
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: they're trying to win games. And that's why you don't

1468
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 1: see this team with this They're gonna run it first

1469
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: and throw it second, or they're gonna throw it here.

1470
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna do this area. They do everything in this offense.

1471
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: They really attempt to put in a game plan that

1472
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: attacks what the other team does not do well, and

1473
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: that asks a lot of the quarterback and so he's

1474
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: been up to it for the most part. Got Lorenzo

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 1: Alexander coming up on the show The Lowdown after two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We got time for you if you want to win

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01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: in on Sunday's game. Our Twitter question today and it's

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Speaker 1: up on the Twitter line right now one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest question for the Bills heading into Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game with the Broncos. Seventy six percent of you three

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Speaker 1: quarters of you say the biggest question is can the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo offense keep the momentum they started against Miami? Can

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Speaker 1: they do it against a much better defense? Fourteen percent

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Speaker 1: of you say can the offensive line handed handle Von

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Speaker 1: Miller seven percent say can the defense handle matchups with

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Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton and Philip Lindsay three percent of something else

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Speaker 1: in mind, We're gonna open up the phone lines, read

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Speaker 1: some tweets, and get your thoughts on Sunday's game. Biggest

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Speaker 1: question for the Bills heading into Sunday's game, what do

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Speaker 1: you think it is? And we'll check the injury update.

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Speaker 1: It is out now official for Sunday's game. All of

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Speaker 1: that when we come back one. Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. You know what happens to me every week, Steve.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the week Friday, here we are

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Speaker 1: Bill Season. I just wound up with a mountain of

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Speaker 1: paper and I got us and tomorrow morning I might

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Speaker 1: do it. Even tonight. I just started throwing out stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know, recycling all the paper about this game. Look

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Speaker 1: at this stuff. I don't need all this. I haven't

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Speaker 1: committed it all the memory. But come on, it's like

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Speaker 1: the old It's not like the old days because the Internet.

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Speaker 1: Think about it. Yeah, it was a newspaper and the

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01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: PR Department that was it. That's the only place you

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01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: can get stuff. You get you get the game notes

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01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,040
Speaker 1: and read that articles in both papers and there you go,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Now you can go if you get reams, yeah,

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01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: it reams of information and opinion. Yeah, and you get

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Speaker 1: ready for the game. I will sit down tonight or

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and kind of boil it down to four pages

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Speaker 1: mostly for pregame. Youse, just and you because you can't

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Speaker 1: handle it at all, and you'll only take a few

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Speaker 1: to the game. It's too much. Yeah, it was a frustrating.

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Speaker 1: The frustrating part about doing that job I did for

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Speaker 1: a long time was you'd get all that stuff, you'd

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Speaker 1: boil it down and but you have just all kinds

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Speaker 1: of information personal information, professional information about the players and

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01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: coaches and the administration, the staff and everything that everything,

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01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: and you'd use about two percent of it, right, because

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01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: the game is good. You know, the game brings it

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01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: to you and you talk about what's going on. So

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Speaker 1: you hope the game is good. You hope the game

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Speaker 1: is you know. I'll be honest with you. And when

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Speaker 1: I learned in nineteen eighty four and eighty five doing

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Speaker 1: bills games and they were two and fourteen back and

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Speaker 1: back years, you over prepared because they were gonna lose

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Speaker 1: and they were gonna get blown out, and I would

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Speaker 1: prepare for games again. I better be ready get those

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Speaker 1: blowout and you've got to have something entertaining to talk

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Speaker 1: about or it's interesting to talk about because the game

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Speaker 1: was not. Yeah, anyway, I'll get rid of all this

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Speaker 1: paper by kickoff, But just overwhelmed on Fridays, speaking of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Injury report is out for the Buffalo Bills, so Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott talk to the media after practice and the Bills

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Speaker 1: have a couple of players out this week, including offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Tie and Secky with the ankle injury. McDermot said

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Speaker 1: he was going to be week to week and he

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Speaker 1: is on the injury report now he is out. Tie

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Speaker 1: and Secki is out for this week's game. Also out

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Speaker 1: for this week's game. Defensive backs are and Neil concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: He remains there. Has not practiced all week, full practice

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Speaker 1: today for Jerry Hughes after not practicing Wednesday and Thursday.

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Speaker 1: He's got a groin full practice today for defensive back

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01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:32,839
Speaker 1: Jaquan Johnson. He has practiced all week and full practice

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Speaker 1: today for defensive tackle Jordan Phillips, who was limited yesterday

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Speaker 1: with the toe issue, and so and somebody, and by

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Speaker 1: the way, you can call us up let us know

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01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:43,640
Speaker 1: what you think about Sunday's game. We love to hear

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Speaker 1: from me. The lines are open eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. What's the biggest question ahead of Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game of the Broncos. Well, here's a question that we've

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Speaker 1: kind of talked about this week, but it's time now

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Speaker 1: a couple of days before they really wonder and think

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Speaker 1: about the Bill's offensive tackles again von Miller. No indication

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Speaker 1: from Great Cosell, who dives into the tape. He never

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Speaker 1: said that von Miller has lost a step. I don't

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Speaker 1: see him dominating the games like the way he used

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Speaker 1: to four or five years ago, but he's still a force.

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Speaker 1: You have to say that von Miller versus Cody Ford

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Speaker 1: on one side the Bill's offensive right or Dean Dawkins

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Speaker 1: on the left side, that's a challenge that they'll have

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Speaker 1: to be addressed for the Bills as they get ready

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Speaker 1: for this game. I did catch one thing, though, and

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Speaker 1: what it struck me is when he said, it looks

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Speaker 1: as though this Denver defense is starting to he thinks

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Speaker 1: they're starting to probably play better because, as you said,

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Speaker 1: you heard him say, they're starting to get the idea

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Speaker 1: of what Vic Fangio wants a defense to look like.

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Speaker 1: It's a new coaching staff, new defense, and as we've

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Speaker 1: seen here in Buffalo, it takes a while to get

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Speaker 1: that under your belt, to understand where you're supposed to be,

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Speaker 1: why you're doing things, and knowing why you're doing things

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Speaker 1: on a football field helps you do them better. It

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Speaker 1: gives you more enthusiasm and just makes things better. And

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Speaker 1: that's where the Denver Broncos are getting too. And I

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Speaker 1: think I just I'm inferring that he thinks they're playing

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Speaker 1: better these days than they were at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season, and there's still number four defense overall. Can

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Speaker 1: von Miller blow up a game? Great cosl said he could.

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Speaker 1: Can he still do that? I don't want to see it.

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Speaker 1: If he can, I don't either. It's a good question

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Speaker 1: because it's it's gonna put this Bill's offense to the

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Speaker 1: test on all three levels of that defense. Not just

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Speaker 1: about Von Miller, It's it's about the rest of those guys,

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Speaker 1: and they're playing well in the back ends as well. Oh,

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Eight three fifty toll

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

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Speaker 1: open tweet cheap, brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. What's the biggest

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Speaker 1: question ahead a Sunday's game with the Broncos? Chris tweets

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Speaker 1: this in that's a big question, he says, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Did they turn a corner? Or was Miami that bad?

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Speaker 1: That said? I hope they give Ford help all day.

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Speaker 1: Denver would be nuts not to attack the right side

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Speaker 1: with von Miller. Now Miller will line up right side

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Speaker 1: of their defense, left side of their defense. When he

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Speaker 1: lines up left side of their defense, he will see

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Speaker 1: Cody forward. Now, TYANSEEKI is out. Did the Bills turn

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Speaker 1: a corner? Or is Miami that bad? I actually had

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Speaker 1: that thought in my head this morning, Steve, thinking about

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Speaker 1: this game. Do we look at the Miami game as

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Speaker 1: the Bills turning the corner answering many of the issues

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Speaker 1: they had on offense, or do they revert back to

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Speaker 1: where the offense was the answer. I think lie somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, I don't. I think there was

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Speaker 1: significant improvement, and there is something to be said for

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Speaker 1: having a positive outing like that. It does carry it through.

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Speaker 1: And I said this earlier in the week. As a player,

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Speaker 1: I always remember when you had a great game, you

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01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: just come back to work ready to get ready again.

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Speaker 1: You come back to work ready to prepare, ready to

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01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,560
Speaker 1: practice hard, work out hard, get study film, you know,

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Speaker 1: and do the extra things. The positive feeling you get

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Speaker 1: from having success prepares you for better preparation in the

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Speaker 1: weeks ahead. And you would like to think the Bills

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Speaker 1: are in that spot right now. After the game, they

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Speaker 1: had Miami getting ready for the Denver Broncos. One more

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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from Ashley. She tweets in hope

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Speaker 1: this offense comes out swinging this they did last week

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Speaker 1: with the high tempo and some no huddle. Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: seemed way more comfortable at that pace. This high pace

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Speaker 1: also would not give von Miller the chance to get

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Speaker 1: through the offensive line to the quarterback. Interesting thought, Well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot I mean, we can get out. I've

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Speaker 1: done this a ton one hundred times. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you want to listen to it again. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: no huddle and fast paced does help in some ways

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Speaker 1: for the offense, but the crucial element is you've got

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Speaker 1: to stay on the field. You've got to make a

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Speaker 1: couple of first downs. You've got to have a few

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Speaker 1: successful plays and get them out there for five plays,

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Speaker 1: six plays in a row, because only then do you

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Speaker 1: get the benefit from going no huddle. I remember offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman back in the day, and you've heard it said

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Speaker 1: a hundred times since. For other teams, it takes the

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Speaker 1: starch out of the pass rush when they have to

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Speaker 1: rush the passer or to get lined up, run back

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Speaker 1: to line of scrimmage, and then do it again real quick.

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Speaker 1: About three plays into that. You know, it's like running

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Speaker 1: a two hundred meter race. You're you're gassed for a second.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take them long to recover. But if you

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Speaker 1: can keep them on their heels and have some success,

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Speaker 1: get to get first second, first down, third down, first down,

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Speaker 1: second down, third down, first down, second down, third down,

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Speaker 1: first down. All by that time that second first down

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Speaker 1: that six plays in, the defensive linemen are just leaning

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Speaker 1: against the offensive lineman. The running games better. The pass

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Speaker 1: rush is non existent, the dbs or sucking wind and

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01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: it just becomes easier to move the football. But if

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Speaker 1: they come out and get a stop on when you

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01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: get three down, stop three and out, it's just the

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Speaker 1: perverse of that. Your defense is back out there and

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Speaker 1: now you're trying to keep them off the scoreboard. You

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Speaker 1: know what I think, And it's definitely that's a thoughtful

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Speaker 1: question from Ashley and thoughtful comments from you, and I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking about it in these terms. Almost maybe more

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Speaker 1: important to me as opposed to the pace of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo offense. And ohadda which was a factor last week,

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Speaker 1: is the simplicity of the Buffalo offense. Now they go

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Speaker 1: hand in hand. If you're running plays at a high clip,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to change personnel. You

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Speaker 1: won't you won't want to change personnel. But I think

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Speaker 1: part of Buffalo success last week in Miami was they

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Speaker 1: stayed in one personnel grouping for most of the game,

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Speaker 1: like seventy percent of the snaps. Until things got out

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Speaker 1: of hand. They were eleven personnel right three wide receivers. First.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that Josh kind of responded to

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Speaker 1: that as much as he did the pace of the

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Speaker 1: game and being up with the line scrimmage being ready

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Speaker 1: to go right away, and I'm really eager to see

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. Do they come out with that formation or not?

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Speaker 1: Do they change things up? We know Brian Dabele as

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Speaker 1: a game plan guy, and he's done a lot more

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Speaker 1: research into this in this Denver defense than anybody here,

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Speaker 1: even including you, Steve, and I wonder if he's got

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Speaker 1: no you know, that was a great co sell thing.

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Speaker 1: I know. I wonder if he sees a personnel grouping

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Speaker 1: that he likes better against the Broncos as opposed to

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Speaker 1: eleven personnel from last week. I don't know. I'm really

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Speaker 1: eager to find that out on Sundays. It's not so

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Speaker 1: much that the offense was simple five too, but when

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Speaker 1: you go fast, the defense becomes simple. They can't make

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Speaker 1: checks and they can't make adjustments, and they sometimes have

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Speaker 1: a hard time even getting lined up. I think they

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Speaker 1: kind of go back. They refer back to their base

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01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: defense a lot. They go just run this, just run

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01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: this simple cover, you know, don't try and disguise so much,

1689
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: don't try and do all this other you know, the

1690
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,879
Speaker 1: bells and whistles that make a defense hard to decipher.

