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Speaker 1: The Bills win it. Twenty seven, twenty four unbelievable finish.

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Speaker 1: and we've said it. I mean the Dolphins. The defense

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Speaker 1: took their foot off the gas in the second half

429
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Speaker 1: of that game because they knew they weren't going to

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Speaker 1: score thirty and they didn't how many faith their offense

431
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Speaker 1: would either. But Antonio Williams took it to him, and

432
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Speaker 1: this would be an enormous spot for him to come

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Speaker 1: in and help. They need somebody to whether it's him

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Speaker 1: or t J. Yelden. You gotta hope t J. Yelden

435
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Speaker 1: can do the same. And but you're right, Brownie, Sean

436
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: McDermott gives players what they earned. He earned a spot

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Speaker 1: in the week seventeen game against the Dolphins. Yelden was

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Speaker 1: not active. Well, Yelden was on the COVID list, right,

439
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Speaker 1: Yelden was on the COVID list, So you'd be interested

440
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Speaker 1: to be interesting. That's why he's off the COVID list now. Yeah,

441
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Speaker 1: So we'll have to see. And I wouldn't put this

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Speaker 1: past the coaching staff. It may be who looks better

443
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Speaker 1: in practice this week, absolutely, who looks better in practice

444
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: this week, who executes better in practice this week? That

445
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Speaker 1: could be the second running back on Saturday. So I'm

446
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Speaker 1: not saying it won't be Antonio Williams. Um, but man,

447
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: this is a this is a big spot here. Don't

448
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Speaker 1: you go with the veteran who has been on the rock.

449
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: Can you go with the one who's going to give

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Speaker 1: you a chance to win if he plays well? And

451
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Speaker 1: you got to count on him playing well? And certainly,

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Speaker 1: uh t j. Yeldon has more water under the bridge

453
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Speaker 1: than than Antonio Williams does. But who's Who's it a

454
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: bigger opportunity for t J. Yelden is not going to

455
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Speaker 1: be anything but a backup the rest of his right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna go someplace and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: put t J. Yeldon as a starter unless there's some

458
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Speaker 1: injuries or something. And Tonio Williams maybe not so much.

459
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Speaker 1: He's still gotta think he's got a he's got a

460
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Speaker 1: career to have. M do you put the guy in

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Speaker 1: there who's got more to play for? I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I think is it's exactly what you said and

463
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Speaker 1: what we've been saying. Who's earned it? Who has earned it?

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Speaker 1: And we'll go from there. And I'm perfectly willing to

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Speaker 1: if Antonio Williams is out there. I've I've got full

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Speaker 1: trust in the evaluation process that got him there. Yeah,

467
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the phones and when you go

468
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Speaker 1: to Bob and Dunkirk, Bob, you're on one bills. Live

469
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Speaker 1: what you have for us. I'm as much as I

470
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: wanted to play Pittsburgh at home, I'm glad that Cleveland

471
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: won that game because you're gonna need a high scoring

472
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Speaker 1: team to keep up with Mahomes shout there in Kansas City.

473
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Speaker 1: And I think I think the way they're at calibery

474
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: right now, I think they can take them down. So

475
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Speaker 1: what do you think you're talking about Cleveland Kansas City? Yes, sir, Yeah,

476
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Speaker 1: I mean they certainly were impressive this past week against

477
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Speaker 1: the Steelers. I think the Steelers were, well, I'll use

478
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's words, they were dying on the vine. They

479
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: were a team that died on the vine. They won

480
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Speaker 1: their first eleven, lost five of their last six. This

481
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: was a team that was fading fast, a deflating balloon

482
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Speaker 1: going into these Colts. Colts in Week sixteen, and the

483
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: Colts blew a twenty eight to three lead. I believe, Yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if Cleveland's gonna

485
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Speaker 1: go in there and hang forty five on the defending

486
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs. As we know, Kansas City's a tough

487
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: place to play, and I think, and I know Steve

488
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: has shared his opinion on this too. In recent weeks.

489
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: Kansas City, quite frankly, over the last six weeks of

490
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: the season, almost looked disinterested in regular season football, like

491
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: they just suck it in cruise control and said, yeah,

492
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: you know what, we're just gonna leave it in here

493
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: in fourth gear and just kind of hit sixty on

494
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Speaker 1: the highway, stay in the right lane and just get

495
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: there and then you know, when we get to the playoffs,

496
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: we'll turn it up. Now, that can prove to be

497
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: a very dangerous game because sometimes you can't get that

498
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: momentum back or that magic back or whatever makes you

499
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: so effective. But you're taking a big step up in

500
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: wake class this week. Yeah, it's hard for me to

501
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: get my mind around the Cleveland Browns going to Kansas

502
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: City and winning that game. I think Bills fans selfishly

503
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: want it to happen because they know if the Bills

504
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens, now you're hosting the AFC title game.

505
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: Here also, and I'll say this, I thought the Steelers

506
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 1: were gonna lump the Browns up last night. I really did.

507
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: But the Steelers as slutely fell on their face. I

508
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: mean the opening play of the game, they Howardzer shot

509
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: the snap over Ben Ben. It's impossible to snap the

510
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: ball over Ben Roethlisbergers has a big dude. He's he's

511
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: as tall as a treat. Thing goes over is He's

512
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Speaker 1: he has no shot at getting that thing touchdown Cleveland.

513
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: And then they come back. Ben throws a pick Cleveland again. Boom,

514
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Speaker 1: fourteen nothing and then they hit Jarvis Landry who weaves

515
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: his way through his twenty one nothing. Yeah. Um, and

516
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: they had to score in the end at the end

517
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: of this game, Steve, this was nuts. I mean the

518
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: whole game, the Steelers had to score that. The Browns

519
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: had to score thirty eight to beat the Steelers, who

520
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: scored thirty seven. They end up scoring forty eight. But

521
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers hung thirty seven points on those guys. They

522
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: can they can score. Um, I don't know that the Browns.

523
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you take somebody. So first of all, the

524
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: game starts, okay, and my son's inside watching I'm taking

525
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: the garbage out? Okay, right, how long does this take?

526
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: Two minutes? Three minutes. I come inside, it's seven nothing.

527
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: I was like, what the heck happened? So he tells

528
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: me about the stack off. So he tells me what happened.

529
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: So then I'm I'm upstairs because we forgot to empty

530
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: a couple of garbage cans upstairs, So I'm bagging that

531
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: stuff up. I take that outside. I come back in.

532
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: He's like fourteen nothing. I'm like, what, Like, I just

533
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: took the garbage out. What the heck's going on? Yeah?

534
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: I figured it out, you know. Let me just get

535
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: this done and then I could sit down and watch

536
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: the game. They won by eleven. It was over. They

537
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: won by eleven. They spotted Yea, they spotted him two

538
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: touched two or three touchdowns, and they won by twenty

539
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: eight three. Like before you could sit down and have it.

540
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: It was as pretty drazy watch. It was really amazing.

541
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: They hung thirty seven points on the defense. The Pittsburgh

542
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: defense struggled with the Cleveland Browns. Now. I don't know why,

543
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what. You can say what you want,

544
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: but they did not play like they were playing when

545
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: they were eleven and oh all right, we have to

546
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: take a break, but we do want to take more

547
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: of your phone call, So stay where you are at

548
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: eight O three oh five fifty one eighty eight five

549
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. What was championship caliber against the

550
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: Colts on Saturday? And what still needs to get there

551
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: before the Bills play again this weekend against the Ravens

552
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: eight O three oh five fifty to number two. Call

553
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: or hit us up on the tweet sheet at one

554
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Back in a moment here, stay tuned Chris Brown,

555
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Bills victory Monday edition of one Bills Live.

556
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: Bills move on to the Divisional round for the first

557
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: time since ninety five season. They'll be hosting the Ravens

558
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: on Saturday Night, Prime Time fifteen Saturday Night. Who's what

559
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: network is doing a game? I got a double check.

560
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I want to say it's BC Saturday Night. Football America

561
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: is at Collinsworth Access Saturday. It's Al Michael's and and

562
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth. Yeah, I got you, so yeah. Looking forward

563
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: to that obviously, But let's get back to the phones.

564
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: At eight oh three oh five fifty, as we were

565
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: asking you, what was championship caliber against the Colts in

566
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo's performance last Saturday, and what still needs to get

567
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: there before they play again this coming Saturday. We go

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00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: to Troy in Pennsylvania to lead us off this segment. Troy,

569
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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills Live? Troy. Oh,

570
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: dear Troy, Troy killing us? All right, let me let

571
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: me see if I can put him on hold. We'll

572
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: go to the next person. We go to Dan in

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Speaker 1: north Tonawanda. Dan, what do you have for us? You're

574
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: on one bills Live? Takeod afternoon, gentlemen, you know a

575
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: couple of things for you. At first, before I get

576
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: to my championship caliber take, I just want to say

577
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: hats off to the Buffalo Bills game day operations team.

578
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: I was at the game on Saturday, and everything seamless,

579
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, it was from getting into the gates to

580
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: the actual fan day experience. I mean, those ushers had

581
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: a tough job walking around making sure everybody was compliant

582
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: with the rules. They threw it down and you know,

583
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this. You know, and I'm not

584
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: trying to knock any of these groups of fans because

585
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: I know the game day experience has little nuances that

586
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: everybody takes from it. But for me personally, I didn't

587
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: see a lot of kids. I didn't see a lot

588
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: of drunks. I didn't see a lot of fights. What

589
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: I did see was sixty seven hundred people that came

590
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: there to work. These people were intense, they were into

591
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: the game, and I saw and this is the best

592
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: part about it, as I saw a lot of compassion

593
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: to make sure that they followed the rules, to make

594
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: sure we can get another sixty seven hundred in there

595
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: next week to do more or the same. That aspect

596
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: of it to me was championship caliber. You know, when

597
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: when it comes to the team on the field, I

598
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: think that they really need to focus on the run

599
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: stopping aspect of it. I mean, I know everybody talks

600
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: about the those runs defense, but more more specifically the

601
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: contain aspect of it, because I don't think Lamar's beating

602
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: you with his arm, and I think that he's going

603
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: to have to outscore this build team, and I don't

604
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: think you can do it. If they can slow him down, Yeah,

605
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: they gotta get him going east west than we saw,

606
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: like when he gets one of those cracks in between

607
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: the tackles like one of those inside runs, and he's

608
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: already going north south. That is when he is a nightmare,

609
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: because now he's just shaking linebackers out of their shoes

610
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: and he's into the secondary and now it's just a

611
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: foot race and he's just looking for green grass. And

612
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: if he can get to that green grass before you can,

613
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: it's over. As we saw with the forty eight yard

614
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: touchdown run he had yesterday, you want to get you

615
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: want to spill him outside where he's kind of looking

616
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: for a crack before he tries to hit it, because

617
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: at least you can rally to the football better there

618
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: with him not going up and down the field or

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Speaker 1: any rights. He's really an amazing athlete. I mean, there's

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00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. We all know it. When het

621
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Speaker 1: up the middle, look at it drop back to pass

622
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: on that it was a quarterback. It wasn't not a

623
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Speaker 1: cold run. It was a quarterback drawn. He scrambled, and

624
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: he scrambled right up between the defensive ends. He's so

625
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: fast and he's a big dude too. I mean, it's

626
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: not like the guy. He's not like Isaiah McKenzie or

627
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: a guy like me or something. This guy's you know,

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00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: six three sixty four and he's scooting around at four

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Speaker 1: three speed. He can go, and he covers a lot

630
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: of ground his turnover and his leg his leg turnover

631
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: is so fast. He covers more ground that you give

632
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: him credit for. And you know, I mean, you just

633
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: can't catch him. He's in the open field, he's gonna

634
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: outrun the angles and all of that. That's he's an

635
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: MVP guy because of his athleticism and you see it.

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00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:41,919
Speaker 1: You saw plenty of it yesterday against the Tennessee Titans. Yeah,

637
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: super athletic play for sure. The Bills, you know, when

638
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: they played Lamar Jackson last year in December, they had

639
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: a good day against him for all intents and purposes. Now,

640
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Speaker 1: that defense, I think most would agree, is not the

641
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: same defense that we see this year. But they held

642
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to eleven carries for forty yards and he

643
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: was sixteen to twenty five for one hundred and forty

644
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Speaker 1: five yards. The problem is he had three touchdown passes,

645
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Speaker 1: two from end close and then the long sixty one

646
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: yarder that he had in that game last year. And

647
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: the Bills lose that game by a touchdown. Now, what

648
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: else is different. Buffalo's offense is far more advanced this

649
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: year than it was last year in that game because

650
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: Stephen House could kick three field goals in that game

651
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: to help the Bills get to seventeen points, So that's

652
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: the difference. Bills didn't score a touchdown till the fourth quarter,

653
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: halfway through the fourth quarter and only lost by a touchdown.

654
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see the shifting dynamics

655
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Speaker 1: from last year's game in December to this year, especially

656
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: knowing that the Baltimore offense doesn't he I mean, they

657
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: were largely a running offense last year too, but their

658
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: passing game isn't even what it was last year. So

659
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see how

660
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: the shifting dynamics alter the course of the matchup this

661
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: time around with obviously much higher stakes. And you think

662
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: of it too, they lost by a touchdown. And this

663
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: is a completely different Bills team than it was twelve

664
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Speaker 1: months ago when they played. Yeah it was. It's a

665
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: completely different team. Their defense is not as stellar as

666
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Speaker 1: it was a year ago. It's not a bow upholding

667
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: to the low yardage. Yeah it's And Josh in that

668
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: game was seventeen to thirty nine. Yeah, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get seventeen to thirty nine from this guy. And I'll

670
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Speaker 1: explain why as we move along in the show here.

671
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Speaker 1: Because I did some number crunching on Josh against top

672
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Speaker 1: ten overall defenses in terms of yards allowed and his

673
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: performance this season against top ten scoring defenses in terms

674
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: of points allowed, you're gonna like him, and yeah, well,

675
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: and the simple fact the matter isn't you got to

676
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: go back to to do it, but you know, you

677
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: just got all you gotta do is look at at

678
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and their rankings and well, yeah, they're

679
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: top ten in both. Yeah, this just in But that's

680
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Speaker 1: why I crunched those numbers, so we knew what we

681
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: were getting into there. Where it might get a little squirreling.

682
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: Is Bill's defense is, you know, against top ten scoring offenses,

683
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: which go, by the way, the Ravens are too. Baltimore

684
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: in total total yards game Baltimore's first, and yards per

685
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: play their first, in yards a game their second, in

686
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: yards per play their first. In passing yards a game

687
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: their second, and in yards per pass play their second.

688
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: They're really good. Yeah, they're really good. Yeah, So it's

689
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge, no question about it. But that's

690
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: what happens when you get to the final eight teams

691
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Speaker 1: in the league. Let's go to Brian and Alabama and

692
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Speaker 1: X Brian, you're on one, Bills Live. What do you

693
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Speaker 1: have for us? Very good afternoon, Fellas. A couple of

694
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Speaker 1: things that I have one one thing that I thought

695
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,720
Speaker 1: was championship caliber this past weekend is typically the Bills

696
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: US lose those type of games when they're not playing

697
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: well and the other team the coach, in my opinion,

698
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: played an excellent game. The Bills typically lose those games.

699
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: So for them to find the way to still come

700
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: out on top not firing on all cylinders, in my opinion,

701
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: is championship caliber. Now. A couple of things that I'm

702
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: worried about going into this weekend is the physicality, the toughness,

703
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: and the nastiness the other Ravens. I'm really hoping that

704
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: the defense can step up their intensity for this game because,

705
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Speaker 1: unlike the other calling from earlier, I am worried about

706
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: the weather for this game because if that offense is

707
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: not able to throw the ball around like they need to,

708
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: it's going to turn into a physical run, smash you

709
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: in the mouth type football, which I think the Ravens

710
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: are more prepared for. And then also handling the tight ends, well,

711
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: we all know it's a cootacat league, so if hopefully

712
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: they can do a better job on that as well.

713
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: But Gold Bills and I'm looking forward to the game.

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00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: You guys have a good one. Yeah, thanks for the call, Brian.

715
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: You're right about the tight end defense. That has been

716
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: a problem all season long. The Bills have given up

717
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: the second most receiving yards the tight ends in the

718
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: regular season. It did not change on Saturday. Those three

719
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: tight ends combined for the Colts had like thirteen catches

720
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty yards and a touchdown in

721
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: a two point conversion. They were the offense to a

722
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: great degree. T Y Hilton didn't kill you. Zach Pascal

723
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: had one touchdown, but the receiving corps for the Colts

724
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: didn't kill you. It was a tight end. That's and

725
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, that's we knew that coming in.

