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Speaker 1: Hike and everybody, I'm Dan Horde and this is the

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Speaker 1: Bengals Booth Podcast. The Canary addition, as the Bengals look

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Speaker 1: to put a lousy performance against the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: two and oh Buffalo Bills on their home field, and

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Speaker 1: my apologies to Crosby Stills in Nash for not being

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Speaker 1: able to match their three part harmony. Coming up, you'll

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Speaker 1: hear three conversations up. First, my broadcast partner Dave Lapham.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss how the defense could be so strong in

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Speaker 1: week one and so week In Week two, we'll also

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Speaker 1: look at the latest round of musical chairs on the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, and lap will share his keys to knocking

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Speaker 1: off the undefeated Bills. My locker room conversation this week

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Speaker 1: is with wide receiver Tyler Boyd. According to Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton has thrown twenty asses for Boyd in the

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Speaker 1: first two games, and eighteen out of twenty have gone

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Speaker 1: for completions. That's ninety percent and tied for first in

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Speaker 1: the NFL in receiving percentage. If that's what we should

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Speaker 1: call it for anybody who has been targeted ten or

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Speaker 1: more times. Oddly enough, Boyd is tied with former Bengal

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Speaker 1: Marvin Jones, who is reeled in nine of the ten

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Speaker 1: passes thrown to him in Detroit. And in this week's

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Speaker 1: Know the Faux segment, we'll get the lowdown on the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills from their radio analyst, not only a former

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl center for the Bills, but a former Elder panther,

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Speaker 1: Eric Wood. All of that is straight ahead, But first,

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Speaker 1: using Bluetooth right now to enjoy this podcast. Now let's

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Speaker 1: get to football. The Bengals are a six point underdog

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Speaker 1: then beat the Giants twenty eight to fourteen in Week two.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are one of nine teams that are off

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Speaker 1: not exactly making a down payment on playoff tickets yet.

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Speaker 1: The last five times the Bills started a season two

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Speaker 1: Their chances of finishing above five hundred are looking pretty

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Speaker 1: good this year, considering that Buffalo still has two games

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Speaker 1: the first three weeks this Sunday. If Buffalo just wins

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Speaker 1: win season. Now, time to discuss this week's matchup and

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap.

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Speaker 1: There are six first time head coaches in the NFL

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Speaker 1: this year, and four of them, including Zach Taylor, don't

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Speaker 1: People of crush Mike Brown over the years for sticking

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Speaker 1: week three of his tenure. Is this already a big

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Speaker 1: test of Zach Taylor's leadership. I think it is. I

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Speaker 1: You know, he's he's within range, within sniffing distance in Barry.

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Speaker 1: Sooner you get up to fifteen thousand yards rushing, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's just that's amazing. And the thing that he

428
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Speaker 1: still has his leg drive. You know, he may not

429
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Speaker 1: have his his uh, his burst, his quickness, his uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, acceleration, but just pure power. He's got old

431
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Speaker 1: man strength now, I mean he's still he's still an

432
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Speaker 1: old man river cranking along. Man. The guy is totally remarkable.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that he gives you is the intangible.

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Speaker 1: In the locker room, I mean, Singletary is looking at

435
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: him like this guy, it's thirty six years old. My god,

436
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: what kind of That's just that's a self contained example

437
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Speaker 1: of a pros pro You know, how to take care

438
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: of your body, how to work out, how to study,

439
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: how to practice everything that you need to find out

440
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: how to be a success in the National Football League.

441
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Speaker 1: You have a resource in the locker two lockers down

442
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Speaker 1: from you that you can talk to about and watch

443
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: how he does it in the weight room, all those

444
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Speaker 1: things that's invaluable. Throughout his career, he has worked out

445
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: in South Florida at an academy in the offseason with

446
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Speaker 1: other NFL running backs. Early in his career he worked

447
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Speaker 1: out with Rudy Johnson. Now he works out with Giovanni Bernard.

