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Speaker 1: of thunder for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not

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Speaker 1: even in the stradedier of normalcy, all right, here we are.

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Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, we're motoring through, man, motoring through. I

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Speaker 1: Davante Adams and the COVID protocol. They've got a Thursday

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Speaker 1: There's six and one and they're in the division with

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Speaker 1: don't know what he was angling at there. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to pretend to crawl into Mike Tomlin's head to

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Speaker 1: understand why he felt it necessary to throw that in.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's talking about other veteran coaches in the league

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Speaker 1: with proven track records, super Bowl on their resume and

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Speaker 1: are not getting a team STU are not getting asked

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Speaker 1: this question. Yeah, but I am. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the impetus for that part of his

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Speaker 1: response was, that's my guest, though, super Bowl winning coaches,

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Speaker 1: proven in this league, proven at the pro level? Why

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Speaker 1: am I being asked? But those guys don't get asked

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Speaker 1: stuff like that? Right? So? Yeah, but it was quintessential.

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Speaker 1: The guy is definitive in his answers. You really don't

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Speaker 1: need to ask follow up questions a lot. I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody was doing that after the initials. I thinks

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Speaker 1: this when the media relations got who's anybody else? Anything else?

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Speaker 1: Anybody else got any questions and anyone want to try

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Speaker 1: him again? It was great. Now, if you're a Steelers fan,

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Speaker 1: you hear that, aren't you? Just juiced to the ceiling

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Speaker 1: after here? And I get it. Every NFL coach has

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Speaker 1: his supporters and his detractors, and some of them they're

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Speaker 1: split right down the middle. Some of them are one

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Speaker 1: one into the spectrum of the other's just a few

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Speaker 1: people that don't like him. And there's now Steelers fans

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Speaker 1: have high expectations, and there's no question about it. They've

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Speaker 1: won six World championships, so the bar is very high.

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Speaker 1: So Tomlin gets looked at through that microscope, and I

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Speaker 1: get it, fair or not. And he has handled that

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Speaker 1: extremely well throughout his career in Pittsburgh. And there have

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Speaker 1: always been some, in my mind, you know, idiot fans

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Speaker 1: who are always saying he's not a good enough coach,

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Speaker 1: He's not that, and I, you know, I just don't

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Speaker 1: buy it. I think the guy is a great coach.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of coaches in the National Football

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Speaker 1: League agree with that and would tell you the same thing.

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a bunch of owners around the

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Speaker 1: league who we're looking at Mike Tomlin hoping the Steelers

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Speaker 1: fire that guy because he would be out of work

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Speaker 1: and jump on him in a second. In the words

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Speaker 1: of Bob Ryan, Rex's brother, I'd be able to work

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Speaker 1: about five minutes. He'd be able to work about five minutes,

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Speaker 1: and he'd get a pay raise when he came back

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Speaker 1: five minutes later. We also have a Twitter conversation today.

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Speaker 1: We know the Bill's schedule coming up is relatively easy.

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Speaker 1: They have three consecutive one win teams that they will

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Speaker 1: be facing over the next three weeks, Miami, Jacksonville, and

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Speaker 1: the Jets, all in succession. And we've been getting some

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Speaker 1: responses on social media. Some Bills fans out there. They're

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Speaker 1: a little concerned that a soft schedule won't battle harden

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Speaker 1: the team for the harder games later in the year,

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Speaker 1: or maybe even for the playoffs. So we thought it

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Speaker 1: prudent to ask the question, could the bill upcoming soft

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Speaker 1: schedule lead to issues for the tougher games that follow

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Speaker 1: and the playoffs. You can give us a call at

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty or hit us up on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: there's no debating that the three teams that are up

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Speaker 1: next on Buffalo's roster appear to be also rans here

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. They just don't match up well

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Speaker 1: to the Bills. The Dolphins history against Buffalo is testament

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Speaker 1: to that the Jaguars have had trouble competing with anyone,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of the Dolphins, who are their only victory,

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Speaker 1: and the Jets only have one win against an injury

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Speaker 1: ravaged Titans team that didn't have Julio Jones or a J.

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Speaker 1: Brown playing in the game. They languish at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the league in several categories all three of those teams.

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Speaker 1: So some of the opinions on it are the Bills.

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Speaker 1: The Bills aren't going to get tested, They're not going

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Speaker 1: to get pushed. I don't like the idea of them

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Speaker 1: coasting to victory. This is some of the feedback I've

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Speaker 1: been getting on This is what I guess. This is

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Speaker 1: how easy it it's become to become Bills fan. Now

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Speaker 1: these are the things you're concerned about. The schedule is

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Speaker 1: too soft. It's a different world. But I wouldn't say that,

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Speaker 1: and for me, I would say no, it's it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to win in the NFL. You look at

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Speaker 1: the next three games, Miami Jacksonville and whoever the other

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Speaker 1: one is, it's three. It's yeah, the Jets, Miami Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: and the Jets. Three wins between those three teams. They're

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Speaker 1: all one win teams. Yeah. Okay, But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: As a player, the guy you're going against gonna be

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Speaker 1: good those teams a lot of times, and good teams

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Speaker 1: will tell you this as well. And you can say

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Speaker 1: what you want pointed at your own team, Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: if you're sitting there and thinking, I guess I wish

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Speaker 1: they had some tougher tests, point this, you know the

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Speaker 1: scope at your team. Most of the get games that

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Speaker 1: you see your team lose, it's because of their mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Your quarterback loses footing on a quarterback sneak, or you

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Speaker 1: had the play, you would have had the play stopped,

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Speaker 1: or at least it wouldn't have been a seventy six

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Speaker 1: shard touchdown, if you got a holding penalty called when

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Speaker 1: you should have had a holding penalty called. That kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Those kind of plays you go back to

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Speaker 1: and say wow, or if you know or if Josh

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Speaker 1: would have put the ball right on digs and sit

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Speaker 1: a little bit to the outside, he'd have been sitting

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Speaker 1: on the gold line had been a touchdown stent to

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Speaker 1: three points. You know, it's your own mistakes that cause

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Speaker 1: you lose. Bad teams feel the same way. In the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The Jags, Dolphins, and the Jets all feel like they

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Speaker 1: were there were games out there for them to win

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Speaker 1: and they couldn't get it done because of themselves. Dolphins

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Speaker 1: lost two games in a row at the gun on

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Speaker 1: a kick. So there you're sitting there. You're going into

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Speaker 1: into teams, into play teams that are gonna be good

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Speaker 1: enough to win, to have won games against really good opponents.

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Speaker 1: The Jets beat Tennessee. But it's not like the game

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Speaker 1: is gonna be easy to win. It's you may win

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Speaker 1: by a large margin, but it's not it's gonna because

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Speaker 1: they turn it over three times, you can capitalize on

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Speaker 1: it and all that. It's not easy to play at

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Speaker 1: one play at a time. These games are not. These

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Speaker 1: games are gonna harden you as you go through the

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Speaker 1: season because you're gonna be getting yourself better Monday through

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Speaker 1: Saturday as well. Yeah, you're gonna be a better football team.

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Speaker 1: Don't take the easy schedule and hope, hopefully you can

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Speaker 1: deposit in the bank because you're gonna need It'll be

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Speaker 1: less injuries, it'll be a better seed in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You get a home game, which is more likely for

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Speaker 1: you to win to advance. It all. It all points

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Speaker 1: toward getting what you want. It's a higher percentage of

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Speaker 1: getting what you want. You don't have to worry about it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be easy, because it's not. You can play

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Speaker 1: the you know, the Dolphins, Jaguars, and Jets over and

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Speaker 1: over again. You're still not gonna win all those games.

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Speaker 1: And if they play well on the day they play

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Speaker 1: the Bills, particularly in their own building, two of them,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Jets are gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: road for the Bills. Things go wrong. So easy or not,

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Speaker 1: you still gotta win him. And I'll tell you this too.

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Speaker 1: The next three or four games after that, the Colts

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Speaker 1: are coming on, the Saints are coming on, the Patriots

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Speaker 1: are the Patriots. They just scored fifty plus, and then

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Speaker 1: you got the Buccaneers. So easy or not, Those next

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Speaker 1: four games after those, these three are not easy. So

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Eighth five fifty Dave

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Speaker 1: in Lockport, Jeff in Massachusetts, haying TI. You guys will

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Speaker 1: be first up as we have to take a break

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Speaker 1: right now, so we'll get to your phone calls when

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Speaker 1: we return here on one Bills Live presented by Kelli

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Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, just you

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Speaker 1: reminder a second hour the show, we'll have Kyle Brandt

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Speaker 1: for his weekly appearance from Good Morning Football, and we'll

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Speaker 1: also be hearing from Dolphin's head coach Brian Flores, who

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Speaker 1: addressed the Buffalo media late yesterday, so we'll get a

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Speaker 1: couple of his or point in comments on the state

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Speaker 1: of his team now at one and six after six

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Speaker 1: consecutive losses. They'll only win this season by a single

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Speaker 1: point seventeen sixteen over the Patriots in Week one. But

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Speaker 1: let's go to the phones at eight oh three oh

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

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Speaker 1: where we're asking you about the bills upcoming soft schedule

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Speaker 1: and if it could lead to issues for the tougher

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Speaker 1: games that follow as well as the playoffs. Eight o

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty To get on board, we lead

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Speaker 1: off today though with Dave in the lockport. Dave, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? Y'all want bills live? Yeah, thanks,

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Speaker 1: Steve Brownie. I want to ask you about why they're

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Speaker 1: not using enough. Well, he was inactive last game, as

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Speaker 1: we know, and that was a little bit of a surprise.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, turn your radio downs. Will the Bills make

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Speaker 1: a trade? Will the Bills make a trade? All right?