726
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: That's exactly where it's been on their team. They're tight ends.

727
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: They had like three guys that added up to eighty

728
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: two yards on it. They make it more alarming for

729
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: you that they still couldn't stop it. Ah. No, No,

730
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: the Colts are gonna run their offense and they're gonna

731
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: be really efficient. That's what they do. They're not a

732
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: big play type of offense. They are spreading around, stay

733
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: on the hit. Particularly in that game yesterday against Buffalo,

734
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: they didn't. You know, you ask them, they probably almost

735
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: would say, you know, I'd rather if we're gonna get

736
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown either way, give me the twelve play touchdown drive,

737
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: not the big strike. You know, they're not a big

738
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: play type of team. They didn't really even attempt it.

739
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: There were a number of plays I watched they didn't

740
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: even try to take the lid off the defense. There

741
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: wasn't a guy that was fifteen yards down the field

742
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: when when they got five guys going out, I mean,

743
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: they just didn't. Philip Rivers would pick his spot, throw

744
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: it or run it, hand it off and run it.

745
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: And it was a totally different type of offense for

746
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: the Colts. So no, it doesn't really bother me that

747
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: the Bills got nicked badly by tight ends. A lot

748
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: of teams get hit by tightens, particularly when they've got

749
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: good ones and they try to use it and try

750
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: to use them as a as a weapon. The Colts

751
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: did that yesterday. The Bills paid the price. I think

752
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: Milano had a long day at times yesterday, Nate a

753
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: little bit of a roller card. Sometimes he was huge,

754
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,479
Speaker 1: and then other times he got left in the trail

755
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: position he was he was, you know, trying to get there.

756
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: And there were other times where the Bills had a mismatch.

757
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: They had a corner on a tight end who was

758
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: just too big too. But I remember Aran Johnson got

759
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: caught on a tight end boil one time. And there

760
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,959
Speaker 1: were a couple other instances where they tried to switch

761
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: up the matchups. It didn't work, didn't work at all.

762
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: So the Colts kind of got the better of them

763
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: in that part. Now, this is the second caller we've

764
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Speaker 1: had who's expressed concern about the weather coming up on Saturday.

765
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: I can tell you that the forecast right now is

766
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: for a high of thirty seven low of twenty eight.

767
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: We should focus on the low since it's a night game,

768
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: so twenty eight degrees. But there is no pre sipt

769
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: in the forecast that I can see right now for Saturday.

770
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: There is snow in the forecast for Friday. There's snow

771
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: in the forecast for Sunday, but that's going to change

772
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: probably three times between now and then, So I don't

773
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: think it's any reason to get your underwear in a

774
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: nod over. Wait till you get to the game, see

775
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 1: what you have, and then take it from there. And

776
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: I agree with the previous caller that we had Josh

777
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: Allen's played in poor weather. He played in Wyoming at

778
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: elevation you know whatever, it is, fifty four hundred feet up.

779
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: The guys played in terrible weather up there, and I

780
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't be terribly concerned. The only time you get concerned.

781
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be concerned if it's snowing, as long as

782
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: you don't have like three inches of snow on the ground.

783
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: But even then you can make the argument advantage offensive

784
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: player because the offensive player knows where he's going. The

785
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: defensive player has to react. And that's why defenders are

786
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: typically at a disadvantage in poor field surface because the

787
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: offensive player he knows, I'm sticking my foot in the

788
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: ground and I'm going this way. The defensive player has

789
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: to react to that, and if they don't have good footing,

790
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: they're out to lunch. So there's a number of factors

791
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: you can weigh into this, but let's just wait and see. Really,

792
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: the forecast isn't going to be very clear until about

793
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: forty eight hours before the game, and then you're gonna

794
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: really have a better idea as to what they're gonna get.

795
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: And I'm not terribly concerned about it. Unless it's four

796
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: inches of snow on the ground and fifty mile an

797
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: hour wins, then you got to concern right. It's yeah,

798
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: everybody's got playing the same weather. Don't worry about it,

799
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: you live in it. They'll be fine. That doesn't worry me.

800
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: The game may look different, but both teams will struggle

801
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: the same amount with the weather. And because we throw

802
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: the football, it's probably a plus for us, more so

803
00:42:55,719 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: than the than the Ravens, I think, because it's hard

804
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: to run the ball because you can't drive, it's hard

805
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: to accelerate. It's easy enough for a quarterback to drop

806
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: back and have your receivers make a break. The defenders

807
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: can't cut on the ball, can't break on the ball.

808
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 1: It's an advantage for the offense. So I got plays

809
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: into Buffalo's hands. If it is bad weather, break time

810
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: for us more of your phone calls when we return.

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Speaker 1: We also have Kevin Clark from The Ringer coming up

812
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes time. Make sure you stay tuned

813
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: for that, as he was pretty impressed what the Bills

814
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: were able to do to pull out the victory over

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Speaker 1: the Colts last Saturday. Chris Brown Steve Tasker back in

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live, Hey guys, so jan I thought it

832
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Speaker 1: was pretty cool that the Titan kind of mentioned that

833
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: they used the blueprint of the what the Bills did

834
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: against Lamar last year, which was I thought was a

835
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: cred to Leslie Frazier. But my main concern is I

836
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: didn't see offense to get back to what has made

837
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: them successful all seasons, and that's still in the football.

838
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: I hated seeing the design runs and the more conservative

839
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: It felt like the Houston game of last year, you know,

840
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just kind of driving me nuts

841
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I think Diggs is going to

842
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: be the difference maker. But yeah, if we stay conservative

843
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: like we did last game against the Colts, that's the

844
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: only way I don't like our chances. Well here's yeah,

845
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Speaker 1: you bet. Here's the thing. And I've heard a lot

846
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: of people say that, you know, there was a time

847
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: in that game where they were down on day Ball

848
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: because they thought he was being conservative. This he doesn't

849
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 1: call those plays to be conservative. He calls those plays

850
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: because they get matchups they like against fronts that they

851
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: like and Josh can check in and out of those

852
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: play RPOs, right, some of those were probably RPO and

853
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: some of them, yeah, they some of them. Whatever play

854
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: they could, they could change into because it's a better

855
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: play than the one they were called. So and they

856
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: you can think that they're conservative or more whatever. And

857
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: particularly when a game is not going well against a

858
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: really good defense like the Colts, you're thinking, well, there's

859
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: the play calls. They say, ah, well, you got to

860
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: execute those things. The Colt defenses was really good up front,

861
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: and it's very athletic in the back end as well,

862
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: particular the line, their front seven is really athletic. So

863
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: the Bills had their hands full and they had to

864
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: do some things to take advantage of what they did

865
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: well and what the Colt and to make the Colts

866
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: get into some things and do some things that the

867
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: Colts weren't comfortable with. And Josh running it was probably

868
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: one of those things, particularly since they there's no way,

869
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: I think there's there's no way the Colts thought they

870
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: were going to see that many Josh Allen runs yesterday,

871
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: yeah or Saturday. So you try and do that a

872
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: little bit of it because you think, well, they're not

873
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: going to really prepare for that kind of thing because

874
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: the Bills haven't been doing it. There's some of that

875
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,959
Speaker 1: going on as well, I'm sure, but and there wasn't

876
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: on some of those plays. The defensive line for the

877
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: Colts just one the line of scrimmage battle, which is

878
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: why some of those runs didn't really go over There

879
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: had a couple of you had a couple of whiffs

880
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 1: on some blocks up front at different times during the game,

881
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: no question, But the simple fact matters day Ball is

882
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: the same offensive coordinator that got the Bills to this

883
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: point and got Josh out of this point. They're not

884
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: going to forget who they are. They're gonna do things

885
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: during each end them. They're gonna do some different things

886
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: in this Baltimore game than they would have ever thought

887
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: about doing in the Colt game. Whatever it looks like

888
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: is beside the point. They game plan with the same

889
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: mindset that they always do, and it's up to the

890
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: players to execute. And certainly you're going to get a

891
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: great effort on both sides of the ball from them

892
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: and your team, and Josh and no other quarterback for

893
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: that matter, is going to be one hundred percent right

894
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: on all of that decision making. When they're sitting there

895
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: with an RPO, they might check to a run thinking

896
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: it's the better play, but they don't get the blocking

897
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: they need and the play goes for a half a

898
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: yard and then now it's you know, second and nine.

899
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: This stuff is so far up the scale of how

900
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: smart these coaching staffs are and quarterbacks there. The Colts

901
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: are trying to get them to do certain things, and

902
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: the Bills are trying to outsmart the Colts and to

903
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: do it so they do certain So the Bills will

904
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: do certain things if they get you into a spot.

905
00:47:58,239 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: The Colts I'm talking about, if they can get you

906
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: in the spot where they know you're gonna check out

907
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: of it, what do you think they know? They know

908
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: what kind of player you're gonna go to. Yeah, and

909
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: whatever was called is which is unknown when you break

910
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: the huddle, Nobody is what you're gonna do. If they

911
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: can get show you something to get you to check

912
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: out of something into something else, they got a pretty

913
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: good idea of what you're gonna check too. And I'm

914
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: gonna give you a perfect example because I talked to

915
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: Josh about this after the game and the postgame press

916
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: conference call. He basically told me. On the touchdown pass

917
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: to Digs for thirty five yards, that was the original

918
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: play called coming out of the huddle. They go up

919
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: to the line, they don't get the look they want.

920
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: Josh checks out of it. It's about six seconds before

921
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: the play clock runs out and Indie spins back to

922
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: what they were originally lined up in. He checked back

923
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: to the play, so we had to play checked out

924
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: of it, checked back all before the snap right, So

925
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: that was a time was an example where you know,

926
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: he checked back into the right play. That's high level stuff,

927
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: high level stuff, and our and our guys are doing it.

928
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: But you can tell where how many moving parts there

929
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: are in a scenario like that. So sometimes you spin

930
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: it and it goes your way one hundred percent. You're

931
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: in the end zone. The next time, you're fumbling at

932
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: twenty three yards behind the line of scrimmage. And when

933
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs, that's gonna happen. The other team's

934
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: gonna win a few plays. Yeah, they're just going to

935
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. You're playing the best

936
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 1: of the best now, so you're not gonna win every play.

937
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: You're not gonna win games by thirty like they did

938
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: the last three weeks of the season. That's just not

939
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: gonna happen this time of year. All right, break time

940
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: for us. When we come back from the Ringer, we

941
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: will have one Kevin Clark who's gonna run up and

942
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: down the results of the playoff weekend from Super wild

943
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: Card weekend when we return here on One Bills Live,

944
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio,

945
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: Hellow Bills Radio Network Sports, your sports update from One

946
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bill's next opponent is set. Following wild

947
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: Card weekend. The Bills to host the Ravens Saturday night

948
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: here at Bill's Stadium. Kickoff set for eight fifteen pm.

949
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott will meet with the media later this afternoon.

950
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: We will to be anticipating an update on running back

951
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: Zach Moss, who left Saturday's game against the Colts with

952
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. Bill's next opponent was decided after the

953
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: Brown's triumphant went over the Steelers last night. The Browns,

954
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: without their head coach and starting offensive guard, handled the

955
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: Steelers forty eight to thirty seven. They'll head to Kansas

956
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: City to face the top seat of Chiefs in the

957
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: Divisional round. Bill's offensive coordinator Brian day Ball had two

958
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: head coaching interviews on Sunday. He met virtually with both

959
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Chargers. Aaron Donald might not have

960
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: broken his ribs, but the La Rams defensive tackles still

961
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: dealing with a painful injury. Donald has torn rib cartilage

962
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: suffered in Saturday's win over Seattle, but is expected to

963
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 1: play next week against the Packers. In college football, the

964
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: number one twelve and oh Alabama Crimson Tide faced number

965
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 1: three seven and oh Ohio State in Tonight's College Football

966
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: Playoff National Championship Game. Kickoff is set for eight PM,

967
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: and Buffalo's director of player Personnel Dan Morgan will be

968
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: a member of the twenty twenty one College Football Hall

969
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: of Fame class. Oregon had a story career with the

970
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: University of Miami from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand.

971
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: Finished his collegiate career with the Big East record for

972
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: most career tackles with five hundred and thirty two, and

973
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: his final season, Miami won eleven and one and won

974
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl. He was drafted eleventh overall in the

975
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: two thousand and one NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers.

976
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris

977
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker, our number two of the program and

978
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: joining us on the line right now. A writer for

979
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: The Ringer, a host of multiple podcasts, including the Slow

980
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: Newsday podcast and The Ringer NFL Show. It has won

981
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Clark joining us on the line to kind of

982
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: recap Super wild Card Weekend with us. Kevin, how you

983
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: doing everybody good on your end with the pandemic and

984
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: every thing. Everybody healthy? Yeah, down in Florida, just socially

985
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: distancing and enjoying some football. I wish you know, when

986
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: I saw it as schedule and I saw a Saturday

987
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: night Buffalo game against against a really cool Ravens team,

988
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: I wish that, you know, you had the build MATHI

989
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: in that stadium. I thought about was the first thing

990
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: I thought about. But you know, everybody's doing relatively well

991
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: and their worst things in the world. Yeah, that's good.

992
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: That's good to hear. Glad things are going well. What

993
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: did you think of the first like over over the

994
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: top Super wild Card weekend? Three games Saturday, three games Sunday.

995
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: I thought the AFC games were a lot more entertaining

996
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: than the NFC games, although they all had their moments.

997
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: What do you think of it overall? I think the

998
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: FC games were more entertaining because the ANC has a

999
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: much better conference. In the NFC. Quite frankly, um, I

1000
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: loved it wall to wall football. I think in the

1001
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: NFC you could make the argument that the seventh seed hurt.

1002
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: I don't think we needed to see the Chicago Bears

1003
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: play playoff game lest you're watching that Nickelodeon feed that

1004
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: everybody seemed to love. But in the AFC, the wasn't

1005
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: the Colts. They put together an amazing roster U they

1006
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: have one the best coaching tasks in GM's in the

1007
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: league and all that stuff, and I think that the

1008
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: seven playoff teams seemed fair in the AFC. So I

1009
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: was okay with water Wall football. We're never going back.

1010
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: They made that permanent change, and so I think this

1011
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: is going to be a good old tradition going forward.

1012
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard to be against a seventh team

1013
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, particularly when that team wants eleven games.

1014
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,439
Speaker 1: That's I think that's that's a must. Yeah. Also, Kevin,

1015
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: the thing at least that comes out of the AFC

1016
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: is all four remaining quarterbacks are twenty five years old

1017
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: or younger. Mahomes from the seventeen class and then the

1018
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: other three quarterbacks from the twenty eighteen class. These teams

1019
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: figure to be around a while with those young guys

1020
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: at that all important position, right, It's really amazing because

1021
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: it's not just that they're young and talented and elite

1022
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 1: all no, all that it's their teams figured out what

1023
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 1: to do with them. You know, My life is always

1024
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: that nobody ever wins anything because they drafted a good quarterback.

1025
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,399
Speaker 1: They win because they draft to the quarterback and figure

1026
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: out what to do next. And when you look at

1027
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: all these AFC teams, guys, whether that's Buffalo obviously, it

1028
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: was a masterclass and team building around Josh Allen and

1029
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: play calling and all that stuff. They figured out exactly

1030
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: what he needed and then along with his own development

1031
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: that the team took a lead Baltimore who knew exactly

1032
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: how to build around Lamar Jackson, that what players needed

1033
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: around him. Kansas City obviously, I mean, I've talked to

1034
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: bred beach Thirt jam about this, but how there's a

1035
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: certain type of receiver who has to play catshomes because

1036
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: he's going to improvise because you know you need him,

1037
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: a little speeder in the middle of the field, that

1038
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: sort of thing. And so these are not just the

1039
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: elite young quarterbacks, but it's the teams that understand how

1040
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,439
Speaker 1: to build around them. And that's why I think you're

1041
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: going to see all these teams repeat this success. It's

1042
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: not a fluke because it's not just the talent, it's

1043
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: the brains. And then with Josh specifically, I know a

1044
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: lot of people maybe they didn't catch the game wire

1045
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: to wire. They look at the statute and they say

1046
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: the Colts out performed them in just about every statistical

1047
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: category you can come up with, and they still didn't

1048
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: win the football game. And I'll be the first to

1049
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: say it's because Josh Allen made plays off scripted and

1050
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: made things happen when maybe the rest of the team

1051
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: wasn't performing up to the standard they needed to win

1052
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: this game, maybe a little bit more comfortably. He was

1053
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: the single handed reason why they came out victorious in

1054
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: this game. I know you kind of share that opinion, right, yeah,

1055
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: without a doubt, because I came away from this game thinking, Okay,

1056
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: the Colts blew this game. They should have won that game,

1057
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: and there were a bunch of chances for it. But

1058
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 1: when I when I saw what the Bills were able

1059
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: to do, I thought it was a little bit of

1060
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 1: a low grade version of what the Chiefs are able

1061
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: to do, which is nothing matters except the kill shot,

1062
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: except the quarterback and making the connections and making the

1063
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: big play. We sit around and we praised the Chiefs

1064
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,479
Speaker 1: for all their comebacks and just the okay, nothing matters,

1065
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: having catch homes whatever. That I can't sit here and

1066
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: say that, you know, the Bills should have dominated that

1067
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: game or whatever, because all that matters is that Josh

1068
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: Allen made plays when needed to. And as he said,

1069
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: it was off script, it was in weird situations. He's

1070
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: pumped baking off a corner. It's all about stuff. I mean,

1071
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: the first touchdown, which is unbelievable, of the improvisation. And

1072
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit of what the Chiefs do

1073
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: with mahomes, which is that when they play imperfect, the

1074
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: quarterback fails to them out. Guys, you noticed that was

1075
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: not the case this time last year in the wild

1076
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: card Around last year, Josh Allen made some plays that

1077
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,720
Speaker 1: hurt his team. He doesn't make many of those plays anymore,

1078
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: and he makes the team better in almost every situation.