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Speaker 1: Consider that. All right, let's wrap it up with Dave

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Speaker 1: Lapham's Keys to Victory on Sunday at New Era Field

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. All Right, Dan, the team needs to get

451
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Speaker 1: back to basics. So the Keys are going to be

452
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Speaker 1: getting back to basics. You know. The first key is

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Speaker 1: red zone. The Bengals have had six opportunities in the

454
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Speaker 1: red zone. They've scored one touchdown. That's sixteen point six percent,

455
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Speaker 1: is worse than the NFL touchdown percentage. Buffalo offensively has

456
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Speaker 1: been there five times, five touchdowns, one tied for best

457
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. That minus four touchdown ratio.

458
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Speaker 1: Buffalo has five. The Bengals only have one, is thirty

459
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Speaker 1: first in the NFL. The only team worst of the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: The defensive alloted eight touchdowns in the red zone. They've

461
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Speaker 1: only scored one, but the Dolphins in another. Another Canac

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Speaker 1: Number two is you don't have to be a football

463
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Speaker 1: wizard to figure this one out run game. Obviously, they

464
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Speaker 1: handled the run in Seattle, they didn't handle it in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. They're averaging twenty nine and a half yards

466
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Speaker 1: per game and they're averaging one point eight per carry,

467
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Speaker 1: both dead last in the NFL. Defensively, they're allowing one

468
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five and a half and they're allowing

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Speaker 1: four point nine per rush, thirtieth in the NFL. Got

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Speaker 1: to run it and stop it better than the have

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Speaker 1: and then big plays. San Francisco smoked him eighteen plays

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Speaker 1: of ten yards of war and it was balanced. Eight runs,

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Speaker 1: ten passes, and you know he had four different receivers

474
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Speaker 1: catch a ball with thirty six yards of war thirty

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Speaker 1: six thirty eight touchdown, thirty nine touchdown, another thirty nine

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Speaker 1: yard or by four different guys. Can't have that, You

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00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: just can't have it. The Bengals need to control the

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Speaker 1: big play by the opponent and generates some themselves. Turnovers,

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00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: big plays, red zone. Those are the nuts and bolts

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Speaker 1: of winsor losses in the NFL. Thanks Lap. The NFL

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Speaker 1: record for receptions in a single season is one hundred

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Speaker 1: forty three. It was set back in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: two by Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison. That's basically nine

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Speaker 1: catches a game. And that's precisely but Tyler Boyd is averaging.

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Speaker 1: After the first two weeks of the season. He's currently

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Speaker 1: tied for second in the NFL with the Jets Jamison Crowder,

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Speaker 1: two catches behind the Saints Michael Thomas. Tyler had seventy

488
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Speaker 1: six sketches for one. I was in twenty eight yards

489
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 1: last year, earning a four year, forty three million dollar

490
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Speaker 1: contract extension. I talked to him in the locker room

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Speaker 1: this week. Tyler, I want to start with a play

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Speaker 1: that happened with about ninety seconds left in the game

493
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: last week. You guys were way behind, You caught a pass,

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Speaker 1: you broke two tackles, You struggle to get every inch

495
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Speaker 1: that you possibly could when the team was down by

496
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Speaker 1: thirty one points. Can you describe what you were trying

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Speaker 1: to do in a situation like that. You know, I

498
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: just wanted to send my toughness and show what our

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Speaker 1: team got to me. You know, I want them to believe,

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Speaker 1: like I believe, you know, no matter what the scoreboards say,

501
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: no matter what the outcome is, and I'm gonna continue

502
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Speaker 1: to be the player that I've always been, you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to do whatever I can do to MUDA

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Speaker 1: stains or win. You know, You've got eighteen catches in

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Speaker 1: the first two games of the season. You're currently tied

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Speaker 1: for second in the NFL. That would be a pace

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty four, which would be one

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Speaker 1: more than the NFL record. Do you have any numerical

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Speaker 1: goals in mind this season, hundred catches and anything in particular. Well,

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00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 1: I've been I've always been a team player, you know,

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00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 1: first and foremotion. I care more about the wins, you know.

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Speaker 1: But I'm a guy. I believe that I can be

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Speaker 1: a hundred uh catch receiver and a thousand yard continuous

514
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: year about year receiver, you know. And without being said, um,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like with me and going out there

516
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: and playing with the effort that I have, you know,

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00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: will easily you know, get those individual stats. You know.

