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Speaker 1: What's what? What are you messing? My cough? Switch? Just

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those days. Welcome to the show. Hi, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy. This is Steam Tasker. We're coming to

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. Mary, Christmas, everybody. We

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Speaker 1: Great to be here. It is, this is uh my

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Speaker 1: If you're working on Christmas Eve, most people are a

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Speaker 1: He said. He went into extensive consultation with generalmanager Brandon

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that movie? Well, and you

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Speaker 1: always put yourself Okay, you're you're Terry Pagoula, right, you

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Speaker 1: Arizona diamond Backs. It's good. Everybody's trying to get on

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Speaker 1: the show on Christmas Eve, Mary, Chris, everybody, thanks for

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Speaker 1: tuning in every day man. Yeah, yes, it was always

427
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Speaker 1: a great dude when he played with the Bisons, when

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Speaker 1: he managed the Bissons, and now of course he's been

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Speaker 1: bouncing around the major leagues, hanging with Arizona for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years now managing theirs on the Diamondbacks. They

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Speaker 1: are ready to contend in the National League quest. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Manason bumgunner. Yeah, all right, So we're here to talk football.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go live to Bill's practice in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown standing by outside the ad Pro Sports Training

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Speaker 1: Center to talk about what he sees at practice. But

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Speaker 1: as we told you at the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott says he will use the starters a little bit.

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Speaker 1: McDermott talked to Brandon being about using the starters, and

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Speaker 1: here's what he said as far as his plan for

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Speaker 1: player usage against the New York Jets coming up on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Brandon and I continue to discuss it yesterday this morning

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Speaker 1: again and we talked to the team and and so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play. Um, we're gonna play a majority of

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Speaker 1: the guys and they're gonna practice this week. They're gonna play. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, to go into detail on who exactly and

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Speaker 1: would take the whole roster and take some time here.

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Speaker 1: So with respect to your time, I'll just tell you

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Speaker 1: majority of guys are gonna play, not all of them. Um,

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Speaker 1: Josh will play, um and uh, and we'll go from there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jos, you obviously have a reason beyond compredative.

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Speaker 1: It's a game and all that. But yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's a big picture, right, It's where we

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Speaker 1: are as a team, and certainly, um, there's there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of different ways you can go about it. I've

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Speaker 1: been been around it, um, and and so um, just

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Speaker 1: where we are for this team this year and where

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Speaker 1: we're trying to m We feel like this is the

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Speaker 1: right thing for for this team this year in this situation.

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Speaker 1: We have work to do and we're going to continue

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Speaker 1: to work this week to put our put our team

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Speaker 1: in the best position possible moving forward. And listen, they're

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Speaker 1: not I'm gonna tell you, they're not all going to

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Speaker 1: play the same amount in the game. Um, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be um, we're gonna be smart with that. So um,

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Speaker 1: it's important that we get work in fundamentally, we get

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Speaker 1: work in in terms of execution and and we stay

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Speaker 1: sharp as sharp as can be. So that's the plan.

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Speaker 1: And the guy who said that would be the plan

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Speaker 1: joins us now on the line from the sidelines of practice.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown Bills Inside or Buffalo Bills dot Com. Brownie,

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Speaker 1: you're right, they're using they're using the starters this Sunday

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Speaker 1: against them against the Jets. What do you think. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there was an element of past

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Speaker 1: performance from last week that's playing into the decision to

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Speaker 1: play some of the starters or the majority of the

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Speaker 1: starters this week. I think for the defense, which I

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Speaker 1: think we would all agree has certainly been the more

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Speaker 1: consistent unit through the course of the season, they're tackling

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Speaker 1: wasn't great last week, and I think coach wants them

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Speaker 1: to get a good fundamental performance under their belt this

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Speaker 1: week against the Jets on that side of the football,

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Speaker 1: and then for the offensive side, as I mentioned on

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Speaker 1: the area yesterday with you guys, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: enough of a consistent level of play from start to

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Speaker 1: finish in a game where this coaching staff believes they

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Speaker 1: can completely take a week off without any reps, any

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Speaker 1: live game reps, and feel like they can be sharp

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Speaker 1: and ready to play the following week on the road

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Speaker 1: in a playoff game. And so I think that's what's

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Speaker 1: at work here. And you know, before fans get all

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Speaker 1: hot and bottled about the risk of injury and all

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Speaker 1: of that, I don't anticipate that these guys are going

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Speaker 1: to play a tremendous amount in this football game. I

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Speaker 1: would envision something like a second preseason game or even

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Speaker 1: a fourth, well probably a second preseason game where they

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Speaker 1: play maybe about a quarter or so, maybe the offense

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Speaker 1: gets three possessions, sees what they can do with that,

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Speaker 1: and if they look good, they come off the field,

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Speaker 1: and probably the same thing for the defense. How do

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Speaker 1: you think in your I don't know if you can

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Speaker 1: see anything of practice now, but how's that going to

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Speaker 1: affect who takes reps at practice? How many reps Josh

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Speaker 1: gets is compared to Barkley, which guys are sitting down

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines not taking any reps that kind of thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean usually they chase us out of here before

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Speaker 1: they get into team portions of practice, So kind of

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Speaker 1: hard to say. I know, the offensive line looks as

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Speaker 1: though they're lining up the same as they always do.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Moore's backpracticing after leaving last week's game late in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with what looked like a lower body injury.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out probably tomorrow or Thursday, what the exact

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Speaker 1: nature of his injury is when he shows up on

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Speaker 1: the injury report, but certainly a good sign that he's

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Speaker 1: practicing here with the other starters. The one major notable

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Speaker 1: absence guys in addition to the injured players, which are

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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, Tie and Secki who are not participating along

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Speaker 1: with Shack Lawson. Looks like Lorenzo Alexander and Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: are getting their typical rest day here in practice, but

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary not seen out here on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: So we hopefully can get to the bottom of that

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Speaker 1: by the end of the day today and maybe get

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Speaker 1: an update as to where he is and if in

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Speaker 1: fact it's injury related. Maybe it's an illness. I know

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Speaker 1: there's still some guys fighting some head colds and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that here on the roster, so maybe hopefully it's

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Speaker 1: just an illness and not injury related. But we'll try

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Speaker 1: to get some details on that later today. Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: reporting from the sidelines that Bill's practice field watching the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and watching johnsh Allen work. I'm really interested in

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Speaker 1: watching um Be Barkley work. Thank you. Matt Barkley, who

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Speaker 1: hasn't played since uh mop up duty against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: and hasn't played really since last year against the Jets

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Speaker 1: in November. I'm eager to see him play a little

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Speaker 1: bit this Sunday, Chris, Yeah, I mean that's the life

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Speaker 1: of the backup quarterback, right, stay ready, even though you

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Speaker 1: don't get any reps. It's not an easy not an

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Speaker 1: easy task by any means. But you know, you think

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Speaker 1: about his situation last year against the Jets, I think,

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Speaker 1: what did he have eleven days with the team into

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Speaker 1: the starting role. Yeah, he barely knew the offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was going he was just trying to memorize the

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Speaker 1: game plan that week. So I mean, having been immersed

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Speaker 1: in this offense for the better part of a calendar year,

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Speaker 1: a full offseason, I certainly think his situation is far

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Speaker 1: better this week than it was last year at that time.

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Speaker 1: And you know, he performed admirably in that game. Fifteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty five, two hundred thirty two passing yards, a

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Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns. I thought, I thought he availed himself

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Speaker 1: quite well in that game under very different and probably

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Speaker 1: a lot more trying circumstances than the ones he would

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Speaker 1: be walking into the game this week. If and when

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Speaker 1: Josh's day is done on Sunday, now there is and

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot said, there will be some guys who probably

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Speaker 1: won't play this week, and it could be guys. It

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Speaker 1: could be a number of reasons. One they just don't

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Speaker 1: want the guy to They need the guy to get

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Speaker 1: rested rather than anything else. Or two, maybe the guy's

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Speaker 1: nicked up and they don't want him to get hurt.

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Speaker 1: What do you think. Or maybe it's a guy like

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Speaker 1: Tredavious White who they just cannot afford to risk. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think everybody's gonna I would say that

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna take somebody off the field, sure a

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Speaker 1: guy like Tredevious White could fall into that category. I

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Speaker 1: think Lorenzo Alexander and Jerry Hughes are probably two guys

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Speaker 1: that don't play at all on Sunday. And we know

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Speaker 1: that Jerry's been dealing with that nagging groin injury for

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Speaker 1: early in the mid part of the Season's that's gotten

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Speaker 1: healthy for him fortunately at this point, but he's been

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Speaker 1: getting rest days each and every week through the last

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Speaker 1: six weeks or so. Lorenzo Alexander in that same boat.

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore did not get any carries last week for

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Speaker 1: the first time in a long time, so I don't

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Speaker 1: think he would fall into that category. Knowing him and

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Speaker 1: the way he operates. He's probably gonna want some work

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Speaker 1: this week, and I would anticipate that they take some

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Speaker 1: of the load off to Evan Singletary, provided he's good

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Speaker 1: to go again. Not out here, so we'll have to

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Speaker 1: find out what's going on with him with Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dont comedies on the sidelines at

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Speaker 1: this Tuesday practice typically a Wednesday practice, so we know

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Speaker 1: that many of the players who have kind of not

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Speaker 1: played much will play this Sunday, and including I wonder

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Speaker 1: if Duke Williams is included in that. He's been out

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Speaker 1: what's seven games? Eight games? I guess now he's missed.

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Speaker 1: There's been a public clamor for Duke to play. He

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Speaker 1: adds a dimension to the offense that is not there yet.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he lacks in some spet in some special teams help.

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Speaker 1: But you think this is the game that Duke Williams

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Speaker 1: gets a chance to play, Chris, Yeah, I do. I

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Speaker 1: think he'll be up. I would anticipate he would be up.

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Speaker 1: I would say there's a chance, especially with Andre Roberts

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Speaker 1: nicked up, that maybe he sits down this week. So

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Speaker 1: there's your extra receiver spot right there. And then if

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Speaker 1: if Roberts isn't fact down on Sunday, Isaiah McKenzie's probably

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Speaker 1: handling the punt return duties and maybe even the kick

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Speaker 1: return duties as well. So I think that's probably where

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Speaker 1: you find room for him to be up and active

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Yeah, and there's only so much you can do,

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Speaker 1: right I mean, if they've only got eight offensive linemen,

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Speaker 1: five of them have got to play, and you got

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Speaker 1: to keep a couple of guys dressed, it could be

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Speaker 1: get to the point where And also Mitch Morse's full

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Speaker 1: go today, which I was a little surprised about, but

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Speaker 1: it may be the least healthy guys the guy who

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Speaker 1: sits down everybody else plays. Yeah, And knowing that Josh

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Speaker 1: is gonna be active and gonna start this game, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna watch your lineman in there protecting the protecting your quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I would expect the linemen to play as

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Speaker 1: long as Josh does, at least as far as the

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Speaker 1: starters go. Guys, Chris, I know this game, it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: but the Bills would like to win, like to get

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Speaker 1: to eleven wins. And look, the Jets are not a pushover.

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Speaker 1: They won five of their last seven. Right, the Jets

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Speaker 1: are not pushover. They're not the Dolphins type of pushover. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: what do you think this game is going to be

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Speaker 1: about this Sunday? Yeah, I would say if anything that's

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Speaker 1: impressive about the Jets, it's their defense or front. They're

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Speaker 1: number two in the league against the run. They're number

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Speaker 1: one in the league in terms of holding teams down

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Speaker 1: on first down yardage allowed. So yeah, they do a

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Speaker 1: heck of a job. We gotta go though, burf gotta

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Speaker 1: jump off here, Okay, right man, Thanks Brownie, Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: Bills inside a Buffalo Bills hit him with it. They

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Speaker 1: hit him with a cattle proud or something. They get

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Speaker 1: off the field. All right, I'm not gonna keep getting long, Chris.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break, we'll come back and we'll get

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Speaker 1: some phone calls going, what's your Christmas? Which look like

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills? What would you like to see

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Speaker 1: the Bills? Well get this Christmas as they enter the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: What's your question Christmas list? Including this Sunday and in

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Speaker 1: the early portion of the playoffs, let's hear from you

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Speaker 1: Um the pole, the Twitter pole that just blew me away?

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Speaker 1: That what's on your Christmas wish list? For the bills?

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Speaker 1: As the playoffs approach, let us know, give us a call.

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Speaker 1: of a wide open question. How did they in express

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Speaker 1: express yes? That's right? Four wins upsets raging tweeters, beast

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Speaker 1: cheering Bills fans. It's Christmas. I can ask for whatever

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Speaker 1: I like. That's right, that's right, that's that's a good point.

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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Jack has this Also, I have

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Speaker 1: four things on my wish list as we enter the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: One a playoff win for the first time in twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Two Duke Williams to get another look. Three a Josh

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Speaker 1: And four for the new year, a Tom Brady retirement

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Speaker 1: and a Steve Tasker Hall of Fame entrance. Speak that

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Speaker 1: is great. That is great, Jack, everything's five things. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess tom Brady retirement. And the thing about me,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to dwell island. But January second, you

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Speaker 1: find out if you're go from the semifinal Thursday, from

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Speaker 1: this week, from the Thursday thurday, do you do anything?

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Speaker 1: Are you doing anything? Are you preparing? What do you do?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Nothing that goes on. It's just like

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Speaker 1: one another cut and then it just gets me to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl weekend. That's all. Yeah, you getting this

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Speaker 1: me it's the guys who are elected. If you go

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Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, you don't have to work for us.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to the zoo? Are we going to

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Speaker 1: the zoo? But if you're a finalist, you should go Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see, we'll see here's what happened. I would

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Speaker 1: they'll get there, like, hey, bro, you should really should

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Speaker 1: come down for the super Bowl. That then you kind

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Speaker 1: of like what, well, they'll tell you if you're a finalist, Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're a finalist, there's fifteen guys and you've seen it,

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Speaker 1: there's like three guys that are in town. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm guessing there's there's varies. Sometimes there's

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Speaker 1: like more than that. But you should go if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're getting If I get a finalist, well you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it then. But you know, we got

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Speaker 1: another all days, nine days, nine days. Okay, public math

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Speaker 1: is killing me, but yeah, okay, we talk a little.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a short conversation then, okay. From Alicia on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. By the way, the tweet sheet is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Carrigan Moving Systems, the official movers

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Alicia says, all of our players

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Speaker 1: to say healthy and give their best effort. If we

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Speaker 1: have that combo, we will do well in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Mary Christmas to the whole one Bills Live crew, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Nice and Thomas as this. Let the

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Speaker 1: Bills meet and convincingly beat the Patriots in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Put the rest of many seasons of tormament they've caused

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Speaker 1: on the biggest stage of the season. I'd be up

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Speaker 1: for that. And it's not that far fetched to think

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Speaker 1: about a playoff win against the Patriots, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they'd have to win this week number one advanced around

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Speaker 1: two Patriots. Let's say they are you know the division

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Speaker 1: around Patriots. Let's say they are the number two seed,

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Speaker 1: as the jack or Baltimore Ravens are the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: Patriots will be number two, and maybe Kansas City would

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Speaker 1: be number three, and then uh, who knows, um, you

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Speaker 1: know the Bills. If um, if Tennessee, Let's let's just

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Speaker 1: look at this. If Tennessee wins, if they beat Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: it would be remaining then Baltimore, New England to be

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Speaker 1: home against Buffalo and in Tennessee. And if Buffalo wins

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Speaker 1: and Tennessee wins, then it's an AFC championship in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah but first, Yeah, but first it would be Buffalo Attimore.

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Speaker 1: But it could happen and the Bills could wind up

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Speaker 1: in New England in the first in the division around

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Speaker 1: or the championship round. It could happen that way, and

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Speaker 1: why not root for it. I'd be rooting for it.

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Speaker 1: Um from Tiffany, my Bill's wish list includes a first

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Speaker 1: round win against Houston. Second would be another shot at

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. She's thinking alike, I'm not a fan of

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Speaker 1: how they go about winning games, Edelman being my least

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Speaker 1: favorite of the bunch, it would be something to beat

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Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. Filling my heart with joy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And finally from Dave's Andre Roberts getting a touchdown against

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Speaker 1: a kickoff return against his old team. That's interesting. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't thought about that. But Andrey Roberts might not even

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Speaker 1: play this game. Yeah, Now, I'll be one of the

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Speaker 1: guys that they're like saying, you know what, you're too valuable.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna sit you down. I get it. Sure you

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Speaker 1: know he wants to play, though, Yeah, I'll adia willikers

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Speaker 1: know well he didn't play in the first game, right,

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Speaker 1: he missed the first game when he hurts, I believe

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Speaker 1: he was, I have I don't have that with me,

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Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, that's right early in the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's take a phone called George and Eden. Hello, George,

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Speaker 1: you are on the air. Hey, you guys. Man, it's

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Speaker 1: a miracle. Must be Christmas because I didn't have to

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Speaker 1: stand hole forever. But yeah, I kind of stole my

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Speaker 1: answer there. Yeah, I think everybody should want um a

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Speaker 1: victory over Patriots for Christmas. I mean, that would be

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Speaker 1: a hell of a Christmas president or at least a

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Speaker 1: New Year start. But yeah, I'm not too sure about

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Speaker 1: russ and players either. It's it's a fine line, you know,

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Speaker 1: And one player gets hurt, Just like McCormick said mcdermock,

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Speaker 1: I should say, one player gets hurt, you're never gonna

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Speaker 1: hear at the end of it. Right. Well, he's willing

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Speaker 1: to take that chance, and I give him credit for that.

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Speaker 1: And look, he thinks these players need some more work,

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Speaker 1: So I'm okay with that. Um, I don't care either way,

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Speaker 1: you know, either way, I think he's got the best

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Speaker 1: interest of the team in mind. I think they'll get

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Speaker 1: through this game, no matter what it takes. They'll play

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Speaker 1: who they have to play and then get to next week.

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Speaker 1: I don't he's willing to be second guests if somebody

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Speaker 1: gets hurt and that is the worst possible outcome, But

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Speaker 1: he's willing the second guest. Well, yeah, asn't that part

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Speaker 1: of his job though? I mean, come on, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I gotta you just watch TV and you

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Speaker 1: know that. I mean, I give you guys a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit for some of the people that call and

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Speaker 1: say the weirdest things. It's just like, where do you

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Speaker 1: come up with that stuff? You actually watch the games? Right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. And when you're worried about guys getting

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Speaker 1: hurt and all of that, and might I go back

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Speaker 1: to this, what would happen if the Bills had beaten

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Speaker 1: the Patriots this last weekend and and you needed the game,

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Speaker 1: maybe to win the division. Nobody would think twice about

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Speaker 1: playing these players, and you wouldn't think about them getting hurt,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think about any of that stuff. You'd need to

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Speaker 1: win the game and maybe get a bye week if

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Speaker 1: you wanted it, or you know, win the division. But

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Speaker 1: on a slim chance that the Dolphins can go into

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Speaker 1: Foxborough and beat the Patriots, you'd still just play these guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are built to play. This is

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Speaker 1: why they're here. They're they're here to play football. And

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Speaker 1: give them a week off. I get it, it's a

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Speaker 1: nice little bonus for him, but they'll be all right.

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Speaker 1: I think the danger for this, and we haven't talked

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Speaker 1: about this, Murph and I've been thinking about it every

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Speaker 1: time we bring this up. The danger is that when

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Speaker 1: you're a football player at the NFL level, I've been

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Speaker 1: in this unbelievably. I was pulled out of a last

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Speaker 1: late season game by Marv and I stood on the

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Speaker 1: sidelines with a hoodie on and I and I felt like,

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Speaker 1: when you it's like if it was like a preseason game,

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Speaker 1: which we kind of equate it to. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: have your edge in a game you know you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna play all the time. They're gonna they've got some

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Speaker 1: other agenda for who's playing, how much they're playing, what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in the game. It's really difficult to hold

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Speaker 1: your edge. And when it's difficult to hold your edge,

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Speaker 1: it's difficult to keep from something bad from happening you start.

