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Speaker 1: Flutch down time. Welcome to One Bill's Live Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: along with this day's co host, Mattie glab It's a

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Speaker 1: nice cloudy day here in Orchard Park. The Murph and

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Speaker 1: the entire Bills organized, not the entire Bills organization, all

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Speaker 1: the team. They're all headed down to Dallas. So Mattie

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Speaker 1: Steady left us, left us high and dry. Here we

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Speaker 1: during the course of the next three hours when I'm

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Speaker 1: you're not You're not You're gonna be just apologizing you're

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Speaker 1: afflicted with my host ship. Nope, you're You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: amazing because you're just named to the Class of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty semi finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: That it's not the broadcast Hall of Fame, it's the

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Speaker 1: Our Hall of Famer in residence is now on its

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Speaker 1: flight to Dallas with the Buffalo Bills and wish them

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Speaker 1: that the bills are bad Thanksgiving. It's kind of so exciting.

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Speaker 1: It is a big deal. And these players were asked

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Speaker 1: next half an hour probably, But a lot of them said,

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Speaker 1: and yes, it is just another game. But I think

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Speaker 1: it is so cool that this program, under Bean and

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Speaker 1: is just so amazing for this organization, for Buffalo, for

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Speaker 1: the community, for a team that people say is a

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Speaker 1: that say Buffalo is just you know the Black Sheep

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Speaker 1: that always gets these one o'clock slots. This is an

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Speaker 1: eight and three team that's playing some great football. Yeah

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Speaker 1: it is. And we've got Maddie glab In and as

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Speaker 1: you just heard, she's gonna be with us all day today.

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Speaker 1: We've got a good show for you. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: at twelve thirty the bottom of this hour, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have Field eighth ESPN NFL Insider. He's also the host

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Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Fantasy Focused Football podcast. He'll take some

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Speaker 1: of your questions about your fantasy teams at the end

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Speaker 1: of our segment. With him, we always talk about the

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Speaker 1: Bills and around the National Football League. Also, we've got

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Speaker 1: a Dallas reporter ESPN Dallas NFL reporter. He's been with

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Speaker 1: ESPN since nineteen ninety eight's covered the Cowboys since eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: Edwarder is going to come on at one o'clock for us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna try and FaceTime with him, but obviously he's

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Speaker 1: also have Ryan Kelly. He's an NFL Films senior producer.

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Speaker 1: He's been with NFL Films for over seventeen years and

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Speaker 1: he produced a show that is going to come out

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Speaker 1: this air this Friday night, a Football Life. Bruce Smith.

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Speaker 1: boy Bruce Smith two hundred sacks and all the things

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Speaker 1: that he's done in his life on and off the field.

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Speaker 1: to take your phone calls. Mattie glab and I are

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Speaker 1: going to talk about all things Buffalo Bills. This is

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Speaker 1: that game, and you've played in one Thanksgiving game just once.

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Speaker 1: I nineteen century the Cowboys at home on Thanksgiving. They've

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Speaker 1: got thirty one wins and nineteen losses on Thanksgiving. They've

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Speaker 1: they're playing a pretty good team tomorrow. Tough team to

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how this team lines up on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll? What do you want to see? Mattie, You've been,

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Speaker 1: A yes, what we chose the this is I've got

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Speaker 1: the early outline in my hand. You guys are laughing

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Speaker 1: at me. Forget what I just said about the Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: So somebody's got to bring me out. So the Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll is as a Bills fan, one you most thankful

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Speaker 1: for this? I gave him? We have some options. I

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Speaker 1: told you I apologize for me hosting the show already,

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Speaker 1: so you knew I was gonna screw it up. So

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Speaker 1: I screwed up the Twitter poll? Is that what you're

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Speaker 1: telling me? Jay Harris? We're we're gonna have we have

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Speaker 1: a few options. We have all right, here we go

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Speaker 1: and eight and three record. One of the options and

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Speaker 1: McDermott is that you're most thankful for Josh Allen progressing

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Speaker 1: or other And right now we got the pull up.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Josh Allen Progressing is winning with forty

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Speaker 1: one percent. Even retweeted the Twitter poll without reading it.

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Speaker 1: So here we go. As a Bills fan, what are

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Speaker 1: you most thankful for this season? Give us a call?

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Speaker 1: Eight to three oh five, fifty fifty? What are you

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Speaker 1: most thankful for? An eight and three record? Brandon Bean,

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot getting this thing turned around and headed up

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Speaker 1: uphill Josh Allen and his progress, how he's improved, and

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Speaker 1: how fun has been to watch him or something else.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call um and forget that other Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll that I mentioned it I gave him. I did

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Speaker 1: give him a glimpse into how many questions we had

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Speaker 1: going on, and this is there's a lot of questions

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Speaker 1: ahead of the as a Bills fan. What are you

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Speaker 1: most thankful for? A lot of questions going into the

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Speaker 1: Dallas games. We have field Yates coming on Fantasy ESPN,

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Speaker 1: NFL insider Edward or Dallas, NFL reporter for ESPN, he's

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Speaker 1: been down there covering the Cowboys since nineteen eighty nine,

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Speaker 1: and of course the executive producer from NFL Films, Ryan Kelly.

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Speaker 1: He is the producer of Bruce Smith of Football Life.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be on later in the show as well.

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Speaker 1: And it's me and Maddy glab are in today. What

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Speaker 1: oh yeah? Is this this Dallas game down there? This

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Speaker 1: is going to be a really big test for the

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Speaker 1: Bills defense. I can't get off the Bills defense so far,

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Speaker 1: and we have seen Josh Allen take major steps forward

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Speaker 1: and this this is one of the other Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: questions we could have put out, like what would be

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Speaker 1: best case scenario The Bill's offense got Josh Allen lights

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Speaker 1: it up in one of the entire planet, throws for five,

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Speaker 1: runs for two. Oh my gosh, Doc Dak Prescott's score

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Speaker 1: is right. Having Lamar Jackson type of game, you know,

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Speaker 1: that'd be kind of cool, and have our defense shouting

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Speaker 1: I hold him like three points? Right, that would be

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Speaker 1: That would be the cherry on top of a great

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Speaker 1: I'm not predicting that. I'm not pretty, but yeah, that

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Speaker 1: It's one of the things you kind of project what

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Speaker 1: you really want this game when you wish because we

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Speaker 1: all have this anst when you and I know everybody's

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Speaker 1: like this because I'm the same. On your hand, you're

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Speaker 1: ringing your hands almost about these games and we see him.

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Speaker 1: You don't know how the team's going to be, particularly

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Speaker 1: a team like the Bills, who for a long time

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Speaker 1: struggle to score points, and you think, man, are we

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Speaker 1: gonna score enough to beat him? I know the defense

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Speaker 1: will be pretty solid, but man, oh man, if they

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Speaker 1: give up a freaky touchdown or something that could do

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Speaker 1: it for you know, it's like, uh, so you go

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Speaker 1: into that that's this game in Dallas. Dallas got a

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Speaker 1: great offense. They do. They got a great offense, great

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Speaker 1: offensive line, an elite running back, a quarterback that is

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Speaker 1: reaping all the benefits of all the weapons around him,

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Speaker 1: still for a contract. Yeah, right, so they got all

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Speaker 1: this fire under him, and you think, man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: we got to show up and play really good. And

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Speaker 1: it's their building and everybody's rooting for them. You're the

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Speaker 1: You're away team. It's all this show business, all there's

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Speaker 1: ten thousand things are going to distract you from the

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Speaker 1: game beforehand. But you know why, I worriesome game, and

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Speaker 1: I woke up feeling really good about this game. You did?

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Speaker 1: I did? I feel I felt good about it all

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Speaker 1: week because I think we're playing the Cowboys at the

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Speaker 1: perfect time. Yes, Mitch Morse is questionable, Yes, Robert Foster's questionable.

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Speaker 1: Yes Tinsechi is not going to play. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: last week against the Broncos, they have some pretty good

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Speaker 1: players on their defensive line. Cody Ford did great against

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Speaker 1: von Miller. John Feliciano had to move over to center,

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Speaker 1: and then Spencer Long had to come in and play

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Speaker 1: right guard, and the offensive line did not miss a beat,

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Speaker 1: and that goes to what they had to do in

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Speaker 1: training camp, which they mixed up that offensive line every

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Speaker 1: single practice. The we're new guys in different positions. I

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Speaker 1: think the offensive line is going to be okay. They're

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Speaker 1: facing another good defensive line. Who combined what the ends

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Speaker 1: have fourteen sacks? I think they've got They've got guys, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me their Their defensive ends are Mark, DeMarcus Lawrence

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Speaker 1: and Robert Quinn. They got Malik Collins down inside, Antoine

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Speaker 1: Woods down inside. Michael Bennett is their back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they got some guys that are starters playing backup for them.

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Speaker 1: They're they're deep. This team played their most complete game

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Speaker 1: last week. All right, Mattie, we're just getting started here.

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Speaker 1: A field Yates coming on at the bottom of the

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Speaker 1: hour ESPN NFL Insider. He's gonna have answer some of

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Speaker 1: your fantasy questions. You can give us a call about

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll what are you most thankful for? This season?

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Speaker 1: At the Thanksgiving mark, the Bills are in Dallas. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to One Bills Live, presented by Kalidah Health from

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to one Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, along with Maddi Glab,

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Speaker 1: Murph and the Buffalo Bills are ahead of the Dallas

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Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving and we are pleased to be joined now

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Speaker 1: on our regular one of our regular guests throughout the

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Speaker 1: weekend ESPN NFL Insider and also the host of the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Focus Football podcast. Field Yates on the line with us.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming on. Feel how are you today? As

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Speaker 1: good as have you back here with Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on. Nice to have Matti

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Speaker 1: filling in FORMRF and Steve if the coach wanted to

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Speaker 1: take a moment. Very pleased to see your name amongst

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Speaker 1: the twenty five semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: I think the Pro Football Hall of Fame is a

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Speaker 1: representation of those who have helped shape the course of

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Speaker 1: history in our great sports, and special teams are somewhere

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Speaker 1: between twenty and twenty two percent of the snaps per game,

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Speaker 1: and I'd be hard pressed to find somebody who did

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Speaker 1: a bitter, better, more impactful job in the kicking game

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Speaker 1: than you did. My friends, So I hope you hear

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Speaker 1: your name called amongst the finalists, amongst the inductees here

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Speaker 1: and next a handful of months or so. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that you put a little something in your sextual

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Speaker 1: something in your paychecks today. What do you think of?

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Speaker 1: What do you think about this Thanksgiving Dame Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: at Dallas Cowboys? What jumps out at you? Could there

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Speaker 1: be two teams who seem to be, in some ways

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Speaker 1: on the entirely opposite ends of the spectrum. You've got

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Speaker 1: this Cowboys team that is routinely playing below expectations, and

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Speaker 1: you've got an owner that's calling out his head coach.

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Speaker 1: And then nobody, seriously, nobody has seemingly stixed up up

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Speaker 1: for Jason Garrett in the past few days. Most people

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Speaker 1: all these seems the company line has become, well, you

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Speaker 1: know what, Jerry says, Joe, So we do need to

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Speaker 1: play better. We are not media expectations. Meanwhile, in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: you have teams that keeps winning even though people tell

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Speaker 1: them that they're not good enough. Head coach and a

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Speaker 1: GM and an ownership group that are entirely in concert,

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Speaker 1: a fan base that clearly supports this team endlessly. Not

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys fans don't support the Cowboys too, But it

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Speaker 1: feels like you've got one organization predicated upon harmony and

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Speaker 1: one organization that is predicated upon It feels like a

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Speaker 1: pending overhaul of maybe not the entire coaching staff, but

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Speaker 1: certainly feels like Jason Garrett on finn Ice here on

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen if they do, say, for instance, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just this is all hypothetical. Obviously, if if the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys don't play well enough to win that game tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: or even if they play well and the Bills still

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Speaker 1: beat them and they do decide to make a change,

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Speaker 1: do they realize that they were making a head coaching

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Speaker 1: change with a team that is in a tie for

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Speaker 1: the lead for the division. They do, And yet, Steed,

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Speaker 1: my expectation is that if the Bills win tomorrow, I believe. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know there's been some reporting that there won't be

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Speaker 1: a coaching change, but this is not my own reporting

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Speaker 1: because it's just me being a football observer that I

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Speaker 1: would be surprised if Jason Garrett is coaching if they

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Speaker 1: lose this game tomorrow on Friday morning, it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: it feel like we have this title wave that's approaching

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Speaker 1: fast and the only thing they can save it is

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Speaker 1: winning a game tomorrow. I guess a very good Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Buil team that to me, just observationally, seems like where

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Speaker 1: this thing is headed. I could be way off, but

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Speaker 1: I look at tomorrows make a break for Jason Garrett.

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Speaker 1: So the spotlight's going to be on Jason Garrett, but

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Speaker 1: it's also going to be on a lot of players

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Speaker 1: on the Bills. Josh Allen and his offense. Are they

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Speaker 1: up to the task to go up against a pretty

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Speaker 1: talented Cowboys defense, including that defensive line. Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys have some some areas of

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Speaker 1: vulnerability defensively that the Bills can expose. I think the

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Speaker 1: run defense can certainly be had. That's been an as

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Speaker 1: sort of blind spot for them throughout the season. They're

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Speaker 1: dealing with a couple of injuries up front as well

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Speaker 1: to certainly impact that, including Layton vander Esh linebacker. He's

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Speaker 1: really good players and vended up with a neck injury

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Speaker 1: a play. But then specific to Josh Maddie, I know

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Speaker 1: that maybe he can be a player that we can

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Speaker 1: point to the accuracy like Josh probably has some works

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Speaker 1: so to speak, that people want to point to routinely,

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Speaker 1: the accuracy being the most probably the most notable one.

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Speaker 1: But he's got seven straight games in which he's accounted

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Speaker 1: for multiple touchdowns, seven straight with two or more. He

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Speaker 1: has twelve touchdowns and two interceptions over his past seven games.

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Speaker 1: He's added about two hundred and fifty rushing yard over

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Speaker 1: his past seven games. That's a challenge for an opposing defense.

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Speaker 1: And the non quantifiable stuff, things like leadership that I

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Speaker 1: think Josh is shown are apparent to me. I feel

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Speaker 1: like this is a good, actually stepping stone game for

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Speaker 1: him too, to take his confidence to the next level.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that you can only play the teams

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Speaker 1: that are on your schedule, but the Bills winning tomorrow

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Speaker 1: would I think validate their record up to this point

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Speaker 1: in a way that the other wins have not. I

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Speaker 1: know the Cowboys are in a bit of turmoil right now,

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Speaker 1: alb going to Dallas winning on Thanksgiving on national television

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Speaker 1: would really put Josh on this Bill team in a

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Speaker 1: different light in some people's dies. We're on the outline

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Speaker 1: with Field ESPN NFL Insider, host of the Fantasy Focused

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Speaker 1: Football podcast. I got to ask you field as well

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Speaker 1: that this may be the biggest test for the Bill's defense.

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Speaker 1: It's a defense that has played very well in in

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Speaker 1: some ways elite. I mean, no other team in the

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Speaker 1: NFL since nine twenty seventeen has given up fewer passing

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in this Bill's defense. And that's sprinkling with a

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Speaker 1: six and ten season in their last year. So the

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Speaker 1: Bill's defense has played stellar football. Is this going to

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Speaker 1: be their biggest test? And how do you see them

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Speaker 1: stacking up against this really talented Dallas offense. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it really is their largest test. Now. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are coming off a forgettable offensive performance, but there are

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Speaker 1: two major reasons behind that. One, the Patriots are phenomenal defense,

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Speaker 1: and two, it was raining sideways on Sunday. It was

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Speaker 1: difficult for everybody on both sides of the ball to

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Speaker 1: get a grip and catch the football. So no weather

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Speaker 1: issues obviously in Dallas where you're playing indoors. Here's how

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Speaker 1: I think the Bill stop them is Contradavious White the

646
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Speaker 1: like what Stefan Gilmour was on Sunday, Basically in a racer.

647
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Speaker 1: If you can play ten on ten football with Adamari Cooper,

648
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: that right there is a huge win for your defense.

649
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Speaker 1: But the Bills, as we know, the area on defense

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Speaker 1: that has been more vay concerned for them is the

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Speaker 1: run defense. If they can bottle up Zeke Elliott in

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Speaker 1: relative turns, I don't mean twenty five or fifty rushing yards.

653
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Speaker 1: I just mean if Zeke has one hundred and seventy

654
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Speaker 1: five rushing yards, you know most cases that's going to

655
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Speaker 1: be a winning recipe. But if he has a huge,

656
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Speaker 1: huge day, They're a tough team to beat. They just are.

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Speaker 1: If the Bills can somewhat neutralize Ezekiel Elliott, they've got

658
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Speaker 1: a really good shot to go down there and win

659
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Speaker 1: this game tomorrow. It's a big week for the NFL

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Speaker 1: for football as a whole. Is this the most intriguing

661
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Speaker 1: week in the NFL? Would you say? Week thirteen? Coming up?

662
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Speaker 1: Also rivalry week for college football. I'm alwa and Maddie,

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Speaker 1: I'm totally all and so. Everybody loves Thanksgiving for many

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Speaker 1: many reasons. It's a great opportunity to spend time with

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Speaker 1: loved ones and eat a lot of food. We also

666
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Speaker 1: have three football games tomorrow at the pro level. We've got,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the college football rival Reeks rivalry weeks,

668
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Speaker 1: which whether you're Ohio State, Michigan and Alabama, Auburn, whatever

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Speaker 1: major college football rivalry that you enjoy watching. There's also

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Speaker 1: games that you know they may not feature the very

671
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Speaker 1: top teams, but like you always enjoy watching the Apple

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Speaker 1: Cup between Washington and Washington State, amongst others. And then

673
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Speaker 1: I think about, like some of the Sunday action too.