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Speaker 1: So if I just continue to go out there and

519
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: be the guy I always been, then ain't no telling

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Speaker 1: how the stat's gonna look at the end. Of the season,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully, and they would be great for visiting with

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Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. As I said, you're tied for second the

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Speaker 1: league and catches. John Ross number one in receiving yards

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Speaker 1: aside from his uniform number. Change. What's different than John

525
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Speaker 1: Ross this year, He's just he's confident now, he believes itself.

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Speaker 1: He's we we got him in a system that is

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00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: really great for him. You know, M not saying any

528
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Speaker 1: couldn't excel in any of the systems we had previously,

529
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Speaker 1: but this is like a perfect system for John to

530
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Speaker 1: you know, showcase his speech, showcase his Tayland showcase while

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Speaker 1: we take we drafted him, you know, and now I

532
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: feel like he's he's been poised. He'd been he'd been

533
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: he'd been more relaxed, you know. Now he's gone there

534
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: and just play fast. So I think that's the biggest

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Speaker 1: change is his confident level. One of the differences in

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Speaker 1: the offense this year is that you guys line up

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00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: tight quite a bit and you're asked to block. How

538
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: do you feel about being asked to block as as

539
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: often as you are and really being counted on to

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Speaker 1: deliver um at the end of the day. It's a

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Speaker 1: um hit or or be hit league, you know. So

542
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, UM, you gotta go

543
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: out there and and and dig somebody else, you know.

544
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not gonna die, So why not go

545
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: hit somebody? You know, because nobody want to get put

546
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: on film of getting getting crushed. You know. That's that's

547
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: how everybody's fair or not really fair, but nobody likes

548
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: to get embarrassed. So I mean, I'm a I'm a

549
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: bigger guy, you know, six six one a half six

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Speaker 1: two two hundred and four. So I mean, I don't

551
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: got no problem doing it because my line and running

552
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: bout block for me when I catched fastest. So why'm

553
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: not return the favor for visiting the Tyler Boyd. You're

554
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: going back to Buffalo and it's not as big a

555
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: story this year as it was last year. But those

556
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Speaker 1: Bills fans are very generous to you and Andy after

557
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: the way the season ended two years ago in Baltimore.

558
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: Will there be a different vibe for you going into

559
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: that stadium this week as opposed to other road stadiums.

560
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: I think it would be a little different. I think

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Speaker 1: the last time they wanted to show their joy to

562
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: me Andy was last year we played in a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think they're gonna continue to praise us.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't last forever. Yeah, it ain't gonna last forever.

565
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm very thankful for what

566
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Speaker 1: they did for us, you know, and I'm I'm glad

567
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: I could be a part of helping them get to

568
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. How good is that? Bill Secondary? Um, they're

569
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Speaker 1: they're are pretty good. You know, They're they're they're sound,

570
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: They're they're fundamentally um on point with each other. You know,

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Speaker 1: they don't Um, well I didn't, haven't watched it a

572
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: lot yet, but um White the corner, he's pretty tough.

573
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Speaker 1: You know, I think he's there there go to guy.

574
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: So ain't no telling how they're gonna play him. But again,

575
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Speaker 1: we just gotta we just gotta execute them guys, and

576
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Speaker 1: just to talk him like we're planning on uh talk

577
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: in every corner, you know. But um, I'll give credit

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Speaker 1: to them. Last thing for Tyler Boyd, you signed a

579
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Speaker 1: big contract extension in the off Season's there a point

580
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: shortly after that where you just kind of had a

581
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: thought of, man, all the hard work, the injuries, everything

582
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: that I've gone through my whole life is paid off definitely,

583
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Speaker 1: you know, because now it's like less pressure, you know,

584
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: of going out there and trying to be the best

585
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Speaker 1: you can be. And I have the word about getting

586
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Speaker 1: hurt and just trying to correlate to both. You know.

587
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: It's a real tough one individual, you know, but just

588
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: having out behind me allows me to just just continue

589
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: to just play hungry and want to just play football

590
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: and help my team, you know. And um, at the

591
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Speaker 1: end of this one, hopefully I want to continue to

592
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Speaker 1: the ball allow and get another one, you know. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied quite yet, but it's gonna come. Best

594
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Speaker 1: of luck against the Bills. Appreciate you. My thanks to

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Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd, who caught all ten passes thrown his way

596
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Speaker 1: last week against the forty nine Ers. Now time for

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Speaker 1: this week's No the Foe Interview is we do a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into the Bengals upcoming opponent with somebody that

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Speaker 1: knows the team. This week it's the radio analyst for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, who happens to be a Cincinnati native, Eric Would.

