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Speaker 1: crunching Josh Allen statistics to keep Steve happy over here

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Speaker 1: as uh he is. I don't know who he's presenting

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have made the point that he's

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Speaker 1: kicked in the stomach by the Cardinals and that and

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Speaker 1: that hail mary, and they're not having it, and it

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Speaker 1: gave them justification not to. Don't nobody's feeling bad about

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins team in the Bills locker room. They got

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Speaker 1: their own problems. They're not given a game. They've lost

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Speaker 1: games like that, so they're not doing it. So I

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Speaker 1: admire it. I think it's perfectly appropriate and fine. We've

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Speaker 1: seen other teams do it and it gets them into

436
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Speaker 1: the playoffs and they finished people off. They don't drop

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Speaker 1: those games with a hail Mary. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: a perfect place for him to be. You think about this,

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Speaker 1: if they would have had this mentality in the first

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Speaker 1: month of the season, you know, and I said this yesterday,

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Speaker 1: they would defend Remember in the first month of the season,

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Speaker 1: they were defending an onside kick every week. Yeah, because

443
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Speaker 1: their defense was having trouble stopping people. They were still

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Speaker 1: putting the pieces together on that side of the and

445
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Speaker 1: the offense was thinking, okay, let's shorten the game, let's

446
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Speaker 1: run the football. Instead of like having that attack mentality,

447
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Speaker 1: they'd stop throwing it, they'd run it. They'd you know, okay,

448
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Speaker 1: we'll put them down deep and let them go the

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Speaker 1: long way. And it worked. I mean, let's face it,

450
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Speaker 1: they won those games, but they still were facing those

451
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Speaker 1: on site. They needed three defensive stops against the Raiders

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of a one score game, right,

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Speaker 1: and they and they only won that game thirty to

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Speaker 1: twenty three. UM. But if they don't get a sack

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Speaker 1: strip fumble from Quentin Jefferson, if they don't get a

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Speaker 1: forced fumble from Josh Norman, if they don't get a

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Speaker 1: fourth down stop by Ed Oliver for a turnover on downs,

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Speaker 1: they don't win that game. That's right, that's right. And

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Speaker 1: I think when they when they got to the Arizona

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Speaker 1: game and they did lose a game like that, they

461
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Speaker 1: looked back at all those instances where they had gotten

462
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Speaker 1: well quote unquote lucky or where things had gone their

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Speaker 1: way anyway, and they said, man, oh, man that when

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Speaker 1: you start count up if it had gone against you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you turn into a sub five hundred football

466
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Speaker 1: team and you're thinking not this year. You know, let's

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Speaker 1: not do that now. So there they are. They did

468
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Speaker 1: exactly what they needed to do down the stretch. Finish

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Speaker 1: teams off, finish them off. Big. Don't let him come

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Speaker 1: take real prisoners. Let him belly ache after the game

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Speaker 1: about us running the score up on him. They still

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Speaker 1: take the l Let's go to Gary on a sale. Gary,

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Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: y'all good, doing good? Hey? Yeah, I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to about something and then answer your poor questions. Throw

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Speaker 1: it sure, Yeah that's possible. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about the East here. I think we'll have

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Speaker 1: the Day of the East for at leasting or three

479
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Speaker 1: or four years. I don't cross the New England raft

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Speaker 1: and we know what he does. Come on to AU

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Speaker 1: unless they change their office, he's not going to be

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Speaker 1: producting that office. And I'll try suggest. We all know that.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking we could win it, subit in three

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Speaker 1: four years of a row. Well, I mean the bills

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Speaker 1: are certainly Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. The poll question

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Speaker 1: is for four to niner game. For me, why the

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Speaker 1: first game they just destroyed teams because they have the

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Speaker 1: money Nighter. They have one money Night. Canna want easily

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Speaker 1: with fall short, but they destroyed that tom right, and

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Speaker 1: they store everybody. Yeah, and the Niners. I think the

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Speaker 1: Nighters got like a late touchdown or some points late

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Speaker 1: and to kind of close it to ten if I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken. Thirty four twenty four. It was the final there,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't that close realistically, right, And San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: in all fairness, was kind of a wounded duck. They

496
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Speaker 1: had a lot of wounds, they had a lot of

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Speaker 1: they were short, a lot of players on defense. Right,

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Speaker 1: Playing in Arizona uprooted you know what I mean. Right,

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Speaker 1: But now that was also two weeks after they had

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Speaker 1: just played there against the Cardinals and lost that game,

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Speaker 1: so they wanted they were in that same building with

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Speaker 1: this fresh mindset that they just you know that they

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Speaker 1: led a team off the hook and they had their

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Speaker 1: foot on the gas pretty hard. That was the Uh

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Speaker 1: so we're seeing that was the white face mask game,

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Speaker 1: that's right, And then everybody wanted them to wear those

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Speaker 1: every week after that. So but I that's a good

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Speaker 1: one too. It's a good one I think for the

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Speaker 1: fans that might carry some weight because of the national

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Speaker 1: television Monday Night football. The team looked great. Um and

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Speaker 1: in that game, that game and the way it came down,

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Speaker 1: Josh ended up throwing thirty two of forty for three

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Speaker 1: seventy five, four tds, no interception. I mean he lit

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Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, he was. He was money, you know,

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Speaker 1: eighty percent of his throws and they were in three

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Speaker 1: three seventy five. Yeah, that might have been it. That

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Speaker 1: was that was the coming party. Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: That is a good one I forgotten. I think the

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Speaker 1: reason it resonates with Bills fans too is because so

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Speaker 1: many times when this team has been on the national stage,

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Speaker 1: they have not come through and did not show out

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Speaker 1: or have an inspiring performance or had a really bad performance. Well, right,

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Speaker 1: and so again we go back to the scarts tissue

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Speaker 1: that Bill's fans harbor, and this change that conversation in

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Speaker 1: a big way, not only for Bills fans, but for

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Speaker 1: you know, NFL observers at large. So yeah, I could

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Speaker 1: see that being a defining moment that's a good one

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Speaker 1: by Gary. We are up against the break, but we

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Speaker 1: will take more of your phone calls when we come

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Speaker 1: back from break, So Adam and Rochester, Andy in New

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Speaker 1: Jersey and others holding at eight O three five fifty

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Speaker 1: hang on. We will get to you in the next segment.

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Speaker 1: We want to remind you though, that this weekend we're

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Speaker 1: going Blue for the Bills with our friends at labatte

535
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Speaker 1: Blue Light this Friday and Saturday where the color blue

536
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Speaker 1: to celebrate the Bills in the playoffs. And make sure

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00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: to check out landmarks around Buffalo as they will be

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Speaker 1: illuminated at night in the color Blue for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for that. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a break, but more of your phone calls when

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Speaker 1: we return. What's the defining moment of the Bills twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty regular season. We'll get your thoughts next here on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Line presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you talking about

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Speaker 1: the defining moments of the Bills twenty twenty regular season.

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Speaker 1: We know we got playoffs on tap here and they'll

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Speaker 1: probably be some defining moments of the postseason for the

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Speaker 1: Bills on what we hope is a long playoff run.

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Speaker 1: But we want to reflect a little bit here now

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Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty regular season in the rearview mirror,

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Speaker 1: what was the defining moment that has led to this

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Speaker 1: point of the season. Eight oh three five fifty open

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Speaker 1: line for you there one eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We go back to the phones and we begin with

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Speaker 1: Adam in Rochester. Adam, You're on one Bills Live. What

557
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Speaker 1: do you have for us? Hey, dam how are you good? Good? Good? Yeah? No,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I believe somebody said on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, but I was I was thinking about the

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Speaker 1: Arizona game. I know that we lost it, but honestly,

561
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: when when when Josh came down the field with that

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Speaker 1: two minute warning lots, I just had this feeling like

563
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Speaker 1: we were built for this and we were gonna be okay.

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Speaker 1: And that was one of the only times I think

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Speaker 1: is being a young Bill San I'm twenty seven that

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Speaker 1: I had that confidence in that moment, But that was

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Speaker 1: a big one to go to. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: what did you feel my question, though, is how did

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Speaker 1: you feel right after that game and could you have

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Speaker 1: anticipated this team after that game in the bye week

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Speaker 1: just going out and annihilating people and never losing another

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Speaker 1: game the rest of the way, I think too, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I in a way I did. But the big thing,

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Speaker 1: the big way that I felt was in that moment,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't read that we were gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: come down. And when we lost, I just said to myself,

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Speaker 1: I go, okay, that was they beat us a fluke maybe, yes,

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Speaker 1: but I just knew that we were better than that loss.

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Speaker 1: But the way that he came down the field, I

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Speaker 1: just wasn't worried like I have been in years. Pat,

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Speaker 1: I get you. Yeah, I would agree with that, and

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Speaker 1: it's a good call and the players will tell you

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Speaker 1: that's probably it as well. That transformed them into a

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Speaker 1: really good team that was playing well into a killer

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Speaker 1: of a team. I mean, these guys are mowing people down.

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Speaker 1: They're a team that from that moment on seemed to

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Speaker 1: be on a mission. Offensively and defensively. Everything was different

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And I think that

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Speaker 1: might be the moment when it happened. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: didn't really even coming out of that game. I didn't

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Speaker 1: totally feel like this team At the moment, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: well that sucks. That's a crappy way to lose a

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Speaker 1: football game. But then you listen to the players after

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Speaker 1: the game. They're saying, this moment isn't going to define us.

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Speaker 1: One play blah blah blah, this then the other, which

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Speaker 1: we've heard from them before after some humbling losses. You know,

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Speaker 1: under Sean mcdermot's tenure, I think I was fine in

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know they would bounce back, they

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Speaker 1: would win more games in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: I did not anticipate them laying waste to just about

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Speaker 1: everybody that got in their way. And it wasn't until

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Speaker 1: the Denver game where I said to myself, this is

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Speaker 1: all because of that Arizona game. They are just on

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Speaker 1: a seek and destroy mission. Whoever is in front of

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Speaker 1: them is getting flattened, and they'll run over him three

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Speaker 1: more times just for good measure. That that game put

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Speaker 1: the killer instinct in everybody on that roster. It was

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Speaker 1: probably possessed by some of those players already, but that

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Speaker 1: just that took it from top to bottom. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the things about that as well is it

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Speaker 1: probably said something to coaching staff too, And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons why I think Bills fans know, particularly

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Speaker 1: what we talked about yesterday, with all the head coaching

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Speaker 1: and opening and general manager openings, it's much more than

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: just the great players on the field for the Bills

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Speaker 1: or any team in the NFL. It's a lot about

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Speaker 1: what who's supporting them, the coaching staff, how they're using

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Speaker 1: their talent, how they motivate these guys, how they get

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Speaker 1: them ready to play on a week to week basis.

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Speaker 1: Do they get them ready on focused on Sunday to

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Speaker 1: play their best? This coaching staff does all that. Plus

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Speaker 1: you can also get a sense of during the game

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Speaker 1: the adjustments that Brian Dayball and his offensive staff make,

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00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: the adjustments that Leslie Fraser and his defensive staff make,

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00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: all of those things working in concert to get the

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Speaker 1: most out of it. Where you see the Bills get

627
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: off to They didn't score point in the game on

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Speaker 1: Sunday in the first quarter. It was three to nothing.

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Speaker 1: The Bills were shut out in the first quarter, and

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Speaker 1: through adjustments and continually hind honing in on what they

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Speaker 1: needed to do, they end up scoring fifty six in

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Speaker 1: the last three quarters. That's why it's so hard to

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Speaker 1: win in this league because and I don't want to

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00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a harboringer of doom or anything, but this

635
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: coaching staff and this roster is going to change dramatically

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Speaker 1: next year. Right, better get it now. You gotta get

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00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: it now, and you've got to make it work. You

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00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: got to use every opportunity you can to make sure

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00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, lessen your opportunity for staying in

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Speaker 1: this as long as you can stay. And that that

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Speaker 1: goes for this game this weekend. It's a one and

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Speaker 1: done season and all the stuff you've done so far

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Speaker 1: means nothing, but the chemistry and the things that you're

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Speaker 1: doing well and have done well all season have really

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Speaker 1: really paved the way. And it's not all about the

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Speaker 1: guys on the field. A lot of it has about

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Speaker 1: has to do with the coaching staff, with Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: and his ability. You know, all these guys that we've

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Speaker 1: seen well that you Kenny Stills, Antonio William, all these

650
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Speaker 1: guys that have been up and off the line the roster,

651
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: Jake Kumerow he's not even here now. All these guys

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Speaker 1: that are up and down off the bottom of the roster,

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Speaker 1: who have contributed this player that play it all, it

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Speaker 1: all goes into the mix, and so getting all of

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Speaker 1: that right is really hard to do. And that's why,

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Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't always happen, even for talented teams.

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Speaker 1: So you better let's savor this team for what for

658
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Speaker 1: everything that it means and what it could be, and

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Speaker 1: hope that it doesn't end until the very end. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Andy in New Jersey next Andy Year on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Hi, guys, how's it going good? Um?

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Speaker 1: I think that something. The one defining thing for the

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Speaker 1: Bills this year was that first game against New England

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Speaker 1: where the Patriots had the ball at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game. And when they were in their prime, the

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00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: Patriots always found a way to win a game, whether

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Speaker 1: somebody had to make a play to cause a turnover

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Speaker 1: or make a you know, a great play somehow, that's

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Speaker 1: what they were going to do. And when the Bills

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Speaker 1: managed to make New England cought that football up at

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Speaker 1: the very end of the game and snatch that victory

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Speaker 1: away from Patriots, that was I think, you know, that

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Speaker 1: was a great confidence builder. I think, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: disagree for a second. I think that's a good choice.

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Speaker 1: I think it might have even been more of a

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Speaker 1: defining moment for fans, you know, finally vanquishing the demons, like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we are better than the Patriots. You know,

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Speaker 1: this division race belongs to us now and this team

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Speaker 1: is not going to be a factor in it. And

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Speaker 1: that was in week eight, when you know, it was

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Speaker 1: still relatively a tight race, tightly packed, shall we say.

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Speaker 1: And I know Bills fans can count on two hands

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Speaker 1: and probably two feet the number of seasons that got

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Speaker 1: off to a good start for the Bills and they're rolling,

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00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: and then it's that meeting with the Patriots and they

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Speaker 1: lose that game and the team goes into a tailspin.

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Speaker 1: There were way too many seasons in the two thousands

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00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: that turned on the Patriots game and that and they

689
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: the Bills won that game in the exact way they

690
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: have lost that game twenty times before, yeah, thirty times

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00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: before playing that team just the one time when the

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Speaker 1: game is close and their team made a play or

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Speaker 1: your team made a mistake that gave them the game.

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Speaker 1: That has happened so so many times, and now to

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Speaker 1: see your team make a play that takes you know,

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00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: that seals the victory is pretty sweet for a lot

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Speaker 1: of Bills fans, and I think that stands out as

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Speaker 1: a moment when they thought, hey, this is going to

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Speaker 1: be different, because it also took the Bills. At that moment,

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00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: they were four and no in the AFC East as well,

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00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: so they had a big handle on the on the

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Speaker 1: division title even a week eight. So Walter in Toronto,

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Speaker 1: we go north of the border, what do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? Walter? Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call

705
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: out to see you guys in every day love the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I've been a season ticket holder for a

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Speaker 1: couple of decades, but unfortunately I had to opt out

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00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: of trying to get playoff tickets given the border situation. Yeah,

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00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: we understand that, but there's a lot of a lot

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00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: of loyal fans in UH in Canada, and I think

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Speaker 1: what I saw as the defining moment for the Bills

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Speaker 1: this year was those uh the back to back losses

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Speaker 1: to the Titans and and to the Chiefs. I think

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Speaker 1: I think that's when the coaches decide to look, we're

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Speaker 1: a good team, but we could be a better team,

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Speaker 1: and and that's when they basically unleash the horses and

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Speaker 1: and just said, you know what, we're going to go

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Speaker 1: outter to win every game. And uh and and I

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Speaker 1: mean the Arizona thing, that's a one off. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that happens once they be five years, unless it's they're

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers tossing the ball. But I really think it

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Speaker 1: was those two games that made the made the whole

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Speaker 1: the players realize, look, we're good, but we got to

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Speaker 1: be better. And and since that time, they they've just

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Speaker 1: steamrolled everybody. Yeah yeah, I mean I don't know about

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Speaker 1: steamrolling everybody, but yeah, I mean most of the teams

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Speaker 1: they have, they had, you know, a couple of tight

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Speaker 1: games there. I mean the New England game we just

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Speaker 1: referenced Cam Newton's going down, they go, they get in

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Speaker 1: the end zone. They went't that football game. They only

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Speaker 1: win that by a field goal twenty four twenty one.

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Speaker 1: I think I think they were still trying to rebound.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Jets game eighteen points on six field goals.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about where this team was in Week

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Speaker 1: seven against the Jets eighteen nothing. I mean, they had

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Speaker 1: to do some healing up after those two humbling defeats.

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Speaker 1: That you mentioned at the hands of the Titans and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs six field goals. Can you imagine this team

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Speaker 1: now settling for six field goals? They just scored eight

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Speaker 1: touchdowns last week. I mean, how far has this team

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Speaker 1: come after some of those setbacks earlier in the year.

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Speaker 1: And I remember that New England game. There's twenty four

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Speaker 1: twenty one. You just scored eighteen points against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen of the Chiefs, sixteen of the Titans. So they

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Speaker 1: were struggling right there, and for a month it's not

746
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Speaker 1: even the same team. And there then they come in

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Speaker 1: after the New England Patriot game of the Seahawks coming

748
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Speaker 1: in and remember we thought nobody was picking the Bills

749
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Speaker 1: in that game, right Russell Wilson was playing like an MVP.

750
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: There was, you know, all this stuff going on, and

751
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: he just didn't know what We didn't know what we

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00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: had in this team. Yet certainly they were good. They were,

753
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: you know, four and one, no six, and let's see,

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00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: they were, yeah, seven and two is what they were,

755
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: six and six and two coming in. That was a

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Speaker 1: week that was there ninth game the Seattle Seahawks, and

757
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: they were coming in. We had that doubts I was like,

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00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, Russell's gonna Russell just so good and all,

759
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if our offense hasn't been scoring that much.

