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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. Now, who are they interviewing Josh McCown who,

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Speaker 1: some turnovers. So rand Neil has had a monster season

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Speaker 1: as a as a gunner and a coverage player, and

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Speaker 1: they've cycled through three different returners and really for the

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Speaker 1: most part, have not missed a beat and they've set

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Speaker 1: the team up with a top five average drive start

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Speaker 1: on the season. So just I mean, what can you

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Speaker 1: say about what you've seen from Heath Farwell's crew, And

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Speaker 1: I think Heath Farwell is the quintessential guy who McDermott

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Speaker 1: wants on his staff. They've came in. Farwell came in

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Speaker 1: as a first time coordinator and exelf admittedly needed to

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Speaker 1: grow into the role. And then his second year, now

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Speaker 1: is third year, has made has got it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing now and his abilities and McDermott,

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Speaker 1: like we talked about You've talked about it at length.

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Speaker 1: Their ability to get players who to play better over

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Speaker 1: the course of the year and develop players. It's the

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Speaker 1: same thing on the staff. The coaches play better, the

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Speaker 1: coaches coach better, the coaches get better at what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They get better at communicating, and they get better at

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Speaker 1: translating the concepts of the players to their players and

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Speaker 1: getting them on the field to play it better. Picking

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Speaker 1: the right players, motivating the right players, getting the right

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Speaker 1: combination put them in the right spots. Yeah, he farwell

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Speaker 1: has has been one of the quintessential stories of what

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Speaker 1: it has been to be a part of the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills under Sean McDermott. Wherever you start from is not

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Speaker 1: where you're at now, because you're way ahead of it.

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Speaker 1: And he has gotten better and better and certainly and

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Speaker 1: so have his players. And you remember Taiwan Jones left

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Speaker 1: for a year and came back, sir, and Neil has

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Speaker 1: been here. Meta Kevich is a new player as of

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Speaker 1: the last year. He's in his second year. So they've

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Speaker 1: got some guys who had washed through and their core

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Speaker 1: group of special teamers. I thought they were fantastic against

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Speaker 1: New England last week. Fantastic. Forget about the block kick

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Speaker 1: those that's more offensive line and some of the other stuff,

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Speaker 1: but the coverage guys on kickoff and punt have been

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Speaker 1: phenomenal this year. I thought they've been I thought they'd

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Speaker 1: been great for those and last year in the AFC

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Speaker 1: title game, they forced a fumble. Well, Mikole Harman kind

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Speaker 1: of muffed the kick, but they jumped right on it'd

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Speaker 1: scored an early touchdown, so I'd sign up for that again.

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Speaker 1: For those of you wondering, the number one team in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one NFL Special teams rankings by Rick

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Speaker 1: Goslin were the Baltimore Ravens, and they have been in

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Speaker 1: the top five each of the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: And you might say, well, that's no surprise. John Harbaugh

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Speaker 1: the head coach in Baltimore. But your top five were

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Speaker 1: these teams Baltimore, Indie, Seattle, Kansas City, New Orleans, Dallas, Detroit,

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Speaker 1: and then Buffalo. So those are the top eight. But

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Speaker 1: Kansas City in the top five, we already know they

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Speaker 1: have an all world kicker and Harrison Butker who can

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Speaker 1: kick it from the parking lot, so his leg is

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Speaker 1: every big as as Tyler Basses is, and so do

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. The number one team, they've got Tucker right,

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Speaker 1: so he's got all world. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: I'll say this though, one of the reasons you have

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Speaker 1: really good special teams. One of the main facets of it.

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Speaker 1: There's four there's four core special teams. Punt, punt return, kickoff,

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Speaker 1: kickoff return. Those are the ones you're gonna get all

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Speaker 1: the time, and fuegal fuegal defense, and that's your kicker.

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Speaker 1: The kickoff return team is always the one that goes

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Speaker 1: to The best kickoff return team in the league is

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Speaker 1: usually and almost virtually unchanging in the fact that it's

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Speaker 1: the team that has the most reps. The kickoff return

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Speaker 1: team is the one who's defense is the worst because

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Speaker 1: they get a lot of reps a returning kicks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Mormon went to the Pro Bowl and he had

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Speaker 1: because he had eighty eight punts that year and still

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Speaker 1: had an average of forty net. Right. That's a lot

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Speaker 1: of punts, you know. And so you get a team.

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Speaker 1: And so when you have a good kickoff return team

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Speaker 1: because they get a lot of reps, it raises your

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Speaker 1: team through the rankings because nobody else faces that many returns,

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Speaker 1: doesn't get that good at it, and it's not part

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Speaker 1: of their persona, you know, so to speak. Chiefs as

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Speaker 1: a team averaged twelve yards a punt return this season.

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Speaker 1: That's a fat average. It's a fat average. Anything or

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Speaker 1: anything around ten is good. Twelve is twelve is big.

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Speaker 1: That's elite. That is very elite. So that's really good.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but we are

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Speaker 1: going to get to the phones as soon as we

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Speaker 1: come back. So those are you holding at eight o

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty. We will get to you in

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Speaker 1: the next segment. Here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Friday. Fan mail

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Speaker 1: bag is open here on One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Submit your questions on Twitter if

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Speaker 1: you wish you had One Bills Live or give us

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Speaker 1: a call. Eight oh three five fifty. We go to

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Speaker 1: the phones now and we lead off with Jim in Florida. Jim,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're all one Bills Live. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think we've omitted the how well the offensive linesman

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Speaker 1: doing with Ellen not being sacked early at all anymore

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Speaker 1: and are running back Singletary running much better. I think

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Speaker 1: the offensive line deserves a lot of credit. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about them in recent weeks. They've certainly stepped

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Speaker 1: up to the plate in terms of winning the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage battle, Jim, I don't think there's any question

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Speaker 1: about that. And thanks for the call mid season when

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Speaker 1: this team was winning and losing and winning and losing.

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Speaker 1: You heard coach McDermott put the demand out there we

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Speaker 1: have to play more physical at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and he said, on both sides of the ball. And

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Speaker 1: it took a little while, but I think both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball delivered a definitive answer and we are

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Speaker 1: seeing the difference because of that, and the run game

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Speaker 1: production is up, production in the red zone is up

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Speaker 1: because they're winning their battles at the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: more often than not in every single game down the

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Speaker 1: stretch here and we saw it again against New England

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Speaker 1: last Saturday. Yeah, that's we've equated their run of success

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Speaker 1: here at the end of the season with the settled

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Speaker 1: offensive line that they came And I called it everything

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Speaker 1: from you know, settling in like I just did, to

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Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle, which is something they've been searching

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Speaker 1: for they I mean, we talked about it at nauseum

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Speaker 1: throughout the regular season. Every week it was a different combination.

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Speaker 1: And if they started the game with the same combination

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Speaker 1: two weeks in a row. Halfway through the game, somebody

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Speaker 1: got injured. Well, even in week sixteen, Bucker with the

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Speaker 1: achilles injury, goes down in the second quarter and they

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Speaker 1: got to move four guys to fill one spot. That's right.

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Speaker 1: And then they go in the next week and that

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Speaker 1: then the next week they they put up twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: They come back in the second half and put up

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Speaker 1: twenty seven point or twenty four points on the Bucks

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Speaker 1: to get it to overtime. So they kind of caught

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Speaker 1: it right then, even though it wasn't enough to win

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Speaker 1: that game, which it should have been because of an

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: egregious non call. I don't get into it. So you know,

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00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,959
Speaker 1: they played better, and then they started and then they

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Speaker 1: started winning games, and right down the stretch they've have

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Speaker 1: gone undefeated since then. M Yeah, we've been talking at

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Speaker 1: length about the offensive line and how well they played

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Speaker 1: and what a big difference it's made. Um, we just

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Speaker 1: hope it can continues. Yeah, we next go to Julian

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo. What do you have for us Julian high

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Speaker 1: fella doing today? Man's feel I'm great doing good US two.

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Speaker 1: It's great, Um, but I really want to talk about.