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Speaker 1: Day we have at one pm the Ravens feels to

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Speaker 1: me like one of the best games of the season,

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Speaker 1: and then like it just keeps getting better and better

677
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Speaker 1: and better. Super excited about this upcoming week and it

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Speaker 1: begins in now less than twenty four hours with the

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Speaker 1: Bears and Alliance. Yeah, but we're with Field at ESPN

680
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Speaker 1: NFL Insider, I feel like I got to ask you

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Speaker 1: about the forty nine Ers and the Ravens game. This

682
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Speaker 1: is a preview of the Super Bowl. I could be,

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Speaker 1: it definitely could be. It's a huge, huge task to

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Speaker 1: go west to east in general, and those West coast

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Speaker 1: teams typically prefer not to play at one o'clock on

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Speaker 1: Sunday because the other body clocks are still sort of adjusting.

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Speaker 1: Look at what the Raiders did this past week playing

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Speaker 1: an egg against the Jets when it was a one

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Speaker 1: pm start. But the forty nine ers are certainly a

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Speaker 1: better team than the Raiders, and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: huge tough because right now, there isn't a plan to

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Speaker 1: stop Lamar Jackson. There is only a plan to contain

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. It's to make him maybe maybe mortal. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but maybe mortal. And the four nineers of

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Speaker 1: an outstanding pass rush, one of the best in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They got to find a way to put athletes on

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Speaker 1: athletes and keep up with what the Ravens can do

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Speaker 1: on offense. And you know, I think the other thing

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Speaker 1: about the Ravens that we realized right now is that

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Speaker 1: if you look at how they have played against teams

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Speaker 1: since they've really gotten hot over the past five or

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Speaker 1: so weeks, they've had one competitive game. It ended up

703
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Speaker 1: being a thirty seven twenty win over the Patriots, but

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Speaker 1: for a while there, like going into the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: it was close. And think about the Patriots did that night.

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Speaker 1: They had a they were driving and then Julian Edelman

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Speaker 1: was stripped and it was returned seventy yards without anybody

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Speaker 1: being anywhere near Marlon Humphrey. They took a bunch of

709
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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic penalties, whether well free snap penalties. Specifically, you cannot

710
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Speaker 1: beat yourself against the Ravens because they're too good. If

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Speaker 1: you give them any extra opportunities, good luck, because they

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Speaker 1: are going to take advantage of them. The forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers are awesome, but they've got a really challenging two

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Speaker 1: week stretch the raven and then the Saints. So that

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Speaker 1: right there is about a difficult of a two week

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Speaker 1: stretch as you'll find, especially understanding that New Orleans plays

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night, they've got three extra days to prepare

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Speaker 1: for San Francisco. On the back end, we've also got

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Speaker 1: Brown's Steelers rematch on Sunday. Now, Hodges is going to

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Speaker 1: start for the Steelers. Are we going to see some

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Speaker 1: more drama in that game? Do you think I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what people can tell me. There's not going to

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Speaker 1: be drama. They can tell me the heads will prevail,

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Speaker 1: cool hails and prevail, and that that was so two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Come on, we all we're all human here,

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Speaker 1: we all have emotions, we all have anticipation for this game,

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Speaker 1: and you can imagine that Steelers players will feel the

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Speaker 1: same way, because there will be those not just amongst

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Speaker 1: the offensive lines, but probably all over the roster that

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Speaker 1: feel like their quarterback was maliciously intact. And there will

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Speaker 1: be those from the Browns. We heard how they feel

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Speaker 1: about Miles Garrett, the supparting, the character in Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 1: the kind of person he is. They have been very

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Speaker 1: vocal with their appreciation for Miles Garrett as an individual.

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Speaker 1: Understand he did was wrong and silly and stupid. But

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Speaker 1: it's going to be an incredible atmosphere on Sunday at

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Speaker 1: Hines Field. And yeah, I'm preparing myself for anything, not

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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be there, not that I have a

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Speaker 1: real vested interest in specifically what happened other than just

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Speaker 1: watching football and covering it. But you got to imagine

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting atmosphere on Sunday

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Speaker 1: in Pittsford Worth Field, hsp NFL Insider, I got to

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Speaker 1: ask you about one thing, and the team with the

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Speaker 1: best record in the league's and are going down to

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Speaker 1: Houston or playing the Houston Texans. Do you think Steph

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Speaker 1: Gilmore at this point can take away the best receiver

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Speaker 1: And I think he's one of the best, if not

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Speaker 1: the best receiver in the National Football League. DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: is Steph Gilmore in the New England Patriot defense good

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Speaker 1: enough to contain Hopkins. If there's anybody that's good enough

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Speaker 1: right now, it's Stefan Gilmore, you know, I think he

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Speaker 1: Turnavias maybe one, you know, maybe maybe Jalen Ramsey are

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Speaker 1: you know, they're as good as they yet, But I

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Speaker 1: would say just sort of start to finish. I think

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Speaker 1: the season for you know, Stefan Gilmore and Turnavias, those

756
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Speaker 1: two have really shined above the rest this year amongst cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: You know, I certainly anticipate that Gilmour will be monitoring

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Speaker 1: and shadowing DeAndre Hopkins throughout the night on Sunday. Do

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna having Amari Cooper zero for zero, No,

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Speaker 1: because I just think that's really hard to do any

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Speaker 1: week for DeAndre Hopkins. But I think that, you know,

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Speaker 1: there are weeks where Desander Hopkins can go for ten

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Speaker 1: for one fifty and a touchdown. This does not feel

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Speaker 1: like one of those weeks. Another log to throw onto

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Speaker 1: the fire for why this is such a highly anticipated

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Speaker 1: weekend of football that should be a fantastic matchup to

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Speaker 1: close out the weekend on Sunday Night. One last question,

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you around the National Football League out

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Speaker 1: in Seattle. They're nine and two, but their quarterback Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Is there anybody who is as important? Maybe Lamar Jackson is,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, But is there a quarterback who is

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Speaker 1: any more important to their team than Russell Wilson is

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Speaker 1: to the Seattle Seahawks. You know, I thought about the

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Speaker 1: criteria for what it means to be the NFL's Most

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Speaker 1: Valuable Player, and I think probably we understand it has

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Speaker 1: sort of a narrative to it each year, right, Like

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Speaker 1: I think Lamar Jackson is not just incredibly valuable, but

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Speaker 1: it's an amazing story, right. I mean, Lamar has taken

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Speaker 1: the league by storm. I'm not saying Lamar is not

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Speaker 1: a worthy candidate going forward and he won't win the award.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a vote myself, but he would get

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Speaker 1: my vote. But I really do wonder if you took

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson away from the Ravens, and you took Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson away from the Seahawks, which team do you give

785
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: the better chance to stay competitive? And again, Lamar is exceptional.

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Speaker 1: He is my pick. But think that you know Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: His value is just unbelievably important to the Seahawks. Such

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Speaker 1: a sturdy, dependable, reliable player. He would be very much

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Speaker 1: on my ballot. I actually had one for the NFL MVP.

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Speaker 1: What a true joy he has to watch on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right, Field, it's time to take advantage of your

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Speaker 1: fantasy football prowess. And we're gonna begin with a We

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Speaker 1: just have a couple of questions for you. So people

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Speaker 1: are setting their rosters for the weekend, and Matt's going

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Speaker 1: to read you the first question here from one of

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Speaker 1: our listeners. So Jack has a question about who he

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Speaker 1: should put in his flex Ronald Jones, DeVante Parker, or

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt. What do you think for flex? Really? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really interesting question right there. I would go with Ronald Jones.

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Speaker 1: I know that DeVante Parker has been really, really hot

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Speaker 1: the Eagles defense, though quietly people may not realize just

802
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Speaker 1: how good that Eagles defense has played over their last

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Speaker 1: four games. They give me Ronald Jones, who has become

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Speaker 1: the starting running back for the Bucks. All right, Nica,

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Speaker 1: One more from Tiffany. Do I go with my heart

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Speaker 1: and play Josh Allen's Josh Allen or Mahomes six points

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Speaker 1: for a TD pass. I need one more win to

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Thanks, here we go, Josh Allen or

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. I was just gonna stay go with your

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Speaker 1: heart because it's fantasy football and that's what you should

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Speaker 1: be emotionally invested in if you want to be. But

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes against things really really bad Radar secondary, that's

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Speaker 1: a tough one to say no too. I would go

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Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes on Funday, Field Yates telling all the

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Speaker 1: fantasy football players out there to go with your heart,

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Speaker 1: not with your head. That's what fantasy football is all about. Field,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us. We appreciate it. Guys, Happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Maddy doing a great job going in from looking forward

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Speaker 1: to what's ahead for you. Thank you, A gold jacket

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00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: belongs in your future. Well I appreciate that. Thanks, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate the Field. Thanks for coming on. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: take a break and we're gonna come back when one

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Speaker 1: more on one Bills Live. We've got Edward or coming

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00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: up from Dallas. We've got Ryan Kelly who produced the

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Speaker 1: Football Life for Bruce Smith. Stay with us. We're from

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Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. This is One Bills Live from Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studios in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live Steeve task along with Maddi Glab.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are in transit to Dallas for their Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: game there against the Cowboys tomorrow. Maddy Glab is sitting

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Speaker 1: in from Murph Glad you're here right. How's the show

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Speaker 1: going so far? Except for my ineptitude about the Twitter stop,

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Speaker 1: I've messed up like four times. You are killing It's Steve,

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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job in the show. No never,

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Speaker 1: We had Field Yates on at twelve thirty talking about

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and going down their heat. There really

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Speaker 1: does seem to be an added level of controversy surrounding

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00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: this Cowboys coming into this game. Yeah, just with everything

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has said about the coaching staff. And he's

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Speaker 1: GM and owner, so of course he's saying those things

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Speaker 1: about the coaching staff, and rightfully so if he feels

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00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: that way that you've got all this talent on this

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00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: team and they have not produced the way that he's

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Speaker 1: wanted them to produce, I don't know whether it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing or a bad thing for the Bills, though

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00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: I've seen it work both ways, where teams like, yeah,

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00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ready for a new head coaching, or man,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's go. You know, I'm this is We

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Speaker 1: got enough guys here, let's go. Let's get it done,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's make it happen. And so I don't

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00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: know what's gonna which team we're gonna get. Imagine they're

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00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: going to be really highly motivated on a Thanksgiving Day,

853
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: I'd say so Thanksgiving Day. They they have, Their record

854
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving is pretty good. They definitely have more wins

855
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: than losses on Thanksgiving. Bills haven't played on Thanksgiving since

856
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, since the game that you were in

857
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: it right, but again, I'll say it again. I woke

858
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: up feeling good about this game. So well, you said

859
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: I was killing a Shall we like spread our wings

860
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: little bit and try and take a phone call. Let's

861
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: let's fly, all right? You asked for it, all right,

862
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: there we go. Dave is Dave from Buffalo has been

863
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: on for like pushing a half an hour. Here. Let

864
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: me see if I can play, Dave. You're on the

865
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: air with Steven Maddie. What's going on? What are you

866
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: thankful for for this Buffalo Bills team? Well, I want

867
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: to I want to respond to that and ask you

868
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: guys a question. I would like both your inputs on that. Um,

869
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: I'm most thankful for Josh Allen's progression. That's good, pretty

870
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: good answer. That's good, I get it. My question she

871
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: both is with the Bills traveling, that gives the Cowboys

872
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: I would say, an extra day of practice, right, Um,

873
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: how much do you think you guys? Do you guys

874
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: think that I'll have an effect? Is that a huge

875
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: advantage or you just can do like a lock through

876
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: because they had a short week as well, like you

877
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: both didn't put on that. Now I'll hang up and

878
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: listen to chair. It's interesting question. Thanks for call, Dave.

879
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It's an interesting question because it depends

880
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: on how they use the time that they getting. Like

881
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: the Bills, we're in here this morning walking through doing

882
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: some stuff, special team stuff, walking through stuff, you know, practicing,

883
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see what what do the

884
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys do? Is it just their schedules a little different?

885
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: Certainly the Bills can do some things or give their

886
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: players things to do on the plane to prepare for

887
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: the game. They can watch film on their on their surfaces.

888
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: They can you know, they can get ready that way,

889
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: no question about it. I think the question real question

890
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: is about this game. Is your recovery from the last game. Yeah,

891
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: that's a big issue. Certainly the Cowboys can get treatment

892
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: at a time when the Bills are traveling to and

893
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: from the airport and in transit and you know they're

894
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: not going to get massages on the jet, you know.

895
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest issue is will it help

896
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: them recover being on the ground. The preparation I think

897
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: is about a push. Maybe there is something that advantage

898
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: to be in at home. Yeah, they're used to playing

899
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: these Thanksgiving games, the Bills and the makeup of this roster,

900
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: they are not. Josh Allen, second year quarterback, his first

901
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: Thursday game, his first Thanksgiving game. Now they played Thursday

902
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: night last year, so first Thanksgiving game, right, a pretty

903
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: big deal. But Josh talked about being healthy and having

904
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: that rest time yesterday when he was available to the media,

905
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: and he said, really, the big thing about the short

906
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: week is just making sure we have our rest time

907
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: and making sure that we are not sore going into

908
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: this Thursday night game, making sure that they're in that

909
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: training room as much as they could be in the

910
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: last two days. It's really crazy to think that they

911
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: had Monday, Tuesday, and today is Wednesday and they're already gone.

912
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: That is such a short week. But coach McDermott said

913
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: that the staff has been putting in the extra hours.

914
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: You've got to believe these players and this coaching staff.

915
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: We're in here much more than they have been on

916
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Mondays and Tuesdays for a regular week, because Tuesday's usually

917
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: they're off day, right, And you kind of worry about

918
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: to really in this case like this, you worry about

919
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: the veterans, the guys who've got a lot of miles

920
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: on their chat, these guys like Frank Gore and Lorenzo Alexander,

921
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: Stephen Haushka, the Kicker, all these guys that have been

922
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: around for a long time who take a beating, Lorenzo

923
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: in particular, and Frank Gore, Yeah, you don't bounce back

924
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: when you're thirty five. You know, when you're twenty three,

925
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: you're ready to play on Tuesday or Wednesday, right, I

926
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: mean he just bounced back because you just don't. It

927
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: just doesn't have that effect on you, but it takes

928
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: longer to recover the deeper into your career. Yeah, and

929
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: I think you lean on these veterans and games like

930
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: this to be able to help you from a mental standpoint.

931
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: I think they have some strong enough veteran leadership in

932
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: that locker room to help the rookies, to help the

933
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: younger guys who are playing on a really big stage tomorrow.

934
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna play big into this matchup too.

935
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: All right, let's take one more call before the top

936
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: of the hour from Tommy and DC. Tommy, you're on

937
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: the air with Steve Tasker and Mattie glab what's on

938
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: your mind? Well, guy wanted the first off day. What

939
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for this show being on a podcast. It

940
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: gives me the option to listen most times in the

941
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: mornings on I'm on my way to work, So thank

942
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: you for that, for Maddie being a part of the

943
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: Bill's family. Well, and I am thankful that our front office,

944
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: for the first time in what seems like twenty years,

945
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: has a direction. There's a goal, there's a clear, clear

946
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: goal in sight, and I feel like We're so close

947
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: to it, and that is such a great feeling for

948
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: someone who's been rooting for this team ever since they

949
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: were a little kid. It's just so great to see that. Guys. Finally,

950
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: I feel like we have a regime in place that

951
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: has this point in in the right direction. It may

952
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: take some patience, it may not happen as fast as

953
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: we all wanted to, but it's coming. Well. I appreciate that. Tom.

954
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: You got anything else about this game you want to

955
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: talk about? Oh? Man, I just you know, you brought

956
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: up that Maddie brought up to the last time they

957
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: played Thanksgiving. That was a Dave Craig game. What he

958
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: only threw like three incompletions I think in that game.

959
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: Hopefully we don't see another performance from an opposing quarterback

960
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: like that on Thursday. I'm just happy, you know, get

961
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: to wear my Bills jersey all day tomorrow while we're

962
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: getting ready to eat, and then sit down and watch it.

963
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: It's such a cool thing, man. It's it's like it's

964
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: like we'll sit on the show yesterday. This could be

965
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: their coming out party and I'm pumped up for it.

966
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: All right. I appreciate it. Thanks for calling Tommy, I

967
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We're gonna take a break now, we're gonna

968
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: come back with Edward Er from Dallas ESPN, Dallas NFL reporter.

969
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: He's been with ESPN since nineteen ninety eight, cover the

970
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: Cowboys for going on three decades. This is a guy

971
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: that really knows his way around. You know him as well.

972
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: Edward or from ESPN. You're gonna take a break. We'll

973
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: be back at the top of the hour where a

974
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: sports update and more about the Buffalo Bills in Dallas.

975
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health Live

976
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio. Nothing comes close Hello the Old

977
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: Radio Network story some date. The Bills are headed down

978
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: to Dallas to face the Cowboys tomorrow at four thirty pm.

979
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: You can catch the game on WGR five fifty with Murph,

980
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 1: Eric Wood and Sal Capaccio. You can watch the game

981
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: on CBS also tomorrow. For Thanksgiving Day football, the Detroit

982
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: Lions are hosting the Chicago Bears at twelve thirty pm

983
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: on Fox, and the Saints head to the Falcons for

984
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: an eight twenty kickoff tomorrow night on NBC. Pittsburgh head

985
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: coach Mike Tomlin announced yesterday that the Steelers will start

986
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: quarterback Devlin Hodges on Sunday at home against the Browns.