1079
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: It's been an incredible site to see that that kind

1080
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: of improvement, and I kind of think that this is

1081
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: it's repeatable. Josh Allen can save the Bills when they

1082
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: don't play the perfect game, and from a team building

1083
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,879
Speaker 1: coaching standpoint, at Roger standpoint, that's all you can hope

1084
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: for with the great quarterback. And what about Lamar Jackson,

1085
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: I mean he came off This is the team that

1086
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: in Baltimore that struggled during the middle part of the season.

1087
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: I mean, right the I mean the Ravens. Yeah, they

1088
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: went through a bad stretch, but they came out of it,

1089
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: made made the postseason at a three game losing streak

1090
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: between weeks ten, eleven, and twelve, and they got it

1091
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: together one five straight down the stretch. What about Lamar

1092
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: Jackson in year two? He just you know, everybody know

1093
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: you can't escape when you're the MVP. You know you've

1094
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: got a target on your back. And the Ravens seem

1095
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: to have handled it pretty well for sure. And it

1096
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit I'm having deja vu to

1097
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: last year where we're all talking about Lamar Jackson and

1098
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: everyone's Rihanna, Patrick Mahomes. I mean this time last year,

1099
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: I think everyone just sort of forgotten about it. But

1100
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: I used to go on these shows this time lasting

1101
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: everyone saying, oh, you know Lamar this Lamar that I'm guys,

1102
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is still really good. And I kind of

1103
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: feel like the conversation has shifted a little bit to

1104
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: where now people are talking about Josh Jowen or Patrick

1105
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes or whomember and they're not talking about the reigning MVP.

1106
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, John Harballs did that that run,

1107
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: the one that's on the screen right now was the

1108
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: best quarterback run he's ever seen. Maybe there are a

1109
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: couple from from Michael Vick and some others that they're

1110
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: a little better, But I think it's definitely in the

1111
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: conversation which you look at how hard it was and

1112
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: what it meant to the team. But I think Lamar

1113
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: Jackson is still capable of when he drops back to

1114
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: pass or run, the best thing you can see on

1115
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: the football field. I mean, it is breathtaking. I remember

1116
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: talking to Ravens guys last year and they were saying

1117
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,439
Speaker 1: you will look in defender's eyes when Lamar Jackson starts

1118
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: going off the script, and he will the defender would

1119
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: just look over at their own bench, just trying to

1120
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: figure out what to do, Like is the coach going

1121
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: to help someone getting someone what to do, and there's

1122
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,439
Speaker 1: no help coming, there's no defense, there's no scheme, there's

1123
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: no advice you can have when Lamar Jackson's barreling towards you.

1124
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: And I think that that's one of the reasons you

1125
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: always have to be careful with this Ravens team, even

1126
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: for having an imperfect season. Obviously they got to be

1127
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: railed by COVID for large stretches of the season, they

1128
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: played a game on a Wednesday, all that stuff. But

1129
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: I still think he is among the three most dangerous

1130
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: players in football, and certainly one of the most dangerous quarterbacks,

1131
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: because there's just no defense for him when he's perfect right.

1132
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: The only thing about it isn't it takes all eleven

1133
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: guys to defend him, and and then you've got to

1134
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: defend the other guys as well. And the better he

1135
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: gets using the guys around him, the more unstoppable that

1136
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: offense is going to be. But certainly he's the atomic

1137
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: weapon of the league right now. How much has he

1138
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: progressed from last year in his MVP year towards sprit now?

1139
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 1: Does he spread the football around a little bit more

1140
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: than than he did a year ago. Well, I think

1141
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: you've seen the Ravens understand how to run things in

1142
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: year two a little different. I think that you know,

1143
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: John Hardball came out in the off season and said

1144
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: the next step was taking all the pressure that Lamar

1145
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: Jackson puts on defenses and developing a d pass. Again,

1146
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened in the way I anticipated. I thought

1147
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: that Lamar Jackson was going to take a huge step

1148
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: in that direction, that they was going to be unlike

1149
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: any they've ever seen. All that stuff. That's the reason

1150
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: I picked at being of season the Ravens to win

1151
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because of I thought the progressions. But

1152
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: you saw a little bit of it. I think the

1153
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown connection is coming along. I think that there

1154
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: are you know, he led the NFL last year in

1155
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: touchdowns thrown from the pockets, so it's not like, you know,

1156
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: he was just a running back or anything. I thought

1157
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: all the jokes that were made, No, he is a

1158
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: legitimately great quarterback. There are holes in this game, intermediate throws,

1159
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: all that stuff, but yet I think that he is

1160
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 1: more comfortable with the roster. But I also think that

1161
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: the roster is more comfortable with him. I think that

1162
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: the Erica Costa and John Harball have done an amazing

1163
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: job at going all in on Lamar Jackson's experience and

1164
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: all that comes with it. Lamar Jackson is an elite,

1165
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: elite quarterback, and I think what we're going to see,

1166
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: whether it's a defensive line, the secondary, or whatever it is,

1167
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: they have an elite roster to go with it. That's

1168
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: why I find this game so intriguing. On Saturday, talking

1169
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: to Kevin Clark from The Ringer. One other thing about

1170
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: this matchup. I think most would agree that watch this

1171
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: game between the Bills and the Colts would say the

1172
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: Bills as a total team did not play their best game.

1173
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott has a knack for really getting players to

1174
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: course correct after a down performance. You can look no

1175
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: further than the Arizona game is evidence of that, when

1176
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: they ripped off six in a row after losing on

1177
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: a hail Mary and not trying to put themselves in

1178
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: a position where one play can cost them a game

1179
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,919
Speaker 1: or a bad call. They kind of got dangerously close

1180
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: to that this past week. Do you think it's at

1181
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: least logical to anticipate that the total team performance for

1182
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: the Bills figures to be better this week, even though

1183
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: they're probably playing a more imposing opponent. I've been as

1184
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: impressed with the culture in Buffalo as any place I've

1185
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: been the last few years, guys. And I've spent a

1186
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: handful of days at training camp or wherever with coach mcdermotto,

1187
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: with Brandon Bean or whomever, and I've just I have

1188
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: loved the vibe that they give off. And Sean McDermott, even,

1189
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, in twenty seventeen, I think we met before

1190
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: he'd ever, you know, stepped foot in the football field

1191
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: as a head coach. There were so many things that

1192
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: impressed me. He wanted honesty, he wanted to remember, He

1193
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: does the three sixty reviews where the players review the coaches,

1194
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And I think that you see the

1195
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: confidence that the Bills play with from a week tweek basis,

1196
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: and I don't think a bad performance like the one

1197
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: against Indianapolis is going to draw them down in any

1198
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: meaningful way. As you said, they give up one of

1199
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: the most embarrassing plays of the year to Arizona, and

1200
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: they rebound from that and become one of the hottest

1201
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: teams in football. They at one point had won going

1202
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: into the playoffs six trade games by double digits. No

1203
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: no playoffs team has done that since the twenty fourteen Seahawks,

1204
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: and no one had scored as many points against number

1205
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: one defenses as they did against the Dolphins week seventeen.

1206
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: So I think you're going to see more of that

1207
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: team than the team we saw last week. I think

1208
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: that the sustainability with the Bills is such that when

1209
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: they have a down week, it's an operation instead of

1210
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: a down week being the norm or letting them getting

1211
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: into a rut a little bit. I guess you could say,

1212
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: what do you and what jumped out at you about

1213
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: the rest of the playoff bracket and how it's going

1214
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: to fall and what happened to get there? Yeah, I mean,

1215
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: Breeze Brady to me is so much fun and one

1216
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: of the things I would have loved to see Brady

1217
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: in New England to the wheels fell off. I know,

1218
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: you guys, probabably feel differently in Buffalo. But I think

1219
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: that the one thing that I like about it is

1220
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 1: the new rivalries and he never really had a rivalry

1221
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: Drew brees Um that they just, you know, when you're

1222
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: in the NFC South in the AFE, just don't play

1223
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: a lot. And so I love that. I love the

1224
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 1: kind of the Mike Shanahan Disciple Bowl and with the

1225
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: Rams and Matta in Green Bay, I think that that's

1226
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: great and I think that those are two of the

1227
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: best young coaches in football and also two of the

1228
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: best leaders of man. I think that a lot of

1229
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: times the thing because overlooked about The Bay and the

1230
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: reason some of the McVey disciples haven't worked is that

1231
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: they don't they look at the schemes and not the person.

1232
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: I think McVay and the flour have shown that, Okay,

1233
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: they're going to run this this Mike Shanahan system and

1234
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: all that stuff, but they're also just going to know

1235
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: how to build a football team. And that's what I'm

1236
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: really intrigued to see about this. I think the Packers

1237
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: win that game because I just don't think the Rams

1238
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: are going to be healthy enough or talented enough, and

1239
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: just the quarterback petition is just a huge till towards

1240
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: towards Green Bay. But but I am intriguous to see

1241
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: how those two coaches approach each other. Last one I've

1242
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: got for you, Kevin, is about the teams that their

1243
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: season came to an abrupt end over the course of

1244
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: the weekend. There are some major quarterbacked decisions for three teams,

1245
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: namely the Bears, the Steelers, and then m Indianapolis with

1246
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and what his future is. So maybe handicap

1247
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: that for us as best you can. We know Pittsburgh's

1248
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: in a world of hurt with the cap situation and

1249
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: a thirty eight year old quarterback who just doesn't look

1250
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: the same anymore. And then Chicago is just a complete schmozzle,

1251
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: like you don't know what to do there? Well, how

1252
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: do you handicap those? So I think the biggest question

1253
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: is who's available and is the Matthew Stafford going to

1254
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: be on the market. How deep is this draft going

1255
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: to go with first round quarterbacks? I think that's the

1256
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: biggest question. Is Carson Wentz going to pull in Nick

1257
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: Foles and be amenable to a haircut and pay to

1258
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: be able to be moved? Obviously there's some some huge

1259
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: issues with that as far as it's the contract in general.

1260
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: But I think it comes down to who's available. I

1261
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 1: think that Chicago just has to start over and figure

1262
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, Nick Foles will still be on

1263
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: the roster, I guess, but you've got to get the

1264
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback or find a bargain basement guy somewhere.

1265
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: I think Indianapolis is probably in the market for more

1266
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: of that veteran tier quarterback guys where you want to

1267
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: find again, that would be I don't think Matt Ryan

1268
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: can be moved there, but someone like that where a

1269
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: new GM is coming in, Matthew Stafford, a new GM

1270
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: is coming in and once a fresh start once to

1271
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: unload their expensive quarterback in a Indiana plus probably fits there.

1272
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: And then Pittsburgh, I think they've just got to draft

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Speaker 1: somebody because I think that they've seen Ben Roethlisberger as

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Speaker 1: this paradign of stability for so long, and they've solved

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01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: so many of their problems through the years from a

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01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: football scheme standpoint, and I just don't think that they

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01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: can rely on him to solve anything right now. He's

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01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: beyond repair. I think he feels that he's worth forty one.

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Speaker 1: He counts forty one million dollars against the CALP next year.

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01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: That's ludacrius. You just can't. You can't win football games

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01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: with a forty one million dollar quarterback being your worst player.

1282
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: Do you really think Deshaun Watson is so unhappy in

1283
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: Houston that he'll force their hand to get out of there.

1284
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: Do you think we've heard, obviously all the wild rumors

1285
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: about Deshaun Watson to Miami and Tua to Houston? Does

1286
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: any Is that all just reaction and emotional reaction to

1287
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: the end of a tough season. Well, I mean, I

1288
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: think if you're in Houston, you really should have had

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01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: more communication with Deshaun Watson because he's literally the one

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01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: good thing you got going on right now. With the

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01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: executive of JJ Watt, who was kind of the the

1292
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: tail end of his career, you just signed Deshaun Watson

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01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:06,439
Speaker 1: to a four year deal worth I think one hundred

1294
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, And I don't understand why you wouldn't,

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01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:11,439
Speaker 1: even if you don't want to get into this motive

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01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: that we're going to let him pick the GM or

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01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: the coach or whatever, have him involved, because the whole

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01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: thing the last ten years, we've learned that if the

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Speaker 1: coach and the quarterback around the same page, you've got

1300
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: a pretty good base, right. I mean, if Rian Dable

1301
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen did not gel, we are not talking

1302
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: about this team in the suff flow team playing Saturday

1303
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: my playoff game. And so I don't understand why he

1304
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:33,959
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been more involved, and I think he would

1305
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: like to probably move on, as the report say. I

1306
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: just think it's it's the problem is fair value. I mean,

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01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 1: if you're going to get Deshaun Watson in the prime

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01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: of his career for four years on a contract that's

1309
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: already done, how many first round picks is that going

1310
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: to take? I don't even know how you calculate that.

1311
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: If Jamal Adams is worth two first round picks, I

1312
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: couldn't even imagine how many first round picks you have

1313
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: to go for Deshaun Watson. So I think it'd be

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01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: hard for a team to put a package together that

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01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: would appeal to Houston. If Deshaun says, hey, I'm never

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01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: playing and I'm sitting out, that's a different conversation. But

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: I think we have a long way to go until

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01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: the habits. Kevin thanks as always for the time. All right,

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01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: we'll keep listening for you on that podcast. We heard

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01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: you with Briscillo this week. It was good stuff, awesome.

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01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, guys, appreciate it. All right. That's Kevin

1322
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: Clark from The Ringer. You can hear him on his

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01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: Slow Newsday podcast. He's also got that other He's on

1324
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: two podcasts. He's on The Ringer NFL Show podcast and

1325
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: he's on the Slow Newsday podcast. He's a busy dude him, right,

1326
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: so good to check in with him and get to

1327
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: kind of the lay of the land across the NFL

1328
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:34,640
Speaker 1: after Super wild Card weekend. I'm telling you, Steve, I

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01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: am not envious of any of these teams that have

1330
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: major quarterback quandaries now that their seasons are over. I

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: did see that Frank Reich said he would like Philip

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01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: Rivers to be his quarterback next year. I don't know

1333
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: if that's a done deal, Lucille, Philip may want to

1334
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: just call it a day. I'll say from from what

1335
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: Bills fans, what I watched and getting ready for this game, Yeah,

1336
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: this guy's got football left in him, and I know

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01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,160
Speaker 1: what happens in the offseason. Maybe he goes off a

1338
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: cliff or something, but he still runs an offense masterfully.

1339
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: You're always got You've always got a chance with him

1340
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,720
Speaker 1: taking snaps. Now, you would you would think that there

1341
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: would be a little bit, at least a little bit

1342
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: of a decline next year, because the guy's gonna be

1343
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: year older and they have a running game that can

1344
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 1: support him adequately and a head coach that knows how

1345
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 1: to use a quarterback with his skill set, and his

1346
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 1: skill set in large measure, Brownie is between his ears. Yea,

1347
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: and that makes everybody on the whole side of your

1348
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: whole side of the ball better. So that's a that's

1349
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 1: a tough guy to replace, really tough guy to replace.

1350
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is the Chickens have come home to roost. There.

1351
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: Not only is Ben Roethlisberger, at least in my opinion,

1352
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: I think he's washed. I just think he's done. He

1353
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: just can't do it anymore. He's also an albatross in

1354
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: terms of a contract at forty one million dollars next year.

1355
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean that team is cap strapped to begin with.