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01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: They can't do that when you're going fast. And maybe

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01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: that's what a little bit, a little bit of what

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01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 1: made it better for Josh Allen, the good reads and

1694
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: the positive plays that he had, and the blitz reads

1695
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: and the pickups and the quick throws. Maybe that was

1696
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: part of it as well, and that they were going fast.

1697
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,760
Speaker 1: The defense became simple as well, and as simple as

1698
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 1: easier to read, you know what the coaches will tell you.

1699
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 1: And both day Ball and McDermott said this a lot

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01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: on Monday this week when they were talking about the

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01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 1: Miami game. And part of it, I think is deflection

1702
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: away from schemes and strategy. But they kept saying, it's execution,

1703
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 1: it's execution, and I think there is a lot to that, right.

1704
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you can run up tempo, no heddle, you

1705
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: can run one personnel grouping for most of the game.

1706
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: You can run this play, you can run that play.

1707
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: You can call this player or that play. But if

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01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: if players execute, no matter what you call, no matter

1709
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:15,439
Speaker 1: how you line up, no matter how quickly you line up,

1710
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: if players execute the plays, you're gonna look good. And

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01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: that is a lot of what went right in Miami

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01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: that Sunday, Well, Execution is everything, Yeah, because there's so

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01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:29,919
Speaker 1: much in that word. You know, it applies to everybody

1714
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: in a different way and a different on a different play.

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01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 1: It's so much about you know, you can draw a

1716
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: six year old could draw it up in the dirt.

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01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: If you execute it, you know, it doesn't matter if

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01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:41,960
Speaker 1: it was ex os or if you had ten guys

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01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: on the field. You know you're gonna do it right

1720
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: and it's gonna work. It's so it covers a lot.

1721
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: That's why you know. It's it's so true. Yeah, And

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01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:54,600
Speaker 1: I think the Bills struggles a lot of times is

1723
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: their lack of execution and the trouble they have getting

1724
01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:00,120
Speaker 1: something done. Now, sometimes the lack of execution is just

1725
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: a guy's not good enough to get open or good

1726
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: enough to make a tackle, or good enough to beat

1727
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: a one on one matchup. I get that. But we've

1728
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: seen this team demonstrate enough talent physically around the board

1729
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: all the way around that they're good enough in enough

1730
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,799
Speaker 1: places to overcome whatever deficiencies they have may have against

1731
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 1: a Broncos defense as compared to a Miami defense. So

1732
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: it all comes down to running at the way it

1733
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: is on the paper and getting it right, we got

1734
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:28,960
Speaker 1: time for me on the show right here, give us

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01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: a call. Eighth fifty to three one eight eight five

1736
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. What's the biggest question ahead of

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01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: the Sunday's game against the Broncos for the Buffalo Bills?

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01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: What do you think we'll resume this discussion when we

1739
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: come back. One BILS Live presented by Kalaida Health Live

1740
01:24:43,160 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes

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01:24:46,840 --> 01:25:01,719
Speaker 1: close One BILS Live, John Murphy's tasker in our senate

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01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 1: cat studio Thereno. Alexander's going to join us in about

1743
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 1: ten to twelve minutes. Hey see, let's do something we

1744
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: haven't done in a while. What's for lunch? No? Okay?

1745
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: A list of off the wall questions regarding the bills

1746
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and we're basically asking ourselves, what would

1747
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: you choose? What's for lunch? You want that nice juicee

1748
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:22,719
Speaker 1: a chicken wing? Or would you like a piece of cock?

1749
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: Did your mom ever tell you something? If anybody want this,

1750
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:27,599
Speaker 1: If you don't, I'm gonna throw it out. So as

1751
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,679
Speaker 1: you're basically offering you garbage, take that spermy little fish

1752
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:32,679
Speaker 1: and throw it out. All right, here we go. What's

1753
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: for lunch? Um? These are basically yes or no questions.

1754
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: I got one for you. I'm starting down the list here.

1755
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: Recent kicker struggles all over the league. Is that a

1756
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:45,640
Speaker 1: blip or a trend? After years of steady gains, we

1757
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 1: are told the league wide field goal accuracy rate has

1758
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: dropped five percentage points this year. Kicker is now hitting

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01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: down seventy nine point seven percent of field goals. If

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01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: that number holds, twenty nineteen would be the first time

1761
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,439
Speaker 1: the league is dipped under eighty percent since two thousand

1762
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: and three. I have a I have a theory on

1763
01:26:03,320 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: this and opinion on this, but I say, well, let's

1764
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,560
Speaker 1: hear it. I say, blip. I think it's the surfaces

1765
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: are more consistent. Certainly, maybe it's been a weather phenomenon

1766
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: in a bad weather year and some of these outdoor stadiums,

1767
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:21,599
Speaker 1: although that shouldn't be different than any other year. I don't.

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01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 1: I think it's a blip. I think there and I

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01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: do think. Also, you've got guys that are Adam Vina Terium,

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01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: Justin Tucker h Stephen Houshka guys. The teams are letting

1771
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: guys kick along deep deep into their careers, and I

1772
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 1: think when they get to a certain place in the career,

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01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:41,679
Speaker 1: they reach a spot where they go through a slump.

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01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 1: And I think whether they've all hit a slump at

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01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: the same time, whatever it is you want to call it,

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01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:49,719
Speaker 1: I think it's just a blip. I think it's a trend,

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01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: and I have a reason why. I think it's the

1778
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: uh the new length now what three years old of

1779
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:58,080
Speaker 1: extra points, thirty three yard extra points. I think it's

1780
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:02,400
Speaker 1: no longer an easy ext boom. Here's your point. Now

1781
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: they fret over extra points as they should. Thirty three

1782
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 1: yards is not a given, and that bleeds into their

1783
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:09,360
Speaker 1: field attempts. I think that. I think it's a trend.

1784
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 1: And and by the way, that might be what the

1785
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:13,040
Speaker 1: league is looking for. I think it probably is. You know,

1786
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: you don't want the automatic kick that you know, the

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01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: Bill Spain can get up and go to the restroom

1788
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:20,080
Speaker 1: or go to the fridge during the extra point. You

1789
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 1: want something that hangs in the balance a little bit.

1790
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: And they've done that. Add some angst. Yeah, all right,

1791
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: what's for launch number two? This is an interesting question.

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01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 1: Best better? Rather better? Bay Area quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo of

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01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers or Derek Carr of the Raiders

1794
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 1: soon to be not Bay Area quarterback. I got Derek Carr.

1795
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 1: I think Garoppolo is good. I don't think he's elite.

1796
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 1: I think Derek Carr has elite traits that have yet

1797
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:47,680
Speaker 1: to be fully gotten out of him. I think he

1798
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:49,880
Speaker 1: still will get better. I think Derek Carr is slightly

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01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:53,720
Speaker 1: better than Jimmy Garoppolo. I think I agree with you.

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01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:56,680
Speaker 1: I like Derek Carr better. I think you can give

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01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: some credit to the team that Garoppolo's on. Certainly he's

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01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 1: won more games this season, but when Garoppolos played, he's

1803
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: won games. You have to say that about him. There's

1804
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:07,839
Speaker 1: no two ways about it. But I think as a quarterback,

1805
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 1: I like Derek Carr better. I like his um. I

1806
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: just think he's Yeah, they're both good. I mean they're

1807
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: both really really good quarterbacks. I would just take Derek

1808
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: Carr first. I think you too. One more what's for lunch?

1809
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:25,679
Speaker 1: Current Rob Gronkowski right now would help or not help

1810
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Like the guy is right in

1811
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:32,680
Speaker 1: this minute. Yeah, I don't think so he's lost all

1812
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 1: that way. Did you see him dancing with the Laker

1813
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: Girls that video. It was a national media He did

1814
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: a great job. He's a good dancer. The Laker Girls famous,

1815
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: you know, not intermission but time out dance group for

1816
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers. They had Rob Gronkowski out there.

1817
01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 1: They had Serena Williams out there too, I think recently.

1818
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:53,320
Speaker 1: But Rob Gronkowski kind of looked like he belonged as

1819
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaker 1: a Laker girl, you know, without some of the other

1820
01:28:56,240 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 1: obvious tracks, one being six six right, Yeah, he was

1821
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: a little bit too big. But you know, no, he's

1822
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:03,880
Speaker 1: not ready to he's not gonna play. He's not ready

1823
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 1: to play. You've seen him. He's trimmed down, and I

1824
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: think he's enjoying his time off and he's he's left

1825
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 1: the door open for maybe a year or two down

1826
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,480
Speaker 1: the line. But no, he's not gonna help because I'll

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01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 1: tell you he hasn't been out long enough so that

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01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,679
Speaker 1: if he didn't start, if he started working out hard

1829
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: and in a game, he would he would start feeling

1830
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 1: those aches and pains pretty quickly. I think, so yeah,

1831
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:25,720
Speaker 1: and he's he would not help one more from what's

1832
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: for lunch? And this goes to the bills, Well, the

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01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:32,200
Speaker 1: Bill's success stopping the run against Miami continue against the

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01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Yes or no, I'm gonna go yes, I

1835
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 1: think And it happened a week ago or more. When

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01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: was Matt Mlanto on the show Less Thursday, I want

1837
01:29:40,120 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, Mulatto talked about how they it wasn't

1838
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 1: a constant trend of runs beating down the Bills. It

1839
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: was a big breakout run here, a big breakout run there.

1840
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: Cleveland got a couple of those that really hurt the numbers.

1841
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:53,759
Speaker 1: The numbers look bad, and they were playing bad run defense.

1842
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: But I think they avid fixed. I think they've got

1843
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: a Foreman and Lindsay for Denver, a couple of pretty

1844
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: decent running backs who and the challenge. But I think no.

1845
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,759
Speaker 1: I think the Bill's success stopping the run will continue

1846
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: against I think it'll continue as well. I think they're

1847
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:09,439
Speaker 1: gonna In fact, I think they're gonna focus on it

1848
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 1: this week. They're gonna dare Brandon Allen to beat him.

1849
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: They've got the Bills, have a strong secondary, and I

1850
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:20,080
Speaker 1: think the one place they think they could feel like

1851
01:30:20,160 --> 01:30:21,960
Speaker 1: the Broncos would have a good matchup is in the

1852
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: run game. Given what happened a couple of weeks before

1853
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: the Miami game. So I think they're anticipating a full

1854
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:29,599
Speaker 1: dose of the running backs from Denver, and I think

1855
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:31,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna be ready for it. It would be tough

1856
01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: to lose the Brandon Allen this week, wouldn't it. I mean,

1857
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 1: would it? Would not? It wouldn't look good on your

1858
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:37,679
Speaker 1: record to loose the Brandon Allen. He's not a joke,

1859
01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:41,559
Speaker 1: but I just he's not like an NFL caliber starting quarterback.

1860
01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 1: You know what would have made this game a little

1861
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,639
Speaker 1: more interesting for me anyway, is if they brought Drew lockback,

1862
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:50,040
Speaker 1: their second round pick from Missouri. I saw him at

1863
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:52,640
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, was not impressed, so him in preseason,

1864
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 1: was not impressed. They're kind of holding a spot for

1865
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:57,320
Speaker 1: him to come back off. I r would he break

1866
01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:00,679
Speaker 1: his wrist or something in preseason? I don't easy answer

1867
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 1: for them, but at least it would have had a

1868
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,840
Speaker 1: little more intrigue to this game, like, what's Drew lock gott?

1869
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:07,639
Speaker 1: What does he have? The rumblings are that he's healthy

1870
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,880
Speaker 1: and ready to go, and there seems to be some

1871
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:12,360
Speaker 1: dissension about whether he's ready to play at all. Yeah,

1872
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen is more ready, and they feel like he

1873
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 1: gives him a better chance to win. That's why he's playing.