987
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: Hodges replaced Mason Rudolph at halftime in the steelers narrow

988
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: victory over the windless Bengals in Week twelve. Hodges has

989
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: a career stat line of twenty seven to forty, passing

990
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighteen yards, two touchdowns in one interception,

991
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: with a passer rating of ninety seven point seven. Ravens

992
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: center Matt Skur will miss the rest of the two

993
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: nineteen regular season with a knee injury suffered in Baltimore's

994
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: forty five to six win over the Rams on Sunday.

995
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: Skura is ranked the NFL's twenty second best center in

996
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: pass blocking by Pro Football Focus. The Sabers host the

997
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: Calgary Flames tonight for a seven pm, saving pm face

998
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: off at Key Bank Center. The Sabers game night on

999
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: MSG will be at six thirty with Brian Duff and

1000
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: Marty Barron. You can also catch the pregame coverage on

1001
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: w GR five fifty with Chope and the Bulldog beginning

1002
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: at six pm with Rob Ray and Rob Ray will

1003
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: join them live at four pm. During the show. Flames

1004
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: head coach Bill Peters will not be behind the bench

1005
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: in tonight's game while the NHL and Calgary can continue

1006
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: investigating a claim that he used racial racial slurs addressing

1007
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 1: a player earlier in his career. Associate coach Jeff Ward

1008
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 1: will handle the head coaching duties tonight for the Calgary Flames.

1009
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Eric Cernak has been suspended for

1010
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: two games without pay for elbowing Sabers defenseman Rasmus Daleen

1011
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: during Tampa's five to win over Buffalo on Monday. Dalen

1012
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with a concussion hit and that is your

1013
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: sports update now. Thank you for joining us on One

1014
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. You're with Steve Tasker and Mattie Glab. We

1015
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: are pleased to be joined by a guy we've all

1016
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: watched for a long time cover the Dallas Cowboys for ESPN.

1017
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: He's the ESPN Dallas NFL reporter. He's been with the

1018
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: ESPN since nineteen ninety eight and has covered the Cowboys

1019
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty nine. Edward or joining us Edward or

1020
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab here in Buffalo, Thanks for joining us.

1021
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: How are you honored that you would invite me to

1022
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: be on your show and share some insights on this

1023
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: fascinating game that we're expecting to have here tomorrow with

1024
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: Jerry World. It is kind of a fascinating game. What

1025
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: strikes you most about this being a guy who covers

1026
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Well, obviously, the major storyline in Dallas right

1027
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: now is just the tenuous nature of the head coach,

1028
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's job, given the criticism delivered by Jerry Jones

1029
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: after their loss up in Foxborough and the exasperation that

1030
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: he expressed that not only did they lose that game,

1031
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: but it was more some of the other games that

1032
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: in his mind, they should have won, like against the

1033
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: Jets and the Vikings and the Saints, that put them

1034
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: in a position where they couldn't afford to lose to

1035
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady and Foxborough, where as you

1036
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: well know, that's what happens almost invariably to any opponent

1037
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: who goes there. So that to me is the major storyline,

1038
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: and Jason Garrett and his staff are well aware they

1039
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: are now coaching for their jobs. Garrett obviously has coached

1040
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: all season without a contract extension. And then I think

1041
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: the other interesting thing is the fact that we're looking

1042
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: at these two teams that neither one of them has

1043
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: been able to beat an opponent with a winning record

1044
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: at the time the game was played. Dallas gets its

1045
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: fifth opportunity tomorrow against the Bills, the Bills getting just

1046
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: their second chance to sort of validate the kind of

1047
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: team that they are with a victory over a winning team.

1048
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: So those are two interesting, I think storylines that are

1049
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: unique to this game. And in those losses of the

1050
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: Cowboys had a lot of the times besides one of

1051
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: those losses, they have more total yards. When it comes

1052
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: to offense, some of this chatter about this game is

1053
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: on offensive coordinator Kellen Moore and if he should dial

1054
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: up something different, be a little bit more, give some

1055
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: more variety in what we've seen. Instead of some eleven personnel,

1056
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: you're basic personnel. So what has Kellen Moore done in

1057
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: his first year as an offensive coordinator? And do you

1058
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,399
Speaker 1: think he's going to mix it up when it comes

1059
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, tight ends, running backs on Thursday? Well,

1060
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: I think what's what's interesting, Maddie is that Kellen Moore

1061
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: is pretty much done the job that he was hired

1062
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:43,720
Speaker 1: to do. They fired Scott Lenihan, who was the mentor

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Speaker 1: of Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore as a quarterback and as

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Speaker 1: an assistant coach in the NFL, it spent seven consecutive

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00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: seasons with Scott Lenihan. So when you take over for

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00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: somebody the offense, like, the owner is basically saying, I

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00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: don't want the offense to look like this anymore. And

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00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: so they sort of have evolved from a run oriented

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00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: offense built around Ezekiel Elliott to one that now features

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Speaker 1: much more prominently quarterback Dak Prescott and the passing game.

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Speaker 1: Now they haven't They've had a lot of success, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, accumulating yards, and they've actually done pretty well

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00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 1: scoring points. But there have been games now too, losses

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00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: both on the road in which they failed to score

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00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: a touchdown against the Saints and the Patriots and ultimately

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00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: lost those games. But I think that Kellen Moore is

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Speaker 1: following the mandate of Jerry Jones when he was promoted

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00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: to this position after just one year as a quarterbacks coach,

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Speaker 1: to create a more dynamic offense, one that looks more

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00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: like and performs more like the final four teams last

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00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 1: year in the playoffs in the conference championship games where

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00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: the top four scoring teams in football. When the Cowboys

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00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs last year, they were the lowest

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00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: scoring team to make the postseason. So I think he's

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00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: reconfigured them in exactly the way that Jerry Jones imagine

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00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: and that really most for the most part, the failures

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Speaker 1: of Tom in other phases of the team. We're speaking

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Speaker 1: with ed Warder at ESPN Dallas NFL reporter and I

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00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: got to ask you too about this. It seems from

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00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: the outside looking and there's always some drama going on

1091
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: in and around the Cowboys because their owner is so

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00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: involved in hands on and Jerry has put together a

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00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: roster that when you look at it on film and

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00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: look at it on paper, you're really like, Wow, they

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00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: really should be winning. And we've already seen Jason Garrett

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00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: have get times in his career as the NFL as

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Speaker 1: a head coach of the Cowboys where you know they've

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00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: they've said, hey, how long is he going to be here?

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00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: As Jerry really unhappy with him. But we've never liked

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00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: this morning we heard I've heard a rumor where there's

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00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: actually a guy like Chris Richard who's the passing game

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00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: coordinator be mentioned as a guy who may take over

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00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: for him. That seems a step further than normal. Well,

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00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: it was unusual, for this is only the second time

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00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: in their tenure partnership that Jerry Jones put Jason Garrett

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00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: in a position where he was coaching for his job

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00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: because they decided not to extend his contract after last season,

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00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 1: even though they won the division and won a whole

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00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: playoff game against Seattle, they forced him to coach the

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00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: last year of his contract. And we all know that's

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00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: highly unusual. And Jerry has always been Jason Garrett's biggest

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00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: public supporter, and it's very clear now that that is

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00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: not his position. And I think it's because when the

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00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: season began, you know, Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones and

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00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: Will McClay, the collective front office made it a very

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00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: publicly known that they viewed this as the best collection

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00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: of talent and the deepest roster that the Cowboys had

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00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: put together since they were winning Super Bowls in the

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00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties. And so they obviously didn't expect to be

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Speaker 1: six and five with that roster. And so Jerry Jones

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00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: is now left with an uncomfortable choice you either have

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00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: to take the responsibility yourself and say I misjudge the

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00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: quality of the roster I put together and gave this coach,

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00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: or you have to say the coach has underachieved and

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Speaker 1: not won enough games with a great roster that I

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00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: gave him, and not surprisingly, he's choosing to do the ladder. Now,

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00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: this is a talented offense, as you've mentioned, and some

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Speaker 1: of these losses Cowboys losses haven't necessarily been on the

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Speaker 1: offense because they've still racked up points in yards. When

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Speaker 1: you're talking about shutting down the Cowboys offense, what does

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00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: the Bills defense need to shut down it? Is it Zeke,

1132
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: is it Amari Cooper? Is it completely shutting down the

1133
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: run game? What? How do you think the Bills defense

1134
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: can win this game by playing a successful game on defense? Well,

1135
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: I think until very recently, defensive coordinators took the approach

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00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: that you got to take Elliott out of the game

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00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: and you got to force Prescott to win it throwing

1138
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: the football. But as he's demonstrated a capacity for doing that,

1139
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: I think the defensive priority now changes to taking away

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00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, which we've seen happen now in two consecutive week.

1141
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: Step On Gilmore shut him out last week, A familiar

1142
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: player to Buffalo fans shut him after the Patriots last

1143
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: week the first time in twenty games, and Amari Cooper

1144
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: didn't have a single catch, and in fact, Stephan Gilmore

1145
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: had one more catch of a Dak Prescott pass than

1146
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: did Amari Cooper. The week before that he was covered

1147
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,439
Speaker 1: a man demand by Darius Slay and had just three

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00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: catches for thirty eight yards. So I think given you

1149
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: the success that Bill Belichick had and that Matt Patricia

1150
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: took the same approach the week before, I think that

1151
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: suggests it really starts with trying to deny Dak Prescott,

1152
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: the receiver that he depends the most upon. Now that

1153
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: being said, those were road games, and Amari Cooper has

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00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: been a strikingly different player at home. He's got three

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00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: consecutive hundred yard games at home. Five of his touchdown

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00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: catches have come at home, So he's a different challenge

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01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: when the weather's not a factor and when he's in

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01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: his home stadium. But I think that's a big thing.

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Speaker 1: And even that being said, I think the Cowboys still

1160
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: feel like with Randall Cobb in the spot and Michael

1161
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: Gallup as a second year player who's really evolved that

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01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: they still can hurt teams and score points with their

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01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: other receivers in the passing game if necessary. But I

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01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: think that's kind of where people now believe it starts

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01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: in terms of successfully defending a Dallas offense that really

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01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: Maddie has to score, you know, thirty points a game

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01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: or they lose. The history of this team suggests that

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01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: they're o and five when they don't score thirty points.

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01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the threshold that the Cowboys take

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01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: into this game, which is is really a high one considering,

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01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: you know, they're coming out of a game where they

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Speaker 1: got didn't have an offensive touchdown against the number one

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01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: scoring defense in football. Now they're playing the number three

1174
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: defense in scoring defense in football and Buffalo, and their

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01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: next game is against the number four scoring defense in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So this is a really challe lenging period of time

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Speaker 1: and three games in succession that are very very difficult

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01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: for any offense. And as Steve and I were just

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01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: talking about, jobs are on the line in Dallas. Yeah,

1180
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: and you talk about this offense and it has been prolific.

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01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Dak Prescott is leading the league in Ylardady's

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01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: thirty four hundred and thirty three yards, twenty one tds,

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01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: ten interceptions. But there was a time, maybe a couple

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01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: of weeks ago before they dropped to six and five,

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01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: where Dak Prescott was in the conversation for MVP in

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01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: a contin he's playing for a contract extension, He's doing

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01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: this stuff. Dak doesn't seem to be the problem. And

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it. Maybe it is the defense, but this

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Speaker 1: offense with Dak Prescott, you I don't know that you

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01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: can ask more of a quarterback than Dak Prescott's given you. Yeah,

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01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 1: I think the bigger problem, Steve, And obviously this is

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Speaker 1: where you made your Hall of Fame reputation is on

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01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: special teams, and we saw that come to the forefront

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01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: in the New England game, where you know, the Patriots

1195
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: quickly blocked up Hunt for the third time the season.

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01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: Will have been ten block punts in the NFL this year,

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01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: and the Patriots have three of them. They've scored off

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Speaker 1: two of them. And then they set up the game's

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Speaker 1: only touchdown on a twelve yard drive early against Dallas

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01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: last week and force them to play from behind and

1201
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: all too often that's been one of the signatures in

1202
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: defeats that the Cowboys have suffered that they don't play

1203
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: well on special teams. In fact, since Week four, they've

1204
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 1: ranked dead last in the NFL in special teams efficiency

1205
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: by whatever those metrics are. The point is it's a

1206
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: longstanding problem that Jason Garrett and his coaching staff have

1207
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: been unable to resolve, and it's one that has to

1208
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: frighten them this week, given that Andre Andre Roberts is

1209
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: what's second in the NFL kickoff and punt return yardage,

1210
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are not good at covering kicks, and

1211
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: at the very least, it could certainly harm you in

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01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: terms of feel position. And that's the other thing you

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01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: know when you talk about the offense. The problem is

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Speaker 1: that they don't get very many short fields because their

1215
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: special teams aren't good, and so in a field position

1216
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: game they tend to lose that. And their defense has

1217
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: gone three straight games twelve quarters without forcing a single turnover,

1218
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: and only five teams in the entire league all season

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01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: have forced fewer turnovers than Dallas. So they almost never

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01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: get short field scoring opportunities, and yet they're challenged to

1221
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Speaker 1: go out and score thirty points if they want to

1222
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Speaker 1: win a game. Let's talk about some matchups that just

1223
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: jump off the board when you're looking at this game.

1224
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Speaker 1: The defensive ends for the Cowboys, Robert Quinn and DeMarcus

1225
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 1: Lawrence fourteen combined sacks this season. They're going to be

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Speaker 1: a force to be reckoned with. On Thursday, going up

1227
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Speaker 1: against Cody Ford, rookie right tackle Tye and Secky and

1228
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: Cody Ford had been splitting reps up until three weeks ago.

1229
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: He's going to be out for a second straight game.

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Speaker 1: That's Tie and Secky. Why are Quinn and Lawrence just

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01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: such great players? How are they able to get to

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01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback and really affect an offense? Yeah, I think

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01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: you know. Quinn Is is just playing on a one

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01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: year contract after the Cowboys acquired him from the Miami

1235
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins a few years ago for the ramby of nineteen sacks.

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Speaker 1: So he's been an elite pass rusher in the league

1237
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: at times, but he's sort of seen as a guy

1238
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: who was at the end of his career and Miami's

1239
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: obviously really building in values draft picks, and this is

1240
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: a player who the Cowboys when they signed him, felt

1241
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: like he was somewhere between a seven and twelve sack player,

1242
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: and he's been obviously far better than that. He's going

1243
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: to achieve that number unless there's some kind of injury involved.

1244
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: He's been the dominant feature in terms of the pass

1245
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: rush on their defense to Marcus Lawrence. Really, you know,

1246
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: he got his big, huge contract in the offseason, guaranteed

1247
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars, and if you look at his numbers,

1248
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: you're not impressed. But if you watch him on tape

1249
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: and if you watch him in these games, he's a

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01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: relentless player and a lot of the blocking is directed

1251
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: at him, and he's still is an influence in the

1252
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: pass rush. He's a big factor in their run defense.

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01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't underestimate him just because his numbers aren't

1254
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 1: what they usually are. I think Quinn has certainly been

1255
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: I think Michael Bennett inside, who they traded for from

1256
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots at the trade deadline, is another player who

1257
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: creates versatility and a dynamic pass rusher. So I think

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01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a chance to affect the game in

1259
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: that regard. And it's kind of always surprised me given

1260
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: the pass rushers that they have and their effectiveness that

1261
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to create more turnovers despite the

1262
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: pressure that they fairly consistently are able to generate against

1263
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: the posting passers. One other matchup, I want to ask

1264
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Speaker 1: you about Edward or ESPN Dallas reporter is joining us

1265
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live. Last question for me about matchups.

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Speaker 1: Urdavious White has really stepped up his game. That he

1267
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: was good as soon as he came out of LSU

1268
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: three years ago, but this year he has really really

1269
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: emerged as a shutdown guy. Do you anticipate and I

1270
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 1: guess it sounds like you do the Bills kind of

1271
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 1: using the same defensive scheme as Detroit and the New

1272
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Just latch up a guy, try and take

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01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper away. See if the Deck Cowboys can beat

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Speaker 1: you with everybody else. Yeah, I mean I know Sean

1275
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 1: McDermott pretty well from the time when he was a

1276
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 1: Carolina defensive coordinator and they went to the Super Bowl.

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01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: Obviously he's a great defensive coach. I don't know what

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01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: their history is of using White in that regard as

1279
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: far as having him travel with the number one receiver

1280
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: on opposing teams, you would know that better than I,

1281
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: but it's certainly something that if the rest of your

1282
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: secondary is up to that sort of challenge. Has proven

1283
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 1: effective in recent weeks against Amari Cooper. I think, you know,

1284
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: his reputation coming to Dallas was one that you want

1285
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: him to get if you're if he's your receiver, you

1286
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: want to get him involved early because he can tend

1287
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: to get frustrated if he's not involved early and not

1288
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 1: getting the ball in the early phases of the game.

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01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: And I think that we've seen some of that, So

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01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: to me, that would be a big priority if I'm

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01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: Dallas going into this game, is I want to get him,

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01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: make him feel like he's going to be involved, and

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01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: do that early in the game, regardless really of what

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01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: the coverage is. And I know the Cowboys have always felt,

1295
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: certainly until these last two weeks, that this was a

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01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: player who could not be covered one on one. That's

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01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: been proven not to be true. And so if if

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01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: I had the capacity and a player like like White,

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 1: I would certainly be inclined to try that myself and

1300
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: see if I was able to just take him out

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01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 1: of the game with my best player on defense. Cole Beasley,

1302
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: a first year player, for the Bills. Now, he spent

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01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: twenty twelve to twenty eighteen with the Dallas Cowboys, going

1304
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: back to face his former team, and he was asked

1305
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: if this game means a little bit more to him

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01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: than a regular game or just your next game on

1307
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 1: the schedule, and he said it might, but once we

1308
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: get into the game, you know, it's just really going

1309
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: to be about beating that opponent. So do you think

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01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: this game means a little bit more to him because

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01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: he is going back to Dallas, spent his collegiate career there,

1312
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 1: grew up there in Texas. Oh, I would think so.