1356
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: You cannot invest forty one million dollars and a quarterback

1357
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: that can't get it done and not only that when

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01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 1: you are a GM, you have to look at the

1359
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: landscape of your division. You can make the argument right now, Steve,

1360
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 1: that Ben Roethlisberger is the worst quarterback in the NFC

1361
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: North Joe Burrow, Okay, Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson, like,

1362
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: you have the worst quarterback in your division. And he's

1363
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 1: the most expected to going to the Hall of Fame.

1364
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: I know, but he's thirty eight. His time has passed

1365
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: the page. He's a twenty million dollars quarterback if they

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01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 1: get rid of him, he's forty one million if they

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01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: keep him. That's that's a big difference. And even that

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01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: twenty million hurts. Even the twenty million hurts um. I

1369
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: think he might want to draft a young guy and

1370
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: see if you can make it work with him. And

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01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: it's not like the Steelers granted not in round one,

1372
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: but it's not like the Steelers haven't drafted quarterbacks over

1373
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 1: the last several years. Baker Mayfields a greater example. They

1374
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 1: haven't hit on any of them, the Steelers, whether it's

1375
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph, Josh Dobbs, I mean, run down the list.

1376
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: They have not hit on any of the quarterbacks they've

1377
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: drafted in the middle rounds with any degree of great success, like, oh,

1378
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: here's the air apparent to Ben like nobody even close.

1379
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: So Kevin Colbert's got to hit one out of the

1380
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: park here this year in the draft or somewhere. And

1381
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: they're not drafting high either. You think about it. I mean,

1382
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: we've said a ton I don't feel bad for them.

1383
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 1: They've won plenty, they had what do they have six rings? Yes,

1384
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, if I get it, I mean,

1385
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: if you if your team, We've said it a million times, Brownie,

1386
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: if your team does not have a quarterback, you're dead

1387
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: in the water. Everybody, your fan base, your front office,

1388
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: your coaching staff, your locker room are obsessed with finding him.

1389
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,439
Speaker 1: Everything goes away. Nothing else matters. If you don't have

1390
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: the guy that's going to take snaps on your football team,

1391
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 1: nothing else matters Until you get that guy. You're obsessed

1392
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: with that quest. Think, and that's the way it is.

1393
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: That's the way it's got to be. And those guys now,

1394
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: it seems there are more and more guys coming into

1395
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: the league there who are more ready to play than

1396
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: they've ever been. Because there were times when your franchise

1397
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: was done and you'd had no chance of getting one.

1398
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 1: Now with free agency and guys getting older, and and

1399
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: a ton of young guys coming in who can actually

1400
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: play something like we've never seen before the especially, so

1401
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: now you got a chance. I think maybe you're not

1402
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: in purgatory for two decades, right, Maybe you don't have

1403
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: to go to in sixteen before you get a chance

1404
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: to draft. I know, I know you and I have

1405
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: discussed this just on the surface at times. Think about

1406
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:40,720
Speaker 1: the AFC right now, I mean the AFC is head

1407
01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 1: and shoulders better than the NFC this year. I think

1408
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: that can be definitively stated just by virtue of the

1409
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 1: one loss records. We had a ten win team that

1410
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: didn't even make the playoffs in the AFC. But you

1411
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: think about the quarterbacks in the AFC compared to the NFC,

1412
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 1: it is in stark contrast in terms of the future.

1413
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean AFC DeShawn Watson, Okay, Josh Allen Tua even

1414
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 1: I think you can even say Darnold still has some

1415
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: hope if the Jets can finally build around them, even

1416
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: if they turn the page and he ends up somewhere else.

1417
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: Um Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson. I mean, Jacksonville

1418
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:25,799
Speaker 1: is gonna get to Watson. I mean, it's just Sam Darneld, Patrick, Mahomes,

1419
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert you forgot about. And Derek car still there.

1420
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: He's a seven or eight year Veentvian justin Herbert Herbert.

1421
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 1: That's the AFC. That's all AFC. It's insane. It is

1422
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: going to be intensely competitive in the AFC conference for

1423
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: a long time because of the trajectory of these young quarterbacks,

1424
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: and the NFC just doesn't have it. I mean, and

1425
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: as I mentioned with Kevin, the last four teams standing

1426
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: in the AFC have quarterbacks who are all twenty five

1427
01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:59,560
Speaker 1: or younger. Mahomes, Mayfield, Watson or Jackson and Allen. And

1428
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: then you go over and you've got a couple of

1429
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:04,360
Speaker 1: forty year olds battling and out this week between the

1430
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: Saints five, right, I think about that. It's like the

1431
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: Grandfather Bowl over there. Russell Wilson is close to being

1432
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: one of the oldest guys and he's thirty two. I

1433
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 1: think he turns thirty two this offseason, but he's going

1434
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 1: He's going home. He think about how old he'd be

1435
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: in the AFC. He'd be the elder, he'd still be

1436
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,639
Speaker 1: the old elder statesman. You got Ben and Philip Rivers.

1437
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: I mean those two guys might not be here next year,

1438
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 1: you know. So it's just it's a it's a major

1439
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 1: changing in the guard. I don't I don't see how

1440
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger comes back. There's just no way to justify it

1441
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: with the price tag or the performance. So there's there's

1442
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: a long to do list for the Steelers. Um, yeah,

1443
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 1: lot to figure out. And they have other free agents

1444
01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:55,560
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree, Juju Smith, Schuster. I mean, they got some

1445
01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: big names on that roster that whose contracts are up

1446
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,080
Speaker 1: as well, and they don't have the cap situation and

1447
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 1: to get them back. And guess who else is going

1448
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: to get a quarterback this year? The Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh yeah,

1449
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. I mentioned that that's another young AFC quarterback

1450
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: that's going to be in the division. And if the

1451
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,679
Speaker 1: Jets decide to draft a quarterback, is it justin fields?

1452
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:15,560
Speaker 1: Who is it? And then where does Darnold go? I

1453
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 1: means it's all in the AFC. It's crazy, crazy how

1454
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: many good young quarterbacks are in the AFC. It's nuts,

1455
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: all right, Break time for us when we come back.

1456
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: We're going to dissect this game a little bit more

1457
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 1: from Saturday because there's some nuts and bolts that I

1458
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: want to get into it Steve here that we have

1459
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: not even touched yet, as we've largely heard from you

1460
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,719
Speaker 1: at eight O three oh five fifty, but you're welcome

1461
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: to call. We'll probably check in on the tweet sheet

1462
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: as we are, asking you what from Saturday's game was

1463
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: championship caliber in terms of the Bills performance and what

1464
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 1: still needs to get there before the Bills take the

1465
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: field again on Saturday against the Ravens. Hit us up

1466
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live or give

1467
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: us a call at eight O three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: Back in a moment here on one Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Steve Dasher, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Bills victory Monday edition of one Bills Live. As we

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: are two days removed from Buffalo's first playoff victory in

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01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: twenty five years, as a couple of plays that I

1473
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of dissect with Steve from that game,

1474
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: and they kind of surround what I felt was the

1475
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: turning point of the game. Here's Indie up ten seven

1476
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:34,679
Speaker 1: and it looks like they're going in to score again.

1477
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 1: They've got third and goal from the one, and they

1478
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,599
Speaker 1: run a pitch play or a toss play to Jonathan

1479
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: Taylor to the left side of their formation and outside

1480
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:48,640
Speaker 1: of Micah Hide knocking down the hail Mary. At the

1481
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: end of the game, Tarren Johnson makes the defensive play

1482
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 1: of the game here. Yeah, it's a toss to the

1483
01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 1: out to the left side of the offense and Justice

1484
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: Taylor plans to go back in tarn Johnson, who was

1485
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: unblocked on the play because of the switch off. It

1486
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: looked like he was gonna go in motion with the back.

1487
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:09,839
Speaker 1: He did not stay there, toss it off to Poyor

1488
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: came back and got a chance to make the tackle

1489
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: on that end a round. It was. It was a

1490
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: game saver, you know, because there's no way Taylor's not

1491
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: getting in there, right, it was. I was a huge play.

1492
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 1: I mean one hundred and eighty pint. And I gotta

1493
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: tell you, Tarren Johnson, this season and not just this season,

1494
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: that nickel in this defense has to be a true

1495
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: run support player. I Mean there are times based on

1496
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: certain plays and alignments and formations. You're essentially a third

1497
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: linebacker out there. Yeah, and that guy plays like he's

1498
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pounds, not one hundred and eighty. Right,

1499
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: And that was just that might have been one of

1500
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 1: his top five defensive plays of the season. I mean,

1501
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: they go in there, now, kick the kick the extra point.

1502
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 1: Now it's seventeen seven. Bills would get the ball back.

1503
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: May maybe they do something in a two minute drill

1504
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: drive after the ensuing kickoff, maybe, right, but seventeen seven.

1505
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: I mean that's a ten point deficit. I mean you

1506
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: had a fourteen point swing there, because now the Bills

1507
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: get the ball back at their own four. I understand

1508
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: why Frank went for it on fourth down, even though

1509
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: it was from the four yard. I get it. I

1510
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: get it because you're thinking, well, even if I don't

1511
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: get in here, I'm still up three points. It's still

1512
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 1: up three points, and they're on their two yard line, right,

1513
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: and my defense has been playing goods so far. If

1514
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: you take the three, you're giving them the ball at

1515
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: their own twenty five. And if you make the three, okay,

1516
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: but if you don't, you're only up six and it's

1517
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: still a one six and you're still giving them the

1518
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: ball at the twenty five, not their six, not their five, right,

1519
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 1: so you give them twenty yards. I totally get the

1520
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: logic behind going for it there on fourth down. No

1521
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: problem at all with the decision making. But you want

1522
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: to talk about a defense letting your coach down, I mean,

1523
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: you got a ninety six yard field to defend with

1524
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: one forty six left. That's all strong because yeah, Josh,

1525
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 1: make two well believable off the script place. And that's

1526
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 1: my next point, because this is the turning point of

1527
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: the game. You get the stop and then your MVP

1528
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: caliber quarterback doesn't make one, but probably three amazing plays

1529
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: on this ninety six yard touchdown drive. First the rollout

1530
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: from his own end zone as our MSG viewers are

1531
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,679
Speaker 1: watching this now, and at the last possible second before

1532
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 1: stepping out of bounds, he finds Gabriel Davis, who, oh,

1533
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:31,720
Speaker 1: by the way, was on the receiving end and made

1534
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: two amazing plays with his feet as much as he

1535
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 1: did with his hands. So he makes that play to

1536
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: get them out of the shadow of their own goal

1537
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: posts for a thirty seven yard pickup, and then two

1538
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: plays later he hits Davis on the other sideline, rolling

1539
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: to his left, squaring up his shoulders and throwing a

1540
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 1: dart for another nineteen yards. And all three plays were reviewed.

1541
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: There's three plays reviewed on that drive. They were all

1542
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:01,560
Speaker 1: they all went in favor of the bill, and I

1543
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: didn't nobody could squawk about them. I mean the one

1544
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: I saw. Actually, ESPN Sports Center put out a tweet

1545
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:12,679
Speaker 1: with a picture of Gabe Davis's feet on the sideline, saying,

1546
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: the officials called this a catch, meaning like I guess

1547
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: they didn't believe it. And his foot there was a

1548
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,719
Speaker 1: line of grass. There was a line between his foot

1549
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: and the sideline, you know what I mean. There was

1550
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: a good little green there. Yeah, And so maybe there's

1551
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 1: somebody out there didn't think any of those reviews should

1552
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:37,600
Speaker 1: have been upheld. Then you had they were. Then you

1553
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: had the dumbest play of the game by Kimoco Toure.

1554
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's fourth and three. If you've watched one

1555
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: iota of film on the Buffalo Bills, any fourth down

1556
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: cut ups of the Buffalo Bills this season, you know

1557
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:57,720
Speaker 1: they have tried this a half dozen times. If you

1558
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: are a defensive lineman, more than any other down that

1559
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 1: you have ever played in your life. It's fourth and three,

1560
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: it's in a playoff game and your team is winning.

1561
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 1: Don't move until the ball moves, and you gotta Yeah,

1562
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: you think they may not even snap its side, And

1563
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,680
Speaker 1: God and bless their heart to Darius Leonard, they're all

1564
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: pro linebacker. He jumps off sides and Darius Lenard absolutely

1565
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: loses it on the guy and just and just say

1566
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: and heat the player. Darius Leonard, middle linebacker, sends him

1567
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 1: off and just point said get off the feet, get go,

1568
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: just said, he just made the substitution himself. Get off

1569
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: my field. They were giving it to their teammates so bad,

1570
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 1: and he deserved it. But man, oh, man, oh, you

1571
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: want to talk about another mission When you're the victim,

1572
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: it's it's particularly aggravating where you're the victim of somebody

1573
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: else's stupidity. Yeah, or you know like that. I mean,

1574
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't quite rise way it goes, doesn't quite rise

1575
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 1: to this level. But it's lining up off sides by

1576
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,639
Speaker 1: the Chiefs from the AFC title years three years ago.

1577
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: Again the game trying to play that they intercept the

1578
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: ball in to put the game away. It doesn't count.

1579
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: That comes back. You lose that it's not quite there,

1580
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: but it's close. It's close, yes, because three set of

1581
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: downs and three plays later, Josh Allen's running into the

1582
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: end zone from five yards out. But to go to

1583
01:21:29,439 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: the third play that Alan made um that was great

1584
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: was the quarterback draw on second and ten from the

1585
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: twenty one. Takes it right up the gut for sixteen

1586
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 1: yards which sets them up for first a goal, and

1587
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: then he's in after that. Those are three plays, small

1588
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:49,600
Speaker 1: not small examples, three examples of how Josh put this

1589
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: team on his back on Saturday. Without Josh making probably

1590
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 1: seven or eight of those plays, this team isn't even

1591
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 1: in the game, forget about winning it. There were a

1592
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: lot of areas of this football team that were not

1593
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: championship caliber on Saturday. Josh Allen wasn't perfect, but more

1594
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: often than not, he put this team on his back,

1595
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: and he was the single he was the single greatest

1596
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: reason they won the football game. I don't even think

1597
01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 1: it's close. Yeah, I mean, Gabe Davis made some nice

1598
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: plays for him. Stefan Diggs made some nice plays for him.

1599
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:28,519
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley in a yeoman's effort dragging his leg around,

1600
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 1: had a great game. This guy is the reason they

1601
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 1: won the football game. Yeah, he played like a franchise quarterback, absolutely,

1602
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: no question about it. He came up big, He got

1603
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: him into the right plays, got him out back into

1604
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 1: and out of another bad plays. He did it with

1605
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: his legs, made quick decisions, off the cuff, decisions impromptu. Yeah,

1606
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: he played like we've seen him play all year in

1607
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: a big moment. Certainly, the worst play of the game

1608
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: for Josh was the twenty three yards sack that he had.

1609
01:22:58,160 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: We fumbled it. It was almost came out. It was.

1610
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: It was almost catastrophic. But nevertheless, you know, the team

1611
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 1: goes on to win. That was one play, and he had,

1612
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: like like you said, maybe verging on double digit plays

1613
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: that nobody else would have made. So it was seven

1614
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 1: of nine passing on off script plays and on deep

1615
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: balls four or five. So the guy made the plays. Now,

1616
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: I will say this, the defense, despite all its shortcomings

1617
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: in their performance on Saturday, when you absolutely needed a play,

1618
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: they were timely in giving them. Whether it was that

1619
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 1: third and goal play down at the goal line by

1620
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: Taryn Johnson, whether it was Micah Hide knocking a ball down.

1621
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 1: Matt Milano had a big third down stop at one

1622
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: point when they needed super crunch time, gotta have it.