1874
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: That's the only reason, because you don't throw a sixth

1875
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 1: round pick ahead of a second round pick unless something's

1876
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:27,759
Speaker 1: going on. M Fanjio VI Fangio has said he'd feels

1877
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: no urgency to get Drew Lock, at least not now

1878
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:32,439
Speaker 1: with six games to go. We'll see, all right, we're

1879
01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 1: taking a break here, We're coming back there. We got

1880
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,160
Speaker 1: an hour to go and Lorenzo Alexander with the lowdown

1881
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: coming up on the show. When we return, come on

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01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:40,760
Speaker 1: back with us. One Bills Live presented by Klatta Health

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01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,560
Speaker 1: Live from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is

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01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Bills Radio Network Stories Day from One

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01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Right. Bill's practice ended about an hour and a

1886
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 1: half ago. The Bills getting set to play the Denver

1887
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 1: Broncos Sunday. The injury report is out. Jerry Hughes looks

1888
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: good to go. He was limited today. He did not

1889
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday and Thursday, but he gets a green light

1890
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:15,640
Speaker 1: to play this Sunday. With a little bit of a

1891
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: growing issue. The Bill's offensive lineman Tie and Seki will

1892
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:21,839
Speaker 1: not play. He is week to week with his ankle injury,

1893
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 1: and safety sir and Neil will not play either. He

1894
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: is still in concussion protocol. The Broncos. The Denver Broncos

1895
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 1: have had some tough fourth quarters this season. Last Sunday

1896
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:33,360
Speaker 1: the fourth time this season they've let in a game

1897
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:35,479
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and lost the game. They are

1898
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:37,639
Speaker 1: three and four this year when leading in the fourth quarter.

1899
01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 1: Denver has lost three games this year on opponent's field

1900
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:42,559
Speaker 1: goal with less than thirty seconds left in the game.

1901
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Broncos Sunday, one o'clock. The weather's going to be

1902
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy with a high of forty two degrees. At

1903
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: the radio broadcast on our flagship here in Buffalo, wg

1904
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,639
Speaker 1: OUR Sports Radio five fifty. I'll be in the booths

1905
01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:55,440
Speaker 1: with Eric Wood sal Capacho beat down on the sidelines

1906
01:32:55,600 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 1: around the NFL. Brown's defensive end Miles Garrett, and definite

1907
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 1: suspension has been upheld. Steelers center Marquise Pouncey's ban has

1908
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,919
Speaker 1: been reduced to two games after their appeals. The appeals

1909
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 1: were heard, and the suspension rulings came out yesterday. It

1910
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: all happened a week ago eight days ago the fourth

1911
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 1: quarter of Thursday game when Miles Garrett ripped off Steelers

1912
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,559
Speaker 1: quarterback Matson Ridoff's helmet and clubbed him in the head

1913
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: with it. Houston Texans have taken over first place in

1914
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: the AFC South with their twenty to seventeen victory over

1915
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts this week in third to Night Football.

1916
01:33:27,640 --> 01:33:29,600
Speaker 1: The Texans called it a must win and they got it.

1917
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 1: Given the standings. The teams went into the game with

1918
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,480
Speaker 1: identical six and four records, but Indie held the tiebreaker

1919
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:38,240
Speaker 1: because they beat the Colts in they beat the Texans

1920
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: rather in Week seven. Now they have split their two

1921
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 1: games this season. Cowboys linebacker Layton vander Esh will not

1922
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:46,759
Speaker 1: play Sunday at New England has got a neck injury.

1923
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:49,799
Speaker 1: He's considered week to week. His injury flared up in practice.

1924
01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 1: And the Buffalo Sabers now the road trip continues Sunday

1925
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 1: night when they play at Florida. Savers take on Tampa

1926
01:33:55,400 --> 01:33:57,760
Speaker 1: Bay on Monday. They lost in Boston last night. And

1927
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:15,120
Speaker 1: that is the update from one Bild Drive. We do

1928
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 1: this every Friday. At this time. We get Bills Veneran

1929
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 1: linebacker Lorenzo Alexander in studio with us for the Lowdown

1930
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:26,560
Speaker 1: presented by Hutches Redefining City Dining. Hutches Lorenzo, how are you.

1931
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. How are you? Thank you coming in? Yeah? Yeah,

1932
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 1: my pleasure. You know. I was to enjoy this time

1933
01:34:31,120 --> 01:34:33,719
Speaker 1: of the week. I do. I do, and actually enjoyed

1934
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:35,040
Speaker 1: this a little bit better because I feel a lot

1935
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: better this week. I was a little sick last week,

1936
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:41,599
Speaker 1: and so we're ready to go. Good. Yeah. Seven sacks.

1937
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:45,400
Speaker 1: Seven sacks for the Buffalo defense against Miami last week. Yeah,

1938
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: it was pretty amazing. It was good, you know, obviously

1939
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:49,760
Speaker 1: to be able to get after the quarterback, affect him

1940
01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: early and often. Um. And then obviously with our offense

1941
01:34:52,120 --> 01:34:53,680
Speaker 1: putting up the points they did, that got him out

1942
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: of the run game early. And guys just really took

1943
01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 1: advantage of their offensive line. I think just had a

1944
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: lack of communication execution through out the day, and guys

1945
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: were able to get to Fitzpatrick and get him down

1946
01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:06,560
Speaker 1: because he is a hard tackle, um, and so it

1947
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 1: was just great to be able to see that consistently

1948
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:12,040
Speaker 1: throughout the entire games. Tackle. Um. You know, he's stocky,

1949
01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: thick guy. Um. I think he's more athletic than you

1950
01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 1: than you would think, you know, chasing him down and

1951
01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:18,600
Speaker 1: trying to get to him. And then he has the

1952
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: mentality of a linebacker in a sense of struggling guys

1953
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:24,160
Speaker 1: off and um, so it is it is difficult than

1954
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 1: than people may think. So the coaches talking about playing

1955
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,240
Speaker 1: fearless on both sides of the ball, do you think

1956
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:32,479
Speaker 1: they with all the pressure that they package they sent

1957
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:34,439
Speaker 1: it seemed like you blissed a lot more than you

1958
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:36,400
Speaker 1: normally did. It was that a kind of a signal

1959
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 1: that you that they were gonna coach fearless as well? Yeah,

1960
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: And I think guys just played downhill. I mean, I

1961
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of concepts in football where if

1962
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 1: you're playing man to man and a guy stays in blocks,

1963
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 1: you can add on too as well. And I think

1964
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:50,280
Speaker 1: guys were able to recognize see things and just get

1965
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:54,040
Speaker 1: downhill and populate, uh kind of the pocket. And then guys,

1966
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:55,680
Speaker 1: he's had a great job throughout the whole game and

1967
01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:58,879
Speaker 1: it led to several of our sacks are not everything,

1968
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 1: and you know, the Bills are in the top ten

1969
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 1: now in sack percentage, seventh overall. But it's kind of

1970
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 1: interesting that they're fifteen different Buffalo bills with at least

1971
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 1: one sack this year. What does that say about your defense? Um? Well,

1972
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 1: I think we just have a midid of guys that

1973
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 1: go in and rotate and play, and so this shows

1974
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 1: that we have a roster that's deep. And then we

1975
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:21,040
Speaker 1: also have guys again that that add on. You know,

1976
01:36:21,120 --> 01:36:23,360
Speaker 1: you think about Jordan Poyer, think about your Davis or

1977
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: t Davis. I think he has a sack as well,

1978
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,800
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds, Matt Milano, Taron Johnson. So we have different

1979
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: ways of getting to the quarterback where guys can't always

1980
01:36:32,200 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: just say it's you know, it's the front four. You

1981
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: talk about Tremaine Edmunds, he had a speech to give

1982
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:40,559
Speaker 1: to the entire team on Saturday night. What does that mean?

1983
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 1: How did it affect you say about Tremaine? You know,

1984
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: for me, it was kind of a proud moment because

1985
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:52,720
Speaker 1: obviously I'm the older guy in the in the linebacker room,

1986
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: and I've kind of been deemed the facilitator or a

1987
01:36:55,400 --> 01:36:57,760
Speaker 1: mentor of kind of helping him grow into this leadership role.

1988
01:36:58,280 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 1: And you know, all honestly I had to do with

1989
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 1: him getting up there and speaking and so it just

1990
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: shows me that he's starting to get a grasp and

1991
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 1: a good feel of when he needs to speak. And

1992
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:08,439
Speaker 1: I think that's huge for a leader. You know, I'm

1993
01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:11,400
Speaker 1: not always saying something, but knowing the right time to

1994
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:13,720
Speaker 1: pick your words and to address the team. And he

1995
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: did a great job of doing it. Spoke very well

1996
01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: as far as the story told the message that he

1997
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 1: was sitting, and it was very clear and concise, and

1998
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: I think guys really got the idea of what he

1999
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,760
Speaker 1: was saying. And the crux of it all was really

2000
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: just taking our game to the next level. You know,

2001
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:29,200
Speaker 1: we're a good team, but we need to start dealing

2002
01:37:29,240 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 1: with teams. If they're an inferior team, we should go

2003
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:35,200
Speaker 1: out there and handle him. Yeah, and he went out there,

2004
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,599
Speaker 1: played fast, and he led by example, and that's that's

2005
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 1: his that's what he falls into. That's his his natural

2006
01:37:40,200 --> 01:37:42,479
Speaker 1: box of just being a great leader. But being able

2007
01:37:42,479 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 1: to speak about it and then back it up is

2008
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:47,560
Speaker 1: huge for him. Did he have that in him? I

2009
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: won't even ask you about last year when he was

2010
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 1: twenty Now he's twenty one. Now he's an old man.

2011
01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 1: But did he have that in him? Maybe back in

2012
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 1: September this season. No, I don't think he would have

2013
01:37:56,880 --> 01:38:00,160
Speaker 1: done it. Um. I think it's us. He's taking some

2014
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:04,400
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds UM throughout this season, UM conversations with

2015
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, various guys, I think coaching letting him know

2016
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:09,559
Speaker 1: that he's earned the right to be able to speak

2017
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:12,479
Speaker 1: that way and and and speak to guys and demand

2018
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:16,080
Speaker 1: a a raise in our play. And so he took

2019
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:17,680
Speaker 1: it upon himself and so it was really good to

2020
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: see that. Um. I was actually surprised speaking and uh,

2021
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was really well done. And

2022
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:26,080
Speaker 1: so UM, I think guys responded. And because out of

2023
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: the respect to half one, what are the mechanics of that?

2024
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:30,840
Speaker 1: You gotta asking? No, no, no, he's did it in

2025
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:33,400
Speaker 1: front of everybody. Coaches to coach, UM, we probably mentioned

2026
01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:36,120
Speaker 1: a sean, Um, you know I need to speak and

2027
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:40,439
Speaker 1: cool cool. Yeah, yes, I was. I was gonna ask

2028
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:43,679
Speaker 1: you about well, I can't remember what I was gonna

2029
01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 1: ask you about. I got, but I'm gonna go on

2030
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:48,439
Speaker 1: down the list. Here is this is my future. See

2031
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 1: yes it is. As a result, Uh, you're getting ready

2032
01:38:54,880 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: to face the Broncos and you don't know much about

2033
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:01,680
Speaker 1: this guy that's taking snaps and Brandon Allen, right, what

2034
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: does that mean for your preparation and that kind of Um.

2035
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's two games unders, but that we'll

2036
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:09,400
Speaker 1: really be able to dial into. Um. You can see

2037
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 1: their offense has changed drastically, says Flacco being in there

2038
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:15,600
Speaker 1: obviously because he's a younger guy. Even though this is

2039
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: the third year in the league, this is only going

2040
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:20,040
Speaker 1: to be as third starting so they put him understanding

2041
01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: much more than any quarterback we've probably we've probably played

2042
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 1: against this shar and really to protect him, you know,

2043
01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: run play action boot game really helps keep the rush

2044
01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:31,200
Speaker 1: off of him. Um um. Also they play a lot

2045
01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:33,200
Speaker 1: of bass, so I'm gonna play a lot this game,

2046
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:35,920
Speaker 1: a lot of big personnel twenty two having two tight ends,

2047
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:39,720
Speaker 1: two backs or two um backs in a tight end

2048
01:39:39,760 --> 01:39:42,519
Speaker 1: with twenty one personnel. And so they really they lead

2049
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: by running the ball, you know, giving it to Lindsay,

2050
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: giving it to um freeman, um and so. And then

2051
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: off of that having something that play ash and shot

2052
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: games and setting has really come come open since then

2053
01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: as well. And one thing a different with Alan that

2054
01:39:56,120 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: I think that we've seen with that Flacco didn't do

2055
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 1: is off the boot game and off the plashing game.