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Speaker 1: But before I get it for that, first, I want

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Speaker 1: to say, do we not have the coolest legends in

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Speaker 1: the way seat comes out, I guess the jazz the

567
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: whole stadium popped up, and then with Thurman doing the

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Speaker 1: gritty and then everybody, man, everybody, I just had rid

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Speaker 1: the coolness in the league right now, it's ever And then, um,

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Speaker 1: my main question, there's a play that the Cowboys did

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Speaker 1: in the game. Pretty sure you guys watched it where

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Speaker 1: um they go whoever? Where a guy goes out does

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Speaker 1: like a curl, catches it and then laterals it and

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Speaker 1: then he goes out to the sign. I know the

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00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys failed it one time and then um there was

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Speaker 1: successful the second time to stop the clock. I personally

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Speaker 1: feel like that will be a perfect play for Diggs

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Speaker 1: and McKenzie. Had Diggs do a curl route on one

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Speaker 1: side and have McKenzie do a drag or slant full speed.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we catch him off guard to get a big

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Speaker 1: run or whatever case may be. Stefan Diggs was at

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Speaker 1: the game, so sure hopefully he gets into the dable's

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Speaker 1: ear and uh let him know what's up. But other

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Speaker 1: than that, thank you guys, you guys are the best.

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Speaker 1: Man loves watching and listeners to you guys and appreciate

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Speaker 1: that you good weekend. Thanks for the call. That's usually

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Speaker 1: a play that you see surface at the end of

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Speaker 1: a game for a team that's down on the scoreboard

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00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: and needs to get a big gainer, and there's a

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Speaker 1: reason for it. It's really hard to do without any

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Speaker 1: mistakes and the timing of the guy coming around at

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Speaker 1: the right time, the guy who catches it being not

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Speaker 1: in the grasp of somebody. When the guy does come by,

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Speaker 1: if you come back too late, they're gonna be tackling

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Speaker 1: the guy and he's not gonna be able to lateral it,

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Speaker 1: or if he's about to be tackled or in the

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Speaker 1: grasp with somebody, tries to laterle it and it scoots

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Speaker 1: over the guy's head and then you're you know, so

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Speaker 1: there's so many things that can go wrong with it. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty good play when it works, but even

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Speaker 1: when it does, you know it doesn't. You know, it

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Speaker 1: can go for a touchdown, but you know they're trying

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Speaker 1: to get the get the clock stop and all that

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Speaker 1: in Dallas, and I get it. It's a cool play

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Bills have something of that nature

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Speaker 1: in their playbook, although you know, not that exact play

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Speaker 1: or something like it or whatever. Half back pass, wide

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Speaker 1: receiver pass. We've seen that a ton too. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a trick play. It's called the hook and lateral

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it works, and it did last week for Dalla.

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Speaker 1: It's just not enough to win him the football game

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Speaker 1: because of the decisions that would follow after that. But

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Speaker 1: that's another story for another day. Well, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, we go, Yeah, we go to

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Speaker 1: Dave in Florida next day. What you got for us?

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Speaker 1: You're all one? Bills live? Hey do it today? Fellas? Good?

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Speaker 1: All right, good listen. Just a couple of things, nothing big.

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Speaker 1: I've been wearing my Buffalo Bills like a couple of

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Speaker 1: three four shirts jerseys in his last two three weeks.

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Speaker 1: I can't go anywhere without anybody blown or horn or

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Speaker 1: tap him out of his shoulder. World War two veterans

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Speaker 1: stepped me on the back about the Bills. And the

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Speaker 1: other question I got is, Steve, you would know who

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Speaker 1: is the commentator gonna be Sunday on CBS, And don't

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Speaker 1: say collins Worth. No, it's not it's gonna be Jim Nanson,

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo, Dave. So that's who you're getting. The same

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Speaker 1: guys that called the AFC title game last year are

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Speaker 1: calling this one. We actually had Jim nance on the

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Speaker 1: show earlier this week. But Dave, glad glad, you're getting

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Speaker 1: the go bills down there in sunny Fla. Oh you

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Speaker 1: don't know how big it is. You got a lot

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Speaker 1: of transplants down there, So I get it. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: we're all here, we're waiting, and you know we're waiting

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Speaker 1: on our team every year we're loose. I got it,

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Speaker 1: all right, We're gonna win. Okay, thanks for the call, David,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. You gotta you gotta calm down, Steve. You're

637
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: fired up at the start of the show. People are

638
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: worried about you. Um yeah, I mean even in I

639
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: mean I remember several years ago when my kids were younger,

640
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: we went to Disney World and I had I was

641
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: walking around with the Bill's head because if I don't

642
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: have my head covered right in Florida with that sun,

643
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: I don't care how much sunscreen I got in my head,

644
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look like a tomato the next day. And uh,

645
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: I just had the hat on. I can't tell you

646
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: how many people just walking by. Go bills. Oh yeah,

647
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: go bills. Well, the locals don't go to Disney World, right, yeah, yeah,

648
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: it's just it's people from out of town. But yeah,

649
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: I remember back in the day we went down to

650
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: Tampa the old Sombrero Stadium and it was I can't

651
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: remember what year it was, but they had Tampa Bay

652
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: was not very good and had not ever been very good,

653
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: and they had the old Sombrero and the two sections

654
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of between the forties. There were two

655
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: sections right in between those and about halfway up was

656
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: all creamsicle, right, it was all the season ticket holders. Yeah,

657
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Jersey. I mean it was almost a demarcation, right,

658
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: It was like a square like it would like it

659
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: was planned on both sides. Everything else around the edges

660
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: and around the thing, and the thing it was like

661
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: three quarters of full, eighty percent full. Was all blue

662
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: and red, all blue and red. Yeah. And because the

663
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay had been bad for a long time, they

664
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Speaker 1: didn't have a good fan base. The stadium wasn't that good,

665
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills didn't play there very often. So the

666
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: transplant and the people flew down. The Mafia show up

667
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: and it was unbelieved. It was the first time I'd

668
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: ever seen that as a player. Now you see it

669
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: once in a while with other teams, you know, but man,

670
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: oh man, I was like, you look at home. We

671
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: were like, oh, look it was lost Gage. You know,

672
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: we never seen it before, you know, So yeah, that

673
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: was before you know, the Chargers moved to LA and

674
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: it happened every week to them. Yeah, let's go back

675
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Speaker 1: to the phones. We go to Jeff in Buffalo next,

676
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Jeff, Hey, how are

677
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: you guys doing good? I am calling me to tell

678
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Steve that that feeling he has, the excitement about the

679
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: game and everything coming up, it feels incredibly similar to

680
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: the feeling as a fan back in the day. I

681
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: don't know if you had this as a player back

682
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 1: in the day, but as a fan after the fifty

683
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: one to three beat down of the Raiders towards the

684
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: going toward the first Super Bowl there, um, we had

685
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: that same feeling here in Buffalo, that excitement, the feeling

686
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: that we know we can crush anybody, and we know

687
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: how that worked out in the next game. So that's

688
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: that's the fear that I have is running through the excitement.

689
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: That's the That's the one thing there that I wanted

690
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: to say. Um. The other thing that I wanted to

691
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: say was that I thought I saw something in the

692
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: first game that we played against Kansas City where um,

693
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, Mahomes was running outside. You know, he goes

694
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: out to the right, Uh, runs out of the pocket,

695
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: and he has a clear field in front of him

696
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: except for one guy, and that one guy was Boogie Basham,

697
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: and Boogie did his rush to him. He rushes at him,

698
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: but instead of going right at Mahomes, he pulls up

699
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: and stops about four or five feet from Mahomes. And Mahomes,

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00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: you know, Deeks guys all the time in that situation,

701
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: but he couldn't do it because Boogie stopped and then

702
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: comes after him and blew up the play. And I'm

703
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: wondering if that I don't know if it's a formula.

704
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can have a formula with

705
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: this guy with Mahomes, but he definitely kept him from

706
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: doing what he wanted to do by pulling up and

707
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: waiting to see where Mahomes was going to go. Yeah,

708
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,720
Speaker 1: that's called good coaching and thanks for the call, Jeff.

709
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: That's the player development I'm talking about. That's week five

710
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: for a rookie and he's executing his assignment, which is

711
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: I'm a defensive lineman. I've got a quarterback that is

712
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: shiftier than I am. I can't run headlong at him

713
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: because he'll give me a little fake and I'll be

714
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: grabbing for air. So let me slow down, break down,

715
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: close down the space, and force him to either a

716
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: throw the ball while I close the space even more.