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Speaker 1: Very good, Dave, you can I'm gonna let you go

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Speaker 1: so you can listen to your radio there. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call, um. Yeah, Aj was kind of a serious inactive.

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Speaker 1: He was a healthy scratch for the Tennessee game. I

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Speaker 1: think we were of the opinion, Steve, that they were

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Speaker 1: going to dress more defensive tackles, knowing the style of

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Speaker 1: game it was going to be inside running from Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: so that makes sense. But Aj is one of the

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Speaker 1: fastest get off the line of scrimmage players in the

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Speaker 1: entire league. As one of the fastest getoff times according

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Speaker 1: to Next Gen Stats, Mamlana was also in the top five.

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Speaker 1: He did not play, and I'm not saying aj Epenesa

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Speaker 1: would have made the difference, but did you see much

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Speaker 1: pass pressure on Ryan Tannehill in that game. I know

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Speaker 1: he only had twenty pass attempts. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's probably one of the underlying reasons why they thought

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Speaker 1: they might not need ajin as the twenty pass attempts,

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Speaker 1: even if he was in on all of them, which

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Speaker 1: probably the valid been. You know, is it better to

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Speaker 1: have him in on for twenty pass plays or have

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Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips or Vernon Butler or somebody active for thirty

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Speaker 1: five rushing attempts, right, Um, that's that's the give and take.

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Speaker 1: And I don't and maybe and there probably is some

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Speaker 1: other underlying issues, like they're trying to reward guys for

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Speaker 1: good practices and that kind of working hard and doing

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Speaker 1: stuff in and behind the scenes. But really it's only

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Speaker 1: been a one game issue. It's not like AJ has

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Speaker 1: not been playing in weeks prior, and I would anticipate

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Speaker 1: he would be up again this week, especially in light

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Speaker 1: of the game he had the last time against Miami

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Speaker 1: back in Week two. He's the guy that put two

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Speaker 1: out of the out of the game. Yeah, he came

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Speaker 1: off the edge and got there fast. This is going

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Speaker 1: to be a different game, um, and I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to note who the off the opt outs

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Speaker 1: I'm not opt out, so the inactives are. Yeah, that'll

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Speaker 1: be an interesting part of this, this game coming up

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Speaker 1: on Sundays, because you know, AJ was all over those

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Speaker 1: guys in Miami. Was he had a real a bunch

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Speaker 1: of solid game, a really solid game. And you know

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Speaker 1: the Bills had two sacks on the first three plays

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Speaker 1: of the game, and uh yeah, I'm men they were

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Speaker 1: all over the Dolphins from the word go. In week two.

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Speaker 1: Whoever it was, so it it'll be interesting to see,

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Speaker 1: but it will be different. I would I would almost

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Speaker 1: assume it would be different. Yeah, I expect him to

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Speaker 1: be in the lineup this week for sure. Back to

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Speaker 1: the phones though, and to Jeff in Massachusetts, what do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? Jeff, Hey, Chris, I Steve just

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Speaker 1: want to mention Steve the big guy needs to knock

636
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Speaker 1: on your door to go in the Hall of Fame

637
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Speaker 1: for I get into the details about the schedule, ok

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Speaker 1: um you. I love the interview with you playing with

639
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Speaker 1: Tomlin and I think of McDermott. They're the exact same

640
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: way college teammates that William and Mary. I believe we're

641
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: yeah for a couple of years, Yeah, William and Mary, Yeah, Uh,

642
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Speaker 1: if I'm starting a team other than Tomlin, I want

643
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Speaker 1: McDermott as my head coach. Um. I don't see this

644
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: team having a letdown going into these next few games.

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Speaker 1: McDermott has these guys playing hard every week, and like

646
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Speaker 1: Steve mentioned earlier, the schedule gets tougher. They get Frank

647
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Speaker 1: who's working some magic with Wentz against indeed the Saints.

648
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: You have two still against New England, they're still New

649
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Speaker 1: England and Tampa. But I don't see McDermott having a

650
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Speaker 1: let down these next up coming week Yeah. And you

651
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Speaker 1: can also and thanks for the college, Jeff, And you

652
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Speaker 1: can also roll in the fact that, oh, by the way,

653
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Speaker 1: they're coming off a loss and they've had to sit

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Speaker 1: with that for the better part of two weeks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting them to kind of come out like a

656
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Speaker 1: house on fire on Sunday. And look, Miami's probably smarting too,

657
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Speaker 1: because there is a point that you get to as

658
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Speaker 1: a team on a losing streak where you're like, I'm

659
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: not taking this anymore. I'm just gonna go take out

660
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: my frustrations on this opponent this week. Now. I'm not

661
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Speaker 1: saying that's going to be the difference in the game

662
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Speaker 1: for Miami, and maybe they're in a much different place

663
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Speaker 1: than that, who knows. It's clear to me that that

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Speaker 1: entire locker room is not fully believing in the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's number one. That's a problem. That's a problem, and

666
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: then there are a whole bunch of other issues. The

667
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Speaker 1: underperforming defense, which is now the last in the league

668
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: in total defense. Last Now, if you looked at that

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Speaker 1: Miami defense on paper, there are some flaws, but they're

670
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Speaker 1: not the worst defense in football. And that's what the

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Speaker 1: statistics say. Right now, I'm I'm totally with you, and

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Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, when you get into that losing

673
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: streak and things go bad, how long does it take

674
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Speaker 1: for him to shut it down? They had the number

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00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: one scoring defense in the league, and they came in

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00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: here last year Week seventeen with a chance to win

677
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: the game and get in and they folded up their

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00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: tentment with you the second as soon as it was

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00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: fourteen three. They folded it up because they didn't believe.

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00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: Now the quarterbacks bring him back and lead him to victory.

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Speaker 1: This is a much different team. Like it's seven of

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Speaker 1: the eight captin or five of the eight captains they

683
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: had y year gone, so it's a new leadership. Everything's new,

684
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: is playing better to stat lines are nice. He had

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns and two interceptions. You'd like to see it

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Speaker 1: be zero or maybe one interception on a tip ball

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Speaker 1: or something. The two interceptions were rough, but his stat

688
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: line was fine. And he's completely and almost seventy percent

689
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: of his passes he's almost There are a lot of

690
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: short stuff, I get it right, But that's what the

691
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: league is these days. I mean, look at mac Jones

692
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: for goodness sake. So um yeah, right now, is playing

693
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: just good enough not to be the center of the focus.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not like he's justin Fields. He's being

695
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: outshined by the horrific nature of the defense, But it's

696
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Speaker 1: it's not like he's justin Fields who threw three interceptions

697
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: and fumbled three times in the same game because they

698
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 1: had They had leads in the fourth quarter in each

699
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Speaker 1: of their last two games and the defense couldn't hold

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00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: it right. So it's different in Miami than it isn't

701
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Speaker 1: some other places. And if they don't believe in twoah,

702
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to. I don't know why not.

703
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: He's playing he's doing his part. He's not the main problem,

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Speaker 1: right right, So the question becomes, and what's holding that

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Speaker 1: team together during a six game losing streak? And I

706
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: don't know if there is much. Yeah, I mean that

707
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: team could be I don't expect it this week, although

708
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: I could be proven wrong because we've seen him laid

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00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: down against this team before, Like you said, last year

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen with a win, and in scenario, they laid

711
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Speaker 1: down after it was fourteen to three in a game

712
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: that meant something. Now you're one in six coming up

713
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: here to Buffalo, and you probably are figuring the odds

714
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Speaker 1: are not good for you to make the postseason again

715
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Speaker 1: this year? How far behind do you have to fall

716
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: before you fold your tents again this week? If there's

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00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: a couple of scenarios here. If if the Dolphins come

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Speaker 1: out and beat the Bills thirty five nothing, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what it changes for him. I mean, be a

720
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: horrific blow to the Bills confidence, no question, but I

721
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Speaker 1: don't know what it changes for them. But if the

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Speaker 1: Bills came out and repeat what they did in Week

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Speaker 1: two and beat him thirty five nothing, oh, they'll be

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Speaker 1: dead on arrival. Now, I don't know how. I don't

725
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Speaker 1: know if Brian Flores survives that. No, you know what

726
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: I mean. He cannot. His team can't get throttled this week.