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Speaker 1: If you lose your edge all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 1: look bad out there, and you don't play well, and

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Speaker 1: you don't perform well because you know you're looking over

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Speaker 1: your shoulders and when am I coming out? And that

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Speaker 1: is an enormous emotional drag on the investment you put

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Speaker 1: into the game and the preparation you put into the

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Speaker 1: game and everything the game would mean normally, if it

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Speaker 1: was it was a regular season game earlier in the

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Speaker 1: year where you needed it. It's different when you know

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Speaker 1: that there's a good chance you're gonna get tapped on

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Speaker 1: the shoulder and told to sit down. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: keep your edge. And that's to me, that's scary for

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Speaker 1: a fan and as a guy who thinks about this

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Speaker 1: team and how they're gonna play. It doesn't bode well.

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Speaker 1: And however, it manifests itself, whether a guy gets hurt,

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Speaker 1: or the guy lets up on a play because he

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Speaker 1: thought he wasn't going to be in that play and

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Speaker 1: gets rolled up on, or or a pick six the

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Speaker 1: other way, however it manifests itself, or just a flat

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Speaker 1: performance by the team. I think it's it's rough, and

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Speaker 1: that's the hard part. About this game for the players,

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Speaker 1: or am I playing or am I not? Am I

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Speaker 1: gonna go? Or am I not? And because if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna go out there and they're gonna say and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, after five players, you're sitting down.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, you knew it was gonna happen now,

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Speaker 1: And even the guy's going in, it's like, well, how

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Speaker 1: long am I gonna play? Or whatever? I should have

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Speaker 1: been more ready, I should have gotten more reps in practice.

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Speaker 1: As all this stuff goes on, and it really throws

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Speaker 1: a hard curve into the preparation and the mindset and

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Speaker 1: the emotional content of the team. What do you do

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Speaker 1: about that? That's hard. There's nothing you can do. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it because it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a necessity at this point. You gotta get healthy, you

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Speaker 1: gotta get be smart about it. But you're playing the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets, and you can. We can you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever whoever it is. I mean, it's Cincinnati Bengals one

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Speaker 1: in fourteen. If they could, they'd put you in a bag,

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Speaker 1: hang you over line, to hit you with a ball bat.

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Speaker 1: They don't care, They'll cave your head in. They don't care.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta go out and play with guys

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Speaker 1: that are gonna they've gotta turned up all the way,

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Speaker 1: that are playing for contracts, and you're gonna go out

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Speaker 1: there playing. You know that. I'm really not into this today.

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Speaker 1: I want to get to next week and think about Houston. Man.

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Speaker 1: That's dangerous. Yeah, that's a tough one. That's really the

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Speaker 1: problem for me. I don't have a problem resting it,

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Speaker 1: but I would whether say, listen, everybody's playing all the time.

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Speaker 1: On game day. Oh by the way, Josh, you're deactivated,

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Speaker 1: so he doesn't have to deal with that. Anybody who's

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Speaker 1: in is playing the whole game, and then on game day,

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Speaker 1: you know, deactivate six key guys. Right whatever. Here's a

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Speaker 1: call from Dan and Erie Pennsylvania. Hello Dan, Hey, guys,

847
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: how were joing? Thank you for taking my call on

848
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Yeah. I know that there's probably a lot

849
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Speaker 1: of people that disagree with me, but I like the

850
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: season that the Bills have had, and I think we're

851
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: definitely making progress and closing the gap on New England

852
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: and some of the top teams in the AFC. Did

853
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: I really feel like we could be a lot better

854
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: off with a much better offensive coordinator because our offense

855
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 1: is very predictable. Never used the tight ends enough, don't

856
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: use screens. I just think that the play calling could

857
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,959
Speaker 1: be a lot better. Well, I disagree, but that's okay.

858
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: I'm wondering that you were expecting a pass to Deon

859
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: Dawkins down on the one yard line there. You thought

860
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: that was predictable. Before that play, you thought, I don't

861
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: think you're gonna throw a Deon Dawkins. But I couldn't

862
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: believe that. I couldn't believe that he had the smarts

863
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: to do that. That was the one great good call

864
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: that he's made in weeks. Just it's unbelievable. Just throw

865
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: a screen pass once in a while. And Andrew Brown,

866
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: you know, so the week before you were you thought

867
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: it was predictable that they would line up three receivers

868
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Speaker 1: to the left side, and if Tyler Croft on the

869
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: right side and he threw to Tyler Croft or at touchdown,

870
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: you thought that was predictable. No, it was the other exception.

871
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: They just don't do stuff like that enough. If you're

872
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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator on another team, the Bill's offense is

873
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Speaker 1: very predictable. I disagree. I get it, Dan, everybody's got

874
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: their opinion and I and you've obviously thought about yours

875
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: a lot. And I know it's easy. And it seems

876
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: like sometimes when you get out there and the offense

877
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: doesn't isn't as productive. I will say this, and what

878
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: I've seen of the team he has called, he has

879
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: called some really good games, drying dable, and the game

880
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: plan has left a lot of guys with a chance

881
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: to get the ball to him. It's up to Josh

882
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: to execute those plays a little better. Josh hasn't been

883
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: as efficient enough. Now certainly you can point to sometimes

884
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: where and I know it's frustrating when they hand the

885
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: ball to Frank Gore, he runs into the tackle, he

886
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: gets one yard and it's now a third and nine

887
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: instead the second instead a second and ten or whatever.

888
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's frustrating when your offense doesn't

889
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: score a lot like the Bill's offense had. But this

890
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: is who they are and there's no offensive coordinator. I'm

891
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: telling you this right now, Andy Reid, Sean McVay, all

892
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: those guys, with the guys they got now in the

893
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: quarterback they've got, they're they're on a mission to win games.

894
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 1: And they don't care what it looks like. And they're

895
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: trying to get this team to grow week to week

896
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: and you can bet when they get into games that

897
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: really matter and postseason for sure, Let's face it, they're

898
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 1: ten and five, so they're doing a lot of things

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00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: really well. So I and their offense is challenged, but

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Speaker 1: not because I think of lack of creativity on the

901
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: part of their offensive coordinator. I know a lot of

902
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: people every time we lost a game this year, in

903
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: the five games they lost, man Brian Dable just takes

904
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: up beating because it's the only it's the glaring week

905
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: spot of the team is the offense. And you know,

906
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Speaker 1: sometimes I think fans get caught up in the coaching

907
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: and think that the players are doing everything right, uh

908
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, on every play, and it's the coaching and

909
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: play calling that doesn't. And I think it's just the

910
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,959
Speaker 1: opposite night for your call. We're gonna take a break

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker here at One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: It is Mike Lombardi coming to us next and I'll

913
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Speaker 1: be answering our questions. One Goes Live presented by Klatta

914
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 1: Health Line from the Seneca Studio and Seneca Studio, Seneca

915
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Speaker 1: Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. Bills Radio Network Sports Update,

916
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Speaker 1: Bills are practicing outdoors today outside the ad Pro Sports

917
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: Training Center. Not practicing offensive lineman Tie and Secky, defensive

918
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: tackle Shack Lawson, wide returner, wide receiver return specially to

919
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Speaker 1: Sandre Robert. They are not practicing today. Also, it looks

920
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 1: like a veteran day off for Lorenzo Alexander and Jerry Hughes.

921
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: Bills will not play starters. At least they will play starters.

922
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: Should say they will play starters a bit in the

923
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: season finale. Head coach Sean McDermott said he said he's

924
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: still he's weighing the risk reward calculation on player usage,

925
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: but he said the starters will start and eventually they'll

926
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Speaker 1: give way to backup players. Bills in the Jets one

927
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Speaker 1: o'clock Sunday at Ralph Folds and Stadium. In the broadcast

928
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Speaker 1: on our flagship in Buffalo, w g R Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: five fifty, Eric Wood in the boot Stalkapacho on the sidelines.

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00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: Texans defensive end J. J. Watt is expected to return

931
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Speaker 1: to practice Tuesday, a source confirmed to ESPN. Watt tore

932
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: a pectoral muscle and week eight while making a Oakland

933
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: Raiders running back Josh Jacobs making a tackled area at

934
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Speaker 1: surgery two days later, three time NFL defensive player in

935
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Speaker 1: the year, returning to practice eight weeks after a surgery.

936
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Speaker 1: The typical recovery time for a torn pectoral muscle is

937
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: three to four months. Watt has been on injured reserve,

938
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Speaker 1: but he will play. They now designated to return with

939
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: Watts return to practice Houston as a twenty one day

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Speaker 1: window to add him to the active roster. J J.

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Speaker 1: Watt back had practice for the Houston Texas. Running Back

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Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch and the Seattle Seahawks agreed to a deal Monday.

943
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Speaker 1: Lynch's contract for this season only against the forty nine

944
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Speaker 1: Ers and the postseason. Seahawks also signed running back Robert Turbin,

945
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Speaker 1: who spent his first three seasons with Seattle. Lynch woods

946
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Speaker 1: in Seattle Monday to spend take a physical with the

947
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Speaker 1: Seahawks screen Bay Packers and not just going back to

948
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs, going back as NFC North champions. A week

949
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Speaker 1: after they insured there then their two year playoff droute.

950
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: They wrapped up their first division title since twenty sixteen

951
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: with the twenty three to ten win over the Minnesota Vikings.

952
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill Drive, John Murphy

953
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: and Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo studio with the update.

954
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: And we hope to hear from Mike Lombardi soon. I'm

955
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: not sure if he's with us. Oh, he's on. Mike

956
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: Lombardi is with us. Mike Lombardi joins us now the

957
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Speaker 1: executive the host of the GM Shuffle podcast and radio

958
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Speaker 1: dot com, NFL writer for The Athletic. Former Browns general manager.

959
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: Mike Lombardi's with us. Hello, Mike, how are you? I'm

960
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 1: doing great? Thank you? How are you guys? Good? Happy

961
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: holidays do you? Thanks for coming on? Oh, no worries,

962
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: No worries at all. Crappy Christmas, Merry Christmas. Yeah, it's great.

963
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: It's great to celebrate the holidays this way. And tell us,

964
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: as you look at the Buffalo Bills, your thoughts on

965
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: how this team has been constructed so far? What do

966
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: you think of the Bills? Mike? You know, I've always

967
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: liked what McDermott and being have done. I thought they're

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00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: building culture first. It's always been something that that resonated

969
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: with me. And you know, I think that the greatest

970
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: thing that they've done is in biting mistakes. You know,

971
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: they trade for Calvin Benjamin doesn't work out, they cut

972
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 1: their losses. I think that there's really a really good

973
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: culture going on there. You know, they've made changes as

974
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: they go along, offensive line, coach, offensive coordinator, whatever they

975
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: needed to do. I think in the best interest of

976
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: winning has always come first and part of the culture.

977
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: And I think that they're now round and get into shape.

978
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, look, that game was

979
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: as close as you could possibly get. I thought the

980
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: Bills hung in there as well as you could. I

981
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen's just got to make more throws, more

982
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: accurate throws with the football, and I think they'll close

983
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: that gap. How much do you think culture makes a

984
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: difference for a football team? You said, they built it first,

985
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: you like it? Do you like that vibe? And there's

986
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: always that debate here in Buffalo, particularly when it was

987
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: when they were going struggling through a six and ten

988
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: seasons how important culture was, And you said, you seem

989
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: to think that it's pretty important. You know, when Bill

990
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: Walsh told me in nineteen eighty four. He said, you know,

991
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: we're only competing against eight teams. And this is when

992
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: there was twenty eight in the league. I thought he

993
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: was talking about eight quarterbacks. I thought he was talking

994
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: about eight coaches, and he really was talking about how

995
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: only eight teams have culture, Only eight teams are built

996
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: to win. Only eight teams have an environment that creates stability,

997
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: that preserves the pride, that makes people care a lot.

998
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: And when you have that, you know, it's funny. When

999
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: you have that, you have something bigger than the game itself.

1000
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: People talk about. People can talk all they want about.

1001
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to get great players. But one

1002
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: thing about culture is you understand what it takes to

1003
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: be a teammate. You understand what your teammates can do,

1004
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: and you understand that you yourself are not the bigger

1005
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: than the team, and that that the team together collectively

1006
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: is what's going to ultimately win. And I think those

1007
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: are the teams that you have to be most most

1008
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: concerned about. Look, we've never looked the Browns are really talented, right,

1009
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of talent, they have no culture.

1010
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: Look at their season. Yeah, yeah, I wonder how many

1011
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: teams you think have culture now, Mike. You know it's

1012
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: there's thirty two teams in the league. You know, the

1013
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys have won eleven games over five hundred in this century, Okay,

1014
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: and people say they have a great team, but they

1015
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: really don't have a culture because Jerry's culture is built

1016
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: around him. I think the way the Bills have done it,

1017
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: I think the way the forty nine ers have done

1018
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: to hire a coach hire, let the coach pickers general manager,

1019
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: having them work hand in hand together. That creates the

1020
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 1: stability in the environment to create the culture. And I

1021
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: would say Wall said eight and when there was twenty eight,

1022
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: I say, there's just barely eight right now. Yeah, And

1023
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: if you look at the standings, certainly there's an eight

1024
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: and seven team in the NFC East that's up there.

1025
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: But you go down through the AFC, there's five teams

1026
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: that are ten and five are better. And in the

1027
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Speaker 1: NFC there are five teams that are ten and five

1028
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: are better. And that may be your culture teams right there,

1029
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. And I think you know, we've seen there's

1030
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Speaker 1: five teams that won't make it back to the playoffs

1031
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: from this year to last year. Then let's take Chicago. Right,

1032
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: Chicago's culture is built on a lie. It's built on

1033
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 1: that they think MVP Mitchell Trubisky can carry the team

1034
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: and he can't, and they won't admit that mistake because

1035
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: they've got so much invested in so they have confirmation bias.

1036
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 1: Where I think what fans and Buffalo have seen is, hey, look,

1037
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: we have made mistakes. We're going to overcome them, you know.

1038
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think that Josh Allen's a mistake by

1039
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: any means. I think Josh Allen's a really good player.

1040
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: But there's things he has to do better. And as

1041
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: this thing goes along and along and along, they're gonna

1042
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 1: load learn what he can do and what he can't

1043
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: do and move forward with that. We're with Mike Lombardi,

1044
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: the NFL writer for the Letic Farmer Browns General Manager

1045
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Speaker 1: thirteen and fourteen. Hey, Mike, you have a list of

1046
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: how do they gifts for each NFL team? Right? You've

1047
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: written that? Yeah? I wrote that. Yeah, example, the need

1048
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: for Christmas. I think really what they need is they

1049
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 1: need Josh Allen to be more consistent throwing the football

1050
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: down the field. I mean, I think that's really the

1051
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: most important thing he's thrown forty eight passes in his

1052
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: career over thirty yards. He's completed six of them. That's

1053
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Speaker 1: a lot of long foul balls. That's a lot of

1054
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: long foul balls. Now, you're not going to be fifty

1055
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage on forty eight attempts over thirty yards.

1056
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: We know this, But you've got to complete more than six.

1057
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: And I think you've got to be much better at

1058
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: the passes in between twenty yards. He's only twenty one

1059
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: for sixty nine on passes in twenty yard range. So

1060
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: he's got to be much better as well. And I

1061
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: think that's got to be the key. He's got to

1062
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: improve his accuracy. Look, that game is probably gonna go

1063
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 1: to overtime or Brady's gonna lead him on a three

1064
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: or to drive for a field goal. If he hits

1065
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox in the back of the end zone, that's

1066
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: a fact. Guy's wide open. You can't miss that throw.

1067
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 1: Brett Farr said this a long time ago. Every quarterback

1068
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: in the NFL can throw the ball through the door.

1069
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: Good quarterbacks can hit the door knob. The great ones

1070
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 1: can throw through the keyhole. And if he's going to

1071
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: be great he's got to find a way to throw

1072
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: the ball through the keyhole and they can't have lapses

1073
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: that they do during periods of the game. That crossing

1074
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: pattern earlier in the game that he throws behind, I mean,

1075
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: that could be an easy, big time play, explosive play,

1076
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: but yet he throws the two feet behind the receiver

1077
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: and now we're putting can't have that. That's where it

1078
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: separates great teams from good teams. And you see this

1079
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: as as the playoffs start, you know, get started. New

1080
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: England's going to have a buye probably in Baltimore certainly, Well,

1081
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: how good is this Baltimore team? Is the one seat

1082
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: in the AFC sitting there and they got everything goes

1083
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: through them. And they're a little bit different than every

1084
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: team in the league, not only because they have an

1085
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: MVP at quarterback, but because of the way they used him,

1086
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: and they're they're off the way their offense is built,

1087
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. I mean they are. And I think that,

1088
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, it goes back to an old adage. You know,

1089
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: most people think the West Coast offense is about seven curl.

1090
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 1: They think it's about twenty bingo cross. The West Coast

1091
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: offense is a philosophy. It's built on the premise of

1092
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: we are going to score early in the game by

1093
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: throwing the football, and then we are going to run

1094
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: the ball in the second half and let our defense,

1095
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: which complements our offense, rush the passer and create turnovers.

1096
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: So what does that translate to? That translate to first

1097
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: half point differential. The number one team in the National

1098
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,479
Speaker 1: Football League in first half point differentials the Baltimore Ravens

1099
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: at one twenty one. They have one hundred and twenty

1100
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: one point differential between them and their opponent, which means

1101
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: Don Martindell's defensive coordinator to the Ravens is his whole

1102
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: playsheet is wide open. He can call any blitz he

1103
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: wants on his playsheet because he knows if he misses

1104
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 1: a call or they score a touchdown, he's still probably

1105
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: in the league. Whereas when you're behind it halftime, most

1106
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: of the time it struggles. I tell you, over the

1107
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: last thirty years, whoever's in the top five in this

1108
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: category are going to go to the Super Bowl. This

1109
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: year Baltimore's won, Kansas City's two, New England and San

1110
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: Francisco are tied for third. Those are the teams that

1111
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: you have to worry about. Buffalo, on the other hand,

1112
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: there at they're they're in ninth place at forty. They

1113
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: need to get better at that and when they get

1114
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: up to where the Ravens are, they're going to be

1115
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: our legitimate super Bowl team. Hey, Mike, Um, I wanted

1116
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: you know, we have another game with a couple of

1117
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks chosen in the first round of the twenty eighteen

1118
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: draft this Sunday here in Orchard Park. It's Sam Donald

1119
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: for the Jets, Johnson Allen for the Bills. Um, what

1120
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: do you think so Lamar Jackson's ambip But what does

1121
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: the future hold for each of those five quarterbacks? They're

1122
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: moving forward? You know, you know it's funny. I wrote

1123
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: that column last Friday for The Athletic, and I broke

1124
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: down all five of the guys picked in the first round. Look,

1125
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: I was a huge Lamar Jackson fan. I got. I

1126
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: got killed for about one hundredth time by the Cleveland

1127
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: Medium because I said that if I were the Browns

1128
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: general manager, I would have picked Bradley Chub and Quintin

1129
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,919
Speaker 1: Nelson or Roclan Smith and traded back into the first

1130
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: round to get Lamar Jackson and end up with three

1131
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: star players. People. People laughed me out of the building, right,

1132
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: they laughed me out of the bi and doubt this

1133
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: is documented. I'm not bragging on hearsay. I'm not playing

1134
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: the secondhand quarterback here. But you know, I love Lamar.