760
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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, they you know, they unleashed

761
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Speaker 1: the hounds and they hang forty four on those guys,

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Speaker 1: and that was the first that was the first game

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Speaker 1: they'd had since you know what, the Rams game where

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Speaker 1: they kind of lit it up and then it's like, okay, great,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, they got beat by the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: So right up until week ten of the season, until

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Speaker 1: the bye when the Cardinals beat him on a Hail

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Speaker 1: Mary as good as they were at seven and three,

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Speaker 1: it was like, you know, they're gonna be at their

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Speaker 1: playoff team. But man, you know we're thinking wild card

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Speaker 1: and all that, and all of a sudden, they took

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Speaker 1: off from there and really shifted gears after the bye week,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Break time for us, But we

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Speaker 1: want to remind you to head down to your participating

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Speaker 1: Rachel's Mediterranean Grill locations to find out how you can

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Speaker 1: get your Buffalo Bills playoff flag. So be sure to

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Speaker 1: check that out at your nearby Rachel's location. Break time

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Speaker 1: for Us. We remind you. In about fifteen minutes time,

779
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Speaker 1: we get our weekly visit with Good Morning Football's Kyle Brandt,

780
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: who will be joining us. Think he's gonna have a

781
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: few things to say about Stefan Diggs flossing on the sidelines,

782
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: it's taken on a life of its own. That and

783
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Speaker 1: plenty more to discuss with him. But what are your

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Speaker 1: phone calls? When we return for the Bills defining moment

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty regular season on One Bill's Line,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio christ Brown

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00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: ce Tasker one Bills Live. First hour of the show

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00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: coming to a close, two more hours to go, and

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football joining

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Speaker 1: us in about fifteen minutes time. And then in the

791
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Speaker 1: last hour of our show a little over an hour

792
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Speaker 1: from now, we'll be checking in with the CEO of

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Speaker 1: the Quarterback Summit One, Jordan Palmer, who tutors Josh Allen

794
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: along with Sam Darneld among other NFL quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 1: off season, and talk to him about how Josh digitally

796
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: mapped his throwing mechanics and corrected them after reviewing that,

797
00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: among other things including where the heck is Josh's ceiling. Yeah,

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00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: we had him on earlier in the in the season

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Speaker 1: and he said, you know, he felt like as good

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Speaker 1: as Josh was playing, we had him on. I must

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Speaker 1: have been after the first first half. Yeah, he said,

802
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Speaker 1: he goes, this is just the tip of the ice.

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Speaker 1: He said he's gonna get better, He's gonna get away better.

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Speaker 1: And he I was like, Okay, Yeah, it's just a

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00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: coach talking about this guy. He was right, Josh's gotten

806
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: better and better. He's made some unbelievable throws and continues

807
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: to get better. Yeah. I can't wait to ask him

808
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: about what he really thinks. The ceiling is Josh is

809
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Speaker 1: the way Josh is playing right now, the condition he's in,

810
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: where he's at in the offense, you would think this

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Speaker 1: is a repeatable year for him. Your defining moment of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty regular season for the Bills, let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think that is, Tony and Rochester. You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills live. What do you have? Tony? Hi?

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Speaker 1: Guys love your show them. Thanks. I even though it

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00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: is the Arizona game that is a turning point, a

817
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: parcel turn point. They went into the bye week, they

818
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: had the fester with that. They came out, they played

819
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Speaker 1: the Chargers. They to me, they didn't play that well,

820
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Speaker 1: even though the game was never in question, but they

821
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: didn't play that well. But when they went into San

822
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: Francisco and they dominated them after that fumble at their

823
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: Moss fumbled and they took over the game. To me,

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00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: that was the turning point. And then after that they

825
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: just dominated every single team, including the Steelers. They dominated

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Speaker 1: every team since then. So I'm saying it's the Niners game.

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Speaker 1: And nationally, a lot of people did not pick the

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Speaker 1: Bills to win that game, and I was getting picked

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Speaker 1: off when I was reading that that you know, they

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Speaker 1: were going with the Niners. They still didn't have faith

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Speaker 1: in the Bills. But I know locally, every single person,

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Speaker 1: every single sportswriter in the Buffalo News took the Bills

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00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: by a lot, So I was persantly surprised by that.

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Speaker 1: But seeing all the national news and people pulling them

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Speaker 1: when they beat the Niners, I mean, I was so

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00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: hyped up for that game. I was so glad that

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Speaker 1: they beat them, and then they just took off from there. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that national game really resonates with a lot

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Speaker 1: of people from what we were talking about earlier, Steve,

840
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, too many times the Bills have disappointed on

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00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: national television over the years, and that came to an

842
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: abrupt halt at that first Monday night game against San France. Yeah.

843
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: Some yet people talk about the team and they don't

844
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: watch this team. Now here's the thing, we do the

845
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, I didn't know anything about the

846
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. They were just in the

847
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I thought they were pretty good. They were

848
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Speaker 1: beat up, though we knew that they were beat up,

849
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: and they had relocated to Arizona, so they were they

850
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: were on all that, so they had that going on

851
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: as well. With all those things in the mix, most

852
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: people thought the Bills would shrink in the spotlight. If

853
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: they think that about this team, I think they've missed it.

854
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,760
Speaker 1: They have not been watching this team. Josh has always

855
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: played well in big moments and sometimes well you know,

856
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: with the exception, you know, I'll tell you what. The

857
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: one time he didn't is in the in the overtime

858
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: in that pres in the postseason game last year when

859
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: he kind of tried to sideways ladder, did one of

860
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: those you know, high school kind of plays where he's

861
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: trying to make something happen and they crushed him for it,

862
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: and rightfully, so they still think that's the same guy

863
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: they're getting, or they even thought last year that that

864
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: was the guy that was typical of him and that

865
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: it was not. So they people make these pay and

866
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 1: we all get caught up in how the Matt national

867
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: media perceives our team and how all these people who

868
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: predict game outcomes, how often they pick your team, and

869
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: how he go into these weeks. And we've seen it

870
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: this year where every single solitary national writer picked the Seahawks,

871
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: every single goal solitary national rider picked the Rams, every

872
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: single solitary national rider picked San Francisco. Like he says,

873
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: they just don't watch this team, and I don't know

874
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: what they're watching. Like you have to know in that

875
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: that game, like just look at IR for San Francisco.

876
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: They hit an all star team on injured reserve. Yeah,

877
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: how did you think that the Niners were gonna be

878
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: able to hang and plus they relocated. The Niners were

879
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: up against it in that game. And we can say

880
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: that now, but the Bills rolled in that game, and

881
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna and they rolled in every subsequent game after that.

882
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: They are, you know, they're now. You'd be hard pressed

883
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: to find somebody who's not gonna pick them big over

884
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: the Colts at home in this environment. So maybe that'll happen.

885
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if very many people at all choose

886
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: the Colts over the Bills in this scenario, because the

887
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna come out. And I've said this as well,

888
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: like you almost worry about him being so overemotional that,

889
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, I get a lot of penalties, exuberance penalties,

890
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: you know, little extra hits, little personal fouls, will you know,

891
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: extra curricular stuff, whatever, Josh throwing the ball over the

892
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: heads of receivers because he's all jacked up. I don't

893
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: think that happens in this game. Yeah, I don't think

894
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: that happens. Just for a quick update on the Brown

895
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: situation with their COVID positives there, which includes their head

896
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: coach Kevin Stefanski, Charles Robinson from Yahoo Sports is reporting

897
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: after speaking to a Brown source, the belief is that

898
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: the NFL won't adjust the day of this game unless

899
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: additional players test positive deep into the week, which is possible,

900
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: but he gets the sense this would have to be

901
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: a Ravens type spread by Friday for the game to

902
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: get moved off its current date of Sunday night at

903
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: eight fifteen break time for us, But when Steve and

904
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: I return, we'll be doing so with an extra person

905
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: on board. One Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football will

906
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: check in with him. He's got an interesting choice this

907
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: week as his winner for angry runs. It's someone the

908
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: Bills have to stop on Saturday. We'll get into that

909
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: with Kyle when we return here on One Bill's Live,

910
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio Collo

911
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network Sports, your Sports Update from One Bill's Drive.

912
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: Bills return to the practice field for a walk through

913
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: this afternoon as they get ready for Saturday's game with

914
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: the Colts. Will keep an eye on wide receiver Cole Beasley,

915
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: who Pershawn mcgermittt remains week to week with that knee

916
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: injury suffered in week seventeen sixteen. Excuse me, Brown's learned

917
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: this morning that head coach Kevin Stefanski and two additional

918
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: members of the coaching staff, along with two players, have

919
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen. Their contingency plan calls for

920
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator Mike Cleefer to serve as the acting

921
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: head coach visit the Steelers in the opening round of

922
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs on Sunday night. The Jets requested permission to

923
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: interview Bills offensive coordinator Brian Dable for their head coaching vacancy,

924
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: and now the Chargers are following suit Dayball and Chargers

925
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: GM Tom Tolesco both attended Saint Francis High School here

926
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: in Western New York. John Elway will turn over the

927
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos day to day operations to a full time

928
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: general manager in twenty twenty one. A longtime GM and

929
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: president of football ops. Elway announced Monday he would hire

930
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: a GM with full authority to oversee the personnel and

931
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: football department and in a long time NHL coach John

932
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 1: Muckler passed away on Monday at the age of eighty six.

933
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: The former Buffalo Sabers head coach, director of hockey ops

934
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: and general manager spent six seasons with the organization between

935
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,839
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety seven. That is your

936
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

937
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: with you our number two of the program and joining

938
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: us now is one of the members of the Good

939
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: Morning Football staff that chose Brandon Bean as their Executive

940
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: of the Year this morning on the show. So Gyle Kyle,

941
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: good Morning, Good afternoon. Welcome. Um. That was that a

942
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: unanimous decision for your for your panel there on Good

943
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: Morning Football for Brandon Bean or was it a majority.

944
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've taken a look at these

945
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty Buffalo Bills, Brownie, but they could play some

946
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,959
Speaker 1: football and we have game week. Finally the season can start.

947
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: We've waited four months for the twenty twenty Bills season

948
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: to start. Now it starts. I'm ready. I got seventy

949
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: five Duff swings ready for my wife and I were

950
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: gonna have a wing day this weekend as we watched

951
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills as they are favored in a playoff

952
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 1: game for the first time since nineteen ninety five. Steve,

953
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: I know what you were doing then, Brownie. What were

954
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: you doing at ninety five when that happened ninety five?

955
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: I was here, I was in Buffalo. I was a

956
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: young cub reporter. Um. I was only covering the Bill

957
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: part time because I was working in news back then.

958
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, but yeah, Steve had a big game that week.

959
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown one hundred yards receiving against the

960
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: Dolphins in that playoff game. He killed it. I had,

961
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: I had some more, Steve, what do you remember? Uh?

962
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: It was Jo you don't have funny you know what

963
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: I remember about It was Don shoots, last game, shoots,

964
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: last game. Yeah, and I had, you know I did.

965
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: I had a hundred some yards in the first half.

966
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: I did not finish the game. Uh, I got hurt

967
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: on one of on a fake punt that the Dolphins

968
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: ran and uh look at our crack staff and pulling

969
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: up the touchdown. I was, man, Gosh, was I a

970
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: stud or what I was? Man? I was a moment.

971
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: I was the absolute You beat on that play, Lewis Oliver,

972
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: Uh no, it was It was a safety. Louis Louis

973
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: was the other safety. So yeah, it was Stewart right there. Yeah,

974
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: and uh yeah it was great. And Steve, did you

975
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: have any temptation to go shirtless or not shirtless but sleeveless?

976
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: I guess was there any of that machismo back then? No,

977
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: not for the skill guys. The offensive linemen would go sleeveless.

978
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: That's for sure, but you know, for us, it was

979
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: just all about I had those arm those form pads.

980
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: Those are actually elbow pads that I pulled down. They

981
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: had a rubber side on him. It was good for

982
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: the grip because you had those white shirts. They were

983
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: cotton and the ball was slippery so you'd cough it up.

984
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: So I had that rubber sleeve on to remember. Yes

985
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: to your stuff. Steve. You're always maddeningly modest when we

986
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: talk about you, so I like you taking a moment.

987
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: Let me let me just ring. I have to. I

988
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: have to issue an apology to the Bills mafia. I

989
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: turns out I've insulted them for four months by predicting

990
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: that they're going to be twelve and four. So I'm

991
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: sorry when I did that in August. I did not

992
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: mean to kneecap you guys spit in your face by

993
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: saying you'd win twelve games this year. But I apologize

994
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: duly noted. Please please do not tell me I'm getting

995
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: blowback from Bill's Mafia on so social media for the year.

996
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,439
Speaker 1: You're very tongue in cheek here, right, of course, Yes,

997
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: I know. I mean the fact is that the blowback

998
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: that I got, And this is what I mean, this

999
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: is what gets interesting. I mean, I got destroyed for

1000
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: twelve and four, destroyed and everyone. And it's interesting why

1001
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,399
Speaker 1: because they looked at the Bills schedule and they saw

1002
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: teams like the Steelers and the Titans and just a

1003
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: lot of the Chiefs and everybody around, and they said,

1004
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: there's no way they're getting into twelve wins. Base did

1005
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: you see that Bill Belichick as Cam Newton as the quarterback?

1006
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: Now they're not getting to twelve wins. The blowback that

1007
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: I got was not from the Bills mafia predicting twelve

1008
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: and four like in August. It was everybody else actually

1009
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: believing that, Look, twelve games, there's a lot of games.

1010
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: Thirteen is even more so. I mean, it's it's crazy

1011
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: that I got blown up for saying twelve and four

1012
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: and then the Bills went and I did it. It's

1013
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome time. Yeah, it's it was. It was

1014
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: an unbelievable year that and hard to imagine now too.

1015
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: I'll get your take on this. Yeah, are they rolling

1016
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: into the playoffs or are they rolling into the playoffs?

1017
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:04,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they hung fifty six on the top scoring

1018
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League in a game that

1019
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: defense had to have they've beat They've won their last

1020
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: five or six games by double digits. They are absolutely

1021
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: killing people. They're putting them away early, and they're stomping

1022
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: on them. I mean, hard to imagine a team going

1023
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 1: in to the playoffs on a better role than the Bills. Shocking,

1024
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 1: as Steve you said it all. It's listen. They could

1025
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: have hung sixty on Miami Real easily if they wanted to.

1026
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: And I don't care how to have played. I'm talking

1027
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 1: about what the Dolphins defense didn't. They can do anything.

1028
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: That's a really good that's a double digit win team,

1029
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 1: that's a really good team that turns the ball over

1030
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: every week, scores on defense. Bills destroyed them. Back it

1031
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: up a little bit further. You take your twenty year

1032
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 1: nemesis in the New England Patriots. Bills won by four touchdowns.

1033
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: Go to Denver. I personally think, from watching so many

1034
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: games over the years, the hardest place to win in

1035
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: the whole league. They won by four touchdowns. I don't

1036
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: know if I've ever seen a flourish like this to

1037
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: end this season. I mean, it's these teams don't belong

1038
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: in the same field as it looks like they're in

1039
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: a different league, which is why you know I've already

1040
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: seen things about Man, is it just nerve wracking for

1041
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: Bills fans this week? Can you imagine if they go

1042
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: in there and don't I know, I don't. I don't

1043
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: have a single seed of doubt but that the Buffalo

1044
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win this weekend. We can have the

1045
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: conversation and there's a million storylines and coach Reich and

1046
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: Rivers and the running game. I think right now there's

1047
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: not a team in the entire NFL that's playing better

1048
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: than Buffalo. That includes Green Bay who's on fire as well,

1049
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: one out of thirty two. And how well they're playing

1050
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I mean margin of victory the last

1051
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: three weeks is twenty nine point three points, that's the average,

1052
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: and then their points scored over the last three games

1053
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: forty seven point three on average. That is just utter annihilation.

1054
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 1: But looking at this Colds team, I know you had

1055
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: your angry runs winner was Jonathan Taylor this week, and

1056
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: we saw some of his abilities and you let him

1057
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: get to the second level. He could be waving to

1058
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: you from the end zone three seconds later with that

1059
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: four three nine speed and a two in twenty five

1060
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: pound frame. He is a load that can move and

1061
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: that line we know guard to guard is outstanding. But

1062
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: they're missing left tackle Anthony Costanzo. I know they signed

1063
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: Veld here, you know, in this last week, and they

1064
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: were happy with the way he played. But what is

1065
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: the state of you know, you take a much more

1066
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: expansive look at the league as we suffer from Bill's

1067
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: myopia here, So maybe just give us your sense of

1068
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 1: what is what kind of Colts team is it that's

1069
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: rolling into the playoffs here? Tough? And let me say

1070
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't have the myopia look at it

1071
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: either where there's some other teams I would have rather

1072
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: the Bills faced than the Colts. I'll just put that

1073
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: out there. I don't love the matchup. I would have

1074
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: much rather faced Pittsburgh or Cleveland obviously Miami if they gotten.

1075
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: And I don't love it, but listen, they're toughest, hell

1076
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: they hit and they run the hell out of it.

1077
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, this rookie. If you play fantasy football, you've

1078
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: been tracking him. If you watch it, he's he's really tough,

1079
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: and he's fast and listen. He's a classic Big ten

1080
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: runner like Weather be damned, between the tackles, between the

1081
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: guards if need be. You know you mentioned the Angry

1082
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: Runs segment. We track the toughest runs of the year

1083
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: of the week every single week. Jonathan Taylor has been

1084
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: nominated as a finalist for six different times because he's

1085
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: doing things like we're seeing here. Every single week. He

1086
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: runs hard. Ian Derrick Henry be damned. I don't see

1087
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: anybody running harder than Jonathan Taylor every single week. So

1088
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: it can be an issue where I'd say comfort from

1089
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: a Bills fans perspective is that I think the Bills

1090
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: are going to torch him through the air. I really do.

1091
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Colts pass defense. I don't

1092
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: think the Colts passing offense can even keep stride with

1093
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: him whatsoever. I think that the Taylor thing, they want

1094
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: to run them all day, but I think they could

1095
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: look up and it's fourteen nothing in ten seconds because

1096
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: the Bills passing offense is so good. And listen, I

1097
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: respect him, we all do. We all like him. He

1098
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: all amuses us. The key to the victory for the

1099
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills this weekend is the quarterback. And it's not

1100
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. It's number seventeen on the other team, Philip Rivers.