1623
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: They came up with five or six of those kinds

1624
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 1: of plays and it was enough to stem the tide

1625
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: and help them win the football game. And Tyler Bass

1626
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: had a heck of a game. I mean, the fifty

1627
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: four yard to put him up twenty six sixteen was

1628
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: absolutely enormous and gigantic. He drained it, that was. And

1629
01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: what did we say going into that game, two rookie kickers,

1630
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: The Bills have the edge. They've got the better kicker

1631
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: in leg strength, and we found out a better kicker

1632
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 1: in terms of stones because he went doink on a

1633
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 1: thirty something yardink on a thirty three yard or off

1634
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: both up rights and out when they needed it. That's

1635
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: a big and in a game you'll lose by three

1636
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:36,760
Speaker 1: wolf crusher. That is a crusher. That is a big

1637
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: wolf right there. All right. So, look, we know that

1638
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: the Bills as an offense have had success against top

1639
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: ten defenses this season. They're going to be facing another

1640
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: one who's not only top ten in total yards allowed,

1641
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: but top ten in points against as well, in the

1642
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. So I did a little digging looked at

1643
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen against top ten defenses this season, played the Rams,

1644
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:02,479
Speaker 1: the Chargers, sam Fran, Pittsburgh, Indie, all top ten defenses

1645
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: and yards allowed. Josh Allen, You ready, okay go one

1646
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: loss record, five and zero points per game average, twenty

1647
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: nine point eight passing touchdowns fourteen picks three, completion percentage

1648
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 1: seventy one percent third down conversion forty three, red zone

1649
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: touchdown efficiency sixty five percent conversion passing yards two sixty

1650
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: six sackspur games two point two rushing yards by the

1651
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: team one ten. Okay, that's for top ten yardage defenses,

1652
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:39,679
Speaker 1: and that also includes the interset or the third down

1653
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 1: conversion of forty three percent includes a two for nine

1654
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: day Saturday, Yes it does, okay. So now Josh Allen

1655
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: against top ten scoring defenses. That's both Miami games. That's

1656
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:56,280
Speaker 1: both New England games, the Rams, Ksey, Pittsburgh, and Indie. Okay,

1657
01:25:56,680 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: so here we go. Top ten scoring defenses, win loss record,

1658
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:04,679
Speaker 1: Josh Allen seven to one points per game average, twenty

1659
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 1: nine point six passing touchdowns twenty two completely picks six.

1660
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 1: So still that three to one touchdown interception ratio exists.

1661
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 1: Passing to sorry completion percentage sixty five point seven, so

1662
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 1: that's down a little bit. Third down conversion forty three percent.

1663
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: It's the same red zone touchdown efficiency against top ten

1664
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: scoring defenses eighty two point seven percent. Hello, passing yards

1665
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 1: to seventy six, sack ten times, rushing yards as a

1666
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: team about the same, one to eleven. But my god,

1667
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: if you don't think this guy is the quintessential tip

1668
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: of the spear, I don't know what is. Yeah, he

1669
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 1: has played out standing and they've and the Bills too,

1670
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:56,679
Speaker 1: have played that kind of football. Like you said, they've

1671
01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 1: played a ton of top ten scoring defenses that you know,

1672
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 1: there's play eight of them and was seven and one

1673
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:05,720
Speaker 1: in those games and he was what four? And what'd

1674
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: you say about the top ten defenses? Was the other

1675
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: the other stat was four and five? And oh good grief.

1676
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 1: Now there is some crossover there, like Rams are one

1677
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:16,600
Speaker 1: of those teams that are on both sides of this

1678
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: indie in Pittsburgh. But that's it. So there is some crossover,

1679
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 1: but it's not complete. The numbers are largely the same.

1680
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 1: I'll say this too self self, you know it, calling

1681
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 1: myself out here. I thought this was gonna be a

1682
01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: much easier game this last weekend than it was. Yeah,

1683
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: I think we all thought and it would win first time.

1684
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: I thought that all year, and except for maybe a

1685
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:45,719
Speaker 1: Jets game here and there, whatever, and the Miami game whatever.

1686
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:48,680
Speaker 1: But I thought this was gonna be a game where

1687
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 1: the Bills were gonna kind of control it. I'm back

1688
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 1: to where I was for the Seattle game, for the

1689
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game, for all these other games where I didn't

1690
01:27:56,600 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: think they were gonna where it was gonna be that easy. Well, yeah,

1691
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Look, we'll discuss this when

1692
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:04,280
Speaker 1: we come back, because we do have to take a

1693
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,920
Speaker 1: break and maybe take a phone call as well. But

1694
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll discuss this in terms of

1695
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: the readiness for the Ravens game, coming off a performance

1696
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: that maybe probably wasn't that probably wasn't up to snuff

1697
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:19,719
Speaker 1: in comparison to the six regular season games. We'll discuss

1698
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:21,679
Speaker 1: that when we return. Here on One Bills Live presented

1699
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio grows to Tasker.

1700
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 1: Here Bills victory Monday edition of One Bills Live, and

1701
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:46,559
Speaker 1: now the preparations begin for the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night.

1702
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone's real quick and bring in

1703
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:52,439
Speaker 1: Rick from Albany. Rick, you're on one bills live. What

1704
01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:55,320
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Hey? John, I'm gonna thank

1705
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: you very much for taking my call Victory Monday. Hey,

1706
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: one of the things I want to bring up, I

1707
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody say this is how McDermot called his

1708
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: timeouts on that final possession. And to me, he was

1709
01:29:09,360 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 1: the MVP of that last drive and then he really

1710
01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:15,120
Speaker 1: look at the contents. If he hadn't call them time

1711
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 1: out the way he did and when he did them,

1712
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: it would have the effect of the game would have

1713
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: totally drastically changed the One of the things I really noticed,

1714
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:25,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody else picked up on the

1715
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: camera when the pan two rivers, he was frustrated every

1716
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:33,000
Speaker 1: time he called the time out because he was starting

1717
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: to get into the rhythm and get down the field. Yeah,

1718
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 1: I know. He called one to let his own team

1719
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:42,679
Speaker 1: get a breath, catch their breath there on the final series,

1720
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: and he also astutely called a timeout in the hopes

1721
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:50,879
Speaker 1: that New York would buzz the official after the obvious

1722
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: fumble that everybody saw that was not called one on

1723
01:29:53,280 --> 01:29:56,560
Speaker 1: the field. Somebody must have gone to the bathroom in

1724
01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:58,680
Speaker 1: New York. But yes, he did do a heck of

1725
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: a job with the timeout. So a good point there, Rick,

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01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: We appreciate the phone call. This crew did not have

1727
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,959
Speaker 1: a good day. I mean they also called an interception

1728
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: in the end zone by Isaiah Rodgers after the ball

1729
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: fumbled all over the end zone like somebody, you know,

1730
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 1: throw it through a hand grenade. I mean I was.

1731
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 1: I was in the press box at the opposite end

1732
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 1: of the field, not using my binoculars, and I could

1733
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: tell from there, which is approximately four hundred and fifty

1734
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 1: yards away, that it was not an interception because I

1735
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:33,320
Speaker 1: saw a ball rolling around in the end zone and

1736
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: they called it a pick and had to review it.

1737
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: Did you remember did you also remember the t Y

1738
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 1: Hilton catch on the side as the ball went right

1739
01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:47,400
Speaker 1: through the hands of Micah Hyde in trail position, the

1740
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 1: ball went landed behind t Y Hilton on the ground.

1741
01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: He turned around grab it and was kind of scooped

1742
01:30:56,040 --> 01:30:59,360
Speaker 1: it up or whatever, and they it took him forever

1743
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:03,599
Speaker 1: to call at incomplete. Yeah, they were not a good day.

1744
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: It was not a good day at all. And yeah,

1745
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,560
Speaker 1: so I'm sure, you know what you think about it.

1746
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:12,760
Speaker 1: The Colts are probably just as upset about it as

1747
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:16,000
Speaker 1: the Bills are. We got away with the win. They'll

1748
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 1: probably see things in that game where they'll say, what

1749
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 1: about this and this and this? Yeah, I think the

1750
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:22,680
Speaker 1: more egregious ones are on the other side. But that's

1751
01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:25,720
Speaker 1: just let's get one more call in before the break.

1752
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: Here we go to Nick and Buffalo. Nick, what do

1753
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:29,679
Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bills live. Yeah,

1754
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:32,720
Speaker 1: I'm really excited that the Bills won. You know, it

1755
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: had that feeling of back to the nineties. But there's

1756
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:38,479
Speaker 1: one thing I couldn't understand with John Brown. I don't

1757
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: think he was game ready and to not use Isaiah

1758
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:45,439
Speaker 1: McKenzie like they have been using. He's a valuable cog

1759
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:49,160
Speaker 1: in the system and John Brown just isn't game ready yet.

1760
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:51,960
Speaker 1: I think he needs another two weeks of practice, and

1761
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:54,640
Speaker 1: not to use him was a big mistake. I mean,

1762
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: Josh has confidence in the kids. The kids always making mistakes.

1763
01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:01,639
Speaker 1: I didn't see any circle routes at all during the game,

1764
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 1: which has been a valuable part of the offense. I

1765
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 1: think they lost a valuable piece of the offense by

1766
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: not having him in the game. Yeah, it was. That's

1767
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 1: a good point, Nick, I was perplexed by it myself.

1768
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:17,640
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie four snaps on offense seven percent of the

1769
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:21,280
Speaker 1: offensive plays in the game. Were you surprised at his

1770
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: lack of usage in the ways he's been traditionally used.

1771
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: Maybe there was a reason defensively they didn't think a

1772
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,679
Speaker 1: lot of what they use him for would work because

1773
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: it is an athletic defense that they can get to

1774
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:34,160
Speaker 1: the sidelines really fast. I think, yeah, I was a

1775
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 1: little surprised by that. I particularly when Cole Beasley didn't

1776
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: look like he was feeling one hundred percent. They they

1777
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 1: switched Cole Beasley on and off the field throughout a

1778
01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:48,639
Speaker 1: couple of drives where he'd come on, make a catch,

1779
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:50,519
Speaker 1: come off, go on, make you know, make a play

1780
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 1: or have a play, they come off. I was I

1781
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:57,519
Speaker 1: would really be interested to know what the thought process

1782
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: was with McKenzie, Beasley, John Brown. Certainly you saw both

1783
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 1: John Brown and Steph Diggs drop a pass early in

1784
01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 1: the first in the first half of that game, which

1785
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:11,519
Speaker 1: is completely uncharacteristic, particularly the nature of the drops. And

1786
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: I know it's easy for Nick to say, Hey, why

1787
01:33:14,160 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 1: I don't think John Brown and Isaiah McKenzie is an

1788
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 1: either or situation at all. They play much different roles

1789
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,439
Speaker 1: in the scope of the offense, so I don't think

1790
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 1: the usage of one and the lack of usage of

1791
01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:27,559
Speaker 1: the other are in any way related. Yeah, I don't

1792
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,599
Speaker 1: think John Brown had anything to do with Isaiah McKenzie

1793
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 1: and John Brown played ninety seven percent of the snaps,

1794
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 1: targeted four times, no receptions. He had a tough time

1795
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:38,800
Speaker 1: making an impact in that game. Davia Roads did a

1796
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:41,640
Speaker 1: really good job on him for the majority of the

1797
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,880
Speaker 1: times in which they matched up in the game. I

1798
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: would expect more production and better play from John Brown

1799
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,600
Speaker 1: going forward, especially knowing he's playing a team that he

1800
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:56,639
Speaker 1: formerly was a member of two seasons ago and really

1801
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,200
Speaker 1: didn't get to put his full talent on dis lay

1802
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 1: down there, especially once they turned the page and went

1803
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:04,639
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson, who at the time was a rookie

1804
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:07,360
Speaker 1: and was kind of feeling his way, and then yeah,

1805
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: he just disappeared from the past. They once Flacco went

1806
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, they brought Joe John Brown into

1807
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 1: Baltimore to catch passes from Joe Flacco and then made

1808
01:34:16,439 --> 01:34:19,560
Speaker 1: the transition early in the first third or half of

1809
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,919
Speaker 1: the year that year away from Flacco and to Lamar Jackson,

1810
01:34:23,360 --> 01:34:26,720
Speaker 1: and it ended up they wanted wide receivers who could

1811
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 1: block in the run game. Yeah, but so then pass catchers,

1812
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 1: and John Brown does not fit that. John Brown is

1813
01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 1: one example of the many players on this Bill's roster

1814
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:38,439
Speaker 1: who I think turn it up considerably this week after

1815
01:34:38,640 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 1: knowing and probably after watching themselves on film, saying I

1816
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 1: can be better than this, I can do more, I

1817
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: can perform more consistently, more productively. I think there's gonna

1818
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:49,960
Speaker 1: be a lot of guys looking in the mirror this

1819
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:52,759
Speaker 1: weekend and through the course of this week with laser

1820
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:56,160
Speaker 1: focus in practice. I really do expect the Bills to

1821
01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: play a much better total team game well on Sun

1822
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:02,640
Speaker 1: on Saturday, they probably have to as good as the

1823
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 1: Colts played last week, and as effective as they were

1824
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:09,680
Speaker 1: doing what they do, the Ravens are really effective doing

1825
01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 1: what they do. In fact, the Ravens to me, the

1826
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:13,160
Speaker 1: Ravens are a scary team for a lot of reasons.

1827
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:15,559
Speaker 1: They're very talented, very well coached, and they're a team

1828
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:18,639
Speaker 1: that expects to have success. They're a big, physical team

1829
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:20,880
Speaker 1: upfront on both sides of the ball, which which is

1830
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:25,600
Speaker 1: an issue for Buffalo, but also they're a team with

1831
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:29,600
Speaker 1: a unique philosophy around a unique talent at quarterback. You

1832
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: don't get to see that very much, at least Bills

1833
01:35:32,120 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: fans don't. And that is something you're not used to see,

1834
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be hard to contain a guy

1835
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:40,800
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jack. We saw a Tennessee Titans team not

1836
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:45,040
Speaker 1: be able to do it. It's I mean, they're up

1837
01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:48,560
Speaker 1: against it. It's the teams now that every team you

1838
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 1: play now is going to be playing better than the

1839
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:52,320
Speaker 1: one you just faced. And this just in that team

1840
01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:54,600
Speaker 1: you just faced was playing really well. Yeah, and you

1841
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: got out with a three point win at home. You're

1842
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to play better this week break time for us,

1843
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:02,519
Speaker 1: when we come back, we've got one Eric Wood set

1844
01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 1: to join us. He'll give us his take on Saturday's

1845
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:10,720
Speaker 1: wildcard victory by the Bills and what to look for,

1846
01:36:11,080 --> 01:36:14,000
Speaker 1: what to prepare for with respect to these Baltimore Ravens

1847
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:17,519
Speaker 1: coming into town this coming Saturday in the divisional round.

1848
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker back in a moment here on

1849
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1850
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 1: Healo Bill's Radio Network. Sports Update, Your sports update from

1851
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive. The Bills will host the Ravens in

1852
01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: the divisional playoff rounds Saturday night here at Bill's Stadium.

1853
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:48,400
Speaker 1: Kickoff is set for eight fifteen pm. Head coach Sean

1854
01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:51,840
Speaker 1: McDermott expected to meet the media later today. We'll be

1855
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:55,560
Speaker 1: anticipating an update on running back Zach Moss, who was

1856
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: carted off the field last Saturday against the Colts after

1857
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:03,800
Speaker 1: suffering and ankle injury. With the Browns beating the Steelers,

1858
01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 1: they advanced to the divisional round as well. They will

1859
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: now face the Kansas City Chiefs to face the top

1860
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,759
Speaker 1: seeded team in the divisional round in the AFC. Bill's

1861
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:16,759
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Brian Dable had two head coaching interviews on Sunday.

1862
01:37:17,080 --> 01:37:19,879
Speaker 1: He met virtually with both the Jets and the Chargers.

1863
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 1: Now word comes that Bill's defensive coordinator Leslie Fraser also

1864
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 1: on the head coaching interview circuit. According to Pro Football Talk,

1865
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:30,759
Speaker 1: you'll be interviewing with the Houston Texans for their vacant

1866
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:33,880
Speaker 1: head coaching post. Breaking news in the NFL, as there

1867
01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: will be an additional head coaching vacancy in the league.

1868
01:37:37,160 --> 01:37:40,200
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles have relieved Doug Peterson of his duties

1869
01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:43,519
Speaker 1: as head coach, so a seventh NFL club will be

1870
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:48,679
Speaker 1: looking for a new sideline boss this offseason. In college football,

1871
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:52,719
Speaker 1: number one Alabama will take on number three Ohio State

1872
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 1: in tonight's College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Kickoff is

1873
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: set for eight PM, and Buffalo's Director of Player Personnel

1874
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 1: Dan Morgan, will be a member of the twenty twenty

1875
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: one College Football Hall of Fame class. Morgan had a

1876
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:10,559
Speaker 1: storied career at the University of Miami from nineteen ninety

1877
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:13,640
Speaker 1: seven to two thousand. Finished his collegiate career with the

1878
01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: Big East record for most career tackles with five hundred

1879
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:19,320
Speaker 1: thirty two. In his final season, Miami went eleven and

1880
01:38:19,400 --> 01:38:21,679
Speaker 1: one and won the Sugar Bowl. He was the eleventh

1881
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 1: overall pick of the Carolina Panthers in the two thousand

1882
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:28,559
Speaker 1: and one NFL Draft. That is your sports update here

1883
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, our number three of the program beginning,

1884
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:35,800
Speaker 1: and we do that as we do every Monday with

1885
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 1: one Eric Wood, former Bills center and current analyst on

1886
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:43,920
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills Network, seeing him mostly on Bills tonight

1887
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:48,320
Speaker 1: this season, as he is operating virtually trapped in Louisville

1888
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,240
Speaker 1: for the balance of the season. As far as the

1889
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:53,799
Speaker 1: NFL is concerned, you have major way around the ACC

1890
01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:55,760
Speaker 1: this year, But it's a little different animal here with

1891
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 1: the NFL. You're right, the state of New York's a

1892
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: different an. There you go, that's what That's what got

1893
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:04,680
Speaker 1: me out of Buffalo. But I've been enjoying Steve on

1894
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: the calls, and I've been enjoying the post game. I

1895
01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:11,679
Speaker 1: definitely enjoy the games. No offense to my co host

1896
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:15,040
Speaker 1: Mattie glab but I definitely enjoy calling the games more.