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00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: Cannot He lost two games at the gun, I don't

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Speaker 1: ask two weeks. I don't. I think he'll survive. I

729
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna get rid of Brian Flores if

730
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Speaker 1: they lose big to the Bills this weekend. I don't.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, seats getting awfully All of

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00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: a sudden, the narrative changes because not only did they

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Speaker 1: not win the game, they didn't just lose by a

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Speaker 1: field goal in the last second to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: You know, how does a ten win team become a

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Speaker 1: one win team six months later with a quarterback who's

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00:41:54,360 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: now got more experience. Yeah that's tough, Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, I I applaud to I think

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00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: he's playing better now than I thought he would. And

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Speaker 1: you and I have been down on him since they

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00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: draft him, because you know, because we're we've kind of

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00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: you and I are kind of my outing. We see

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Speaker 1: Josh and we see what he does and see the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that spoiled I mean, we see Lamar Jackson, we

745
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: see Pat Mcolmes, we see Justin Herbert, and all these

746
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: guys come from Buffalo Joe Burrow and Tuah does not

747
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: compare with those guys physically, so I don't know, you know,

748
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: so he's getting rid of it. But he's limited physically,

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Speaker 1: so we were slow. We're down on him. We have

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00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: been down on him. But I'm saying he's playing good,

751
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: and he's playing good enough for them to win some games,

752
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: and he's not getting much help. No, they're having trouble

753
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: running the ball, although they ran it better last week

754
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, but Atlanta's defense is nothing to write home

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00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: about either. We have to take a break here. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, we'll get some of your thoughts on

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00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We'll see if we have time to

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Speaker 1: bring his some of Brian Flora as his comments. If

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00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: we can't do that in the next segment, we will

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00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: do it later on in the show and Kyle Brand

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Speaker 1: coming up an hour number two of this Tuesday program

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live presented by Kalada Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. This week's game sponsor is Saint Bonaventure University,

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Speaker 1: Saint Bonaventure is a community committed to transforming the lives

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Speaker 1: of its students inside and outside the classroom. Are also

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Speaker 1: ranked number twenty three in the country in the preseason

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Speaker 1: Top twenty five eight people. They actually opened their season

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Speaker 1: November ninth against Sienna at the Riley Center, which is

771
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: a rocking place. Have you ever been down there for

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Speaker 1: a game? No, I've never been to Bonnie's first, little

773
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: bandbox of a place. They pack him in there and

774
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: it's loud. Yeah, it's loud. So good luck to them

775
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: this season for sure. Tournaments coming to Buffalo too, isn't

776
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: it the first couple of rounds again, seventeen was the

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00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: last time they were here four years, so I think

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Speaker 1: that's right. Pandemic moved the pandemic might were they supposed

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00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: to come last year and didn't because of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I think I got some sort of notice that there

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Speaker 1: was it was going to happen, and I might tickets

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Speaker 1: the last time. It's great, man, Oh yeah, I lived

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Speaker 1: for that. The arena looks good as a basketball arena.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. Keybank Centers guy. I was there when

785
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Speaker 1: Bob Knight coached his last game for Indiana when Pepperdine

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Speaker 1: beat him by twenty eighty four. Sixty four was the final,

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Speaker 1: I think. And I was also there when Davidson had

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Speaker 1: the upset? Was it Duke? Did they be Duke? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It was Steph Curry at thirty eight points. I remember

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00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: he was a sophomore or a junior. He wasn't even

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00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: a senior yet, and he just lit him up. It

792
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: was awesome. He was just raining threes. It was stupid

793
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: him from ninth What was it. I think they moved

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00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: the line to twenty feet by the and and twenty

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00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: feet and a half inch whatever it is now. Yeah,

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00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: but in my college I remember, I mean that's like

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00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: a layup for he was yeah, but he was. Yeah.

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00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: He was jacking him up from just inside the circle

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Speaker 1: at half court two. I mean he was his range

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00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 1: was he was lighting them up. Man. People were going

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00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: bananas because they had never seen anything like that before.

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00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 1: And he might have been a one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: pounds silk and wet. I mean, he was a runt

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Speaker 1: of a dude. Oh my god, it was. That was great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if if they're coming back. I'll fork over the money

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Speaker 1: for two. Gus Johnson was calling those games from the

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Speaker 1: parking lot. He was I love that guy's a star man.

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00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: I love Gus is great. Not one of my buddies

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00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: doing the Bills game this weekend. Andrew Catalan, who will

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Speaker 1: be on the show, to coming on the show tomorrow

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Speaker 1: for Thursday. I think Thursday. He's coming tomorrow. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: gets in. I think he gets in town Friday for

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Speaker 1: production meetings and other star that conversation person. Yeah, kat Man,

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Speaker 1: he's great. Andrew. I did Andrew's first game as a

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Speaker 1: yes broadcaster for CBS. They were giving him that we

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00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: got this guy. We want to get him a try.

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Speaker 1: You want it all right with you? If we give him, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd do it. So he comes in and he was money.

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Speaker 1: He was great. And then now now he's in the

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Speaker 1: eighteenth Tower Augusta doing stuff and he's like, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a big deal. He's kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 1: He remembers me when he comes to town. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he does. We've texted have him over to the Tasker compound.

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Speaker 1: Tom Pella Sero from NFL Network is at the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fall Owners meetings and He just tweeted that a proposal

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Speaker 1: by the Bills to delay the head coach hiring cycle

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Speaker 1: until later in January and February so so as not

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Speaker 1: to interfere with coaches preparations for playoff games for the

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Speaker 1: team they currently work for, apparently didn't gain traction among

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Speaker 1: the owners and will not go to a vote. According

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Speaker 1: to sources, that was the rule they tried to put

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Speaker 1: in last spring for review. It was tabled, it was

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00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: revisited today and apparently nothing came of it. But the

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Speaker 1: hope is other changes will have the effect of slowing

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Speaker 1: down the process and promoting diversity. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: they have in mind. I kind of like the Bills proposal,

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00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: and the Bills could find themselves in a similar boat

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00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: again entering the playoffs, and think about this, Steve. Let's

839
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Speaker 1: just say the Bills are fortunate enough to get the

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00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: top seed, they're gonna have to buy the first week,

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00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: and that's when people are gonna be lining up to

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00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: talk to day Ball and talk to Fraser. And that's

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00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: good to have the buy because now they're not doing

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Speaker 1: double duty preparing for interviews and preparing for a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: So that's good. But you get to the end of

846
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: that process. Are they going to let them coach through

847
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs if they get hired, you know what I mean? Like,

848
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: those things are a little wonky, and that's why they're

849
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: trying to institute the rule to kind of correct that.

850
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: So I'm all in favor of the rule the bills

851
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: were proposing, but it doesn't look like owners are buying it.

852
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because owners, what do they say, Well,

853
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: if I have to wait, then I'm behind, And they

854
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: have this fear, this timetable that if I if I

855
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: can't hire a guy till February fifth, I'm I'm three

856
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,439
Speaker 1: weeks behind what I wanted to hire him, and I'll

857
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: never catch up. And that to me just seems a

858
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: little foolhardy. YEA, our twenty one day is gonna make

859
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 1: a world of different Well not if everybody else has

860
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: to wait the same twenty one exactly, I get it.

861
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: And let's this is just in the owners call the shots, right,

862
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna hire who

863
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: I want to hire. What that sounds great, but no,

864
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hire him whenever I want to hire him.

865
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to him whenever I want to talk

866
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: to him. So you can sit down and shut up.

867
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: And you can. And if he's the right guy and

868
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna win me a championship, I'll pay a two

869
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: million dollars fine for it. He could just sit down,

870
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: shut up. People have traded coaches because you know what,

871
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: in burn Mounty if if I was worth a gazillion dollars,

872
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: and I'd be saying the same thing. I don't care

873
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 1: what you say. That's the guy I want to hire.

874
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: You can shut up. Yeah, I'll about the and what

875
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, okay, I'll pay that parking ticket. I

876
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,959
Speaker 1: have eight zeros in my bank account. I don't care, right,

877
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: i got eight zeros in my bank account. I'm gonna

878
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: do what I want. So you can pop off. Yeah,

879
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: you can go take a long walk on a short pier.

880
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 1: So yeah, you won't be Yeah, my fan base ain't

881
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: gonna be thinking I'm a I'm a bad guy when

882
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: I when we win a couple of games. That's that's

883
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 1: the way it is. And I get it. I mean,

884
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,959
Speaker 1: the owners are great. The premise of the rule makes sense, though,

885
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: because you have these playoff teams that have invested so much.