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01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: I don't like it at all, going to Buffalo in

1102
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: the elements, trying to keep up with this team. Philip Rivers,

1103
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: for all his faults, is a radic as hell. He's wild.

1104
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: He almost tried to blow that game against Jacksonville in

1105
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: the second half. I think he gets the game ball

1106
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: from the Bills this weekend. He's the key to victory

1107
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: Bills fans. Yeah, yeah, I mean you look at this

1108
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: we just talked about. This is the opening of the show.

1109
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: The four of the top five defenses this year as

1110
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: far as the fewest touchdown passes given up, four of

1111
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 1: the top five. Josh has four touchdown games against He's

1112
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: got He's got a three touchdown and a four touchdown

1113
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins, he has a two. The Denver

1114
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: Broncos or the other one only has two touchdown passes,

1115
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: but he ran for two touchdowns in that game. And

1116
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots he's got four touchdowns against. And the Rams

1117
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: he's got a four touchdown game against. This team to me,

1118
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: reminds me of the Chiefs two years ago in pat

1119
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: Mahomes MVP year before the Super Bowl year when they

1120
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: exploded onto the scene and they lost in the championship

1121
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: game to the Patriots. That seems like this kind of

1122
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: team where they are just rolling so fast that you

1123
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: almost get a panic since if they jump out on

1124
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: you buy a touchdown and you don't answer with a touchdown,

1125
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're gonna be down two scores,

1126
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: and now your game plan changes, and then you're down

1127
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: three scores, and every time you don't hold them off

1128
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: the scoreboard, you feel like it's a loss. That's almost

1129
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,959
Speaker 1: the way it feels like for me with this Bills team.

1130
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: And I've said it for a couple of weeks, and

1131
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: I know there's a ton of stuff that have to happen,

1132
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: but this seems like two teams that are on a

1133
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: collision course in the AFC Championship game, the Chiefs and

1134
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: the Bills, and they're gonna look a lot like each other.

1135
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: It's a great comparison, Steve, the Chiefs team you're talking about,

1136
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: So you remember that game, It was that Arrowhead. It

1137
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: was the AFC title game against New England, and that

1138
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: Chiefs played a terrible first half and New England was

1139
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: just blowing them out and Mahomes gonna do anything. And

1140
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: then in the second half it was a freight train

1141
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: and Mahomes did whatever he wanted up and down the

1142
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: field binm boom, boom. And they ended up losing that

1143
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: game because they lost a coin toss, and they lost

1144
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: the coin toss to go to overtime, Brady goes right

1145
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: down the field. Mahomes never saw the ball in overtime.

1146
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: You got the sense that if the Chiefs had won

1147
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: the toss, they're going to the Super Bowl, and we

1148
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: never get that whole entire thing against the Rams. I

1149
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: tend to feel the same way, especially now, like I

1150
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,439
Speaker 1: don't even know if they need it John Brown back,

1151
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: but they got him and immediately as an impact. I

1152
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: had to tell you this, dude, Antonio Williams, he might

1153
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: be the best running back in the roster. He was

1154
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: so good practice squad elevated. He looked and crazy, looked

1155
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: like a pro bowler against Miami, just with the ball

1156
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: between the tackles in the end zone. Like they don't

1157
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,439
Speaker 1: even need him, so to speak, but they got him.

1158
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean he's taking handoffs from Matt Barkley, running right

1159
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: into the teeth of a double digit win team and

1160
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: he's looking again like a pro bowler. So it's like

1161
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: they only got eleven spots on offense, and there's so

1162
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: many guys who are so good, and I'll bring in

1163
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: full circle. That's why we talked about Brandon being I mean,

1164
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: it's what he has done to this team and the

1165
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,439
Speaker 1: happens that he has put. I mean, he's pulling guys

1166
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: off in the practice squad in a week seventeen game

1167
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: and they're looking that good. It's you know, it's funny

1168
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: with the Diggs thing. We were talking about the Digs

1169
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: trade the other day. That came down the same day

1170
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: that the whole DeAndre Hopkins Texans Cardinals thing happened, which

1171
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: was everything. So if you turn on ESPN that day,

1172
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs to the Bills is on the little crawl

1173
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the street. No one who's even

1174
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: talking about it. Diggs malcontents. You know, he'll go to

1175
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo where receivers go to die. It was ninety DeAndre

1176
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: Hopkins to the Cardinals. Well where the Cardinals now they're

1177
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: at home and Stefan Diggs was the best receiver in football.

1178
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: Was amazing and it's all coming up being man, it's

1179
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: really impressive. Speaking of Stefan Diggs caught on camera in

1180
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: a very interesting position on the sidelines this past week

1181
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: with a four foot string of gentle floss and flossing

1182
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: both the left and right side of his mouth, going

1183
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: with the cross action there. And this is taken on

1184
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: a life of its own. Kyle, what what was your

1185
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: initial reaction on first blush of seeing this? All right,

1186
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,439
Speaker 1: so I have to admit my first reaction was I

1187
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 1: heard someone said, did you cease to find Diggs flossing

1188
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. I'm like, all right, what is the

1189
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: cool term these days? If you're showing off like you're

1190
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 1: your cool pendant or your car or whatever you're the

1191
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: kids say, you're flossing. So I thought, I don't know, what,

1192
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,959
Speaker 1: does he have a crown on or a heavyweight belt

1193
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: or something? And they're like, no, it was actually dental flossing,

1194
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: like you learned when you were in first grade or

1195
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: in health class or whatever. So once I realized what

1196
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: kind of flossing we were talking about, have you ever

1197
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: seen such a wild aggressive style of flosshing? He is

1198
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: sawing away. Let me tell you something that that is

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Speaker 1: definitely that is definitely game day flossing right there, because

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01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: you're you're in that, You've got your you've got the

1201
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: adrenaline flow, and you're in the midst of it. He goes, wait,

1202
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: I gotta and he said the reason was, you know,

1203
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: they have orange slices down there, and the pulp gets

1204
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: caught in your teeth. He and that's why I said,

1205
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: you can't play good if you don't feel good. And

1206
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: if they got that stuff in your tea, you gotta

1207
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: you gotta get that out, man. And what shocking to me,

1208
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: And hats off of the bills, they have floss on

1209
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: the sideline, like, yeah, gotta give it up. Equipment, equipment

1210
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 1: guys are on it man. So not only floss, they

1211
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: appear to have about twelve feet of floss that he used.

1212
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's I don't know about you, guys. I'm

1213
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 1: using those dumb little sticks with a half inch. Yeah,

1214
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm a stick guy. But he was

1215
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: going like full of like he looked like a lumberjack

1216
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: scarf inside it out of his ear. I've never seen

1217
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: it like that. Now, I know that Lebron Lebron famously

1218
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: will clip his nails during a game on the sideline.

1219
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: He just discussed a finger. But the floss I've never seen,

1220
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: and I want to know if the equipment guys, it's

1221
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: just if he asked what if he had an you know,

1222
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: a oral hygiene New Year's Resolution? Is there listerine? Are

1223
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: there toothbrushes? Is there a water pick? Is all that stuff?

1224
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: Because listen, Stefan's the best receiver in football. If he

1225
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: wants that stuff, you get it. Well, yeah, time, and

1226
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: I expect some fans to be flossing in the stands. Well,

1227
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say is this just taken on a

1228
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: life of its own. Now. I mean there's memes on

1229
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: social media. You know those little we got dig's dental

1230
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: floss now, um, so you can get that. There was

1231
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: also a cartoon caricature, you know those little dental cards

1232
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: used to get as a kid. There's any eyes, a

1233
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: nose and a mouth on a tooth and you know he's, oh,

1234
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: here's your next appointment, We'll see you. Then you know

1235
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 1: there was somebody on social media with that. They had

1236
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: his face planted on a giant tooth, uh with with

1237
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: a piece of dental floss hugging him Oh my god,

1238
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. Like, I gotta I gotta think too. We

1239
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: gotta come up with something and some way to find

1240
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: out what is the weirdest piece of equipment on an

1241
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: NFL sideline? Because I know this too. In our in

1242
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: our day, there was always a guy that says, yeah,

1243
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: he's got to have a certain hat, or he's got

1244
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: to have a certain he's got to have an extra

1245
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: mouth piece, or he's got to have a pair of

1246
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 1: socks that he wants or whatever. We're supposed to have

1247
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: a finger brace for his third finger on his left hand,

1248
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: because yeah, whatever, guys will make requests like that. I

1249
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta run a pole of all the equipment

1250
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: guys in the league. What's the weirdest thing you've got

1251
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 1: to have on the sidelines every week? Yeah, because I'll

1252
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: tell you what. Floss would not be on my list. No,

1253
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: I'm cool with the floss. I don't need that. But

1254
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: look the wide receiver Steve. These days, they work in

1255
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: different ways. I just want to know if this is

1256
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna pan out and there's gonna be an endorsement, because

1257
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: back in the day, if it would have been Doug,

1258
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: it would have been flute floss instead of the flakes,

1259
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: and is it mint? Is it flavored? I need all

1260
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: the details, and I'm counting on you guys. Yeah, we

1261
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: got to find that out. Dig Doug Floss. I kind

1262
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: of like that, so, I mean, we could well make

1263
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: it happen. But he looked I mean, he looked like

1264
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: a lumberjack. My gums would have been like bleeding for

1265
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: half an hour if I did tell you what. He

1266
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: and I have good oral hygiene, but he said it.

1267
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: I didn't run my press when I was playing offense.

1268
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: I didn't run my pass routes as intensely as he

1269
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: was flossing his teeth. He's a precise flosser in and

1270
01:07:56,800 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: out of flosses, keeps his gums low. All those changeles

1271
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: you see, it comes out of the comes out of

1272
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: the contact points really strong. Yeah, I got it. So yeah,

1273
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: I know you I know, I know We've already touched

1274
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: a little bit, Kyle on the depth of this roster,

1275
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 1: which was evident in that game against the Dolphins with

1276
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 1: some of the players that you mentioned, you know, in

1277
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: the second half. Beasley is a question mark this week.

1278
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: But I think if there's anybody that has kind of

1279
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 1: put the minds of Bills fans at ease a little

1280
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,799
Speaker 1: bit as to who fills the void in the slot.

1281
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: It's one Isaiah Mackenzie, who very quietly scored five touchdowns

1282
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 1: on offense this season, obviously added to one on the

1283
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: punt return on Sunday. It seems like they were you know,

1284
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: you remember in college the too deep. This is a

1285
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: legitimate too deep roster. Well, I compare it to another

1286
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: roster in the other conference. Everyone has done backflips for

1287
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:54,600
Speaker 1: six months. On the All Star team that the Buccaneers

1288
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: have put together. There was a sense when Mike Evans

1289
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: got hurt and didn't know what his status, they're like, well,

1290
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: it's you know, it sucks, but oh well we got God.

1291
01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:06,600
Speaker 1: When Antonio and Gronk, it's fine. It's not a problem

1292
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 1: that I look at the Bills and I obviously don't

1293
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 1: want to lose anybody, but there's really not that kind

1294
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: of thing that makes me nervous this week if if

1295
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: Beasley isn't Beasley, because they're so deep, and because Burleston

1296
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: was joking on the set today after I was talking

1297
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 1: about Bills, He's like, he's like I think Mackenzie looked

1298
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: like the best player in the NFL. This week, He's like,

1299
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: is there anything he didn't do? Like Nate was freaking

1300
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: out about mackenzie, and it's if I'm the Bills offense,

1301
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do we even get McKenzie the ball?

1302
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: We got a lot of people, we gotta get the

1303
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: ball here, and it's just it's just all under these

1304
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: first world problems, champagne problems. Who gets the ball? We're

1305
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: too good, We're too loaded, And I don't I'm not

1306
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 1: measured and modest about how the Bills are gonna be

1307
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: against the Colts this weekend. I don't care. I actually

1308
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: feel really really confident. I think it's going to be

1309
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: a big win, and I don't think it's gonna be

1310
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: terribly close. I just think it's just way too much firepower.

1311
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: Taking it a step further too, Kyle, with what we

1312
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: saw happen to Cleveland with the COVID outbreak, not just

1313
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: this week, but two weeks ago against the Jets, you

1314
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 1: know they lose their whole receiver room. We see some

1315
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: of these playoff teams stocking up on receivers that are

1316
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: out there on the street and adding them to their

1317
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: practice squad. The Bills did that. They got Kenny Stills

1318
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: on their practice squad, Like, huh, what along with along

1319
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen's buddy from Wyoming tenor Gentry who you

1320
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 1: know from the Bears? Um? Sure, so, I mean, do

1321
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: you see that as a as a reaction to what

1322
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: what happened to the to the Browns? And these playoff

1323
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:37,679
Speaker 1: teams are trying to protect against that, to have guys

1324
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: to put out on the field if God forbid, the

1325
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,839
Speaker 1: worst happens with COVID. Yeah, well, what happened to the Browns?

1326
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: I think that the low point was what happened to

1327
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: the Broncos when they they didn't have a quarterback. And

1328
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: if you're not doing that stuff, like you haven't been

1329
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: paying attention. We're talking all this week about who made

1330
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs who didn't. COVID nineteen made the playoffs. It's here,

1331
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,200
Speaker 1: it's in the postseason. It's not going away. There was

1332
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: not a deadline for which you could affect any of

1333
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: the teams. And if you look at Aaron Rodgers said

1334
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,799
Speaker 1: it was the best quote of the week. Aaron Rodgers

1335
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 1: gets the number one seed, he doesn't have to play

1336
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: for two weeks. The NFC goes through Lambeaux and as

1337
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,559
Speaker 1: he's leaving, he's leaving the field. Finally, after beating the

1338
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: Bears again, they say, hey, Aaron, you got the buy?

1339
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: What our advice to you to your teammates about how

1340
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: to spend the buy? And he just goes, don't get

1341
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: COVID and he walked off. And that's true. Like if

1342
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,080
Speaker 1: I still think that this thing is gonna affect some

1343
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: things big time. I mean, the Browns might not have

1344
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: their head coach for their first playoff game. It feels

1345
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: like fifty years. So yes, you stock the cupboard. I

1346
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: don't care if it's Kenny Stills, it doesn't matter. It

1347
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 1: gets somebody on the field. Because two days before the game,

1348
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:41,919
Speaker 1: you don't have any wide receivers. You how many quarterbacks?

1349
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:43,560
Speaker 1: That's how you're gonna end your season. It would be

1350
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: a tragedy. You gotta have guys, all right. So we've

1351
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: talked about the Colts at Bills game. What other wildcard

1352
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 1: weekend game kind of tickles your fancy which game you

1353
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 1: think is gonna be the best? I've always said I

1354
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:55,919
Speaker 1: think Wildcard weekend you get some really really good football

1355
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 1: games because teams fighting claw and scratch to get in.

1356
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 1: Then they get in, they think, hey, you know, they

1357
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: get an adrenaline burst, and you really get some outstanding

1358
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 1: performances on Wildcard Weekend. Sometimes well, I think it's I

1359
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with you more, Steve, and this could be

1360
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: the best one. We have six games, three on Saturday,

1361
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: three on Stead, we have a Sunday night Wildcard game.

1362
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: And remember one buy only, which means typically you're gonna

1363
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: get two, you're gonna have four teams have buys. And

1364
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: now those teams that have buys, they're playing Wildcard Weekend,

1365
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 1: which means you get better teams in. You're gonna get

1366
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 1: teams like the Saints in that normally would have been

1367
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: not even played. And I gotta tell you the one

1368
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: right now as you're starting to wrap your minds around

1369
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: this game, the game I'm looking forward to is absolutely

1370
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: the Ravens game and the Titans Ravens Titans, because here's

1371
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: what we have here. We have a team that has

1372
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 1: a two thousand yard rusher versus a team that just

1373
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 1: ran for four hundred yards in a game, and they're

1374
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: smashing their heads into each other. It's this is the

1375
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: one that I think is the hardest to pick. That's

1376
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: the most entertaining. It's two really, really tough AFC teams,

1377
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: and I think the quarterback competition is actually a dead heat.

1378
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: I don't care if Lamar's the MVP Tannehill Spectacular. You've

1379
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: got great players on both sides. You've got red ass,

1380
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: tough guy head coaches, and one of these guys to

1381
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 1: be a Derrick Henry or Lamar Jackson's gonna be standing

1382
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: on the sideline while the other one runs up and

1383
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,599
Speaker 1: down the field. Tough game to pick. And I think

1384
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,719
Speaker 1: this is the best messup of the week, only again

1385
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,960
Speaker 1: because I don't think Bills and Colts is gonna be

1386
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,759
Speaker 1: that guy. I don't even think it's close. Yeah, watching

1387
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 1: these two teams, I don't even think these two teams

1388
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: beating the Nobody can beat these two teams beating the

1389
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: tar out of each other this week. And you know,

1390
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: if you're a Bills fan looking at that, you're like, well,

1391
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm glad those two teams are beating up on each other.

1392
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 1: Soften them up for if we have to face them

1393
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 1: in the next round, because those two teams are gonna

1394
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: be hanging after that game, no matter who wins and

1395
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: who loses, and people forget that game went to overtime,

1396
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: those two teams when they played each other with Derek

1397
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: Henry with that run at the end to clinching an ot.

1398
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 1: I mean that was a rock'em sock'em game back then.

1399
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 1: The only problem with that game is that with the

1400
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: team's running the way to do, it may be over

1401
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 1: in like sixty five five minutes. I mean that's true.

1402
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: I got to scramble. It's gonna be a two round.

1403
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: It might be, it might be a two hour and

1404
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,480
Speaker 1: fifteen minute game. Maybe it will not go three hours.

1405
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: That it's gonna be a running clock, grind it out,

1406
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,000
Speaker 1: and it's gonna look like a nineteen fifty seven Ohio

1407
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:21,759
Speaker 1: State Michigan game. Wow. Okay, the other one that I love, guys,

1408
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,640
Speaker 1: um you believe it or not. I feel like in

1409
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 1: some one of these games, one of these six games,

1410
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: that table's gonna get flipped and there's gonna be an

1411
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: outcome on Monday, We're like, can you believe just the

1412
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 1: season has been too weird and there's there's been too

1413
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: many shakeups. I'm starting to get a feeling, hear me out.