717
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: But at the very least I'm gonna keep him from

718
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: running for ten or fifteen yards here. Yeah, I've yes,

719
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Speaker 1: it's a great way to do it. That's when a

720
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: guy can make you miss is when you take your

721
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: shot at him. And I've said that a lot. I've

722
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: watched special teams guys coming down the field a lot,

723
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: and they all want to make that great hit and

724
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: whack the guy when he catches the ball. And to me,

725
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: it's always been a bad idea. It's hard to time

726
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: it up. And it makes the same thing when you're

727
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: chasing a quarterback. When you break down, he has to

728
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: even though you're not chasing him, you're right there. He

729
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: has to deal with you. He has to decide, do

730
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Speaker 1: I have time to throw it without you know, or

731
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: do I show I get away from me? Is he

732
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: gonna you know? You have? You've got decisions you gotta make.

733
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Speaker 1: And while you're sitting there making these decisions, the words

734
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: going by. Well, not only that, he forces you to

735
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: pull your eyes down, so now you're not you're not

736
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: you're not. The plays over for everybody except you. And

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00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it. When you forced the guy

738
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: to make decisions, he's sitting there trying to make choices.

739
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: He's not making plays. And when he's got to deal

740
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: like Mahomes in this situation you're talking about, he had

741
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: to deal with Boogie bashing before he could throw it.

742
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: He had to decide. He's like, I'm gonna, well, there's

743
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: nobody to throw it to, or otherwise he would have

744
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: thrown it already. So his only choice was to get

745
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: Big Boogie to rush past him so he could get

746
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: some space. And when he refuses to do that and

747
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: all this thing, and I'm sitting here talking like this,

748
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: that's how long it seems to take to it's over.

749
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: Everything's done. You're sitting there talking like this and thinking

750
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: the things I'm talking about. It's over because there's night,

751
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: there's other four other d linemen. They're closing in, there's

752
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: offensive life. They're all you got. You don't have time

753
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: to think like that. It's over. And the like he said,

754
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: he's thrown it away. Play gets thrown up, he throws away,

755
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: You get tackled, whatever. So you gotta make him deal

756
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: with you. Because if if you rush past him, he

757
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: sidesteps you rush past him, he doesn't, you're done. He

758
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: can think about other things. But you gotta make him

759
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: think about you, and then you got him. Yeah, and

760
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: if you're a bigger guy, it's better to break down

761
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: and wrap him up for a one yard game than

762
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: it is to go dive in headlong at him, miss

763
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: him and he runs for fifteen Grab. Grab. If you

764
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: grab his jersey, start pulling on it, he's gonna try

765
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: and start just unloading it, or he's gonna start to

766
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: protect it. Other than that, he's you know, he's got

767
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 1: nothing else he can do except think about who's gonna

768
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: get him down. Break time for us here when we

769
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: come back. More of your phone calls and a little

770
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: bit about your plans here on Tailgate Friday, We'll get

771
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: to that when we return here on One Bills Live,

772
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,959
Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to One Bills Live. Time for

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Speaker 1: a little Tailgate Friday, presented by him Art, Blue Cross,

775
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,719
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776
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills and checking the Tailgate Friday submissions

777
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: for your tailgating plans this weekend, Sean says, Flying back

778
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: home to Arkansas tomorrow, dropping the kids off at my

779
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: family's on Sunday morning, make the three hour drive up

780
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: to KC debating on free cooking a brisket or ribs

781
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: and finishing them at the stadium, or keep it simple

782
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: with burgers, dogs and lobats. That's that's an effort there,

783
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: it's lobat. Okay, Hi, this we have an ongoing. I

784
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: have an ongoing. This is a pet peeve. Clearly. Well,

785
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: you know when you when you go down and drink

786
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: a few of those, they're lobats. The company's labat, right,

787
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: Try telling that to a Notre Dame graduate. That's all

788
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: I can say. Okay, there's only so much, Birdline, my

789
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: former partner, There's only so much you can do week

790
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: have an ongoing debate. He can't. He won't give in,

791
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: even though the label says lobat No, I don't want.

792
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm just in a beer commercial. I'm just saying, get

793
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: it right, yeah, professional. We're getting a lot of responses

794
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: from Bills fans that live out in the middle of

795
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: the country. So, Matt from Ozark, Missouri wild game. For

796
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: the wild Card Game Venison stew he went with pizza

797
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: from Scratch and wings sauced with Bill's Mafia Ja seventeen

798
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: and Dig's fourteen Hot sauces. This week the same, but

799
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: based on current events, we are going with barbecue glazed

800
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: meat Loaf. I wonder if that's a tribute to meet Loaf. Nice.

801
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: I like where your head's at. Matt from Ozark. That's

802
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's pretty good. I like that. And he's

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00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he's making the trip up. How far is Ozark, Missouri?

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00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 1: Do you think from kansk right? No, No, Kansame City

805
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: is in the Kansas City is at the midpoint north

806
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: south of Missouri on the western border, and Ozark is

807
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: Ozark probably southeast, it's maybe southwest. Okay, all right, let

808
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: me just I'll just look it up. You work on that. Mark. Meanwhile,

809
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: Mark's taking a whole different take on the tailcaked. He's

810
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: bringing it inside. He says, I'm gonna be padlocked in

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Speaker 1: the basement. Menu four chicken wings, two tile and all,

812
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: and a sixty four ounce root beer. Half a gallon

813
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: of root beer. I hope there's a bathroom in the

814
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: basement if you're padlocking yourself down there, because you're not

815
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: making it through the game. After drinking a half gallon

816
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: of root beer. You're just knocked. I don't care how

817
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: big your bladder is. It ain't happening. Uh yeah, Ozark is.

818
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: Ozark is like just south of Springville, Missouri, which is

819
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: own that you could throw a rock and hit Kansas City.

820
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: All right, great, not throw a rock, but Faith says,

821
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Speaker 1: homemade meatballs for bombers, spinach, harder choke dip, and rye

822
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Speaker 1: bread with dil dip. Will be watching from Lockport. Bad

823
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Speaker 1: John says, not making the trip. But we always have

824
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Speaker 1: my wife's eighty four year old grandpa come over for

825
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,479
Speaker 1: some beers. Love it. Then we always have a nice dinner.

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Speaker 1: My wife's making lasagna, roll ups. Don't ask. I have

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Speaker 1: no idea what it is. It was something she found

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Speaker 1: up trip. Hey for lasagna roll ups, I've got to

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Speaker 1: get a picture of those. Those sound delicious. Can you

830
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: imagine being able to pick up lasagna with your hand?

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00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: Well maybe not with your hand. You probably still have

832
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: to slice him. So it sounds like it sounds just

833
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, being in a rowing up in an Italian household.

834
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Speaker 1: A lasagna roll up is probably somewhere between lasagna and manicotti.

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Speaker 1: Probably what the goa manicatti? Manicatti is how the American

836
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: pronunciation as you say manicotti. So it's like, so manicotti

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00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: is like rolled up cheese filled. It looks it's like

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00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: it looks like, oh man, it's like, looks what was

839
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Speaker 1: it you said? Many booked? That's right, that's a so

840
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: like anyway, I'm saying it like my grandmother's right. But

841
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Speaker 1: I would think I would think a lasagna roll up

842
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Speaker 1: is somewhere between. True, it's everything that's in lasagna, but

843
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Speaker 1: it's rolled up like mannicotti. That would be my guess.

844
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: I don't but I got to see a picture of that. Hey,

845
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: I was wrong about those ark Missouri too. It's way,

846
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: it's a long way. Oh, you cannot throw a rock

847
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: and hit kid, that's why you're in broadcasting and you're

848
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 1: not a geographer. Uh. Nick. Finally, to wrap up Tailgate Friday, says,

849
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: having family and friends over starting the charcoal grill. Cooking

850
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: chicken marinated with chavetta is nice. Urban oil. Grilled wedge potatoes.

851
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: Ooh yeah, I'm all about. Oh that sounds good. That's

852
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: grilled corn on the cob, which is the best way

853
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, where did they get that? I mean,

854
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to get corn on the cob these

855
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: days in January. That's tough. Good on you for finding

856
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: some of that and drinking a ton of iPad house

857
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: or something. You're showing that stuff in cheers and go Bills.

858
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: Good job on Tailgate Friday this week, everybody. Some really

859
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: good missions there and brought to you by him Ark,

860
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Blue Cross, Blue Shield to Western New York. The official

861
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: health plan of the Buffalo Bills. Gonna Squeeze, Gonna squeeze.

862
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: One call in here. Steve's got a lot of people

863
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: holding at eight three five fifty Ken up in the

864
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: Northern Tier up in Watertown. What do you got for us? Ken?