1897
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I agree with It has been a treat

1898
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 1: for me to be there watching these guys. What surprised you?

1899
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:23,120
Speaker 1: What did you see from the Bills? Certainly a three

1900
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 1: point win is something you'll love to take. You scored

1901
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 1: twenty seven points, which is kind of on par for

1902
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:29,880
Speaker 1: where you'd like to be in the NFL playoffs. What

1903
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:31,680
Speaker 1: did you think about the three point loss. I know

1904
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:33,640
Speaker 1: there's some angst for some Bills fans about wow, we

1905
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: didn't blow them out, but nevertheless, Colts were well coached team.

1906
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:39,599
Speaker 1: What struck you about the Bills and the close win

1907
01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 1: they had on Saturday. Well, the Cults are, first off,

1908
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 1: an excellent football team. They came into the game ranked

1909
01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: top ten in the NFL in both offense and defense.

1910
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,120
Speaker 1: That's hard to do in this league. And so they

1911
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:53,120
Speaker 1: come in with an eleven and five record in this AFC,

1912
01:39:53,439 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: that's a tough conference this year. And they come in

1913
01:39:57,080 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: at eleven and five with a veteran quarterback, tons of

1914
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: veterans on defense, a bunch of stars on defense as well,

1915
01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:05,960
Speaker 1: especially in that front seven, and the Bills get the victory,

1916
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 1: and that's all that matters come playoff time, and where

1917
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:11,960
Speaker 1: the Bills maybe a touch tight early in the game,

1918
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:14,919
Speaker 1: maybe because they haven't won a game in the playoffs

1919
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:17,479
Speaker 1: and so long. And they came in with a thirteen

1920
01:40:17,520 --> 01:40:20,880
Speaker 1: and three record, and they were at home and they

1921
01:40:20,920 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 1: were a six and a half point favorite. I mean, yes,

1922
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,040
Speaker 1: there was a lot of pressure on them to win

1923
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: this game. And you saw Josh escape the pocket pretty

1924
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:30,800
Speaker 1: fast early in the game, rely on his legs a

1925
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 1: little bit more. You saw some uncharacteristic drops in the

1926
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 1: first half, one from John Brown, one from Stefon Diggs.

1927
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:40,800
Speaker 1: And I say all that the Bills got the win,

1928
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 1: and it was a great, great win because, like I

1929
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 1: mentioned from the start, Indianapolis is a quality ball club. Yeah,

1930
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 1: and you know, as much as the defense made some

1931
01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:55,720
Speaker 1: timely plays when they absolutely had to have them, I'm

1932
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 1: sure and talking to most of those players on the

1933
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 1: post game Zoom press conference is they knew it was

1934
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:04,920
Speaker 1: not up to their standard when a lot of other

1935
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:08,759
Speaker 1: players on this roster were maybe not playing their best

1936
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: possible ball. Josh Allen kind of put this team on

1937
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 1: his back. I mean that that fumble play, notwithstanding at

1938
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:18,760
Speaker 1: the end, Derek, I mean, he's the reason they won

1939
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:21,559
Speaker 1: the game, don't you think, no doubt. He almost has

1940
01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: four hundred yards of total offense himself, the drive at

1941
01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:28,719
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, the last two plays

1942
01:41:28,720 --> 01:41:31,680
Speaker 1: that the driver both Josh Allen runs from the twenty end.

1943
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he put the team on his back,

1944
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: like like he's done most of the season. He made

1945
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:39,719
Speaker 1: some incredible throws. The check and then throw he made

1946
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:43,760
Speaker 1: to Diggs for the touchdown verse pressure was just outstanding.

1947
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I could go be back, and

1948
01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:48,920
Speaker 1: I don't wish, you know, I could go back and

1949
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:50,439
Speaker 1: play all the time, but I wish I could have

1950
01:41:50,479 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 1: been in the meetings the next day and them talk

1951
01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 1: about that play that he checked and threw that ball

1952
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 1: to Stefon Diggs as as we get to see it

1953
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:01,400
Speaker 1: on TV, those listening can see it. They're showing the

1954
01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:03,639
Speaker 1: highlight of the first touchdown in the game, the Dawson

1955
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:06,080
Speaker 1: Knox play, and how many quarterbacks in the NFL can

1956
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:08,760
Speaker 1: make that play. I mean a guy's hanging on him. Yeah,

1957
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 1: So you got to be big enough, strong enough. You

1958
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:12,920
Speaker 1: also have to be tall enough to shove it over

1959
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:14,960
Speaker 1: the defenders. I mean, he just made a ton of

1960
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: phenomenal plays, and you love to see Josh. You know,

1961
01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: Josh didn't play a bad game in Houston last year.

1962
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:23,599
Speaker 1: He just didn't have a great finish to the game. Well,

1963
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: it was great to see him play great from start

1964
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: to finish, and then he got away. He got away

1965
01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:31,839
Speaker 1: with that fumble. Yeah. And it's interesting that you mentioned

1966
01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: the touchdown pass to Diggs because I actually asked him

1967
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:39,639
Speaker 1: about that in the postgame media conference and he revealed

1968
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: that they had that play on. Initially, he checked out

1969
01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:46,639
Speaker 1: of it based on the pre snap look from the Colts,

1970
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:50,120
Speaker 1: and then they spun back into the look, they were anticipating,

1971
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 1: and he checked back to the original play, which was

1972
01:42:53,120 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 1: the play that we all saw, the thirty five yard

1973
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 1: passed two Diggs. So I know I'm not taking you

1974
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,240
Speaker 1: in the meeting rooms, but that's at least what Gosh

1975
01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:04,120
Speaker 1: explain to us. Eric, Yeah, for sure. And during the game,

1976
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:07,000
Speaker 1: I was watching the TV. I had the TV volume on,

1977
01:43:07,080 --> 01:43:10,320
Speaker 1: no offensive, but I had the TV volume on and

1978
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 1: I could hear him say reload, reload, so I assumed

1979
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 1: that's what they were doing. I never played in a

1980
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball offense, but that's fairly universal. You get

1981
01:43:18,439 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 1: in a check with me system at the line, you

1982
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:23,679
Speaker 1: can kill it, you can orange you which flips the play.

1983
01:43:23,760 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: You can do a number of different things, but then reload. Hey, shoot,

1984
01:43:27,760 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: we got to go back to the original and for

1985
01:43:29,960 --> 01:43:31,280
Speaker 1: him to be able to do all that at the

1986
01:43:31,320 --> 01:43:33,800
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you know what that also does. It's

1987
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:36,560
Speaker 1: decisive play calling by day Ball giving him to the

1988
01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage in time to be able to do

1989
01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 1: those things. I can't tell you, and this is no

1990
01:43:41,080 --> 01:43:43,599
Speaker 1: offense of the coaches I played for, but I can't

1991
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: tell you how many times we got to the line

1992
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 1: of scrimmage with nine seconds left and could have done

1993
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 1: something like that, but we just didn't have the time.

1994
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:54,759
Speaker 1: And Dave Ball consistently gets him to the line of scrimmage,

1995
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:56,479
Speaker 1: whether that's a hurry up, get back up on the

1996
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:59,600
Speaker 1: ball or gets him to the line of scrimmage with

1997
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: twenty seconds left on the clock, where he could play

1998
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: games like that with the defense. Do you spend it?

1999
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:07,280
Speaker 1: How do you spend it positive or negative? About this

2000
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:10,360
Speaker 1: game against the Colts? They were the Bills were outgained,

2001
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: the time of possession was far in favor of the

2002
01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:16,519
Speaker 1: third down conversions. Bills were two and nine on third

2003
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 1: down conversions. Indie was nine to seventeen total night yards.

2004
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: They outgained the Bills by eighty yards or so a

2005
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:27,160
Speaker 1: ton more offensive plays as you would imagine because of

2006
01:44:27,200 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: the time of possession. You know, all this stuff goes

2007
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:32,760
Speaker 1: in the Colts favor. Field position was a big issue

2008
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:35,599
Speaker 1: in the first half. Do you spend that positive or negative?

2009
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:39,559
Speaker 1: The positive the Bills actually got out played, or negative

2010
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 1: that they Bills got outplayed, or positive that they pulled

2011
01:44:42,120 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: one in a day when they weren't their best. How

2012
01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 1: do you spend it positive? Because that's how I'm wired.

2013
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,600
Speaker 1: But but I will say this, it's great that the

2014
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:54,840
Speaker 1: Bills are finding ways to win, and they've done it

2015
01:44:54,920 --> 01:44:57,559
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. They've consistently found ways

2016
01:44:57,600 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: to win. We did it in twenty seventeen under Shaan McDermot.

2017
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: Just finding ways to win games when you need them.

2018
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:04,880
Speaker 1: But I said this in the pregame, and look, this

2019
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:06,960
Speaker 1: isn't a look I told you so a moment because

2020
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:09,280
Speaker 1: you could go back to any all my takes pregame

2021
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: and figure out how many times I'm wrong looking at

2022
01:45:11,439 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: keys of the game. But when I asked Sean McDermott

2023
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:16,000
Speaker 1: what he said his key to the game was or

2024
01:45:16,080 --> 01:45:18,080
Speaker 1: his keys, he only mentioned one, and that was taking

2025
01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:19,680
Speaker 1: care of the football. And they did it. They had

2026
01:45:19,760 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: zero turnovers. The Bills are gonna be tough to beat

2027
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:25,599
Speaker 1: if they have zero turnovers. I said in my pregame

2028
01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: deal that I thought touchdown percentage in the red zone

2029
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,040
Speaker 1: would be the biggest factor because these teams to me

2030
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: just seemed pretty even. I thought Philip Rivers would have

2031
01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:39,920
Speaker 1: success against the defense. Not that not that I thought

2032
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 1: he was going to have a career day. He's just

2033
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback and you know, he knew what he

2034
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:48,680
Speaker 1: was getting from Buffalo. They had great concepts in you know,

2035
01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: you prepare like it's a playoff game. I knew they

2036
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 1: were going to have some deals on offense, so I

2037
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: thought it would come down to red zone touchdown percentage,

2038
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,360
Speaker 1: and it did. The deciding factors in the game or

2039
01:45:59,439 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: the blanket shipped bunked field goal. They chose to go

2040
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 1: for it on the fourth down, and then the Bills

2041
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,840
Speaker 1: capitalized more times than not with touchdowns in the red

2042
01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:11,840
Speaker 1: zone and with evenly matched teams. That's what it comes

2043
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:15,560
Speaker 1: down to, Eric, in light of the fact that the

2044
01:46:15,680 --> 01:46:18,760
Speaker 1: Bills probably they've admitted this themselves, in light of the

2045
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: fact that they did not play their best game, and

2046
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: knowing Sean McDermott like you do and his ability to

2047
01:46:24,640 --> 01:46:28,200
Speaker 1: course correct his team. I don't know about you, but

2048
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:33,400
Speaker 1: I'm fully expecting a better total team performance this week

2049
01:46:33,439 --> 01:46:36,400
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, not because they have to, because that's

2050
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 1: what their mo has been. When they don't feel they've

2051
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:41,519
Speaker 1: played up to their standard, it seems like the laser

2052
01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:45,200
Speaker 1: focus is even sharper in the following week of preparation

2053
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:47,719
Speaker 1: leading up to the next game. So I'm just curious.

2054
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 1: Do you share that same sentiment that I do, that

2055
01:46:50,760 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: there should be a better total team performance this week

2056
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:57,400
Speaker 1: based on maybe what didn't happen this past week. Yeah,

2057
01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 1: I see a lot of truth in that statement. And

2058
01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 1: the reason I see it is not simply from the

2059
01:47:03,320 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 1: fact that they're going to prepare harder, because I think

2060
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: with the playoffs and everything on the line, they put

2061
01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:11,439
Speaker 1: their heart and soul into the preparation last week. You know,

2062
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:15,439
Speaker 1: let's face it, now, after winning one game, feeling what

2063
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 1: it feels like back in Bills Stadium with a few

2064
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:21,720
Speaker 1: fans in there, feeling that playoff pressure last week, I

2065
01:47:21,840 --> 01:47:24,760
Speaker 1: think they play better just with the amount of experience

2066
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 1: that they've had in the playoffs now these last couple

2067
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:30,200
Speaker 1: of years, and understanding the pace of the game the playoffs.

2068
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 1: I only had one experience, but the pace of play

2069
01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: Steve had a lot more. He can confirm this. From

2070
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:41,679
Speaker 1: preseason to regular season, intensity and speed goes up. Regular

2071
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,400
Speaker 1: season to postseason, it goes up again, and if you

2072
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience in that, it's just

2073
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:48,519
Speaker 1: a different level. You got to get used to it.

2074
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: I think the Bills will be better because of that,

2075
01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:54,719
Speaker 1: and then you know, they didn't play their best, especially

2076
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:56,920
Speaker 1: when you look at the defense. They weren't really putting

2077
01:47:56,920 --> 01:48:00,960
Speaker 1: any pressure on Philip Rivers. With the war Man pass rush,

2078
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure that they'll light a fire under that defensive line.

2079
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:08,519
Speaker 1: Now those guys are fired of you know, you got

2080
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:10,680
Speaker 1: the fans in there. They're making as much noise as

2081
01:48:10,720 --> 01:48:12,920
Speaker 1: they can. It's a playoff game. They're going as hard

2082
01:48:12,960 --> 01:48:15,360
Speaker 1: as they can. Now do they mix up who's in

2083
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:18,639
Speaker 1: there maybe a little bit? Do they get more creative

2084
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:23,240
Speaker 1: with their pass rush pressures? I would imagine so this week, Yeah,

2085
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:26,679
Speaker 1: in a game like this where a defense is really good,

2086
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:28,920
Speaker 1: and like you're gonna get this week with the with

2087
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 1: the Ravens, you're gonna you know that everybody when they

2088
01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:33,800
Speaker 1: get an opportunity, has to make the most of this

2089
01:48:33,920 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 1: last game, we got a chance to see Gabe Davis,

2090
01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: who you know, he came up with what four catches,

2091
01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 1: but he don't had four targets. He caught every single

2092
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 1: target that came to him and he had eighty six

2093
01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:45,439
Speaker 1: yards and the long of thirty seven we saw, but

2094
01:48:45,520 --> 01:48:47,120
Speaker 1: they were both you know on that drive the two

2095
01:48:47,200 --> 01:48:53,320
Speaker 1: toe tap drives, two toe tap catches. His contribution mainly

2096
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:56,439
Speaker 1: really because you know, you thee the other team's gotta

2097
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: think about Steph Diggs, they gotta think about Cole Beasley,

2098
01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:02,160
Speaker 1: they gotta think about John Brown and Devin Singletary. Gabe

2099
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: Davis when he gets a chance, you really have to

2100
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,760
Speaker 1: be efficient and use it to the best of your

2101
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:09,400
Speaker 1: ability because you don't know how many you're gonna get.

2102
01:49:09,439 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 1: But his ability to contribute, I think was crucial in

2103
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:15,679
Speaker 1: this last game. You're exactly right. He came up so huge.

2104
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:19,439
Speaker 1: They weren't moving the ball with consistency until Gabe Davis

2105
01:49:19,680 --> 01:49:24,160
Speaker 1: got those toetouch catches going. And you know, he's been

2106
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:26,280
Speaker 1: an X factor all year when you really look at it,

2107
01:49:26,360 --> 01:49:28,760
Speaker 1: for them to have a fourth weapon at receiver, like

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01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: a true weapon, as their number four receiver will call him.