1313
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that you know, Jason Garrett was

1314
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: asked about yesterday, and you know, he said he's he's

1315
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 1: a guy who was an honor to coach him, that

1316
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: he was a highly competitive guy, that he you know,

1317
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 1: performed in big moments. And then I just know he

1318
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 1: felt like he wasn't treated properly when he was here,

1319
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: that he didn't get the opportunities that he deserved. And

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01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 1: that's certainly understandable if you look at the kind of

1321
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: offense they were last year. I don't know that they

1322
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,839
Speaker 1: made enough use of him because he is a unique

1323
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: matchup guy in the slot. Very few teams have an

1324
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: answer for Cole Beasley one on one. And the player

1325
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,759
Speaker 1: who will, you know, all likelihood oppose him most often

1326
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: in the game tomorrow is Jordan Lewis, and he's a

1327
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: guy who's created some some turnovers. He's got their only

1328
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 1: defensive touchdown. And he said, you know, he's coming off

1329
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 1: a game where he just covered Julian Edelman with some

1330
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: degree of success. And he said, Hey, I know they

1331
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things, but you can't look

1332
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: at him like they're the same guy. Cole Beasley can

1333
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: do every route. A lot of people think he's just

1334
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: an underneath guy, but he can go over the top.

1335
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: And he said, as far as the quickness he has,

1336
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: the stop and start, he said, is the quickest I've

1337
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,680
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. So I definitely know it's

1338
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: going to be a challenge. So I think if you

1339
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: have a highly motivated Cole Beasley's coming off a pretty

1340
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: good game, getting the big stage for the first time

1341
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 1: with the Bills and against his former team, yeah, I

1342
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: would think the adrenal and the expectation is going to

1343
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: be pretty high from Cole Beasley tomorrow. He's Edward Or,

1344
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: ESPN Dallas NFL reporter. He's been with ESPN since nineteen

1345
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: ninety eight and covering the Cowboys since eighty nine. Thanks

1346
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 1: so much, ed We really appreciate you coming on. And

1347
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: I hope you guys, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

1348
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,560
Speaker 1: Thanks Stephen Mattie. Appreciate the opportunity even happy Thanksgiving to you.

1349
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: Hope to see you at the game. All right, Thanks

1350
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: a lot, Edward Or from ESPN. And he had quite

1351
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: a bit too. He's been down there for a long time.

1352
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: You can tell, Yeah, he really does. And when you

1353
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 1: think back about what he talked about, you can see too.

1354
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: I think the overriding is almost like a cloud. When

1355
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: your head coach is in trouble, that's the first thing

1356
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: out of it that everybody needs to talk about him.

1357
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I mean that's that's been the talk

1358
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: of this week. That's been all the talk of Monday

1359
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: and Tuesdays. Jerry Jones's comments on the coaching staff. Yep,

1360
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: all right. Steve Tasker, Maddi glab on One Bill's Live.

1361
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll come back with we

1362
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: have Ryan Kelly coming up. Senior NFL producer for Football

1363
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 1: Life with Bruce Smith. We're gonna have him on later

1364
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: in the show. We're gonna take your calls and your

1365
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,639
Speaker 1: tweets when we come back. This is One Bill's Live,

1366
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida to Health from One Bill's Drive and

1367
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. In One Thill's Lives,

1368
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker along with Maddie Glab. The team is on

1369
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: the way to Dallas for Thanksgiving. I hope all people

1370
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 1: are having out out there, are having a fun Wednesday

1371
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:54,639
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. We're having a fun Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I'm

1372
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,600
Speaker 1: kind of we're roughing out this. We're smoothing out the

1373
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: rough spots. I know that we're gonna listen. We're back here,

1374
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: We're doing we got nothing going on, So we're gonna

1375
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: take a call and we're gonna take We're gonna take

1376
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: this call from Ralph on Long Island. Ralph, thanks for holding.

1377
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: You're on with Steve Tasker Maddie Glab on One Bills Live.

1378
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: What's up? What do you got on your mind? Absolutely? First,

1379
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to say I'm thankful for both Terry and

1380
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: excuse me, Terry and Tim Pagoula or getting out an

1381
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: organization going in the right direction, as well as one

1382
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 1: Bills drive because I'm all the way in Long Island

1383
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: and I don't have any Bill's coverage down here. So

1384
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: it's nice to hear you guys. Good stuff, Ralph. Thanks,

1385
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: what else you got on? What do you think about

1386
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 1: this game tomorrow? So last night I was watching NFL

1387
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 1: Network has the replay of Patriots Cowboys, and the lone

1388
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 1: touchdown that was scored was a back shoulder jump all

1389
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: kind of in the end zone. Looks like a perfect

1390
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: Duke Williams Ralph down low, and I was just hoping

1391
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: maybe he might be activated in that spot if mister

1392
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: Foster can't get his hamstring right. I think that was

1393
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 1: a point of exposure that Josh can make that throw

1394
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 1: to Duke. So I just want to hear your thoughts.

1395
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: That's an interesting Thanks for the Carl, Ralph. It's that's

1396
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: a really good observation and there's no reason I think

1397
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 1: it couldn't happen. That's Duke Williams specialty. We've seen it

1398
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: here in his short tenure here in Buffalo when he

1399
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 1: was active. The guy wins fifty fifty balls and yeah,

1400
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:20,760
Speaker 1: Bob Foster may not be right. Robert Foster may not

1401
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: be in the game all right, and so it'll be interesting.

1402
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 1: What do you think, I mean, Duke Williams, that's a

1403
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: he's a great asset to have on your team. And

1404
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver. He's a big guy, he's a

1405
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: big body. He is great with those fifty fifty balls,

1406
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: and he's somebody you can trust in the end zone

1407
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: when he's going up for a ball like that. Yeah,

1408
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:39,640
Speaker 1: I agree, I think it's I think it's intriguing to

1409
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: think about. You're right, though. Only touchdown that was scored

1410
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,719
Speaker 1: in that Dallas New England game in the rainstorm, of course,

1411
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: was a back shoulders rofe for that block punt where

1412
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 1: they and I can't remember the name of which receiver was.

1413
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it was in Kiel Harry. I was

1414
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:55,479
Speaker 1: one of the other guys for New England. It was

1415
01:12:55,560 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: in Kiel Harry. So interesting. We'll see. But we're gonna

1416
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: to wait for the inactives to find out if Duke

1417
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 1: Williams is going to be on the field or not.

1418
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: You're gonna tomorrow since since we have a feast tomorrow

1419
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving, we should talk about lunch today. All right,

1420
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: all right, what's for lunch? This is where we had

1421
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: a couple of items on the menu. We're gonna pick

1422
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: our menu out of thanks that's right, you're here, you're

1423
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: loving life. Okay, all right, you know how this works, right, Maddie,

1424
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,000
Speaker 1: you've done lunch yes before. Okay, here we go. Here's

1425
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: what's on the menu. First thing on the menu. What's

1426
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 1: the best time to eat Thanksgiving dinner? Is at noon,

1427
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: mid afternoon or evening. Um, I'm gonna say mid afternoon,

1428
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: that's my choice. But with the bills on at four thirty,

1429
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to have your eyes off

1430
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: the TV. So this year, me and my family are

1431
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: going to do evening, which is I would say after

1432
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: the game, which is kind of weird. A lot of

1433
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: people don't eat too late, but we're gonna we're gonna

1434
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 1: eat after the game. There's non apps during the spills game.

1435
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: You can't be in a food coma. You gotta stay

1436
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 1: up for this stuff. I haven't thought about that because

1437
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 1: we're doing the opposite. See, I'm today, I'm gonna go.

1438
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna like I'm gonna have the apron on. We're

1439
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: gonna be cooking all night tonight to get everything prepped

1440
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: so that we can eat earlier in the day tomorrow,

1441
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: get that all done with for the game and then

1442
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: flop and just you know, and be in a vegetative

1443
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 1: state for the game, right, ready to go? Well, you know, yeah, Mike,

1444
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 1: if we eat it like one noon or one eat

1445
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 1: and you're done with it an hour, dessert, everything that

1446
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: gives you time, maybe you're like a two to three hour,

1447
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: two hour nap or even a one and a half

1448
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: hour nap, and you know, a two to three thirty

1449
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 1: to kind of nap. If it's a four thirty kickoff, right,

1450
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: you see, you can get get a nap in still

1451
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 1: and then be fresh. We're doing brunch and then dinner.

1452
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: Yeah see that's another thing too. You got have two meals.

1453
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: Didn't really? Yeah, we're doing brunch this year. It's our thing. Okay,

1454
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:56,160
Speaker 1: there's your first item on the mini the second thing

1455
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: on the menu. This is a really I think this

1456
01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: is a I don't think it's controversial, but it is

1457
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: a serious question. Nap or no nap after Thanksgiving? I

1458
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: think if you're feeling a nap, you got to take

1459
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 1: a nap. There have. There have been some years where

1460
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: I haven't been feeling in that way through it, fight

1461
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: through it, and you just stay up and you just

1462
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: keep eating basically, Oh yeah, just eat some coffee, Eat

1463
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 1: some coffee. You just gotta stay up if the games

1464
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: are good enough. The games are good enough this year,

1465
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: I get it. And see that's the thing too, nap.

1466
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: If you're napping through you know, it's a it's a

1467
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's a New Orleans Saints and a Cardinals

1468
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 1: game or something that I don't we don't care about that.

1469
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: Right out of conferensation. He's snapped through that. Yeah, right

1470
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: parts of it. If it gets good, you catch the

1471
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: end of it. But you really don't need to hang

1472
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: in there for a you know, you do want to

1473
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: hang in there for you know, it's it's like Bill's

1474
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: Bill's Cowboys. Yeah you can. You can't be napping through that.

1475
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 1: I think it does depend on the matchups of the day.

1476
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: You're going to take your nap before you a nap guy,

1477
01:15:57,120 --> 01:16:00,880
Speaker 1: I am okay, I'm naps are the most underrated human endeavor.

1478
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: Sorry sorry here, next thing on the on the menu

1479
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 1: gravy or no gravy, gravy all the time. Are you

1480
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 1: kidding me? Gravy is what makes Thanksgiving a wonderful thing?

1481
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 1: Is gravy. I absolutely love gravy. I will pour like

1482
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: five ladles all over my food. I want gravy on everything,

1483
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: and then I'm probably gonna get up and go get

1484
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: some more gravy because gravy is the best. I wish

1485
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: that when you cut my wrists open, gravy would come out.

1486
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: That's how much I love gravy. I'm with you totally.

1487
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 1: Gravy is all. I am all about gravy. In fact,

1488
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 1: I would have a bowl of gravy for snack if

1489
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: it was posible. Okay, what's what's a better side dish?

1490
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: Stuffing or mashed potatoes. I'm not a big stuffing fan.

1491
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: That's a hot take. A lot of people have gotten

1492
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: angry at me for saying that I don't really like stuffing,

1493
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: but I love mashed potatoes. Stuffing with gravy. I'll eat

1494
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,639
Speaker 1: a little bit if it has gravy on it, sure,

1495
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: but mashed potatoes all the way. Yeah, I'm a big

1496
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: man potato guy too. Now see, stuffing is okay obviously

1497
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:05,560
Speaker 1: with the with the gravy on it. If I'll do it.

1498
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: But see, mashed potatoes are here's the thing. My mom's

1499
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: stuffing awesome. I'll eat it all day. Your mom's stuffing,

1500
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, Oh, grandma and stuffing. I don't

1501
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: get grandma. You know, I don't know. You know. I

1502
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: go down the street to the the friends, you go

1503
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: to these other places. You don't know you're not if

1504
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: you're not at home eating mom's stuffing. Yeah, it's a

1505
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: it's a crap shoot. Mashed potatoes not so you put

1506
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, mashed potatoes. Well, even so, if if if

1507
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 1: you put gravy on it again, it's it's fine. But

1508
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 1: if the if the mashed potatoes are not are too stiff,

1509
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: it's the only downer. Or if they're too runny, that's

1510
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: a downer. But even so, mashed potatoes are so hard

1511
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: to mess up. So I'm I'm a mashed potatoes person. Okay,

1512
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 1: So we are we are going. Uh, yes, it's for us.

1513
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: For me, it's early in the day, it's you. It's

1514
01:17:57,240 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: evening this year, and always take a nap. All aways

1515
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: have gravy always. We're all big mashed potatoes fans, not

1516
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: the stuffing fans. Although I like stuffing don't get me wrong.

1517
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Now there's another mashed potatoes question.

1518
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: Do you mix your corn in with your mashed potatoes

1519
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: or you just eat the mashed potatoes? Play? Oh, I

1520
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 1: don't know, No corn, do not mix. See for me,

1521
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: I will mix my corn in or the mashed potatoes

1522
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: if the mashed potatoes potatoes are too running. Oh, if

1523
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: you have the running mashed potatoes, I'm not eating those, right,

1524
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: So there you go. You gotta fix it up. But

1525
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: I could do either. I am either or mashed potatoes

1526
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 1: or mashed potatoes are good with anything, So I'm I'm

1527
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: I'm a mixer, okay, especially a Thanksgiving time, depending on

1528
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:41,680
Speaker 1: the consistency of the said potatoes. Okay, here's the next

1529
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,680
Speaker 1: thing on the menu. What's the better pie? Then? This

1530
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: is always controversial. Is it pumpkin pie, pecan pie, or

1531
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: apple pie? Served in whichever way you want? Right? Okay,

1532
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: So what do you think is the best pie? My

1533
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 1: answers apple pie. I love apple pie with a little

1534
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 1: bit of ice cream. My Graham makes some great apple pie,

1535
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,759
Speaker 1: so I hope she is making that on Thursday. Hey, Grandma,

1536
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: if you're listening, that is my one request hope it's

1537
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: not too late. What about used to for me? I'm

1538
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: a love I love pie, pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin

1539
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: pie with whip cream on it, you know, a cool

1540
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: whip on it, you know, like that's awesome. I'll eat

1541
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: that any time of year, not just at Thanksgiving. But

1542
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: I also have an affinity for pecan pie, pecan or

1543
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: my favorite nut. I grew up in southeast in Kansas,

1544
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: and my brother lives in a place called Windfield, Kansas,

1545
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: and they have the um it's called the Walnut Creek

1546
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: that goes through their walnut They also have this big

1547
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,679
Speaker 1: pecan festival, and they also have the World Flat Picking

1548
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 1: Championships every year. So pecans are a big thing back

1549
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: there where you in the championships. Yeah, it's very nice.

1550
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,840
Speaker 1: So pecan has a has a special place in my heart. Now,

1551
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 1: apple pie, you can't I mean hot apple pie with

1552
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: cream pie. I mean yeah, it's nectar of the gods, right,

1553
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: So I'm I you know, I can't tell. I don't

1554
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: know if I can pick any of them because the

1555
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: best of all of those are the best. Yeah, those

1556
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: are three. Every one to day, I will take all

1557
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: the pie, all three. I'm taking all the part desert,

1558
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 1: having them before I have anything else for supper. Oh

1559
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: so you're a dessert guy. Dessert all right, here we go.

1560
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 1: How many helpings on? Next? On what's for lunch? One?

1561
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: Two or three plus helpings? I think that you talk

1562
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving now, okay, so you're geared up for it

1563
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: as as much as you can eat before you feel

1564
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 1: like you're just gonna puke. So if that's three, if

1565
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: that's go for it. Um No, I think that's my

1566
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: stopping point when I when I'm about to pukeka, I

1567
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: think you just gotta just keep eating. I think it's

1568
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: a two minimum, two minimum. I think it says two

1569
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: or three plus. And we're big plus here people here

1570
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: on one bills pub because I picked the Bills to

1571
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: win eleven plus games, So I'm thinking two plus two plus.

1572
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: You got to go back for seconds because then what

1573
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,719
Speaker 1: you do is, here's my strategy. You get a little

1574
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 1: bit of everything right, and then you cherry pick. You

1575
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: go back on this was good. Yeah, I want my favorite.

1576
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm backing off the stuff, and then you know what

1577
01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: you do after that after dessert, So you do your

1578
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: two helpings and then you have some dessert, and then

1579
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 1: after that you go and make your turkey sandwich lucios. Yes, yeah,

1580
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:18,640
Speaker 1: and then you graze the rest of the day. So

1581
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,759
Speaker 1: if you and that's another thing too, you eat early

1582
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving feast like a lot of people eat it later.

1583
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 1: I like eat it early, because then the rest of

1584
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 1: the day you graze. Yeah right, it's just the best,

1585
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: the best. Okay, here we go, last, let's see two

1586
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 1: two more, two more? Here we go. What's for lunch?

1587
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: Black Friday shopping heck yeah or no way. I have

1588
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: done Black Friday shopping, going out and actually doing Black

1589
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,719
Speaker 1: Friday shopping. Hey, it's a great time to get TVs.

1590
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 1: I've bought two TVs on Black Friday that are like

1591
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: way too cheap for how big they are. So if

1592
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: you needed a new TV, go ahead and do it

1593
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: on Black Friday. So I've gone out waiting in line.

1594
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: I've also done just some online shopping because now they're

1595
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: Cyber Monday, but they put the deals up on Friday.