886
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: They've had a great season, they want to finish it off,

887
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: and there is this disruption. I mean, there's no other

888
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: way to describe it. Here's the part. If you can't

889
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: tell me that that a coordinator can be fully invested

890
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: in devising a game plan when the biggest job of

891
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: his life could be waiting for him in what it

892
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: could amount to a five or a six hour interview.

893
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: It's a life changer, and I get it. But here's

894
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: the thing. There's only at the time you're talking about,

895
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: there's like what four teams left in the equation hypothetically,

896
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: so there's there's twenty eight. Are the teams that are going,

897
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I want to talk to your guy.

898
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: Twenty eight teams in this scenario are saying, yeah, let's

899
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: let him talk to him. You know, nobody wants to

900
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: beat because the teams that are talking to them aren't

901
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: the guys that are just out of the playoffs looking

902
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: for a new head coach. So the guys that have

903
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: been out of the playoffs since today like October and

904
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: there's you're gonna make him not wait another three weeks,

905
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: They're like, no, I don't, don't, I don't think so, Yeah,

906
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: By the way, I just came across this too. You're

907
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: talking about this game's on Halloween this year it is

908
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,280
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are six and oh all time on Halloween.

909
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: It's from death from Joe Shad now say. Having said

910
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: that the Bills are six and o in their last

911
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: six games against Miami, they are. They're also four and

912
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: o after the bye under McDermott forty two to seventeen

913
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: they beat him, then thirty seven to twenty thirty one,

914
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: twenty one, thirty one, twenty eight, fifty six, twenty six

915
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: and thirty five. Nothing. It's been a little upside. Yeah,

916
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: they've scored thirty points for the last six Drake games.

917
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: So what will the Dolphins give the Bills on Sunday?

918
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: A treat or a treat? But they're six and o

919
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: on all time on Halloween? Are the Dolphins and they're

920
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: coming into Buffalo on October thirty, first, two week ago.

921
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: Let's go break time for us here. Second hour of

922
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: the show will include some comments from Dolphins head coach

923
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: Brian Flores on the state of his team after six

924
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: consecutive losses, as well as progress from twa that he

925
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: has witnessed through the course of this season, and we

926
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: will have Good Morning Football's Kyle Brandt for his weekly appearance.

927
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: All of that stuff coming your way in our number

928
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: two here on One Bills Live presented by KLATA Health,

929
00:51:41,040 --> 00:52:02,399
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Steve Tasker, who has been all

930
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: over her fields. Kind of unique. He was out of

931
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: a dual role players for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

932
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated beer of normalcy here

933
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: having fun on a Tuesday here at One Bill's Live.

934
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Ah, we could only

935
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: air the brakes. Yeah, sometimes they're pretty. They're pretty cringeworthy.

936
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: I guess maybe probably to some degree. Didn't say they

937
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 1: weren't entertaining though. Brian Flores addressed the Buffalo media late

938
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 1: yesterday and long after we were off the air, or

939
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: right after we were off the air, and had a

940
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: couple of good comments that we wanted to pass along

941
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: to you as we get prepared for Sunday's game on Halloween,

942
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: Bill's Dolphins and naturally, coach Flores was asked about the

943
00:52:55,080 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 1: progress that Tuatano Violoa has made after twelve NFL games.

944
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: As we know, he was not the starter at the

945
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: beginning of last year as a rookie that was Fits

946
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: and then fitz step decide they put in Tua and

947
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: to also missed some games after the Week two game

948
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: against the Bills this year, so he's only playing in

949
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: twelve NFL games. Here is coach Flores onto his progress.

950
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: I think he's getting better. I think he's getting that

951
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: better every time he steps on the field. I think

952
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: he's pushing the ball down the field more. I think

953
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: he's making better decisions. I think he's making quicker decisions.

954
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 1: I think he's doing a lot of things. You know. Look,

955
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: it's you know, twilight, It's a small, small sample size,

956
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: but every time he steps out there, I think he's

957
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, I see progress. And I saw that yesterday

958
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: for sure. And I think one of the things, you know,

959
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: I think he showed some grit and some growth dealing

960
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: with some adversity, deal with a couple of interceptions and

961
00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: then coming back and giving us an opportunity need to

962
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: to win the game at the end. So, Um, he's

963
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: a young player. Um, everyone develops at a little bit

964
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: different pace. Um, But I think, you know, I think

965
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: he's doing a lot of good things. We've had close

966
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: to you know, let's call it a year and a

967
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: half with with ta Um and it's been an unusual

968
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: kind of a year and a half for a number

969
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: of reasons. You know, he's coming off the head, Uh

970
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, now he's you know, he's got another another

971
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: with another injury. This this this this season. Um, but

972
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: I would say the last two games, he's done a

973
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: lot of good things. I think he's head in the

974
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: right direction, and uh, you know, we're pleased with the

975
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: development that he's shown over you know, these eighteen months.

976
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we would agree he's played better

977
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: the last few times out. He's put points on the

978
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: board for this offense, put the team in a position

979
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: to win, and their defense has let the down, especially

980
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. There's a lot in this segment.

981
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: I could go on talking about Gino, But the more

982
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: we talk Gino, the more we talk about Tuah, you know,

983
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: you got you kind of like the guy. He's gotten better.

984
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: Last year he came in, he'd self admitted, he say,

985
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: didn't really have as good a handle, and you know,

986
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: everything wasn't second nature like he would liked it to

987
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: have been, even late in the season last year. This year.

988
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: It does, and I think one of the things that

989
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: you and I are down on him for maybe and

990
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't the reason too. It looks a little bit

991
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: different than other quarterbacks in the league, and maybe this

992
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: is a positive not a negative. He doesn't He rarely

993
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: goes off schedule. You don't see him running around making

994
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: plays off platform. You don't see him busting out of

995
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: the pocket and run. He'll run and scramble a little bit,

996
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: but he does not improvise. You know, I can't think

997
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: of a play that I can remember him making where

998
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: he improvised that you know, at least if he did,

999
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: it's it's not part of his identity. Like Josh is like, wow,

1000
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: they gotta you know, the Titans are making sure he

1001
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: rolls left if he has to get out of the pocket,

1002
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: and you know, Pat mahomes or you can't keep him

1003
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: in the pocket. Lamar Jackson's like you can't catch him.

1004
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: So all these other quarterbacks at the top of the Shawn,

1005
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: even justin Herbert, same thing. They've got this big aspect

1006
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: of their game where they're they're freewheeling. You know, they're

1007
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: doing something off playing their defense. Oh they got us, Well,

1008
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: they ain't got us watch this that kind of thing.

1009
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: Tua does not do that, or at least it's not

1010
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 1: a huge part of his game, and I think maybe

1011
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons we're not going like, maybe

1012
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: we're disinterested in him as a quarterback because I don't

1013
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: know if he's that special guy who can do that.

1014
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: He strikes me as a system quarterback and with the

1015
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: right pieces around him, you could probably win some games

1016
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: with him. I don't know if he's getting you all

1017
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: the way to the Promised Land though, unless he's got

1018
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,479
Speaker 1: an extraordinary team around him, which includes a top flight

1019
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: defense in a running game. Coach Flores also addressed the

1020
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: state the state of his team and where their focus

1021
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: lies after six can set losses. It's a resilient group.

1022
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: I think, you know when you we talked about that

1023
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: today and we've lost three games a field goal at

1024
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: the end, and we talked about the margin for the

1025
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks really all year. Um, I'm really

1026
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,439
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of that, and you know, there's

1027
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: a myriad of reasons why. But when you when you

1028
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: when it, you know it comes down to a field

1029
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: goal at the end. There's all you know, there's one

1030
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 1: two players that you know could have could have turned

1031
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: it could have could have been the difference. Uh. We

1032
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: understand that, and you know, we just gotta we have

1033
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: to make more plays throughout the game so um, you

1034
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: know it doesn't get to that point or if it is,

1035
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, in that situation like it was yesterday, we

1036
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: gotta we have to do more, um, you know, offensively,

1037
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: defensively in the kicking game, uh to pull it out,

1038
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: which we haven't been able to do. It's been disappointing.

1039
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: But you know, as far as the psyche of the team. Uh, look,

1040
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: I mean I've said this all year, this is a

1041
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: resilient group. Uh. They they you know, this isn't an effort,

1042
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: this issue, this isn't a desire issue. This is, um,

1043
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: just in a situation right now where we're just not

1044
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 1: just not doing enough, uh to pull these games out.

1045
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: And you know, we'll continue to prepare the way we're prepared. UM,

1046
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: We'll always look at, you know, different ways to do things,

1047
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, but we need to find different ways to

1048
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,959
Speaker 1: uh to help these guys, um, you know, finish these games.

1049
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: Album even he's at a loss for words. I mean,

1050
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,439
Speaker 1: as he mentioned, they've lost three games at the gun

1051
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: on a kick that the last two weeks against Atlanta

1052
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville and then against the Raiders in overtime. I

1053
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: know Brian Flores is a different guy and stuff we had,

1054
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: and I know it's a different subject or whatever, but

1055
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: the way he had in the situation he's in, um,

1056
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it really wears on these guys, you can tell.