865
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, guys, Steve. It's always about pleasure to talk

866
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: to you. I followed your career all my life and

867
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: I thought you were one of the best special teams

868
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: players in the NFL at one time. Thank you. And

869
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: you know I listened to Get Up and Sports Center

870
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: and a lot of these people are saying on there

871
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs have become better than they were in

872
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: the first game that the Bills played him earlier this year. Well,

873
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: you know what I got to say about that is

874
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: when the Chiefs, it took the chief five minutes in

875
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: the second period before they got any points. And if

876
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: that's the case with the Bills, it's going to be

877
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: twenty four to nothing before the Chiefs see me if

878
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: they play like that. What do you think? Well, I

879
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: do think while the Bills are certainly riding high ken

880
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: in terms of their offensive efficiency, I mean, it was

881
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: as good as it's ever been all season, maybe in

882
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: the last two years last week. So I respect your

883
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,479
Speaker 1: confidence in the Bills. But they're playing a much better

884
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: defense in the Chiefs, which has gotten better as the

885
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: year is worn on. Since Week five, the Chiefs are

886
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: plus ten in turnover margin, and I think that's the

887
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: best in football over that stretch. The last twelve games

888
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: of the regular season. They're taking the football away. Their

889
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: defensive line is playing the best it has all year,

890
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: and so while I believe the Bills will be able

891
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: to put up points, it will be a far more

892
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: difficult task against this defense as opposed to last week's.

893
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: I'll just say it again, my thought about this game

894
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: is this. I think these two offenses are juggernauts. I

895
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 1: think they are really hard to stop. They got weapons,

896
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: they got speed, They got quarterbacks that are elite both

897
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: during the play from the pocket and outside the pocket.

898
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: They can both run, they can both make plays that

899
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: aren't there to be made. They can make a chicken

900
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: salad out of chicken poop. All of that stuff. Both

901
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks and its offenses are full of it, full

902
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: of weapons and points scored. All that. The defenses are

903
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: gonna come down to that. The defense in this game

904
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: is gonna come down to this. Certainly, you don't want

905
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: to give up an explosive play. You want to keep

906
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: everything in front of you and make them go the

907
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: long way and then on less than a handful of plays,

908
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: make something happen. Tipped interception, forced fumble, tackle for loss,

909
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: guess right, gamble, get an interception or gamble and tip

910
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: a ball away on a fourth down conversion or a

911
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: third down and long conversion or whatever, tackle for loss

912
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: unexpectedly and less than a handful of players. You're gonna

913
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: be able to have to do that, and that's gonna

914
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: be the differ. It's in the game. Your defense is

915
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: gonna make a play or two or three during the game.

916
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a difference. It's gonna give your offense

917
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: either one more possession or get their offense off the

918
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: field quicker than they thought they would be off the field.

919
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: That's what this game is going to be about defensively.

920
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think these two offenses are gonna

921
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: be too difficult to shut down, and I think it's

922
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: gonna be about making one or two plays that give

923
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: your team the ball back one way or another. Either

924
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: get them off either get them off the field quick,

925
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: or get you back and get your team back on

926
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: the field, or vice versa. That's what's that's the defensive

927
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: role in this game in my opinion. Great time for us,

928
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: But we'll be diving into those xs and ohs a

929
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: little bit more when we come back. As we are

930
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: joined by Senior producer from NFL Films, Greg co Sell

931
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: set to join us next talk Bills Chiefs with us

932
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's

933
00:51:52,840 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has been

934
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: all over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind

935
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

936
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated here of normalcy here

937
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: all right? Our number two here on a Friday, and

938
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: you know what that means. It means. Senior producer from

939
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: NFL Films, Greg Cosel joins us to talk some xs

940
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: and ohs for this divisional playoff tilled between the Bills

941
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. And Greg, I want to start here.

942
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: As you know, we often put you in the prediction

943
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: game based on pass Here's the thing. All I will

944
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: say is anything short of seven possessions and seven touchdowns

945
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: will probably be a monumental failure. You think, yes, absolutely right.

946
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: Why should we expect anything else? Yeah, I want I

947
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: wanted to begin here though. Greg. Back in week five,

948
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: the Bills offense comes out in a lot of closed

949
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: formation looks. They basically go completely away from their tendencies

950
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: I think I counted like upwards of twenty plays in

951
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: twelve or twenty one personnel, a lot of early designed

952
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: runs for Josh, and it really got them in a

953
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: good rhythm early knowing the dable is not one to

954
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: do the same thing twice. I'm very, very curious as

955
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: to what they turned to this time around. You know, Chris,

956
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: you know what's really sad is I guess being with

957
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: you guys, I just had a funny feeling you were

958
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: going to mention this. So I went back and looked

959
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,760
Speaker 1: at my notes and saw that the bills played nineteen

960
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: snaps of twenty one personnel and six snaps of twelve personnel.

961
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: So I guess we're getting a little too close here,

962
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: Chris that I knew you're gonna ask me that that's

963
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: a real bad thing. Um. But uh, there's no way

964
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: they will do the same thing, No way. Um. Now,

965
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you'll never see twenty one personnel clearly,

966
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: because they don't really have a second tight end right now, correct. Um, Yeah,

967
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: they use they use, they use Reggie Gilliam. Yeah, he's

968
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: sort of a hybrid the way they line him up

969
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: a fullback end tight end. Um. But again, Like I said,

970
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they won't line up at all and

971
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel, but I think you will not see

972
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: the emphasis on that personnel package the way you did

973
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: in week five, no question. Yeah. And if the way

974
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: this game breaks down is these are very different teams

975
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: now three months after they played the first time. What

976
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: are your what are the most stark differences in your mind? Well, um,

977
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 1: I do not believe. And I'm trying to remember week five.

978
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: I went back and look at my notes, but I

979
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: can't remember every detail. Was Melvin Ingram on the Chiefs

980
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 1: of the Trade yet, No, So that's when the Chiefs

981
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: we're still trying to use Chris Jones as a defensive

982
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: end and that didn't work out really well. He's really

983
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: a phenomenal defensive tackle. And I think that you know,

984
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: now with Ingram, who's kind of a d end and

985
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,760
Speaker 1: also a joker, they move him around, and with Jones

986
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: predominantly playing inside, which is where he's really good, I

987
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: think their defensive front is much better. I think in

988
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: terms of what the Chiefs do defensively, they don't necessarily

989
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: do a whole lot that's different. They've just gotten better

990
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: at it. You kind of know what you're gonna get,

991
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, offensively. Look, the Bills. We've talked about this before.

992
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: The Bills are the most quarterback centric team in the league.

993
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: They rely on Josh Allen. And you made a very

994
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: interesting point about Josh and the designed run game. I

995
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: actually did a piece on that in the matchup show

996
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: for this week, because that's a really important thing that

997
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: they do. They might not do it, you know, ten

998
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: times a game, but one thing you can be sure of,

999
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: they'll do it early in the game on their first

1000
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: or second possession. They do it on third and short

1001
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 1: anywhere from two to six, and they will absolutely do

1002
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: it in the red zone. In fact, in that game

1003
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, on the first possession on third and two,

1004
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: Allan ran for twenty two yards. He also had a

1005
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: nine yard touchdown run on a counterplay, So I think

1006
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: that's a major factor. The Bills have clearly tried to

1007
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: run the ball more, and here you're seeing the nine

1008
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: yard touchdown from that first matchup. Bills have clearly tried

1009
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: to run the ball more, but I think when push

1010
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: comes to shove, this is still a Josh Allen offense, right.

1011
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: And the other thing too, though, is and we've seen

1012
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: this when they run him early in games. If he's

1013
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: able to snap off a twenty yard run like he

1014
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: did against the Patriots last week he had a twenty

1015
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: six yarder. Yeah, on the first drive that he ran

1016
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 1: out of bounds. It was like the whole complexion of

1017
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense changed because they have to react to

1018
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: the possibility of that. My question to you, Greg is,

1019
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: all the time, when we asked Josh in the offense

1020
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: about him running the ball, they say, well, we like

1021
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: it because we've got one more man than they do.

1022
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: And I understand how that. I understand how that all works.

1023
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: What is the likelihood do you believe, in light of

1024
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,959
Speaker 1: Josh's success running the ball that the Chiefs employ a spy.

1025
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about Spagnolo's history of utilizing a spy.

1026
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say that he's never done it.

1027
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to do that, and I'm

1028
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: not Again, you're basically saying, assigned someone to Josh Allett

1029
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: is what you're basically saying. Well, for instance, I'll give

1030
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: you an example on the twenty two yard run that

1031
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: he had against the Chiefs in the first matchup, which

1032
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: did come on the first possession. Basically what happened was

1033
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: is Singletary led through and he had known to block.