2056
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: He's not scared to throw the ball down the field

2057
01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 1: even when guys are covered, because he believes in him

2058
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: and those guys have showed up for him. Sudden he's

2059
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 1: made some spectacular catches, um, you know, down the field

2060
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:13,120
Speaker 1: for him. And so those are guys that we're gonna

2061
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: have to have our eyes on. Yeah. I did remember

2062
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:16,599
Speaker 1: my question and it was a bad question. So I'm

2063
01:40:16,600 --> 01:40:21,479
Speaker 1: not gonna ask Otter. We'll review after. Hey, once, I

2064
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: watched a couple of Broccos games, Uh this week, Lorenzo

2065
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 1: and you're onto something there, and it just it just

2066
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: hit me, Um, if they're a different team now. I

2067
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: watched one game of Flacco and the last two with

2068
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen. They don't play anything like offensively, they don't

2069
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,280
Speaker 1: take anything like each other. Yeah, it's night and day. Um,

2070
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 1: And that's just because I think a lot of his

2071
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 1: youth letting him get comfortable in the game, protecting him

2072
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:43,800
Speaker 1: because the last thing you want to do is put

2073
01:40:43,840 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the situation where you have, you know,

2074
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:49,720
Speaker 1: all this personnel, eleven different formations and he doesn't have

2075
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:52,439
Speaker 1: the grass that maybe a veteran hass and then you know,

2076
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:57,000
Speaker 1: opposing defenses add another element of disguising and blitzing, and

2077
01:40:57,080 --> 01:40:59,560
Speaker 1: now he's not thinking as quickly, and then you have

2078
01:40:59,760 --> 01:41:03,160
Speaker 1: some some turnovers. And so they simplified the game playing

2079
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:06,439
Speaker 1: that I think help his his growth with experiencing games.

2080
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 1: Here comes it's a compliment for the Broncos, And I'm

2081
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 1: not being kindescending, and you can agree if you want,

2082
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: but I told Steve this earlier this week. They're kind

2083
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:15,360
Speaker 1: of a scrappy team. You know, you're kind of look

2084
01:41:15,400 --> 01:41:17,280
Speaker 1: at them, play hard, and you're thinking, who these guys are?

2085
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:19,200
Speaker 1: They mean business. They might not have a bunch of talent,

2086
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: but they're pretty scrappery, pretty funder why people thought about

2087
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:23,600
Speaker 1: that the same thing about us when we made the

2088
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:26,880
Speaker 1: playoffs year in seventeen. You know, so teams, if you

2089
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:29,960
Speaker 1: go out there and play hard, Uh, there's enough talent

2090
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: on their NFL roster, you know. That's so talent is

2091
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: relative that they can go out there and win games.

2092
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 1: And they have enough weapons, especially with Lindsay the way

2093
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:39,800
Speaker 1: how exposed if he can be um and setting as

2094
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:41,040
Speaker 1: I mentioned, where they can go out and make some

2095
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: big time plays. And then also I think because of

2096
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: the way their season has developed. They're not scared to,

2097
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: you know, mess with your eyes, give you some gadget plays,

2098
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:50,719
Speaker 1: some in the rounds, and throw it back to the quarterbacks.

2099
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 1: So you really have to be disciplined in your roles

2100
01:41:55,120 --> 01:41:57,360
Speaker 1: when you're playing a team that's a little bit desperate

2101
01:41:57,400 --> 01:41:59,400
Speaker 1: to get a win, and then you know, it just

2102
01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:01,360
Speaker 1: makes them a little more dangerous and more free. As

2103
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 1: we saw with Miami last week was the on side

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01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:05,400
Speaker 1: kick and some of the things that they did to

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01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:07,439
Speaker 1: us as well. One of the things about that it's

2106
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:09,600
Speaker 1: a week to week league. I mean, you play up

2107
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: and down, but a game like last Sunday where you're

2108
01:42:13,040 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 1: kind of dominant on both sides of the bowl. The

2109
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:17,960
Speaker 1: offense hung thirty seven points on the on the fens

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01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,120
Speaker 1: and you guys were crushing at times for their offense.

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01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: Does that aid you and come And I've said this

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01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:26,160
Speaker 1: a couple of times on the show, I think for me,

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01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:28,720
Speaker 1: thinking back, man, you can't wait to get back and

2114
01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 1: prepare for the next Oh yeah, I'm really riding high.

2115
01:42:31,040 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: So that's that's how the stuff snowballs, right. You have

2116
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:37,479
Speaker 1: a little success makes you want more, prepare more, and

2117
01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 1: as if you prepare more that you're gonna have more

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01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:43,200
Speaker 1: success most definitely. Um. And I you know, I really

2119
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:45,200
Speaker 1: loved just being able to go out there, get right

2120
01:42:45,240 --> 01:42:47,160
Speaker 1: back out there with the confidence that we built last

2121
01:42:47,200 --> 01:42:50,439
Speaker 1: week and be able to ride that wave in a sense. Um,

2122
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: I think it not only gives our team confidence, but

2123
01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: it also teams starts seeing and these dudes are really good.

2124
01:42:55,360 --> 01:42:58,000
Speaker 1: You know. We gotta watch out for him him, got

2125
01:42:58,080 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 1: this guy over here rushing the passer, this guy catching

2126
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You know, guys that you didn't really think

2127
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,560
Speaker 1: about necessarily, and so something that also can be a

2128
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:09,080
Speaker 1: bonus on their side for us as well. With a

2129
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: gender the lowdowness where you get to some of the

2130
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:13,280
Speaker 1: keys of this game in a minute. I wonder, Lorenzo

2131
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:15,479
Speaker 1: in your role as a leader on this team. And

2132
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:17,760
Speaker 1: here we are now the Bills going into the eleventh game,

2133
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 1: week twelve. You look around at the young guys, the

2134
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 1: rookies in particular, for any signs of you know, wear down, like, oh,

2135
01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:25,760
Speaker 1: my goodness is so long here. I've been doing that

2136
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: since week one. Yeah, man, with this group, they're a

2137
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:32,400
Speaker 1: good group, you know. I think our front officers a

2138
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:35,639
Speaker 1: great job by identifying guys that don't necessarily fit into

2139
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 1: that millennial or traditional millennial generation that you would think about.

2140
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:42,160
Speaker 1: But you have to stay on top of them. It's

2141
01:43:42,160 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: just a different group. And so every week since the

2142
01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:46,320
Speaker 1: week one, just making sure I'm talking to them. Obviously

2143
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 1: I've gotten closer to some guys and other guys, but

2144
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:51,479
Speaker 1: I've been trying to do that, you know, from day one,

2145
01:43:51,520 --> 01:43:52,920
Speaker 1: so I don't have to try to catch them. I

2146
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 1: just try to slowly build them so they don't build

2147
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:57,960
Speaker 1: bad habits to where now you got up oh, and

2148
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: try to fix something when you're depending on One of

2149
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 1: the things you mentioned earlier was that because the score

2150
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:04,720
Speaker 1: got out of hand early for the Dolphins, they kind

2151
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:06,320
Speaker 1: of took him out of the run game. Yea, how

2152
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:09,200
Speaker 1: much does it mean when you're standing over there in

2153
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:11,360
Speaker 1: a season at the time, when Josh is still developing,

2154
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:13,640
Speaker 1: they're stuggling to score points. You hanged twenty, they hang

2155
01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: twenty points up its early, right man? That's it makes

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01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 1: a difference for you guys on your side. Yeah, I mean,

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01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 1: I don't I can't even remember in the game the

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01:44:22,439 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: last time, and they might have ran it like right

2159
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 1: before we went to have like a draw played to

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01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:29,439
Speaker 1: layered just to kind of end the half. But after

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01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:31,679
Speaker 1: the first two series, I really didn't play any bass

2162
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:34,120
Speaker 1: defense anymore. We kind of came out of that and

2163
01:44:34,320 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: just was all Nickel obviously third down rushing to pass her.

2164
01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:39,280
Speaker 1: So it definitely helped us because they felt like they

2165
01:44:39,360 --> 01:44:41,920
Speaker 1: had to pass the ball um to move the ball

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01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:43,679
Speaker 1: down the field, because I think we had the first

2167
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:49,840
Speaker 1: two run plays were negative plays for and so when

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01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:52,640
Speaker 1: you when you're not having any type of success, you're like, man,

2169
01:44:52,640 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 1: we gotta get out of this, and then the score

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01:44:55,080 --> 01:44:56,559
Speaker 1: gets out of hand. Oh okay, we got to throw

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01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: the ball around her even maybe compete in this game.

2172
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,639
Speaker 1: We're life ren Zoey's with us for a couple more minutes.

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Speaker 1: If you have comments, questions, give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: oh three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty A call here from John and

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01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:11,680
Speaker 1: am Hurst. Go ahead, John, welcome to the show. You're

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01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:16,200
Speaker 1: on the air with us. Hi. What I'd like to

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01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 1: say is that what they need to go into the

2179
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:22,720
Speaker 1: game with its attitude, the attitude that they had last week.

2180
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:24,760
Speaker 1: There are a seven three team, they're one of the

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01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:27,280
Speaker 1: leaders in the league, and they got to show that

2182
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:31,120
Speaker 1: from the from the opening kickoff to the final play.

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01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 1: All right, John, your pep talk, we agree with you.

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01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:37,439
Speaker 1: Go yeah, got to every week you gotta start fast

2185
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:40,200
Speaker 1: and finished strong. And so that's our mentality. And much

2186
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:42,719
Speaker 1: like we did last week, come out, you know, guns blazing,

2187
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:45,440
Speaker 1: and you can really get a team that's been struggling.

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01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 1: Um because obviously this team has been playing teams hard

2189
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 1: and lost a lot of games in the fourth quarter.

2190
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: So you don't want to luck to turn up on

2191
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: you where they figure out a way to win the

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01:45:54,000 --> 01:45:55,479
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. So you want to be able to jump

2193
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:58,080
Speaker 1: on them early, make them seven guests themselves, and get

2194
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:00,200
Speaker 1: them out of their game plan, and really to have

2195
01:46:00,280 --> 01:46:03,080
Speaker 1: the game kind of under control throughout the game. I

2196
01:46:03,120 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: wonder how much And John's call was about the attitude

2197
01:46:06,040 --> 01:46:08,040
Speaker 1: if you guys are you know you don't get much

2198
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 1: credit for your seven wins in ten games yet and

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01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:13,439
Speaker 1: Michael Hits talk about I'm not apologizing for these wins

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01:46:13,560 --> 01:46:16,160
Speaker 1: at all anymore. Is that the kind of attitude that

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01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 1: might serve this team while moving forward Because of who

2202
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:20,599
Speaker 1: you played, people think like, well, you know, the Buffalo

2203
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: Bills haven't beaten anybody. Yeah, I mean we don't think.

2204
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: We don't think much about it because like we just said,

2205
01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:27,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's any given Sunday. You can lose to

2206
01:46:27,920 --> 01:46:30,720
Speaker 1: a three and seven team just as easily as you

2207
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:32,640
Speaker 1: can lose to a seven and three team. And so

2208
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,200
Speaker 1: our mind sets the same every week is that we

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01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:38,360
Speaker 1: got to prepare like this is a Super Bowl champion,

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01:46:38,479 --> 01:46:41,200
Speaker 1: come out with that same intensity because the talent is

2211
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 1: too great to ever feel like, okay, we got this

2212
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:45,800
Speaker 1: thing in a bag when you go out there on

2213
01:46:45,840 --> 01:46:47,679
Speaker 1: playing on Sundays, because when you do that, which we've

2214
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:49,439
Speaker 1: you know, we've had those times we kind of low.

2215
01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:51,560
Speaker 1: You get you get hit in the mouth and it's embarrassing.

2216
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:54,160
Speaker 1: What happened? What does a general conda once you give

2217
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:56,640
Speaker 1: me game plans for any specifics, but what's the personality

2218
01:46:56,680 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 1: of the Denver offense that you've been looking at on film?

2219
01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:02,280
Speaker 1: I think just how much they run the ball and

2220
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:04,559
Speaker 1: how much they are in you know, a big personnel

2221
01:47:04,600 --> 01:47:07,160
Speaker 1: based personnel on the field under center. I mean, you

2222
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:10,439
Speaker 1: don't get that many reps normally. I would say I'll

2223
01:47:10,439 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: probably play on a high end, maybe eight to ten

2224
01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: reps of base I'll probably if if the game is

2225
01:47:16,439 --> 01:47:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, you know, obviously competitive throughout the entire game.

2226
01:47:19,080 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen like last week. I could see myself

2227
01:47:21,600 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 1: easy to playing you know, twenty twenty five reps in

2228
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:27,559
Speaker 1: base just because they like twenty two personnel twenty one

2229
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:31,680
Speaker 1: where they have tight ends backs and using fullback and

2230
01:47:32,640 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 1: using the play action max protection to really allow this

2231
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:37,280
Speaker 1: guy to feel comfortable in the pocket and not have

2232
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:39,040
Speaker 1: pressure in his face and be able to take shots

2233
01:47:39,080 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 1: what they want to do. She got to the lowdown

2234
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:42,960
Speaker 1: Lorenzo's Keys to the game for the Bills going up

2235
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:46,759
Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos. Lowdown number one, play complimentary football.