1057
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: But but think about this. Think about the difference we

1058
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: heard in Mike Tomlin's voice today and we did in

1059
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: Brian f I was just gonna say, he seems very subdued.

1060
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a page out of the

1061
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: Belichick book where you're justly monotone the whole way through.

1062
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: There's no voice inflection whatsoever. My god, I mean he's

1063
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: flatlining there, yeah, a little bit. And I know Belichick

1064
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: does that all the time, I don't think, but I

1065
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: and who these guys are in front of their team

1066
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: is much different than who they are in front of

1067
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: the media, although I think Tomlin is probably well probably

1068
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,959
Speaker 1: Tomlin's a little bit different too, so, but so there's

1069
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: not much, you know, to be made from that. All

1070
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: I can say is you look at the contrast between

1071
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: those two guys and where they're at. You know, one

1072
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: guy's got two more wins than this guy does, and

1073
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: he's in a completely different place with the media than

1074
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: than Yeah, you know, floor is so I it's really

1075
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,439
Speaker 1: rough to be in a locker room like that. I've

1076
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: been there. It's zero fun. But the only way to

1077
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: get out of it is to work really hard every day.

1078
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: He's got to work hard every day, and I'm sure

1079
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are. I've got that mindset as well. We

1080
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: are at the point in the show where we're going

1081
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: to be joined by one Kyle Brand from Good Morning

1082
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: Football set to make his weekly appearance. So let's get

1083
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: to Kyle now to see what he thinks about this

1084
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: upcoming matchup with the Dolphins. All Right, Kyle, I have

1085
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: to start here. As you know, Bill's idol last week

1086
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: on the buy with everything that transpired in the AFC

1087
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 1: this past week and there were some topsy turvy results,

1088
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: does it change how you feel about the Bills in

1089
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,959
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I've always thought good about the Bills

1090
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. I really nothing really changes. I know,

1091
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: what do we know, Brian, It's just there's going to

1092
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: have to be a couple tenacious playoff wins in January

1093
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: for the Bills to do what they want to do. God,

1094
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: there's good teams in the FC. There's good quarterbacks in

1095
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: the FC, and listen, Tennessee is going to be one

1096
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: of them. It's the Tennessee, as we know, just did

1097
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: the title game sweep and beating Buffalo and Kansas City,

1098
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: and I can't believe the way they did it. There's

1099
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the two outcomes in the FC last

1100
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: week that I thought just blew me away. First of all,

1101
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: Cincinnati trouncing in Baltimore, and everybody in the FC is

1102
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: Saint El great. This Joe Burrow thing is going to

1103
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: be real, Like Cincinnati is not our homecoming game anymore.

1104
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: They're not our pseudo by week anymore. And then the

1105
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: other one, of course, is Tennessee just destroying Kansas City

1106
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: and the worst Kansas City game in three years and

1107
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: the worst Mahomes game ever. I'm still reeling from that

1108
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: one because if you had told me going into that

1109
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: game that Derrick Henry's longest run would be eleven yards

1110
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: in Tannehill would go one touchdown, one interception, you think, oh,

1111
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: Chiefs by twenty now they lost by twenty four and

1112
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't even know if the defense is

1113
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: the biggest problem anymore, and I don't know if they're

1114
01:01:56,040 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: the bills problem anymore. Yeah, speaking of trying to you know,

1115
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: get yourself ready and pseudo bye weeks, Uh, that's gonna

1116
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: be hard for the Bills. Each of their next three

1117
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: opponents have a combined three victories. I mean they're all

1118
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: one in six and it's basically Sisters of the Poor,

1119
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: the fourteen Holy Helpers, and the bad News Bears that

1120
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: they have for the next three weeks here, Kyle, I mean, yeah,

1121
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence might be your best version of Kelly Lee,

1122
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: but help me, help convince me that the Bills are

1123
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: going to be getting playoff ready the next three weeks

1124
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: with these opponents. You know who you just spared, Brownie

1125
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: the Washington Generals. Oh yeah, that thing to the Washington

1126
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: General's fan basis thrilled that you let that. I feel

1127
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: for them, I do you do? I mean it didn't

1128
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: they eventually beat the Globetrotters. It was you knew. The

1129
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: PR Department was like, let's try this, this might work.

1130
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: Let's have him beat the Globetrotters. There was almost there

1131
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: was almost a revolt there was they really turned the

1132
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: world on its axis. Is that what it would be

1133
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: like if the Brian Flores Miami Dolphins beat these Buffalo

1134
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 1: Bills coming out of the buy on Halloween Sunday? I

1135
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, this is what I would do. And

1136
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. This is where McDermott lives.

1137
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: It's like, as much as you love them when they

1138
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna play Tampa later this year, or when you

1139
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: play Kansas City earlier, you really love them for these

1140
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: ones because this is like that classic William and Mary.

1141
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: I'm still doing fifty dips and I'm all business. Sean

1142
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: McDermott really comes in the handy because I think he's

1143
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: the kind of coach that lives for this. And this

1144
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: is what I would do if I was McDermott, I

1145
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: would say, we're gonna sit down, we're gonna have a

1146
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 1: little movie night, and we are going to screen a

1147
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: football game and we are going to show you the

1148
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Tennessee Titans who beat us losing to

1149
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one New York Jets, which did happen

1150
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: the Jets lost to the Jaguars. The Jaguars and't won

1151
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: in twenty games. They beat the Jets, who beat the Titans,

1152
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: who beat us. To understand, everybody wick up, We're not

1153
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: going to be the team that gets embarrassed. It's not

1154
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: gonna be us. So I think this is where he lives.

1155
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: And the games have been wild this year. It's not one.

1156
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: It's so rare that you see three straight just absolutely

1157
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: terrible pat season a row. You don't get that, and

1158
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: they have it for almost near a month. So McDermott

1159
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 1: time to be the dip king again. Let's go Yeah.

1160
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: And then you look at the game this week against Miami,

1161
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 1: and I mean Miami has gotten kicked in the stomach,

1162
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: kicked in the face, kicked in the groin the last

1163
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: two weeks. I mean they lost on two different continents

1164
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: on a kick at the gun. That's really hard to do. Kyle,

1165
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 1: Is this a team that is on life support? Can

1166
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: they come back from this? Because you always worry about

1167
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: a team just getting so ticked off that they finally,

1168
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, they say enough is enough. I'm picturing the

1169
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 1: guy opened in the window, stick your head out and

1170
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: said I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take

1171
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: it anymore. Is that where Miami is living coming into

1172
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: this one? Or should we kick dirt on them now? Well?

1173
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: It feels good as Bills fan. Is that even when

1174
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: Miami was good and they were a good team last year,

1175
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allens still destroys them. I mean it's it's unbelievable

1176
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: the way that he dunks on them, and the numbers

1177
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: and the record and everything. I don't know, They're They're

1178
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: a weird bad team. And this is how you look

1179
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: at it. The Lions are bad because they just don't

1180
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: have the horses. They just don't. You watch their game

1181
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: and last week Dan Campbell comes out and says, we're

1182
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: gonna going on sidekick, We're gonna do a fake punt,

1183
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna do another fake punt, and they all worked

1184
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:30,919
Speaker 1: and they still lost. Like they just don't have good

1185
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 1: enough players. Miami has some great players, Like they have

1186
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,439
Speaker 1: great players all over an opportunistic guys who aren't even

1187
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: that talented but always seem to make a play. So

1188
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 1: I think they're the most dangerous kind because one of

1189
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: these weeks, I don't care if it's a players only

1190
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: meeting or bury the football or any of that nonsense.

1191
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: Like Miami has talents, it's not just like they they're

1192
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: playing out a string like Jacksonville or the Jets or

1193
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: the Lions. Miami was a team that picked out a

1194
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: lot of people to be a wild card this year.

1195
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: So I think of the next three Miami, Jacksonville in

1196
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: New York, Miami's the tough one and I don't care

1197
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: how well Josh has played against them off of bye

1198
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: week awful loss, and miamis finally reaching that point. What

1199
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: is it network when they guys screams that he's got

1200
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: the trench code on? Or is it broadcast? What is it?

1201
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: What is it? I want to say it's network or

1202
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: broadcast news. I can't remember which one. Broadcast news is

1203
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 1: the one where the guy's sweating under his side Brooks

1204
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: who's in finding Nemo he's sweating? I think it's Network.

1205
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: It's a little before my time, but I know the reference,

1206
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 1: and maybe that's Brian Flores, because God, people are calling

1207
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: for like the Flores midseason replacement, which I don't think

1208
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: is going to happen. And Brownie on another note of things,

1209
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. I mean everybody's eyebrows

1210
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: are going up saying the Dolphins are gonna trade for

1211
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I don't think that's happening either. I don't

1212
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: think anybody is. I don't think anybody can. I think

1213
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: it's completely unviable and way too risky without knowing the future.