1034
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: He blocked No. One and he ran for twenty two yards.

1035
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: So you can deploy a spy, but because of the

1036
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: numbers game, you do actually have a blocker for that spy.

1037
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: It's not as if you don't have a blocker. So

1038
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that necessarily helps. I'm not smart

1039
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: enough to know all those intricacies of defense and how

1040
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: that might be coached. But you know that automatically does

1041
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: not stop the quarterback. Design run game and the cold

1042
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: run game to Josh out on the quarterback is something

1043
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: that the Bills have that not a lot of other

1044
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: teams can deploy to that extent. And as you said,

1045
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: I've said it a couple of times on the show,

1046
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: and over the years, I said it about Cam Newton

1047
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: as well. They're the best short yardage goal line running

1048
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: back in the league because I got the ball in

1049
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: their hands every time you got you gotta deal with it,

1050
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,439
Speaker 1: even if it's not the cold play, and I think

1051
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: their ability to call that and even with Josh and

1052
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: the running game on the on the nine yard run,

1053
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: we've been watching it's wildcat every snap correct, and they've

1054
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: done such a good job now because you know, one

1055
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: of the things that stood out watching tape, and I

1056
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: know you guys have seen this as well, is Isaiah McKenzie.

1057
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not going to sit here and say

1058
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: he's Deebo Samuel because he's not. But clearly they're using

1059
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: him in the backfield more, they're using him in motion more.

1060
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see because my feeling about McKenzie

1061
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: versus Beasley is if you're going if you feel, based

1062
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: on your tape study, that you're going to get more

1063
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: man coverage than McKenzie is a really he's the better

1064
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: option than Beasley. If you feel and given situations you're

1065
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: going to get zone coverage, Beasley is the better option

1066
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: because Beasley has such a great feel for finding and

1067
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: settling in zone voids. But if you're if you feel

1068
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna get man whatever that down and distance is

1069
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: based on your film study, then then McKenzie because he

1070
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: can run away from man coverage. And then with the

1071
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs defensively in the AFC title game last year, they

1072
00:59:55,160 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: went heavy dime and for the most part it kind

1073
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: of held the Bill's offense in check to a certain extent. Again,

1074
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: we're expecting things to change, and we know that Tyn

1075
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: Matthew is kind of their wild card player. He just

1076
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: kind of roams around sometimes with no real coverage assignment.

1077
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: Maybe just kind of get into how they use him

1078
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: most recently for sure. First of all, they do play

1079
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: a lot of dime. They play among the highest percentage

1080
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: of dime personnel of any defense in the league. It's

1081
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: I believe, over twenty five percent. I would not expect

1082
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: that to change, Chris, because that's what they do. I'd

1083
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: be really surprised if within one week you're going to

1084
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: see a dramatic, dramatic change in their use of personnel.

1085
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: But speaking directly about Turan Matthew, what they do a

1086
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: lot of and I think you'll see it this week,

1087
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: is they also play a lot of Cover two. But

1088
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,439
Speaker 1: it's how they get to it now and cover two.

1089
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: Matthew is their middle hole defender. You know everybody thinks,

1090
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: Tampa two, you have a linebacker that kind of runs

1091
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: that middle. Well, Matthew is that guy. And the reason

1092
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: he is that guy is because he has such a

1093
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: great feel and understanding of routes. And he and because

1094
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 1: they like to disguise it with a lot of late movement,

1095
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: he is really good getting into that middle hall area.

1096
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: And I think I would expect them to do that.

1097
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen has advanced to the point where

1098
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: maybe a year or so ago, people would have felt that, hey,

1099
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: you can get him with disguise in late movement. And

1100
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say you'll never

1101
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: get a quarterback with late movement. I've seen, you know,

1102
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: veterans who've been in the league twelve years, you know,

1103
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: be hurt by that. But I think that Steve Spagnola

1104
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: will feel that, hey, let's disguise, let's move late, Let's

1105
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: make Josh Allen have to think after the ball snapped.

1106
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: And even though he's a great secondary action movement player,

1107
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: if you can get a quarterback doing that and playing

1108
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: a little frenetically, you'd rather do that than have a

1109
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: quarterback just feel comfortable sitting in the pocket. If if

1110
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,439
Speaker 1: they do play dime in the percentages you're talking about,

1111
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: or maybe even a little more, they will they will

1112
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: Is their dime personnel package good enough to stop the

1113
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: Bills running game in its current state? Well, uh, they

1114
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: kind of move people around. Sorenson very often. And he's

1115
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: not a big guy. Daniel Sorenson. He started early in

1116
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: the year, and then they moved Thornhill into the starting

1117
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: safety and sorens and became the dime. That happened, That

1118
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: happened in week six, right after the Bills can Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1119
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: well it probably they probably wanted to do it after

1120
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: the dig sixty one yard completion when Sorenson, uh, you know,

1121
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: looked like a slow safety. But uh, but you're right

1122
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: about that. So he's the die um often he lines

1123
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: up in the box. They still at times match him

1124
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 1: up to the tight end when they play man, which

1125
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: to me would not be a good matchup this week

1126
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: against Austin Knox. So I'm very curious to see what

1127
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola will do because you know, I think I

1128
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: think there are some troublesome matchups in this game for

1129
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: the Chiefs on the back end. You know, they've got

1130
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: to be able to generate pressure up front. But they

1131
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: will play dime, Steve, for sure. I mean, they've been

1132
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: doing that all the year. They're not all of a

1133
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: sudden going to play no dime. And then, with respect

1134
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: to the Bill's defensive approach in the last two regular

1135
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: season meetings, Greg, they haven't blitzed Mahomes. No, they They've

1136
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: chose to drop seven, drop eight. Whatever it is, largely

1137
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: depend on a four man rush. Knowing that, knowing that

1138
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo's four man rush has been a lot more successful

1139
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 1: down the stretch here this season. And just to give

1140
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: you an idea, Greg, twenty two sacks in their last

1141
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: five games counting last week. That's the most in the

1142
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: league over that span. Do you think Leslie Frasier goes

1143
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: into this game confident that he can employ that same

1144
01:03:55,920 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: strategy and not have to blitz Patrick Mahomes much at all. Again, Well,

1145
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: for a veteran like Leslie Frazier, who was a player

1146
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: and a coach, I'm not sure, Chris, the word would

1147
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: be confident, you know, because they would talk like that.

1148
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: But but I would think that that would be the approach. Now.

1149
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: They played a lot of split safety in the last

1150
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: game they played, you know, a lot of his own.

1151
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: They played some man coverage in the last game, two

1152
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: man coverage. They actually played that at a dime in

1153
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: the last game. I don't know if they'll do that

1154
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: this time, but I would think that they would stay

1155
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: with the approach of a lot of his own and

1156
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: a four man pressure. Look, the Chiefs are a better offense.

1157
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: That was in that stretch when Mahomes was kind of

1158
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: struggling with a lot of unnecessary random movement. He was

1159
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: not a comfortable quarterback. He's been a lot more comfortable

1160
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: over the last six seven weeks and when he does

1161
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: move it looks much more calculated and much more controlled.

1162
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, I can't see them blitzing. Now. That doesn't

1163
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: mean they'll never blitz Chris, but it's certainly not going

1164
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: to be a high percentage, you know. I mean they

1165
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: might find a situation where they feel, hey, you know,

1166
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: they're not expecting it, and we think we understand what

1167
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: their protection is going to be in this situation and

1168
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: we feel we can break it down, but it certainly

1169
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: will not be high percentage blitz. Now, how big an

1170
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: effect will pour your and hide or can they have?