2236
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 1: What are you have in mind there? Yeah, and it

2237
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 1: just really goes back to last week. I think, you know,

2238
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: people have been talking about our run game so much

2239
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:56,160
Speaker 1: that our offense helps us do that. So when anytime

2240
01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:58,160
Speaker 1: they put up as many points they do, teams want

2241
01:47:58,160 --> 01:48:00,240
Speaker 1: to get away from the run, and so can team

2242
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:02,439
Speaker 1: to do that. And obviously when we get teams off

2243
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:06,520
Speaker 1: the field having three and ounce, it makes that opposing

2244
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:10,120
Speaker 1: defense tired, and so our offense has the ability obviously

2245
01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:11,680
Speaker 1: to put points up and be able to run the

2246
01:48:11,720 --> 01:48:13,720
Speaker 1: ball because they're playing against a tired defense. And then

2247
01:48:13,760 --> 01:48:17,200
Speaker 1: I think third and standpoint is phil position our special teams.

2248
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:19,559
Speaker 1: We've done a great job all year on in our

2249
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:22,160
Speaker 1: return game, obviously with Andre Roberts and guys getting on

2250
01:48:22,240 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: blocks and opened up some holes for him. But last

2251
01:48:24,439 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: week we had a little bit of a loll in

2252
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:29,120
Speaker 1: our kickoff game, and so we have to be able

2253
01:48:29,120 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 1: to shore that up if we want to be in

2254
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:32,599
Speaker 1: a position of where we want to continue to grow

2255
01:48:32,840 --> 01:48:35,000
Speaker 1: and continue to win games. Before we didn't talk you

2256
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:39,479
Speaker 1: about the kickoff right what you see deliberately kicking you know,

2257
01:48:39,760 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: a yard or two shorter than you normally do. No,

2258
01:48:42,680 --> 01:48:45,639
Speaker 1: I mean Steve was probably trying to kick touch backs.

2259
01:48:45,680 --> 01:48:48,360
Speaker 1: It just comes down to guy's not getting off of blocks.

2260
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:50,800
Speaker 1: They ran to bounce play. It's the same play that

2261
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 1: hurt us in a Cincinnati game. My only difference that

2262
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 1: one got called back because we're holding on it and um,

2263
01:48:56,240 --> 01:48:58,479
Speaker 1: so just guys just understanding how to come off, how

2264
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:01,600
Speaker 1: to play bounce um and some times, uh, you just

2265
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: get over aggressive and don't make a play. And they

2266
01:49:03,520 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: made They did a good job on it. Yeah, and

2267
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 1: that's why we were watching it. We had it on here.

2268
01:49:08,080 --> 01:49:11,360
Speaker 1: It is right here. For those watching on MSG, it's

2269
01:49:11,520 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 1: really the returner did a really nice job. When he

2270
01:49:13,840 --> 01:49:18,360
Speaker 1: pushes it hard up the fields. Man that that's really

2271
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,479
Speaker 1: what if he once he gets to the corner or

2272
01:49:20,560 --> 01:49:23,800
Speaker 1: the far hash, you're playing catch up. It's hard. And

2273
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:26,599
Speaker 1: it didn't really ever break stride either, and he can

2274
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:28,720
Speaker 1: roll and so that it hurt. So we didn't have

2275
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:32,680
Speaker 1: anybody to making stutter or making bubble. He can get

2276
01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:34,240
Speaker 1: us to stop and stick his foot in the ground.

2277
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:35,960
Speaker 1: That's even it sounds like a good thing, it's not.

2278
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:39,200
Speaker 1: It breaks his momentum on that play. The returner did

2279
01:49:39,240 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: a really nice job, I thought and and there because

2280
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:44,760
Speaker 1: when he comes up forward, he pushes that straight like

2281
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 1: he did up up the field. You've got to react.

2282
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 1: As a coverage team you've got to, but as a

2283
01:49:50,240 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: return team you don't. You're getting positioned on the guys

2284
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:55,400
Speaker 1: that are converging and he really set it up well.

2285
01:49:55,439 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: And then it's all keys. Just like you said, once

2286
01:49:57,040 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 1: he bounces, you gotta get him before he gets there. Right.

2287
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:02,080
Speaker 1: He did a great job this week of watching the

2288
01:50:02,160 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 1: tape and making corrections and so you can react, you know,

2289
01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:08,639
Speaker 1: being a backside player, thinking that it is a front

2290
01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:10,760
Speaker 1: side run because he did set us up. But at

2291
01:50:10,800 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: the point you need to get vertical, and I think

2292
01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:15,080
Speaker 1: guys still stayed on that angle like he stayed front

2293
01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:17,679
Speaker 1: side and allowed them to get washed. And so that's

2294
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:19,519
Speaker 1: an easy correction for guys to make sure, you know,

2295
01:50:19,640 --> 01:50:23,439
Speaker 1: seeing the film, and I doubt that we see, you know,

2296
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,599
Speaker 1: giving up something like that again happened happening to us.

2297
01:50:25,640 --> 01:50:29,160
Speaker 1: Flow Down Number two deals with their young quarterback, Brandon Allen.

2298
01:50:29,200 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 1: You gotta affect him, you gotta do something with Yeah,

2299
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:33,080
Speaker 1: I think you know, obviously this is something that we

2300
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 1: say every single week as far as affecting a quarterback.

2301
01:50:36,120 --> 01:50:37,879
Speaker 1: But I think when you have a young quarterback anytime,

2302
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of that just because of

2303
01:50:39,439 --> 01:50:41,519
Speaker 1: their lack of experience, not that he's not good or anything,

2304
01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: they just don't have the same experience as trying to

2305
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:47,360
Speaker 1: affect a Tom Brady or a Payton Manning's caliber quarterback

2306
01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:49,240
Speaker 1: who has a lot of rafts, who seeing every single

2307
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:52,000
Speaker 1: thing and underneath the hood. Um, so we have to

2308
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. So, you know, Mica and them

2309
01:50:54,080 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 1: on the back end disguising things, um, you know, the

2310
01:50:57,479 --> 01:51:01,960
Speaker 1: d line getting off the the the past protection, linebackers

2311
01:51:02,160 --> 01:51:05,000
Speaker 1: showing up coming out, so he doesn't quite know or

2312
01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:07,559
Speaker 1: get a good feel of what's going on around him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it's gonna be crucial too, because this is a

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01:51:10,040 --> 01:51:13,640
Speaker 1: game where the Broncos defense is just slightly behind your

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01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:15,479
Speaker 1: guys defense, you gotta think they're gonna put up a

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01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: really good effort for your offense, that complimentary football. Maybe

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01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:20,920
Speaker 1: it may once again kind of lean heavy on your

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01:51:20,960 --> 01:51:23,320
Speaker 1: defensive side. You gotta keep him off the board. And yeah,

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01:51:23,400 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: most definitely feel a sense of urgency because their defense

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01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:28,240
Speaker 1: is such a quality. Yeah, they're good too, and you know,

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01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:30,400
Speaker 1: I feel we're miss not even talking about like a

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01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:32,080
Speaker 1: Vine Miller in their pass rush and the guys that

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01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: they have, even though they don't have the great numbers

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01:51:34,320 --> 01:51:36,519
Speaker 1: as we're customed to seeing viron Miller half, he is

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01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:39,559
Speaker 1: somebody that can wreck the game. And so for us,

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01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:41,800
Speaker 1: keeping them on the field as much as possible so

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01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:43,479
Speaker 1: he's not fresh or he feels like he needs to

2328
01:51:43,479 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 1: go out of the game, it's definitely gonna help us.

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01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:47,519
Speaker 1: And a lot of that is how we affect Alan

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01:51:47,600 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: on third down and getting off the field and limiting

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01:51:50,479 --> 01:51:53,320
Speaker 1: their their length of drive and low down number three,

2332
01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: don't give up big place, and they have a couple

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01:51:55,360 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 1: of candidates for that, right, Courtland Sutton is a big Yeah,

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01:51:58,479 --> 01:52:01,760
Speaker 1: the rookie tape end right, Yeah, both of those guys,

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01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:04,760
Speaker 1: Lindsay Freeman, they all have big play potential. And so

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01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:09,120
Speaker 1: for us, are crux anything that we've always given up,

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01:52:09,120 --> 01:52:11,000
Speaker 1: like a big plan of driving, He's always turned into

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01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 1: points and so for us we want to be able

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01:52:13,080 --> 01:52:15,560
Speaker 1: to limit that. And then offensively, you know we just

2340
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:18,120
Speaker 1: mentioned him von Miller, not allowing him to wreck the

2341
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:20,599
Speaker 1: game or your game playing, so obviously keeping him at

2342
01:52:20,640 --> 01:52:22,599
Speaker 1: bay and a lot of that's with you know, run

2343
01:52:22,680 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 1: game player action, chipping him, so just keeping him off

2344
01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:28,040
Speaker 1: balance so he doesn't have big plays in the game.

2345
01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:30,679
Speaker 1: Um against our offense. Yeah, as a as a defense,

2346
01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 1: you've got to be sitting there saying, listen, if Brendan

2347
01:52:32,479 --> 01:52:34,880
Speaker 1: Allen can go on a thirteen play drive from their

2348
01:52:34,920 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 1: own twenty or twenty five yard line, you know you

2349
01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:40,120
Speaker 1: gotta tip your hat to him. But you see it, Yeah,

2350
01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:42,000
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see, right, If that's what

2351
01:52:42,320 --> 01:52:44,600
Speaker 1: If they're gonna get points right methodically, you better you

2352
01:52:44,720 --> 01:52:46,640
Speaker 1: have to earn it methodically down the field. And not

2353
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 1: these big chunk plays which they've gotten and they got

2354
01:52:49,200 --> 01:52:51,880
Speaker 1: you know, when you watched the Minnesota game, right, Um,

2355
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:53,840
Speaker 1: that led to points for him. Yeah, that was the

2356
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:55,760
Speaker 1: key to the Minnesota game. Early they got a couple

2357
01:52:55,760 --> 01:53:00,719
Speaker 1: of phenomenal catches exactly wide outs that were really low percentage,

2358
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,760
Speaker 1: but hey, they pulled him off. Yeah, and that's what

2359
01:53:03,920 --> 01:53:05,920
Speaker 1: that was the difference in the first half of that game. Right.

2360
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:08,880
Speaker 1: And as a quarterback, he's earned, They've earned his trust

2361
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:10,720
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. So he's probably probably trying

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01:53:10,720 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 1: to throw up again this week, you know. And obviously

2363
01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 1: we're betting on our guys to Davis and Levi and

2364
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:17,320
Speaker 1: kJ out there to make the play on the ball.

2365
01:53:17,400 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 1: How well do you know von Miller over the years?

2366
01:53:19,680 --> 01:53:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm I know him a little bit. You know, we

2367
01:53:21,160 --> 01:53:23,599
Speaker 1: was in the Pro Bowl together. Really good dude, fun

2368
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 1: to be around. Like offseason pass rush. Yeah, I didn't.

2369
01:53:27,040 --> 01:53:29,280
Speaker 1: I didn't get invited to that. I'm not a lade

2370
01:53:29,360 --> 01:53:31,000
Speaker 1: enough man. I only had one year of you know,

2371
01:53:31,120 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: double digit sacks. You probably had to have three or

2372
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:35,000
Speaker 1: flour at least to get invited to that. It's not

2373
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:38,960
Speaker 1: too late get to that. Yeah, I'll talk to him

2374
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:42,280
Speaker 1: before the game and ask about next year. Yeah, off

2375
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: the field things I want to ask you about. You

2376
01:53:44,160 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: do a ton off the field, as does your family

2377
01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 1: and your jinique. At a special event this past week,

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01:53:48,640 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 1: huh yeah. Yeah, she reached out to all of our

2379
01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:55,400
Speaker 1: teammates wives and coaches wives as well and to do

2380
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:58,320
Speaker 1: a coach drive and so all the women got together

2381
01:53:58,479 --> 01:54:00,840
Speaker 1: donated a ton of coats. I don't know the exact number,

2382
01:54:01,280 --> 01:54:03,360
Speaker 1: but she's donating to the Bell Center, who we have

2383
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:07,720
Speaker 1: a relationship with, which is really cool. And um, yeah

2384
01:54:07,720 --> 01:54:10,200
Speaker 1: all side coats, I mean because obviously Bell Centers just

2385
01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:12,880
Speaker 1: serves the community family, so everybody needs them. Obviously with

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01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:15,760
Speaker 1: the weather in Buffalo, Um, that's something that I think

2387
01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 1: people often take for granted. And so having a nice

2388
01:54:18,120 --> 01:54:21,479
Speaker 1: new coat and maybe some deal's gears always cool to get. Um,

2389
01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:25,600
Speaker 1: it's good questions for you. If you ever played, we

2390
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 1: won't probably see you talk yet before next week's game.