1214
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: So I think it is not going to be some

1215
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: crazy table that gets flit before the kickoff this weekend.

1216
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be in Miami and we'll see if

1217
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,920
Speaker 1: they're pissed off. Yeah. The most confounding thing about Miami,

1218
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: and I know too, it gets all the attention, and

1219
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: there's a part of me that actually feels bad for

1220
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: him because I don't think he's playing that bad right now.

1221
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: The most confounding thing about the Dolphins is they were

1222
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: resting their hopes on solid defense to support to it,

1223
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: to just manage games, running game, win football games by

1224
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 1: tight margins, and their defense has completely let them down.

1225
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 1: I mean, after last night's Monday night game, Gyle, they're

1226
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: last in the league in total defense thirty first and

1227
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: points allowed. It doesn't make any sense, man, Alan is

1228
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: gonna light them up, Brownie. I Just the way he

1229
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: just said that made me feel so much more comfortable

1230
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: about the Bill's game. I was like, Wow, they are

1231
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: really bad. I just got done with this whole thing

1232
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: saying that they got great players and whatnot. Here's the

1233
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: thing I'll share with you I thought was interesting and

1234
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna leave the names out. About a

1235
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 1: month ago, we had Miami Dolphin on Good Morning Football

1236
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: and he's on remote, you know, he's we're doing the

1237
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: interview and everything, and we had an ex pro in

1238
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: the Nate Brows and see we asked just your standard

1239
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: questions to the Dolphin about too, what do you think

1240
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, we were just I think we were just

1241
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: going into the season, and what do you think about

1242
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: this having him come back and be your leader this year?

1243
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: And the guy, the player and the Dolphin gave this

1244
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: answer where it was a little tepid and he kind

1245
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: of looked down when he said it, and he was

1246
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: a short answer, and the former pro at the table

1247
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: said to us, like, you know, off the air, he said,

1248
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: that's not a good answer, right that I can tell

1249
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 1: you right now. I don't know if to is the

1250
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: guy in this locker room. He said, I've seen a

1251
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:28,599
Speaker 1: lot of players talk about a lot of quarterbacks. That

1252
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: was not a good endorsement from that guy. I don't

1253
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins are going to have it this year,

1254
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: and I've never forgotten that. Yeah, there were a lot

1255
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: of things that didn't add up for me either. I mean,

1256
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: Steve and I talk about it all the time, but

1257
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: in the in the past offseason, you had your next

1258
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator come in and it's co offensive coordinators. You're

1259
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: on your fourth offensive line coach under Brian Flores, and

1260
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: then you know, to take it a step further, they

1261
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: jettisoned five of their eight captains from last year's roster.

1262
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: All of that just it didn't add up for me.

1263
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: It was all It made me uneasy about their fortunes

1264
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: this season, and granted their first five games on their schedule,

1265
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it was a terrible gauntlet of opponents.

1266
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 1: I knew they were going to be in trouble from

1267
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: the jump, but I just didn't expect them to sink

1268
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: to these depths. I really thought they were going to

1269
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 1: be the most veritable competition the Bills would face in

1270
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: the division. I wasn't discounting New England, but there was

1271
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: a lot of turn over there too, so I'm I'm

1272
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 1: just stunned at the depths to which they have sunk.

1273
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: That's the thing for me, and that's why Bills fans

1274
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen's success is a part of this equation.

1275
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: They call it the Who's Your Daddy game because that's

1276
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: what it's been for Josh with you know, it's like

1277
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:42,920
Speaker 1: the little brother you know that you pick on and

1278
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: dragged down the living room carpet. That's what it's been

1279
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: the last six to seven meetings. The game within the

1280
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: game for me this week and really the next three

1281
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: weeks is listening to all of the Bills players and

1282
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: coaches to try to act like they're playing the eighty

1283
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: five Bears this weekend because I really like that Brownie.

1284
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: We talked about that during Chiefs Week where Josh was

1285
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: gonna have none of that and it was all, yeah,

1286
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:08,799
Speaker 1: you know, it's just one game at a time, another

1287
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: game on the schedule, and like that was all bs

1288
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,679
Speaker 1: and I respect the way he said it, But now, like, okay,

1289
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: so let's say they play in Miami and they win

1290
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: thirty one to seventeen or something great, They're gonna go

1291
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: into that jetson Jacksonville week. This is a very good opponent,

1292
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: you know, a really good a lot of playmakers, a

1293
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 1: veteran coaching staff like blah blah blah blah blah. It's

1294
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna be so fun to watch. There should be some

1295
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 1: sort of bingo sheet about how many times they say

1296
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: the quality opponent that they have when we all know

1297
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 1: they're lying. And God, I'm entertained by that. Yeah. And

1298
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: the other thing too, is you know, coach you mentioned

1299
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: the dips and all of this stuff. I'm sure he's

1300
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: doing pull ups right now. The Bills are four and

1301
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 1: oh coming out of the bye. I will remind you

1302
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 1: that last year going into the bye, Haile Murray happened.

1303
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Bills go into the bye, they come

1304
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: back and they just started bludgeoning people. They win their

1305
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: last six regular season in games, not only because of

1306
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: the next three opponents that sit in front of him,

1307
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: but because of recent history going back to last year

1308
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 1: and a painful loss and how that impacted this team.

1309
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: Could you see the Bills going on a similar type run. Absolutely,

1310
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: And that's a great stat I mean that, never mind

1311
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: third quarter, second half adjustments for coaches. I actually think

1312
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,640
Speaker 1: that's kind of overrated. The out of the buy is

1313
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: a great stat and we don't lose coming out of

1314
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 1: bye because it tells you the players aren't idiots during

1315
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: the bye. They take care of themselves, they chill out,

1316
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: the coaches know how to ramp them back up like that.

1317
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: That is a really good endorsement. And listen, we talked

1318
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: about this inning last week. They're going to go through basically,

1319
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: you know, three buys. And I'm not overlooking these teams

1320
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: as much as I sound like, but they'll probably win.

1321
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: I still am already looking. And if I'm spending this

1322
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 1: next month as a Bills fan, if they're blowing teams out,

1323
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: I'm spending this next month watching Carson Wentz very closely

1324
01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: because he is one of the most mercurial, maybe even inconsistent,

1325
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: psychological players in the league right now. And he's the

1326
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: next guy along with that Colts running game that can

1327
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: be like, wow, they actually lost the game or this

1328
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: came down to a last second field goal. So if

1329
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: they're blowing these teams out, enjoy it, have fun, wings, tables,

1330
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: beer and all that. Check out the Colts games, keep

1331
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:19,719
Speaker 1: an eye on them and see how Wentz is playing,

1332
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: because that is a real game against a real opponent

1333
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: and you don't really know what you're getting from that guy. Well,

1334
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 1: and you told us last week. I mean, you clued

1335
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 1: us in on that last week that you know, after

1336
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: they struggled against a physical team in the Titans and

1337
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 1: couldn't stop Derrick Henry. Jonathan Taylor is the closest thing

1338
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: to Derek Henry going right now. And you mentioned that,

1339
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: and I took that to heart. I watched a game

1340
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: against San Francisco in a freaking monsoon, and that's a

1341
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: team that's starting to find itself now. I thought Wentz

1342
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: played more confidently last week and if that continues a

1343
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: month from now, that's going to be a tough game,

1344
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 1: I know. And they got Listen, they got the Titans

1345
01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 1: this weekend, so that's a great measuring stick. This is

1346
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: Henry versus Taylor. Love it. This is the team that

1347
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: just beat the Bills and that they're going to see

1348
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 1: in a few weeks. Wentz is playing really well. And

1349
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 1: he's part of that easy target club Brownie like he

1350
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins. Everyone loves making jokes and saying this

1351
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 1: and that when they mess up. Meanwhile, they usually played

1352
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:21,600
Speaker 1: pretty well and over the last two weeks there's not

1353
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks in the entire league who played

1354
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: better than Carson Wentz. Watch him this weekend against the Titans.

1355
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: Spills fans. That is a very I mean, you can

1356
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: see one of those teams in the playoffs and you're

1357
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: going to see another one of them in a few weeks.

1358
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: Last one here for you, Kyle, and then you give

1359
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: me your score for Sunday's game as well. But the

1360
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs always seem to dominate the AFC conversation. They're dominating

1361
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: it in a different way. Now, is it time to

1362
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: push the panic button in Kansas City? Yeah, I mean

1363
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 1: it's you know the panic buttons, one of those things,

1364
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: Brownie where it's got this big red button and it's

1365
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 1: got the platt to cover over it. You have to

1366
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 1: lift to lift it for two keys at the same time,

1367
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: and it's a very secure button in Kansas City. The

1368
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 1: thing I would say about the Chiefs is I don't

1369
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: know even know where to point, Like normally for years

1370
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: we've done this. Man, That defense was kind of a mess,

1371
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: but who cares. Just chuck it long, Mahomes and you'll

1372
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: be fine. Now they lead the league in turnovers. That's

1373
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: a crazy stat in a year that we got a

1374
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: half dozen. It feels like rookie quarterbacks is trying to

1375
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: get their feet wet. The Chiefs lead the league in

1376
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,520
Speaker 1: turnovers and giveaways. I'm talking about the bad kind of turnovers.