1596
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:06,600
Speaker 1: So I usually just like to kick my feet up,

1597
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 1: do some online shopping, you know, get some Christmas shopping

1598
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,600
Speaker 1: out of the way on the laptop. What about you me? No,

1599
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a no, No, I'm a no, it's

1600
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: not It's not Christmas Eve yet, so why go out

1601
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: shopping minute shopper. I'm a last minute shopper. Okay, that's

1602
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: my thing. So I am not a Black Friday fan. Now,

1603
01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: all right, here we go, last one of them, what's

1604
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: for lunch? One? Bills Live. Here is Steve Tasker made

1605
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: glab Murph and the guys are off to Dallas's going

1606
01:22:34,479 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: in for mur Here we go, last item on the

1607
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: what's for lunch menu? How many games are you gonna

1608
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: watch tomorrow? There's three games, one the noon, the noon

1609
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: kickoff Detroit and the Bears. Two which is the Bears

1610
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: Detroit and Bill's Dallas or three Bears Detroit, Bill's Dallas

1611
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: and whoever's playing tomorrow night, which I can't even sat Falcons.

1612
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: I'm definitely I am definitely watching two. So I'm from Chicago.

1613
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm going back to Chicago tomorrow morning. So grew up

1614
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: watching the Bears. The Bears played quite a bit on Thanksgiving,

1615
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:14,479
Speaker 1: they have, so we are doing brunch and watching the

1616
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: Bears game. So I will definitely watch Bears Lions, and

1617
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: then definitely going to watch Bills Cowboys. I mean duh,

1618
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 1: have to watch the Bills. And it's also fun because

1619
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm getting to introduce my family to a new team

1620
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 1: this year in the Bills. So my entire family has

1621
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: now started to watch and cheer for the Bills almost

1622
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:37,679
Speaker 1: more than the Bears, because the Bears are five and six,

1623
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: haven't had the best season this year, so that they

1624
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: are jumping on the Bills bandwagon this year. So definitely

1625
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: gonna watch that game. Saints Falcons, I don't know. I

1626
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: don't know what about you two, at least right too,

1627
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: at least all right, So here's my thing. I gotta

1628
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 1: ask you this after after I say this, Okay, So

1629
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:57,720
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna watch at least too. I'm gonna watch

1630
01:23:57,720 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: the early game because I will be able to not

1631
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: watch it all be right, I'm gonna have it on.

1632
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on whether I watch it or not.

1633
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 1: I's gonna be on. So that kind of counts, right,

1634
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: And of course the Bills game, I'm gonna be riveted

1635
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be shushing people. Yeah, so I can

1636
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: watch the game. An interesting point by you, You're now

1637
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,800
Speaker 1: covering a team that is other than your hometown Chicago Bears.

1638
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: You're now you're kind of neck like I say, you're

1639
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 1: one of You're part of the Bills family. Right, did

1640
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: this happen for your family? Because when I played for

1641
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,240
Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers, you know back in the eighty they

1642
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 1: all the gear they had to ear, you know, the

1643
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: Oilers stuff. We still have Oilers gear up in my

1644
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 1: attic right from when I played for them for a year. Now,

1645
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:40,599
Speaker 1: the moment I became a Buffalo Bill, like overnight, they

1646
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: were that stuff was stored away and they have all

1647
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: the Bills gear. They were totally on board my new team. Right,

1648
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:48,639
Speaker 1: So did your family like start saying, okay, what about

1649
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 1: these Bills. I don't think they packed up the Bear

1650
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: stuff because you know, my family's been cheering on the

1651
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,719
Speaker 1: Bears for a long long time. But they are definitely

1652
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 1: accepting of the Bills, and they're excited that I'm working

1653
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: for such a great organization. And if I bought them

1654
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:09,479
Speaker 1: some Bills stuff, which teaser I might, uh, they definitely

1655
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: will wear it. They came and saw the boy discount, right.

1656
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,679
Speaker 1: They came to the Eagles game not the best weather,

1657
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: but they were all Rock and Bills gear. They came

1658
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: to the Eagles game Yeah. Wow, that's a that's a

1659
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: that's a mishap. I know. I told him they were

1660
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: bad luck and they couldn't come back. All right, Well

1661
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 1: there you go. So here we go. Mattie's eating. Here's

1662
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,559
Speaker 1: our what we had for lunch and eat late evening.

1663
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: We've both taken an app We're both eating all the gravy.

1664
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:37,680
Speaker 1: We're both mashed potato fans. She's not a mixer of

1665
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: corn with her mashed potatoes. I will do it if

1666
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: the potatoes deserve it. Uh. She likes apple pie. I'm

1667
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: all I like all kinds of pie. We're both seconders

1668
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 1: and then third and yes, we're all eat all you

1669
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: can eat. And also she's a cyber more of a

1670
01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 1: cyber Friday. Yeah, cyber Friday. I may not leave the

1671
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: house on Friday, except we'll be in here working on Friday. Yeah.

1672
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 1: And then we're both gonna watch probably parts of at

1673
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,040
Speaker 1: least we're gonna watch the Bills game and probably part

1674
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: of the second. That's our lunch. That was pretty painless.

1675
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: That was fun. You didn't have any weird answers. I

1676
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: guess you're still part of the family. I suppose. Well,

1677
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 1: thanks everybody, believe me. Everybody's very weird when you except

1678
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: for yours, right, I mean that's where everybody exactly. I

1679
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 1: don't know. My family's pretty weird. Yeah, might probably win

1680
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: some prices as well. All right, we'll go back right

1681
01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 1: after this. Ryan Kelly from NFL Film Senior Producers coming

1682
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 1: up later in the show. We'll have what do we

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Speaker 1: learn and a lot of other stuff coming up. One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

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01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's

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01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: Lives to task along with Maddie, Glad Murph and the

1687
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are on their way to Dallas. One of

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01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 1: the things that's gonna happened this week Friday night at

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01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: ten pm on the NFL Network is Buffalo Bills fans

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01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:02,840
Speaker 1: and the and the the entire fan base on Western

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01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: New York is going to get a look at a

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01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: football life with Bruce Smith. It was put together by

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01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: NFL Films. We're going to have the producer, executive producer

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01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly on at the top of the hour, and

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01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to see. It's because there's I've heard

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01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:16,640
Speaker 1: some people who've seen I've not seen it, but some

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01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: people have seen some of it and they say there's

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01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 1: some details in there that most fans aren't going to

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01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: be aware of. It's kind of cool. Yeah, I think

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01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: these shows of football life, it's really cool to get

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01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: to learn a little bit more about one of your

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01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:32,920
Speaker 1: favorite players or somebody that you've watched for a long

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01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: time that definitely dives deeper than football itself. So we

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01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,680
Speaker 1: got a chance that they tweeted this little exerpt of

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01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: the film out Football Life Bruce Smith and it and

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01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 1: I'm in it. I get asked about all these guys because,

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01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: like I say, I was on the list of great

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01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: you know, you go down the list far enough, my

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01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: name's down there. So they always asked me to do

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01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 1: about the guys who were higher on the list of

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01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 1: great players. Right now, come on, you're a great player.

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01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: I did an interview with Bruce for Bruce Smith's Football Life.

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01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 1: Part of it was tweeted it out today and we'll

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01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 1: let you listen to it. It's pretty interesting. Jim Kelly

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01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 1: is also involved, and here's what it sounds like, a

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01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:09,759
Speaker 1: football life with Bruce Smith. Here's a couple of minutes

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01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 1: of it. Jim had a lot to learn about being

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01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: a leader. Bruce had a lot to learn about being

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01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,560
Speaker 1: a good teammate. His personality clashed with Jim early on,

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01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 1: and in eighty nine they didn't like each other too much,

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01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 1: and neither one of them was likable, so it was

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01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 1: easy to understand why they disliked each other. Late in

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01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, Jim and Bruce kind of huddled up

1724
01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 1: and said, you know what, we're going to be stuck

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01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 1: here together for a while. They started having a few

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01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,479
Speaker 1: beers together and they kind of came together and said

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01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:36,559
Speaker 1: it made we'll be friends too, So they started hanging out.

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01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: As we all know, after games, we went back to

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01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 1: my house, frue parties and everything. One thing I can

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01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: say about Bruce is every single home game that we

1731
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: had a party at the house, which was every time

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01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 1: Bruce was spent an hour with my mother upstairs. My

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01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 1: mother considered Bruce one of her sons. She talked about

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01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,560
Speaker 1: Bruce more, and she talked about her kids with that

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01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 1: emphasymm And you understand about that. Your father and we

1736
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,840
Speaker 1: all connected talking about hugs. Your dad hugs your mom,

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01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: and I do appreciate that, and I know how much

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01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 1: my family did Bruce and I love you for that,

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01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:17,840
Speaker 1: and I will never ever forget that. I'll never forget

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01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:25,040
Speaker 1: any of that, lady. Yeah, y'all, Jimson is nothing if

1741
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:27,000
Speaker 1: he's not one of the great brothers of all time.

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01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: And you know, he made Bruce his brother, and Bruce

1743
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 1: loved him for it. They became really good friends and

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01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: the rest of us were just kind of wrapped up

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01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: in that relationship. That's gonna come up on Friday night

1746
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock on the NFL Network. We've got Ryan Kelly,

1747
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:45,720
Speaker 1: the executive producer of NFL Films. He's the guy who

1748
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 1: put all that together. It's you know, it's kind of

1749
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: cool to be on one of those, you know, because

1750
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:54,320
Speaker 1: because I got it, I've got a gazillion stories about

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01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:56,600
Speaker 1: those guys and how much and I keep telling you,

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01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:58,560
Speaker 1: and I was sit tongue in cheek that you know,

1753
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:00,320
Speaker 1: I kind of won the lottery when I walk into

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01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 1: the room as a teammate for the first time, and

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01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, Bruce and Jim are already in there. They're

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01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame. Nobody even knew it then, right,

1757
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 1: and Andrea was sitting next to them, and Marv was

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01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: the head coach. So I had like four Hall of

1759
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: Famers and Bill Polly and a fifth Hall of Famers

1760
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: in the back of the room. I was the first

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01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 1: new guy he signed when he gave more of the job.

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01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm still cashing that lottery ticket, right, And so it's

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01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 1: fun to talk about guys from that era. We talked

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01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 1: about before the show, and you mentioned it in this

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01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: tease here that those two didn't really like each other,

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01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: Bruce and Jim. And then I asked you this morning,

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01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: were you playing your best when you had the tightest

1768
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: locker room? Oh? Yeah, that's right. That's a good point.

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01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: We did. And it's a great debate in football, right

1770
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:46,719
Speaker 1: that Bill's team was really talented, and we had Bruce

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01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:50,320
Speaker 1: and Jim and Andrea, and we drafted Thurman in eighty

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01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:54,000
Speaker 1: eight and we got Cornelius Bennett. But in eighty nine,

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01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, we made it to the playoffs. We were

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01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:57,920
Speaker 1: on a we were the last wild We were on

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01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 1: the road as a wild card team, you know, you

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01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:03,519
Speaker 1: know we that was a Ronnie Harmon game. We dropped.

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01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 1: We didn't we didn't even win a playoff game. At

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01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:08,280
Speaker 1: the end of that seasons when we started to change

1779
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: all of that, right, they referred to in the film,

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01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 1: and we became close and when we decided to become

1781
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:17,560
Speaker 1: friends away from the field, all of a sudden we

1782
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 1: went to four straight Super Bowl. Yes, that and so

1783
01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: did the culture make the talent And it certainly put

1784
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: that team around over the bend, around the bend, you know,

1785
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 1: it put them over the top. The fact that they

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01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: became friends and they were so talented, I think was

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01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: the difference for that team. And right, that's why I think,

1788
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:38,559
Speaker 1: you know, those guys will still those Hall of famers.

1789
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:42,280
Speaker 1: They'll still tell you that's the reason we were good. Right.

1790
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true or not, but it's

1791
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It is kind of yeah, and it's unique

1792
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 1: because they are they are still friends. All those guys

1793
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:51,120
Speaker 1: were all they're all pushing world. You say, you have

1794
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: you always talk about the group messages, Yeah, the Five

1795
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 1: Presidents group text. They all chime in on it, you know,

1796
01:31:57,400 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 1: and we do. And there's personal stuff in there too,

1797
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: family and stuff. We're you know, say prayers for these

1798
01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 1: guys and you know, they got good things happening, bad

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01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: things happening. They put their kids up. You know, we

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01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:09,639
Speaker 1: got guys now that Corney's Bennetts sons playing at Tennessee,

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01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 1: you know. So, yeah, they keep track of each other

1802
01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 1: because it was a genuine really is a genuine time

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01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:19,280
Speaker 1: for all of them. They really feel for each other.

1804
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: It's it was it was a great time in my life.

1805
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: I was a It was a gift, no question. So yeah,

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01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean you have people that are lifelong friends, right, yeah,

1807
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: oh yeah, totally. How you know, how much does it

1808
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 1: mean to you to to be able to touch base

1809
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 1: with them? Yeah? And I think sports breeds a lot

1810
01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 1: of that because some of my closest friends are from

1811
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:41,200
Speaker 1: softball teams that I played on, and people that you

1812
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:42,920
Speaker 1: go through the ring, are with through the good times

1813
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 1: and bad times, through the wins and losses. That's right.

1814
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:47,960
Speaker 1: It's two things. One, you accomplish something. You win games

1815
01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 1: or you you know, win an eight We won AFC championships,

1816
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:52,400
Speaker 1: never won the World championship, but we win a lot

1817
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:53,680
Speaker 1: of games. You do a lot of cool stuff. And

1818
01:32:53,720 --> 01:32:57,519
Speaker 1: then also you suffer together. Yeah, when you suffer together,

1819
01:32:57,640 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 1: I think it really bonds you together. And of course

1820
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:02,559
Speaker 1: those teams, as good as they were, suffered as much

1821
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 1: as anybody, particularly on championship games. So you gotta hope

1822
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: that this locker room is kind of similar too, That's right.

1823
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:11,800
Speaker 1: That's why that's why Sean mcdernat put such a value

1824
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:13,800
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, I think he sees the same thing

1825
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,519
Speaker 1: we do. And you can really see from being here

1826
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 1: every day that these guys they're they're close. I think

1827
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 1: it does maximize your talent I think you have if

1828
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: they like each other and you get the maximum out

1829
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 1: of whatever you've got, you're going to run through a

1830
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 1: brick wall for that person. We've got Ryan Kelly, who

1831
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:31,400
Speaker 1: is the senior NFL producer for NFL Films who put

1832
01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 1: together Football Life from Bruce Smith. He's coming up at

1833
01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. You're One Bills Live presented

1834
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health and One Bills Drive Steve Tasker and

1835
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: Mattie Glab. Stay with us. We're gonna be right back.

1836
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Bills Radio Network Sports Update.

1837
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:55,639
Speaker 1: The Bills are headed to Dallas to face the Cowboys

1838
01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:57,680
Speaker 1: tomorrow at four thirty pm. You can catch the game

1839
01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,519
Speaker 1: on WGR five fifty with John Murphy, Eric Wood, and

1840
01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:03,520
Speaker 1: Sal Capaccio, and you can watch the game on CBS

1841
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:07,120
Speaker 1: also tomorrow for Thanksgiving Day football, the Detroit Lions are

1842
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 1: hosting the Chicago Bears at twelve thirty pm on Fox,

1843
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 1: and the Saints head to the Falcons for an eight

1844
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: twenty kickoff on NBC. Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin announced

1845
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 1: yesterday that the Steelers will start quarterback Devlin Hodges on

1846
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:25,960
Speaker 1: Sunday at home against the Browns. Hodges replaced Mason Rudolph

1847
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: at halftime in the steelers narrow victory over the windless

1848
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 1: Bengals in Week twelve. Hodges has a career stat line

1849
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: of twenty seven to forty passing three and eighteen yards,

1850
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and one interception, with a ninety seven point

1851
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:41,920
Speaker 1: seven passer rating. Ravens center Matt Skura will miss the

1852
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: rest of the twenty nineteen regular season with a knee

1853
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,360
Speaker 1: injury suffered in Baltimore's forty five to six win over

1854
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:51,639
Speaker 1: the Rams on Sunday. Skura is ranked the NFL's twenty

1855
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:55,799
Speaker 1: second best center in pass blocking by Pro Football Focus.

1856
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:59,479
Speaker 1: The Sabers host the Calgary Flames tonight for a seven

1857
01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:02,800
Speaker 1: pm face off at key Bank Center. Sabers Game Night

1858
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:05,679
Speaker 1: on Game Night on MSG will be at six thirty

1859
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,880
Speaker 1: with Brian Duff and Marty Burn. You also can catch

1860
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 1: the pregame coverage on w GR five fifty with chopin

1861
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:15,160
Speaker 1: the Bulldog beginning at six pm today and Rob Ray

1862
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:17,679
Speaker 1: will join them live at four pm during the show.

1863
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 1: Flames head coach Bill Peters will not be behind the

1864
01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:24,599
Speaker 1: bench in Tonight's game while the NHL and Calgary continue

1865
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:28,240
Speaker 1: investigating a claim that he used racial slurs in addressing

1866
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 1: a player earlier in his coaching career. Associate coach Jeff

1867
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:35,160
Speaker 1: Ward will handle head coaching duties. Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman

1868
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:38,000
Speaker 1: Eric Sernak has been suspended for two games without pay

1869
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: for elbowing Sabers defenseman Rasmus Daleen during Tampa's five to

1870
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:45,720
Speaker 1: two win over Buffalo on Monday. Daleen was diagnosed with

1871
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: a concussion from the hit. And that is your sports update.