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Speaker 1: Eric was part of two state championship teams that Elder

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Speaker 1: High School and went on to star at Louisville before

603
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Speaker 1: being a first round draft pick by the Bills in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. He was a nine year starter

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, made a Pro Bowl in two fifteen, and

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Speaker 1: now has transitioned into the broadcasting booth, doing college games

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Speaker 1: on TV and Bills games on the radio. Eric joined

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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham and me on the Bengals Game Plan show.

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Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills offensively the first six drives of the season,

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Speaker 1: no touchdowns, no points, four turnovers in the first six drives,

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Speaker 1: and then the last sixteen drives six touchdowns, forty five points,

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Speaker 1: no turnovers. What how when did the light go on?

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Speaker 1: And how did it go on? In your mind? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's all it's never as bad as it seems.

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Speaker 1: That it's never as good as it seems in football.

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Speaker 1: So for those first six strids, you have a ball

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Speaker 1: go off the Cole Beasley's hands are most sure handed receiver,

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Speaker 1: and it tips into C. J. Mosley's hands for the

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Speaker 1: Jets to pick six. And then you have a batted

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Speaker 1: ball at the line of scrimmage that ends up being

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Speaker 1: an interception. You had a bumble between the center quarterback,

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Speaker 1: which Mitch Morse was out the entire preseason and the

623
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Speaker 1: concussion protocol, and then Josh Allen got stripped in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: So one true turnover that that that it wasn't just

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00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: kind of unfortunate circumstances. So, um, you know that it

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Speaker 1: probably wasn't as bad as to quite seem that. Now,

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Speaker 1: Josh threw a couple more balls in the Jets game

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Speaker 1: that could have been interceptions. One actually was a holding

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Speaker 1: call on the defense that was an interception that got

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Speaker 1: called back. So Josh did a great job against the

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Speaker 1: Giants last week and improving making better decisions. Um. But

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and a lot of times Dalton is as

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: UM thought it in the same light. In Buffalo, we

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Speaker 1: had so many conservative quarterbacks, even with some risky throws

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00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: down the field. I think guys UM and fans of

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00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: the team are just really excited that we have a

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Speaker 1: guy trying to make plays down the field, even if

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Speaker 1: some of these plays are a little riskier. Right, we're

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Speaker 1: visiting with Eric Wood, the former Bills Pro Bowls center.

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Speaker 1: Let's follow up on second year quarterback Josh Allen, seventh

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft last year, the guy who might

642
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: have the strongest throwing arm of anybody in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: How much better is he and where has he improved

644
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: the most in his second year? Well, he looks he

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00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: looks a lot better through the preseason and through these

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Speaker 1: first two games. You know, I think it helps him

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Speaker 1: tremendously that they bring in John Brown and Cole Beasley

648
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: on the outside, two guys that are just pure route runners.

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Speaker 1: He knows exactly where they're going to be. He trusts

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Speaker 1: them they can beat man covered, so he can spotlight

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00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: them one on one, you know, especially on third downs

652
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Speaker 1: where everything happens a little bit quicker. He's really looking

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Speaker 1: towards those guys to make plays for him, and I

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Speaker 1: think he's want a better job of taking what the

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Speaker 1: defense gets him. Eric College, he was a fifty something

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Speaker 1: percent passer, and as a rookie last year he's at

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Speaker 1: fifty four percent. So coming in going into the offseason

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00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: last year, basically everyone was and he is who we

659
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Speaker 1: thought he was. You know, he's an inaccurate quarterback, guns

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Speaker 1: her huge arms, talent. Well, last year he showed off

661
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: some athletic ability with his legs, which at times I

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00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: think he takes a couple too many shots out of

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Speaker 1: the pocket, but love his playmaking ability. But then this

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Speaker 1: year on the year he's right around sixty four, So

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Speaker 1: an improvement in completion percentage will be a huge deal

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Speaker 1: for the Bills building long term success with him at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Last week against the forty nine ers, they employed a

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Speaker 1: fullback or deployed the fullback multiple staffs. DeMarco plays a

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Speaker 1: third of the time the Buffalo Bills based on the

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Speaker 1: success the forty nine ers had against the Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: with their twenty one twenty two personnel and they would

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Speaker 1: motion him out of the backfield and you know, make

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Speaker 1: him a receiver and he was. He's a versattle guy.