1171
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: And I mean you've we've seen how well they play

1172
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: and we'd hear about how you know how good they

1173
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: are back there together? Does that get Buffalo's defense a

1174
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 1: different look for Pat Mahomes than any other defense he's faced,

1175
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: or some of the more difficult ones. How are they

1176
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: going to make have an effect on Mahomes? Well, I

1177
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: think what can be interesting is how they deploy hide

1178
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: and player because obviously, if you're studying tape and teams

1179
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: study it in far more detail than I can. There's

1180
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: there's tendencies with poiler and high, just like there's tendencies

1181
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: with every defense. So the question I have, and I

1182
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: think these guys are really smart, savvy players, is I

1183
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: think you can change up your tendencies a bit because

1184
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: those guys are so smart, and I wouldn't not surprise

1185
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:12,439
Speaker 1: me to do that if they do that, because all

1186
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 1: you're trying to do with any quarterback is make him

1187
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: have to do a lot of thinking after the snap

1188
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: of the ball, because that slows down the decision making process,

1189
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: and that's what you want from a personnel standpoint. Greg

1190
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: not playing in that Week five game, Chris Jones, Matt Milano,

1191
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: and then you have players that have emerged here at

1192
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: the end of the season for both teams respectively, probably

1193
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: most notable Mackenzie and Devin Singletary for Buffalo and probably

1194
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle and Jerick McKinnon for the Chiefs. Who do

1195
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: you think of that group makes the biggest difference in

1196
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: this matchup this time around. Well, obviously the Bills won

1197
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: that game was at thirty twenty, was at the score. Yes,

1198
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: So it would be hard for me to say Milano

1199
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: because they only they held the Chiefs to twenty. But

1200
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 1: I think Milano is a really important player in their defense.

1201
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: I think Chris Jones is a huge, huge factor. He's

1202
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: a really good inside pass rusher. I assume that the

1203
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: left guard will be Bates is what's Daryl Williams status.

1204
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: He's fine, he's fine, good to go. He'll be right guard. Okay,

1205
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 1: So I mean I think they'll feel good. You know.

1206
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: I think Daryl Williams has has been a good player

1207
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: at right guard, so I think that, you know. But

1208
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: I still think Chris Jones is a load to handle

1209
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: and he can disrupt your offensive line. So I think

1210
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:40,400
Speaker 1: he's a really important player. You mentioned McKinnon watching that

1211
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: tape last week, it looked like he was shot out

1212
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: of it. He's electric. Yeah, he was phenomenal both in

1213
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: the run game. They're not obviously they're a past first

1214
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 1: team just like the Bills are. But you know, he

1215
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: had twelve carries. Obviously it was a game that it

1216
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: was close actually through much of the first half until

1217
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 1: late in the first half, but he was very effective

1218
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: both as a runner and as a receiver. And as

1219
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: you guys both know the bill, the Chiefs have an

1220
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: outstanding screen game. And you're seeing a screen right here

1221
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: which I did not know is coming up, but there

1222
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: you go. So they have an outstanding screen game of

1223
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 1: which McKinnon can be a really foundational piece. And he

1224
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: really looked good last week. Yeah, I'm almost thinking even

1225
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,440
Speaker 1: if Edwards Hilaire is ready to go, and all indications

1226
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: are he is practicing fully this week, McKinnon's gonna get

1227
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: some run. I mean he's putting an extra speed guy

1228
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: on the field like him. I mean he's a four

1229
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: four guy and he's two hundred and sixteen pounds Greg. Yeah,

1230
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: and I mean I'd be hard pressed. Look, Andy Reid

1231
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 1: knows his players better than I do, clearly, but I'd

1232
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: be surprised if you take this guy off the field.

1233
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy he's dynamic. I mean Edwards Hilaire

1234
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: is obviously a good player, but he hasn't played in

1235
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: a long time and McKinnon is absolutely dynamic. What do

1236
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: you expect from and we're talking about. This is the

1237
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. Up until the Patriots game,

1238
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: the Bills as rush had come alive a little bit

1239
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: and led the league over the last four weeks of

1240
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: the regular season in pass rush and in sacks. What

1241
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: was in that and what can we do in the

1242
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 1: big picture? Can we expect them to help with us

1243
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: four man rush? How effective would you expect the Bills

1244
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 1: to be against a guy like Mahomes who is so savvy.

1245
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that's still still at this

1246
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: point with Poyer and Hyde and Levi Wallace in the secondary.

1247
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 1: The pass rush still isn't the engine that runs that defense.

1248
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: How good does it have to be? Well, I'll say this,

1249
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs pass game has really changed. They are now

1250
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: very rhythmic with a really good timing feel. Mahomes hits

1251
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: that back foot, the ball comes out. I mean, you

1252
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: just have to look at someone like Tyreek Hill averaging

1253
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: about eleven yards per catch this year. You don't see

1254
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: I know, we caught the thirty one yard touchdown last

1255
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: week against Cam Sutton, but that was a fade ball.

1256
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,799
Speaker 1: They really have not been as vertical a pass scheme

1257
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,919
Speaker 1: by design as they really warn't in Mahomes earlier seasons,

1258
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: so they worked with him clearly because he had so

1259
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:09,639
Speaker 1: much unnecessary movement that was causing problems for them early

1260
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: in the season. They've really worked with him and he

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Speaker 1: deserves a ton of credit for buying in. But this

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Speaker 1: offense has become much more rhythmic. It has much more

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Speaker 1: of a timing feel to it. He gets the ball out,

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Speaker 1: so you know, again, pass rush doesn't become a factor

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Speaker 1: in those situations where it's going to have to be

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Speaker 1: a factor. Steve is when you get into the long

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Speaker 1: yardage situations and the drop by the quarterback becomes deeper.

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Speaker 1: The last one we've got for you here, Greg concerns

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Speaker 1: the other AFC divisional playoff Bengals and Titans. Bills fans

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Speaker 1: are rooting for the Bengals because they know if the

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Speaker 1: Bills win in the Bengals win the AFC title games

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. The Titans may have something to say about that, though,

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Speaker 1: knowing Derrick Henry is a possible option, does it even

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Speaker 1: My question is, I don't know that it matters terribly

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Speaker 1: because they've been pretty productive with Deonta Foreman running the ball,

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Speaker 1: haven't they. Yeah, But he's still not Derrick. Henry will

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Speaker 1: play and Henry if if you're activating Henry, which they

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01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: will and I don't know if they've done so yet,

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01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: but they will. There. You're not activating him to get

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Speaker 1: six carries. So he's going to be the he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Derreck Henry. I mean in terms of usage, we

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Speaker 1: don't know what he's gonna look like. But no, you're right,

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Speaker 1: they've run the ball well, but that's their m that's

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01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: what they do that Their offense is kind of built

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Speaker 1: that way. Um, so you know, we'll see. Look, I

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01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 1: think the bigger matchup in that game, quite honestly, Chris

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01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 1: is I think it's the Titans front four, which you

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01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 1: guys know well is very very good front four versus

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01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: that Bengals all line, which quite honestly is not a

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Speaker 1: great pass protecting all line. Yeah, I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: cause problems for them for sure. They want to have

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Speaker 1: a lot of quick game early. If you're you're Zack

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Speaker 1: Taylor for that one, Greg, as always, thanks very much,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the games this weekend. All right, we'll catch up

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Speaker 1: with you all right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: All right, you got it. That's Greg co Sell, who's

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Speaker 1: also going to be on the ESPN NFL Matchup show

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01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: early on the weekend bill Saturday and Sunday mornings, and

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Speaker 1: they do pieces on all the playoff teams at this

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Speaker 1: point in the season. So he said he's going to

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Speaker 1: be doing a breakdown of the Bills and Chiefs, so

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Speaker 1: be sure to catch that on ESPN. And obviously he's

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Speaker 1: also the senior producer for NFL Films. We are going

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Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we will get to your phone calls, and so we've

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01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: got plenty of holding at eight oh three, five fifty.

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Speaker 1: We will get you guys on board when we return here.

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Speaker 1: On One Bill's Live presented by KLATA Health, it's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, the final injury report is out

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Speaker 1: for the Bills, and the good news is Mario Addison

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01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: is good to go. He does not have any kind

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Speaker 1: of designation for Sunday's game, meaning he will be available

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Speaker 1: after practicing fully today, So the Bills have a clean

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Speaker 1: sheet on the injury report. Everybody will be available for

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01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 1: the Bills will have to see who they choose to

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Speaker 1: make inactive for Sunday's game. As for the Chiefs, head

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01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid said, Willie Gay, the linebacker who had

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01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 1: the off the field incident earlier in the week and

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Speaker 1: miss practice yesterday and the day before because of it,

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Speaker 1: will play against the Bills on Sunday. He returned to

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Speaker 1: practice today. One player who did not, however, is cornerback

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01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: Rashad Fenton. He is basically their first corner off the

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Speaker 1: bench behind Lagarius Sneed and Mike Hughes, so it's not

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Speaker 1: looking good for him for Sunday. He's had back problems

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Speaker 1: which made him a late scratch for last week's game

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Speaker 1: for them. Looks like he may not be available again

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Speaker 1: here on Sunday. That's really the only big injury of

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Speaker 1: note for them. Darryl Williams has had a toe injury

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01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: and hasn't practiced all week the running back. But they've

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01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: got Edwards Laire and Jerick McKinnon who we were just

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01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 1: talking about, so they shouldn't have any shortage of people.