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01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 1: This movie is rated off adult language and violence. Lots

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Speaker 1: of them. I have an opportunity here to do. Think

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01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:12,639
Speaker 1: especially Bruce wanted to be the all time secuity from

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01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: the very beginning. Think of like Lebron James the basketball

1876
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,920
Speaker 1: player playing football and playing defensive and offensive lineman. I

1877
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:21,680
Speaker 1: don't want to be paired up against him when they

1878
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: were afraid of it getting made it look stupid. How

1879
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: a time what that defensive player? A year now, that

1880
01:36:32,400 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 1: statement and needed to be made. I love Bruger, brother

1881
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:39,800
Speaker 1: of an icon, a leader of men, missus grave shover player,

1882
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 1: He's got the record. The end game was to be

1883
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 1: this player that nobody would ever forget about. Friday night

1884
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 1: at ten pm on the NFL Network of Football Life

1885
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,760
Speaker 1: with Bruce Smith Here One Bills Live, where please be

1886
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:58,759
Speaker 1: joined by the executive producer, the senior producer of NFL

1887
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:02,599
Speaker 1: Films Charts with making this a Football Life with Bruce Smith,

1888
01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly, Ryan, Steve Tasker, Maddie glab here on One

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01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:08,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Thank you for joining us, Hey, thank you

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01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:10,600
Speaker 1: for having me. Guys, where do you start when you

1891
01:37:10,720 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: get a guy like Bruce Smith, who you know, had

1892
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: such a long and illustrious career and there's so much

1893
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:17,960
Speaker 1: going on with him and the roller coaster that he

1894
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: rode throughout his career, where do you begin? Research? Research, research, research.

1895
01:37:24,479 --> 01:37:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, we have, you know, obviously, the NFL Films

1896
01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:31,600
Speaker 1: Library here that has just insane his insane highlights and

1897
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: for any one of these films, all the insane highlights

1898
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: of all the greats. But you start looking through newspapers

1899
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 1: and magazines. You're looking for those little bits, those tidbits,

1900
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 1: those nuggets that kind of flesh out this Hall of

1901
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Famer and turn them into a person that people can

1902
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:52,240
Speaker 1: relate to, and you know, help craft a story that

1903
01:37:52,400 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 1: people can really get into. And then you know, you

1904
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: bring some of your own recollections and your own feelings

1905
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:01,679
Speaker 1: about the player to the film. Like you know, Bruce

1906
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: really hit his peak because I was really sort of

1907
01:38:05,200 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: starting to get into football and really realize who these

1908
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 1: great players were. And you know, I remember really vividly

1909
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:16,919
Speaker 1: that Dennis hopperd commercial Bad Things Man, the Nike commercial

1910
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 1: that was all over TV. You know, as Steve, as

1911
01:38:19,880 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: you said in the film, it went viral before viral

1912
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 1: was a thing, So you know, I had to get

1913
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: that in there. So, you know, you're sort of pulling

1914
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: from all these buckets and hopefully at the end you

1915
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:35,880
Speaker 1: have this this story and this football life that people,

1916
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 1: you hope people can really sink their teeth into and enjoy.

1917
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 1: When you guys were shooting this, what was your favorite

1918
01:38:42,080 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 1: part about shooting it was? Was there a moment that

1919
01:38:45,280 --> 01:38:47,600
Speaker 1: stands out or an interview that stands out that is

1920
01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:51,840
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. So one of those

1921
01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:56,360
Speaker 1: nuggets that we found I found while we were researching

1922
01:38:56,400 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 1: this film was Bruce's StairMaster addiction. It was prominently featured

1923
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:05,960
Speaker 1: in a Sports Illustrated cover story I think in ninety one,

1924
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:12,040
Speaker 1: and basically the backstory behind it is that Bruce's StairMaster

1925
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:15,840
Speaker 1: addiction helped him shed his rookie weight of I think

1926
01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 1: he said in the film three ten and get down

1927
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 1: to the mid two sixties and really transformed his game

1928
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:25,160
Speaker 1: for the better. And I kind of wanted to recreate

1929
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:28,479
Speaker 1: that StairMaster shoot a little bit back in ninety one.

1930
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:31,200
Speaker 1: He had the StairMaster out on his back patio. He's

1931
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:35,479
Speaker 1: overlooking one of the inlets of Chesapeake Bay, and so

1932
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 1: we at his house when the day we interviewed him.

1933
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:40,680
Speaker 1: The last thing we did around with the time the

1934
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:43,519
Speaker 1: sun was setting, we dragged his StairMaster from his workout

1935
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: room out to his patio and it's really you know,

1936
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:50,120
Speaker 1: filmed him having one of his classic just Bruce Smith

1937
01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 1: crazy workouts and it came out looking awesome and it's

1938
01:39:55,120 --> 01:39:58,000
Speaker 1: sort of sprinkled throughout the film. And that was a

1939
01:39:58,080 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 1: real that was real fun to do. That was like

1940
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: a lot of times this job is you know, interviewing,

1941
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 1: and and that felt like movie making a little bit

1942
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 1: more so that was real cool. He had one of

1943
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:11,360
Speaker 1: the things about doing a football life about a guy

1944
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,759
Speaker 1: like Bruce who is kind of this iconic, legendary figure,

1945
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: no shortage of people who are willing to talk about him.

1946
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,560
Speaker 1: Opposing quarterbacks, you had a whole I saw some of it.

1947
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: You got a whole list of guys who were sacked.

1948
01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:26,040
Speaker 1: He had two hundred sacks, so there was a whole

1949
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:29,800
Speaker 1: ton of quarterbacks who had memories of Bruce Smith. So

1950
01:40:30,479 --> 01:40:32,960
Speaker 1: the list must have been long and illustrious of guys

1951
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:36,840
Speaker 1: who had an encounter with Bruce on the field. Yeah.

1952
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, even back from his playing days,

1953
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 1: we had we have archival interviews in the film of

1954
01:40:42,280 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 1: Dan Marino, Steve Young, John Elway talking about what a

1955
01:40:46,320 --> 01:40:48,240
Speaker 1: beast he was and what you have to do when

1956
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:50,200
Speaker 1: you're facing him. And we were able to talk to

1957
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and boomeris Size Sin about the times they

1958
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:56,400
Speaker 1: got sacked by Bruce. And I think it, you know,

1959
01:40:56,680 --> 01:41:00,519
Speaker 1: given how illustrious Bruce's career was and how that two

1960
01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:04,600
Speaker 1: hundred sack mark is almost like that magic number I

1961
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: think it's almost like a badge of honor for these guys.

1962
01:41:06,920 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I remember when Bruce Doug Peterson. Yeah,

1963
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: I remember when Bruce got me. He you know, they

1964
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,360
Speaker 1: were moving him around later in his career and I

1965
01:41:14,479 --> 01:41:16,760
Speaker 1: look over and he's like two gaps closer to me

1966
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:19,519
Speaker 1: than I expected. And you know, he's like, that's not cool, man,

1967
01:41:19,680 --> 01:41:21,880
Speaker 1: But he was laughing about it. So I think for

1968
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:24,640
Speaker 1: these guys kind of like, yeah, I'm part of that.

1969
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm part of that club that seventy six quarterbacks that

1970
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: were sacked by Bruce to get to that all time mark.

1971
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:36,240
Speaker 1: Through producing a film like this, what did you learn

1972
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 1: about about Bruce that you didn't know going in? And

1973
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:44,560
Speaker 1: that also maybe some Buffalo Bills fans wouldn't know. I

1974
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:49,080
Speaker 1: think I didn't know about some of the challenges that

1975
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: he faced in his life. You know, going back to

1976
01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 1: the very beginning, he was a timid kid. He was bullied,

1977
01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:00,400
Speaker 1: and there's an incident in the film where he almost

1978
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 1: makes a tragic mistake in response to this bullying um

1979
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:08,120
Speaker 1: that would have changed his life for you know, forever.

1980
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 1: Thankfully he didn't make that mistake, but you know, later

1981
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 1: on in life, I think he sort of recalls how

1982
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: that felt just to be bullied and made to feel,

1983
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, worthless as a kid, and that sort of

1984
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: spurred him to treat others with kindness. Bruce is a

1985
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: very you know, places a high premium on civility and

1986
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: kindness and treating others with respect, and he has a

1987
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:36,599
Speaker 1: he's very active in charity, and I think that stems

1988
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:41,559
Speaker 1: back from his experiences as a kid. His father grew ill.

1989
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:45,920
Speaker 1: He contracted emphysema pretty much from the time Bruce went

1990
01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:49,720
Speaker 1: off to Virginia Tech, and it would his father was

1991
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:53,639
Speaker 1: ill throughout most of his football career. He was even

1992
01:42:53,720 --> 01:42:56,160
Speaker 1: asked about it at like Super Bowl media days. That

1993
01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:59,840
Speaker 1: was always kind of like an undercurrent to his career.

1994
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 1: His wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago,

1995
01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:10,080
Speaker 1: and thankfully she overcame that. So he's He's faced a

1996
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: lot of challengers in his life that I think have

1997
01:43:13,720 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 1: helped make him the person that he is today. One

1998
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:20,280
Speaker 1: of the most difficult parts of these football life has

1999
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:25,200
Speaker 1: to be the time before they were an NFL player

2000
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:27,599
Speaker 1: and Bruce Smith and we all kind of picked Bruce's

2001
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: career from when he was the first player picked in

2002
01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:32,519
Speaker 1: the NFL football Draft. He was this kid that was

2003
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:36,400
Speaker 1: that was destined for greatness seemingly from the beginning. But

2004
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 1: how difficult was it to go back in time and

2005
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:41,960
Speaker 1: find out about his child, the struggles that he had

2006
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 1: as a kid in Virginia, and and and what do

2007
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 1: you think where did it happen that he turned from

2008
01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: a little chubby kid that was getting bullied into a

2009
01:43:54,160 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: guy that was so impressive physically. The trick is always

2010
01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: I think, you know, sometimes they are old magazine profiles

2011
01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:07,600
Speaker 1: or newspaper articles that kind of give you sort of

2012
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:11,080
Speaker 1: little scraps of what life was like before they became

2013
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: this NFL star, But you really don't know until you

2014
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,680
Speaker 1: talk to the person, in this case, Bruce, who the

2015
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:22,920
Speaker 1: story is about. And I really think that he in

2016
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:28,080
Speaker 1: as Bruce tells it, he flipped the switch one day

2017
01:44:28,160 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: when he was getting bullied on his basketball team and

2018
01:44:31,880 --> 01:44:34,439
Speaker 1: he had finally had enough and tackled the person who

2019
01:44:34,520 --> 01:44:39,200
Speaker 1: was bullying him. And from that moment forward, people realized that,

2020
01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, can't mess with Bruce anymore. And you know,

2021
01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: he's obviously was a great athlete even then, and as

2022
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, he became an All state basketball player, and

2023
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:53,680
Speaker 1: you know, took some of those basketball skills out to

2024
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: the football field. As Bruce tells it, if you can

2025
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:57,080
Speaker 1: do it on a basketball court, you can do it

2026
01:44:57,120 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: on a football field. And you know, the those bullying words,

2027
01:45:02,640 --> 01:45:06,000
Speaker 1: those gears, they turned into cheers, they turned into adoration,

2028
01:45:06,320 --> 01:45:08,600
Speaker 1: and you know, all of a sudden you start to

2029
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:12,719
Speaker 1: see Bruce turned from this timid kid into this ultra

2030
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: confident player. We have tons and tons of sideline sound

2031
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 1: from NFL and our NFL Films archives from when he

2032
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 1: was on the Bills, Bruce finding the camera delivering a

2033
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:28,040
Speaker 1: SoundBite saying that he should be the defensive player of

2034
01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 1: the year. He was ultra confident as a player. And

2035
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: I think that sort of juxtaposition between being this ultra

2036
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 1: confident player and this you know, timid kid is really

2037
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:40,719
Speaker 1: interesting that that swich flipped as soon as those gears

2038
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 1: turned into cheers as in high school. It's funny. I

2039
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: love Matti. You can ask this quest, but I will

2040
01:45:45,920 --> 01:45:49,160
Speaker 1: say this. To say that Bruce was ultra confident, it

2041
01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,519
Speaker 1: really doesn't do justice to how confident he was. Good.

2042
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Patty, have a question. I was going to

2043
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:57,360
Speaker 1: get you involved, Steve, what are you what do you

2044
01:45:57,479 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 1: remember most about playing with Well, he was he was

2045
01:46:01,360 --> 01:46:06,320
Speaker 1: a fantastic athlete. I mean, the guy was a strong personality.

2046
01:46:06,400 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 1: Like you said, he was ultra confident. And a guy

2047
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:12,600
Speaker 1: like Bruce who who has confidence like that, who's a

2048
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 1: great player. It helps everybody on the team. You know,

2049
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:18,880
Speaker 1: you've got one guy who's gonna win his matchup. You know,

2050
01:46:19,040 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: one guy that you can lean on that's gonna you know,

2051
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:26,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna not be an embarrassment. You know, you don't

2052
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:27,800
Speaker 1: you know that he's gonna win. Even if your team

2053
01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 1: gets beat, that guy's not gonna get beat. It's a

2054
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:32,040
Speaker 1: really it's a nice thing to have on your team.

2055
01:46:32,120 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: You've got the you know, you've got the atomic bomb

2056
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 1: in your arsenal right, Um, you know I may be

2057
01:46:37,320 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 1: a bb gun, but at least my friends the atomic bomb. Right.

2058
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:41,519
Speaker 1: So it was fun to have a guy. It was

2059
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:43,280
Speaker 1: fun to have the biggest and baddest guy in the

2060
01:46:43,360 --> 01:46:47,680
Speaker 1: league on your team. I mean, right, that's what it

2061
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:49,479
Speaker 1: boils down to. It's fun to be the team with

2062
01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 1: that guy because nobody had one. I've got question for you,

2063
01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:58,800
Speaker 1: Ryan when it comes to cutting something like this down,

2064
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:02,400
Speaker 1: because this is what forty five minutes about the story

2065
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:05,240
Speaker 1: is how tough is it? Because you basically fall in

2066
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:07,599
Speaker 1: love with the entire story When you're putting something together

2067
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:10,839
Speaker 1: like this, how tough is it to cut out parts

2068
01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:13,400
Speaker 1: to make it fit within the window it needs to

2069
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:18,360
Speaker 1: fit in. H It's tough, but in the end, it

2070
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:22,439
Speaker 1: always makes it better, right, I think we have. I

2071
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 1: think there's an analogy that's always sort of floated around

2072
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:29,080
Speaker 1: here at NFL film It's like food passing through the snake.

2073
01:47:29,240 --> 01:47:31,719
Speaker 1: It eventually gets a little smaller and a little smaller

2074
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 1: and a little smaller, and eventually something that the snake

2075
01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:39,919
Speaker 1: can really digest. So that may be too colorful and analogy,

2076
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, but yeah, it's tough, but

2077
01:47:44,880 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: it always makes the films better. I gotta ask you

2078
01:47:47,600 --> 01:47:49,479
Speaker 1: this as well. I mean, we're talking with Ryan Keller.

2079
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Kelly senior producer for NFL Films. He's been with NFL

2080
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:55,880
Speaker 1: Films for over seventeen years. He's the producer of A

2081
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:01,160
Speaker 1: Football Life Bruce Smith. Most people understand Bruce was in

2082
01:48:01,280 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo and that's where he made had the bulk of

2083
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:05,680
Speaker 1: his career. He moved on to Washington and it was

2084
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 1: a different time for him. He was a different kind

2085
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:09,439
Speaker 1: of player when he got to Washington. How do you

2086
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:12,800
Speaker 1: handle that in this in this little biography about Bruce

2087
01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 1: lift Smith and his football life, I think a lot

2088
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 1: of it ties into his dad, as his dad was

2089
01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:22,840
Speaker 1: still ill when uh, you know, he and the Bills

2090
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:28,880
Speaker 1: parted ways, and being close to home, being close to

2091
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:31,600
Speaker 1: his father, who was very important in his life, was

2092
01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 1: important to him when he was choosing his next team,

2093
01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:39,000
Speaker 1: and I think that homecoming was a big part, uh

2094
01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:42,479
Speaker 1: you know, that defined his Washington tenure. He also thought

2095
01:48:42,520 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: he had a chance to win. We don't know go

2096
01:48:45,680 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 1: to as much into this in the film as we

2097
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 1: do about the you know, his father, that aspect of it.

2098
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:55,080
Speaker 1: But back then, that was when they signed Dion. They

2099
01:48:55,439 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: brought in all this talent and it didn't didn't quite

2100
01:48:57,920 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: work out, but Bruce still played at a high level.

2101
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: He I think he was maybe like thirty thirty five

2102
01:49:05,080 --> 01:49:07,719
Speaker 1: sacks away from the record when he went to Washington,

2103
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Speaker 1: and he ended up getting there, so um, you know,

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Speaker 1: he was still you know, seventeen eighteen, nineteen years and

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Speaker 1: his into his career in Washington, he was still getting

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Speaker 1: it done and eventually got that record. At the very

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Speaker 1: end of his final year there. From all the research

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01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: going into this piece and putting it all together and

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Speaker 1: through all the interviews, minus that two hundred sack number,

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Speaker 1: which is a huge part of what he gave to

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Speaker 1: the NFL, What do you think he did for the NFL?

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Speaker 1: How did he make his mark? Who is he just

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Speaker 1: with the amount of time that he played in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I think he's And I go back to my personal experience.

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01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: You know, when I first started becoming conscious of the

2116
01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:58,519
Speaker 1: NFL was right around his peak at ninety two ninety three.