1414
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: I like Washington a lot, a lot. I knew you

1415
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: were gonna think that if you were one of these guys,

1416
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: one of these NFC quarterbacks, be it Rogers or Russ

1417
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: or Brady, who they faced this weekend, I think you

1418
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 1: wanted anybody else in but Washington. Please give us the Giants.

1419
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: Please give us the Cowboys, because those the D line alone,

1420
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: It's it's like I don't want to face that. If

1421
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: they're all first round picks forty three, they're all first

1422
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: round picks and Brownie. Even even their names, the guy's

1423
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 1: names are like sweat and pain and Chase, and like,

1424
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:11,560
Speaker 1: I don't want any of that sounds like hell. Like Washington.

1425
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: Alex Smith limited right, maybe banged up, but totally fearless,

1426
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: has been in these games before, has beaten Tom Brady before.

1427
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: If they do the New York Giants routine with their

1428
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: D line, that could be your shocker in Tampa. All right,

1429
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave you because you give us so much.

1430
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave you with a nugget here for you

1431
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: to chew on this week and to maybe use next

1432
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,600
Speaker 1: next week. If the Browns pull out a victory in Pittsburgh,

1433
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: Alex van Pelt, their offensive coordinator, is probably gonna be

1434
01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: the guy calling plays and people are like, oh my god,

1435
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: he hasn't called plays all year, what are they gonna do?

1436
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,719
Speaker 1: Alex Van Pelt affectionately known in these parts as pill

1437
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: because his teammates used to call him Pillsbury dough Boy.

1438
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: When he was here with the Bills. He he was

1439
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach under Dick Giron here in Buffalo. In

1440
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, they fired Turk Schoner a week

1441
01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:03,480
Speaker 1: before the He's an opener and elevate Alex to offensive

1442
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:06,639
Speaker 1: coordinator to call plays in a system he didn't even design.

1443
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: They got to go play the Patriots on Monday Night

1444
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: Football in Week one and the Bills are winning twenty

1445
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: four to thirteen with about thirteen minutes left to go

1446
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: in that game, and the defense blows it Leotis McKelvin

1447
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: with the butter hands on the kickoff return. They lose

1448
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,759
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty four. But it wasn't because of Alex

1449
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: Van Pelt. He was ready for that game with a

1450
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: week notice. So he's been in this situation before. We'll

1451
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: see if he pulls it out in his hometown at Pittsburgh.

1452
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: How about that former teammate of mine, he's a great Yeah,

1453
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,840
Speaker 1: really pulling for him so well, I'm always pulling for pills.

1454
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 1: That's fine. I'm into that. Great story. I will say.

1455
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: We'll leave you with this, my friends. Buffalo Bills thirty one,

1456
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts seventeen CNX round all right, have the floss

1457
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: ready after you're done with those wings. You'll need it.

1458
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 1: Oh yes, sir, thank you, thank you, Doffs. We love

1459
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,599
Speaker 1: you all right. That's Kyle Brand from Good Morning Football.

1460
01:16:57,840 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with him and get a

1461
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,759
Speaker 1: lay of the land, and not only with the Bills,

1462
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: but in the NFL at large, and I am one

1463
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 1: hundred percent in agreement with him. Titans Ravens is gonna

1464
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: be a bloodbath. They are gonna beat the tar out

1465
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: of each other. And there's incentive for Baltimore because of

1466
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: the way that regular season game ended in overtime. Dereck

1467
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 1: Henry busts through the line and then gets to the

1468
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 1: end zone to win that game in overtime over the Ravens.

1469
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: There's that still sticks in their crawl. You better believe it.

1470
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: So that is gonna be a war. I mean, those

1471
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,719
Speaker 1: guys are gonna pound on each other. It is a game,

1472
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: and I'll make I'm not gonna apologize for it. I'm like,

1473
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: we're ducking. We're not gonna duck anybody. But those two

1474
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: teams are two of the teams that really look to

1475
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:44,879
Speaker 1: beat tough matchups for everybody else in the playoffs Chiefs

1476
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 1: Bills Pittsburgh because they're different. Yeah, because their power run

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Speaker 1: game and in a throwing league, and it's it's hard

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01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 1: to you know, bear up and hold those guys off

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01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: the you know, to no gain zero game on a yard,

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01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: get them into third and long where you can get

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01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: them off the field. It's really hard to do, and

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: it's it makes it tough. All right, break time for us.

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Speaker 1: But we get back to your phone calls when we return,

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01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: as we're asking you for the defining moment of the

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01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: Bills twenty twenty regular season. Back in a moment here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. The Buffalo Bills an MT Bank encouraging

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Speaker 1: fans to submit postcards to which the team good luck.

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01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: walls here for the players to see. If you want

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01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: to wish the team good luck in their wildcard game

1494
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: this week against the Colts, and you're an M ANDT

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Speaker 1: Bank customers, stop in, fill out a postcard, send it

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Speaker 1: to the team, and they'll be sure to see it

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01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: on the walls here that line the hallways. And if

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01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,760
Speaker 1: you're outside the immediate Buffalo area like Lockport or some

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01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: other locations like outside Buffalo Proper and the surrounding suburbs,

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Speaker 1: the immediate suburbs, it may take an extra day to

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Speaker 1: get here, so get your postcard in sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: They're available at all the Western New York branches for

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Speaker 1: M ANDT Bank. If you can't get out to M

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Speaker 1: ANDT Bank, you can also do it virtually online. Just

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01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:28,640
Speaker 1: go to Buffalo Bills dot com and look for the

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01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: M ANDT Bank virtual postcard and you should be able

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01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 1: to find it there to send it electronically. So that's

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01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: a fun thing for fans to kind of get in

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01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: touch with the Bills players. Knowing only sixty seven hundred

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01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,440
Speaker 1: fans will be at the game, I'm sure they'd appreciate

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01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: the support. We want to go to the phones at

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01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty as we are asking

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01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: you for what you feel was the bills defining moment

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01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: of their twenty twenty regular season. Waiting patiently is DJ

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01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. DJ, You're on one Bills Live. What do

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01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: you have for hi, guys, thanks for selecting my call um,

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01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: enjoy the show. Thanks. I'm born and raised in Buffalo,

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01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: lifelong Bills fan, attended three of the four Super Bowls,

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01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 1: and in fact I still have the I was their

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01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:17,680
Speaker 1: card for the first game. I guess it was a

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01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: preseason game at rich Stadium. But for the last twenty

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01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 1: years I've been subjected to the self important media market

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01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: here in the New York metro area, which is tough

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01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: to do. And but I just started to listen to

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01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:34,680
Speaker 1: you guys in mid October when I found out I could,

1526
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: I could get you, and I want to thank you. Um.

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01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: I never played a down of football in my life.

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01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: I played D one hockey, but so I don't really

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01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: know football very much, but thank you. I've learned more

1530
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: football from you guys and your guests in the last

1531
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 1: three months than I have in the last twenty years,

1532
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 1: so that's nice to say. Well, it's it's you guys.

1533
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: Do a really great job of explaining complicated and simple

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01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: things to an idiot like myself. So the I think,

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01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:07,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's defining, but on the defensive

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01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: side of the ball, I think Johnson's pick sixth interception

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01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: before the half against Pittsburgh was a real defining point,

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01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 1: at least for the defense because remember, I think you

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01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: had said either Tremaine or trade Abius had said that

1540
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: they they'll define the defense by turnovers. Yeah, and I

1541
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:28,960
Speaker 1: think this was the first time the defense scored in

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01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 1: a long time, right, Yeah, it was the first defensive

1543
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:36,719
Speaker 1: touchdown since twenty seventeen, Week sixteen, Jordan Poyer off Tom

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01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: Brady in New England, right right, right, So I think

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01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 1: that was a big one because obviously it gave him

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01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: lots of momentum going into the half time. I got

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01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: one question for Steve if I can. What kind of

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01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: coach was Marv? I mean, was he like a CEO

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01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 1: type and just let the other guys run stuff? Was

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01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:01,799
Speaker 1: he involved hands on in the game planning of offense

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01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 1: or defense, or how did he patrol or work the

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01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 1: week before the game, And what kind of coach was he? Well,

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01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: Marv was He's very hands on. He had a hand

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01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 1: in everything. He was an old special teams coaching for

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01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 1: the eleven and a half years that I was going

1556
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: to remember that team. Every special team's meeting I was at,

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01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: Marv was sitting in the front row center. So he

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01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: was in every special teams meeting, and that was an

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01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 1: obvious signal to the guys who played special teams where

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01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: they thought it was important or not. The head coach

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01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 1: is sitting in the meeting, so in the front row,

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01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: you didn't want to be late. That said that, tactically,

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01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,719
Speaker 1: he was always up to speed on all the offensive

1564
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 1: and defensive game plans and all that. And the one

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01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: thing that I know at one point I think he

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01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: did this throughout his time in Buffalo. The one thing

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01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: that Marv handled on game day on off he handled

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01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,680
Speaker 1: the offense. It was short yardage and goal line situations.

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01:22:56,800 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: Marv had the He formulated the game plan, the shifts

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01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: and motions. Certainly at Ted marcher Broda and later on

1571
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:09,640
Speaker 1: Tom Bresen a hand and Jim Schaffner, all the subsequent coordinators,

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01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 1: they all had a hand in that as well. But

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01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: Marv called the plays, formulated the game plan, put together

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01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: the philosophy of short yardage goal line plays for the team,

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01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: and he called him on game day. So that was

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01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: his contribution during the week. It would take one thing,

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01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: one aspect of the game plan off the plate of

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01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 1: those other guys and he'd do it himself. And that

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01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,640
Speaker 1: was his thing. But he also you know, obviously he

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01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 1: had the voice. If he wanted to chime in on

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01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: a defensive call he would, and certainly an offensive call.

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01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: But he picked his spots and kept his kept Teddy

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01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:46,640
Speaker 1: march Brod in the offensive coordinators. He knew that, you know,

1584
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: they had some he had to respect their job as well.

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01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: But for the most part he would say, hey, maybe

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01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: we should try and put this in the air right here,

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01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: or maybe not. But he was he was an executive,

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01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: no question about it. But he was very well versed

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01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: in every aspect of what was going on in the field,

1590
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 1: and he understood his players too. So that's the kind

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01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: of coach he was. All right, thanks for the call,

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01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 1: DJ and the kind words. We appreciate it. We go

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01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: from one guy in the Constitution state to another. Charlie

1594
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: in Connecticut is on the line, Charlie, what do you

1595
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Yeah, thanks guys,

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01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I think the players plays. One of

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01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: the players of the year was Trey White interception in

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01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,760
Speaker 1: the San Diego game, because the Bills did come out

1599
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: and done a nice job in the first half, and

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01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:33,640
Speaker 1: then I think they scored at the beginning of the

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01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: third quarter, but then they just they are two fumbles,

1602
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: an interception, and the Charger scored I think ten unanswered points.

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01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: So as right after the buy and Justin Herbert was

1604
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: really moving the ball well against him, and then Trey

1605
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 1: came up with an interception. I really thought that was

1606
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: a big turning point because it kind of led him

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01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: the d into the next bunch of games where they

1608
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: just played lights out. Yeah, that's when he that's when

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01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,200
Speaker 1: he peeled off his own route right and he kind

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01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: of sniped him, yeah, and just picked it off. He

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01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:06,719
Speaker 1: just left his man because he was following Herbert's eyes

1612
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: and he picked him clean, just totally jumped the route.

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01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that was a ten point victory

1614
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: and it was due in part to what you talked

1615
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: about the defense being able to take the ball away

1616
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:22,560
Speaker 1: late and you know, as our previous caller mentioned, Trudevius

1617
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: said it pretty early in the season. He said, look,

1618
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: we're going to be a different defense this year. We're

1619
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:29,280
Speaker 1: not going to be a defense that locks it down

1620
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: from a total yardage perspective or even a past defense perspective,

1621
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: where they had finished in the top five in each

1622
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:36,400
Speaker 1: of the previous two years. He said, I think our

1623
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: identity this year is going to be taking the ball

1624
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 1: away and getting more possessions for our high powered offense.

1625
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: And they've proven to be that. I mean, they finished

1626
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: the season plus four in the turnover margin, but they

1627
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: were in minus territory in the first half of the

1628
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: year and so they were climbing uphill to get on

1629
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,360
Speaker 1: the positive side of that turnover margin. But here we

1630
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 1: are at season's end and they managed to do it.

1631
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,680
Speaker 1: Plus four is not outstanding, but better to be in

1632
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: the plus territory than the MIAs. Yeah, and I'll say

1633
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 1: this as well. It is it has been a little

1634
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: complimentary football the Bill's offense, because of their ability to

1635
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:13,160
Speaker 1: score points and the weapons offensively, have put other teams

1636
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: their opponents in a position where they got they gotta

1637
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: light up the scoreboard and do it in a hurry,

1638
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 1: or they're gonna get left behind. And now you have

1639
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 1: put that causes them to put the ball at risk.

1640
01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: And this defense, particularly this secondary. You say what you

1641
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: want about it. It's good and they play good and

1642
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: they are getting better, so they're there to take advantage

1643
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,719
Speaker 1: of that. And even though they finished plus four Steve,

1644
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:41,120
Speaker 1: which was tenth best in terms of turnover margin, they

1645
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 1: were third in total takeaways, third with twenty six. The

1646
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: only teams with more than them Miami with twenty nine,

1647
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh with twenty seven, and they're they're tied with New

1648
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:56,799
Speaker 1: Orleans for twenty six total takeaways for the third highest

1649
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 1: total in the league. And that's after a slow start,

1650
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 1: slow start in terms of takeaways. All right, break time

1651
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:05,599
Speaker 1: for us Maria phone calls when we return. So Rob

1652
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 1: in Angola, Brandon and Buffalo Wayne in Virginia, hang tight.

1653
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 1: Try to get to you here. In the next segment

1654
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:13,599
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo

1655
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Jens Milestone Screens Gens the Official Jeweler or

1656
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Stefan Diggs finished the regular season with

1657
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and thirty five receiving yards, a personal season high,

1658
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: and a Bill's singles season record breaking in the mark

1659
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 1: previously held by Eric Molds of thirteen hundred and sixty

1660
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: eight yards in nineteen ninety eight, and Josh Allen became

1661
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: the only quarterback in NFL history with more than four

1662
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: thousand yards passing, more than thirty passing touchdowns, and more

1663
01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: than eight rushing touchdowns in a single season. Pretty impressive

1664
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,719
Speaker 1: numbers there. Let's get right back to the phones, though,

1665
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: is we are short on time and we go to

1666
01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:09,600
Speaker 1: Rob and ain'tola Rob, what do you have for us?

1667
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys, thanks for taking

1668
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,519
Speaker 1: my call. A long time listener, first time caller, just

1669
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to make a couple of comments to you. First,

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01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,760
Speaker 1: in terms of the turning point of the season, My

1671
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: thoughts are my only question this year was if the

1672
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,600
Speaker 1: offense could do it against the top defenses, and that

1673
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: San Francisco game kind of did it for me, just

1674
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:32,320
Speaker 1: thrashing that well coach top defense. Second comment I wanted

1675
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: to make was something that a friend of mine noticed

1676
01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: live during the Miami game on that John Brown touchdown.

1677
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 1: If you listen to the early pre snap callouts, Josh

1678
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: called out Balboa three times and then goes on to

1679
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:46,719
Speaker 1: throw the knockout punch to John Brown on the outside.

1680
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 1: There was something unless you know, obviously a saw from COVID,

1681
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: you would never hear that. But there's definitely something really

1682
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaker 1: cool that we thought. You know, he notices John Brown

1683
01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:58,760
Speaker 1: on the outside in single coverage and calls that and

1684
01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 1: then throws that bomb. I thought that was awesome. I'll

1685
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: hang up the list and thanks go build. Yeah, thanks

1686
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: for the call, Rob, appreciate it. And you're not the

1687
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 1: first person I mentioned the forty nine Ers Monday Night game. Um,

1688
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: you know that was a top flight defense last year,

1689
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: number two in the league went all the way to

1690
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 1: the NFC title and one and won the NFC title

1691
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl. They were a little

1692
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: bit of a shadow of that team in light all

1693
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:25,719
Speaker 1: the injuries they sustained, but still a rough, tough, physical

1694
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: defensive unit, and the Bills had their way with them

1695
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,120
Speaker 1: outside of the fumble by Zach Moss deep in their

1696
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:35,200
Speaker 1: own end. Yeah, you take that away and it's a route.

1697
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was a good game and the

1698
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 1: Bills was a comfortable win for the Bills, but it

1699
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:45,679
Speaker 1: was a route without that, without that turnover. I think

1700
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:48,280
Speaker 1: what I've seen, and I've loved it, and I think

1701
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:50,920
Speaker 1: it's important. I don't think it's just a window dressing.

1702
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 1: So the fact that the Bills have really been attempting

1703
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: to score and score fast deep into these games in

1704
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: the second half. And I know the my Emmy Dolphin

1705
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:02,840
Speaker 1: and some Bills fans probably aren't aware of this, some

1706
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 1: of them are. But Miami fans were livid with the

1707
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills for running up the score and scoring fifty

1708
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: six on them. And I get it. I mean, we've

1709
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: we've been victims of that here in Buffalo. And in

1710
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 1: all fairness, their coach was still calling timeouts with eight

1711
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 1: minutes left in the game, So you want to do that.

1712
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:22,720
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds were up, they were down thirty he was

1713
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: calling timeouts for the so you want to do that. Fine.