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Speaker 1: They can get the job done. Yeah, yeah, these both

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01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: these teams are gonna feel like they're pretty full strength

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01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: coming into this one. I would think, oh yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But let's get to the phones at eight h three,

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

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Speaker 1: fifty waiting the longest here is Dennis and Lewiston. What

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Dennis? Hey, guys, how you

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01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: guys doing? Man, doing great? What do you got for us?

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01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: Thank you? Once again? Sure have me on the show Man.

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01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: I enjoy calling you guys. Man, I love you guys. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know what I was thinking about all kinds of questions,

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01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: but you know what, I just want to say, Let's

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01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 1: go Buffalo, Let's just get it done. You know. I

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01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,560
Speaker 1: guess if I dude have a question, what do you

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01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: guys think? You guys always ask us as viewers and

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01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: listeners as a question, what do you guys think we

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: need to do? And can we make it? Can we

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01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: get past Sunday? And can we make it to the

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01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: AFC Championship a game? That's my question for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Guys right now, Hey, Man, love you. I'm going to

1352
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: hang up. Listen. What do you guys say? All right? Thanks?

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01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: I will say that I'll let me just go first.

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01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: Yes they can, but they could have you last year.

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01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: They were good enough. Last year, they're good enough this year.

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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: You go back and look over the course of the

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01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: regular season, and they're literally three plays away from or

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01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: two plays away from having the one seed in this tournament. Um,

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01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody would probably have a different opinion

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01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 1: about the Bills nationally than they do now. As good

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Speaker 1: as it is, particularly given the fact that the game

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01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: they hung up on the Patriots last weekend. They do

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01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:52,599
Speaker 1: that against anybody else in fact, and people are going

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Speaker 1: gaga over particularly if you're the one seed. Um, yes,

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01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 1: they can do it. The problem is they're three other

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Speaker 1: teams who feel like they can do it as well.

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Speaker 1: You gotta play well on game day. You've got the horses.

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Speaker 1: You had the horse, you probably had the horses for

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01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: two seasons, two and a half seasons. But you gotta

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Speaker 1: play well on the games that matter. You got to

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Speaker 1: make the plays that matter at the moments when they

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Speaker 1: matter the most. That's what this team was not able

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Speaker 1: to do last year in this game against Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: and Kansas City was the it's the plays that they

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01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 1: could make, and they did make last week against the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and and week five against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They've made those plays. They've had stretches where they are

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Speaker 1: absolutely untouchable offensively and defensively. If they go out and

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Speaker 1: play like that their best, even against a really good

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01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,720
Speaker 1: team like the Chiefs, they're gonna win. That doesn't mean

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01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna run off and leave the Chiefs by double

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01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: digits or anything else. But they've got that under the

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01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: tank to go into any places. And that goes for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, goes for the Titans, goes for the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: the Packers, the Bucks, the Niners, and the Rams. Bills

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01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: could be anyone or all of them. They've got that

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01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: kind of firepower and they've got that kind of defense.

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01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: But they kind of play well on game day. That's

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Speaker 1: all there is to it. That doesn't mean they're they

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01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: could blast el those people off the map, that they

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01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: could win by thirty five against all them, that they

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,240
Speaker 1: could hang a forty burger on all of them, not

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01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: like that. But they can beat them on any given day,

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01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: any day. But they got to do it on Sunday.

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01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: They got to do it on Sunday. But yes, the

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Speaker 1: Bills have the horses, the coaching, the personnel, the depth

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Speaker 1: and the health to go the distance. Absolutely they do

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01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: all things being equal on offense, because I think both

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01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 1: teams are pretty comparable on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs might have more collective team speed, but I believe

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Speaker 1: the depth of talent on Buffalo's offense is more consistent

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Speaker 1: in their execution. Okay, that's how I kind of see

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,680
Speaker 1: the offenses matching up, and it's pretty comparable. So knowing that,

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Speaker 1: I think the number one defense has to be the

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01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 1: difference maker in this game. You were the number one

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01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: defense all season long. Now it's your time to prove

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01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: it and be the difference in this game by slowing

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01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: down the Chiefs offense enough and maybe getting one or

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01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: two extra possessions for your offense to go and win

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Speaker 1: the game for you. The defense has to be the

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Speaker 1: difference maker in this game as I see it. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the phones, though, and we go to

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Speaker 1: Phil on a cell. Phil, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys, how are you good? Good?

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Speaker 1: This has been so exciting, What a great week. I

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01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,680
Speaker 1: just wanted to I had a couple of things at

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Speaker 1: the game on last week and I got a pair

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01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: of Zubas because I got another pair that I had

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01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: stolen from me and I haven't taken them off the

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Speaker 1: whole week. And that game was like a dream just

1421
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:45,759
Speaker 1: being watching it seemed like we were watching a movie

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01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: or like somebody played Matt in. That was like a

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Speaker 1: pro doing that, and that was just amazing. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is I wanted to give big props to A. J.

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01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: Klein for his play this year. I think he's been

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01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: great in the linebacker and I rewatched the game from

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Speaker 1: Saturday twice, and I also rewatched the earlier game from

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01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: game week five, and he was around the ball in

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01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: on every tackle. He's a big dude. It seems like

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Speaker 1: he's grown and put on size. He just looks great

1431
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: as a player. And the other thing is my prediction

1432
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be thirty eight twenty bills when we have

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01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,560
Speaker 1: the book on Mahomes, it's out. We know what to

1434
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: do to stop him. Defense is going to come up

1435
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: with turnover as Greg Russo is going to probably you know,

1436
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: get another pick on the outside, set that edge, and um,

1437
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna romp in Casey gold belts, all right,

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01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,599
Speaker 1: go Bill's phil good call there. I could sense the passion.

1439
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: But a big fan of AJ Klein, and you know

1440
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: AJ is a veteran player with great instincts and has

1441
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: served a valuable role for those teams that will run

1442
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, out of those base formations, he

1443
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: does have good size and good space speed. He's he's

1444
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: been He's a veteran in this defense as well. Twenty

1445
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: is the last score that the Bills Chiefs had in

1446
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: that game in Week five. Is the exact same score

1447
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,760
Speaker 1: we'll see. No, don't forget the Bills managed or were

1448
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 1: the recipients of four turnovers by the Chiefs. The Chiefs

1449
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 1: turn it over four times Sunday, they'll lose again. It

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01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: could be another eighteen point game. I don't know that

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01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: AJ will, but we'll see. I don't know that a J.

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01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 1: Clin will see as much of the field this week,

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01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: knowing how often the Chiefs are in eleven personnel. Um,

1454
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll see if he gets an opportunity

1455
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: to get on the field this week. We go to

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Speaker 1: Bob and Amhurst next. What do you got for us? Bob? Hey,

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Speaker 1: Um god, I'm so excited for this game. I feel

1458
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: like a ten year old show up. That's great, this

1459
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,680
Speaker 1: is gonna be great. I also, I've got a new

1460
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Speaker 1: favorite quarterback in the NFL that doesn't wear a Bills

1461
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: uniform of course I love all the Bills quarterbacks, but

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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's is my new favorite quarterback to where a

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Speaker 1: Bill are you on the form? So I have a

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01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: question that maybe you can help out. Sure. So you

1465
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,640
Speaker 1: guys were talking about what Boogie Basham did in the

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01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 1: first Kansas City game, about how he how he kind

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Speaker 1: of spied uh Patrick Mahomes and didn't rush them. So

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Speaker 1: what's the difference between doing that and like what the

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Speaker 1: Patriots did to Josh Yellen in the game in New England. Well,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons it was different was because Boogie

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01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,560
Speaker 1: was like standing right in front of Mahomes. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't spying. It was just an extension of the play

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Speaker 1: off script. Boogie chased him out there and got ahead

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Speaker 1: of him. Um, that's one thing. And a spy, I

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01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: mean a spy is off the line of scrimmage as well,

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01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: usually and they're not that close. And that that's what

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01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: gave Josh the room to come out and and give Judnham,

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01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, a stab step and then get around him

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Speaker 1: and outrun him down the sideline. That that's that was Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's two different things. Usually a spy as a linebacker,

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01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 1: maybe a safety on a quarterback that is, And we

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: discussed that just last segment with Greg Cosell, who said, well,

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01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen's running, it's still not an advantage because

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01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 1: he's still going to have a blocker to put on

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01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: the spy because it's eleven on ten essentially. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't know that the Chiefs will employ that

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01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 1: after hearing the answer from Greg. Two. There are two

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Speaker 1: linebackers that play in the Nickel package though, are pretty athletic.