1135
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: My son coached at Louisville. I watched Lamar play every

1136
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 1: single game because my son coach there. I knew this

1137
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: guy was going to be a good player. So he

1138
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: was my top rated. My second best player in that

1139
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: draft was Donald. I thought Donald, he had got to

1140
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: stop turning the ball over. He's got to be more

1141
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: careful with the football in the pocket and at reading coverages.

1142
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 1: He'll struggle this week against Buffalo. Buffalo decides to play

1143
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: the game seriously because he will turn the ball over.

1144
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen for me, was always a quarterback

1145
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: at lacked accuracy, and I worry about that. I thought

1146
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: he was a great athlete. You know, It's funny no

1147
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: one said Josh Allen was a wide receiver coming out.

1148
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: They all said he was a big, fat quarterback, you know,

1149
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: whereas Lamar was somebody said he was a he was

1150
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: a receiver, right, And so I think that that's the air.

1151
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen to me, I was never a fan of

1152
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 1: he ended up not disappointing them. And then Baker Mayfield

1153
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: to me, is a system quarterback. I think he needs

1154
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: to be under center more. I don't think he's a

1155
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: shotgun quarterback there when he throws the ball over thirty

1156
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: six times is three and fourteen. As a football team,

1157
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: he needs to be a play action pass Kyle Shanahan's

1158
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: style of offense, limit the amount of time season shotgun

1159
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: because he can't see down the field. He has no

1160
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: receivers average over fifteen yards per catch. And if you're

1161
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: going to be an explosive quarterback in this league, you

1162
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: got to have one of those. Hey, it's buffall gonna

1163
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: be all right with Josh Allen a quarterback, do you

1164
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: think I think they just got to continue to improve

1165
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: in fine ways. I think that you know, he's moving

1166
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: away from being just an athlete. He's starting to play quarterback.

1167
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: But he has got to get better at with accuracy

1168
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: with the football. I think there's no denying that. I

1169
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: think no fans know that. But they've done a good job.

1170
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: They've got a great running game, They've rebuilt the offensive line,

1171
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: I think they've got to keep building pieces around him

1172
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: to offset what he's not capable of doing. Again, if

1173
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: he connects on some of those long foul balls, if

1174
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: he's not six for forty eight one throws over thirty yards,

1175
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: and say he gets it to fifteen for forty eight,

1176
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: you know where some of those are touchdowns, it's going

1177
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: to make all the difference in the world. How far

1178
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: can the defense here in Buffalo take this team in

1179
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs this year? You know, well, I think if

1180
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: they can play from in front, they can go real far.

1181
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: But if they're always going to be playing in one

1182
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 1: point games, it's hard. I mean last week against New England,

1183
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: you know, I thought New England did a really good

1184
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: job of attacking them. Look, I think Sean McDermott and

1185
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: the staff there do a great job of taking away

1186
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: your strengths as a defensive coordinator, you know, and I

1187
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: think there's certain coaches that can game playing around it.

1188
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: McDaniel's being one of them. But as you get in

1189
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the coaching is pretty much at Grand chest

1190
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: Seminster level. So you know, you go down to Houston,

1191
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson can make some plays, You've got to

1192
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage of their offensive line because

1193
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: even though they made the big trade from Lanley Tunsel,

1194
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: the right tackle, Clark's not a very good player. I

1195
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: think we saw Tampa do a really good job on them.

1196
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: And without will Fuller, without will Fuller who won't play

1197
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: in the playoff game, they are not the same offense

1198
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: we're with. Mirank Lombardi is the NFL writer for the

1199
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: Athletic former Browns general manager on some other teams, and

1200
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: you started to talk about the Houston Texans should we

1201
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: manage Should it matter that much whether they get J J.

1202
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: Watt back at practice today? I injured reserve And what

1203
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: do you think is he get a chance to come back? Oh?

1204
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: I think there's no doubt. I think, look, it's got

1205
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: to help him fuss. He'll be rested, his legs will

1206
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: be fresh. They can probably utilize him more as a

1207
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: rusher than as a run defender, you know, And I

1208
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: think that that's really what's going to give them an

1209
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: advantage anytime you get a blue chip player. Now. Now,

1210
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: the one thing about JJ, he wasn't the same JJ

1211
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: he was three years ago. But the reality here is

1212
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: because he's coming off at ir because he's coming off

1213
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: of being injured. I think he has a chance to

1214
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: play less, which will mean he'll be more effective. Yeah.

1215
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with that. He's he come back

1216
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: with some fresh legs and you can make a difference

1217
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: or at least give him a burst. I think the

1218
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: interesting thing about a guy like Watt coming back off

1219
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: this and tell me what your thoughts about that or

1220
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: about this, Mike, he's got to be worried about re

1221
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: injuring or injuring something else. You get guys that come

1222
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: off they're so fresh, and it's hard to play practice

1223
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: football at one hundred percent like you play at one

1224
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: hundred and ten percent. So, particularly for a guy like

1225
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, it's almost the point where you think he'll

1226
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: come out and be so fresh and feel so good

1227
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: he'll overextend himself, knowing that it was hard for him

1228
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: to get into playing shape standing on the sidelines, particularly

1229
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: when nobody practices hard at this point in the NFL season. Yeah,

1230
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: I think that's right. I think you're always concerned about

1231
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: soft tissue injuries when you come back like that. I

1232
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: think that's the real issue, and I think you've got

1233
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: to worry about that. And they've got to really do

1234
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: a good job of managing them and make sure he's

1235
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: he's hydrated to the point where he's not going to

1236
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: hurt himself and do other things that are going to

1237
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: affect him down the road. Hey, like, what do you

1238
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: make of X factors Packers coach Mike McCarthy talking to

1239
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: the Panthers yesterday? Is there anything there? Is It just

1240
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 1: he's the only one available now. Well, I think it's

1241
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: smart for the Panthers to get a jump start on

1242
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: talking to all the kendidates. I think they've got some

1243
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: other guys that are going to talk to you know,

1244
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: they got to get the probably want to get this

1245
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: thing done. You know. I'm sure they're gonna want to

1246
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: talk to some of the coaches that are in the playoffs,

1247
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: especially to get the teams that have buys, so they

1248
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: need to use that week. So if you can get

1249
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: a guy out of the way that you can talk

1250
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: to him before, I think it's always better. And I

1251
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: think that this is what David Tepper will do. I

1252
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: think the owner of the Panthers is he's a really

1253
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: smart man. He's made a lot of money in the

1254
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: hedge funds, and I think that he'll probably take a

1255
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: pragmatic approach to picking his coach and talk to a

1256
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: lot of different people from a lot of different variable backgrounds.

1257
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: What are some of the hot candidates that are still

1258
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: on staff that may go deep into the playoffs or

1259
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: not go deep into the playoffs. What are some of

1260
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: the guys that maybe off people's radar, that are really

1261
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: going to get some serious consideration maybe for their first

1262
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: head coaching job. Well, I think Don Martin, the defensive

1263
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: coordinator the Baltimore Ravens, has done a really good job

1264
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: and they've lost a lot of players and they haven't

1265
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: missed a beat. I mean, earlier in the season they

1266
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: were not very good. I think he measure a coach

1267
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: by how well his team improves during the course of

1268
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: the season. I think if you look at Baltimore in September,

1269
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: when Arizona was driving the ball up and down the

1270
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: field on him, when Cleveland beat him thirty to ten

1271
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, and to where they are now defensively, I

1272
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: think Martindale has done a really, really good job and

1273
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: I think the players respect him. He's got a two

1274
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: head coaching background in terms of he sees the whole

1275
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: game offensively, defensively in the kicking game. Obviously, if Josh

1276
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: McDaniels wants a job he's going to take he get

1277
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,959
Speaker 1: one because Josh McDaniel's a really good coach. The question

1278
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: is whether Josh McDaniels can get a head coaching job.

1279
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: The question is always going to be, well, Josh McDaniels

1280
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: take one. That's the hard thing. He always is in

1281
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: the December rumors. He just never follows through with the

1282
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: February calling. So I think that's one. I think the

1283
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski guy last night on TV up in Minnesota

1284
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: has done a really nice job with the Minnesota offense.

1285
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: It didn't show up last night, but I think certainly

1286
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: he does. And I think you know, as you go

1287
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,439
Speaker 1: through it, I think a lot of it is about

1288
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: who do you see Matt Rule at Valor? Wow, what

1289
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:36,479
Speaker 1: a good coach you could if you want to build

1290
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: a culture, you could bring him in. And if there's

1291
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: certain teams that want a guy who's been a head

1292
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: coach before like McCarthy where Ron Rivera and you get

1293
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: some stability within your organization, that's certainly valuable as well. Hey, Mike,

1294
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: which team in the AFC is the one that you

1295
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: think would be the hottest coaches. Which team is the

1296
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: hottest her coach this year? I think you know the

1297
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: Baltimore coaches, whether it's Roman and and Martindale, I think

1298
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: those two will be hot. I think McDaniels will be

1299
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: really hot. I think McDaniels will have his opportunity, whether

1300
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: it's if the Giants open, Atlanta opens, you know, Carolina

1301
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: already is open, and then of course if Dallas does open.

1302
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: I think those four jobs certainly could be in play

1303
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, that's the interesting point. And one last

1304
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: thing I've got, what do you think you headed into

1305
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs, which one of those guys goes the farthest,

1306
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: and which team is really playing the best as they

1307
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: closed out the regular season. I think the Kansa Chiefs

1308
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: are really playing well right now. I just watched them

1309
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: today on tape against the Bears, and I know they're

1310
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: playing against MVP Mitch, but I mean they played really good.

1311
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: Their defense is starting to play much better. Their defensive

1312
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: front is playing really good right now, and I think

1313
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: that's going to be a huge difference. And then when

1314
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,600
Speaker 1: their offense is really going their offensive lines healthy. Now

1315
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: my homes is help here. They've got a lot of

1316
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: skill on that team. I think they're gonna be a

1317
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: tough out. I think they'll have to go into into

1318
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 1: Foxborough again. They're gonna have to prove that they can

1319
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots twice. They beat them once, they're going

1320
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: to beat them again. Hey, Mike, thank you, thank you

1321
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 1: very much for this having great guys, Merry Christmas. Thank

1322
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: you so much for Mike Lombardi, the NFL writer for

1323
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: the athletic former Browns team I'm in twenty thirteen and fourteen.

1324
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: He said a lot there. You know, he sees the

1325
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: big place, he seats what the Bills are doing defensively,

1326
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: and he doesn't say there's anything to it. Really, you didn't,

1327
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: I don't think. Look, they got to get him to

1328
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,479
Speaker 1: not take penalties when he's in there, and uh, play

1329
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: teams better than they did last Saturday. That's pretty yeah,

1330
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: that's pretty yeah, no question. And you know when he

1331
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: talks about the Bills with Josh, I think it does

1332
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: come down to Josh hitting the throws that you know

1333
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: that he's got to be more accurate with it. He's

1334
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: got to put the ball out ahead of the receiver.

1335
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: He's got to find tight spaces and you see him

1336
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: make those throws once in a while, and and uh,

1337
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: if he can duplicate that and throw a little better.

1338
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: I mean you and I were talking before the show.

1339
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: You see Aaron Rodgers throw it, and it looks so

1340
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: effortless when he does it, and it looks so easy

1341
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 1: when you see a guy like Aaron Rodger Drew Brees

1342
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,479
Speaker 1: where they get the ball snap and like one step

1343
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: and the ball comes out to a wide out on

1344
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage or whatever, and you know, turns

1345
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: goes from first and ten to second and two. Um,

1346
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: as soon as the guy catches it. It's um, it's frustratingly.

1347
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be frustrating even for Josh

1348
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: to see that on film and say, you know what,

1349
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: I need to do that and and uh, you know,

1350
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: make it happen on game day and not not seeing

1351
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: the fruits of other labor, because the guys you've seen it,

1352
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he's made huge improvements and just still to

1353
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: see he's got more to go has got to be

1354
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: like pretty tiresome for him at this point, right, you know, yeah,

1355
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, keeping keeps an eye on Rodgers.

1356
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: Now he does is is Um, it's the Bills quarterbacks.

1357
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean they do, and they keep an eye on

1358
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: Al Rodgers has done. Um. The um the fact that

1359
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: blame blame Babert gets uh uh talked to by Brandon

1360
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: Bean this week, and the fact that um Jos Challen

1361
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: who played well. Um, they talk about teams who have

1362
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks like the scenes. Yeah, and they it's easy

1363
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: enough too, because it's all out there. If these you

1364
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 1: can get into your player meetings. You go and you

1365
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: watch films of other teams that are doing it right now,

1366
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: say this is what like, here's what we're gonna run.

1367
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 1: You show him the play on paper and they then

1368
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: you go over and you say, look, and this is

1369
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at. You say, a play from two

1370
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Seattle at San Francisco or whatever. I'm just

1371
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: picking out a game out of the air. I don't

1372
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: even know if they played two weeks ago. But and

1373
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: you say, see what Russell Wilson does here. This is

1374
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: what we're gonna this is what it's supposed to look like.

1375
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna run a different on the backside, but

1376
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: this is the front side what we're kind of looking at.

1377
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: And they'll be able to look at that and it's

1378
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: just like, see, I get it. Just do that right

1379
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:24,439
Speaker 1: and then right, and there's all different kinds of ways

1380
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: to get it done. And then you go out and

1381
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: we heard Josh coming here. We had Josh sitting here

1382
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: in the in the studio and he says, you know,

1383
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: you do feel a difference when you start practicing specific things.

1384
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 1: And he says, what it does, and he'll go out

1385
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: and he'll throw the ball and he'll got You know,

1386
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: these guys, the problem with the quarterback is you need

1387
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: like nineteen thousand other guys to help you get better

1388
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: because somebody's got to stand out here and catch this

1389
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,919
Speaker 1: one snap at a rusher all this stuff. He says,

1390
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: after about twenty five reps, you start thinking, okay, you

1391
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: start to get a groove. Well, twenty five reps of

1392
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: four million different throws takes a long time to get through.

1393
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: You know, it takes a long time. Sean McDermot was

1394
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: asked today about one of the reasons these guys are

1395
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: playing this week is time on task. You got a

1396
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: really young squad and they need the reps. They're valuable

1397
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: and it's part of what went into the decision to say,

1398
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, some of these they're gonna play. They're gonna

1399
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: play some guys. Sean McDermont made the decision this afternoon,

1400
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: saying that the Bills not practicing today, but the Bills

1401
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: will play starters at a bit in the season finale.

1402
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: The regular season finale headed Sean McDermot announced today that

1403
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: starting players will start the game, and he said there's

1404
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: more the player usage than just their players usage stats.

1405
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: Here's what John McDermot said, that's in fact a piece

1406
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 1: of it. Josh, it's, uh, you know, we're not an

1407
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 1: old team. We certainly have some guys that needs some

1408
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: need some rest and be taken care of. And that's

1409
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: where you get into the case by case basis. So

1410
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: we're trying to be rested, we're trying to be fresh. Um,

1411
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: it's a delicate balance also being sharp, remaining remaining keeping

1412
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: our edge, and also working to continue to get better

1413
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 1: as well. So you will play starts at least one series.

1414
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: I think they'll probably play a couple. Right, you have

1415
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: no idea what he's gonna do, right, I don't know

1416
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: how long there. I don't even know if the players

1417
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: will know. I mean, that's the big thing. I think

1418
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: it's smarter and if if you know, they don't have

1419
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: to tell us. But I think they should tell the players, Hey, listen,

1420
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna play through the first quarter, you're gonna play

1421
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: through the first time we watch you, go through halftime,

1422
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Tell them so that they can go

1423
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: out there and forget about when it's going to happen, right,

1424
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's It's like I said earlier in

1425
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: the show, it's really difficult as a player not to

1426
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,320
Speaker 1: know when that's gonna be to go out there and

1427
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: give a full emotional investment to the game knowing that

1428
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: at some point or not knowing when at any point

1429
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Now, it's a bad place to

1430
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: be and it's not dangerous place to be, but it

1431
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: certainly isn't doesn't make you feel warm and cozy about

1432
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: the game, right, I mean, you get like, what what's

1433
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen next? Am I gonna be on the field

1434
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: this next series? What's going on? And then to sit

1435
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: over there drinking gatorade while the defense is out there,

1436
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: where your offense is out there and you're sitting there

1437
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: as a defender, you know what's next? You know, that's

1438
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,959
Speaker 1: a I had place to be. You're not thinking about

1439
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 1: the Jets or the game planned or the next player

1440
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: or the last series. You're thinking about am I gonna plague? Yeah?

1441
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: Let's take your call here. Let's go to Milton in

1442
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Old Milton. They're on the air. Yeah, Milton, Yeah,

1443
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 1: how y'all doing good? Yeah? I wanted to say, like, man,

1444
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: the team is all or everything is in place, man,

1445
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: And I was just listening to Steve and stuff, and

1446
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: I agree. But to me personally, Josh has to step

1447
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: it up. And I mean, there's no more excuses. This

1448
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: is the playoffs, you know what I mean. And if

1449
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: he step it up, we can be in a super

1450
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: Bowl and winning. What do you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1451
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: if you agree, if Josh, if Josh Allen put together

1452
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: a game like Aaron Rodgers did last night, or a

1453
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: Drew Brees type game, yeah, there's no stop in this team.

1454
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 1: And we all believe too. I think that Josh is

1455
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: it's in there somewhere. We've seen him make enough really

1456
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: unbelievable throws he makes, and that's been the book on him.

1457
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: You get. We've had people coming in from all over

1458
01:08:58,000 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: the country, they'll say, Man, he makes like three or

1459
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: fourth rows nobody else in the league could make, and

1460
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: he'll miss the one that every player would make except him.

1461
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: So if he comes out and pops loose and has

1462
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: a you know, kind of an aha moment, Yeah, there's

1463
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: no stop in this team. Their defense is too good.

1464
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: And if he comes out and throws it like he can,

1465
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: this offense is too good. And we get and I

1466
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 1: hear all the stuff. We had a caller today calling

1467
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 1: about the predictability of the Bill's offense. Don't believe it.

1468
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: There are guys running open and Josh, you gotta hit him.

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Speaker 1: And if he were to do that and hit you know,

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Speaker 1: like he did in that game against I guess Miami,

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Speaker 1: was it or no, it was against Dallas when he

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Speaker 1: completed eighty percent of his passes. You don't beat this team.

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01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 1: But he's got to do. It's up to that guy,

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01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: and it's in there somewhere, and they're rooting around in

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: his psych and in his preparation and in their in

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01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: their practices, trying to slowly but surely get it to

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01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: come out and not only come out, but don't just

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01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: come out for one game. Come out and stay out

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01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: and be that guy. So that's the that's the battle

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 1: that they fight. I think, all right, let's on your

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01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 1: Christmas list, says the Bills enter the playoffs. We'll get

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01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: back to that moment and take some of your questions

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01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: in a moment or two. It's the Twitter poll and

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01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 1: it's up on Twitter. They should be rapping a practice momentarily.

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Speaker 1: New York Lottery. Bills left tackle Dan Dawkins only player

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01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 1: to cut a touchdown pass in twenty nineteen that was

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01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: on the roster in twenty eighteen. Can you believe that

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01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: Donald Jones Donald Penn the only offensive linement with the

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01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown receptions over the past ten seasons. Penn has

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01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: four of them. Yeah, Donald Penn had four Young Jones

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: now with two offensive touchdowns multiple touchdowns for the only

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01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: guy on the roster that caught a touchdown last year

1497
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: and caught a touchdown this year. You want to talk

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01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: about revamping the entire offensive side the ball, you would

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01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: think to anything about it. It's a little I don't

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01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: know whether it's comforting or it's like an aha whatever,

1501
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: take whatever you want from it. Nine of the guys

1502
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: lining up starters for the Bills are like new yeah

1503
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: to the team, and you would there's still a lot

1504
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 1: of improvement to go here, you know what I'm saying.