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01:49:32,479 --> 01:49:34,439
Speaker 1: You know, at times he's been the number two receivers,

2110
01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:37,000
Speaker 1: Tim's number three, but truly their number four receiver. To

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01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:39,519
Speaker 1: have a weapon like that has been so valuable for

2112
01:49:39,560 --> 01:49:41,560
Speaker 1: this team, and it's so valuable for Josh because he

2113
01:49:41,640 --> 01:49:45,160
Speaker 1: can simply pick on matchups and how many how many

2114
01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:47,680
Speaker 1: teams have four guys that can truly cover on their

2115
01:49:47,720 --> 01:49:49,600
Speaker 1: back end. A lot of times you're in Nickel. So

2116
01:49:49,880 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 1: now you have Gabe Davis or one of the other guys,

2117
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get digs, but one of the other

2118
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 1: guys either getting a safety or you throw in dime.

2119
01:49:57,520 --> 01:49:59,840
Speaker 1: Especially this late in the season. How many teams got

2120
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:03,280
Speaker 1: four good corners? And you know what you know, just

2121
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:07,240
Speaker 1: transitioning to the Ravens game, what they did last year

2122
01:50:07,439 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: with cover zero against the Bills over and over and over,

2123
01:50:11,560 --> 01:50:14,519
Speaker 1: was it something like thirty nine percent cover zero pressures

2124
01:50:14,800 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: when they brought more than four guys. That's gone this

2125
01:50:18,520 --> 01:50:21,280
Speaker 1: year and the Bills are going to retire that early.

2126
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:23,600
Speaker 1: The only thing the Ravens can hope for would be

2127
01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 1: a windstorm or lake effects snow. I'll say it here

2128
01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 1: on Monday, and look, the bulletin board material can't come

2129
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:33,439
Speaker 1: from someone sitting in their basement in Louisville. So I

2130
01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: hope THO since doesn't stir too many feathers. But look,

2131
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:42,240
Speaker 1: you added Gabe Davis this year and got to your

2132
01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: four wide receiver sets because of what the Patriots and

2133
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 1: the Ravens did to you last year when your tight

2134
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:51,559
Speaker 1: ends couldn't separate fast enough. They're bringing one more than

2135
01:50:51,600 --> 01:50:53,320
Speaker 1: you can block. So you got about a second and

2136
01:50:53,320 --> 01:50:55,560
Speaker 1: a half to make a decision. Well, I hope you

2137
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 1: got four guys that can cover four real receivers on

2138
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:02,240
Speaker 1: the outside. What do you make of last year's game

2139
01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:04,400
Speaker 1: between the Bills and Ravens in terms of what the

2140
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:07,479
Speaker 1: Bills can pull from that because they did a very

2141
01:51:07,560 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: good job of containing Lamar Jackson from a running perspective,

2142
01:51:13,200 --> 01:51:15,600
Speaker 1: he just made a couple of outstanding plays, you know,

2143
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:18,720
Speaker 1: the sixty one yard touchdown pass. He's running around and

2144
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:21,599
Speaker 1: scrambling behind the line and throws a three yard touchdown

2145
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:25,240
Speaker 1: pass much the way Josh did on Saturday to make

2146
01:51:25,280 --> 01:51:27,320
Speaker 1: a play there because they had him accounted for with

2147
01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:30,600
Speaker 1: his legs. So what do you pull maybe from that

2148
01:51:30,840 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 1: game from a defensive standpoint for the Bills that you

2149
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:36,880
Speaker 1: think they can again apply here with some measure of

2150
01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: success this weekend. Well, you have so many returning starters

2151
01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:44,559
Speaker 1: from last year's defense that have prepared for this offense

2152
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:47,360
Speaker 1: and played against this offense. And I'll tell you I've

2153
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:50,559
Speaker 1: played in Greg Roman's offense and they're even doing more

2154
01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:53,479
Speaker 1: multiple stuff now than we were doing in Buffalo at Tyrod.

2155
01:51:53,880 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 1: And when you as a defense, when you can see

2156
01:51:57,439 --> 01:52:00,840
Speaker 1: everything in front of you already, You've already seen at once.

2157
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:04,400
Speaker 1: That definitely helps. There's Greg Roman calls it window dressing.

2158
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:07,680
Speaker 1: There's only so many plays they're truly running, but they

2159
01:52:07,760 --> 01:52:10,680
Speaker 1: have so many different sets. They run it out of motions,

2160
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:14,519
Speaker 1: different formations and all that is just window dressing. But

2161
01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:17,280
Speaker 1: it's tough to identify as a defender. So for us,

2162
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,800
Speaker 1: it's easy we call power. We're running power as an

2163
01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:21,720
Speaker 1: offensive line. Well, now you've got a guy in an

2164
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 1: orbit motion behind the quarterback. You have all this stuff

2165
01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: in front of you. Well, for the Bills defenders, who

2166
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,320
Speaker 1: have already gone against it one and had a lot

2167
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:32,560
Speaker 1: of success, they can go into this game with a

2168
01:52:32,720 --> 01:52:36,439
Speaker 1: lot of confidence knowing that their game plan can and

2169
01:52:36,640 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: will work against Baltimore. I'm interested to see last year

2170
01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:43,320
Speaker 1: the Bills got a bunch of pressure on Lamar when

2171
01:52:43,320 --> 01:52:45,840
Speaker 1: they went to five wides. I'm interested to see if

2172
01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:50,360
Speaker 1: Greg Roman sticks Lamar back there. I say, five wide sets,

2173
01:52:50,479 --> 01:52:53,519
Speaker 1: empty formations, no running backs in the backfield. It wasn't

2174
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 1: true five receivers on the field, but I'm interested to

2175
01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,200
Speaker 1: see if Greg will put that back out there because

2176
01:52:58,200 --> 01:53:00,880
Speaker 1: they were able to pressure himself. And I'm wondering too

2177
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 1: if the Bills have to tweak their approach a little

2178
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:06,639
Speaker 1: bit as well. Because I don't know if you heard this, Eric,

2179
01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:11,080
Speaker 1: but the Titans after that game yesterday, we're saying they

2180
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:14,799
Speaker 1: borrowed some concepts from the Bills game against the Ravens

2181
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:18,360
Speaker 1: last December as a blueprint for their approach. And I

2182
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 1: mean they didn't do a terrible job. I mean they

2183
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 1: held them to twenty points, and for a defense that

2184
01:53:23,360 --> 01:53:25,880
Speaker 1: has largely struggled this year, that was probably a pretty

2185
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:29,960
Speaker 1: good performance by Tennessee all things consider right, for sure.

2186
01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:32,320
Speaker 1: And you know, I thought one of the best things

2187
01:53:32,400 --> 01:53:34,599
Speaker 1: the Bills did last year, as opposed to what other

2188
01:53:34,680 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 1: teams were trying to do against the Ravens was they

2189
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:40,160
Speaker 1: simply got in their base set still. Now, yes, you

2190
01:53:40,240 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 1: move your safeties down a little bit more at times,

2191
01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 1: you load the box a little bit more. But so

2192
01:53:45,439 --> 01:53:47,840
Speaker 1: often people see Lamar so they think, oh, we got

2193
01:53:47,920 --> 01:53:50,800
Speaker 1: to put another dB on the field. We'll spy him

2194
01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:53,240
Speaker 1: with a dB, put him in the box, and we'll

2195
01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: still run our nickel defense and we'll have our proper spacing.

2196
01:53:56,560 --> 01:54:00,360
Speaker 1: And then this guy's got the quarterback. We as an

2197
01:54:00,400 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 1: offense under Greg Roman, when teams did that kind of

2198
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:04,559
Speaker 1: stuff to us. I think back to when we played

2199
01:54:04,560 --> 01:54:08,519
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals at home and ran for three hundred

2200
01:54:08,520 --> 01:54:11,920
Speaker 1: and fifty yards with these they were putting Tyron Matthew

2201
01:54:12,040 --> 01:54:14,839
Speaker 1: and they had another safety that they used as a linebacker.

2202
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:17,240
Speaker 1: We crushed them. Those guys were trying to hold up

2203
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:20,080
Speaker 1: against Ritchie and John Miller and those guys like they

2204
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,760
Speaker 1: had no shot. And what the Buffalo Bills did to

2205
01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: them last year and said, look, we're gonna play our

2206
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: defense now. We're gonna give you some different looks. We're

2207
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:29,640
Speaker 1: gonna give you a few pressures, but it's all of

2208
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,120
Speaker 1: our normal looks. We know how to play this defense.

2209
01:54:32,200 --> 01:54:34,680
Speaker 1: These are guys who have played the entire season. We're

2210
01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:38,160
Speaker 1: not gonna randomly put I say him because he would

2211
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:39,880
Speaker 1: be a perfect guy to play this role. We're not

2212
01:54:39,920 --> 01:54:43,440
Speaker 1: gonna put Dean Marlowe at middle linebacker and say, hey, Dean,

2213
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 1: you got Lamar wherever he goes. You're so athletic, we

2214
01:54:46,760 --> 01:54:48,640
Speaker 1: want you to stick with him. Well, that guy's gonna

2215
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,280
Speaker 1: have to defend power half the time. That doesn't work right.

2216
01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:53,160
Speaker 1: And so I thought the Bills just did a great

2217
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:56,320
Speaker 1: job last year of within the scheme of their defense

2218
01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:00,400
Speaker 1: playing their roles. And then another thing that they did

2219
01:55:00,440 --> 01:55:02,240
Speaker 1: well last year, what you have to continue to do

2220
01:55:02,920 --> 01:55:06,360
Speaker 1: is at that mesh point on the red stuff, you

2221
01:55:06,560 --> 01:55:08,680
Speaker 1: have to mix up whether that d n's going to

2222
01:55:08,760 --> 01:55:12,280
Speaker 1: take the dive or take the quarterback. And you always

2223
01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: got to be switching that up because every time you

2224
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: go to the sideline, Greg and his staff are identifying, Hey,

2225
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:19,880
Speaker 1: who took the dive the last time. Okay, if he

2226
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,240
Speaker 1: took the dive, can we pin that linebacker? And you

2227
01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:25,280
Speaker 1: always have to be mixing that up because that's the

2228
01:55:25,400 --> 01:55:28,240
Speaker 1: chess match that Greg's looking for in the booth or

2229
01:55:28,360 --> 01:55:30,720
Speaker 1: having his guys on the sideline identify. Yeah. I think

2230
01:55:30,760 --> 01:55:33,080
Speaker 1: the discipline they showed last year really gives them a

2231
01:55:33,160 --> 01:55:34,800
Speaker 1: chance in this game. And that's what you've got to do.

2232
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: Because of the mesh point and because of the Ravens

2233
01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:40,480
Speaker 1: in their run games so much, they give you so

2234
01:55:40,600 --> 01:55:42,800
Speaker 1: much side to side stuff when actually it's coming right

2235
01:55:42,840 --> 01:55:45,400
Speaker 1: over here. Whatever. You know, it's not a complicated. Look,

2236
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 1: it's a complicated look, it's not a complicated play. And

2237
01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:50,360
Speaker 1: I think you got to get around trying to just

2238
01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:53,320
Speaker 1: follow around where all the motions going. Stay at home.

2239
01:55:53,400 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 1: Play your position and you're much better off. And I

2240
01:55:55,680 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: think a lot of teams struggle with that with their

2241
01:55:57,360 --> 01:56:00,240
Speaker 1: discipline in their eyes and staying where they're staying there's

2242
01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:01,920
Speaker 1: a little patch of grass where they're supposed to be

2243
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:05,800
Speaker 1: rather than chasing something that's a ghost. Yeah, you're exactly right.

2244
01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:08,360
Speaker 1: And there's times where you can get them behind the

2245
01:56:08,440 --> 01:56:11,320
Speaker 1: sticks because it may look like a true read play,

2246
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:14,240
Speaker 1: but based upon where the defensive ends lined up, the

2247
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: decisions already been made in the backfield. The running back

2248
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:18,960
Speaker 1: knows he's not getting it, the quarterback's going to keep,

2249
01:56:19,080 --> 01:56:21,920
Speaker 1: or vice versa. And so if you could give them

2250
01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 1: certain alignments, force them into certain keeps or gives and

2251
01:56:26,240 --> 01:56:28,840
Speaker 1: pressure in those areas and it's you know, it's easier

2252
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:31,440
Speaker 1: said than done. But if you can get Baltimore behind

2253
01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:34,280
Speaker 1: the sticks, you know this is a run based team.

2254
01:56:34,320 --> 01:56:36,640
Speaker 1: They're not used to simple drop back pass. And you

2255
01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:39,760
Speaker 1: saw that early on, especially in the Tennessee game, that

2256
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:43,520
Speaker 1: this team is just not They're not built to drop

2257
01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:48,880
Speaker 1: back pass and convert third and eight plus. Unless you

2258
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:51,360
Speaker 1: let Lamar escape from the pocket, then he's gonna go

2259
01:56:51,480 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 1: hit his head on the goalpost because he is an

2260
01:56:53,640 --> 01:56:59,920
Speaker 1: absolute phenomenal athlete. And I'll say this just being around

2261
01:57:00,160 --> 01:57:02,520
Speaker 1: Lamar as much as I have been in him, being

2262
01:57:02,520 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 1: around the community of Louisville, it stinks that the Bills

2263
01:57:05,520 --> 01:57:08,520
Speaker 1: are playing him early because he's so easy to root for.

2264
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:12,200
Speaker 1: And you know how everyone loves Josh Allen and Buffalo

2265
01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:14,000
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, because he does all the right things.

2266
01:57:14,040 --> 01:57:16,800
Speaker 1: He's humble and says the right things. That's exactly how

2267
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:19,240
Speaker 1: Lamar has been in Baltimore and Louisville, to the point

2268
01:57:19,280 --> 01:57:24,839
Speaker 1: where in Louisville we don't We no longer get Colts, Colts, Titans,

2269
01:57:25,040 --> 01:57:30,480
Speaker 1: or Bengals games. Our main CBS every week is Baltimore

2270
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:32,880
Speaker 1: Homer Away. Yeah, they will do that. They will do

2271
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:35,920
Speaker 1: that in a lot of cases with the quarterbacks hometowns.

2272
01:57:36,440 --> 01:57:40,000
Speaker 1: I know Wyoming, there are areas of Wiremie, Wyoming that

2273
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:42,320
Speaker 1: get Josh Allen because they know they'll watch him there.

2274
01:57:42,640 --> 01:57:45,840
Speaker 1: And the same thing up in northern California. There's a

2275
01:57:45,880 --> 01:57:49,000
Speaker 1: small pocket not that far from Fresno near Fireball where

2276
01:57:49,080 --> 01:57:52,720
Speaker 1: they will have CBS air the Bills game in northern California.

2277
01:57:52,760 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nuts way it is. And speaking on

2278
01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:58,400
Speaker 1: that quickly because we're almost out of time, Eric. You know,

2279
01:57:58,440 --> 01:58:01,040
Speaker 1: Steve and I were knocking this around to day. The

2280
01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: last four teams standing in the AFC have quarterbacks, all

2281
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:06,640
Speaker 1: twenty five and younger, three of whom are from the

2282
01:58:06,680 --> 01:58:09,640
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen quarterback class. As you well know, when you

2283
01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:13,120
Speaker 1: think about the AFC landscape and all the young quarterbacks

2284
01:58:13,200 --> 01:58:16,480
Speaker 1: in this conference, assuming Deshaun Watson stays in the AFC,

2285
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:18,760
Speaker 1: we don't know where he's gonna end up. And knowing

2286
01:58:18,800 --> 01:58:22,160
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville is gonna be getting Trevor Lawrence, you go

2287
01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: up and down the list, Joe Burrow and everybody else.

2288
01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:29,360
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, I mean, the AFC is gonna be a

2289
01:58:29,600 --> 01:58:33,880
Speaker 1: gauntlet man for a long time, is it not? Oh,

2290
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:36,760
Speaker 1: it truly is. And then as soon as these guys

2291
01:58:36,840 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 1: start getting paid the big bucks, when they start getting

2292
01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:43,480
Speaker 1: those mega contracts, we'll see who of these guys can

2293
01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:46,960
Speaker 1: carry a franchise. And that's not to knock any of them,

2294
01:58:47,080 --> 01:58:50,600
Speaker 1: but the way quarterback contracts are set up nowadays. When

2295
01:58:50,680 --> 01:58:52,840
Speaker 1: you I mean, when Josh, let's be let's face it,

2296
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:56,280
Speaker 1: Josh gonna get a contract probably forty two to forty

2297
01:58:56,320 --> 01:59:00,360
Speaker 1: five million dollars a year and at that point that

2298
01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:04,040
Speaker 1: removes a lot of your cap space. Then can Josh

2299
01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:07,840
Speaker 1: Carey the franchise I believe he can, And then you

2300
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: get to the emphasis has got to be can being

2301
01:59:12,040 --> 01:59:14,040
Speaker 1: in his staff continue to draft the way they have

2302
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:17,280
Speaker 1: and if they continue that, the sky's the limit for

2303
01:59:17,280 --> 01:59:19,840
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And then we'll see if everyone else

2304
01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:21,440
Speaker 1: in the AFC can do it as well, because all

2305
01:59:21,480 --> 01:59:23,280
Speaker 1: those guys are going to get paid before too long.