2391
01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:31,479
Speaker 1: If you ever playing Thanksgiving yeah Washington, Um, it might

2392
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:35,520
Speaker 1: have been twenty and twelve at Dallas. Uh had a good,

2393
01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:37,640
Speaker 1: great game and we won that game as well. So

2394
01:54:38,880 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, but not looking forward to

2395
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:43,800
Speaker 1: it because I know how I felt yesterday on a Thursday.

2396
01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:46,840
Speaker 1: So it isn't It's sitting in the back of my mind,

2397
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 1: like I'm focused on Denver, but like, man, how am

2398
01:54:49,600 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: I gonna get ready for this game right after? Yeah? Right?

2399
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 1: Last question, what do you want to debate? What's your

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01:54:56,000 --> 01:55:00,200
Speaker 1: shirt say? It says debate this. I mean, you know,

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01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:02,560
Speaker 1: I love arguing, but this is when the Warriors won

2402
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 1: our championship and we had all those haters out there

2403
01:55:04,520 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 1: because we had KD so, you know, and they was

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01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:09,760
Speaker 1: just hating on us. So debate it, Steve, you wanted

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01:55:09,760 --> 01:55:13,560
Speaker 1: to debate coming no hard to win a championship, no

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01:55:13,640 --> 01:55:17,879
Speaker 1: matter who's on your time exactly started here. Thanks Lorenzo,

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01:55:18,040 --> 01:55:19,880
Speaker 1: thanks for the lowdown. Thanks for coming in. We appreciate it.

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01:55:19,920 --> 01:55:23,200
Speaker 1: I want to debate that. Appreciate Lorenzo Alexander with the Lowdown.

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01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:24,920
Speaker 1: He comes in every Friday to do it. The Lowdown

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01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:28,080
Speaker 1: brought to you by Hutches Redefining City Dining. We're back

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01:55:28,080 --> 01:55:30,360
Speaker 1: with more Steve and I One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park on

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01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:48,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one of those live

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01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:50,800
Speaker 1: We're winding down the week here at Obi l John Murphy,

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01:55:50,920 --> 01:55:53,560
Speaker 1: and Steve Tsker. Thanks to Lorenzo Alexander for joining us

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01:55:53,560 --> 01:55:55,880
Speaker 1: again on Fridays. Here we got phone lines open if

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01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:58,560
Speaker 1: you want to participate, and we got a pretty decent

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01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:00,880
Speaker 1: I thought it was a decent Twitter question. What do

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01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:03,240
Speaker 1: you think about this game? What's the biggest question for

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01:56:03,320 --> 01:56:05,840
Speaker 1: the Bills headed into Sunday's game against the Broncos. What

2421
01:56:05,920 --> 01:56:08,200
Speaker 1: do you think it is? Three quarters of you seventy

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01:56:08,200 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: six percent said the biggest question is can the Buffalo

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01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:14,000
Speaker 1: offense keep the momentum going that they established against the Dolphins?

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01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:16,320
Speaker 1: Can they keep it going against a much better defense

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01:56:16,400 --> 01:56:19,520
Speaker 1: this Sunday? Fourteen percent of you say can the offensive

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01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 1: line the Bills offensive line handle Von Miller, seven percent

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01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:26,839
Speaker 1: of you say can the can the defense handle matchups

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01:56:26,880 --> 01:56:30,160
Speaker 1: with Courtland Sutton and Phillips lindsay, and three percent of

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01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:32,280
Speaker 1: something else in mind. Phone lines open eight oh three

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01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:56:35,640 --> 01:56:37,880
Speaker 1: two five fifty. They're wide open now for the next

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01:56:37,960 --> 01:56:39,800
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, so if you want to weigh in, and

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01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:42,240
Speaker 1: we have some more tweets to read from the tweet

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01:56:42,280 --> 01:56:44,920
Speaker 1: sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official

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01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:47,440
Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills. On the tweet sheet Bills

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01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:50,000
Speaker 1: Fan twelve to eighty three, I'm going to other. I'm

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01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:53,480
Speaker 1: going with other. I don't have any concerns. Must be

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01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:55,200
Speaker 1: nice to live like that. I had a will concern

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01:56:56,640 --> 01:56:59,520
Speaker 1: if the if the defense plays away they've been playing

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01:57:00,040 --> 01:57:02,920
Speaker 1: Josh keeps playing mistake free, and they feed motor, we

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01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:06,080
Speaker 1: should easily win. That said, this is the NFL, and

2442
01:57:06,160 --> 01:57:07,880
Speaker 1: any team can meet any team, So I guess that's

2443
01:57:07,920 --> 01:57:12,800
Speaker 1: what I'm concerned about. Go Bills, no concerns, there's no concerns.

2444
01:57:13,320 --> 01:57:16,160
Speaker 1: If they just keep on keeping on, well, it's gonna

2445
01:57:16,200 --> 01:57:18,160
Speaker 1: be hard to do that against a better defense than

2446
01:57:18,200 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 1: they saw it last week. Ye from Adam, And that's

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01:57:20,400 --> 01:57:23,520
Speaker 1: the crux of the entire week, isn't it? From Adam?

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01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:25,280
Speaker 1: He also is on the tweet, she says, I gotta

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01:57:25,320 --> 01:57:31,520
Speaker 1: go with a which is the offense keeping its momentum going.

2450
01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 1: Let's keep the offensive momentum going against a good Denver defense.

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01:57:34,880 --> 01:57:37,920
Speaker 1: They're especially strong against the runs, so the offense will

2452
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:40,880
Speaker 1: have to throw the football past the ball. We'll see.

2453
01:57:40,920 --> 01:57:42,720
Speaker 1: They don't have to do anything but they gotta do something.

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01:57:43,720 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a much bigger test for this

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01:57:45,600 --> 01:57:49,760
Speaker 1: offense if they can pull off a victory of this type.

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01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 1: I think it does go a long way towards, you know,

2457
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:55,280
Speaker 1: not having to apologize for winning eight games this week

2458
01:57:55,360 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 1: this year. I think I'm I'm gonna be really highly

2459
01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:01,160
Speaker 1: interested in watching. I know I'm not supposed to do this,

2460
01:58:01,280 --> 01:58:04,520
Speaker 1: but I'm really interested in the Dallas New England game.

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01:58:05,240 --> 01:58:07,200
Speaker 1: I want to see what that game that Dallas team

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01:58:07,240 --> 01:58:12,200
Speaker 1: looks like against New England. Our defense is really good

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01:58:12,280 --> 01:58:14,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know if and Dallas's offense is really good.

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01:58:14,480 --> 01:58:18,680
Speaker 1: They're really talented on the outside. I think that's really

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01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,800
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting game because I'll be a measuring stick.

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01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:24,440
Speaker 1: Within two weeks we're gonna see that, or within five

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01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:26,800
Speaker 1: days we're gonna see the Patriots play him, and then

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01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:28,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a chance to play him as well,

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01:58:28,440 --> 01:58:30,800
Speaker 1: and it'll be a real measuring stick as to where

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01:58:30,800 --> 01:58:32,680
Speaker 1: we measure up. I agree that'll be a good game.

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01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:35,120
Speaker 1: It's four twenty five, I think, right, I said earlier. Yeah,

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01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:38,080
Speaker 1: it's a four thirty game on the weekend on Thursday.

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01:58:38,680 --> 01:58:42,960
Speaker 1: Next week. Denver Broncos in town first though. Yeah, one

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01:58:43,000 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 1: thing Adam said, which I just want to make sure

2475
01:58:45,440 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned how well he's gone now his tweets gone.

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01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: They're especially strong against the run Denver. Actually they are

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01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:54,640
Speaker 1: eleventh ranked defense against the run and fifth ranked defense

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01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:58,440
Speaker 1: against the pass. They're good, similar to the Bills. They're

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01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:01,160
Speaker 1: They're good overall. Yeah, and good players and it's not

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01:59:01,240 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 1: just von Miller I mentioned earlier in the show. I

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01:59:03,400 --> 01:59:05,840
Speaker 1: think Shelby Harris, our guest yesterday, is a pretty good player.

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01:59:06,160 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: I think Chris Harris Junior the corner is really good

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01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:11,520
Speaker 1: and he may draw the assignment of John Brown. And

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01:59:11,640 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 1: I think the safety Justin Simmons is a star in

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01:59:14,840 --> 01:59:17,400
Speaker 1: the making for them, number thirty one police free safety

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01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:20,200
Speaker 1: back there. So we'll see the injury report out for

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01:59:20,240 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and the Bills have a couple of

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01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: players out and no surprises in this. Tie and Secky

2489
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 1: is going to be out of the game. He is

2490
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: week to week. That was announced Wednesday. Tie and Secky

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01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:31,960
Speaker 1: will not play this week with his ankle, and Sir

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01:59:32,040 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 1: and Neil will not play this week. He remains in

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01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:38,440
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. Everybody else good to go full full practice

2494
01:59:38,440 --> 01:59:40,880
Speaker 1: today for Jerry Hughes with his groin after having Wednesday

2495
01:59:40,920 --> 01:59:43,160
Speaker 1: and Thursday off, but he is good to go. Jordan

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01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:46,880
Speaker 1: Phillips full practice today, limited yesterday his toe injury and

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01:59:46,960 --> 01:59:48,840
Speaker 1: he should be good to go. That's good pretty much

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01:59:48,840 --> 01:59:50,800
Speaker 1: of a well right tackle, you know, and Sir and

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01:59:50,920 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: Neil is a special team or an important special teamer. Ye,

2500
01:59:53,480 --> 01:59:56,320
Speaker 1: but you're losing your right tackle who was in a

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01:59:56,400 --> 01:59:59,640
Speaker 1: pretty regimented platoon with Cody Ford who takes over. This

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01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:01,840
Speaker 1: d been to his rookie year. It might be it

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02:00:01,960 --> 02:00:04,640
Speaker 1: might be time for Cody Ford to take over. I'm

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02:00:04,680 --> 02:00:08,200
Speaker 1: not I'm not wringing my hands over that. They can help.

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02:00:08,280 --> 02:00:10,200
Speaker 1: You can help a tackle, put a tight end outside

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02:00:10,200 --> 02:00:12,160
Speaker 1: of him. Let von Miller go get a tight end

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02:00:12,280 --> 02:00:16,240
Speaker 1: chip first and then have the tackle engage or running back. Uh.

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02:00:17,360 --> 02:00:19,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a plan for it no matter what.

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02:00:19,400 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 1: I think. They'll have more problems when von Miller starts

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02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:24,120
Speaker 1: moving around every place, then you're gonna have to mind

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02:00:24,200 --> 02:00:27,960
Speaker 1: where he is. So I'm not too worried about that.

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02:00:27,960 --> 02:00:30,120
Speaker 1: I don't think Vone Miller's gonna get a sack every

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02:00:30,160 --> 02:00:34,240
Speaker 1: time we throw the football. He's gonna apply some pressure,

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02:00:34,320 --> 02:00:35,960
Speaker 1: no question, But I think this is gonna be a

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02:00:36,040 --> 02:00:39,400
Speaker 1: total total effort by the front five up up there

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02:00:39,440 --> 02:00:41,160
Speaker 1: with the offensive line, and they're gonna have to run

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02:00:41,200 --> 02:00:44,000
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit to be successful. I think

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02:00:44,560 --> 02:00:47,520
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a hard game offensively for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's why I keep saying it's gonna be

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02:00:50,000 --> 02:00:51,680
Speaker 1: one of those tooth and nail games. I keep saying

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Speaker 1: this every week, and it certainly wasn't that way last week.