1505
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the one year into this revamped offense, and

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01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll tweak it a little bit, you know,

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01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: going forward, but yeah, there's a lot that you got

1508
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: to think, Wow, they really And we were talking about

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01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: the offensive line the preseason. All those guys were nicked up,

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01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: you know, Mitch Morrison, the concussion protocol you had, who

1511
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: wasn't had a hamstring a hamstring injury, somebody had a

1512
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: finger injury. I mean it was like all over the place.

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01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: Everybody was sitting down and they were a shuffling offensive

1514
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: lineman like a a decade a two dollars casino, you know.

1515
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: I mean it was and we thought, wow, that's really

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01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: going to set them back. They got no receivers that

1517
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 1: are back, they're all brand new. The running back corps

1518
01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: is completely new. That's a yeah, no wonder, you know,

1519
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: it's got to be a contributing factor. We point towards

1520
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 1: Josh and I get it. But man, a contributing factor

1521
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: has to be that first day training camp, he looks

1522
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: something there's nobody even recognizes except Deon Doctins. Right, Doc

1523
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 1: is the only guy that's caught a touchdown from him

1524
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: when the season starts. It's pretty amazing, pretty amazing, Dean Darkins,

1525
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 1: I've forgotten all about that. You know, you know it's real,

1526
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: it happened. Um, let's take a phone call here talking

1527
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: about your Christmas wish list for the Bills. Um, what

1528
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: are you looking for for the Bills this Christmas? Let's

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01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 1: take a call from U TJ in Toronto. Hello TJ,

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01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Ye, how are you good? Yeah?

1531
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 1: My point is the Bill Okay, they're are going there

1532
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 1: are very very good team. They are a developing team,

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01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: and it's hard for a developing team to win the

1534
01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:04,600
Speaker 1: super Bowl. The deals they're winning. Teams that are no

1535
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 1: shocks have to come a see all contender, and those

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01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: teams they play a Philadelphia wishing a team. But they're

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01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: a very good team and they got beat by them.

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01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: They got beat by the Browns. So I don't see

1539
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: it a prior Oh we lost, Sorry about that. His

1540
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: point is they're developing team, but not quite there yet.

1541
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: I think that's fair to say, right, not quite there.

1542
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:32,439
Speaker 1: I hate to close them offsetting they can't win something bigger,

1543
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:35,679
Speaker 1: they say that now, but they're gonna have to play

1544
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: these games. And the Houston Texas are gonna have to

1545
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: get the Bills out, you know that. And whoever they

1546
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: play next, and that's gonna have to beat this team.

1547
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 1: And you can say what you want about the Cleveland

1548
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 1: Browns and the Philadelphia Eagles and all of that other stuff. Uh,

1549
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: this is a much different team now than it was

1550
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: in week three, four or five six of the season.

1551
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 1: And they're they've gotten they were tough out in the season.

1552
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: Now they're really difficult to beat this at this point

1553
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: later the season. And I'm sure that when they get

1554
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I don't know, if there's some teams

1555
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,600
Speaker 1: licking their chops over the Buffalo Bills, they may be

1556
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: licking their chops over the Tennessee Titans sneaking in or

1557
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders getting in. If that, if the six

1558
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: things happened or five games go the way they needed

1559
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 1: to go, m there's no doubt that you know those

1560
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: the three in the four seed are looking hoping they

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01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 1: don't get the bills. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Take a call

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01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 1: from Tyler in Sardinia, New York. Hello, Tyler, welcome the

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01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: good good I'll let's talk about it. You guys said

1564
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: how he's interaccurate and all that. I understand he's interaccurate. Um,

1565
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: but you remember Aaron Rodgers played behind Brought Fire for years,

1566
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: so he had time to learn. I think if Josh

1567
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 1: Allen gets a couple more years in the league, he'll

1568
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: settle in and be all the past better and start

1569
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: making these throws that he's missing and stuff like that.

1570
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: He is getting better, no question about it. He's got

1571
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: a ways to go. And and I'll tell you this too,

1572
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:02,880
Speaker 1: some of what you see in this offense or the

1573
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: coaches coaching around what they feel like he doesn't do

1574
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: well and some of the things that he does do well,

1575
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 1: and they're trying to work on all the deficiencies he has,

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01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: whatever they are, and I don't know what they are.

1577
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you can say, yeah, he doesn't throw it accurately.

1578
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a couple of other things three that

1579
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: he doesn't do as well as they would like him

1580
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 1: as well. Two, So they're working on all that and

1581
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: he and the thing about this is Josh is really smart, dude,

1582
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: and he's really working hard, and he's gonna get better

1583
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: in every aspect of his game. Will he get better

1584
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,639
Speaker 1: for this year's playoffs? You kind of hope so, because

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01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: he's certainly better than he was at the beginning of

1586
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: the season. And how good and how far that take

1587
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: carries this offense into the playoffs remains to be seen,

1588
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: but you can't and Murph and I see it all

1589
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 1: the time. The guy works hard, he's really smart, and

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01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 1: they're coaching him up and they have got had this

1591
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: plan from the day they drafted him to develop him

1592
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 1: step by step by step, and we're seeing the fruits

1593
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: of it now with a ten and five record with

1594
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: a game in Week seventeen, they don't even need to win.

1595
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good spot. Yeah, that's good fun. Yeah.

1596
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: And look, he's not a finished product. And I think

1597
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,679
Speaker 1: that's always important to remember when you talk about Josh.

1598
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: And maybe that's not the case for other quarterbacks. Maybe

1599
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks are a finished product by this time. He's

1600
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: working on his eleven plus fifteen, twenty seventh start. It'll

1601
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: be his twenty seventh start this Sunday, and he's not

1602
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: a finished product. And there they made some progress, much

1603
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: better than he was a year ago. I mean, how

1604
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: much of that do we want to talk about the

1605
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: fact that he is much better than he was a

1606
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: year ago, but still some progress to come. I think

1607
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: let's take a call from Willie and Buffalo. Willie, you're

1608
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 1: on the air with us. Hello Willie, Hello, Hi, Hi,

1609
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm sorry. I just wanted to say thank

1610
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: you for having me on. Steve and Murph. I'm a

1611
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: great fan of you guys and I'm watching every day.

1612
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: Thank you. Can you appreciate it? Go ahead, Willie? Yes,

1613
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thank you both for having

1614
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: me on the show today. I'm a fan and I

1615
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: watched him listen every day. Okay, Willy, And what I

1616
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: wanted is a lab will It's a simple fact that

1617
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: I think if we got another deep threat receiver in

1618
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: the game on our team, I'm telling you we're going places.

1619
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 1: The simple fact that we got Brown right now. And

1620
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: Brown is an awesome receiver. Brown is a real awesome receiver.

1621
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 1: But if you think about it. These teams like, for example,

1622
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: you got three four really great receivers on the teams

1623
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: like Kansas City. I watched my homes throw the ball

1624
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: all over the fields the other day. It was no

1625
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: stop in Kansas City. They just had so many different

1626
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: people they could throw the ball too. I'm not saying

1627
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:39,560
Speaker 1: we're scrubs because we have it in elite defense. We

1628
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: could play with anybody. But if we just got one

1629
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: more good receiver, like maybe an AJ Green from Cincinnati

1630
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: or anybody, just another deep threat, you line one up

1631
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 1: on the left, you line one up on the right,

1632
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, with Beasley doing those slats, we're

1633
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,600
Speaker 1: headed to the super Bowl. Now, can you elaborate on

1634
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:01,799
Speaker 1: that a little bit? All right, let me ask you this, Willie.

1635
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this about I'll just say that,

1636
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: like the two top teams in the Conference of Baltimore,

1637
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: New England, name their name their four top wide receivers

1638
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: that you know they I'm not gonna say they each

1639
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 1: of those two teams have for great receivers. They're getting

1640
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 1: it done without that. I think that they have tight ends.

1641
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: Now that that compliments the running game with those two teams.

1642
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: But like if you think about it, Josh Allen, I

1643
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: don't care what nobody say. He's good. And I heard

1644
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: the last callers say, you know, if you know he

1645
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: played behind somebody else and got a little bit more experienced.

1646
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. He doing everything from the muscle.

1647
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: The kid is great and and I'm representing Buffalo to

1648
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: the fullis. I love Josh Allen. But here's the thing.

1649
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:55,719
Speaker 1: Our defense is so good that our offense should start

1650
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 1: complimenting the defense. Because now when the offense is not

1651
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:03,839
Speaker 1: doing too good, the bigger boys in the league like Baltimore, Yeah, France,

1652
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: they might start looking at Buffalo like, oh well, we

1653
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 1: ain't got to worry about something. They got a good patfense,

1654
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 1: but we can get over on the offense. I hear you.

1655
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, and you can. I'm not really

1656
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: worried about getting a big time wide receipt. You can

1657
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: talk to me about that in February and March. Uh.

1658
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: These are the guys you got and you gotta win

1659
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: with them. And that's what the Bills are planning on doing.

1660
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 1: And I think they can and I think it drops

1661
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:30,759
Speaker 1: onto the shoulders of Josh Allen, just like it always

1662
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: has and and ten times out of the fifteen games

1663
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 1: they played, it's worked pretty well. Thanks. Let's go to

1664
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: Robbing North towna Wanda. Hello Rob, you're on the air.

1665
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for taking my card one with you

1666
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: and your guy's family. Happy holidays before some problem. Um,

1667
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:50,599
Speaker 1: I want to I just want to see Josh Shalen.

1668
01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: I'll play the quarterbacks that are in the playoffs right now,

1669
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: because if I mean, we already know that we have

1670
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: very tough um quarterback x to face like mahomes like

1671
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: Watts and Brady and um and um Lamar Jackson, and

1672
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: I just want to see him, Like I trust their

1673
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: defense enough to stop these quarterbacks, but I want to

1674
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,560
Speaker 1: see him do a lot like what they do, like

1675
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: out play him really. Like, Yeah, that's a good point.

1676
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you mean. You want to win

1677
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: that matchup. You want to look at their stats, their

1678
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: guys stats and our guys stats and say our guys

1679
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: better without having to qualify it. You know, Um, I see,

1680
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: and I get it. We've seen Josh do that once

1681
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: or twice. Not on a regular basis, though, And that's

1682
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: you know you'd love to see. He still has yet

1683
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: to throw for three hundred yards. Maybe that'll come, maybe

1684
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: it won't. But they're finding ways to win games. They've

1685
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 1: structured the team around him to give this whole team

1686
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: the chance to win in the most consistent way, and

1687
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 1: they've done a pretty good job of it. No question.

1688
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 1: The defense has been the driving force behind those victories. Um,

1689
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: this offense in the last three games, they've scored seventeen

1690
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:03,760
Speaker 1: points all three games. Um it would you know, would

1691
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 1: be great if they could score thirty four once, you know, yeah,

1692
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: and they'll see, let's see somebody beat us then you

1693
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I know they don't. They doesn't

1694
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: seem like they have that in them, you know, thirty

1695
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: four points. Yeah, it doesn't, But I think it's in there.

1696
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: I mean, if if Josh like he did a week

1697
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:22,679
Speaker 1: seventeen and last year, like he did in the earlier

1698
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:24,200
Speaker 1: this season in one of the in the game in

1699
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 1: the Dallas game where they where they you know, put

1700
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: it together really well and they scored thirty I think

1701
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: they scored thirty one against the Dolphins. They scored thirty

1702
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: seven against the Dolphins, and they scored twenty six against

1703
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:38,000
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cabos. Twenty six would be nine points better

1704
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: than what they're doing. Now, give you that you know,

1705
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:43,599
Speaker 1: and that's if you're able to do that, that puts

1706
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:45,639
Speaker 1: more pressure on that of the team. That's another series

1707
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: that they've got an answer, and it's another series they've

1708
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 1: got an answer playing against our defense. I don't think

1709
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 1: there's men teams out there that can do it. Ye Hey,

1710
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 1: call from Julian on a cell. Hello, Julian, Welcome to

1711
01:21:55,760 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: the air. Julian for having me. I would just like

1712
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: to talk about them. How I think we can make

1713
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 1: a deep playoff run after the wildcard when we if

1714
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: we beat the Texans, because the Texans that their defense

1715
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,560
Speaker 1: is really that good at pass rush, but they have

1716
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,679
Speaker 1: a good secondary. But I also feel like are often

1717
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: could have put up some points against them because they

1718
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: can't stop the quick routes that are receivers run. But

1719
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 1: if we do beat them, I want to know, will

1720
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: we play New England again or will we play somebody else?

1721
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: Because playing them three times in a row, the three

1722
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: times in a single season, that's tough. Yeah it is.

1723
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,759
Speaker 1: Here's what will happen. The Bills are the five seed.

1724
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: They will play the four seed. The three seed, which

1725
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 1: right now is the Kansas City Chiefs. Chiefs will play

1726
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:42,799
Speaker 1: the sixth seed, which is right now the Tennessee Tennessee Titans,

1727
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,720
Speaker 1: and it could be the Oakland Raiders. Now here's what

1728
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: happens once those games are decided. So if you're saying

1729
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are going to beat the Houston Texans,

1730
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: the Bills are the five seed. Now, if the sixth

1731
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: seed wins the other side, or the three seed wins

1732
01:22:56,040 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: the other side, they go to the seed that matches them.

1733
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:03,679
Speaker 1: The worst seed will go to the first seed, which

1734
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:07,639
Speaker 1: means Buffalo would go to Baltimore for the divisional round

1735
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and and the Houston Tech and the

1736
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:17,360
Speaker 1: and the the fourth seed, the Kansas City Chiefs would

1737
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: go into New England. Okay, so it'd be Bills, Baltimore

1738
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: and Kansas City in New England. And that's how that

1739
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: would shake out, if that if those scenarios work out.

1740
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 1: So you're look, and I get you. I like the

1741
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: matchup with the Houston Texas as well too, But I'm

1742
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: not afraid of any team in this tournament. With this

1743
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 1: team that we've got, I'm really not. I think the

1744
01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna They're gonna be a handful for any

1745
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: of these teams, and it's gonna come down to how

1746
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: they play on that particular day. You can predict it

1747
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:47,519
Speaker 1: now all you want, but I'm telling you this, the

1748
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna be a tough out. YEP, It's like

1749
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: they have been all year. Take a break, We're coming back.

1750
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: One Bill's Life presented by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive.

1751
01:23:55,640 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, one of does Live, John Murphy,

1752
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: Steves Hasker from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park, Mary Christmas.

1753
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: Everybody our Twitter poll today, what's on your bills question?

1754
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: Christmas wish list? We'll talk about that in a moment,

1755
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: but we do have to talk about a guy that

1756
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:23,360
Speaker 1: was on Seattle's wish lists for a while and now

1757
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:26,760
Speaker 1: he signed with him. Marshawn Lynch is back. He's back.

1758
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,839
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch, the Beast mode is back with the Seattle Seahawks.

1759
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: One season contract, only one game and then of course

1760
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: the playoff game. One season, it's like it's gonna be

1761
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: like the Tops a month to four games maybe if

1762
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:41,240
Speaker 1: they keep winning, right, I don't know what that does

1763
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: for him. Maybe two weeks. The first of all you

1764
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:47,200
Speaker 1: go back and look at his runs against the against

1765
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 1: New Orleans. He's an animal and that that was the

1766
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: famous run, the one that kind of shook apart. But um,

1767
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: he worked out. It wasn't like he wasn't working out.

1768
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: He worked out a lot in this uh run up

1769
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: to returning to the NFL. You'd like a boxing type workout, right,

1770
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy. Yeah, there's all kinds of

1771
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 1: social media videos out there of him, you know, working

1772
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:12,679
Speaker 1: out as it with I don't know something something boxing crew,

1773
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: you know, wild card boxing. I guess it's called and

1774
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 1: guy giving him some body blows. He was also he

1775
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 1: was doing footwork and stuff like that, stand in shape.

1776
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,600
Speaker 1: And let's face it, they need him for like what

1777
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 1: three or four games. Now, if he comes in, he's

1778
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: probably gonna be let me say, it's an old guy

1779
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: who played for a minute. You can suck it up

1780
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 1: and play for three hours on a Sunday. Now. I

1781
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna give him the ball thirty five times.

1782
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 1: But let me say think about this. You're in there,

1783
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,640
Speaker 1: you're in a playoff game you're really trying to win,

1784
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:41,760
Speaker 1: or you're in a game at the end of the

1785
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: season you're really trying to win, you need it. You're

1786
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:46,519
Speaker 1: in there and you're you're leaving the huddle, and all

1787
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Marshawn Lynch sticks his head in the

1788
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: huddle for the first time the season, said let's go.

1789
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: That's gonna say. You know what, let's let's help this guy.

1790
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 1: You know, we got some fresh legs. Let's see what

1791
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: he can do. And it kind of elevates those guys, right,

1792
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 1: their emotional content is gonna be elevated by this guy

1793
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: who's this beast. Let's let's see what he can do.

1794
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 1: And they're gonna get a little bump out of this,

1795
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: no question about it. They're gonna hand in the football,

1796
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 1: see what he can do. I don't think he's gonna

1797
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 1: be the bell cow of this offense all of a

1798
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 1: sudden out of nowhere, unless it would be surprising for

1799
01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:20,920
Speaker 1: me if he was. But he's they're getting a little

1800
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: something out of him. Sure, certainly some situational football, some

1801
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: short yardist football, some goal line football, and maybe something

1802
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 1: in the passing game or whatever. But you know, the

1803
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 1: guy's gonna want to bring everything he can to the

1804
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 1: table and finish with a flurry. He's got a maximum

1805
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: a minimum of two games and a maximum of what four? Yeah?

1806
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:43,360
Speaker 1: Well three? Yeah, right, Well, it depends. I mean they

1807
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:47,640
Speaker 1: play Sunday, they play Showdown Sunday night against forty nine ers.

1808
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: That will determine the NFC West champions. So they either

1809
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: go in at eleven and five or they go in

1810
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: at twelve and four if they beat the forty nine

1811
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: ers and then they go into the playoffs. Carson with

1812
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: the hip injury, right, Chris. If they go twelve and

1813
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: four and San Francisco loses to go twelve and four,

1814
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: I mean they I mean, I don't know if they're

1815
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 1: locked into the five seed or whether those two can flip.

1816
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 1: I gotta I don't think you know they're they're locked

1817
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: in unless are they playing this week? The two of them,

1818
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:15,600
Speaker 1: they're playing each other. Okay, well there you go. I

1819
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,719
Speaker 1: mean they could I think that would, Yeah, that would.

1820
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, are they gonna can they see I'll

1821
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,719
Speaker 1: still win that divisions, Okay. If they win that division,

1822
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: they're the number one seed or at least the number

1823
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: maybe the number two. They get a bye. That means

1824
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: he'd play the last game of the regular season, win it,

1825
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,679
Speaker 1: get a bye to rest up, come back and play

1826
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 1: in the divisional round and then the championship game. That's

1827
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 1: three games. Yeah, minimal if they can if they keep

1828
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: winning four games total at the fourth one being the

1829
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Oh my gosh. Yeah, they're gonna you can

1830
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: suck it up and play that month. Right. Well, there

1831
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: he is. He's gonna be back. All it is. They

1832
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: signed him that kind of that's all the games they

1833
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: want him to play. You hear about teams doing that. Yeah,

1834
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:01,560
Speaker 1: you know, you think, well, this guy here, they do it.

1835
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: They're doing it. We'll see how that is unprecedented. Yeah,

1836
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 1: and they have a place for him, right Procis is

1837
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 1: out and they need Marson is out. They need help bad.