2306
01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:26,560
Speaker 1: All right, Eric, thanks as always for the insight. I'm

2307
01:59:26,560 --> 01:59:28,840
Speaker 1: sure we'll be dicing this game up left, right and center,

2308
01:59:28,880 --> 01:59:30,640
Speaker 1: and you'll be doing that on Shopping Wood as well

2309
01:59:30,680 --> 01:59:33,080
Speaker 1: as you review the Colts the victory over the Colts

2310
01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:37,360
Speaker 1: from last Saturday. Thanks for the time. Yep, absolutely my pleasure. Guys.

2311
01:59:37,480 --> 01:59:39,320
Speaker 1: All right, that's Eric Wood joining us here on One

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01:59:39,400 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Break time for us, but when we return,

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01:59:42,160 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 1: we had to wait an hour longer than usual. But

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01:59:45,080 --> 01:59:48,600
Speaker 1: after a Bill's victory it means another edition of the

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01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:51,400
Speaker 1: Maddie Awards and we'll have those next here on One

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Chaster, Final half

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Speaker 1: hour of the program. We had to wait an hour

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Speaker 1: longer than we usually do on Bill's victory Mondays. But

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Speaker 1: it is time now for the Maddie Awards, presented by

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Speaker 1: Energy Mark, the official energy supplier of the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: and here to do the honors. Although I don't think

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Speaker 1: she's wearing the same bedazzled blazer she was wearing in

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Speaker 1: the Bills Field Pass show on Saturday, it is one

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Speaker 1: Maddie glab joining us. You know, maybe I should just

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Speaker 1: keep that blazer on as well. Luck, so we have

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Speaker 1: to wear on camera. I'm rocking that blazer, but I've

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Speaker 1: still not read on. Okay, so that's okay, you are

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Speaker 1: gonna Yeah, I may force you to wear that again

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Speaker 1: next week as a good luck charm, because now you

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Speaker 1: know it's playoff time. We can't be messing around with

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Speaker 1: things like that, So you may have to wear it

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Speaker 1: again on Saturday night. I am very superstitious, so I

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Speaker 1: totally would be happy to do that, all right, So

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Speaker 1: offensive MVP here, Maddie, where are we going with this one?

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Speaker 1: All right? So these are going to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit creative. We know I like to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit creative on these and not always give them to

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Speaker 1: one player or one thing that happened. But the offensive

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Speaker 1: MVP in this game is the drive that put the

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Speaker 1: Bills up fourteen to ten. I think this completely changed

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Speaker 1: the momentum on offense for the Bills. It was so important,

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Speaker 1: I think, to take the lead heading into halftime. It

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Speaker 1: was a long drive in yards, but it was so

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Speaker 1: quick on the clock, ten plays ninety six yards a

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Speaker 1: minute and thirty two of time off the clock, and

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Speaker 1: it takes me back to when Josh Allen got to

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Speaker 1: run a two minute offense in Week seventeen heading into

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Speaker 1: halftime before he got taken out of the game. I

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Speaker 1: think that was really important that he was able to

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Speaker 1: do that before heading into the playoffs. And look at

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Speaker 1: what he does here scoring a touchdown for his team

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Speaker 1: to put them up heading in a halftime. Those two

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Speaker 1: catches that Gabriel Davis had, oh my gosh, they were incredible.

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Speaker 1: And then the drive ends with Alan taking it himself twice.

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Speaker 1: I think it was the most important drive of the

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Speaker 1: game there. The Bills needed to score in that moment,

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Speaker 1: and they did well. If the drive right, the two

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Speaker 1: minute drive right before halftime for the touchdown was the

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Speaker 1: offensive MVP, what was the defensive MVP. So the defensive

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Speaker 1: MVP was something that happened right before that two minute drive.

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Speaker 1: It was the fourth down staff that the defense had.

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Speaker 1: I think this was the spark plug in the game.

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Speaker 1: You get off to a start where the Colts are

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Speaker 1: on the board first, and the defense was having a

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Speaker 1: little bit of trouble keeping the Colts at bay, keeping

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Speaker 1: their run slowed down, keeping their passing offense slowed down

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Speaker 1: even and to have them get onto the goal line

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Speaker 1: and our defense deny them of scoring a touchdown. When

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis started off in such great field position on that

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Speaker 1: drive too, and that fourth and fourth Philip Rivers was

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Speaker 1: pressured there by Vernon Butler and Mario Addison when they

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Speaker 1: got to the goal line, I had a feeling. I

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Speaker 1: was like, the defense is going to come up with

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Speaker 1: a fourth down stop, which they have done before this season.

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Speaker 1: I think it was the juice and the swagger that

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Speaker 1: the defense needed, and like I said before, just the

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Speaker 1: spark that the team needed. And then they go and

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Speaker 1: score a touchdown on the following possession when the Bills

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Speaker 1: had the ball, all right, hustle award time, Where are

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Speaker 1: we going with this one? All right, the Hustle Award,

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Speaker 1: it's got to go to Micah Hyde denying Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: of the Hail Mary. I mean, how fitting is it

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Speaker 1: that the Bills get to exercise those Hail Murray demons

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Speaker 1: in a playoff matchup with the game on the line.

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Speaker 1: And I remember Leslie Frasier, our defensive coordinator, said, I

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Speaker 1: think our team has learned from that moment and they've

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Speaker 1: turned it into something good. Well, there's really no way

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Speaker 1: you can see if this team is actually learned from

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Speaker 1: the moment until that moment happens again. And here it

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Speaker 1: is with the game, with the season on the line,

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Speaker 1: and Micah Hide comes charging up out of the back

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Speaker 1: of the end zone, leaping into the air to say, heck, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: bottled up into that moment everything since that Cardinals game,

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Speaker 1: that the defense was saying this is not going to

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Speaker 1: happen to us again and securing the victory for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: very emotional moment. I was almost brought to tears by

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Speaker 1: it because I was a little bit worried that something

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Speaker 1: else would happen. But it was good to see the

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Speaker 1: defense you're the only person. Yeah, yeah, it was the

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Speaker 1: same thing. What about the most athletic play of the game?

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Speaker 1: What was who wins that? All right, most athletic play,

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Speaker 1: it's Josh Allen's shovel pass to Dawson Knocks that goal touchdown,

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Speaker 1: shovel pass that he had where it looked like he

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Speaker 1: was going to run it but he gets stopped in traffic.

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Speaker 1: And watching this played back again, his legs are being

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Speaker 1: taken from under him by the Colts as he makes

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Speaker 1: the throw sideways, and we've seen him make this through

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Speaker 1: sideways before he completes it over to Dawson Knox who

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Speaker 1: makes the catch just before going out of barons. And

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Speaker 1: people talk about Patrick Mahomes's athleticism, how about Josh Allen here,

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Speaker 1: because there are very few players quarterbacks in the NFL

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Speaker 1: who can do this. I think it was a clutch play.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just Alan further proving how athletic of

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Speaker 1: a quarterback he truly is. All Right, this is one

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen before. Beans Gems, Beans gems. So there's

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Speaker 1: two gems that Brandon Bean got in this twenty twenty draft,

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Speaker 1: and it's Gabriel Davis and Tyler Bass. I looked at

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Speaker 1: how many points they have scored for this team in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, one hundred and eighty three total points

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Speaker 1: coming from both of those in the regular seas season,

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Speaker 1: a fourth rounder and a sixth rounder accounted for thirty

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Speaker 1: six and a half percent of the bills total points

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Speaker 1: from the regular season, and they continue that in their

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Speaker 1: first playoff game of their careers. Big time moments, a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure is put on them. It can be

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Speaker 1: a rattling moment, it can be a worrisome moment. But

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Speaker 1: Tyler Bass hits a forty six yard and a fifty

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Speaker 1: four yard field goal. You take those away, you take

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Speaker 1: one of those away, and it's a tie game. That

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Speaker 1: fifty four yard field goal for the Bills was huge.

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Speaker 1: And then Gabriel Davis, like I mentioned before, those two

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Speaker 1: toe drag swag catches that he had on that drive

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Speaker 1: that put the Bills up fourteen to ten were two

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Speaker 1: of the most important catches in that entire game. He

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Speaker 1: has gotten so good at making catches going towards the sideline. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree, and I didn't realize that. I did

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Speaker 1: know that. Obviously, Tyler Bass had set the club record

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Speaker 1: for scoring, and that kind of thing, so that was used.

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Speaker 1: But Gabe Davis also in those two almost a third

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Speaker 1: of the total points the buff Well Bill scored this

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Speaker 1: year from two rookies. That's pretty big. That's a great

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Speaker 1: contribution go around if you go around the league. Now

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Speaker 1: we actually it was super wildcard weekend, had a ton

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Speaker 1: of games on What else grabbed you about that? You

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Speaker 1: gave out some awards for around the league? All right,

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Speaker 1: there's a narrative eraser from this weekend, And for the

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Speaker 1: Ravens it was Lamar Jackson? Can he get that first

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Speaker 1: playoff victory? If he can't, should he be the Ravens

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Speaker 1: quarterback going forward? Should he be signed to an extension?

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Speaker 1: And Lamar Jackson gets his first playoff victory in three

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Speaker 1: playoff appearances, racing any doubts that he can't win in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. How about that forty eight yard rushing touchdown

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Speaker 1: that you're seeing right there. That was just nasty. He

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Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and thirty six yards average eight

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Speaker 1: and a half yards per attempt in that game. He

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Speaker 1: was sacked five times and through an interception, but still

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Speaker 1: found a way to win. Guys, the Ravens, they are

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Speaker 1: a hot team. Talk about the Bills being super hot,

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Speaker 1: finishing the season with six straight wins. Well, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: finished the regular season with five straight wins. The Bills

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Speaker 1: need to find a way to fix those a leaky

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Speaker 1: run plays that we had against the Colts if they

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Speaker 1: want to have a chance at defending the Ravens and

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Speaker 1: what they can do on the ground. But good for

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson for getting that first playoff victory. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be an intense matchup on Saturday night at Bills Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We saw the Cleveland Browns exercise. They're Pittsburgh Steeler demons,

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Speaker 1: so you saw them worthy of an award as well,

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Speaker 1: but not for their offense. Not for their offense. It

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Speaker 1: was their defense that got them this victory. They're the

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Speaker 1: takeaway Kings in my mind. If you look at the

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Speaker 1: yards of offense in this game, the Steelers had one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three more yards of offense than the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns did, even though the Browns beat them forty

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Speaker 1: eight to thirty seven. What a wacky game. Starting off

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Speaker 1: the game with a turn over a high snap that

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Speaker 1: turned into a touchdown for the Browns. I did not

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Speaker 1: expect the Browns going in to halftime leading by twenty

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Speaker 1: five points. They had that first turnover on the first

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Speaker 1: play of the game, and then they had four interceptions.

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Speaker 1: Even though Ben Roethlisberger passed for four touchdowns, he also

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Speaker 1: threw for four interceptions. He attempted sixty eight passes, completed

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Speaker 1: sixty nine percent of his passes for five hundred and

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Speaker 1: one yards. But it was not enough because it was

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns defense that was able to take the

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Speaker 1: ball away and in turn the offense, the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: offense that was able to score points for them, ensuing

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Speaker 1: that victory or ensuring that victory for the Steelers, all right,

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Speaker 1: for the Browns rather front to back with the Maddies.

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Speaker 1: And yes, some definite creativity this week. We hope you

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Speaker 1: can exercise that same creativity next week because that will

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Speaker 1: mean another victory and onto the AFC title game for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. So we hope we're talking to you next Monday, Maddie, Yes,

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Speaker 1: most definitely. You guys, have a good arrest of your Monday.

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Speaker 1: All right, See, all right, we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: That's Maddie glab joining us. Hopefully we can get some

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Speaker 1: practice updates from her later in the week. If the

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Speaker 1: Bills are practicing outside and can see who's up and

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Speaker 1: who's down and all of that stuff that Maddie helps

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Speaker 1: us out with all season long break time for us.

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Speaker 1: But Steve and I'll be back in a moment to

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Speaker 1: close things up here on A Bill's Victory Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bill's Live. It's presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio for What Have We Learned? Brought

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Speaker 1: to you buy Sky where it's the official construction equipment

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Speaker 1: winning a company of the Buffalo Bills. We had Kevin

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Speaker 1: Clark from The Ringer on today kind of reviewing Super

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Speaker 1: wild Card weekend, and we had a chat with him

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Speaker 1: about Buffalo's upcoming defensive assignment one Lamar Jackson in the

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Speaker 1: talent he brings to the field. I kind of feel

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Speaker 1: like the conversation has shifted a little bit to where

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Speaker 1: now people are talking about Josh Jowen or Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: of remember, and they're not talking about the reigning MVP.

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, John Harbaust did that that

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Speaker 1: run the best quarterback run he's ever seen. Maybe there

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Speaker 1: are a couple from from Michael Vick and some others

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Speaker 1: that they're a little better, But I think it's definitely

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Speaker 1: in the conversation when he's look at how hard it

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Speaker 1: was and what it meantioned the team. But I think

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is still capable of when he drops back

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Speaker 1: to pass or run, the best thing you can see

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Speaker 1: on the football field. I mean, it is breathtaking. I

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Speaker 1: remember talking to Ravens guys last year and they were saying,

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Speaker 1: you will look in defender's eyes when Lamar Jackson starts

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Speaker 1: going off the script, and he would the defender would

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Speaker 1: just look over at their own beds, just trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out what to do. That was Kevin Clark talking

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Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson, who the Bills will be preparing for

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Speaker 1: all week to try to hem him in much the

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Speaker 1: way they did in the game they played against each

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Speaker 1: other last December. As we learned during today's show, Doug

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Speaker 1: Peterson is out in Philadelphia, so there are now seven

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Speaker 1: head coaching vacancies in the NFL. As we know, Brian

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Speaker 1: Dable conducted virtual interviews with the Jets and the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Those currently have pools of six and five head coaching candidates,

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Speaker 1: so he's he's in the running, but it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a big pool of candidates for those two clubs. And

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Speaker 1: we'll also learned today Leslie Frasier is reportedly going to

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Speaker 1: be interviewing with the Houston Texans, So that's where that lies.

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Speaker 1: And we're just getting news now that a free agent

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Speaker 1: kicker will be visiting the Bills. This for me and

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Speaker 1: Rappaport of NFL Network, he's going to be their emergency

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Speaker 1: kicker moving forward during the playoffs. This is just an

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Speaker 1: insurance move. His name is Tristan Viscayano. I've heard that name,

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Speaker 1: so absolutely nothing about him, but I've heard the name

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Speaker 1: okay well, and we'll have to learn that is one

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Speaker 1: of them. And we've been using the term lately because

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. He's the brick glass in case of

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Speaker 1: emergency kicker. He's Tyler Bass with the host of other

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Speaker 1: players on that. Tyler Bass might Tyler Bass might be

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Speaker 1: having gray hair before he's out of Buffalo right the

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Speaker 1: way he's going right now, he had a good week

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Speaker 1: for sure. Um, I think we're we're looking at this

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Speaker 1: and I think we're coming to the realization with respect

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Speaker 1: to the head coaching vacancies, though Steve that Daboll is

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Speaker 1: probably getting a position somewhere, because if there's seven openings,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get named to one of them. Smoking hot

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Speaker 1: right now, smoking hot, and the way they've developed Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and as many young quarterbacks. We've just been talking

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Speaker 1: about that around the AFC, and these teams are gonna

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Speaker 1: be drafting guys are coming up. They can't get enough

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Speaker 1: of this guy. And and I'm you know, the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy. He's a tremendous guy. So they're gonna love him.

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Speaker 1: And he's wonder if it gets harder though, if the

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Speaker 1: Bills keep winning, to wait on somebody, That's what I

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Speaker 1: wonder about. So I'm gonna there's a small part of

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Speaker 1: me that says, well, if the Bills keep winning, maybe

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Speaker 1: we have more hope. Hole. We gotta sabotage that, right,

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Speaker 1: we gotta keep on winning, make it hard for right.

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Speaker 1: All Right. We'll be back tomorrow Kyle Brand from Good

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Speaker 1: Morning Football with his weekly visit. See us there tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: twelve o'clock Eastern Tech