1377
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 1: So it's so bad in Kansas City, they were asking

1378
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: questions that feel like sacrilege. You know enough about the

1379
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes and why's he falling apart? And anybody checked out

1380
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 1: on Andy Reid, Like I know that he's got this

1381
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 1: this immortal status, and God bless him. We all love Andy.

1382
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: This team doesn't look ready to play if they don't

1383
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 1: look like they care, they don't look they fired up.

1384
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: And let's not forget that. For years there was a

1385
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: lot of criticism on Andy Reid that he shed when

1386
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: he went to Kansas City. It's been through a lot

1387
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: in his personal life off the field. The football is

1388
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: terrible now. So like, I don't know what's going on

1389
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 1: with Andy Reid and his staff, but I don't think

1390
01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: that they get to skate if you get to three

1391
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: and four and you had this many talented players, look

1392
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 1: at them. But the best thing I can say for

1393
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 1: the Bills fans, the Chiefs are not your problem, right,

1394
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,719
Speaker 1: now because they're not relevant right now. Yeah, So score, Kyle,

1395
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: what do you think Bills Miami. I'm gonna say that

1396
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: Miami is going to gouge the Buffalo defense for eleven points,

1397
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills will respond with thirty eight thirty

1398
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 1: eight to eleven the Buffalo Bills start by month. Here

1399
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 1: it comes. I'm gonna have to look that up. That

1400
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 1: might be a score of gami there, Kyle, right now, Oh,

1401
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: it is eight to eleven. If it's not unprecedented, it's

1402
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: extremely rare, like an artifact. Yeah, I think we're going

1403
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: to see an artifact this weekend. Thirty eight two eleven,

1404
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 1: step one of Buffalo Bills twenty twenty one by month.

1405
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: We're calling it all right, Kyle, appreciate the time. As always,

1406
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: we will catch up with you next week. Good sir,

1407
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: you're all quack browning, all right? Take care. That's Kyle

1408
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: Brandt joining us here as he does every Tuesday on

1409
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Will catch up with him next week.

1410
01:15:57,720 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 1: Steve and I take a break back with more of

1411
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the tweet sheet. Next Here on one

1412
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: Bills Live present about Colloid to help Buffalo Bills. Radio

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01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris brownste tasker with

1414
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: you final half hour of the show, where we are

1415
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: discussing the bills relatively soft schedule here coming up the

1416
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: next three weeks, three consecutive one win teams. We're asking

1417
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:31,800
Speaker 1: if that could lead to issues for the tougher games

1418
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,640
Speaker 1: that follow, as well as the playoffs. And Kevin and

1419
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 1: Hamburg has been waiting a long time, so we're gonna

1420
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 1: get to him at eight oh three, five fifty. Kevin,

1421
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 1: you're on One Bills Live. What do you have to

1422
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: thank you? Guys? How you doing? Thanks for taking my call? Sure, um,

1423
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 1: I think it's not something to worry about, but it's

1424
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 1: something to think about because after these next three pretty

1425
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: mellow games, we got the calls who did go outside?

1426
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: There's domes tea him to be a team in a monsoon.

1427
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: And then we got New Orleans. Now I know j

1428
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: MS Winston ain't Drew Brees, but Sean Payton has calmed

1429
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: calmed his turnover machine attitude down that the other Buck

1430
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:11,720
Speaker 1: coaches did not be able to do. Then we got

1431
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I don't know what to think about Mac Jones,

1432
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: but I'll say this much in favor of him. He

1433
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: threw that pick six step on brother Trevon and then

1434
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 1: came right back and through that beautiful touchdown to put

1435
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: him ahead. He didn't sulk and throw more turnovers, which

1436
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: a lot of rookie quarterbacks do. And then the Falcons,

1437
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: I don't know about them. We should beat them, but

1438
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we'll sweep the Patriots. We might beat them,

1439
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll screet bums. So I wouldn't panic,

1440
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: but i'd think about you know what I'm saying. Yeah, No,

1441
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: I totally get what you're saying. And thanks for hanging

1442
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,519
Speaker 1: on and thanks for the call, Kevin. Yeah, I think

1443
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 1: the Colts are picking up momentum. They've proven that they

1444
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: can win in bad weather because of their running game.

1445
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,759
Speaker 1: They're a healthier team now. T Y Hilton's back, Quentin

1446
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: Nelson is back, Carson Wentz is gaining confidence each and

1447
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: every week. Frank's got that team on the right track

1448
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: right now. They could be a dangerous team here through

1449
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:15,680
Speaker 1: the middle portion and latter portion of the season. That

1450
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: Bill see them in about three four weeks. And the Patriots,

1451
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: I said this three or four weeks ago, they were

1452
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: not a good team then, But as we have seen

1453
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:30,799
Speaker 1: time after time, the Patriots are almost always a better

1454
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: team in November and December than they are at the

1455
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, and I expect that to happen

1456
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: again this year. Look, I know they're three and two

1457
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: or whatever. They are three and three, and two of

1458
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: their three wins have come against the Jets, so their

1459
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:47,639
Speaker 1: wins are not all that impressive. But I think they

1460
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:53,520
Speaker 1: will be a more cohesive team, a sounder team fundamentally

1461
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 1: in terms of their execution than they are or were

1462
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 1: in the first few weeks of the season. I think

1463
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: you're right. They beat the Jets and the Texans. They've

1464
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins, the Saints, the Bucks and the Cowboys.

1465
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: Now the Bucks and the Cowboys and the Saints. Those

1466
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: are good losses. I mean, if you want to say that,

1467
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: but you know they play who they play. You know,

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Speaker 1: what can you say? They lumped up, They lumped up

1469
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: the Jets. They barely beat the Texans, and they lumped

1470
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: up the Jets again. Yeah, the New England Patriots still

1471
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: give me some problems because they're a team that doesn't

1472
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: make mistakes, and any mistake you make ends up in

1473
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: points for them. They take you out of opportunities to score,

1474
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: and they give themselves opportunities to score because of your mistakes,

1475
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: and that's a hard that's hard to overcome. Some teams

1476
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,759
Speaker 1: just aren't good enough. I think if you play mistake

1477
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: free against the Patriots, you're always going to have a chance.

1478
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 1: Because the chances are, particularly this season for the Bills,

1479
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:03,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna out talent them almost everywhere. Kevin, our last caller,

1480
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: mentioned the Saints as well, very quietly. The Saints are

1481
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: third in the league and points allowed. I still think

1482
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: their defense doesn't get enough credit. And really it's their

1483
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: defense that has kept them in games this year. Because

1484
01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:20,599
Speaker 1: Jamis hasn't picked up where Drew Brees left off in

1485
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 1: terms of point production, sticking the ball in the end

1486
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: zone and all of that. He's kind of been a

1487
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: game manager. I mean, this is a team that is

1488
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: thirty first in passing. I can guarantee you that never

1489
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,240
Speaker 1: happened with Drew Brees, who I believe has four of

1490
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 1: the nine career five thousand yard passing seasons. So that's

1491
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: just never happened during the Drew Brees tenure in New Orleans.

1492
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:51,759
Speaker 1: So on offense, they're holding it together with packing tape

1493
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: right now. Well, of the six games they have three

1494
01:20:56,200 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: of them a team their opponent has scored twenty points.

1495
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: Nobody scored thirty points on them, and in three of

1496
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:06,320
Speaker 1: the others they haven't even scored twenty. They've scored three, thirteen,

1497
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: and ten, and in the others is twenty six, twenty seven,

1498
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 1: twenty two for the Saints. There it's they're hard to

1499
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: score on. Yep. Last night's a perfect example. They gave

1500
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: up thirteen points or no, gave up ten points to

1501
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. Granted the window Smith factor and THEO

1502
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:24,759
Speaker 1: Smith and it was a driving rainstorm, but other teams

1503
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: are scoring in rainstorms these days. You got to give

1504
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 1: them credit. Defensively, they're they're doing some good things. They

1505
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: really played well, I thought last night against the Seahawks

1506
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:37,959
Speaker 1: and won the game because of it. In large measure, well,

1507
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: they only scored thirteen points in one, so it's pretty

1508
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: good outing by their defense. Could the bills upcoming soft

1509
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: schedule lead to issues for the tougher games that follow

1510
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: and the playoffs. Let's go to the tweet sheet, brought

1511
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,799
Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

1512
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills, and Bill leads us off

1513
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 1: and says, these guys have the talent to beat anyone

1514
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: in the league. Convert any NFL team can beat any

1515
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:06,759
Speaker 1: other NFL team With teams, it's about matchups and strengths

1516
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: and weaknesses. Can your strengths overcome their weakness is better

1517
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 1: than their strengths can overcome your weaknesses? Bills going round

1518
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:17,720
Speaker 1: and round here. But he's right. This is not like,

1519
01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, the blue bloods of college football that just

1520
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 1: dominate lesser teams because they're so far and away better

1521
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: than them in terms of talent, that the natural talent

1522
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:31,920
Speaker 1: just rises to the top and wins teams football games.