1838
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:16,800
Speaker 1: You gotta need to go into your Marshawn Lynch. Yeah,

1839
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 1: think about it. I mean, there's like twenty five guys

1840
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: who just got cut. There's probably thirty five guys that

1841
01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 1: are on practice squads around the league that are ready

1842
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:30,240
Speaker 1: and been practicing, ready to go in football shape, and

1843
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: they they're like going to what about it, Marshawn. Wow,

1844
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 1: that's it's unbelievable. Yep. That's the story of this weekend

1845
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 1: for me, besides the Bills and the Jet game. I

1846
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: get it, but on a nationals on a national level,

1847
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: that's the story of the week. All of a sudden,

1848
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch is back with Seattle for their playoff run.

1849
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 1: Now we got our Twitter poll which is up one

1850
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:53,800
Speaker 1: more hour, Togo, what's on your Bills Christmas wish list?

1851
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: We'll talk some more about that. Well, you're from Josh

1852
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,679
Speaker 1: Allen as he spoke to the media after practice today.

1853
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 1: And much more coming up in the third and final

1854
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: hour of the show. So come on back and join us.

1855
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. It's presented by Kalaida Health from the

1856
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: Seneca Studio on Archard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing

1857
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 1: comes close. Bills Radio Network Sports Update. The update from

1858
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Bill's practiced outdoors today. They are finished

1859
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,759
Speaker 1: with the workout today, not practicing offensive lineman Ty and Secky.

1860
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: He still got that ankle. Hack Lawson got a day off.

1861
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:38,600
Speaker 1: Return specialist Andre Roberts was off today. There was a

1862
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:43,760
Speaker 1: kind of rest days for linebacker Lorenzo Alexander. The Bills

1863
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 1: will play their starters a bit in the season finale

1864
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,599
Speaker 1: is at against the New York Chets. Head coach Sean

1865
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: McDermot announcing today that starters will play, wouldn't say how

1866
01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:55,400
Speaker 1: long they will play. Bills and Jets broadcasts on our

1867
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 1: flagship WGR Sports Radio five fifty. I've got the call

1868
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: of the game with Eric would in the booth, Sal

1869
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:03,840
Speaker 1: Capacho on the sidelines. Texans defensive end J. J. Watt

1870
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: has returned to practice today. A source confirmed he wore

1871
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 1: he tore a pectoral muscle in Week eight making a

1872
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 1: tackle on the Raiders running back. Three time Defensive Player

1873
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: of the Year, is returning to practice eight weeks after

1874
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 1: his surgery. According to injury experts Stefania Bell, the tip

1875
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: recovery time for a torn pectoral muscle is three to

1876
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,320
Speaker 1: four months, so what went on injured reserve. They've now

1877
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 1: designated him to return Houston as a twenty one day

1878
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 1: window to add him to the active roster. Marshawn Lynch

1879
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,240
Speaker 1: and the Seattle Seahawks agreed to a deal of league

1880
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: yesterday as contract for this season only. That means this

1881
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: week's game against San Francisco and the postseason. Seahawks also

1882
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:42,559
Speaker 1: signed Robert Turmint to a contract. Lynch was in Seattle

1883
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: yesterday to take a physical. He spent parts of six

1884
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:48,719
Speaker 1: seasons with the Seahawks from two ten to twenty fifteen,

1885
01:30:48,800 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: helping the team reach two Super Bowls. Ex Panthers coach

1886
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:55,679
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy interviewed with the Carolina Panthers. Ex Packers coach

1887
01:30:55,720 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, as should say, Mike McCarthy interviewed for the

1888
01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: Bacon Head coaching job. The interview took place after the

1889
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:04,320
Speaker 1: Panthers last Sunday to the Indianapolis Colts. Panthers declined to

1890
01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:07,599
Speaker 1: publicly comment on their coaching search. Panthers owner David Pepper

1891
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 1: indicated these leaning toward offensive, my inte coaches, will it

1892
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 1: use analytics? And also the Buffalo Sabers came up with

1893
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,280
Speaker 1: a loss Lestne in Ottawa. They are off now for

1894
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: a Christmas break. And that's the sports update. John Murphy

1895
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:21,680
Speaker 1: and Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo Studio. What's the matter,

1896
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: what's up? Fun? Yeah, you're coming down with something. I know.

1897
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: We're sick and you're going to spend the entire Christmas

1898
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:32,120
Speaker 1: holiday in bed sick. I know, because no, you're not

1899
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 1: feeling your best today. I know that you're gutting it

1900
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 1: out and I appreciate it. You're sure you're a good soldier.

1901
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:38,519
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's all I can thank you. Josh Allen

1902
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: met with the media today after practice. He had a

1903
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:43,080
Speaker 1: number of things to talk about, including how much playing

1904
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 1: time he expects to get this Sunday against the New

1905
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: York Jets. Here's Josh a chance to go out there compete.

1906
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 1: You know, whenever coach says it's time, it's time. But

1907
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:54,240
Speaker 1: when I'm on the field, you know, we're trying to

1908
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 1: go out there. I'm preparing like I'm playing the entire game. Um,

1909
01:31:57,920 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: you know, whenever that time it is for me to

1910
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 1: come out, it's my turn to support Matt. You know

1911
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:04,920
Speaker 1: how he supported me and excited for that opportunity. Do

1912
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: you give any thought? I mean the rest of us do,

1913
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: But how much thought do you give to the whole

1914
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:13,840
Speaker 1: preservation thing, knowing the playoffs the bigger picture and any

1915
01:32:13,920 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 1: time you're out there, there's the risk for you and

1916
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: everybody else. How much of that crosses your well? I

1917
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 1: mean there's risk in practice, there's risk driving around, especially

1918
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 1: up here in the snow. Um, there's risks all over

1919
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 1: the place. And you know, we get paid to play

1920
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: this game. Um, that's our job to go out there.

1921
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:31,040
Speaker 1: And play it. So we're not thinking of injuries or

1922
01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:33,120
Speaker 1: anything like that. We're just trying to go get another win. UM.

1923
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:35,360
Speaker 1: You know, good opponent coming up, and I'm sure they

1924
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: want to They want to come in here and in

1925
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,719
Speaker 1: the season on a good note too. So we're preparing

1926
01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: really hard. You know, our coaches have a good game

1927
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: plan in UM and it's one that we want for sure.

1928
01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:48,480
Speaker 1: You need. Do you feel you couldn't use any opportunity

1929
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: to be out there to get yourself as sharp as

1930
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 1: possible for getting the game that counts to following? Absolutely?

1931
01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:59,600
Speaker 1: You know, any end game experience is extremely valuable to me,

1932
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 1: to this team, to everybody it gets on the field. UM,

1933
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:06,080
Speaker 1: it's more opportunity, it's more experienced different situations in the

1934
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:09,360
Speaker 1: football game. UM. But again, when coach says it's time,

1935
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 1: it's time, it's preached all season time on task. Is

1936
01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 1: this an example of him wanting you guys just to

1937
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 1: be out there because it's more and more reps. Oh,

1938
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: I mean it could be. UM the same time, it's

1939
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: a division rival. You know, we know who we're playing. UM.

1940
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: You know they want in the good season on a

1941
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:30,720
Speaker 1: good note for them, and UM, they'd be happy to

1942
01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: come in here and take a w from us. So

1943
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 1: that's our job to go out there and prepare and

1944
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 1: make sure that doesn't happen, to defend our dirt, um

1945
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:38,599
Speaker 1: and give our fans, which could be our last home

1946
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 1: game of the season, you know, um, a good game.

1947
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:44,080
Speaker 1: I think the reward kind of outweighs the risks of

1948
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: playing in this game. Speaking of that, and Sean talks

1949
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 1: about this that Greg Williams, the coordinator for the Jeffs,

1950
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 1: has this reputation of the aggressive. It's having those guys

1951
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: take those extra hits or whatever on the UM. He

1952
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 1: said that was in factored into the thinking of how

1953
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:07,720
Speaker 1: the utilized personnel. Where do you where do you come

1954
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,840
Speaker 1: in on that idea? Um? You know, I go out

1955
01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 1: there and I played the game. How I know how

1956
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 1: to play it. Um. You know, they don't go out

1957
01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 1: there and try to take hits, you know, trying to

1958
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:19,600
Speaker 1: get the ball out quickly and get the ball to

1959
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: our playmakers, let them make some plays. Um. But as

1960
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:25,640
Speaker 1: far as you know, game plan wise or whatever it is,

1961
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 1: you know, we're still figuring that out and still trying

1962
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,599
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to win this game. And UM,

1963
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: whether I'm in there for one series, the half, three quarters,

1964
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know, we want to go out

1965
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 1: there and you know, execute how we know how to execute.

1966
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 1: You guys have essentially averaged about two touchdowns per game

1967
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: a season. I'm sure you're not satisfied with that. Where

1968
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: do you guys as you go into the playoffs, need

1969
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:48,600
Speaker 1: to need to make that approup. But to pick that

1970
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:50,280
Speaker 1: number up a little bit now, you know, obviously we

1971
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:52,600
Speaker 1: want to score more. Were to execute, Um, you know,

1972
01:34:52,680 --> 01:34:55,720
Speaker 1: take care of the football, you know, but we're not

1973
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 1: trying to go out there and score six seven touchdowns

1974
01:34:58,360 --> 01:34:59,680
Speaker 1: a game. We're trying to go win a football game

1975
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 1: in the matter or you know what it means. Um.

1976
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: You know we're playing smart ball right now and whatever

1977
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 1: we need to do to win a game is what

1978
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 1: we want to do. Talk about the first thing we

1979
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 1: will do. It is one that you learned a lot

1980
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: of lessons and now having a couple of days to

1981
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:15,640
Speaker 1: look back at the second one, what lessons did you

1982
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: want in front of this time around? UM? I mean

1983
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: still a couple of things. UM, just understanding different sorts

1984
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:23,760
Speaker 1: of pressures and what they're trying to do when they

1985
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: bring certain guys and they loop the alignement. Um, but

1986
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like I saw things pretty well.

1987
01:35:29,880 --> 01:35:31,960
Speaker 1: We went back and watch the tape, watch the tape

1988
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:34,880
Speaker 1: and obviously find some more completions early on and get

1989
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:37,200
Speaker 1: off to a hot start would have helped us out tremendously.

1990
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:41,480
Speaker 1: And obviously that you know, uh first and goal situation

1991
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 1: with a couple of minutes left. Obviously we learned a

1992
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:45,680
Speaker 1: lot there and what we can do and what we

1993
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:49,600
Speaker 1: can't do. UM. So just more in game experience that

1994
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:51,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn from. And uh, you know, I'm just

1995
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:54,560
Speaker 1: thankful I got to be in that UM operation and

1996
01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 1: that opportunity to have that. But those are ones that

1997
01:35:57,280 --> 01:36:00,120
Speaker 1: we got to have. Game. I know you said then

1998
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,640
Speaker 1: maybe it was kind of some pregame jitters or anxiousness

1999
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 1: that might have prevented you from getting in that rhythm

2000
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 1: that you would have liked to be in right from

2001
01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,599
Speaker 1: the start. What do you need to do to kind

2002
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:13,280
Speaker 1: of make sure that doesn't happen as you go into

2003
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, your first playoff game. And um, I mean,

2004
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, as far as being excited being anxious, that

2005
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,040
Speaker 1: happens to you know a lot of players before the game,

2006
01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 1: and it's just means that we care, means that we're

2007
01:36:24,160 --> 01:36:26,960
Speaker 1: excited for the opportunity that we have at hand. You know,

2008
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 1: just trying to calm down early, like I said, find

2009
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:32,400
Speaker 1: completions early on, get myself settled in. UM. You know

2010
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: that's that's what we'll do going forward, and UM what

2011
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:38,160
Speaker 1: I'll try to do transition from high school player to

2012
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:41,919
Speaker 1: college player, rookie in the NFL and out established starting quarterback.

2013
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 1: What's that been like? Going to children's hospitals and reaching

2014
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 1: out and knowing that you, because you are you are

2015
01:36:49,280 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 1: bringing them joy, especially around Christmas time. Yeah, I mean

2016
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 1: I remember being a kid and looking up to guys

2017
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:59,200
Speaker 1: that are you know that we're in my situation, you

2018
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:01,439
Speaker 1: know that I am in now and just knowing that

2019
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:04,120
Speaker 1: a simple gesture is a high or a high five,

2020
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,280
Speaker 1: or going to see them, letting them know that I

2021
01:37:06,400 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: care about them, letting them know that people care about

2022
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 1: them in the community. UM. I know that would have

2023
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:13,479
Speaker 1: done for me when I was little. So UM, any

2024
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: any chance, any opportunity I can to do that for

2025
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: you know, children, especially the ones that are going through

2026
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:20,719
Speaker 1: a hard time. UM. You know that no child should

2027
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:23,680
Speaker 1: be going through UM during holiday season and making sure

2028
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:26,080
Speaker 1: that their families know that. You know that we care

2029
01:37:26,120 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 1: about the community, we care about their kids, and um,

2030
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 1: you know, our job is not only just to be

2031
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: football players, but to be good people off the field.

2032
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:36,719
Speaker 1: And I truly believe that. What's your favorite Christmas present?

2033
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:39,040
Speaker 1: Growing up? Um, we were talking about this in the

2034
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: quarterback room to day. Mine was a green machine. It

2035
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:43,439
Speaker 1: was like a little trike that we had the controls

2036
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:45,360
Speaker 1: up here and you laid back and me and my

2037
01:37:45,439 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: brother we went pretty crazy on those. And um, you know,

2038
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 1: living in the country, we had a lot of space

2039
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 1: to go drive those, and that there's some good memories

2040
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:56,519
Speaker 1: out there and you're not in your head like you

2041
01:37:56,600 --> 01:37:59,040
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. It was like a trice.

2042
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 1: It like a big wheel us to be, except that

2043
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 1: the wheel was a reclining and you'd peddle it and

2044
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: the and the steering mechanism was like the back wheels

2045
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: instead of the front and they were on the sides

2046
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, it was cool machine, pretty cool. I

2047
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:15,160
Speaker 1: mean it was buying it for the kids, right, it was. Yeah,

2048
01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:19,040
Speaker 1: it was not my generation. I'm not that far behind you, So, yeah,

2049
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:21,800
Speaker 1: I had friends who had him. I didn't I didn't

2050
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:24,400
Speaker 1: get it was never on high on my list. Josh says, oh,

2051
01:38:24,439 --> 01:38:26,320
Speaker 1: there it is. Okay, there's a picture of the green Machine.

2052
01:38:26,840 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 1: Nice the huffy Green Machine action video, Green Machine twenty

2053
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:32,840
Speaker 1: inch three wheel tricycle. Well, that's cool. A lot of

2054
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:35,640
Speaker 1: good things from Josh there. He understands. And if he

2055
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, if he didn't want to play, or if

2056
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 1: he didn't want to or he didn't want to sit,

2057
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 1: and he's going to do both Sunday. He didn't indicate

2058
01:38:42,080 --> 01:38:44,680
Speaker 1: that in today's news conference. He's a good soldier man.

2059
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:46,519
Speaker 1: You gotta give him that. He is a good soldier.

2060
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 1: He he agrees with what they're doing, he says, and

2061
01:38:48,920 --> 01:38:51,360
Speaker 1: thinks it's the right message. And in this respect, I'll

2062
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 1: say this is a little bit insignificant, but not all

2063
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: that insignificant, is I think it's more of a symptom

2064
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:59,240
Speaker 1: than anything else. That's why the culture is what it

2065
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:01,719
Speaker 1: is here. You don't have to worry about somebody pouting

2066
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 1: in the locker room about not playing that. This team

2067
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 1: doesn't do that. He's just excited for Matt Barkley getting

2068
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:09,640
Speaker 1: a chance to play, as he is for himself. He

2069
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: knows the big picture. He's happy for his teammates. He's

2070
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 1: happy for what they've accomplished. Let's go, and whether he

2071
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:17,800
Speaker 1: plays or not doesn't mean he can't contribute. And I'm

2072
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:21,639
Speaker 1: sure he's one. And when you got your quarterback face

2073
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: of the franchise doing that, you know, what's a you know,

2074
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: rum dumb special teams player gonna do same thing. He's like, yeah,

2075
01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm happy for. Let's go, guys, let's play.

2076
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:36,960
Speaker 1: That's when culture is like, it's like, oh, yeah, of course,

2077
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. That's the way it should be. Yeah,

2078
01:39:39,640 --> 01:39:42,080
Speaker 1: it's not that way on every team. No, I know,

2079
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: it's not that way. Teams might have an issue with

2080
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 1: who's playing, who's not playing, who's up, who's down. You know,

2081
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 1: the Bills don't have that issue, and not so much

2082
01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 1: of these days, but he used to be way back

2083
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: in the day. We're players to have incentives. I need

2084
01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: two catches to get a six figure bonus, and then

2085
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 1: it's an issue guys are guys are you know, having

2086
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:02,639
Speaker 1: a heart to heart with the head coach and what's

2087
01:40:02,680 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: going on? You know? And there have been nightmare scenarios

2088
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:09,840
Speaker 1: on both sides of that. So um yeah, that to

2089
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:12,400
Speaker 1: have built a culture like they have here in Buffalo.

2090
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:15,639
Speaker 1: That's that's your guy right there. That's how it works.

2091
01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:18,639
Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm all for you man. You're not gonna

2092
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:22,560
Speaker 1: you know, I play well enough to create a quarterback controversy.

2093
01:40:22,720 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's let's win. Sean mcderummard talked about Josh

2094
01:40:26,200 --> 01:40:29,280
Speaker 1: Allen earlier today. He said, uh, you know, he's gonna

2095
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:31,360
Speaker 1: play Josh Allen, He's gonna start him, but he plans

2096
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:34,200
Speaker 1: on getting Matt Barkley reps as well. And he was asked,

2097
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 1: what does he need to see from Josh Allen still?

2098
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 1: What is he looking for? That's why they're one of

2099
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: the reasons why he is playing this Sunday. Here's McDermot

2100
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 1: and what he still needs to see from Josh Allen

2101
01:40:44,400 --> 01:40:49,360
Speaker 1: at quarterback. It's overall execution in those situations in the game.

2102
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:51,880
Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job of it before half,

2103
01:40:51,920 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 1: and now it's what happens differently at the end of

2104
01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:56,760
Speaker 1: the game. We've moved the ball, excuse me, to put

2105
01:40:56,800 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 1: ourselves in position. Now it's finishing off, finishing those situations, uh,

2106
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 1: and not getting behind the sticks sometimes where we're hey,

2107
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: it's fourth and ten, it's fourth and eight, maybe it's

2108
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 1: fourth and whatever you like. If you have a fourth down,

2109
01:41:10,120 --> 01:41:11,519
Speaker 1: you like it at fourth and five and fourth and

2110
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: four naturally there so, but overall, it's just all of us,

2111
01:41:15,960 --> 01:41:18,559
Speaker 1: myself included, just executing at a higher level. And that's

2112
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: time on task and that's where practice comes in, and

2113
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:24,680
Speaker 1: certainly using the experience we had from those games this year.

2114
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: Sean mcdermmer talking about what he needs to see from

2115
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He also talked about the risk reward consideration

2116
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 1: on player usage. You know, how he uses these guys.