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Speaker 1: He was just this freak on the field. He was

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Speaker 1: just so athletic and you know, confession time for me,

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Speaker 1: I was a Giants fan growing up and heading into

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty five, I mean, the Buffalo Bills were

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01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 1: this terrifying team and I think he was the tip

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01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:19,280
Speaker 1: of the spear there because he just did crazy things

2123
01:50:19,320 --> 01:50:22,519
Speaker 1: on the football field, just you know, amazing things. And

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01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:26,680
Speaker 1: I think just the athleticism that he brought to the

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01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 1: defensive end position is what I keep thinking about. I

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01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:33,280
Speaker 1: tried to keep it in mind making this film and

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01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:38,160
Speaker 1: just show give people who may not have seen him play,

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01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, younger fans, you know, I want to help

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01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: give them an idea of just how good he was

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01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 1: and just you know, the special way he was able

2131
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:50,519
Speaker 1: to do things. He's Ryan Kelly, NFL Films Senior Producer,

2132
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:52,680
Speaker 1: has been with the NFL Film with NFL Films for

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01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:54,880
Speaker 1: seventeen years. He's a producer of A Football Life. It

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Speaker 1: comes on Friday at ten pm on NFL Network. Ryan,

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01:50:57,800 --> 01:51:00,320
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. I can't wait to

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01:51:00,360 --> 01:51:03,040
Speaker 1: see the film and its entirety. I know it's going

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01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:05,360
Speaker 1: to be great. Um. I know that when you did

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01:51:05,439 --> 01:51:08,120
Speaker 1: my interview, I kind of I laughed because I couldn't

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01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:09,840
Speaker 1: believe you made me tear up over a guy like

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01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:12,479
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith, But I did. And I really appreciate your

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01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: efforts and helping my buddy being acknowledged as the legend

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01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:19,759
Speaker 1: he really is. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you guys.

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01:51:20,240 --> 01:51:24,679
Speaker 1: Have a great Thanksgiving Every Thanksgiving. Ryan Kelly, NFL Film

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01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 1: Senior Producer. It's interesting to talglet because that it really is.

2145
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,040
Speaker 1: I think about the enormity of that project, y gosh,

2146
01:51:31,160 --> 01:51:34,400
Speaker 1: from Buffalo to Washington, DC, to Virginia, Virginia Tech to

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01:51:34,479 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, the draft and the ups and downs,

2148
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:41,599
Speaker 1: the suspensions that personal problems that Bruce you know, displayed

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01:51:41,640 --> 01:51:43,280
Speaker 1: throughout the course of his career, and his ability to

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01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:47,840
Speaker 1: overcome all of those. It's a wide ranging topic that

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01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,240
Speaker 1: you you know, you got to spend a lot of

2152
01:51:49,320 --> 01:51:51,559
Speaker 1: time doing what a project, Yeah, and putting it into

2153
01:51:52,040 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to fit into an hour of TV.

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01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you've you've got to probably cut out so

2155
01:51:58,280 --> 01:52:00,200
Speaker 1: many things, but I'm sure they did so it's a

2156
01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 1: great job of telling the entire story. And I think

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01:52:02,439 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 1: it was so cool how Ryan talked about we wanted

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01:52:05,439 --> 01:52:09,759
Speaker 1: to tell the story of who Bruce was for also

2159
01:52:09,880 --> 01:52:12,320
Speaker 1: people who didn't grow up watching him. And there's so

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01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:14,960
Speaker 1: many young kids now that watch the NFL that are

2161
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: younger that you know, weren't alive during that time and

2162
01:52:18,320 --> 01:52:22,280
Speaker 1: don't know the big names of the NFL from those years,

2163
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:25,400
Speaker 1: and it's important to know that. Well, we all fall

2164
01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 1: into that now. We're in the hundredth year of the NFL, right,

2165
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:30,360
Speaker 1: so there's not too many people who've been around for

2166
01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:34,040
Speaker 1: so much football that they can remember guys. My acid

2167
01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 1: test for how great a player used to be was

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Speaker 1: in a time previous or a guy who I haven't

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01:52:40,320 --> 01:52:42,760
Speaker 1: played with or played against, or haven't seen or whatever

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Speaker 1: like both. Jackson was a contemporary of mine, but I

2171
01:52:44,800 --> 01:52:46,920
Speaker 1: didn't I had a chance to play against him, right.

2172
01:52:48,439 --> 01:52:50,680
Speaker 1: Eric Dickerson was in my era a little before me

2173
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:52,880
Speaker 1: and a little and was in during my career. So

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Speaker 1: there's all these great players, Walter Payton's and all that stuff.

2175
01:52:55,560 --> 01:52:57,760
Speaker 1: So you always wonder, you know, how good were they?

2176
01:52:57,800 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: You know? And my acid test for how good the

2177
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: guys were was when the guys who played with them,

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01:53:03,840 --> 01:53:06,960
Speaker 1: and particularly the guys who played against him, they start

2179
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Speaker 1: telling the stories about him, and they always talk. Listen

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01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 1: when Jackson, they always talk really soft a little, they

2181
01:53:14,960 --> 01:53:17,800
Speaker 1: always get real serious, like, man, the guy's a freaking nature,

2182
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:20,720
Speaker 1: right he was. That that's the acid test. They used

2183
01:53:20,760 --> 01:53:23,840
Speaker 1: to say that about guys like Eric Dickerson. I got that.

2184
01:53:24,040 --> 01:53:26,680
Speaker 1: I had that conversation, Dion Sanders. I had that conversation

2185
01:53:26,720 --> 01:53:30,559
Speaker 1: with guys Walter Payton. And the first guy ever heard

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01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:32,880
Speaker 1: about it, which made me wonder, was when I heard

2187
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:36,920
Speaker 1: a guy talking about Johnny Unitis that far back, one

2188
01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 1: of the old guys I talked with, And even the

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01:53:39,160 --> 01:53:40,640
Speaker 1: old guys I was talking, they were like, oh man,

2190
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 1: that guy was, Oh yeah, they start whispering about it

2191
01:53:43,400 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: and they're they're like incredulous about the things that he

2192
01:53:45,479 --> 01:53:47,280
Speaker 1: did as a football That was always my acid test.

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Speaker 1: That's how you talk about Bruce Smith. That's how I talked. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't talk about Bruce that way because he's my guy.

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01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:55,000
Speaker 1: Bruce does. Bruce hasn't gotten to whispers yet. I might

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01:53:55,080 --> 01:53:56,760
Speaker 1: do it. What's in a while, I might admit to.

2197
01:53:56,840 --> 01:53:59,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's kind of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, what's

2198
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: your you know, what's your earliest like, what's the who's

2199
01:54:02,479 --> 01:54:05,920
Speaker 1: the oldest football besides me? Who's the oldest football player

2200
01:54:06,040 --> 01:54:08,519
Speaker 1: that you like remember being a fan of I was

2201
01:54:08,600 --> 01:54:12,080
Speaker 1: a big fan of Brian or Locker growing up. Brian Locker.

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Speaker 1: He's younger than me, Brian her Locker when you were

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Speaker 1: growing up. Yeah, but we have a lot of and

2204
01:54:20,040 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 1: we have a lot of Walter Payton stuff at my house.

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01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:25,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll have a big picture of him

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Speaker 1: at home. I'll tell you I got a picture of

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01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:29,360
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton my house. I'll tell you why. Sometime you

2208
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 1: I'll give you the story about Walter. We don't have

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Speaker 1: time now, we're gonna take a break, but I do

2210
01:54:32,440 --> 01:54:34,880
Speaker 1: have a Walter Payton story, Sweetenes story. Maybe I'll we

2211
01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:36,400
Speaker 1: have time in the next segment, I'll tell you my

2212
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Speaker 1: Walter Payton story, how I met him and all out.

2213
01:54:39,440 --> 01:54:40,840
Speaker 1: I think I might have told it already here on

2214
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:42,560
Speaker 1: the show once before. But all right, we're going to

2215
01:54:42,600 --> 01:54:44,360
Speaker 1: come back. We got NFL True Falls coming up. We've

2216
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:45,800
Speaker 1: got a lot more left on the show that we've

2217
01:54:45,840 --> 01:54:48,760
Speaker 1: just finished talking with Ryan Kelly, the senior producer NFL

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Speaker 1: Films A Football Life, Bruce Smith. Ten pm Friday night

2219
01:54:52,640 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: on the NFL Network. Come back and join us NFL

2220
01:54:56,000 --> 01:55:00,120
Speaker 1: for NFL Talk. We're here until three o'clock. So I'm

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Speaker 1: back and join this. One Bill's Live presented by Collide

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Speaker 1: to Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

2223
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:23,000
Speaker 1: It is there coming out party. I've said it all year.

2224
01:55:23,880 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: No one's seen the Buffalo Bills play. I don't think

2225
01:55:29,320 --> 01:55:30,800
Speaker 1: you could see an eight and three team that has

2226
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,320
Speaker 1: been seen less than this team. No primetime game, no

2227
01:55:33,400 --> 01:55:38,760
Speaker 1: four o'clock window. And what do you do on America's

2228
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:41,920
Speaker 1: Holiday on Thursday? You play at the Dallas Cowboys where

2229
01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:44,680
Speaker 1: thirty million people will be watching. The statement will be

2230
01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:47,480
Speaker 1: made on Thursday, the statement being we are an eleven

2231
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:55,720
Speaker 1: win playoff Teamho's gonna knock somebody off watching And I'm

2232
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:58,800
Speaker 1: just stat gosh, Priors got calfeep. We at the five

2233
01:55:58,840 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 1: into the end of Chuck Down and cold Pleasby was

2234
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:07,440
Speaker 1: open throws it, get it picked off? Trade day doesn't again.

2235
01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 1: Dallas is going don't get down. That absolutely never gets old.

2236
01:56:26,160 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 1: Love problem before you were born, right that guy there

2237
01:56:29,200 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 1: at the very end. Dallas is going to Super Bowls

2238
01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:34,720
Speaker 1: when we probably probably the one where we turned it

2239
01:56:34,800 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: over nine times and lost them, but set records for

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Speaker 1: how bad we got beat. But that was that never

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01:56:39,200 --> 01:56:42,240
Speaker 1: gets old. Steve Task along with Maddie Gladbacker one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about stuff I told you before the break

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01:56:44,200 --> 01:56:46,040
Speaker 1: out of Walter Bayton story. Yes, I here, so I

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01:56:46,080 --> 01:56:49,480
Speaker 1: guess you are a girl Walter probably holds a special

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01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:52,240
Speaker 1: place in your heart for memory. Yep, that alight. I'll

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01:56:52,240 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: give you eighty five bears special things. I'll give you.

2247
01:56:55,600 --> 01:56:57,680
Speaker 1: I was going to Northwestern eighty two through eighty five,

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01:56:57,760 --> 01:56:59,440
Speaker 1: so I was there for the ascension and the and

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01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:02,440
Speaker 1: the champion and ship, and so I'm one of the

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01:57:02,520 --> 01:57:05,280
Speaker 1: things that happened in Chicago when it when it poured.

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01:57:05,920 --> 01:57:08,040
Speaker 1: The Bears at that time didn't have an outdoor facility,

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01:57:08,080 --> 01:57:10,280
Speaker 1: an indoor facility, and I'm like most teams didn't at

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01:57:10,320 --> 01:57:13,000
Speaker 1: that point. Now they all have them. So when it

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01:57:13,080 --> 01:57:14,920
Speaker 1: was pouring rain at the time they need to practice,

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Speaker 1: they would come to Northwestern Stadium and practice on our

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Speaker 1: official surface. So I'm working out, doing my thing. I

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01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:22,120
Speaker 1: go up in a shower and I'm dressed. I'm going

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01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:24,080
Speaker 1: back to classes or I'm in Kyle. I'm a college kid,

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01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:26,240
Speaker 1: and you can imagine when I was there. I looked

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01:57:27,440 --> 01:57:29,880
Speaker 1: ten years old, right. I looked like a little kid, right.

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01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 1: I was five nine and a little blondie, white kid,

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01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:35,560
Speaker 1: you know. You know. So I'm walking, I'm coming down

2263
01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:38,760
Speaker 1: the stairs from our locker room and it's pouring rain outside.

2264
01:57:39,040 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 1: And I didn't know that the Bears did this. So

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01:57:41,760 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm walking down and i'd come around and there's two

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01:57:44,160 --> 01:57:49,600
Speaker 1: guys standing there and it's there's Chicago Bears, and one

2267
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:53,440
Speaker 1: of them it's like, you know, you're a famous person.

2268
01:57:53,520 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 1: You see him out of context and the quickie. So

2269
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:57,240
Speaker 1: I don't know is really the person I think it is.

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01:57:57,280 --> 01:57:59,040
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I think it is, well, this was

2271
01:57:59,080 --> 01:58:01,280
Speaker 1: not one of those times. I'm looking and there's a

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01:58:01,320 --> 01:58:07,880
Speaker 1: guy gray sweatpants, kangaroo cleats, a big black Bears thirty

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01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:11,520
Speaker 1: four jersey shoulder pads, holding his helmet, and he's got

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01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:13,680
Speaker 1: a head band on that says sweetness. Oh my god,

2275
01:58:13,760 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 1: it's Walter Payton. Heart would drop right. So he's standing

2276
01:58:17,800 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 1: there and he's talking. He guess he's talking to a linebacker,

2277
01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:23,960
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera, who's now the head coach of the Panthers. Right, So,

2278
01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, so you have that conversation with yourself, God

2279
01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:29,760
Speaker 1: do I am? I like, well, is it all right?

2280
01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:32,480
Speaker 1: I canna say hi? Can I go say hi? I

2281
01:58:32,520 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: say hi to these guys? So you have that kind

2282
01:58:34,960 --> 01:58:36,280
Speaker 1: of say you know what, he's the best guy to

2283
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,560
Speaker 1: ever lace him up. I'm gonna go say hoh, I'm

2284
01:58:38,880 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: forget it. I'm gonna go do it. So I walk

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01:58:40,800 --> 01:58:42,400
Speaker 1: up to Walter and I say Hi, mister Peyton. I

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01:58:42,520 --> 01:58:44,680
Speaker 1: I just want my name is Steve Tasker. I just

2287
01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:46,800
Speaker 1: want to say I'm a big fan. I'm a player

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01:58:46,800 --> 01:58:48,240
Speaker 1: here at Northwestern. I just want to say I'm a

2289
01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:49,640
Speaker 1: big fan. I love the way you play the game,

2290
01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:51,440
Speaker 1: and I just want to wish you well this this

2291
01:58:52,800 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: this week, and I hope you guys play well and

2292
01:58:54,600 --> 01:58:56,600
Speaker 1: good luck. I just want to say hi. And he

2293
01:58:56,920 --> 01:58:58,720
Speaker 1: reached out his hand and goes, hey, how are you man?

2294
01:58:58,800 --> 01:59:00,600
Speaker 1: You're the great? How's it going good? I go, what

2295
01:59:00,640 --> 01:59:02,240
Speaker 1: are you doing? I said, I've just been wearing. He

2296
01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 1: couldn't have been nicer. Ron Revere was there and he's like, hey,

2297
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:06,480
Speaker 1: how are you doing? I said, Hi? He said, I'm Ron.

2298
01:59:06,680 --> 01:59:08,920
Speaker 1: I said, I know who you are, miss Vere, because

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01:59:08,920 --> 01:59:10,360
Speaker 1: I knew all the guys, I mean, they were famous.

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01:59:10,840 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 1: So I'm like, ah, this is great, you know. He goes.

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01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:14,120
Speaker 1: He goes. I go up and I'm trying to look

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01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:15,840
Speaker 1: for something to talk about, right, just so I don't

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01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:18,320
Speaker 1: look like a goober, right, so you know, right? And

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01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:20,680
Speaker 1: I looked down. I say, you're the only player, mister Payton.

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01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:24,480
Speaker 1: You're the only player I know who wears those kangaroo shoes?

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01:59:24,960 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 1: Do you? I mean, are they nice? Do you like them?

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01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:29,160
Speaker 1: Or do you just like they pay? I'm like, or

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01:59:29,200 --> 01:59:31,520
Speaker 1: is it just a contract there? Do you really like them? Like?

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01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:33,200
Speaker 1: How what are I never see him anywhere else? Do

2310
01:59:33,240 --> 01:59:35,120
Speaker 1: you really like him? And he goes, hey, he goes,

2311
01:59:35,160 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 1: I love those They are the best shoes you can

2312
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:39,200
Speaker 1: actually wear. He goes. In fact, he goes, hey, he goes,

2313
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:43,040
Speaker 1: what size do you wear? And I go, I wear

2314
01:59:43,120 --> 01:59:45,280
Speaker 1: size nine. He goes, oh this man, He goes, if

2315
01:59:45,280 --> 01:59:47,160
Speaker 1: you were my size, I could scoot you a pair easy.

2316
01:59:47,200 --> 01:59:49,080
Speaker 1: I'd get you a pair and you wearing. But yeah,

2317
01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:51,960
Speaker 1: they're not myself, And I go, ah, that's askol. I said, well,

2318
01:59:51,960 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 1: I just want to wish you luck and everybody. So

2319
01:59:53,240 --> 01:59:59,080
Speaker 1: I excuse myself, right because nineteen eighty four, eighty five,

2320
01:59:59,320 --> 02:00:02,000
Speaker 1: may it might be like the like the fall of

2321
02:00:02,040 --> 02:00:04,640
Speaker 1: eighty five, right, my last or fall of eighty four.

2322
02:00:04,720 --> 02:00:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's the fall of eighty four. For when

2323
02:00:08,040 --> 02:00:09,680
Speaker 1: it's right before they're really you know, they do all that.

2324
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 1: So because I leave, I get drafted in eighty five.

2325
02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:15,760
Speaker 1: So okay, so that's cool that happens. And so here's

2326
02:00:15,800 --> 02:00:19,920
Speaker 1: the go. The next time I see Walter Payton, I'm

2327
02:00:19,960 --> 02:00:23,920
Speaker 1: standing like for me to you from him. He just

2328
02:00:24,200 --> 02:00:28,680
Speaker 1: retired from the Bears. He's flipping the coin at the

2329
02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:33,680
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and I'm a team captain. What right? So

2330
02:00:33,840 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 1: I went from this little ten year old kid who

2331
02:00:36,440 --> 02:00:39,400
Speaker 1: looking like a ball boy to a team captain in

2332
02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:42,080
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl in the NFL. I didn't say anything

2333
02:00:42,120 --> 02:00:44,360
Speaker 1: to him. I didn't say anything to him, but I

2334
02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:49,200
Speaker 1: do remember he taught me why you be nice to people.