1714
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 1: But my answer to the Miami fans, and I get it,

1715
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 1: I know this, the Bills didn't mean to disrespect, but

1716
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:40,719
Speaker 1: here's what happened. The Bills had their backups in and

1717
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: there's no way you can tell your guys to lay down,

1718
01:30:48,120 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 1: and and certainly you can say, well, well they were

1719
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: calling bombs to Yeah, they're playing football and all year

1720
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:56,599
Speaker 1: for those if your defense. If your defense is gonna

1721
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 1: put eleven guys in the line of scrimmage or show

1722
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:00,639
Speaker 1: a defensive look where the Bills have rules in their

1723
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,920
Speaker 1: offense to do certain things, you're gonna get that. The

1724
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: play action passed to Gabe Davis for the deep touchdown

1725
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: to put the Bills at fifty six was laid in

1726
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the game. But it's one of those times when you know,

1727
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: if the Dolphins aren't going to stop playing, you can't

1728
01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 1: expect the Bills backups to stop playing. And I'll say

1729
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 1: this in defense of the Dolphins players. Their heart wasn't

1730
01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 1: in it. And now you can say, well, that's not

1731
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:29,879
Speaker 1: a defense, it's a it's a conviction, an excuser conviction

1732
01:31:29,880 --> 01:31:32,439
Speaker 1: on them. They should have had their hearts. They lost

1733
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,800
Speaker 1: hope because their own team wasn't good enough offensively to

1734
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: complement a defense in the quality they could play. And

1735
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 1: when your defense lose his heart, you give up fifty

1736
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: six points. Even if you're the best defense in the

1737
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: league like the Dolphins were, you can't score on those

1738
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: guys when they lose heart and faith in the fact

1739
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 1: that they can't score enough points to catch up to

1740
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the team they're playing. It got out of hand. Quick, Yeah,

1741
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: I got out of hand. Quick. Back to the phones

1742
01:31:57,439 --> 01:31:59,600
Speaker 1: to Brandon and Buffalo. Brandon, what do you have for us?

1743
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys, I just want

1744
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: to echo the same you know sentiment as other callers.

1745
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:07,240
Speaker 1: Big fan of your show. I know, Steve, you might

1746
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:09,720
Speaker 1: get a little uncomfortable when people gasp you up on you.

1747
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five. I never saw you play, so I

1748
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 1: don't get to do that for you. But I will

1749
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 1: say that you gained a fan of mine through your

1750
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 1: media work when you came on the show a few

1751
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:22,599
Speaker 1: years ago. I'm a big fan. Keep it up. And

1752
01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:25,920
Speaker 1: while you guys are talking about these defining moments, I

1753
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: just think, you know, anytime Josh scrambles to the right

1754
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: and he hits these receivers coming back, every one of

1755
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: those is just a defining moment. They all have to

1756
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:35,479
Speaker 1: be on the same page. The chemistry has to be there,

1757
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:37,599
Speaker 1: and they can show that they're all in tune together.

1758
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's gonna separate us. And you know,

1759
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:44,479
Speaker 1: talking about MVP, you know, whether it's Josh or even

1760
01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta give bigs a look at it.

1761
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that we're here, and I'm gonna enjoy

1762
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: the ride. Keep doing what you guys do. Guys, I'm

1763
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:52,800
Speaker 1: gonna hang up and listen to you. Bet. Thanks appreciate it,

1764
01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: Brandon Um. Let's talk about those scramble rules in the

1765
01:32:56,439 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 1: brief time that we have here before the break, Steve,

1766
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 1: because I think that when this team breaks into scramble rules,

1767
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:08,040
Speaker 1: and it happens more often than people realize. Right, they're

1768
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: really good at playing backyard football. I mean really good.

1769
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 1: The connection between Josh and this receiving corps is uncanny.

1770
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:19,639
Speaker 1: When the play breaks down, I mean, and he talks

1771
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:21,400
Speaker 1: about rolling to the right. How about the role to

1772
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:23,960
Speaker 1: the left against the Patriots when he zings it into

1773
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: digs on a play that was eerily reminiscent of the

1774
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:30,000
Speaker 1: touchdown pass he threw to him in Arizona. Why are

1775
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 1: they so good at it? They have there's certain rules

1776
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: you have, no question and it, but they're only you know,

1777
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: it's only a a framework within which to work. So,

1778
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: for instance, if the play, if you run your route

1779
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 1: and you come out and everybody has this and most

1780
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:46,479
Speaker 1: even a casual fan will understand when you're going through

1781
01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:48,719
Speaker 1: a play and you run it so many times in practice.

1782
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: You come out, you hit, you you hit the break point.

1783
01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:52,600
Speaker 1: As a receiver, you turn around, you come out of

1784
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: the ball, and you look for the ball. If the

1785
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,680
Speaker 1: ball's not there, it takes about a tenth of a

1786
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,680
Speaker 1: second to understand why not. The quarterback's not looking at you,

1787
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:03,719
Speaker 1: or you're through it someplace else, or somebody's he's running

1788
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:07,040
Speaker 1: for his life, whatever the reason. You it takes you

1789
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 1: about a tenth of a second to evaluate what that is.

1790
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:12,479
Speaker 1: And then if he's rolling towards you out behind the

1791
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you have some rules that you follow

1792
01:34:14,640 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: if you're a short route and you're ready for the

1793
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:19,679
Speaker 1: ball and it's not there. And it may be different

1794
01:34:19,680 --> 01:34:21,000
Speaker 1: than this, but here I'll give you the rules we

1795
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 1: used to play with. You put your foot in the ground.

1796
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 1: You go right up the sideline and go deep and

1797
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 1: try to take a bunch of defenders with you, or

1798
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: don't take any defenders with you. Right, go go open,

1799
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:33,160
Speaker 1: Go to the open area, run out of there. And

1800
01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:35,679
Speaker 1: then if you're deep and you're coming across, come back

1801
01:34:35,720 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Because in front of you you can

1802
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 1: see where the defenders are. You can go where they're

1803
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 1: not find space and expect the ball quickly. And that's

1804
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 1: basically it find a vacant area, let the quarterback see you,

1805
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:51,960
Speaker 1: and catch it when he throws it. And that's that's

1806
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 1: as little a rule as there is, seemingly better than

1807
01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 1: any other team that I've seen when the play breaks down,

1808
01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:01,479
Speaker 1: That's what raw Flisberger used to do a lot with

1809
01:35:01,600 --> 01:35:04,720
Speaker 1: those Steelers receivers. You know, buy some time and then

1810
01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: scramble rules, and they always seem to be on point

1811
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 1: with it. I think the Bills are comparable to Roth

1812
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger used to do in his prime with the receivers

1813
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:15,960
Speaker 1: he had. There absolutely break time for us. But when

1814
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:18,280
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk to a guy who

1815
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: helped fix Josh Allen's throwing mechanics. It's Jordan Palmer from

1816
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 1: his QB Summit school where Josh goes in the off season.

1817
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about Josh digitally mapping his throwing

1818
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 1: mechanics and improving him from there and what his ceiling

1819
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 1: is all coming up next here on One Bill's Live

1820
01:35:35,680 --> 01:35:48,839
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio Flow Bills

1821
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Update. The Bills were back on the

1822
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 1: practice field for a walkthrough session this afternoon as they

1823
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: begin preparations for Saturday's game with the Colts. Keep an

1824
01:35:59,280 --> 01:36:02,560
Speaker 1: eye on Wider's r Cole Beasley, who, according to Sean McDermot,

1825
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:05,799
Speaker 1: remains week to week with his knee injury. The Browns

1826
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: learned this morning that head coach Kevin Stefanski, along with

1827
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:11,599
Speaker 1: two other members of his coaching staff, as well as

1828
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:16,280
Speaker 1: two new players, have tested positive for COVID nineteen. Their

1829
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: contingency plan calls for special teams coordinator Mike Creeford to

1830
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:24,240
Speaker 1: serve as the acting head coach on Sunday for their

1831
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:28,080
Speaker 1: game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh in the opening round

1832
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. The Jets requested permission to interview Bill

1833
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:35,040
Speaker 1: Zoc Brian Dable for their head coaching vacancy, and now

1834
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:38,759
Speaker 1: the Chargers are also following suit. Dable and Chargers General

1835
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:41,880
Speaker 1: manager Tom Tolesco have known each other for years. They

1836
01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 1: both attended Saint Francis High School right here in Western

1837
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 1: New York. Together. John Elway will turn over the Denver

1838
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:51,040
Speaker 1: Broncos day to day operations to a full time GM

1839
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. A longtime general manager and president

1840
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: of Football Operations, Elway announced Monday he would hire a

1841
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 1: GM with full authority to oversee the personnel and fall department.

1842
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:04,799
Speaker 1: Joe Judge didn't under the words Philadelphia Eagles on Monday.

1843
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:07,040
Speaker 1: He didn't have to. The Giants head coach delivered a

1844
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: rant about sacrifice, family, COVID nineteen protocols, and disrespecting the

1845
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:15,680
Speaker 1: game of football in a season ending news conference. The

1846
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: target of the rant was clear the Giants NFC East rivals,

1847
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:21,840
Speaker 1: who lit the NFL on fire Sunday when head coach

1848
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:24,640
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson replaced Jalen Hurtz with Nate Sudfeld in a

1849
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: loss it cost New York a playoff berth memo to

1850
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:33,880
Speaker 1: Joe Judge, don't be six and ten. Longtime NHL coach

1851
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:37,040
Speaker 1: John Muckler passed away on Monday at the age of

1852
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 1: eighty six. The former Buffalo Sabers head coach Director of

1853
01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: Hockey Operations n GM spend six seasons with the organization

1854
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: between ninety one and ninety seven and four seasons behind

1855
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: the bench in Buffalo. Muckler led the team to a

1856
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:51,880
Speaker 1: one twenty five, one oh nine and thirty four record

1857
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:56,480
Speaker 1: and also coached the team to four straight playoff appearances.

1858
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,559
Speaker 1: That is your sports update, Chris Brown, Steve Asker our

1859
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 1: number three of the program, and we're waiting for Jordan

1860
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:06,880
Speaker 1: Palmer to join us. He of the QB Summit is

1861
01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:10,599
Speaker 1: one of the tutors of Josh Allen in the off season,

1862
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 1: so we're looking forward to talking to him. Let's before

1863
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,200
Speaker 1: we get him on, and we'll cut out of this conversation,

1864
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:17,360
Speaker 1: Susi's on with us. But what do you think about Philly,

1865
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: you know, putting Sudfeld in. Yeah, I didn't like the

1866
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: optics of it. I was listening to Al Michaels and

1867
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth discuss it, and in their production meeting with Peterson,

1868
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: they relayed that Peterson had said to them he wanted

1869
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 1: to get Nate Sudfeld some time on the field. But

1870
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 1: it was perplexing to say the least. I know that

1871
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:46,799
Speaker 1: the offense hadn't been doing much from a point scoring

1872
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:49,639
Speaker 1: perspective with Hurts in the game the last few series

1873
01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:53,040
Speaker 1: he was in. But the optics are the optics are

1874
01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:56,040
Speaker 1: terrible because it looks like you're throwing the game. I

1875
01:38:56,160 --> 01:39:00,840
Speaker 1: get it. Listen, Brownie, happens every year, because it happened

1876
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:02,559
Speaker 1: on a night game, they're gonna they're gonna throw a

1877
01:39:02,560 --> 01:39:06,360
Speaker 1: fit over It happens absolutely every single positively every year.

1878
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: What's the difference between that and the Bills jerk and

1879
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:13,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen out of the game because trying to if

1880
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:17,200
Speaker 1: they lost. Yeah, trying to win the game, I guess

1881
01:39:17,280 --> 01:39:21,360
Speaker 1: is being held in the utmost um. What about the

1882
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: It's just the other side of the coin. You got

1883
01:39:23,080 --> 01:39:24,600
Speaker 1: teams that are trying to win and they don't. You

1884
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:27,040
Speaker 1: didn't put you put pulled Josh Allen half time. I'm

1885
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: just gonna say this, the Giants do not have a

1886
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: leg to stand on. Of course, not the fact that

1887
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:36,160
Speaker 1: there were players asking for explanations for this decision from

1888
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:39,639
Speaker 1: the Giants roster, tweeting on social media. What's going on,

1889
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 1: somebody explaining this to me? Whatever? Whatever, don't be six

1890
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:48,559
Speaker 1: and ten. Yeah, don't ask for a hand stuck and

1891
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: you're still gonna get in the playoffs. Don't ask for

1892
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 1: a handout. That's not the way the NFL work. I

1893
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 1: get it. If you're fortunate enough to benefit and still

1894
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:58,599
Speaker 1: get in. Much like the Colts, who needed the Bills

1895
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:01,040
Speaker 1: to beat the Dolphins along with their own victory to

1896
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, they got some help. Frank Reich

1897
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,000
Speaker 1: said it on his press conference this week. I was

1898
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 1: pulling for Buffalo and they did us right and he

1899
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:11,040
Speaker 1: was very thankful for that. But now he's got to

1900
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:13,639
Speaker 1: come beat the Bills. Uh. You know, if you can

1901
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:16,760
Speaker 1: get help where you can get it, great, but don't

1902
01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 1: be counting on that and crying salur grapes when it

1903
01:40:18,880 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 1: doesn't come through for you. You gotta make your own way.

1904
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:23,040
Speaker 1: Most of the time in this league, I have zero

1905
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:27,919
Speaker 1: problem with it. It's happened countless seasons. Well I'm countless,

1906
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: but there's only a hundred of them. But it happens

1907
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:35,759
Speaker 1: virtually every It'll happen there. It happens virtually every single

1908
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: solitary year. And as far as this and the in

1909
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:40,360
Speaker 1: the in the Eagles players, they're the ones you feel

1910
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 1: for because they're the ones out there. They're trying to

1911
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: bust You got to win this game and everything. Even

1912
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,760
Speaker 1: those guys, you gotta they gotta be looking at the

1913
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:50,120
Speaker 1: sales center. We should have been better, Yeah, we should

1914
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:52,200
Speaker 1: have been better in now we got. This game means

1915
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: nothing and now they got they're trying to get us

1916
01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:58,840
Speaker 1: better for next year. I get it. I get it. Giant,

1917
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:04,639
Speaker 1: I mean Giants fans, come on, Yeah, you're the whole division.

1918
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: You're lucky. You're lucky. And let me tell you, if

1919
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:09,519
Speaker 1: it wasn't for television, if it wasn't for your fan

1920
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: base being as big as it is in the city,

1921
01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: being as big as it is, you wouldn't be in

1922
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:17,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs like that because they wouldn't put you in

1923
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:21,040
Speaker 1: that division. Yeah, if you you'd be six and ten

1924
01:41:21,080 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 1: and you'd be sitting at home like everybody else. I

1925
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:28,240
Speaker 1: am totally disinterested. And the players on the Eagles can

1926
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,000
Speaker 1: look at themselves in the mirror say, Wellsten, we should

1927
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,599
Speaker 1: have played better. Yeah, we should have played better. Carson

1928
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:40,400
Speaker 1: Wentz this this only came up because he stunk. Jalen Hurts,

1929
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 1: you had, you ran for two touchdowns. You did great,

1930
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 1: that's you know, win the game a little more, win

1931
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 1: the game. I don't know, and I think I get it.

1932
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm happy that Washington did win the division because I

1933
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:57,880
Speaker 1: like them as a matchup against the Bucks with that

1934
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: defensive line. As we were talking with Kyle Brandt last hour,

1935
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 1: that defensive front man, It's a slew of first round

1936
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: picks across the board. Yeah, they are gonna be a handful. Yeah,

1937
01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:10,519
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't see the bucks. I get it,

1938
01:42:10,880 --> 01:42:12,439
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I just want a couple of

1939
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: Brady selfishly. I just want him to get a few

1940
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 1: good shots on Brady. I'll say this, Brady's gonna feel

1941
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:19,639
Speaker 1: forty three years old after that game. What beats Brady,

1942
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 1: He's gonna feel his pass pressure. The Giants won two

1943
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowls getting pressure on Tom Brady, getting quick pressure

1944
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,599
Speaker 1: on him, getting the ball out of there. I'm telling

1945
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:30,840
Speaker 1: you right now, Brady's gonna feel sixty three years old. Yeah,

1946
01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:32,920
Speaker 1: you know he will. I don't know what he's rubbing

1947
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:34,360
Speaker 1: on his face, but he looks like a twenty five

1948
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:36,480
Speaker 1: year old. I don't know what the what the supermodel

1949
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 1: wife's got that he's using in the bathroom every morning,

1950
01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:42,880
Speaker 1: secret stuff, some serum, anti aging serum or something, because

1951
01:42:42,920 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: he looks like a twenty five year old right now,

1952
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,400
Speaker 1: it's crazy. We go to the phones while we wait

1953
01:42:47,439 --> 01:42:50,880
Speaker 1: for Jordan Palmer. Wayne and Virginia has been waiting patiently. Wayne,

1954
01:42:50,880 --> 01:42:52,600
Speaker 1: what do you have for us defining moment of the

1955
01:42:52,600 --> 01:42:56,160
Speaker 1: Bills twenty twenty season. Well, guys, I wouldn't say, and

1956
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:58,000
Speaker 1: thank you very much for having me on the phone,

1957
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't say there was one moment I'm feeling

1958
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:05,880
Speaker 1: like we're back with Steve's Bills eighties nineties super Bowl again.