2522
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm going back to it. I think it's gonna be

2523
02:00:57,040 --> 02:00:59,040
Speaker 1: that way this Yeah. I think Denver's defense good enough

2524
02:00:59,080 --> 02:01:01,200
Speaker 1: to hold Buffalo down a little bit. But you know

2525
02:01:01,400 --> 02:01:03,680
Speaker 1: what would be good, Steve is if the Bills get

2526
02:01:03,720 --> 02:01:07,200
Speaker 1: a win, in a solid win. Seventeen fourteen is fine,

2527
02:01:07,280 --> 02:01:09,840
Speaker 1: seventeen ten is a little bit better. It's twenty ten

2528
02:01:10,440 --> 02:01:13,040
Speaker 1: that's even better. It would be good because now they

2529
02:01:13,160 --> 02:01:16,920
Speaker 1: go they go into really the difficult, the most difficult

2530
02:01:16,960 --> 02:01:20,320
Speaker 1: part of their schedule, and they've been ripped and criticized

2531
02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,920
Speaker 1: and ridiculed for their schedules so far. They had nothing

2532
02:01:22,960 --> 02:01:25,120
Speaker 1: to do with assembling the schedule, by the way, but

2533
02:01:25,240 --> 02:01:28,520
Speaker 1: it does get serious starting with the Thanksgiving game at Dallas.

2534
02:01:28,800 --> 02:01:30,960
Speaker 1: And one of the things I already like about this week,

2535
02:01:31,080 --> 02:01:33,320
Speaker 1: even before the game is played on Sunday, is how

2536
02:01:33,440 --> 02:01:35,960
Speaker 1: in this building and on that roster and the players

2537
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:37,840
Speaker 1: we've talked to, the vibe you get is they're not

2538
02:01:38,000 --> 02:01:41,160
Speaker 1: looking ahead to Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Newing. Then everybody knows,

2539
02:01:41,200 --> 02:01:43,720
Speaker 1: every Bills fan knows. That's the crux of it, right,

2540
02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: that's when it's going to get serious. At Dallas home

2541
02:01:46,240 --> 02:01:49,120
Speaker 1: against Baltimore, at Pittsburgh on the road, at knowing that

2542
02:01:49,200 --> 02:01:51,080
Speaker 1: those are the four toughest games on the schedule. The

2543
02:01:51,120 --> 02:01:53,640
Speaker 1: Bills are remaining now one of the toughest schedules in

2544
02:01:53,680 --> 02:01:55,760
Speaker 1: the NFL. But I don't get the sense at all

2545
02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:59,400
Speaker 1: that anybody is overlooking or undervaluing the three and seven

2546
02:01:59,440 --> 02:02:03,720
Speaker 1: Denver Brock, not on this team, not on the coaching staff,

2547
02:02:03,760 --> 02:02:05,640
Speaker 1: anything like that. But all those Bills fans, we're looking

2548
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:07,960
Speaker 1: for that day when they flash the standings up and

2549
02:02:08,000 --> 02:02:09,920
Speaker 1: the Bills have got a little asterisk next to their

2550
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:13,200
Speaker 1: name meaning clinch the playoffs, that's what you're looking for,

2551
02:02:14,080 --> 02:02:16,800
Speaker 1: and it's gonna take three more wins to do that.

2552
02:02:16,920 --> 02:02:21,120
Speaker 1: I think we'll see, we'll see I'm I think they're

2553
02:02:21,120 --> 02:02:22,920
Speaker 1: gonna win more than that, but it's gonna take at

2554
02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:25,520
Speaker 1: least that many. And they're getting close to the point where, okay,

2555
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:28,360
Speaker 1: who's in the hunt. You know who's gonna you know who.

2556
02:02:28,400 --> 02:02:33,760
Speaker 1: We're watching these games all count and it doesn't matter

2557
02:02:33,800 --> 02:02:37,880
Speaker 1: if you're playing Miami or Denver or Baltimore, New England,

2558
02:02:38,560 --> 02:02:40,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a chance. And this Buffalo team is

2559
02:02:40,960 --> 02:02:43,040
Speaker 1: learning how to win. I think they took a step

2560
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:45,440
Speaker 1: forward last week, despite again it was a week opponent.

2561
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:47,840
Speaker 1: They took care of it like you would expect a

2562
02:02:47,920 --> 02:02:50,360
Speaker 1: good team to do. And we'll see if they can

2563
02:02:50,400 --> 02:02:52,960
Speaker 1: do it against a really good defense this year. This

2564
02:02:53,080 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 1: is a much better football team on both sides of

2565
02:02:55,440 --> 02:02:58,400
Speaker 1: the ball. Even though their record is not what you

2566
02:02:58,440 --> 02:03:01,280
Speaker 1: would think at three and seven, they're much better than that.

2567
02:03:01,360 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 1: They've been in every game very late. They've lost a

2568
02:03:03,680 --> 02:03:08,800
Speaker 1: number of very close games has Denver, and they're gonna

2569
02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:12,240
Speaker 1: be all Buffalo can handle. Let's look around at the

2570
02:03:12,280 --> 02:03:14,040
Speaker 1: weekend and what lives I had for the Bills, and

2571
02:03:14,280 --> 02:03:16,800
Speaker 1: I think for most Bills fans it's kind of fun.

2572
02:03:16,840 --> 02:03:18,640
Speaker 1: They have a Bills game to watch and other games

2573
02:03:18,720 --> 02:03:21,080
Speaker 1: to think about. To keep an eye on. It's time

2574
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:26,600
Speaker 1: for our weekend look Ahead, presented by Amtrak on Amtrak

2575
02:03:26,680 --> 02:03:29,600
Speaker 1: Get carried Away. So, yeah, you got the Bills one o'clock.

2576
02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:32,360
Speaker 1: Also one o'clock Sunday, Raiders and Jets. They play in

2577
02:03:32,400 --> 02:03:35,520
Speaker 1: the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Raiders have won their last three.

2578
02:03:35,640 --> 02:03:38,040
Speaker 1: They're six and four, one game behind the Bills in

2579
02:03:38,080 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 1: the wild card race. You heard Greg Cosell say that's

2580
02:03:40,600 --> 02:03:42,360
Speaker 1: a team to watch, the Raiders, and they're coming all

2581
02:03:42,360 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: the way you used to play the Jets. It'll be

2582
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:46,280
Speaker 1: an interesting game to keep an eye on. Yeah, that's

2583
02:03:46,320 --> 02:03:49,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun, and it's tough for

2584
02:03:49,560 --> 02:03:55,040
Speaker 1: West Coast teams to come east. Theoretically and historically, I

2585
02:03:55,120 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 1: think that Sam Darnold's gonna play better. It'll be interesting

2586
02:03:58,240 --> 02:03:59,320
Speaker 1: to see it. I want to keep an eye on

2587
02:03:59,400 --> 02:04:01,080
Speaker 1: that too, Not so much as I care about whether

2588
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:02,520
Speaker 1: the Raiders win or lose, but I want to see

2589
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:05,000
Speaker 1: the Jets play because they're on our schedule. Also on

2590
02:04:05,160 --> 02:04:07,760
Speaker 1: the schedule the Steelers two games back, five and five,

2591
02:04:07,840 --> 02:04:10,400
Speaker 1: but they've won four their last five. They play one

2592
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:15,120
Speaker 1: o'clock Sunday. They play against the winless Bengals. Which means

2593
02:04:15,160 --> 02:04:17,400
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna be six and five, which you gotta

2594
02:04:17,440 --> 02:04:19,160
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the Steelers moving forward, I think,

2595
02:04:19,200 --> 02:04:21,240
Speaker 1: and the Bills get a chance at the Steelers a

2596
02:04:21,320 --> 02:04:24,120
Speaker 1: couple of weeks away. Yeah, that's the team. The Steeler,

2597
02:04:24,320 --> 02:04:27,440
Speaker 1: mark my words. The Steelers are the team that you

2598
02:04:27,640 --> 02:04:30,120
Speaker 1: got to watch out for. They're putting it together. They

2599
02:04:30,440 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: like you said, four their last five, they lost Ben Roethlisberger,

2600
02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:38,360
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph had the big brawl last week with Miles Garrett.

2601
02:04:39,080 --> 02:04:42,120
Speaker 1: They're putting it together and they're gonna play better down

2602
02:04:42,160 --> 02:04:46,400
Speaker 1: the stretch, Garrett, Mason Rudolph's gonna play better and better.

2603
02:04:46,960 --> 02:04:49,240
Speaker 1: And that's a team that I like their head coach

2604
02:04:49,280 --> 02:04:50,840
Speaker 1: a lot, and I think he gets the most out

2605
02:04:50,880 --> 02:04:52,280
Speaker 1: of those guys, and they're gonna be tough to beat

2606
02:04:52,280 --> 02:04:53,560
Speaker 1: down the street. You have a lot more faith in

2607
02:04:53,640 --> 02:04:55,520
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph than I do. I don't think he's that good.

2608
02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:58,480
Speaker 1: I got a faith in that organization. I think that's

2609
02:04:58,480 --> 02:05:00,800
Speaker 1: an organization that gets it right. And like Mike Tomlin,

2610
02:05:00,880 --> 02:05:04,680
Speaker 1: a lot do we worry about Cleveland? Are they contender?

2611
02:05:04,720 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: They're four and six, They have an easy schedule, manageable schedule, ahead.

2612
02:05:08,520 --> 02:05:10,440
Speaker 1: They beat the Bills, so if there's a tie, they

2613
02:05:10,520 --> 02:05:13,120
Speaker 1: get that advantage. They are home Sunday at one o'clock

2614
02:05:13,120 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 1: against Miami. You would think they can handle them, which

2615
02:05:15,280 --> 02:05:17,640
Speaker 1: would make them five and six. Do we care? Do

2616
02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:19,840
Speaker 1: we worry about Cleveland maybe catching up on the Bills

2617
02:05:19,880 --> 02:05:22,560
Speaker 1: in this playoff race? That's a lot of games left.

2618
02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:25,160
Speaker 1: You just have to wait and see, you know, I no,

2619
02:05:25,440 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 1: not at this point. No, okay, No, it's too long ago.

2620
02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 1: It's too far out and too much. You got other

2621
02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:32,680
Speaker 1: teams you're worried about more than them. Maybe one of

2622
02:05:32,720 --> 02:05:36,720
Speaker 1: them is Tennessee later Sunday, four o'clock, Tennessee home against Jacksonville.

2623
02:05:36,800 --> 02:05:39,440
Speaker 1: Tennessee is five and five. They could make some noise.

2624
02:05:39,840 --> 02:05:41,600
Speaker 1: And if you think the Bills have a chance to

2625
02:05:41,680 --> 02:05:44,640
Speaker 1: win the division, they might. It's still possible to unseat

2626
02:05:44,680 --> 02:05:46,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Then you watch the four twenty five game,

2627
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:50,120
Speaker 1: right Foxburg, New England and the Cowboys. Yeah, your weekend

2628
02:05:50,160 --> 02:05:54,440
Speaker 1: look ahead as football in it? Yeah, pretty cool. Calgary, Canada,

2629
02:05:54,480 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: the Great Cup Final, the Handling Tiger cast against the

2630
02:05:56,960 --> 02:05:59,880
Speaker 1: Winnipeg Blue Bombers. My son's playing in the game. We're

2631
02:05:59,880 --> 02:06:06,800
Speaker 1: all the the whole family's headed up there and descending

2632
02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:08,960
Speaker 1: on Calgary all at once. So it's it's gonna be

2633
02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And all my children, all our

2634
02:06:11,720 --> 02:06:14,400
Speaker 1: children are gathering with their spouses and the grand kid.

2635
02:06:14,440 --> 02:06:16,280
Speaker 1: We got like eighteen twenty people going to this game.

2636
02:06:17,760 --> 02:06:21,000
Speaker 1: I do not know. I know this. The Hambling Tiger

2637
02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:25,120
Speaker 1: Cats have beaten Winnipeg twice this season and they were

2638
02:06:25,160 --> 02:06:27,320
Speaker 1: fifteen and three on the year. They had a really

2639
02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:32,040
Speaker 1: really good year. They're probably the favorites, but it's hard

2640
02:06:32,080 --> 02:06:36,040
Speaker 1: to This team that they're playing in Winnipeg has kind

2641
02:06:36,080 --> 02:06:37,720
Speaker 1: of caught lightning in a bottle in the last three

2642
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:41,000
Speaker 1: or four weeks. Their quarterback is the same quarterback who

2643
02:06:41,040 --> 02:06:43,760
Speaker 1: took the Tie Cats to the Great Cup five years ago,

2644
02:06:44,080 --> 02:06:46,680
Speaker 1: and he's landed in Winnipeg and has been there for

2645
02:06:46,720 --> 02:06:48,480
Speaker 1: a while now. He's gotten on the field and they're

2646
02:06:48,520 --> 02:06:50,640
Speaker 1: starting to play really, really well, and they're people amiss

2647
02:06:50,720 --> 02:06:52,880
Speaker 1: year seeing a big picture of the clan that was

2648
02:06:52,960 --> 02:06:55,720
Speaker 1: up in Hamilton the other day. So it's gonna be

2649
02:06:55,760 --> 02:06:58,040
Speaker 1: a fun weekend for us, it really is, and we're

2650
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:01,760
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Looking up the odds here. The Sunday,

2651
02:07:01,880 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: six pm Eastern time is the Great Cup game. That's right,

2652
02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:09,360
Speaker 1: six pods. Hamilton is favored by three and a half.