2117
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 1: It has something to do with, you know, the risk

2118
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:37,200
Speaker 1: of putting him out there, the risk of being injured,

2119
01:41:37,400 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: and the reward of having him played. Sean mcderbott elaborates

2120
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:44,680
Speaker 1: on that, I think every team is different, Vic and

2121
01:41:44,760 --> 01:41:47,200
Speaker 1: where we are. We feel like this is right for

2122
01:41:47,479 --> 01:41:51,479
Speaker 1: this team this year, in this situation, and you and

2123
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:54,680
Speaker 1: you you try and balance that. Listen, there's only one

2124
01:41:56,200 --> 01:41:58,160
Speaker 1: there's only one person that knows, and that's not me

2125
01:41:58,240 --> 01:42:00,040
Speaker 1: in terms of the man upstairs, and we try to

2126
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: do what's right for our football team with one goal

2127
01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: in mind and every decision we make, and I think

2128
01:42:05,880 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: we've been consistent with that. We care about every single

2129
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 1: one of our players. Some are going to play more

2130
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: than others. I wish I could take them all out, honestly,

2131
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: I wish I could. Just don't have the numbers to

2132
01:42:15,280 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: do that, um in terms of when we do take

2133
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 1: certain players out. So that's where we are. There's there's

2134
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:27,160
Speaker 1: there's a thousand variables in this yes equation and gives

2135
01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: Sean credit for not trying to be trying to sound

2136
01:42:30,400 --> 01:42:32,519
Speaker 1: like you know exactly what the right thing to do.

2137
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:35,599
Speaker 1: He's taking a chance, right, It's a risk reward taking

2138
01:42:35,640 --> 01:42:38,920
Speaker 1: a chance by having Josh Allen play, willing to take

2139
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,920
Speaker 1: the chance to interesting too. The acknowledges if we get

2140
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:43,960
Speaker 1: in this spot again, it may we may do it different, right,

2141
01:42:44,840 --> 01:42:46,800
Speaker 1: And it's he's been on teams and I saw a

2142
01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 1: stat and I can't remember. He's been in a ton

2143
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:51,679
Speaker 1: of playoffs scenarios as an assistant coach, and of course

2144
01:42:51,760 --> 01:42:55,320
Speaker 1: one is a head coach, and he's seen it both

2145
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:57,559
Speaker 1: ways where they rest guys and they've had by all

2146
01:42:57,640 --> 01:42:59,880
Speaker 1: that stuff, and then you know where you you strike

2147
01:43:00,120 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: this balance. And he said it best, he said, this year,

2148
01:43:04,960 --> 01:43:09,720
Speaker 1: for this team, in this situation, we think it's the

2149
01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 1: right thing to do right that it's right where that's

2150
01:43:14,400 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: where you expect it to be. You can't. And you

2151
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 1: get these guys. Now, we're gonna work, you know the

2152
01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:20,280
Speaker 1: old Mike Ditka thing. We're gonna play. We're gonna play

2153
01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: to win. We're gonna you know, da da day and

2154
01:43:22,720 --> 01:43:24,519
Speaker 1: you know that, and you can do that. I get it,

2155
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:28,640
Speaker 1: but you got I think the key for me is

2156
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: as an old as an old player. And I said

2157
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 1: this earlier in the show. Tell the players specifically what

2158
01:43:33,560 --> 01:43:35,840
Speaker 1: you're thinking so that they're not sitting there looking over

2159
01:43:35,880 --> 01:43:38,080
Speaker 1: their shoulder every snap stand. Is this the play coming out?

2160
01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 1: Is this the play I'm coming out? Is this the

2161
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,680
Speaker 1: play coming out? Because they're not concentrating on what they

2162
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: need to concentrate on, not only to compete well, but

2163
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: to go one hundred percent all the time. I can

2164
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:50,280
Speaker 1: remember Marv struggling with this decision also, and he had

2165
01:43:50,280 --> 01:43:52,200
Speaker 1: to make that decision a couple of times. It was

2166
01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: a struggle. I can remember Marv and Bill Paulian, who

2167
01:43:55,360 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 1: just like now they got the general manager involved too,

2168
01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,720
Speaker 1: having discussions about who to play and how much they

2169
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: should play and what's at stake, And eventually, you know,

2170
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 1: it was kind of a different era, but not really.

2171
01:44:06,600 --> 01:44:09,680
Speaker 1: And eventually Paulian had to say, hey, we earned the

2172
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:12,120
Speaker 1: right to do whatever we want. We've already clinched everything.

2173
01:44:12,160 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: And the Bills have clinched everything they managed to clinch.

2174
01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 1: They can't clinch anything more. They've earned the right to

2175
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,600
Speaker 1: let players rest. But there was one year in particular

2176
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:25,559
Speaker 1: where we played the NFC North Chicago, Detroit, green Bay

2177
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:29,960
Speaker 1: and uh, whoever the othersodes Minnesota. I don't think we

2178
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:31,640
Speaker 1: played at all. I think we missed. I didn't think

2179
01:44:31,680 --> 01:44:34,799
Speaker 1: we played Minnesota. But we played, you know, Chicago, green Bay, Detroit,

2180
01:44:35,439 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: and uh we beat in Chicago here and then we

2181
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 1: had like Detroit at the end of the season and

2182
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 1: it was for the division title. And Mike Dicken to

2183
01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:47,280
Speaker 1: Chicago was bummed, we're gonna rest guys, you know, And

2184
01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:48,800
Speaker 1: he says, we're trying to win a division. We need

2185
01:44:48,840 --> 01:44:50,160
Speaker 1: you to beat them to help us get in and

2186
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 1: win the division. Data da DA, and and you know

2187
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:53,760
Speaker 1: that was brought to Marv's attention. He says, hey, win

2188
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 1: your own championship. We got one we're trying to win. Yeah,

2189
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, we're yeah, we're worried about our guys. I mean,

2190
01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:02,560
Speaker 1: I all due respect, I'm I got this team to

2191
01:45:02,600 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 1: worry about. I can't worry about your championship. And that's

2192
01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 1: that's kind of the attack you have to take. It's

2193
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:11,720
Speaker 1: about these guys in this room, this year, this week, right,

2194
01:45:12,680 --> 01:45:15,759
Speaker 1: because it might if there were three guys who were injured.

2195
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: Those guys are automatic. You know, you take those office job.

2196
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:20,360
Speaker 1: But if you don't have that many guys that are

2197
01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:22,560
Speaker 1: like tie in second, he ain't gonna play. You know,

2198
01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:28,479
Speaker 1: it changes the equation on a day to day basis

2199
01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: what happens if you know, Smoke Brown kind of gets

2200
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:35,760
Speaker 1: a stiff hamstring, tomorrow he's out right. So all this

2201
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:39,000
Speaker 1: stuff is fluid up to the moment and there they'll

2202
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:40,800
Speaker 1: have more conversations by the end of the week. It

2203
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:43,320
Speaker 1: may here's this thing. I was thinking this. We're going in.

2204
01:45:43,400 --> 01:45:46,000
Speaker 1: We're you're preparing, Josh, you have you get after the

2205
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:48,679
Speaker 1: warm ups, You're looking around, you're thinking, okay, good Josh,

2206
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 1: you're not taking a single snap. Sorry I lied, or

2207
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:55,679
Speaker 1: we just just changed our mind. Change I changed my mind. Barkley,

2208
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,320
Speaker 1: you're in you know it may have you know, it's

2209
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 1: a moment by moment thing where you just got it.

2210
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: I mean he really, he got two fingers up on

2211
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:04,519
Speaker 1: the side of your neck, feeling the pulse of your team,

2212
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:07,679
Speaker 1: and if there's a flutter there, it changes you. Sure,

2213
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: so I'm all about it. And he's you can tell

2214
01:46:10,840 --> 01:46:14,680
Speaker 1: his mindset. You're right and this year, right right now,

2215
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 1: and this team in this game, we're gonna play our guys.

2216
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:19,479
Speaker 1: We think it's the right thing. We think it's the

2217
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:24,080
Speaker 1: right thing. Think. Yeah, I give him credit. Let's take

2218
01:46:24,080 --> 01:46:26,120
Speaker 1: a few phone called Stephen west Seneca. You're on the

2219
01:46:26,160 --> 01:46:28,920
Speaker 1: air of the Steave. Hello, go ahead, Hey guys, I

2220
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:32,519
Speaker 1: love your show. Never miss uh. I just I don't

2221
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen's getting enough credit national media, some of

2222
01:46:36,080 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 1: the local media. I think, uh, of course he could

2223
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:42,720
Speaker 1: improve his ancoracy. I think all young quarterbacks can. But

2224
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 1: I think he's three to one. He's almost thirty to

2225
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:50,280
Speaker 1: ten total touchdowns interceptions. How many times are we deep

2226
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:52,400
Speaker 1: in our own end and he bails us out with

2227
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: a clutch third and long. I've seen it several times

2228
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 1: this season, and the big thing for me to no

2229
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: one brings up. I watched a lot of these other

2230
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:04,719
Speaker 1: young quarterback x Mayfield, Rossette and their throll passes, getting

2231
01:47:04,800 --> 01:47:08,240
Speaker 1: receivers injured on a regular and I never see Alan

2232
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:10,880
Speaker 1: very seldom that he lays a guy. He gets them

2233
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 1: blowing up, And I think, I just think those things

2234
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:15,560
Speaker 1: are a little subtle parts of the game that a

2235
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 1: lot of people don't don't appreciate. Yeah, it's a good point.

2236
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:21,640
Speaker 1: All good points actually tell you that through Steve, you

2237
01:47:21,680 --> 01:47:25,040
Speaker 1: know what, that's good. The one thing Josh does not do,

2238
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:26,680
Speaker 1: and the one thing he needs to get better at,

2239
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 1: is to get better starts to these games. Right, do

2240
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:31,519
Speaker 1: you grease Steve? I mean he doesn't. He's not a

2241
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:33,880
Speaker 1: fast starting guy. Right. He did it the first time

2242
01:47:34,200 --> 01:47:37,720
Speaker 1: Week one against the Jets. They were down sixteen to nothing.

2243
01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:40,080
Speaker 1: He just was a slow start. Finally came back and

2244
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 1: scored seventeen straight and won the game. Okay, but he

2245
01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:45,120
Speaker 1: needs to get off to a better start. I don't

2246
01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:48,640
Speaker 1: know if there's something about his warm up routine or

2247
01:47:48,680 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 1: about his his you know, his effort to get himself loose.

2248
01:47:52,600 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 1: But he's just not ready to go right at the

2249
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 1: start of the game. He used and then conversely, by

2250
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:58,960
Speaker 1: the time you get to the fourth quarter, he's on fire.

2251
01:47:59,200 --> 01:48:02,200
Speaker 1: Here in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I don't know what,

2252
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:04,519
Speaker 1: and I get it, and Steve made some good points

2253
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 1: to callers. They're a bit let's face it, Bill's fans

2254
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:09,200
Speaker 1: and we kind of you kind of live and die

2255
01:48:10,400 --> 01:48:13,639
Speaker 1: with the team. There's been some moments that have made

2256
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, man, that's our guy. Wow, look at

2257
01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:18,760
Speaker 1: did you see our guy right? Then you know that

2258
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:20,400
Speaker 1: as you get two or three of those a game

2259
01:48:20,439 --> 01:48:24,080
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, you know, it's it's been fun

2260
01:48:24,200 --> 01:48:27,040
Speaker 1: to watch. We saw him come in and you didn't

2261
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: know how and man to see him make a play

2262
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:31,040
Speaker 1: with his legs or his arm, or make a throw

2263
01:48:31,120 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: that nobody else can make, and you see it a

2264
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:35,920
Speaker 1: handful of times a game where man, oh, man, that

2265
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: is awesome. You know he's our guy. But then you

2266
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 1: know he has the other moments where it's he misses

2267
01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:43,559
Speaker 1: a guy by two feet, or he throws over overthrows

2268
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: the deep ball when the guy's open, the played at

2269
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 1: Dawson knocks in the back of the ends and all

2270
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:50,360
Speaker 1: this stuff. You see both ends of it, and he's right.

2271
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: The numbers say he's gotten much better. Thirty touchdowns both

2272
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 1: running and passing, and ten ten turnovers. That's pretty good.

2273
01:48:58,640 --> 01:49:00,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big thing about the step that

2274
01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:03,759
Speaker 1: is he's completing just shy a sixty percent of his passes.

2275
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:06,920
Speaker 1: That's a big step forward. And you can see two

2276
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: in the second half of this year since the Tennessee game. Man,

2277
01:49:11,080 --> 01:49:14,400
Speaker 1: he just doesn't throw picks either. So he's got a

2278
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: lot of things he's doing extremely well. And you're right, Murph.

2279
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:19,160
Speaker 1: The one thing right now that would really help the

2280
01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 1: entire team just get off to a little faster start,

2281
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:23,920
Speaker 1: even if you're going to score seventeen points, scorm a

2282
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: little earlier, you know. And I think I'm totally with you,

2283
01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 1: and I think there is some things the coaching staff

2284
01:49:31,320 --> 01:49:33,960
Speaker 1: is trying to do to help him. I still go

2285
01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: back to this, he's young, and he's kind of that

2286
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:39,760
Speaker 1: competitor guy, and I think at this point that's still

2287
01:49:39,840 --> 01:49:43,160
Speaker 1: kind of is a bad thing in the beginning of

2288
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 1: these games, because he gets his adrenaline going, he wants

2289
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:48,720
Speaker 1: the big he doesn't take the easy completions early on,

2290
01:49:49,200 --> 01:49:52,200
Speaker 1: or he guns them, or he sees him too early

2291
01:49:52,320 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: and then stares the receiver down right. So he does

2292
01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:57,160
Speaker 1: this stuff, and I think it's an adrenaline pump that

2293
01:49:57,240 --> 01:49:59,560
Speaker 1: he gets. It's a contributing factor I think that he

2294
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:02,040
Speaker 1: gets this adrenaline pump early in the game. He's like,

2295
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:06,120
Speaker 1: he just needs a bro, just relax. Take a couple

2296
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:08,160
Speaker 1: of easy ones early on, and he's into it. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's more the mindset, because when he gets

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Speaker 1: in there, you can just tell he's got the throttle

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Speaker 1: all the way up and bent forward right he's I mean,

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01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 1: he's got his foot on the gas work from the

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Speaker 1: word go. And I think early in the games, I

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Speaker 1: think it's almost at this point because he's so yeah,

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01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:23,840
Speaker 1: he's it's a detriment to him. Let's take him of

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Speaker 1: the call. One more call here Harvey in Amherst. Harvey,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. Go ahead, Hi Harvey, Hi Harvey.

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Speaker 1: Stephen John just want to wish you a happy Holiday's

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Speaker 1: number one. You're talking about Knox and the end zone.

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Speaker 1: I watching the New England game noticed one. It wasn't

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01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:48,280
Speaker 1: the first overthrow, the one later in the game where

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01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:52,320
Speaker 1: he ball thrown into the end zone and Knox stead

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01:50:52,360 --> 01:50:56,400
Speaker 1: of taking the step, he should have elevated himself and

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01:50:56,640 --> 01:50:58,760
Speaker 1: he could have caught that ball. It was a catchable ball.

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01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 1: I think these receivers got to lay themselves out a

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01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: little bit for Josh here, make some catches and he'll

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01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 1: build more momentum himself and they'll be like the days

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01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 1: of the Reids, you know where they Well Steve did

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01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:14,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of that back then too, but he

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01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: was more of a you know, return guy. But you know,

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01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:20,720
Speaker 1: these receivers got to start coming through for him too

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01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:23,479
Speaker 1: and making the exception, and I think you'll see a

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Speaker 1: difference in his passing. There's a little bit of that, Harvey,

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01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:28,240
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I can agree with you on

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01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:31,760
Speaker 1: certain occasions, but as a general rule, and I've said

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Speaker 1: this since the beginning, I think the quarterback makes the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers in the tight ends. There is no there's

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01:51:37,920 --> 01:51:42,640
Speaker 1: no secret formula except that you look at all the

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01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:45,080
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks and the guys that they have on their

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01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 1: team are a lot of times are made great by

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Speaker 1: the guy pulling the trigger. Drew Brees, Michael Thomas in

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01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Keenan Allen, and Philip Rivers. You can go

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01:51:56,400 --> 01:52:00,519
Speaker 1: you know, Julian Edelman and Tom Brady can go down

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01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:03,679
Speaker 1: the list. These guys are made by the guy throwing

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01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:05,439
Speaker 1: him the football. And you look at even the guys

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01:52:05,479 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, Juju Smith Schuster was gonna have a monster

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01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:11,439
Speaker 1: year and all, and he's got Now, he's got Mason

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01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:15,200
Speaker 1: Rudolph and Duck Hodges throwing him the football instead of

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01:52:15,200 --> 01:52:19,640
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer in Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger has

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01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:22,080
Speaker 1: made a ton of guys a lot of money because

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01:52:22,120 --> 01:52:25,960
Speaker 1: he can throw it. Aaron Rodgers, same thing. He's gone

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01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:29,040
Speaker 1: through a bunch of receivers. It's it's rare. Now there

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01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:31,080
Speaker 1: are certain receivers who can do that. I mean, you

2342
01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:33,840
Speaker 1: look at Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona. He's made a lot

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01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:36,519
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks look pretty good, but they don't win many

2344
01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:39,960
Speaker 1: games in Arizona consistently, year to year to year to year.

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01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:43,720
Speaker 1: He's out there by himself and without that quarterback to

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01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:47,640
Speaker 1: do that, they don't win. So I get what you're saying. Occasionally,

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01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:50,760
Speaker 1: Bill's receivers. You know, Dawson Knoxing weeks ago, had you know,

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01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: drops h Cole Beasley's dropped a few balls. You've had

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01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:56,280
Speaker 1: guys who you know, you'd think, oh, man, I wish

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01:52:56,320 --> 01:52:57,560
Speaker 1: you'd have made that catch. You would have been a

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01:52:57,600 --> 01:52:59,479
Speaker 1: tough catch. But he made it. But I'm telling you

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01:52:59,560 --> 01:53:02,479
Speaker 1: this right now, the guy pulling the trigger makes the

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01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:05,760
Speaker 1: other end of the route better. That's kind of the

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01:53:05,960 --> 01:53:10,400
Speaker 1: rule that follows pro football. The guy pulling the trigger

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01:53:10,479 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 1: makes everybody better, and that starts with the guys who

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01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 1: catch it, whatever position they're playing. So I get what

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01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:18,640
Speaker 1: you're saying. Yeah, there's one or two plays that are

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01:53:18,680 --> 01:53:20,160
Speaker 1: left on the field by the guys on the other

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01:53:20,280 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 1: end of Josh's passes. But these games are one and

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01:53:23,200 --> 01:53:25,560
Speaker 1: lost and up and down because of Josh's arm and

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01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 1: his accuracy. Hey, what's on your Christmas list? Says the

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01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:30,759
Speaker 1: Bills end of the playoffs. Let's go to the tweet

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01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:34,000
Speaker 1: Cheap Roucure by Carrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of

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01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:36,920
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. What's on your Christmas witch list? TC

2365
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,760
Speaker 1: Puccio says, what I want for Christmas is just one

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01:53:39,840 --> 01:53:42,640
Speaker 1: win in the playoffs, something to build off of a

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01:53:42,760 --> 01:53:46,040
Speaker 1: second round gut wrenching loss close, something that they stew

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01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 1: over the whole off season and gives them some motivation

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01:53:48,680 --> 01:53:51,400
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty, like back in nineteen eighty nine. Okay,

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01:53:51,920 --> 01:53:54,479
Speaker 1: why not two wins in the playoffs and then have

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01:53:54,600 --> 01:53:57,000
Speaker 1: a gut wrenching one to stew over. I don't want

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01:53:57,040 --> 01:53:58,840
Speaker 1: to limit ourselves the one. I think they can win

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01:53:58,920 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: one and maybe two. I could go without the gut wrenching.