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01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: Nick Bolton and Willie Gay, two young players who can

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Speaker 1: really run. And I'm trying to remember. I'm gonna have

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 1: to look it up because for some reason I thought

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01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: Willie Gay was nicked up and did not play in

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Speaker 1: that game back in Week five, But I'm gonna have

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01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: to double check on that. I know Chris Jones wasn't in,

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01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 1: and Frank Clark played but at a hamstring injury and

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01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:48,680
Speaker 1: really wasn't effective. All those guys are healthy now and

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01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: ready to roll, So the Chiefs are a healthy punch

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01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:54,639
Speaker 1: on defense as well. This is coming out that's been

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01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: reported now that Derrick Henry is supposed to start for

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01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: the tight on their game. I also read because he

1501
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: addressed the media yesterday and he said he's going to

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: play with an orthotic in his foot, in his shoe

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01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: under his foot, which you know, you say, it's Derrick Henry.

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01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: How is that going to impact him? He's got it

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01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: in there for a reason, so I'm very curious if

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01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: it impacts his level of play at all. I would

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01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:24,960
Speaker 1: say probably not. I'm shocked he doesn't play with orthotics anyway.

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01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I but it's based on being so soon

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01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: removed from the surgery he had. I guess it's an

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01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: extra layer of protection, so to speak. So the way

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01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,720
Speaker 1: to go no matter what you're doing. But yeah, yeah,

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01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 1: those that will really help him a lot. I'm sure

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01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: the orthotic will. If he's never worn one before, he'll

1514
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: probably wear him on both fee actually, but yeah, you

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01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 1: know it's it seems prudent to give the guy an orthotic,

1516
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: if not a special tape job and all the other

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01:23:54,439 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: give the act they do. Yeah, that's we'll see. But

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01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: if he's gonna start, he must feel pretty good. Oh yeah,

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01:24:03,280 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: and he must have looked pretty good to the coaching staff.

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01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: How fresh do you think that? Dude? Oh? Are you

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01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,679
Speaker 1: kidding me? As a daisy? You guys, listen, I'm gonna

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01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: jump out to the league. In fact, I'm gonna still

1523
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: be one of the top ten or fifteen rushers in

1524
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:17,160
Speaker 1: the league when I come back, I'm gonna take a

1525
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: break for about two months. I'm gonna get my little

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01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,160
Speaker 1: foot fixed up, take a rest. You guys got this

1527
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and I'm gonna come back

1528
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: and help out. I mean, if he's good to go,

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01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: oh man, with the fresh legs that he has, they

1530
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: might run him forty times. They might do it if

1531
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: they're in the lead. Thinking about it, what are they losing?

1532
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: It's nothing. He already had he already I don't know

1533
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,479
Speaker 1: was a week eight. He left week eight at nine.

1534
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: He already had a full season of work before he

1535
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: got hurt halfway through the season or less than halfway

1536
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:50,680
Speaker 1: through the season. Now, it's just it's crazy. Yeah, they

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01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: don't get run that guy fifty times. They might do

1538
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: it if they're ahead. They're good. What they got to

1539
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: the one seed without him? They went six and two? Yeah, crazy,

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01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mary, Antana. Mary, what do you have

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01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: for us? You're all one bills live, Hi, guys, I

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01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 1: just have a question about officiating. Okay, what accountability do

1543
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: they have We've seen time and time again these horrific calls.

1544
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,560
Speaker 1: Do they have any consequence for them? Yeah, they do,

1545
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: they do, and it happened during the regular season. They

1546
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: just get downgraded and they rank them all against each other.

1547
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: They're graded by the coaching staffs that had them for

1548
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: a game. Those coaches send in reports based on what

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01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,759
Speaker 1: they feel how well the crew did, did they miss anything,

1550
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: do you have an issue with any of the calls

1551
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,639
Speaker 1: that were made? YadA YadA, YadA YadA, And those grading

1552
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: reports are added up by the director of officiating, and

1553
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: the highest rated crews at the end of the regular

1554
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,480
Speaker 1: season are the ones that get the playoff game assignments.

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01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: And even then you could be subject to discipline. In

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01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: the Raiders Bengals game last week exactly, there was a

1557
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:53,879
Speaker 1: big snaffoo that crew has been bounced from the playoffs.

1558
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: They've been bounced. They're not going to officiate another game. So, yes,

1559
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: there are kinds. And then you think about this as well,

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01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: not only do they you know, here's one caveat now,

1561
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 1: certainly they are account held accountable and good calls are

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01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: reward you know, they there's good calls, there's bad calls.

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01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 1: And all of that. But here's the thing too, it's

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01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: a really hard job. It's a very specialized job. And

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01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 1: you can bounce them from the playoffs all that, but

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01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:22,320
Speaker 1: you still need a bunch of guys to do this job.

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01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: And there isn't like they got like nine crews waiting

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01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: in the wings to come in here. So what Steve

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01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 1: is saying is, don't make it so punitive that nobody

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01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: wants to do it right. I mean, and that's the thing.

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01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 1: Go Bills, Mary, thank you for the call. We appreciate it. Yeah,

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01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:38,679
Speaker 1: you don't want to make it so punitive that nobody

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01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,080
Speaker 1: wants to do the job right. Or you can make

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01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:42,720
Speaker 1: it so lucrative that everybody wants to do it. And

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01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 1: then you got your pick, which maybe if you make

1576
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 1: it full time, they might now quiet, you're all right,

1577
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: break time for us here. When Steve and I come back,

1578
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:56,519
Speaker 1: we will let you know the latest from the Giants

1579
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: and what's going on down there. They now have their

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01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,920
Speaker 1: GM who is now former assistant GM for the Bills,

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01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:05,600
Speaker 1: Joe Shane, but Brian day Ball is said to be

1582
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:08,000
Speaker 1: one of the favorites for the head coaching post. But

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01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: there's another coach who has just been fired in the

1584
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,640
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, that could be fighting for the

1585
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: job tooth and nail alongside him. We'll let you know

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01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: who that is next. Here on One Bill's Live, presented

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01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 1: by Kalaida Elth It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back on One

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01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. New York

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01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:41,799
Speaker 1: Post reporter and columnist Ian O'Connor Sports reporter in columnist

1590
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: Dean O'Connor tweeted this out a little while ago. John Mara,

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01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:50,759
Speaker 1: the owner of the Giants, reportedly reached out to Brian

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01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: Flores a couple of nights ago. This is before Joe

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01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:57,720
Speaker 1: Shane was officially named GM and the Giants today. Very

1594
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:01,879
Speaker 1: good conversation. Mara assured Flores that he is a serious

1595
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: candidate and that the Giants will be willing to eat

1596
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 1: money to clear up cap space. O'Connor says this could

1597
01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: be a Flores Dable steel cage match for the head

1598
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: coaching job. Well, I think they're both great. We had

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01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Flores as Miami. We thought

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01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 1: he did a really nice job, and we don't know

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01:28:24,120 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 1: the situation the way it was in Miami and why

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01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:29,160
Speaker 1: things went down the way they did. A lot of people,

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01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: not just you and me, but a lot of people

1604
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 1: around the country were raising their eyebrows when the Dolphins

1605
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: decided to go away from Flores, apparently and clearly because

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01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:42,920
Speaker 1: of what was said afterwards by the organization. Flores wanted

1607
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,040
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, we've got to do this, this, and this,

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01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:47,680
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins said we're not going to do that.

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01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:51,799
Speaker 1: And there was a philosophical difference. If you're a football

1610
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 1: team and you don't listen to the football side of

1611
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:57,800
Speaker 1: your organization, you're an idiot. What are you doing? But

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01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: that's why these things are done. The ownership, whatever the

1613
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 1: personnel side of it, didn't want to do it the

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01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 1: way for as one to do it, and they parted

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01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: ways because of it. Flores is a guy who knows

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01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:09,599
Speaker 1: what's going on. I got a lot of respect for him.

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01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: The Broncos are interviewing chiefs offensive coordinator Eric b Enemy

1618
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 1: in Kansas City later today in what is expected to

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01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 1: be the last of their ten head coaching interviews. We'll

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01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 1: see where the Broncos go from here on their head

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01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 1: coaching front. As the carousel continues to turn. That's it

1622
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 1: for us here this week. We remind you Our Bills

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