2653
02:07:09,840 --> 02:07:12,240
Speaker 1: You're good with that. You're like, you can't bet? Yeah,

2654
02:07:12,360 --> 02:07:14,920
Speaker 1: what do I know? Yeah, but that sounds right to you. Yeah,

2655
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:19,800
Speaker 1: it's yeah, about right. Winnipeg's kind of caught lightning in

2656
02:07:19,840 --> 02:07:22,160
Speaker 1: a bottle. They look they look good. We and we

2657
02:07:22,360 --> 02:07:24,480
Speaker 1: had a couple of close games with them during a

2658
02:07:24,560 --> 02:07:27,120
Speaker 1: regular season and one of those games was a long

2659
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:30,000
Speaker 1: time ago as an eighteen game schedule. So it's gonna

2660
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:32,960
Speaker 1: be a fun, fun, fun game if I can stay

2661
02:07:33,040 --> 02:07:36,720
Speaker 1: warm enough outside the enjoy it. Calgary one of the

2662
02:07:36,800 --> 02:07:39,360
Speaker 1: great cities in North America. Really one of the Olympics,

2663
02:07:39,400 --> 02:07:42,160
Speaker 1: what we say, nineteen eighty eight Winter Olympics. Yeah, and

2664
02:07:42,200 --> 02:07:44,240
Speaker 1: it's out of the high planes too, so the Olympic

2665
02:07:44,360 --> 02:07:47,040
Speaker 1: venues were kind of, you know, away from Calgary a

2666
02:07:47,080 --> 02:07:50,640
Speaker 1: little bit. But it's a fantastic city. The guys who

2667
02:07:50,720 --> 02:07:53,200
Speaker 1: play in the CFL, like my son and his buddy,

2668
02:07:53,320 --> 02:07:55,200
Speaker 1: they love going out there. It's a great city to

2669
02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:58,240
Speaker 1: go out there, a lot of skyscrapers jumping up out

2670
02:07:58,240 --> 02:07:59,920
Speaker 1: of the high planes. It's pretty fun. And tell me,

2671
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:01,760
Speaker 1: the one thing you mentioned before I went down the

2672
02:08:01,800 --> 02:08:04,400
Speaker 1: air about how maybe a little bit different than the

2673
02:08:04,440 --> 02:08:07,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. The Great Cup game is a celebration of

2674
02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:11,120
Speaker 1: everything Canadian, everything CFL. Really, it's the league, yeah, you know.

2675
02:08:11,200 --> 02:08:15,000
Speaker 1: And they'll have a fan parade going to the stadium

2676
02:08:15,040 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 1: down one of the avenues there in Calgary, and all

2677
02:08:18,640 --> 02:08:20,520
Speaker 1: the fans that are going to the game are asked

2678
02:08:20,520 --> 02:08:24,120
Speaker 1: to walk down the street together to the game. Um,

2679
02:08:24,240 --> 02:08:27,360
Speaker 1: so you'll have all nine of the Canadian Football League

2680
02:08:27,400 --> 02:08:30,440
Speaker 1: teams represented with their gear in that parade. It's just

2681
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:33,120
Speaker 1: the fans going to the game. And it's fun and

2682
02:08:33,200 --> 02:08:36,480
Speaker 1: it's obvious it's Canadian, so it's very polite, very friendly, right,

2683
02:08:36,880 --> 02:08:40,600
Speaker 1: so you know, burning cars no game, No, they're not

2684
02:08:40,640 --> 02:08:42,600
Speaker 1: flipping cars over any of that stuff. I think that

2685
02:08:42,720 --> 02:08:44,600
Speaker 1: there's a big fest obviously. You can tell there's a

2686
02:08:44,640 --> 02:08:46,680
Speaker 1: big festival up there as well. I think they're Calgary,

2687
02:08:46,720 --> 02:08:49,680
Speaker 1: so that may have a rodeo. There'll be rock concerts,

2688
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:52,680
Speaker 1: big events going on around the city as well. So

2689
02:08:53,440 --> 02:08:55,440
Speaker 1: your son Luke's third Great Cup? Is this your third Cup?

2690
02:08:55,520 --> 02:08:57,880
Speaker 1: Great Cup? As one second second missed a second the

2691
02:08:57,960 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 1: first one. He was there for like five weeks or

2692
02:08:59,760 --> 02:09:01,800
Speaker 1: six weeks on the field and they and we didn't

2693
02:09:01,880 --> 02:09:05,040
Speaker 1: and I was working with CBS and we didn't didn't

2694
02:09:05,040 --> 02:09:06,920
Speaker 1: do it, you know, kind of caught us off guard

2695
02:09:06,920 --> 02:09:08,480
Speaker 1: a little bit. Snuck up onto the next one we

2696
02:09:08,800 --> 02:09:10,600
Speaker 1: did go to and it was in Vancouver, and that

2697
02:09:10,760 --> 02:09:12,800
Speaker 1: was fantastic. Steve Soun Luke was on the show with

2698
02:09:12,920 --> 02:09:15,200
Speaker 1: us Tuesday. You can go back and catch that up

2699
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,480
Speaker 1: on the website if you want to hear the interview.

2700
02:09:17,520 --> 02:09:19,320
Speaker 1: Good luck to you and thanks and Luke and you

2701
02:09:19,400 --> 02:09:22,000
Speaker 1: too this this weekend. Have a great broadcasting and I'll

2702
02:09:22,040 --> 02:09:24,920
Speaker 1: be watching the bill. I'll be watching the Bills on

2703
02:09:25,040 --> 02:09:28,000
Speaker 1: my phone. So it's three o'clock Calgary time, of it's

2704
02:09:28,000 --> 02:09:31,680
Speaker 1: six o'clock each time for four o'clock Calgary time, Calgary time. Yeah,

2705
02:09:31,720 --> 02:09:33,040
Speaker 1: all right, we got a little bit more to come.

2706
02:09:33,080 --> 02:09:35,240
Speaker 1: Come on back. One bill side presented by Colada Health

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Speaker 1: rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had a good

2711
02:10:00,080 --> 02:10:03,040
Speaker 1: Friday show today. Is we soak up the atmosphere of Friday?

2712
02:10:03,120 --> 02:10:05,480
Speaker 1: Before our home game, I felt like we did. Leonard

2713
02:10:05,520 --> 02:10:08,040
Speaker 1: Smith joined this former Bills safety played on the couple

2714
02:10:08,080 --> 02:10:10,400
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl teams. Leonard Smith is now going

2715
02:10:10,480 --> 02:10:13,960
Speaker 1: to be not the leader of the Legend of the Game,

2716
02:10:14,120 --> 02:10:17,280
Speaker 1: Legend of the game, Legend of the Game, Sunday, Legend

2717
02:10:17,600 --> 02:10:19,920
Speaker 1: of the Game Sunday for the Bills and the Denver Broncos.

2718
02:10:19,960 --> 02:10:22,320
Speaker 1: We talked to Leonard Smiths and talked to him about

2719
02:10:22,400 --> 02:10:24,280
Speaker 1: coming back to Buffalo for this game. Here's what he

2720
02:10:24,320 --> 02:10:29,600
Speaker 1: had to say. Just love the fans, you know, understanding

2721
02:10:29,880 --> 02:10:34,560
Speaker 1: that they love a team that's playing well. And right

2722
02:10:34,600 --> 02:10:38,480
Speaker 1: now new team playing well. We're looking at playoffs right now.

2723
02:10:38,560 --> 02:10:40,640
Speaker 1: That's something that you know, it used to be something

2724
02:10:40,720 --> 02:10:42,560
Speaker 1: you just knew you were gonna be in the playoffs

2725
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:45,240
Speaker 1: every year. Now it's something that fans are truly looking

2726
02:10:45,280 --> 02:10:48,280
Speaker 1: to have again. And right now what a team is rolling,

2727
02:10:48,360 --> 02:10:50,840
Speaker 1: it looks like that opportunities are going to rise again.

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Speaker 1: So but coming back and seeing the fans still just

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Speaker 1: enthused with the team to have and looking for brighten

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Speaker 1: better days. I love it. Leonard Smith loves coming back.

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Speaker 1: You'd love to see him there Sunday. It was great

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Speaker 1: to him here on the show. Great Cosell joined us

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock today. The executive producer analyst on NFL

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Speaker 1: Matchup on ESPN likes what he sees from Bill's quarterback

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Speaker 1: Josh Ellen. Calls him in a sending player in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and he talked about his development through this season. Here's

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Speaker 1: great Cosell. The Dolphins game was somewhat representative of sort

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Speaker 1: of the incremental improvements that Josh Allen is making on

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Speaker 1: a week to week basis. You saw him make some

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Speaker 1: outstanding throws. He used his legs effectively, and they obviously

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Speaker 1: asked him to use his legs by design as well.

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Speaker 1: He did not turn the ball over, So that's five

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Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Now he is not thrown in

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Speaker 1: interception and that's a real, real positive. Then you still

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Speaker 1: see some of the negative things where he continues to

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Speaker 1: be a little erratic and inconsistent with his ball placement

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Speaker 1: on some routine throws, and I think those things have

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Speaker 1: to be cleaned up. You'd like to get him to

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Speaker 1: the point where he doesn't miss those throws. But you're

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Speaker 1: starting to see on a weekly basis, Josh Allen makes

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Speaker 1: some really really good throws and start to recognize the

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Speaker 1: things Greg Coseell talking about Josh Allen the Bills getting

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Speaker 1: set to play Denver, and I'd looked for some improvement

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Speaker 1: from Josh this week. I don't know if I'm expecting

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Speaker 1: thirty seven points scored by the Buffalo Bills, but I

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Speaker 1: think they they're gonna handle the Broncos today, and it

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Speaker 1: won't be easy. You want to give us a prediction,

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Speaker 1: I've got one in mind. Against this defense, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be hard to see improvement because I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a tougher road to ho you know, I just

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be harder to score points. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna throw for three and run for one

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Speaker 1: and be the AFC Offensive Player of the Week against

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Speaker 1: this Denver Broncos defense. Right, So yeah, that's the story. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a a seventeen thirteen

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Speaker 1: game or a twenty to thirteen game. Maybe. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's what it's gonna be. I don't know if,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know. I think thirteen may be saying

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Speaker 1: something about the Denver offense. I don't there maybe just

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Speaker 1: ten I got the Bills winning at seven. Team ten

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Speaker 1: just a guest, but I think they are capable. Buffalo

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Speaker 1: is getting better offensively again. I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a breakout game game for Dawson Knox. I hope it's

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, but I do see that coming down the road.

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Speaker 1: I think Devin Singletary has a larger role to play.

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Speaker 1: We saw a little bit of it last week, and

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Speaker 1: I think we'll see more of it this week. But

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Speaker 1: it is it is about Josh, and Josh is on

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Speaker 1: a road to improvement. Now. You feel like you're jinxing

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Speaker 1: them when you say it, but it's five games without

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Speaker 1: an interception for Josh Allen. I don't want to see one.

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Speaker 1: But it'll happen, but you don't want to It's like

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier week, it's like a no hitter.

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Speaker 1: You don't mention it rows an interception. I hope it's

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Speaker 1: because he's been going for it all day. And this

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Speaker 1: offense what I mean, I'd love to see some big

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Speaker 1: plays out of this offense. I think that's a step

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Speaker 1: we'd love to see. Maybe we will this time this game,

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Speaker 1: but certainly, yeah, stay away from a big mistake and

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Speaker 1: he's going to help you a lot. Our production assistants,

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Speaker 1: George Blast Jeff Coltonick Thomas Holder, Kelly Rude, Jjjurito, Kevin Cargis,

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Speaker 1: James Robot, our producer Jay Harris. Have a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: See Monday at noon, One Bills Live from Seneca Studio

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