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01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:04,639
Speaker 1: I've still got scar tissue from my last gut wrenching

2375
01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 1: every time they won the year, it's been gut wrenching. Right,

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01:54:07,680 --> 01:54:09,760
Speaker 1: let's go to Reese. He says, I wish for Trey

2377
01:54:09,840 --> 01:54:12,519
Speaker 1: White to get the game winning pick six against Mahomes

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01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. That would be sweet, excellent, that would

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01:54:15,840 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 1: be a championship, right, Yeah, that would be awesome. What

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01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:22,960
Speaker 1: else you got there? In the tweet from Patricus, Josh

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01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:25,120
Speaker 1: Allen comes out of the Jets game healthy and ready

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01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:27,799
Speaker 1: for the wild card game, especially against a Jets defense

2383
01:54:27,880 --> 01:54:31,760
Speaker 1: coach by Greg Williams, former Bills head coach, also from

2384
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 1: Conserve my energy. I guess I see where he's at.

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01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:38,600
Speaker 1: Conserve my energy as he beat the Patriots in the

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01:54:38,640 --> 01:54:41,440
Speaker 1: playoffs and go to the Super Bowl. Simple, simple, he did.

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01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:45,160
Speaker 1: Conserve energy. Conserve energy from Dinah, What do you want

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01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:47,560
Speaker 1: on the Bills for the Bills Christmas wish? Dinah says

2389
01:54:47,560 --> 01:54:49,720
Speaker 1: all the Bills to stay healthy, the Bills to win

2390
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:52,839
Speaker 1: their next five games, and Steve Tasker to be inducted

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01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:57,360
Speaker 1: to the Hall of fame. Okay, reluctantly circle that one. Okay,

2392
01:54:57,600 --> 01:55:00,240
Speaker 1: just to keep track, and Caleb tweets this and this

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01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:03,640
Speaker 1: year's Christmas one. A strong finish to the regular season

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01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:07,400
Speaker 1: okay two. A Bill's defense and more crucially, offense shows

2395
01:55:07,480 --> 01:55:10,520
Speaker 1: up big in the playoffs three more than one playoff

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01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:14,640
Speaker 1: victory four optimism Heading into twenty twenty five, Patriots are

2397
01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:18,120
Speaker 1: defeated handily in their first playoff appearance. Boom, I'm on

2398
01:55:18,280 --> 01:55:21,080
Speaker 1: with all of it. Love it, love it, love every

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01:55:21,160 --> 01:55:23,680
Speaker 1: one of those things. Yeah, all right, we got a break.

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01:55:23,720 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: When we come back, we will. We got a special

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01:55:26,280 --> 01:55:30,320
Speaker 1: What's for Lunch about Christmas? I guess Christmas edition of

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01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:33,120
Speaker 1: What's for Lunch that's coming up has absolutely nothing to

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01:55:33,160 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 1: do with the Bills. Were football? Okay, perfect, perfect for

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01:55:35,560 --> 01:55:39,480
Speaker 1: our show. We'll do that when we return and welcome back.

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01:55:40,160 --> 01:55:42,960
Speaker 1: In a moment one goes Live presented by Kalida Health

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01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:45,880
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, timed out four Reads Milestones

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01:56:03,400 --> 01:56:06,440
Speaker 1: brought to you by Reads Jewelers, the official jewelers of

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01:56:06,520 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. The Bills concluded the road portion of

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01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:12,000
Speaker 1: the regular season with six road winds. Six and two

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01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:16,200
Speaker 1: tied for the most road wins in franchise history sixty four,

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01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:19,320
Speaker 1: ninety one, and ninety three. They also had six wins

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01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 1: milestones presented by Reads Jewelers, the official jeweler of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Very nice, very very nice. A good season.

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Speaker 1: What's for lunch? Steve? All right, just get it? It's

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01:56:29,600 --> 01:56:32,880
Speaker 1: a holiday edition for what to what's for lunch? We

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01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 1: got to pick one or the other from the menu.

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01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:37,960
Speaker 1: I'll take the chicken here. We're not picking out that.

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01:56:38,320 --> 01:56:40,200
Speaker 1: We'll get maybe down the list of little ways. Okay,

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01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:42,080
Speaker 1: all right, here we go, Murph, what's for lunch? First

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01:56:42,120 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 1: thing on the menu? Which is better Christmas Eve or

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01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:48,640
Speaker 1: Christmas Day? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. One. That's

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01:56:48,640 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: a tough one. Now does it change now that you

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01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:54,400
Speaker 1: and you and I are both kind of mostly empty nesters? Yeah,

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01:56:54,520 --> 01:56:56,360
Speaker 1: that kind of changes things, right, it does. I'm not

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01:56:56,400 --> 01:56:58,240
Speaker 1: sure if we'll have anybody except my wife and I

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01:56:58,360 --> 01:57:01,080
Speaker 1: at home, but on Christmas Eve we'll go to my

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01:57:01,160 --> 01:57:04,000
Speaker 1: brothers tonight in lockporton go to my son and Niagara

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01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:06,920
Speaker 1: Falls tomorrow. Hammerson is dictated by your mood today in

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01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:10,640
Speaker 1: particular rather than just in a normal year. Oh, I'll

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01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 1: suck it up. I'll beause we're both kind of sliding

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01:57:13,720 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: sideways into nobody cares. You know, you care. Maybe one

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01:57:18,160 --> 01:57:19,600
Speaker 1: or two of our listeners care. I'll tell you, what

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01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:21,240
Speaker 1: are the people I gotta be with tonight? They don't

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01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: care whether whether it feel fine? So what is it?

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01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:25,840
Speaker 1: Christmas Air, Christmas Eve? Don't know, that's a tough question.

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01:57:25,960 --> 01:57:28,760
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna go with Christmas Eve tonight. I

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01:57:28,880 --> 01:57:31,920
Speaker 1: guess what about you. I think I'm a big Christmas

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01:57:32,040 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 1: Day guy. Um, I like Christmas Eve. It's always together family. Yeah, yeah,

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01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:39,080
Speaker 1: well we'll go out, we'll go to church and all that,

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01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 1: you know as well. But Christmas Day I like it

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01:57:41,880 --> 01:57:48,000
Speaker 1: because man, it is an absolutely zero effort Dan for

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01:57:48,080 --> 01:57:50,360
Speaker 1: the most part. Plus if and whether you have family

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01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:52,200
Speaker 1: over and I like, you know, we have families, We

2445
01:57:52,320 --> 01:57:55,240
Speaker 1: have big families. And and whether you're with family or not,

2446
01:57:56,280 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 1: it's both great, it's okay, it's both okay for you.

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01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: So I think I'm a big christ Miss Day fan

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01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:02,400
Speaker 1: because you got the whole day. Christmas Eve is great

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01:58:02,400 --> 01:58:05,760
Speaker 1: because you know, it's you got the day off. The

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01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:09,040
Speaker 1: next day. I don't know. It's I'm a big day guy,

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01:58:09,160 --> 01:58:11,560
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the truth? Yeah, Thanksgiving would be

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01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:13,920
Speaker 1: my choice. And I missed Thanksgiving. This guy, I know

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01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: that's the day you were playing, right, that's yeah. See

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01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 1: that's a big hole in your calendar this year. Right, Yeah,

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01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:21,400
Speaker 1: that's gonna leave some scar tissue. Okay, better Christmas. I

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01:58:21,440 --> 01:58:23,280
Speaker 1: got the second thing on the minute. So you say

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01:58:23,360 --> 01:58:25,600
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, I say Christmas Day? Second thing for lunch?

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01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 1: What's the better Christmas meal? Ham, turkey or lasagna? I

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01:58:30,160 --> 01:58:33,040
Speaker 1: gotta say this. I didn't know lasagnia was a thing. No,

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01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't know either it is. I was just talking

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01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 1: to the guy all the crew out in the in

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01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:38,200
Speaker 1: the control where might go to lasign And they go, yeah,

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01:58:38,240 --> 01:58:41,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna and this just in tonight. We're going to

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01:58:41,720 --> 01:58:44,520
Speaker 1: some family members and we'll have lasagna. I thought, lasagna,

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01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:47,120
Speaker 1: it's a thing. I guess right, it's not my thing.

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01:58:47,440 --> 01:58:49,360
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up doing that, did you you know

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01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: it's a thing? Right, No, we didn't do that, but

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01:58:52,440 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 1: I would look at I'll take turkey would be my choice.

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01:58:55,800 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: But ham or lasagna, I don't care. I am a

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01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:02,200
Speaker 1: spiral cut ham got any all right, there's nothing like it.

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01:59:02,400 --> 01:59:06,120
Speaker 1: I eat, and I'd eat like the Romans eat and

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01:59:06,200 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 1: then get sick and then come back and need to

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01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,240
Speaker 1: get start eating again right from the time. That's me.

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01:59:10,400 --> 01:59:13,040
Speaker 1: All right, you're a turkey or a ham guy. I mean,

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01:59:13,080 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you that las any thing was new to me,

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01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 1: but everybody was like, yeah, think all right, So all right,

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01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:23,280
Speaker 1: better Christmas cookie, sugar cookie, gingerbread cookie, or peanut butter blossom.

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01:59:24,960 --> 01:59:28,000
Speaker 1: I go basic sugar. I have two of them. Maybe now,

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01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:31,920
Speaker 1: maybe just frosted sugar cook There's nothing like that's the thing, right,

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01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you, totally with you. Right here we go

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01:59:34,080 --> 01:59:35,720
Speaker 1: this one. This might be a tough one. I don't

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01:59:35,720 --> 01:59:39,720
Speaker 1: know if you're a Christmas better Christmas drink, eggnog or

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01:59:40,280 --> 01:59:44,360
Speaker 1: hot chocolate. Well, I have so those are my only choices.

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01:59:44,440 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: That's candy, scotch oh, well, I know, Bailey's and coffee

2485
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I go hot chocolate. I guess

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01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:52,200
Speaker 1: egg now just doesn't do it for me. I know

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01:59:52,280 --> 01:59:55,520
Speaker 1: it's people have it. It's good, it's traditional, but no,

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01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:57,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't do it for me. You could gain weight

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01:59:58,080 --> 02:00:03,040
Speaker 1: on a liquid diet drinking. I love it. I love eggnog. Yeah,

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02:00:03,040 --> 02:00:06,120
Speaker 1: I drink it really yeah, and eat straight or if

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02:00:06,160 --> 02:00:09,000
Speaker 1: you cut it with a little something something too. Okay,

2492
02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:10,920
Speaker 1: you know it's really good. You know it's really well.

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02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:14,320
Speaker 1: We'll put you to sleep for a week. Half eggnog,

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02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:17,120
Speaker 1: half bailies. Yeah, I can see that. It's like a

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02:00:17,200 --> 02:00:19,600
Speaker 1: big thick and if you can get it. You know,

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02:00:19,680 --> 02:00:22,000
Speaker 1: most people it's like it's a little too much, right,

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02:00:22,200 --> 02:00:24,720
Speaker 1: Not for me. It's like a milkshake. That's awesome. You

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02:00:24,800 --> 02:00:27,600
Speaker 1: gotta try it, all right, Here we go. Better Christmas decoration. Oh,

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02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:32,160
Speaker 1: white lights are colored lights. I like them both. I'm

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Speaker 1: a white light guy. Like them, like the pure simplicity

2501
02:00:35,240 --> 02:00:38,600
Speaker 1: the snow flakes. But it's kind of boring. It's beautiful though,

2502
02:00:38,680 --> 02:00:41,920
Speaker 1: it's really beautiful. The colored lights are a little bit

2503
02:00:43,880 --> 02:00:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna exaggerate my feelings about it to make a point.

2504
02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:50,480
Speaker 1: I think it's a little trashy. Really. Yeah. White lights

2505
02:00:50,520 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: are pure like the snow, and it's just beautiful lights

2506
02:00:55,080 --> 02:00:57,240
Speaker 1: up the the natural beauty around in the house and

2507
02:00:57,280 --> 02:01:00,200
Speaker 1: everything or the tree or whatever it is. Colored lights

2508
02:01:00,240 --> 02:01:02,440
Speaker 1: are like they're a little gaudy. So we got an

2509
02:01:02,440 --> 02:01:05,800
Speaker 1: outdoor tree with with colored lights and an indoor in

2510
02:01:05,880 --> 02:01:08,160
Speaker 1: the house tree with white lights. Yeah. I get both

2511
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:09,600
Speaker 1: of them, and I don't mind both of them. I

2512
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:11,320
Speaker 1: mean they're both great. I like the lights, but I'm

2513
02:01:11,360 --> 02:01:14,040
Speaker 1: a big white light guy. Okay, real tree or fake again.

2514
02:01:14,120 --> 02:01:16,000
Speaker 1: We got an indoor tree that's fake. Get an outdoor

2515
02:01:16,120 --> 02:01:18,400
Speaker 1: tree that I bought is real, So I'm gonna go with.

2516
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:20,600
Speaker 1: But you bought it and set it up and it

2517
02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:25,080
Speaker 1: sits out there, it's gonna be dead. Uh yeah outside? Yeah,

2518
02:01:25,680 --> 02:01:28,560
Speaker 1: just just to add another tree raised by wolves. No,

2519
02:01:28,800 --> 02:01:31,160
Speaker 1: I just I started it last year. You got a tree,

2520
02:01:31,280 --> 02:01:33,160
Speaker 1: you got a Christmas tree and put it up and

2521
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:37,200
Speaker 1: it's outside. Yeah, yep, and one indoors too? Is it

2522
02:01:37,480 --> 02:01:39,440
Speaker 1: is one outside? Big? No? Not this year. We got

2523
02:01:39,520 --> 02:01:41,000
Speaker 1: a kind of small I don't know why, you know,

2524
02:01:41,120 --> 02:01:44,280
Speaker 1: But where's it sitting on the back deck? Oh, it's outside,

2525
02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: just yours and it's private. Yeah oh yeah, at the

2526
02:01:46,280 --> 02:01:48,320
Speaker 1: back of the house. Yeah, I don't so you can

2527
02:01:48,400 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 1: just see it at night. You leave the lights on

2528
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:52,560
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, okay, all right, I ain't kind

2529
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:55,360
Speaker 1: of get that. Okay, I want to think about getting

2530
02:01:55,400 --> 02:01:57,080
Speaker 1: my mind around doing that. Next year, I might give

2531
02:01:57,120 --> 02:01:58,680
Speaker 1: that a shot. Yeah, I got a Patty, I gotta

2532
02:01:58,680 --> 02:02:00,800
Speaker 1: put a twenty five foot tree up right, I'm not

2533
02:02:00,840 --> 02:02:04,800
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Because we put it to you. You

2534
02:02:04,800 --> 02:02:07,600
Speaker 1: get a nice gift stands like that. That's always a

2535
02:02:07,680 --> 02:02:09,480
Speaker 1: more deal. Do you when you put it up? Do

2536
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:12,880
Speaker 1: you like keep it bound? Put it up, make it straight,

2537
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:16,240
Speaker 1: and then cut it loose. No, really, you gotta cut it, Lucy.

2538
02:02:16,320 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: You can always spin it once you do, right. No,

2539
02:02:19,680 --> 02:02:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't like doing it, I say, I do it.

2540
02:02:20,920 --> 02:02:24,000
Speaker 1: I keep it bundled. I put it in the stand

2541
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:27,320
Speaker 1: and screw all the things in, look at him, make

2542
02:02:27,360 --> 02:02:29,080
Speaker 1: sure it's and then I cut all the strings and

2543
02:02:29,280 --> 02:02:31,000
Speaker 1: let it unfurl. And then then you can kind of

2544
02:02:31,040 --> 02:02:35,040
Speaker 1: spin it yet it first. Yeah, yeah, we will try that.

2545
02:02:35,240 --> 02:02:37,320
Speaker 1: I'll give you a shot. All right, Okay, here we go.

2546
02:02:38,200 --> 02:02:40,360
Speaker 1: Oh here's a good one. Next thing on the menu.

2547
02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:42,960
Speaker 1: Wrapping paper or gift bags. It doesn't matter, but I

2548
02:02:43,080 --> 02:02:45,600
Speaker 1: gotta say wrapping paper, right, I mean, gift bags are

2549
02:02:45,640 --> 02:02:49,760
Speaker 1: just sort of like you know, I'm either here, I listen,

2550
02:02:49,840 --> 02:02:52,480
Speaker 1: I would. I don't care one way the other, but

2551
02:02:52,640 --> 02:02:54,440
Speaker 1: I know this. If I have to wrap something, it's

2552
02:02:54,440 --> 02:02:57,600
Speaker 1: a gift bag. Yeah, I'm not a good rapper. There's

2553
02:02:57,640 --> 02:02:59,920
Speaker 1: an art to that. Yeah, and yeah, I don't know

2554
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: a big money doing. It's hard, is it? Like? Is

2555
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:04,440
Speaker 1: it for being a becoming a dying art too? Because

2556
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that stink at I think

2557
02:03:06,240 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of That's one of the reasons why

2558
02:03:08,240 --> 02:03:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm married. Bags are huge. Nobody knows how to rap anymore. Right,

2559
02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:13,840
Speaker 1: all right, it's like the cell phone. You know, nobody

2560
02:03:13,880 --> 02:03:16,440
Speaker 1: knows how to have a conversation. You got a tat

2561
02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:18,440
Speaker 1: type every Alright, bigger impact on the Bills, all right,

2562
02:03:18,520 --> 02:03:23,000
Speaker 1: let's go bigger impact on Christmas? Who is it? Bigger

2563
02:03:23,040 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: impact on the Bills offseason and the regular season of

2564
02:03:25,440 --> 02:03:28,240
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Cole Beasley or John Brown's a tough call.

2565
02:03:28,360 --> 02:03:30,280
Speaker 1: I'm going with John Brown. They both had had a

2566
02:03:30,360 --> 02:03:33,400
Speaker 1: big impact. And it's funny Brown, I look at the

2567
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:35,600
Speaker 1: end of the year here, but I bet uh they

2568
02:03:35,800 --> 02:03:39,600
Speaker 1: probably led the team in receiving each one with the

2569
02:03:39,720 --> 02:03:42,320
Speaker 1: number of uh with three or four games each, you know,

2570
02:03:42,640 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 1: out of what fifteen so far. I bet Brown's led

2571
02:03:45,800 --> 02:03:48,560
Speaker 1: the team and and and um Beasley's led the team

2572
02:03:48,600 --> 02:03:51,200
Speaker 1: was Yeah, I mean here's Brown's got seventy two catches

2573
02:03:51,240 --> 02:03:54,120
Speaker 1: for one thousand and sixty. Bass got sixty seven five

2574
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:57,800
Speaker 1: less catches for seven seventy eight. And you look at

2575
02:03:57,800 --> 02:04:00,680
Speaker 1: it and it's it's perfect. Just the long fifty three

2576
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:02,640
Speaker 1: for Brown and along of fifty one for Beasley and

2577
02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:04,320
Speaker 1: you look at the it's the contribution they had this

2578
02:04:04,400 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, John Brown touchdown catch, you know, and

2579
02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:10,440
Speaker 1: and Beasley with like seven catches for a buck eight,

2580
02:04:10,520 --> 02:04:13,080
Speaker 1: you know. So they both you can't live without them,

2581
02:04:13,280 --> 02:04:16,960
Speaker 1: right right, I would say it's a close call, but yeah,

2582
02:04:17,320 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: it's it's close. Wow, that's a both call, and they're

2583
02:04:19,720 --> 02:04:21,360
Speaker 1: both great. I'm glad we got both of them, that's

2584
02:04:21,360 --> 02:04:23,120
Speaker 1: for sure. I can't pick them between. That's a really

2585
02:04:23,200 --> 02:04:25,040
Speaker 1: tough too much. Yeah, I might take John Brown just

2586
02:04:25,080 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 1: because of the big play, but Beasley's been great, all right.