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Speaker 1: Can they do the same sort of things with DeMarco?

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Speaker 1: And do you feel like in a copycat league like

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Speaker 1: we have here in the NFL, that DeMarco will be

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Speaker 1: on the field lot against the Bengals in Buffalo. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for two weeks, Pat and Marker has been on the field,

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, a third of the snaps, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of those have been five wire, you know, an

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00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: empty backfield set, or they'll split them out and they'll

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Speaker 1: use that to get a man's own read by Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen to see who's walked out over him. So you know,

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Speaker 1: a number of their plays, especially against the Jets, because

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Speaker 1: so he played a majority of the Jets game and

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Speaker 1: then even a little bit less against the Giants. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, it is the copycat league. But I've always

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Speaker 1: felt like it is the copycat league, and you want

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Speaker 1: to attack defenses where other guys were able to get

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Speaker 1: or to be opportunistic on a defense. But defenses are smart.

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Speaker 1: They're going to go back to the drawing board and

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Speaker 1: figure out what beat them and they're gonna focus on

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Speaker 1: that all week. So yes, I would imagine there would

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Speaker 1: be some twenty one personnel in the game plan, but

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Speaker 1: that'll simply be because Brian dave Ball, our offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: who came from New England, has always employed a fullback. Right,

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Speaker 1: we are visiting the Bill's radio analyst, Eric what, the

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Speaker 1: former Elder Panther. The Bills have a rookie running back,

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary out of Florida Atlantic. He's got a sore hamstring,

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Speaker 1: so maybe he doesn't play this week, and if he doesn't,

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Speaker 1: that's good news for the Bengals because watching the Bills

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: first two games, this kid is unbelievable. Describe Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: and what he has done for the Bills offense. You know,

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00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: he kind of reminds me of er Bonnie Bernard when

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00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: he kind of bursts on the seat his rookie year,

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Speaker 1: and you have an explosive component to the offense. And

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Speaker 1: with him and Frank or they they're opposite each other

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Speaker 1: in their skill sets, so it delivers a great one

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Speaker 1: two punch. But you know, we drafted him in the

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Speaker 1: third round out of Fau not a lot of people

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00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: knew about him, and he instantly turned heads. They did

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Speaker 1: a poll at the end of the the training camp of

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Speaker 1: who was the most impressive player at all of training

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Speaker 1: camp and a number of even better and voted Devin

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00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: Singletary is the most impressive. So he's been turning heads

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Speaker 1: since the day he got to Buffalo this year as

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Speaker 1: a rookie. And he would be a huge absent if

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Speaker 1: he is not on the field for the Bills this

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Speaker 1: week because he's actually great in the pass game as well.

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Speaker 1: They split him out, they run the routs with him,

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Speaker 1: and it would be a big loss for them. The

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Speaker 1: Methuselah of running backs, Frank Gore. He's also a unicorn.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as long as he's played at the running

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Speaker 1: back position. Is there anybody more committed to the game

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Speaker 1: of football than Frank Gore is probably not. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's in his fifteenth year he comes into in. The

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00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: crazy part is he came into the NFL having I

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Speaker 1: believe to torn both his acls in college and he

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00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: was this big injury guy where everyone said he might

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Speaker 1: not even last a couple of years. And now he's

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Speaker 1: in his fifteenth year, and you know, he's in his

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Speaker 1: first year in Buffalo and he's already creating this legend

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Speaker 1: up there where they go and through joint practices in

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Speaker 1: training camp with the Panthers, and Frank Gore's on the

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Speaker 1: stair stepper at the hotel at six in the morning

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Speaker 1: and he's working out with the media guys and the staff,

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Speaker 1: and then he goes to practice and then he catches

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Speaker 1: a workout with the team. So when you ask about commitment, no,

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Speaker 1: there probably isn't anybody more committed throughout the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: want to know that doctor, because whoever reconstructed his knees,

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Speaker 1: they made those bad boys bionic man. It's unreal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they did a better job than they do with mona thing.