1959
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: I mean the whole season has been like that. If

1960
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:12,639
Speaker 1: you look at our losses, one point six points, ten points, right,

1961
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we almost could be undefeated right now. But

1962
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:21,680
Speaker 1: my only, my only concern one is that we keep

1963
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 1: our coaching staff together because it would be an absolute

1964
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:29,280
Speaker 1: shame to break up that trio. And then two, you

1965
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,759
Speaker 1: know again, we can't watch the games four I'm always

1966
01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 1: watched on TV down here from Virginia. But at the

1967
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:38,599
Speaker 1: same time, my only concern, like our four Super Bowls

1968
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:42,719
Speaker 1: back in the nineties, is the fact that I worry

1969
01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:46,639
Speaker 1: about our linebacking corps, not Milano. And I'm pointing out

1970
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 1: Trey Edmonds. I can't see what he's doing on the

1971
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:50,840
Speaker 1: field all the time because I'm watching from TV. But

1972
01:43:50,880 --> 01:43:54,080
Speaker 1: if it weren't for joining ployer Jaron Johnson, those guys

1973
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:56,080
Speaker 1: come up and helping thump at the line for the run,

1974
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: I think that's the only thing we really got to

1975
01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 1: worry about with the Colts. Yeah, I mean, I'll say this,

1976
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: I think Tremaine Edmonds has had a really strong second

1977
01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:06,360
Speaker 1: half of the season and thanks for the call way

1978
01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 1: and we appreciate it. He hit. The physical style of

1979
01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,839
Speaker 1: play that he brings to the field returned probably somewhere

1980
01:44:14,880 --> 01:44:17,960
Speaker 1: around week seven or eight, where you notice a difference

1981
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 1: in his play again, and I don't think he's put

1982
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 1: it all together from a play making perspective, but in

1983
01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:29,639
Speaker 1: terms of interior presence in the run front, I think

1984
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:32,639
Speaker 1: Edmonds has filled the bill capably in the second half

1985
01:44:32,640 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: of the season. And Milano showed last week and the

1986
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 1: week before against New England on Monday Night, that guy's

1987
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:45,519
Speaker 1: back and this defense is a different defense when he's

1988
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:48,439
Speaker 1: playing like that. Yeah, I think. I think Tremaine He's

1989
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:50,760
Speaker 1: got a certain silk skill set, no question, And I

1990
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:54,960
Speaker 1: do think, and I'll acknowledge, even to Tremaine's critics, I'll acknowledge,

1991
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:57,560
Speaker 1: it's not a skill set you see and inside linebackers

1992
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 1: usually a four three and then the Bills play nickel

1993
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,120
Speaker 1: all the time. So but it's not a skill set

1994
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:05,600
Speaker 1: You've seen a lot of guys. He's not built like

1995
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: a lot of different line other linebackers, but I think

1996
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: he's been really effective. And it's certainly a defense that

1997
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:13,920
Speaker 1: is not built like the old time defenses where you've

1998
01:45:13,920 --> 01:45:16,280
Speaker 1: got a big thumpered up inside where he's gonna come

1999
01:45:16,320 --> 01:45:18,840
Speaker 1: downhill and hit the running back in the in the mouth.

2000
01:45:19,240 --> 01:45:21,919
Speaker 1: It's not a defense that's built like that. And Tremaine's

2001
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:26,200
Speaker 1: skill set is is different. I think he got to

2002
01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 1: get your mind around that. I don't think Tremaine Edmonds

2003
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:30,640
Speaker 1: is going anywhere. So you can you can say all

2004
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: you want about you know, he doesn't really get off

2005
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:36,760
Speaker 1: blocks well enough. Uh he's you know, he doesn't you know,

2006
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: get up into the line of scrimmage fast enough on

2007
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:43,439
Speaker 1: the run plays. Whatever criticism you have, Um, his skill

2008
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:46,400
Speaker 1: set is exactly the skill set these guys want. And

2009
01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:49,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna roll with this guy. So and

2010
01:45:49,040 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 1: I and I you know, you're right. Uh. Milano's presence

2011
01:45:53,479 --> 01:45:57,960
Speaker 1: really aids that the total effectiveness of the defense because

2012
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:01,479
Speaker 1: I think that the skill set that that Edmonds and

2013
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:05,360
Speaker 1: Milano have meshed together really well. And I think Leslie

2014
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 1: Fraser and Sean McDermott really feel good about what they

2015
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:10,840
Speaker 1: ask those guys to do and which responsible you know

2016
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: who rushes the pastor who doesn't I think both those guys.

2017
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:16,000
Speaker 1: I'll say one thing. I do think Edmonds can rush

2018
01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 1: the pastor really well. And you know Milano can as well.

2019
01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:22,599
Speaker 1: So whatever skill set Tremaine Edmonds has, certainly it's not

2020
01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:25,680
Speaker 1: the classic inside linebacker, but it's a skill set I

2021
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 1: think they like a lot and they utilize in a

2022
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:30,720
Speaker 1: different way. Let's go to Tom and Webster a time.

2023
01:46:30,720 --> 01:46:33,880
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Oh? Hi,

2024
01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 1: Steve and Chris. First of all, I just wanted to

2025
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:41,560
Speaker 1: compliment both of you. I enjoy your program and I

2026
01:46:42,240 --> 01:46:45,360
Speaker 1: like how you relate to the public. Both of you

2027
01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 1: are very very good at speaking to the fans. We

2028
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:54,840
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you. We try. Yeah. Yeah. And another thing,

2029
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:56,559
Speaker 1: I do have two or three things if you can

2030
01:46:56,680 --> 01:47:00,680
Speaker 1: give me a chance yet, I think, Okay, first of all,

2031
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to do to the defining moment. Yeah, be

2032
01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: able to disagree, but I think holding Pittsburgh to fifteen

2033
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: points with Big Ben on the field was huge. Yeah.

2034
01:47:12,280 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean that that's not easily done. Uh. Granted that

2035
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:20,200
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's offense has been struggling down the stretch here, but yeah,

2036
01:47:20,240 --> 01:47:23,320
Speaker 1: that's still a feather in your cap for sure. What else? Sure?

2037
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:28,240
Speaker 1: And I'm pleased, pleasantly pleased with the wide receivers, how

2038
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:35,320
Speaker 1: they performed, even that passed from Berkeley to UM Gabriel Davis. Yeah,

2039
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 1: the thing that was sweet, really sweet without Cole Beasley

2040
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 1: in there. And I was going to ask you two

2041
01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 1: more things that I'll hang up and get your to respond, please. Yeah,

2042
01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:51,880
Speaker 1: could you give us an update on Beasley? And UM

2043
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 1: could you also give me your thoughts on UM this

2044
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 1: this mantra h, stay humble and stay hungry. Yeah, can do.

2045
01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:05,760
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, We appreciate it. I might let

2046
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:08,479
Speaker 1: Steve handle the stay humble, stay hungry part. What we

2047
01:48:08,479 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: know about Beasley is it's a knee injury. We don't

2048
01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 1: know the nature of it or the severity of it.

2049
01:48:13,439 --> 01:48:17,000
Speaker 1: And during playoff time, the competitive advantage with injuries gets

2050
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 1: ratcheted up even more and coaches understandably become even more

2051
01:48:21,320 --> 01:48:24,600
Speaker 1: guarded with injury information. So I'm not anticipating we're going

2052
01:48:24,640 --> 01:48:27,599
Speaker 1: to get much more than that. Coach did say on

2053
01:48:27,640 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 1: Monday he still considers him week to week, which would

2054
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,639
Speaker 1: lead us to believe that he's probably a long shot

2055
01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:36,879
Speaker 1: to play. Knowing the game is even a day earlier

2056
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,920
Speaker 1: on a Saturday, that's one less day that Beasley has

2057
01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:42,679
Speaker 1: to get ready for this game. Now that being said,

2058
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:47,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen said after the game on Sunday that he

2059
01:48:47,880 --> 01:48:50,000
Speaker 1: knows that Beasley is going to be fighting tooth and

2060
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 1: nail to get back in time for the playoff game.

2061
01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 1: But I really think that's completely up in the air

2062
01:48:56,880 --> 01:49:00,679
Speaker 1: in light of you know, the injury and labeled week

2063
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:02,360
Speaker 1: to week. We're just gonna have to wait and see.

2064
01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:04,240
Speaker 1: You'll be able to tell if it's if he gets

2065
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:06,320
Speaker 1: on the injury report and it's limited in practice or

2066
01:49:06,360 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: even full practice or whatever, did not practice, it'll tell

2067
01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:12,680
Speaker 1: you a lot about it. If if he gets out

2068
01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 1: there in a limited basis early in the week, like today,

2069
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: we'll get an injury report today because the game's on

2070
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:22,599
Speaker 1: a Saturday, it'll tell you that he's got an outside

2071
01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:25,400
Speaker 1: If he's limited in practice, it'll tell he's got an

2072
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 1: outside chance to play this week, but only an outside

2073
01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:29,760
Speaker 1: chance if he's limited after coming off a week to

2074
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 1: week injury. But if he doesn't practice, you know, that'll

2075
01:49:33,120 --> 01:49:36,400
Speaker 1: that'll obviously tell you the other thing. Yeah, stay humble,

2076
01:49:36,520 --> 01:49:40,240
Speaker 1: stay hungry, is coach McDermott's motto to his players, and

2077
01:49:40,320 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: he it's just a reminder to not get ahead of yourselves,

2078
01:49:45,320 --> 01:49:48,400
Speaker 1: not get a big head from annihilating teams each and

2079
01:49:48,439 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 1: every week. As coach has said many times, if you

2080
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: don't stay humble, the game and this league will humble

2081
01:49:58,200 --> 01:50:02,080
Speaker 1: you quickly. U So don't think you have everything figured

2082
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:04,519
Speaker 1: out just because you're whooped up on you know, three

2083
01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:07,040
Speaker 1: opponents in a row here these last three weeks, because

2084
01:50:07,040 --> 01:50:08,920
Speaker 1: someone will come right back and smack you in the

2085
01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,439
Speaker 1: teeth and then you'll be going home saying, how did

2086
01:50:11,439 --> 01:50:13,640
Speaker 1: our season end like that? Here's the thing. When you

2087
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:15,839
Speaker 1: come off you go into a game and I remember

2088
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 1: this too, even those great teams in the nineties, you

2089
01:50:18,240 --> 01:50:21,760
Speaker 1: go into those games thinking you're you know, you're a

2090
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:23,680
Speaker 1: good team, but having a lot of respect for the

2091
01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 1: guys on the other side, particularly veteran players who have

2092
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,000
Speaker 1: played against guys on those teams and played those teams

2093
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:33,400
Speaker 1: before or seeing them on film. Playing against guys you

2094
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:36,320
Speaker 1: know are really good. You walk into that game knowing

2095
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:38,400
Speaker 1: that you feel like you're you can play well and

2096
01:50:38,400 --> 01:50:41,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna win, but with confidence, but you've got a

2097
01:50:41,680 --> 01:50:45,840
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in yourself, but they they're good. The

2098
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:48,639
Speaker 1: NFL is a tough place to win, So you spend

2099
01:50:48,680 --> 01:50:50,439
Speaker 1: your week getting ready for a team that you've got

2100
01:50:50,479 --> 01:50:52,200
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for, and you kind of put

2101
01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:54,240
Speaker 1: them in the best light because you gotta get ready

2102
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:57,040
Speaker 1: for that. So you walk in there to these games

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01:50:57,040 --> 01:50:59,479
Speaker 1: and you know, hoping and believing you can play well,

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01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 1: but no one is going to be really hard to

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01:51:02,120 --> 01:51:06,559
Speaker 1: win this game. And then you hang fifty six points

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01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:11,680
Speaker 1: on that team and it's like, how good are we?

2107
01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:15,960
Speaker 1: We're pretty good right up? And then the next you know,

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01:51:16,160 --> 01:51:18,160
Speaker 1: and that's after a week. You know, you do that,

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01:51:18,240 --> 01:51:21,360
Speaker 1: and then it's a game. You know, it's a The

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01:51:21,439 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 1: week right after you hung thirty, you won your you

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01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:27,680
Speaker 1: beat the team that won the division's twenty times in

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Speaker 1: a row. You beat him thirty eight to nine. And

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01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:31,680
Speaker 1: the deep week before that, you beat a team by

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01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 1: twenty nine. The week before that, you beat a team

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01:51:34,200 --> 01:51:37,679
Speaker 1: by eleven. Nobody can hang with you, So you start

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01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: acting differently because your your confidence grows in your respect,

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01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:44,800
Speaker 1: your respect for your opponent starts to drop a little

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01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:47,840
Speaker 1: bit because nobody can hang with you. And the simple

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01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: fact that matter is that kind of mindset starts to

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01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:55,720
Speaker 1: affect the way you play and practice Monday through the

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01:51:55,760 --> 01:51:59,000
Speaker 1: game the week before. All of a sudden, it's like,

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01:51:59,760 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, we're all right, well, all right, we're running

2123
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:06,000
Speaker 1: this route after practice, or it's like, you know what,

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01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run through it. We'll run through this, but yeah,

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01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: we got it right, all right, I remember it. No,

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: when you're humble and hungry, it's like, okay, how are

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01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:16,439
Speaker 1: we gonna Let's run this right. Let's go. You run

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01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:18,400
Speaker 1: it right and say that wasn't quite right. Let's run

2129
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 1: it again and run it right again. You know, so

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01:52:20,439 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 1: you run it and then the next the next rep

2131
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:24,639
Speaker 1: is the same thing. All right, let's go, let's get

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01:52:24,680 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: this right. And it's a completely different mindset. And day

2133
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:32,160
Speaker 1: after day of having the right mindset puts you in

2134
01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:35,280
Speaker 1: a spot where the games are easy on Sunday. So

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01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:38,599
Speaker 1: that stay humble and stay hungry is a mindset you've

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01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:41,599
Speaker 1: got to be And it's about preparation. It's about being

2137
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:44,719
Speaker 1: ready and getting yourself ready to be a dominant team.

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01:52:45,240 --> 01:52:49,439
Speaker 1: It's not about enjoy you know, realizing your dominant and

2139
01:52:50,200 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 1: getting ready for the next game. By waiting on it,

2140
01:52:52,640 --> 01:52:54,160
Speaker 1: you know you got to get ready to play it

2141
01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:56,800
Speaker 1: every week, and it's a mindset during the week that

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01:52:56,880 --> 01:53:00,519
Speaker 1: allows you to prepare in an intense way to play

2143
01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 1: an intense game. Another call here before we get to break,

2144
01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:08,679
Speaker 1: let's go to Woodie and Rochester. What do you have hello.

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01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:13,599
Speaker 1: A turning point to me in the season was when

2146
01:53:13,640 --> 01:53:18,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo proved that they can play physical football for two games.

2147
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:22,599
Speaker 1: I mean from start to finish. There were two teams.

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01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:24,920
Speaker 1: San Francisco was one. I can't remember the other team,

2149
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:29,559
Speaker 1: but they were physical. Physical game Pittsburgh and yes it

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01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:32,559
Speaker 1: could have been Pittsburgh. Yes, that makes that makes sense.

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01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:39,960
Speaker 1: And I thought that they performed beautifully playing physical for

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01:53:40,080 --> 01:53:42,920
Speaker 1: four quarters. Also, I don't have the stress in my

2153
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,320
Speaker 1: stomach like I used to have in years before nailbriding

2154
01:53:47,400 --> 01:53:49,280
Speaker 1: until the end of the game because there was always

2155
01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:53,439
Speaker 1: some shoe going to drop and they were always going

2156
01:53:53,479 --> 01:53:55,960
Speaker 1: to be decided at the last play of the game.

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01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:59,800
Speaker 1: And this year the stress for you victories love it.

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01:54:00,320 --> 01:54:02,519
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen to what you gotta say. Yeah,

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01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: it's you're breathing a little bit easier when your team's

2160
01:54:06,479 --> 01:54:10,760
Speaker 1: up twenty nine, so you enjoy it more. And I

2161
01:54:10,760 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: think the scar tissue is kind of being scraped away

2162
01:54:13,840 --> 01:54:17,200
Speaker 1: by the way this team has played. So it's allowed

2163
01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 1: fans to enjoy the week to week a whole lot

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01:54:20,840 --> 01:54:22,439
Speaker 1: more than they used to when they were in nail

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01:54:22,479 --> 01:54:25,160
Speaker 1: biting situations or waiting for the sky to fall or

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01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:27,360
Speaker 1: the worst thing to happen to cost them a football game.

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01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:30,679
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been enjoyable, and soak it up because

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01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:34,240
Speaker 1: seasons like this don't come around all that often. And

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01:54:34,240 --> 01:54:36,200
Speaker 1: as Steve said, every year is different, and this team

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01:54:36,240 --> 01:54:39,920
Speaker 1: will look different next year in twenty twenty one, for sure.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break now because Jordan Palmer

2172
01:54:43,200 --> 01:54:46,040
Speaker 1: is going to join us when we come back from break.

2173
01:54:46,080 --> 01:54:47,760
Speaker 1: But we do want to tell you before we go

2174
01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:51,160
Speaker 1: to break that the New York Lottery has released their

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Speaker 1: seasonal scratch off games once again. Head to your nearest

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Speaker 1: retailer for the chance to win up to five hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Please gift responsibly. Quarterback h Allen total forty

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and seventy seven yards and forty six touchdowns

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Speaker 1: this season, making him the fifth player in NFL history

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01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:09,240
Speaker 1: with that many yards and touchdowns in a season. Three

2181
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 1: of the four players to accumulate such stats won MVP

2182
01:55:13,280 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: honors Mahomes in eighteen, Manning in thirteen, and Marino in

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01:55:18,160 --> 01:55:20,320
Speaker 1: eighty four. Apparently your last name has to start with

2184
01:55:20,360 --> 01:55:22,600
Speaker 1: an M to win that thing. Back in a moment

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Speaker 1: here on one, Bill's Live with Jordan Palmer, Old Wives,

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01:55:38,840 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Chaster and joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: and we're ready to rock and roll is Jordan Palmer.

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01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:47,600
Speaker 1: He's got the QB Summit out there in California and

2189
01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:52,960
Speaker 1: is the offseason QB coach of one Josh Allen, also

2190
01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold among other NFL pros. And bring Jordan on

2191
01:55:57,680 --> 01:55:59,520
Speaker 1: the screen somewhere he's ready to roll. Man as we've

2192
01:55:59,560 --> 01:56:01,360
Speaker 1: been talking, they were talking during the break and it's

2193
01:56:01,360 --> 01:56:03,360
Speaker 1: like we didn't want to stop. It's it's amazing too,

2194
01:56:03,400 --> 01:56:05,040
Speaker 1: because yeah, the Bills have been scoring a lot of

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01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:07,200
Speaker 1: points on these teams. Let's just jump right into it. Jordan,

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01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,800
Speaker 1: first of all, thanks for being on the Bills have

2197
01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:14,880
Speaker 1: been on an unbelievable pace in the red zone and

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Speaker 1: Josh doesn't turn it over down and you went through

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Speaker 1: it like why give us an from an offensive coaches standpoint,

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01:56:21,200 --> 01:56:23,680
Speaker 1: why or a defensive to coaches standpoint? Why the Bills

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01:56:23,680 --> 01:56:27,720
Speaker 1: are such a handful in the red zone down close. Well,

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01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things is, let's let's put

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01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:31,600
Speaker 1: our let's all say that we're all defensive coordinators here, okay,

2204
01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:33,240
Speaker 1: and we got to play the Bills, which would be

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01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: the last team I'd want to play right now. When

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Speaker 1: you get in the red zone, obviously, getting the quarterback sacked,

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01:56:39,360 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 1: getting him hit, getting in the quarterback on the ground,

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01:56:41,480 --> 01:56:44,920
Speaker 1: that's where turnovers can happen, that's where bad decisions can happen,

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Speaker 1: that's where inaccuracy can happen. So getting around the quarterback

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01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:49,720
Speaker 1: as a defense is huge in the red zone when

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01:56:49,760 --> 01:56:53,560
Speaker 1: they're just particularly on third down. But you can't rush

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01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:56,480
Speaker 1: the passer if the quarterback is a threat to run,

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01:56:56,600 --> 01:56:59,320
Speaker 1: which obviously Josh is. And even when he struggled a

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01:56:59,320 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: little bit as rook year, he was still running questons right,

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01:57:02,560 --> 01:57:04,440
Speaker 1: So when you have a quarterback, you have to respect

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01:57:04,480 --> 01:57:07,240
Speaker 1: his ability to run. You can't rush the pastor of

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01:57:07,240 --> 01:57:09,840
Speaker 1: the exact same way. And then when you have a

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01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:12,840
Speaker 1: guy like Brian Dable who's he's not just forcing it

2219
01:57:12,880 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: to step on digs when they get in the red zone,

2220
01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:16,400
Speaker 1: he's not just lining up and running it down their throat.