2587
02:04:28,360 --> 02:04:33,560
Speaker 1: Bigger concern run defense or offense is third down efficiency. Boy,

2588
02:04:33,720 --> 02:04:36,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's nice to have going into the

2589
02:04:36,120 --> 02:04:39,280
Speaker 1: Jet game where you don't care about either one of those, right, Seriously,

2590
02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:41,880
Speaker 1: I don't think either one is a major concern. The

2591
02:04:41,960 --> 02:04:45,000
Speaker 1: run deep, I guess, the offensive third down efficiency, But

2592
02:04:45,040 --> 02:04:47,640
Speaker 1: come on, they're okay on offense. Yeah they're down. Yeah

2593
02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:50,880
Speaker 1: they're not. They were they stunk against the Patriots, but

2594
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: so did every team the Patriots played. So all right,

2595
02:04:53,280 --> 02:04:55,720
Speaker 1: here we go, uh, here we go. Are you more

2596
02:04:55,800 --> 02:05:01,000
Speaker 1: encouraged about Dawson knox big playability or Josh Allen's deep ball?

2597
02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:05,040
Speaker 1: Which one are you most encouraged about it? Again? The

2598
02:05:05,120 --> 02:05:07,160
Speaker 1: fact that he hit the deep ball to Dawson Knox

2599
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:11,200
Speaker 1: or Josh is Allen's sudden ability? Were encouraged about Josh

2600
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:14,400
Speaker 1: Allen's deep ball? I think Josh, you know, Dawson Knox,

2601
02:05:14,520 --> 02:05:17,680
Speaker 1: that was a good d and twice now Dawson Knox

2602
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 1: has just missed catching balls. He had a good uh

2603
02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:23,480
Speaker 1: catch the other day, but a couple of misses. I

2604
02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:26,840
Speaker 1: think Josh has solved the deep ball issue, and that's

2605
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:29,400
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good part of the Buffalo office.

2606
02:05:29,480 --> 02:05:32,280
Speaker 1: I was never really discouraged. I was discouraged with their

2607
02:05:32,320 --> 02:05:34,560
Speaker 1: inability to hit it, but not not that it was

2608
02:05:34,640 --> 02:05:36,640
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. I think I'm more encouraged. But we

2609
02:05:36,680 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 1: got a new player, young tight end who's showing great promise,

2610
02:05:40,160 --> 02:05:42,120
Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox, I think he's going to turn in.

2611
02:05:42,680 --> 02:05:45,440
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good player, and I think

2612
02:05:45,480 --> 02:05:48,560
Speaker 1: the Bill's got him he's a steal where they drafted

2613
02:05:48,600 --> 02:05:51,240
Speaker 1: him and he got a fifth round, fourth round. He's

2614
02:05:51,280 --> 02:05:56,440
Speaker 1: a steel round and he's starting tight end for a

2615
02:05:56,600 --> 02:05:59,920
Speaker 1: ten win team as a rookie. Yeah. That's I think

2616
02:06:00,080 --> 02:06:02,320
Speaker 1: that's really encouraging going forward. Yeah, and all right, here

2617
02:06:02,360 --> 02:06:05,480
Speaker 1: we go, well last one. Oh, this is and this

2618
02:06:05,680 --> 02:06:09,120
Speaker 1: is a we talked about this before. Jamis Winston problem.

2619
02:06:09,560 --> 02:06:14,120
Speaker 1: Here's a guy that's leading the league in yardage, passing yardage.

2620
02:06:14,400 --> 02:06:16,640
Speaker 1: He's got and he could be the only quarterback in

2621
02:06:16,760 --> 02:06:20,320
Speaker 1: history to have thirty touchdown passes and thirty picks and

2622
02:06:20,400 --> 02:06:23,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna lead the league in passing yardage. Do you

2623
02:06:23,760 --> 02:06:29,400
Speaker 1: resign that guy? No, Nope, don't don't resign him. I'm

2624
02:06:29,440 --> 02:06:36,880
Speaker 1: looking it up percenting a interception, they are, uh, let's see. No, No,

2625
02:06:37,000 --> 02:06:39,480
Speaker 1: it's not worth three signing him. His first attempt against

2626
02:06:39,480 --> 02:06:41,880
Speaker 1: the Houston's, which our MSG viewers are seeing, first attempt

2627
02:06:41,960 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: boom pick six, and then later on he had another one.

2628
02:06:46,760 --> 02:06:49,560
Speaker 1: He dropped back later in the first quarter and he

2629
02:06:49,640 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: got picked again, and that guy ran it back and

2630
02:06:52,840 --> 02:06:54,920
Speaker 1: got into the touch and he went through two pack

2631
02:06:55,040 --> 02:06:56,840
Speaker 1: sixes in the first quarter in a game they lost

2632
02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:59,760
Speaker 1: by three. YEP. I know, but you can't win that way, right,

2633
02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:03,280
Speaker 1: just can't win. And they're not winning. They're under five hundred.

2634
02:07:03,280 --> 02:07:05,680
Speaker 1: They got a game on Sunday obviously to get a

2635
02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:08,080
Speaker 1: chance to be five hundred. But no, they might have

2636
02:07:08,200 --> 02:07:10,720
Speaker 1: to resign him. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't be excited

2637
02:07:10,720 --> 02:07:13,320
Speaker 1: about that if I were a Bucks fans. Three first

2638
02:07:13,360 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 1: half interceptions and they got they got a problem. I

2639
02:07:18,320 --> 02:07:20,200
Speaker 1: think they're gonna franchise him, you know, they don't have

2640
02:07:20,320 --> 02:07:23,400
Speaker 1: to really you know, commit to him for five years,

2641
02:07:24,120 --> 02:07:27,560
Speaker 1: but it will depend to on what the draft presents

2642
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: to them. They may keep him around as a franchise

2643
02:07:29,480 --> 02:07:33,040
Speaker 1: bringing a cheap young quarterback, and when Jamis throws three

2644
02:07:33,080 --> 02:07:35,480
Speaker 1: picks in the first half of next year, they'll plug

2645
02:07:35,560 --> 02:07:38,160
Speaker 1: in the young guy and give him some reps, you know. Um.

2646
02:07:38,920 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think they bring him back, you know,

2647
02:07:41,440 --> 02:07:44,080
Speaker 1: and then um and go from there. But how about that,

2648
02:07:44,400 --> 02:07:47,960
Speaker 1: that's they're gonna have them, right, I wouldn't want him.

2649
02:07:47,960 --> 02:07:52,200
Speaker 1: He threw three He threw three half three first half interceptions.

2650
02:07:52,560 --> 02:07:54,040
Speaker 1: Two of them were for pick six. Is not the

2651
02:07:54,280 --> 02:07:56,800
Speaker 1: other one. The second pick six he threw got called back.

2652
02:07:56,840 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 1: He was an after penalty after the I think, but man,

2653
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:03,720
Speaker 1: oh man, how do you live like that? Thirty touchdowns

2654
02:08:04,000 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty picks probably, and he's thrown he's gonna

2655
02:08:07,080 --> 02:08:10,360
Speaker 1: throw for five thousand yards plus five thousand and yet

2656
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: there's all those interceptions and they're they're trying to get

2657
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:15,920
Speaker 1: to five hundred. That's that's the problem. If you could

2658
02:08:15,960 --> 02:08:18,720
Speaker 1: cut you know, interceptions and half. Oh well, that was

2659
02:08:18,760 --> 02:08:20,920
Speaker 1: what's for lund. That was That was an okay segment

2660
02:08:20,960 --> 02:08:23,200
Speaker 1: that was going through. That was a holiday holiday break

2661
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:25,960
Speaker 1: from our from our grind in and out when the NFL.

2662
02:08:26,240 --> 02:08:27,840
Speaker 1: That was good. All right, we'll take a break. We'll

2663
02:08:27,840 --> 02:08:29,520
Speaker 1: come back and wrap things up when we return. One

2664
02:08:29,560 --> 02:08:32,839
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, Live from the Seneca Studio.

2665
02:08:32,960 --> 02:08:49,240
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. So what do we learn

2666
02:08:49,360 --> 02:08:51,520
Speaker 1: from today's show. It is brought to you by Skyworks,

2667
02:08:51,800 --> 02:08:55,520
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2668
02:08:55,760 --> 02:08:58,560
Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi joined us today. Michael Lombardi on this how

2669
02:08:58,600 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 1: did they gift for the Bills. Here's what he has

2670
02:09:00,440 --> 02:09:04,080
Speaker 1: for him. They need Josh Allen to be more consistent

2671
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:06,080
Speaker 1: throwing the football down the field. I mean, I think

2672
02:09:06,160 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 1: that's really the most important thing. He's thrown forty eight

2673
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:12,080
Speaker 1: passes in his career over thirty yards. He's completed six

2674
02:09:12,160 --> 02:09:14,080
Speaker 1: of them. That's a lot of long, foul balls. He's

2675
02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:16,800
Speaker 1: got to improve his accuracy. Look, that game is probably

2676
02:09:16,840 --> 02:09:18,720
Speaker 1: gonna go to overtime or Brady's gonna lead him on

2677
02:09:18,720 --> 02:09:20,600
Speaker 1: a three or to drive for a field goal. If

2678
02:09:20,640 --> 02:09:22,640
Speaker 1: he hits Dawson Knox in the back of the end zone,

2679
02:09:22,680 --> 02:09:25,600
Speaker 1: that's a fact. Guy's wide open. You can't miss that throw.

2680
02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 1: Brett Farve said this a long time ago. Every quarterback

2681
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:30,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL can throw the ball through the door.

2682
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:33,920
Speaker 1: Good quarterbacks can hit the door down. The great ones

2683
02:09:33,960 --> 02:09:35,880
Speaker 1: can throw through the keyhole. And if he's going to

2684
02:09:35,920 --> 02:09:37,520
Speaker 1: be great, he's got to find a way to throw

2685
02:09:37,560 --> 02:09:40,400
Speaker 1: the ball from the keyhole. And they can't have lapses

2686
02:09:40,520 --> 02:09:43,960
Speaker 1: that they do during periods of the game. Yeah, interesting point.

2687
02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:47,480
Speaker 1: I guess Michael Lombardi was that and Tory Lavallo joined

2688
02:09:47,560 --> 02:09:50,200
Speaker 1: us as well. He's the manager, former manager of the Bidsen's,

2689
02:09:50,200 --> 02:09:52,480
Speaker 1: former player of the Bidsen's. He's the manager of the

2690
02:09:52,560 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball, and he met with

2691
02:09:55,640 --> 02:09:58,240
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott today. Tory Lavalo on his meeting

2692
02:09:58,280 --> 02:10:01,960
Speaker 1: with coach McDermott. It was an honor to be here,

2693
02:10:02,480 --> 02:10:05,320
Speaker 1: be invited out here and be a part of what

2694
02:10:05,480 --> 02:10:07,160
Speaker 1: was going on. Early in the day. I got a

2695
02:10:07,240 --> 02:10:10,040
Speaker 1: chance to speak to him about just some culture ideas, uh,

2696
02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:12,480
Speaker 1: some thoughts that he has about being the leader of

2697
02:10:12,640 --> 02:10:16,160
Speaker 1: this of this team and his players, and no matter

2698
02:10:16,240 --> 02:10:17,960
Speaker 1: what you say, no matter what you do, we are

2699
02:10:18,040 --> 02:10:20,160
Speaker 1: all the same. When you when you're a head coach

2700
02:10:20,200 --> 02:10:24,800
Speaker 1: of that type of UM, in that type situation, you're

2701
02:10:24,800 --> 02:10:26,960
Speaker 1: always looking for an edge, looking for good ideas, new

2702
02:10:27,040 --> 02:10:28,640
Speaker 1: things that are going to help push you in the

2703
02:10:28,720 --> 02:10:31,360
Speaker 1: right direction, because if you're staying still, somebody's gonna run

2704
02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:34,600
Speaker 1: right by you. So we exchanged phone numbers, looking forward

2705
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Speaker 1: to starting a friendship and just getting getting to know

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Speaker 1: what drives him, motivates him, and doing all I can

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02:10:39,960 --> 02:10:42,040
Speaker 1: to be there for him as well. Toy Labello of

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02:10:42,120 --> 02:10:44,840
Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks got a call. Let's squeeze in one

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02:10:44,920 --> 02:10:48,000
Speaker 1: more call on the line. Bill in South Buffalo. Hello, Bill,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, that's a good Afflute gentlemen. Hello, I'd like

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02:10:54,240 --> 02:10:57,520
Speaker 1: to know how merg out Lynch can play this year.

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02:10:58,040 --> 02:11:02,240
Speaker 1: One ground had a sign by November or whatever if

2713
02:11:02,320 --> 02:11:05,160
Speaker 1: he was if he wanted to play this year, it

2714
02:11:05,240 --> 02:11:07,360
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. What do you think, Steve? I

2715
02:11:07,400 --> 02:11:10,320
Speaker 1: think it has something to do with that Lynch was out.

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02:11:10,720 --> 02:11:13,960
Speaker 1: He was officially out and retired. Yeah, Lynch. Probably. It

2717
02:11:14,000 --> 02:11:16,080
Speaker 1: probably has to do with paperwork that Lynch filled out.

2718
02:11:16,120 --> 02:11:18,240
Speaker 1: He filled out retirement papers, so if you come back

2719
02:11:18,280 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 1: in after you officially retire, it's different than Gronk, who

2720
02:11:22,080 --> 02:11:24,600
Speaker 1: has not done that. I think that's it. I could

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02:11:24,680 --> 02:11:27,640
Speaker 1: be wrong, but I think that's it. I like the

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02:11:27,720 --> 02:11:31,160
Speaker 1: fact that Lynch has an opportunity to play. I think

2723
02:11:31,160 --> 02:11:33,040
Speaker 1: it's it's good for the game. Actually told you, I

2724
02:11:33,120 --> 02:11:35,120
Speaker 1: think it is the biggest story coming into this weekend

2725
02:11:35,160 --> 02:11:38,160
Speaker 1: on a national level, Marshawn Lynch coming off the street

2726
02:11:38,880 --> 02:11:40,720
Speaker 1: to play for a team that could be the number

2727
02:11:40,760 --> 02:11:44,240
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC. Are you joking? It's unbelievable. Plus,

2728
02:11:44,640 --> 02:11:48,360
Speaker 1: it highlights two for fans who were Buffalo Bill's interests

2729
02:11:48,400 --> 02:11:52,280
Speaker 1: in Buffalo interests, highlights how healthy this team is here

2730
02:11:52,320 --> 02:11:55,320
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and how desperate some teams are around the

2731
02:11:55,440 --> 02:11:58,880
Speaker 1: league to find an able bodied player just to hand

2732
02:11:58,960 --> 02:12:02,080
Speaker 1: the ball to um at a position that it should be,

2733
02:12:02,200 --> 02:12:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, easy to find somebody, right, they don't have

2734
02:12:04,880 --> 02:12:09,320
Speaker 1: anybody right. Uh. That highlights kind of a good spot

2735
02:12:09,360 --> 02:12:11,200
Speaker 1: that the Bills are in as opposed to a guy

2736
02:12:11,320 --> 02:12:15,440
Speaker 1: like Seahawks, a team like the Seahawks. That's that's pretty amazing.

2737
02:12:15,920 --> 02:12:18,560
Speaker 1: And I don't remember ever that ever happened, No talk

2738
02:12:18,600 --> 02:12:20,040
Speaker 1: about like, hey they should go out and get that

2739
02:12:20,560 --> 02:12:22,800
Speaker 1: right now, you know, Yeah, it never doesn't happen, but

2740
02:12:23,360 --> 02:12:26,440
Speaker 1: it did this year. Yeah, and hopefully he's able to

2741
02:12:26,480 --> 02:12:29,920
Speaker 1: play the Bills. Uh. They announced Sean McDermot announced that

2742
02:12:29,960 --> 02:12:32,760
Speaker 1: he's got his uh, his lineup set for now for

2743
02:12:32,880 --> 02:12:35,760
Speaker 1: Sunday's game. He says, the starters will start, they'll play

2744
02:12:35,760 --> 02:12:38,320
Speaker 1: a little bit, then the reserves will play in. He's

2745
02:12:38,360 --> 02:12:41,120
Speaker 1: not ready to say which players are gonna come in

2746
02:12:41,200 --> 02:12:43,560
Speaker 1: and which are not going to come in, but he's

2747
02:12:43,600 --> 02:12:45,520
Speaker 1: ready to say that the starters are going to start

2748
02:12:45,560 --> 02:12:47,640
Speaker 1: this game on Sunday against the Jets and play a

2749
02:12:47,680 --> 02:12:49,800
Speaker 1: little bit. So okay, we'll see how it goes, right.

2750
02:12:50,200 --> 02:12:52,760
Speaker 1: It was pretty interesting. Yeah, and in this situation this

2751
02:12:52,960 --> 02:12:55,360
Speaker 1: year for this team, Yeah, we're gonna do this. I

2752
02:12:55,480 --> 02:12:57,880
Speaker 1: think I think it's the right thing. To do. He

2753
02:12:58,040 --> 02:13:00,520
Speaker 1: was not. It wasn't like this is we're gonna He

2754
02:13:00,680 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: was like, I've had some experience. You don't really know.

2755
02:13:02,600 --> 02:13:04,320
Speaker 1: It's a balance and it is a little bit of

2756
02:13:04,360 --> 02:13:05,520
Speaker 1: a roll of the dice when you want to make

2757
02:13:05,560 --> 02:13:08,040
Speaker 1: sure everybody stays healthy. He said, everything playing into it,

2758
02:13:08,120 --> 02:13:09,840
Speaker 1: the fact that it's the Jets, the fact that it's

2759
02:13:10,120 --> 02:13:12,920
Speaker 1: the last week, everything has taken into consideration. I guess

2760
02:13:12,960 --> 02:13:14,800
Speaker 1: that's good, like a thousand variables. And they're going to

2761
02:13:14,880 --> 02:13:16,760
Speaker 1: continue to have we we've talked about it too. They're

2762
02:13:16,800 --> 02:13:19,560
Speaker 1: gonna have conversations about how long and who and when

2763
02:13:19,640 --> 02:13:22,120
Speaker 1: and what and where it does in the preparation stuff

2764
02:13:22,200 --> 02:13:24,760
Speaker 1: right up until game time, and it can all change

2765
02:13:24,840 --> 02:13:27,040
Speaker 1: right up until the last minute. Yep. All right, So

2766
02:13:27,760 --> 02:13:30,120
Speaker 1: no show tomorrow, no show at all. On Christmas Day,

2767
02:13:30,480 --> 02:13:32,840
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, Steve will be in with Maddie Glab

2768
02:13:32,920 --> 02:13:34,480
Speaker 1: we'll be co hosting. I'll be off the rest of

2769
02:13:34,560 --> 02:13:36,760
Speaker 1: this week. We're back on Sunday for the game and

2770
02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:39,800
Speaker 1: then of course a full week starting on Monday. Steve,

2771
02:13:39,880 --> 02:13:41,960
Speaker 1: have a great Christmas, you too. It's great seeing you

2772
02:13:42,440 --> 02:13:44,280
Speaker 1: and everybody out there. Be safe and be happy, and

2773
02:13:45,040 --> 02:13:47,280
Speaker 1: I hope it's a great holiday season for everybody. I

2774
02:13:47,400 --> 02:13:50,800
Speaker 1: do too, Thanks all right. Production assistance George Blast, Jeff

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02:13:50,880 --> 02:13:54,720
Speaker 1: Coltonick Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, j J. Tarito, Kevin Cartis,

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02:13:54,800 --> 02:13:57,440
Speaker 1: James Robol, producer Jay Harris, all those people have a

2777
02:13:57,480 --> 02:13:59,920
Speaker 1: good Christmas as well, and we'll see you here Thursday.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalata Health from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.