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Speaker 1: A couple more questions for Bill's radio analyst Eric Wood

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Speaker 1: Buffalo has an excellent defense. I don't see an obvious weakness.

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Speaker 1: What is the weakest area of the Bill's defense, You know,

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Speaker 1: you hate to put it this way, but maybe the

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00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: lack of true star power. You know, they don't have

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Speaker 1: a geno action. They don't necessarily have a Carlos Dunn

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Speaker 1: lap guys that are just huge names now they have.

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Speaker 1: They have eleven guys across the board, even some backups

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Speaker 1: that are extremely productive players. But they're in their third

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00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: year under Leslie Frazier and Sean McDermott in their defense,

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Speaker 1: and they're just very comfortable. They're two safeties Jordan Poyer

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00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: and like to hide or excellent they hide coverages. They've

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00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: played so much ball together that they trust each other.

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00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: And for quarterbacks, it's I don't know how at times

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00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: you can get a pre snap read against them, because

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00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: it'll be a Cover two look and it sure looks

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00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: like man free and you know, it's it's just all

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00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: these different things that they give you. And then they

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Speaker 1: have a pretty complex blitz scheme on third down if

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Speaker 1: they do employ it. So they're just a tough defense,

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Speaker 1: and they finished they struggled the first two weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season last year and finished extremely strong, and they're

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Speaker 1: they're picking up right where they left off. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: saw a stat where counted up the third down in

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Speaker 1: seven or more defense this year has allowed two conversions

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Speaker 1: in sixteen opportunities third and seven or more. They come

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Speaker 1: with all different kinds of things in those blitz packages.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton has had some problems this year with batted passes,

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Speaker 1: and I noticed you defensively batted seven balls at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Leads the NFL. Oliver batted one to

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Speaker 1: his teammate for an interception. Murphy got his first interception

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Speaker 1: of his career last year led the NFL with nineteen

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Speaker 1: batted balls twenty six batted balls in the last eighteen games.

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Speaker 1: What is it? Is it luck? Are these guys really

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Speaker 1: work on it? What do you What do you think

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Speaker 1: is the reason for all those batted balls? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think part of its intelligence. And as you know, Dave,

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Speaker 1: when it's a three step drop, those guys up front

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00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: aren't get home a lot of time. So when they

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Speaker 1: recognize three step drop or short sets, a lot of

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Speaker 1: times they're looking to get into the passing lanes. And

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Speaker 1: so that that's one reason. Another reason is on third downs,

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Speaker 1: if they're not blitzing, they're often running line games, so

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Speaker 1: they're running twists up front well where they're moving laterally

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Speaker 1: through those zones up front, and they're moving latterly through

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Speaker 1: the gaps. A lot of times as the quarterback rears back,

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Speaker 1: they'll all just get their hands up and as they're

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Speaker 1: moving laterally, it gives them an opportunity to batt it down.

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Speaker 1: And you know, they're credited with seven's, that's nine at

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00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, but two will buy linebackers that

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00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: were in the line of scrimmage, So they're batting a

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00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: ton of balls down to the line of scrimmage in

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Speaker 1: our secondary gets a lot of credit, and rightfully so,

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00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: because they're they're six in the NFL and pass defense,

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00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: but they're number one in the NFL and pass defense

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Speaker 1: per attempt and but but a big part of that

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Speaker 1: is all the balls being batted down before you even

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Speaker 1: get through the secondary. Unreal like four point nine four

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Speaker 1: I guess it is yards per passit attempt. That's a teams.

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00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: The Bengals are given up four point eight a rush.

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Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills are given up four point nine four

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Speaker 1: per pass attempt. It's crazy. Absolutely yeah. Yeah, they've been

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Speaker 1: productive this year. Our thanks to Eric Wood. And before

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Speaker 1: we wrap this up, if you listen to this podcast

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Speaker 1: before Friday afternoon at three, we invite you to come

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Speaker 1: out and join us for the Bengals pep Rally Show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be at Buffalo Wings and Rings near King's Island

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Speaker 1: from three to six on Friday, and linebacker Preston Brown

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Speaker 1: will join us for the final of the show. We'll

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Speaker 1: have giveaways too, but you have to be there in

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Speaker 1: order to win. That's going to do it for this

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