1523
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 1: In this league, it's different. Everybody's got talent. Granted, some

1524
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: teams play and utilize that talent better than others. But

1525
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: it's harder to win consistently in this league, maybe more

1526
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: than any other league out there. Right. I agree as well,

1527
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: And I said along all along today during about my

1528
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: feelings about this, I don't think it is an issue

1529
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: at all. The issue is how healthy you are when

1530
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs, and how fresh you are,

1531
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: and if and it's hard and these none of these

1532
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: games we're talking about you were you know, you talked

1533
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: down about the Dolphins. The Patriots are struggling, the Jets,

1534
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: of course, and all these other teams. And the Bills

1535
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: schedule is against a bunch of teams who have struggled.

1536
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: I get it. Don't think just because of that, it's

1537
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna be an easy you know, there's gonna be easy wins,

1538
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: and he might win by a lot, but all of

1539
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: those teams are gonna come out of that game and

1540
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna think exactly what the Bills do did when

1541
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 1: they come out of Tennessee. They're gonna think, if we'd

1542
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: have had this play and that play going our way,

1543
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: we would have beat him. All those teams are gonna

1544
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 1: feel like a handful of plays goes there went against

1545
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 1: them and that's why they lost. They're gonna come in

1546
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:41,639
Speaker 1: confident against the Bills. You know, the Bills are gonna

1547
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: do some things, no question, they're gonna have some success.

1548
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: But it's a hard league to win in and an

1549
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: easy schedule. It's just what you make it. Last year,

1550
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 1: the Bills had maybe the worst schedule I've ever seen

1551
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: a team have. They had the most difficult schedule and

1552
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: they went thirteen and three last year that didn't and

1553
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: they were healthy going into the playoffs. But that then

1554
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 1: might argue they were battle tested because of that schedule.

1555
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: Well they lost. You know, you go in and get

1556
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: get a team like the Chiefs. They played their worst

1557
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: game in three months against the Kansas City Chiefs and

1558
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:17,599
Speaker 1: NAFC championship. Conversely, the Chiefs who had a cakewalk, who

1559
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: were they didn't even try in these games they were winning.

1560
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: They won like six seven games by single digits, four points,

1561
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: six points, three points. They weren't and they weren't even

1562
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: they didn't even have it in gear gas. Yeah, they

1563
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: didn't even have it in gear. So they then they

1564
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: get to the championship game and then it's like, all right,

1565
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: this is it, guys, let's go. And it showed, it

1566
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: really showed against a really good Buffalo Bills team. That's

1567
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:43,519
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Win the games that keep your

1568
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: season alive. This, yeah, I get it. This this game

1569
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: against Miami Dolphins on Halloween, and you got a lot

1570
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: of football to play. You'd love to win. Just win it, yeah,

1571
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 1: and get yourself to a game that will give you

1572
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 1: a chance to advance. I mean that play great in

1573
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: the games that you gotta have, and that's what it

1574
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: comes down to for the Bills. Wade In on the

1575
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: tweet sheet says, no, you could sit guys who you

1576
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:08,640
Speaker 1: will need it one hundred percent for the playoffs, and

1577
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:10,479
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL forces you to work your

1578
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: butt off to beat them, so RUSS shouldn't be a concern.

1579
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: Plus there's the obvious issue of seating. So no, And

1580
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 1: by the way, Ryan Tannehill is the greatest ever Chris

1581
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: Hot he knows I'm not a fan of Ryan Tannehill

1582
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: from Jack, I really hope not. I trust McDermott and

1583
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: the staff to keep the team focused no matter the opponent.

1584
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: The Bills can only play the schedule they have, so

1585
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: take it one game at a time, take care of

1586
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: their business and kick some AFC Keister and Bills Chick says, no,

1587
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:36,480
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. An easier schedule tends to mean less injuries.

1588
01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. Coaches can be more

1589
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 1: coaches can more easily sit guys who are banged up

1590
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 1: healthy for the playoffs is a huge benefit. Plus also

1591
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 1: could lead to the number one seed, another huge benefit

1592
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: with a bye week. Yeah, it is a benefit. I

1593
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: think also losing to the Titans is going to have

1594
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: this team look. This team usually comes out focus no

1595
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: matter what you know. The coaching staff does a good

1596
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,519
Speaker 1: job of getting them ready to play each and every week,

1597
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 1: but I think it sharpens the focus all the more

1598
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: having dropped that game and pretty painful fashion. I agree.

1599
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:16,679
Speaker 1: The key is if you can get the number one seed,

1600
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: it's huge help. Having rest at that time of year

1601
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 1: and getting yourself a mental break means you come back refreshed.

1602
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: And most of these teams that are going to come

1603
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: out of the wildcard round, they go tooth and nail

1604
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:32,599
Speaker 1: to try and get into that round. They pour everything.

1605
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 1: Then they got in the playoffs. All right, Now let's

1606
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: go in now game play. All right, Let's say win

1607
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: a playoff game. It's awesome. Then they come into a

1608
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 1: team that's rested and really playing well, and they're beat

1609
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: up after scratching and kicking and clong to get into

1610
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then scratching and kicking clong in a

1611
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: drop in a drop down, drag out fight in a

1612
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: wildcard round. Then they come up and show up to

1613
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: a fresh team is really talented and playing well. That's

1614
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: why you want the bye week right there, that's a

1615
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 1: tough place to go in and win on the road.

1616
01:27:02,439 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: Break time for us here. Steve and I closed things

1617
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:06,759
Speaker 1: up when we return here on one Bills Live presented

1618
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 1: by Kalada Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. The Buffalo Bills

1619
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: and ad Pro Sports are partnering to recognize some of

1620
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: the best coaches that Western New York has to offer

1621
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty one high school football Coach of

1622
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: the Week program. This week, for Section six Coach of

1623
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 1: the Week, it's Saint Francis head coach Jerry Smith after

1624
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: his Red Raiders secured a twenty two fifteen upset win

1625
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 1: and overtime against rival Kennishus heading into the matchup Crusaders

1626
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: with a number four ranked team in New York State's

1627
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:46,479
Speaker 1: Class Double A. Smith has been named or he's been

1628
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: the Saint Francis head coach danny back to nineteen eighty eight.

1629
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 1: In that time, he's a mass sixteen league titles and

1630
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 1: the most wins in Monsignor Martin history was one hundred

1631
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:57,599
Speaker 1: and seventy six. Section five Coach of the Week winner

1632
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: is Pittsford head coach Keith Mallinick. Panthers down two time

1633
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 1: defending Section five Class Double A champ and previously unbeaten

1634
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 1: McQuaid thirty one twenty one. Pittsford heads into the Section

1635
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,800
Speaker 1: five playoffs is the number three seed in Class Double A,

1636
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: hosting Rush Henrietta this Friday night. Malinick has been the

1637
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: varsity head coach since two thousand and seven, has been

1638
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: involved with the program for almost thirty years. So good

1639
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: job coaches. Yeah, not for nothing that Jerry Smith of

1640
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:25,839
Speaker 1: Saint Francis coached all four my sons. Yeah in high school.

1641
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 1: Been there for a minute, I've been He's been there

1642
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:31,680
Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah, it was good for him. Congratulations

1643
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: the Frannies for the upset win over Kadesias. Got a

1644
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,680
Speaker 1: nice show coming your way Tomorrow. We will have the

1645
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: CBS play by play man for Sunday's game between the

1646
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: Bills and Dolphins on with us. Our good friend Andrew Catalan,

1647
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: who also does the preseason telecasts of the Bills games

1648
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:53,480
Speaker 1: with Steve, so he will be joining us on the show. Tomorrow.

1649
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: Bills will be back on the practice field as we'll

1650
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: get an update as to where things sit. Although the

1651
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: team is pretty healthy with the exception of Dawson Knox.

1652
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,679
Speaker 1: So things are looking good there and we'll dive into

1653
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: the matchup ever deeper as we find out what kind

1654
01:29:11,120 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: of Dolphins team these Bills are going to be looking

1655
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 1: at the second time around. It's gonna be it's it's always,

1656
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: you know, the division games that they've had their way

1657
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,880
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, but the thirty five nothing last time.

1658
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen very often. It's gonna

1659
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: be a much different game. I think the Dolphins are

1660
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: gonna rise up. We'll see you tomorrow at one. Take

1661
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:40,680
Speaker 1: care of everybody.