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01:57:16,800 --> 01:57:19,520
Speaker 1: They throw it to all the tight ends, they throw

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01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:21,560
Speaker 1: it to all the receivers, they throw it to all

2223
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,360
Speaker 1: the running backs, they throw it to the quarterback. When

2224
01:57:24,400 --> 01:57:27,360
Speaker 1: you have to defend every single skill and I believe

2225
01:57:27,440 --> 01:57:28,920
Speaker 1: Josh is throw it to a tight end or two,

2226
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:31,400
Speaker 1: or to a tackle or two as well, it's vile.

2227
01:57:31,680 --> 01:57:34,240
Speaker 1: So when you literally have to defend every eligible receiver

2228
01:57:34,320 --> 01:57:37,000
Speaker 1: at all times and try and sack the quarterback while

2229
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: not giving up your pass rush lane. So because the

2230
01:57:39,440 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 1: quarterback's going to jog it in or jump over somebody

2231
01:57:41,840 --> 01:57:44,640
Speaker 1: or stiff arm somebody, I just don't really know what

2232
01:57:44,680 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 1: you do to defend it. Because Josh also doesn't turn

2233
01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:50,080
Speaker 1: it over, and so in the red zone, I think

2234
01:57:50,080 --> 01:57:53,560
Speaker 1: he has zero So as a defensive coordinator's perspective, I'm

2235
01:57:53,560 --> 01:57:57,000
Speaker 1: just not really sure what your game plan is going

2236
01:57:57,040 --> 01:57:59,920
Speaker 1: into playing the Bills once they cross the twenty. Whatever

2237
01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:02,320
Speaker 1: the plan is, it's not foolproof, that's for sure against

2238
01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:06,360
Speaker 1: this group. I was fascinated, Jordan by a conversation that

2239
01:58:06,440 --> 01:58:09,680
Speaker 1: I heard Josh have on the Pat McAfee show, The

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01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:14,880
Speaker 1: Former Punner, where he talked to him about how he

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01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:19,920
Speaker 1: had his throwing motion digitally mapped. So my question is,

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01:58:19,960 --> 01:58:21,880
Speaker 1: were you the guys that did that with him, and

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01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:25,840
Speaker 1: if so, maybe just kind of relay that story to us,

2244
01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:28,840
Speaker 1: because I think the biggest thing that he took out

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01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 1: of that was he was using basically zero hip drive

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01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:38,280
Speaker 1: in his initial throwing mechanics. Yeah, so that was my group,

2247
01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:41,440
Speaker 1: and I was able to partner with somebody who has

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01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:46,560
Speaker 1: an amazing technology that really football is behind. In baseball,

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01:58:46,880 --> 01:58:49,320
Speaker 1: they use a lot of this, a lot of biomechanics

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01:58:49,440 --> 01:58:52,560
Speaker 1: and measuring things like your kinematic sequence, your hip firing,

2251
01:58:52,600 --> 01:58:54,840
Speaker 1: your shoulder, and then your lever which is in the

2252
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:58,480
Speaker 1: thrower as your arms in golf. This is old technology

2253
01:58:58,520 --> 01:59:01,560
Speaker 1: in golf. The best golfers on tour, male and female,

2254
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:04,320
Speaker 1: they hid in simulators. I mean I got rich friends

2255
01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:07,840
Speaker 1: that have golf simulators. I mean, that's that's normal for golf.

2256
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 1: For quarterbacks, it's not really normal. And so I was

2257
01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:11,720
Speaker 1: able to really partner with guys who do have golf

2258
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 1: and baseball backgrounds and we're able to map things out.

2259
01:59:15,080 --> 01:59:19,040
Speaker 1: Now Josh found out some things and it was helpful.

2260
01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:21,280
Speaker 1: And I keep hearing my name talked about all the time,

2261
01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:22,880
Speaker 1: and I've done media and I'm happy to do it.

2262
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:27,240
Speaker 1: I'm getting way too much credit for Josh's year. This

2263
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:30,200
Speaker 1: has to do with Josh solving things himself, Josh making

2264
01:59:30,200 --> 01:59:33,160
Speaker 1: the plays, and then Brian Dable and Ken Dorsey building

2265
01:59:33,200 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 1: a plan around him that works, the conversations he has

2266
01:59:35,560 --> 01:59:37,880
Speaker 1: with Matt Barkley, you know, during the week and on

2267
01:59:37,880 --> 01:59:40,280
Speaker 1: the sideline neck. Josh is in a very very good

2268
01:59:40,320 --> 01:59:42,200
Speaker 1: spot where he's got a lot of really smart people

2269
01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:45,400
Speaker 1: and then he's actually doing it himself. So I will

2270
01:59:45,440 --> 01:59:46,840
Speaker 1: say this, Yes, we did a ton of work this

2271
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:48,720
Speaker 1: offseason and we were able to kind of solve for

2272
01:59:48,760 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: some things. But my name's getting thrown in their way

2273
01:59:51,840 --> 01:59:54,160
Speaker 1: too often because this was all Josh's work and the

2274
01:59:54,200 --> 01:59:57,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's staff. But with that being said, the really

2275
01:59:57,960 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: exciting thing is some of the things that we found

2276
01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:03,200
Speaker 1: out really won't be addressed until this coming off season.

2277
02:00:03,640 --> 02:00:05,360
Speaker 1: So you think about this growth, this growth this game.

2278
02:00:05,400 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 1: I'm not creating expectations here. Josh has handlon at himself,

2279
02:00:09,080 --> 02:00:11,320
Speaker 1: but there's a ways to go, and I think we're

2280
02:00:11,320 --> 02:00:13,520
Speaker 1: not even close to the ceiling. And Josh has always

2281
02:00:13,520 --> 02:00:16,160
Speaker 1: been incredibly talented. He's always had an amazing skill set.

2282
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:18,320
Speaker 1: He doesn't just have a rocket arm. He's always had

2283
02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:22,160
Speaker 1: touch too, accuracy, and these things have certainly been getting better.

2284
02:00:22,960 --> 02:00:25,520
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is the credit goes

2285
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:28,640
Speaker 1: to Josh, because Josh is just seeing things so clearly

2286
02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:32,000
Speaker 1: he's not I had a conversation with a mutual friend

2287
02:00:32,000 --> 02:00:34,120
Speaker 1: of Josh and I who's another player in the league,

2288
02:00:34,720 --> 02:00:36,120
Speaker 1: and one of the things that he says he's watching

2289
02:00:36,200 --> 02:00:38,760
Speaker 1: Josh is he goes it's not that Josh isn't throwing picks.

2290
02:00:39,000 --> 02:00:41,800
Speaker 1: It's that none of the balls are even in jeopardy

2291
02:00:41,800 --> 02:00:44,160
Speaker 1: of being picked. It's not like he hasn't thrown very

2292
02:00:44,160 --> 02:00:47,800
Speaker 1: many picks because everyone's dropping them, which happens sometimes the

2293
02:00:47,840 --> 02:00:50,320
Speaker 1: balls is not put in harm's way. So there's been

2294
02:00:50,360 --> 02:00:52,200
Speaker 1: some mechanical things that Josh did, and he put a

2295
02:00:52,200 --> 02:00:54,240
Speaker 1: lot of work in and the staff stone amazing job,

2296
02:00:54,280 --> 02:00:56,760
Speaker 1: and I know busted my tail to help him out

2297
02:00:56,760 --> 02:00:59,360
Speaker 1: as much as I could. But it's really a combination

2298
02:00:59,400 --> 02:01:01,480
Speaker 1: of a lot of things, and Josh is really the

2299
02:01:01,520 --> 02:01:03,640
Speaker 1: reason for it. He's the one doing the work, he's

2300
02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:06,440
Speaker 1: the one executing, He's the one working tirelessly when no

2301
02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:08,480
Speaker 1: one knows he's even doing it, and he's reaping the

2302
02:01:08,520 --> 02:01:12,960
Speaker 1: benefits and those mafias as well. I wanted to follow

2303
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:17,280
Speaker 1: that up with the ceiling question. I mean, you just

2304
02:01:17,840 --> 02:01:19,400
Speaker 1: you open the door, so I'm going to walk through

2305
02:01:19,440 --> 02:01:22,520
Speaker 1: it here. You said, he still has stuff that you

2306
02:01:22,560 --> 02:01:24,840
Speaker 1: guys discovered that he's going to work on this coming

2307
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:29,160
Speaker 1: off season. So with that in mind, and the humongous

2308
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:32,280
Speaker 1: jumps that he's made, like we had Brian billikon about

2309
02:01:32,320 --> 02:01:33,920
Speaker 1: a month or two ago and I asked him if

2310
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:36,600
Speaker 1: he had ever seen a quarterback make a jump in

2311
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:40,160
Speaker 1: completion percentage like this, and he said, forty years in football,

2312
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:44,680
Speaker 1: I've never seen a jump to this degree. It's almost unprecedented.

2313
02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: So all of the improvements aside, you still think there's

2314
02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:51,560
Speaker 1: some ground to gain here in Josh's game, and the

2315
02:01:51,640 --> 02:01:54,280
Speaker 1: ceiling still has some room for him to grow too.

2316
02:01:56,560 --> 02:01:58,920
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a ceiling. I think Josh is

2317
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:02,680
Speaker 1: the physically the most gifted athlete we've had played this

2318
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,360
Speaker 1: position in the NFL. And I understand that's a strong statement.

2319
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:07,320
Speaker 1: And this I'm not saying it because I work with

2320
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:09,000
Speaker 1: him or because I'm a fan of his. That's not

2321
02:02:09,000 --> 02:02:11,880
Speaker 1: why I say it. I think it's pretty factual. He's

2322
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:15,480
Speaker 1: six five and change, he's two forty and change. He's

2323
02:02:15,480 --> 02:02:19,000
Speaker 1: as fast as any of these guys minus Lamar and Russell.

2324
02:02:19,200 --> 02:02:21,760
Speaker 1: He's probably faster than everybody else at the quarterback position.

2325
02:02:22,240 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 1: His arm is what it is. It's strongest in the

2326
02:02:24,360 --> 02:02:26,920
Speaker 1: league or second strongest in the league, whatever, that doesn't matter.

2327
02:02:28,440 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: And he also is a runner. He has vision, he

2328
02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:32,920
Speaker 1: can cut back, he's hurtled, He's not just a fast

2329
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:35,480
Speaker 1: guy that runs out of bounds. So when you put

2330
02:02:35,520 --> 02:02:38,840
Speaker 1: all those things together from a talent perspective, that really

2331
02:02:38,840 --> 02:02:41,200
Speaker 1: makes that ceiling really high. But then you look at

2332
02:02:41,240 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 1: from a mechanical standpoint, there's some opportunities to get more consistent.

2333
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:48,200
Speaker 1: As amazing as the year has. He's certainly missed throws

2334
02:02:48,320 --> 02:02:51,480
Speaker 1: so his errand so does every MVP. Ever, they missed

2335
02:02:51,480 --> 02:02:54,240
Speaker 1: throws too, so there's an opportunity there. The biggest area

2336
02:02:54,280 --> 02:02:57,640
Speaker 1: I see for growth isn't actually due to Josh. It's

2337
02:02:57,640 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 1: just due to the timing with his players, with his teammates.

2338
02:03:00,720 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: So let's look at this offseason with steff On Digs

2339
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:05,080
Speaker 1: and they're on this historic run right now. But the

2340
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:07,480
Speaker 1: reality is is this offseason. I know it's been talked

2341
02:03:07,480 --> 02:03:09,440
Speaker 1: about that. The guys all went to Miami for three days.

2342
02:03:10,360 --> 02:03:13,680
Speaker 1: Think about it. No OTAs he got three days in

2343
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:18,520
Speaker 1: Miami before training camp. That's it. You don't didn't have

2344
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:21,520
Speaker 1: any time this offseason to work on specific things, to

2345
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:23,920
Speaker 1: work on specific routes. One of the things when you

2346
02:03:24,000 --> 02:03:25,960
Speaker 1: get a new receiver, and I've been on teams where

2347
02:03:25,960 --> 02:03:27,880
Speaker 1: we've got a new free agent receiver or new draft

2348
02:03:27,880 --> 02:03:30,040
Speaker 1: pick and you want to throw some balls to him low.

2349
02:03:30,160 --> 02:03:31,480
Speaker 1: You want to throw them to him high. I want

2350
02:03:31,480 --> 02:03:33,360
Speaker 1: to throw it outside. I'm going to force it in

2351
02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:34,840
Speaker 1: there between the defenders and see if he goes and

2352
02:03:34,880 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: gets it. You got to try things out to see

2353
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:39,120
Speaker 1: what a guy can do and for him to get

2354
02:03:39,160 --> 02:03:41,320
Speaker 1: used to your the way that you throw it, and

2355
02:03:41,440 --> 02:03:43,640
Speaker 1: for him and Steff to be doing what they're doing.

2356
02:03:43,680 --> 02:03:46,200
Speaker 1: And really the only time they've had chances to work

2357
02:03:46,240 --> 02:03:50,440
Speaker 1: on that is in practice during the season and in games.

2358
02:03:51,080 --> 02:03:53,040
Speaker 1: You're not going to risk throws in games that you

2359
02:03:53,080 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: will in OTAs. So next year, if there's OTAs, Josh

2360
02:03:56,440 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: to be able to try all kinds of stuff with

2361
02:03:58,200 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: stuff to see if they can do it, because there's

2362
02:04:00,240 --> 02:04:01,880
Speaker 1: no consequence he can throw a pick in practice and

2363
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:04,360
Speaker 1: nobody cares, so they haven't even had a chance to

2364
02:04:04,400 --> 02:04:08,560
Speaker 1: really develop the chemistry outside of on Sundays, which is

2365
02:04:08,600 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 1: the hardest place to develop chemistry. So the chemistry these

2366
02:04:11,800 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: guys have, I don't think right now it's anywhere near

2367
02:04:14,520 --> 02:04:16,560
Speaker 1: where it's going to be. And that's the same case

2368
02:04:16,600 --> 02:04:18,480
Speaker 1: for all of the receivers and tight ends that he's

2369
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: throwing it too. That's the same case for both those

2370
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:22,520
Speaker 1: young running backs who haven't got a full offseason of

2371
02:04:22,600 --> 02:04:26,320
Speaker 1: really working with him yet. So all that stuff that's

2372
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 1: new for new players or for no offseason, just from

2373
02:04:30,040 --> 02:04:33,760
Speaker 1: a continuity standpoint, there's there's a room to grow for

2374
02:04:33,800 --> 02:04:36,120
Speaker 1: this offense and that is really scary for the AFC

2375
02:04:36,240 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: East and whoever's in their way during this playoff run.

2376
02:04:38,320 --> 02:04:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about this playoff run they've gout.

2377
02:04:40,560 --> 02:04:42,880
Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Colts coming in there. You know they're a

2378
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:44,920
Speaker 1: solid team, no question about if they deserve to be

2379
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:47,440
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. This is a but it's the two

2380
02:04:47,520 --> 02:04:51,120
Speaker 1: seed coming in on a steam roll against a team

2381
02:04:51,120 --> 02:04:53,840
Speaker 1: that just kind of got in because of a win

2382
02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:56,480
Speaker 1: by that other team. You know, they won their game,

2383
02:04:56,560 --> 02:05:00,240
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts and the Bills beat the other team

2384
02:05:00,280 --> 02:05:03,040
Speaker 1: that was in contention for the seventh seed, So the

2385
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:06,120
Speaker 1: Colts get in. What kind of how do you see

2386
02:05:06,320 --> 02:05:10,080
Speaker 1: this bracket working out, particularly since you've got Tennessee and

2387
02:05:10,200 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 1: Baltimore playing against each other on the opening week, those

2388
02:05:12,800 --> 02:05:15,120
Speaker 1: two teams that are kind of those power run teams,

2389
02:05:15,160 --> 02:05:19,240
Speaker 1: and just give me a quick synopsis of the playoffs

2390
02:05:19,280 --> 02:05:22,520
Speaker 1: and how they're gonna play out. Well, another way to

2391
02:05:22,520 --> 02:05:25,720
Speaker 1: look at it is they've added a seventh team. Now,

2392
02:05:25,760 --> 02:05:27,760
Speaker 1: obviously we all know that this is a bummer year

2393
02:05:27,800 --> 02:05:29,400
Speaker 1: to be the number two seed because you don't get

2394
02:05:29,400 --> 02:05:32,840
Speaker 1: that buy. But they're actually essentially playing against a team

2395
02:05:32,880 --> 02:05:35,040
Speaker 1: that any other year would not have made the playoffs.

2396
02:05:35,280 --> 02:05:38,280
Speaker 1: There's normally six spots, right, they're playing the seventh seed.

2397
02:05:38,480 --> 02:05:41,320
Speaker 1: So once one way to look at it is they're

2398
02:05:41,320 --> 02:05:43,560
Speaker 1: playing a team that would not have made the playoffs.

2399
02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:46,920
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter rankings going into it. Any given Sunday.

2400
02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:48,880
Speaker 1: You got to play well any given Saturday this weekend.

2401
02:05:49,880 --> 02:05:52,200
Speaker 1: So what they're gonna need to do is continue to

2402
02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:53,560
Speaker 1: do what they've been doing. They do not need to

2403
02:05:53,640 --> 02:05:56,040
Speaker 1: change everything. It's not playoffs now we're going to run

2404
02:05:56,120 --> 02:05:58,280
Speaker 1: everything different. Now we're going to try and play harder.

2405
02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:00,800
Speaker 1: They need to continue to half and have fun and

2406
02:06:00,920 --> 02:06:03,120
Speaker 1: warm ups. They need to be jacking around with each other,

2407
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:04,520
Speaker 1: and they need to be dancing in the end zone.

2408
02:06:04,720 --> 02:06:07,200
Speaker 1: And they need to be continuing to execute at the

2409
02:06:07,280 --> 02:06:10,080
Speaker 1: level that they're executing right now and even ratchet that

2410
02:06:10,160 --> 02:06:11,800
Speaker 1: up a notch because of the playoffs. But they don't

2411
02:06:11,800 --> 02:06:15,320
Speaker 1: need to change anything. If they do, they're able to

2412
02:06:15,360 --> 02:06:18,000
Speaker 1: do that. This is a really favorable matchup for Buffalo.

2413
02:06:18,160 --> 02:06:19,960
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I don't know what on

2414
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:22,280
Speaker 1: the AFC side until you get to Kansas City, I

2415
02:06:22,280 --> 02:06:24,720
Speaker 1: don't know what isn't a favorable matchup. I know that

2416
02:06:24,760 --> 02:06:26,920
Speaker 1: they know they lost for Tennessee the first time and

2417
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:29,880
Speaker 1: all that, But the way that Buffalo is playing right now,

2418
02:06:30,520 --> 02:06:32,960
Speaker 1: if they can just continue to execute and continue to

2419
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:35,280
Speaker 1: make the plays that are there, quarterback continues to play

2420
02:06:35,320 --> 02:06:38,040
Speaker 1: within himself, and the staff continues to dial it up

2421
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:40,080
Speaker 1: the way that they have on offense and defense and

2422
02:06:40,160 --> 02:06:43,360
Speaker 1: special teams, I'd say, you know, they've got a fake

2423
02:06:43,440 --> 02:06:45,480
Speaker 1: punt that worked. I mean, it's like all three phases

2424
02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:47,840
Speaker 1: are just clicking. So they don't need to pull anything

2425
02:06:47,840 --> 02:06:50,080
Speaker 1: out of the hat. In my opinion, it's just continuing

2426
02:06:50,120 --> 02:06:52,640
Speaker 1: to execute and make teams play catch up. Talking to

2427
02:06:52,720 --> 02:06:55,440
Speaker 1: quarterback consultant and founder a QB. Summ At, Jordan Palmer

2428
02:06:57,000 --> 02:06:59,800
Speaker 1: back to Josh, and as much as we've seen all

2429
02:06:59,840 --> 02:07:02,680
Speaker 1: these improvements, Jordan, the one thing that kind of sticks

2430
02:07:02,720 --> 02:07:06,240
Speaker 1: out to me is just his on field demeanor no

2431
02:07:06,360 --> 02:07:08,680
Speaker 1: matter the circumstance in the game. There seems to be

2432
02:07:08,720 --> 02:07:12,680
Speaker 1: this inter calm that has kind of taken that he's

2433
02:07:12,720 --> 02:07:17,120
Speaker 1: successfully paired with his command of the offense. People would

2434
02:07:17,160 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: often in years past point to that Harry High school

2435
02:07:20,800 --> 02:07:23,360
Speaker 1: play or hero ball is the term we hear sometimes

2436
02:07:23,400 --> 02:07:26,400
Speaker 1: when Josh. You know, maybe he sees Deshaun Watson in

2437
02:07:26,440 --> 02:07:29,440
Speaker 1: that playoff game making plays left and right to get

2438
02:07:29,480 --> 02:07:31,400
Speaker 1: his team to climb back into a game where they're

2439
02:07:31,400 --> 02:07:34,040
Speaker 1: down sixteen nothing, and you couldn't help but think Josh

2440
02:07:34,120 --> 02:07:35,960
Speaker 1: is sitting on the bench saying, well, now I got

2441
02:07:35,960 --> 02:07:38,680
Speaker 1: to go do something amazing. And then we would see

2442
02:07:38,720 --> 02:07:40,880
Speaker 1: like one of those plays like a lateral throw to

2443
02:07:41,040 --> 02:07:43,160
Speaker 1: his tight end, you know, as he's trying to make

2444
02:07:43,200 --> 02:07:46,640
Speaker 1: a play running with the football. Those are gone from

2445
02:07:46,680 --> 02:07:48,720
Speaker 1: his game now and there seems to be this inter

2446
02:07:48,840 --> 02:07:52,560
Speaker 1: calm that he's paired with his command of the offense,

2447
02:07:53,280 --> 02:07:56,080
Speaker 1: no matter the circumstance, no matter the time and score,

2448
02:07:56,920 --> 02:07:59,080
Speaker 1: he seems to be in complete control of what he

2449
02:07:59,120 --> 02:08:02,200
Speaker 1: wants to execute. Where does that come from? How do

2450
02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:05,560
Speaker 1: you suddenly have that after maybe not having it, no

2451
02:08:05,600 --> 02:08:09,640
Speaker 1: matter the situation in years past. Well, the easiest way

2452
02:08:09,680 --> 02:08:11,160
Speaker 1: to look at that, and I think your spot on

2453
02:08:11,280 --> 02:08:14,160
Speaker 1: is he had a habit starting in college where when

2454
02:08:14,160 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 1: he was rolling to his right, he was trying to

2455
02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:18,400
Speaker 1: make a play, and he had a play I think

2456
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:21,200
Speaker 1: it was versus Boise State where he rolled to his right.

2457
02:08:21,360 --> 02:08:23,480
Speaker 1: It was like a software years, like a second year

2458
02:08:23,520 --> 02:08:25,280
Speaker 1: playing at Wyoming, and he rolled to his right and

2459
02:08:25,320 --> 02:08:26,880
Speaker 1: he threw this ball in the back corner of the

2460
02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:29,480
Speaker 1: end zone. He was running out of bounds. He threw

2461
02:08:29,520 --> 02:08:33,880
Speaker 1: it like forty six yards. Perfect throw, I mean, unbelievable throw.

2462
02:08:33,920 --> 02:08:34,880
Speaker 1: And that was kind of like the start of the

2463
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:37,520
Speaker 1: dropt Josh Allen hype. Well, then he did that his

2464
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:39,840
Speaker 1: rookie year. He did that last year a lot. I

2465
02:08:39,880 --> 02:08:41,280
Speaker 1: think he did that the first week or two of

2466
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:43,400
Speaker 1: the season when he was rolling to his right and

2467
02:08:43,480 --> 02:08:46,200
Speaker 1: trying to make a play. He would sometimes make an

2468
02:08:46,240 --> 02:08:49,520
Speaker 1: unbelievable throw, sometimes throw a dumb pick, and a lot

2469
02:08:49,600 --> 02:08:51,880
Speaker 1: of times take an unnecessary hit, hit his head on

2470
02:08:51,880 --> 02:08:54,120
Speaker 1: the ground, land on his throwing shoulder. It was dangerous,

2471
02:08:54,160 --> 02:08:56,360
Speaker 1: it was compromising, and the risk of the reward was

2472
02:08:56,400 --> 02:08:59,520
Speaker 1: not a mature decision. So that's been basically limited. He

2473
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:01,600
Speaker 1: hasn't done that since I think Week one or two

2474
02:09:01,640 --> 02:09:04,560
Speaker 1: this season, like not even once. Throws it away when

2475
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:06,839
Speaker 1: it needs to be thrown away, chucks it out of bounds,

2476
02:09:07,000 --> 02:09:08,960
Speaker 1: makes plays when they're there, and then he's had some

2477
02:09:09,040 --> 02:09:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, throw it across his body to an open

2478
02:09:10,600 --> 02:09:12,840
Speaker 1: receiver and the ball was not in jeopardy. And I

2479
02:09:12,880 --> 02:09:15,480
Speaker 1: think that the theme is and it's all him, but

2480
02:09:15,560 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: the theme for at least my conversations has really been

2481
02:09:17,720 --> 02:09:21,600
Speaker 1: around control physically, mentally, and emotionally. So from a physical standpoint,

2482
02:09:21,640 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 1: controlling the football. Controlling the ball is the root of accuracy.

2483
02:09:26,120 --> 02:09:28,160
Speaker 1: Now from a media perspective, and a lot of coaches

2484
02:09:28,160 --> 02:09:30,520
Speaker 1: and scouts they just say somebody's either accurate they're not,

2485
02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:33,000
Speaker 1: But it really comes down to their control of the football.

2486
02:09:33,040 --> 02:09:35,240
Speaker 1: And that is why I think Josh is developed over

2487
02:09:35,280 --> 02:09:37,680
Speaker 1: these last three years, is more control of the football.

2488
02:09:37,720 --> 02:09:40,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't really lose the ball ever, hasn't sailed over

2489
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 1: the guy's head, doesn't throw a duck. He's just to

2490
02:09:42,280 --> 02:09:45,160
Speaker 1: control of the ball, controlling his mind is just taking

2491
02:09:45,200 --> 02:09:46,800
Speaker 1: it one play at a time, one series, you at

2492
02:09:46,800 --> 02:09:49,839
Speaker 1: a time, doesn't matter what happened last time, new series, reload.

2493
02:09:49,880 --> 02:09:51,400
Speaker 1: And that's an easy thing to talk about. It's a

2494
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:53,720
Speaker 1: very difficult thing to do in the time, in the moment.

2495
02:09:54,040 --> 02:09:56,240
Speaker 1: And then the third one is the biggest jump is

2496
02:09:56,360 --> 02:10:00,000
Speaker 1: that's in controlling your emotions. Josh is, in my opinion,

2497
02:10:00,120 --> 02:10:02,840
Speaker 1: and elite, not even just in football. I've been around

2498
02:10:02,840 --> 02:10:04,680
Speaker 1: a lot of professional athletes in a lot of different sports.

2499
02:10:04,960 --> 02:10:07,840
Speaker 1: Josh is an elite competitor. He has zero interests in

2500
02:10:07,920 --> 02:10:11,040
Speaker 1: second place whatsoever, and he never has. Part of it's

2501
02:10:11,080 --> 02:10:13,000
Speaker 1: the way he was raised. Part of it's having a

2502
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:15,760
Speaker 1: brother that's a year younger than you, like all it's

2503
02:10:15,760 --> 02:10:17,920
Speaker 1: just it's a combination of all the things. But he

2504
02:10:18,080 --> 02:10:22,280
Speaker 1: is so competitive that early in his career that competitiveness.

2505
02:10:22,800 --> 02:10:25,080
Speaker 1: Look at the way that that Texans game ended last year,

2506
02:10:25,320 --> 02:10:28,440
Speaker 1: that trying to make a play, competitiveness a lot of

2507
02:10:28,440 --> 02:10:31,280
Speaker 1: times led to bad plays. And so being in control

2508
02:10:31,320 --> 02:10:33,360
Speaker 1: of his emotions and knowing that, man, I really want

2509
02:10:33,360 --> 02:10:35,720
Speaker 1: to try and make these five guys miss and throw

2510
02:10:35,720 --> 02:10:39,000
Speaker 1: it eight yards down the field, But nope, I'm going

2511
02:10:39,080 --> 02:10:41,440
Speaker 1: to throw it out of bounce second down. And he's

2512
02:10:41,440 --> 02:10:45,120
Speaker 1: just playing the game. He's playing football. We call game

2513
02:10:45,160 --> 02:10:48,040
Speaker 1: managers guys that don't have strong arms and throw checkdowns.

2514
02:10:48,920 --> 02:10:50,960
Speaker 1: I think Aaron Rodgers is a great game manager. I

2515
02:10:51,000 --> 02:10:53,320
Speaker 1: think Tom Brady's a gaate game manager. I think Russell

2516
02:10:53,360 --> 02:10:56,120
Speaker 1: Wilson's a fantastic game manager. I think Patrick Mahomes is

2517
02:10:56,120 --> 02:10:58,760
Speaker 1: a great game manager. And Josh has turned into an

2518
02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 1: elite game manager. It's not just the touchdowns he throws

2519
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:04,160
Speaker 1: and the games he wins, it's the picks he doesn't

2520
02:11:04,160 --> 02:11:06,480
Speaker 1: throw and the games he doesn't lose for his team.

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you one question. We're sitting here in

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Speaker 1: the AFC East and certainly Josh has knocked it out

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02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:12,360
Speaker 1: of the park, and this is my last question. I

2524
02:11:12,480 --> 02:11:15,080
Speaker 1: will let you go. One of your other guys, and

2525
02:11:15,120 --> 02:11:17,360
Speaker 1: a good friend to Josh Allen's, is Sam Darnold, and

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02:11:17,400 --> 02:11:19,840
Speaker 1: the Jets once again fired a head coach. Sam is

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02:11:19,840 --> 02:11:23,160
Speaker 1: going to get another offensive coordinator. What are your thoughts

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02:11:23,200 --> 02:11:26,800
Speaker 1: about Sam Darnold's future. And you know, when does he

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02:11:26,840 --> 02:11:29,120
Speaker 1: get a little stability that Josh has enjoyed. When is

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02:11:29,120 --> 02:11:31,840
Speaker 1: he going to get an offensive coordinator that understands his

2531
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:33,640
Speaker 1: skill set? And what do you think his ceiling is

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02:11:33,720 --> 02:11:37,760
Speaker 1: or his future is in the in the near future. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't. I think Sam has a

2534
02:11:40,040 --> 02:11:42,720
Speaker 1: similar ceiling. It's really really high. This is an elite

2535
02:11:42,720 --> 02:11:45,200
Speaker 1: athlete in terms of his ability to move and create space.

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Speaker 1: He can make all the throws, he said, zero development

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Speaker 1: and continuity thus far, even in college, really only played

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Speaker 1: fifteen games and kind of got thrown in there. And

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02:11:55,080 --> 02:11:57,920
Speaker 1: and you know, they they don't develop quarterbacks the way

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02:11:57,920 --> 02:12:01,240
Speaker 1: that some other schools do. And and then from the

2541
02:12:01,360 --> 02:12:04,440
Speaker 1: NFL's perspective, it would be his third OC, zero continuity,

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02:12:04,560 --> 02:12:07,160
Speaker 1: zero stability there, and then the roster is just it's

2543
02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:10,680
Speaker 1: certainly not the Bill's offensive roster, he said, two gms.

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02:12:11,120 --> 02:12:14,200
Speaker 1: And so if he's in New York this year and

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02:12:14,240 --> 02:12:16,760
Speaker 1: he gets a new system and all that stuff, I

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02:12:16,800 --> 02:12:18,440
Speaker 1: just hope that it's somebody who is going to be

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02:12:18,440 --> 02:12:20,400
Speaker 1: able to continue to develop him the way that Brian

2548
02:12:20,480 --> 02:12:23,360
Speaker 1: Dable and Ken Dorsey have developed Josh Allen. They don't

2549
02:12:23,400 --> 02:12:26,880
Speaker 1: get it they whatever credit in the world is not enough.

2550
02:12:26,920 --> 02:12:30,200
Speaker 1: They have done a fantastic job with Josh. And if Sam,

2551
02:12:30,280 --> 02:12:31,920
Speaker 1: you know the way that Justin Fields and these other

2552
02:12:31,960 --> 02:12:34,040
Speaker 1: guys are playing. Who knows what the Jets are gonna do.

2553
02:12:34,240 --> 02:12:38,000
Speaker 1: I don't And so until they get those pieces in place,

2554
02:12:38,040 --> 02:12:39,400
Speaker 1: we won't know what they're going to do with Sam.

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02:12:39,400 --> 02:12:41,480
Speaker 1: And if Sam gets an opportunity to go somewhere else again,

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02:12:41,520 --> 02:12:43,160
Speaker 1: I think it's somewhere where he gets a chance to

2557
02:12:43,200 --> 02:12:46,000
Speaker 1: develop and learn. Sam doesn't need to sit for a

2558
02:12:46,080 --> 02:12:48,080
Speaker 1: year or two and figure it out. He just needs

2559
02:12:48,120 --> 02:12:50,960
Speaker 1: one consistent thing and know who's running what route and

2560
02:12:50,960 --> 02:12:54,200
Speaker 1: when they're going to be there. And Sam. What I'll

2561
02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:56,440
Speaker 1: say about Sam is there will be a time in

2562
02:12:56,600 --> 02:12:59,720
Speaker 1: Sam's future where all he has to do is played

2563
02:12:59,760 --> 02:13:02,000
Speaker 1: at his ability and that'll be enough for them to

2564
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:03,520
Speaker 1: win most of the games and be in it at

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02:13:03,520 --> 02:13:06,000
Speaker 1: the end. And when Sam gets to that point, he

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Speaker 1: is a guy who is capable of winning the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Jordan at the time, we appreciate you

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Speaker 1: joining us and enjoy the playoffs. Awesome, I will that's

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Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer, Quarterback Consultan, Founder QB Summit break Time for us.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back to close it up. Turn brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company at

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02:13:37,160 --> 02:13:39,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We just learned in the last segment

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Speaker 1: that Jordan Palmer doesn't think that Josh Allen has reached

2574
02:13:43,000 --> 02:13:47,920
Speaker 1: his ceiling. Holy cow? Second, what will that look like?

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02:13:48,200 --> 02:13:51,720
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't

2576
02:13:51,720 --> 02:13:54,360
Speaker 1: know either. All Right, we're at him. I'm here for it. Yeah,

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02:13:54,360 --> 02:13:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm here for it too. Strap in everybody. Uh, we

2578
02:13:57,520 --> 02:14:00,400
Speaker 1: gotta go, but we'll be back tomorrow as we dive

2579
02:14:00,440 --> 02:14:03,760
Speaker 1: into more of the Colds Bills matchups for Wildcards Saturday.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then. M H.