2335
02:00:50,640 --> 02:00:52,960
Speaker 1: You know, I was some kid. He didn't have to

2336
02:00:53,000 --> 02:00:54,840
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, kid, okay, fine, hey listen, I don't

2337
02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:56,120
Speaker 1: have time to talk to you. Now, it's nice to

2338
02:00:56,160 --> 02:00:57,880
Speaker 1: me go by. He could have been you know, short

2339
02:00:57,920 --> 02:00:59,640
Speaker 1: with me, or he wasn't. He gave you the time

2340
02:00:59,680 --> 02:01:02,240
Speaker 1: of day time I needed and I didn't take that

2341
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:04,600
Speaker 1: much time. So it really taught me something because you

2342
02:01:04,640 --> 02:01:06,080
Speaker 1: never know where you're gonna meet this, you know, some

2343
02:01:06,720 --> 02:01:10,920
Speaker 1: snot nosed high school college kid. And the next time

2344
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:12,560
Speaker 1: I was standing right next to him, he was flipping

2345
02:01:12,560 --> 02:01:14,200
Speaker 1: the coin and at the one of the Pro bowls

2346
02:01:14,240 --> 02:01:16,760
Speaker 1: I was in. That is so dang cool. I'm jealous.

2347
02:01:16,840 --> 02:01:18,920
Speaker 1: It was pretty awesome. So I have a picture from

2348
02:01:18,960 --> 02:01:21,960
Speaker 1: him in my office for that reason. That's awesome reason.

2349
02:01:22,000 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: It was kind of cool. It was kind of cool. Um,

2350
02:01:24,320 --> 02:01:26,560
Speaker 1: all right, so now what we're gonna do? And I

2351
02:01:26,600 --> 02:01:28,400
Speaker 1: can't remember what we're gonna What did they say we're

2352
02:01:28,400 --> 02:01:30,720
Speaker 1: gonna do? We go to the tweet sheet. Oh okay,

2353
02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:32,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the calls and tweet sheet. We

2354
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:35,120
Speaker 1: did have this. We had a tweet twitter poll and

2355
02:01:35,280 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: it was as a Bills fan, what are you gonna

2356
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,960
Speaker 1: do the most thankful for this season? As a Bills fan,

2357
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:43,280
Speaker 1: what are you most thankful for this season? So we

2358
02:01:43,320 --> 02:01:44,720
Speaker 1: got a tweet sheet. We got a lot of votes

2359
02:01:44,800 --> 02:01:47,720
Speaker 1: coming in and we had a couple of choices. One

2360
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:50,680
Speaker 1: was eight and three eight rating three baby, let's go.

2361
02:01:50,840 --> 02:01:53,720
Speaker 1: Twenty seven percent of you like that, twenty five percent

2362
02:01:53,800 --> 02:01:56,000
Speaker 1: of you say hey, being a McDermott, they're the thing.

2363
02:01:57,320 --> 02:02:00,880
Speaker 1: Forty three percent of our response said, hey, Josh Allen man,

2364
02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:03,160
Speaker 1: he's progressing, he's looking good at side. At six percent

2365
02:02:03,240 --> 02:02:05,840
Speaker 1: say something else. So most people think they're thankful for

2366
02:02:05,960 --> 02:02:08,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen being a much better player this year than

2367
02:02:08,360 --> 02:02:10,200
Speaker 1: he was a year ago. Yeah, I'm thankful for that.

2368
02:02:10,440 --> 02:02:12,080
Speaker 1: We've got some people who tweeted at us as well.

2369
02:02:12,160 --> 02:02:14,120
Speaker 1: This tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving, the

2370
02:02:14,200 --> 02:02:17,840
Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. What's the tweet sheet?

2371
02:02:18,240 --> 02:02:21,520
Speaker 1: So James says that I'm thankful for being in McDermott.

2372
02:02:21,680 --> 02:02:24,200
Speaker 1: We haven't had stability like this since Bill and Levy

2373
02:02:24,840 --> 02:02:27,280
Speaker 1: in the past. This time of year, we are talking

2374
02:02:27,360 --> 02:02:30,440
Speaker 1: the draft and head coaches. This is such an exciting

2375
02:02:30,520 --> 02:02:33,000
Speaker 1: time to be a Bills fan. Have a great Thanksgiving guys,

2376
02:02:33,080 --> 02:02:35,680
Speaker 1: Go Bills. That from James. That's a good tweet as well.

2377
02:02:35,720 --> 02:02:37,040
Speaker 1: You're right and there are there are a lot of

2378
02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:40,200
Speaker 1: people who are a generation who do remember me as

2379
02:02:40,200 --> 02:02:41,560
Speaker 1: a player and some of the teams I was on

2380
02:02:42,760 --> 02:02:46,240
Speaker 1: before your time, but they think back to that there

2381
02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:51,680
Speaker 1: were some iconic figures in this organization. You have to have.

2382
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:55,200
Speaker 1: You become iconic when your team wins. This team's winning

2383
02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:56,840
Speaker 1: tim is winning and these guys are on the cusp

2384
02:02:56,920 --> 02:02:58,840
Speaker 1: of getting better and the fun part of it for

2385
02:02:58,880 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: a player, and as much as fun it was to

2386
02:03:01,960 --> 02:03:03,800
Speaker 1: be in those championship games and being all those Super

2387
02:03:03,840 --> 02:03:05,800
Speaker 1: Bowls new a lot. The fun of it too was

2388
02:03:05,880 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 1: having not just people outside the building, but the guys

2389
02:03:09,120 --> 02:03:11,520
Speaker 1: in the locker room realize how good you were getting.

2390
02:03:11,640 --> 02:03:12,840
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun in then. I think a

2391
02:03:12,880 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans are feeling it today. From the

2392
02:03:14,560 --> 02:03:17,040
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Yeah, read the next one from Big Multi.

2393
02:03:17,600 --> 02:03:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm just thankful to have a winning team to cheer

2394
02:03:20,040 --> 02:03:23,280
Speaker 1: for the Thanksgiving game just makes it that much more special.

2395
02:03:23,600 --> 02:03:25,800
Speaker 1: We have lived through so many bad years that this

2396
02:03:26,040 --> 02:03:29,000
Speaker 1: team right now is so special. Go out, be competitive

2397
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:31,520
Speaker 1: and get the w You get my vote Steve for

2398
02:03:31,720 --> 02:03:34,520
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Go bills. Very nice. Sorry, appreciate it.

2399
02:03:34,640 --> 02:03:37,720
Speaker 1: That's nice. And there, you know, you get that feeling

2400
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:42,960
Speaker 1: where this isn't This organization has not been completely bereft

2401
02:03:43,040 --> 02:03:46,640
Speaker 1: of fun eras. And that nineties era was a great

2402
02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:48,480
Speaker 1: a and the era before that, in the sixties was

2403
02:03:48,520 --> 02:03:50,400
Speaker 1: a fun era for people. People still think about that

2404
02:03:50,440 --> 02:03:52,480
Speaker 1: all the kind of old timers. Those guys are still

2405
02:03:52,520 --> 02:03:55,760
Speaker 1: hanging around town from the sixties championship game, AFL Championship games.

2406
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: It's fun to give people a taste of that, and

2407
02:03:58,160 --> 02:03:59,840
Speaker 1: I think this team has got a really good chance

2408
02:03:59,880 --> 02:04:01,960
Speaker 1: of doing it and putting a stretch together. And speaking

2409
02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:05,720
Speaker 1: of people and former players coming back, I don't remember

2410
02:04:05,760 --> 02:04:09,400
Speaker 1: who said this, but it speaks to how talented this

2411
02:04:09,600 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 1: team is this season. Someone said there's there's a lot

2412
02:04:12,640 --> 02:04:14,720
Speaker 1: of former players coming back this year. I think this

2413
02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 1: is the most former players we've had back in a while.

2414
02:04:18,760 --> 02:04:21,200
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that? Yeah? I think so. And

2415
02:04:21,280 --> 02:04:22,640
Speaker 1: I think it's you got to tip your hat to

2416
02:04:22,760 --> 02:04:27,080
Speaker 1: Kim and Terry for making sure they definitely reach out

2417
02:04:27,160 --> 02:04:31,240
Speaker 1: to those guys. Yeah, Leonard Smith was a legend of

2418
02:04:31,320 --> 02:04:33,680
Speaker 1: the game. Bruce has been back a couple of times.

2419
02:04:34,800 --> 02:04:38,600
Speaker 1: Ted Washington has been back a couple of times. Yeah,

2420
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:40,600
Speaker 1: they have guys become It's nice. It's nice to see

2421
02:04:40,720 --> 02:04:42,720
Speaker 1: because this is a it's a special place to play.

2422
02:04:42,720 --> 02:04:45,680
Speaker 1: And I think I think Buffalo people, if you talk about,

2423
02:04:46,120 --> 02:04:47,840
Speaker 1: you know, who wants to play in Buffalo, you got

2424
02:04:47,920 --> 02:04:50,040
Speaker 1: to be a special It really says a lot that

2425
02:04:50,120 --> 02:04:52,839
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys Drew Bledsoe came back for goodness,

2426
02:04:54,440 --> 02:04:56,480
Speaker 1: guys who played here, they realized it was a fun

2427
02:04:56,560 --> 02:04:59,200
Speaker 1: time to be here, and they really appreciate it when

2428
02:04:59,240 --> 02:05:01,200
Speaker 1: they get further away from how nice it was to

2429
02:05:01,280 --> 02:05:02,520
Speaker 1: be a part of it. I think it speaks well.

2430
02:05:02,560 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 1: I think a lot of Bills fans take great pride

2431
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:06,480
Speaker 1: of that. I think for good good reason. Yeah, And

2432
02:05:06,600 --> 02:05:09,360
Speaker 1: I think it does something for the team too, to

2433
02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: have former people come back in and speak on what

2434
02:05:11,840 --> 02:05:13,720
Speaker 1: it meant to be a Buffalo Bill and what what

2435
02:05:13,960 --> 02:05:16,960
Speaker 1: this city gave them, what these people who live here

2436
02:05:17,160 --> 02:05:19,840
Speaker 1: gave them. Let's take a let's take a call on

2437
02:05:19,920 --> 02:05:22,120
Speaker 1: our Twitter as a Bills fan, What are you most

2438
02:05:22,160 --> 02:05:24,240
Speaker 1: thankful for this season? We got a call from Kevin

2439
02:05:24,440 --> 02:05:27,400
Speaker 1: in Hamburg. Kevin, you're on the one Bills Live with

2440
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Maddie Glab what's on your mind, Kevin?

2441
02:05:30,960 --> 02:05:34,800
Speaker 1: How are you doing good? Good? Um? I'm glad we're

2442
02:05:34,840 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 1: doing good in the right direction, and I want to

2443
02:05:37,440 --> 02:05:39,600
Speaker 1: see if the Bills do good and keep getting the

2444
02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:42,840
Speaker 1: good showing. Hopefully this year they can put them on

2445
02:05:42,960 --> 02:05:46,200
Speaker 1: the night game like the Saints Falcons. There'll be a

2446
02:05:46,320 --> 02:05:48,640
Speaker 1: night game with a division rival like the Jets or

2447
02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:51,640
Speaker 1: Dolphins or Patriot. So you're right, you'd rather let me

2448
02:05:51,640 --> 02:05:53,320
Speaker 1: ask you this. Then you'd rather have them on a

2449
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:55,800
Speaker 1: like a primetime game on a Thanksgiving than you would

2450
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:59,280
Speaker 1: like on a Monday night game during the regular season. Yeah, yeah,

2451
02:05:59,440 --> 02:06:03,360
Speaker 1: they was good showing, especially when I'd have my Thanksgiving

2452
02:06:03,440 --> 02:06:07,200
Speaker 1: like eight o'clock like the Falcons Saints this year. Okay,

2453
02:06:07,240 --> 02:06:09,240
Speaker 1: all right, I appreciate that. Thanks for the call, Kevin.

2454
02:06:09,280 --> 02:06:12,840
Speaker 1: I and I get it. You want to you want

2455
02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:16,840
Speaker 1: your team to look good, right, and you can certainly

2456
02:06:16,880 --> 02:06:18,400
Speaker 1: put them in a position to do that, But we

2457
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:20,440
Speaker 1: don't know if they will until it happens, right, and

2458
02:06:20,800 --> 02:06:23,760
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since nineteen ninety four the

2459
02:06:23,840 --> 02:06:26,160
Speaker 1: Bills played on Thanksgiving. I was on the field and

2460
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:28,680
Speaker 1: I was still in the midst of a career. It

2461
02:06:28,800 --> 02:06:30,280
Speaker 1: wasn't like at the end of my career. It was

2462
02:06:30,600 --> 02:06:33,080
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago for this team to

2463
02:06:33,400 --> 02:06:36,160
Speaker 1: have played on Thanksgiving Day, and it's it's fun to

2464
02:06:36,520 --> 02:06:39,720
Speaker 1: go in there. Eight and three in hitting your Stride.

2465
02:06:39,960 --> 02:06:42,760
Speaker 1: I was talking to Eric Wood on Monday after the

2466
02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:45,480
Speaker 1: game and talk just talking about the meaning of playing

2467
02:06:45,520 --> 02:06:48,600
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, about playing against Dallas Cowboys, and he said, look,

2468
02:06:49,000 --> 02:06:51,320
Speaker 1: this is a talented team with a lot of big

2469
02:06:51,440 --> 02:06:54,160
Speaker 1: names on this team that aren't yet household names. These

2470
02:06:54,200 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: are games where some of these players on these teams,

2471
02:06:58,040 --> 02:07:01,600
Speaker 1: on the Bills can become household names. Trey White still

2472
02:07:01,640 --> 02:07:04,480
Speaker 1: not a household name yet, Tremaine Edmonds growing into that,

2473
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:08,920
Speaker 1: not yet, Josh Allen the capability to show the nation

2474
02:07:09,120 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: how he is improving in year two, to play on

2475
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:14,680
Speaker 1: a stage like that, And of course it doesn't mean

2476
02:07:14,960 --> 02:07:17,040
Speaker 1: all these things. Don't don't mean as much if you

2477
02:07:17,160 --> 02:07:19,720
Speaker 1: lose this game, but if you if you win this game,

2478
02:07:21,200 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 1: they're going to be talked about about their success so

2479
02:07:24,520 --> 02:07:28,280
Speaker 1: far this season, about being potentially nine and three, Uh,

2480
02:07:28,680 --> 02:07:31,400
Speaker 1: definitely more. Yeah. But here's the thing, and this is

2481
02:07:31,440 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: the kind of the crazy double edged sword were you

2482
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:36,240
Speaker 1: get him into a game like this and you think

2483
02:07:36,280 --> 02:07:38,800
Speaker 1: young players like Ed Oliver, a young player like Cody Ford,

2484
02:07:38,880 --> 02:07:41,840
Speaker 1: or young young players like Tremaine Edmunds, Josh Allen, it

2485
02:07:42,000 --> 02:07:45,280
Speaker 1: becomes about something other than the game. It becomes about

2486
02:07:45,320 --> 02:07:48,320
Speaker 1: the consequences of the game, about about the good things

2487
02:07:48,360 --> 02:07:50,760
Speaker 1: that you could get from this game. If if the

2488
02:07:50,800 --> 02:07:52,240
Speaker 1: Bills go out there, if the Bills go out there

2489
02:07:52,280 --> 02:07:55,400
Speaker 1: and win thirty five to nothing, the defense plays lights out,

2490
02:07:55,920 --> 02:07:59,360
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper has no catches and has a zero zero

2491
02:07:59,520 --> 02:08:04,680
Speaker 1: zero at line. Zeke Elliott rushes for you know, twenty

2492
02:08:04,760 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 1: seven yards on ten carries. You know, they just can't

2493
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 1: get anything going. You think, wow, what how the perception

2494
02:08:10,760 --> 02:08:13,240
Speaker 1: about our team is going to change? And they start

2495
02:08:13,320 --> 02:08:15,880
Speaker 1: thinking about that rather than saying, listen, just win this play.

2496
02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 1: Let's just line up, get lined up right, who's my guy?

2497
02:08:18,680 --> 02:08:21,280
Speaker 1: I got you. Let's go and think about it afterwards.

2498
02:08:21,640 --> 02:08:24,480
Speaker 1: You're much better off going out and playing. Let's just play.

2499
02:08:24,600 --> 02:08:26,360
Speaker 1: Let's just go. I want to show I'll show off.

2500
02:08:26,480 --> 02:08:28,480
Speaker 1: That's fine, I'm gonna I'm gonna play lose, I'm gonna

2501
02:08:28,480 --> 02:08:30,800
Speaker 1: play free. I'm gonna do my thing. But man, I

2502
02:08:30,840 --> 02:08:32,960
Speaker 1: can't think about all that other stuff, because once you do,

2503
02:08:33,520 --> 02:08:38,040
Speaker 1: the consequence has become hindering. They become they cripple you

2504
02:08:38,600 --> 02:08:41,080
Speaker 1: from being your best mentally, and that's when you're not

2505
02:08:41,200 --> 02:08:43,800
Speaker 1: your best mentally. Physically followed true, and I think I

2506
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 1: think this team is disciplined enough to know that. And

2507
02:08:46,080 --> 02:08:49,520
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has definitely given them a message enough to

2508
02:08:49,640 --> 02:08:53,080
Speaker 1: know that they can't make this game bigger in their

2509
02:08:53,160 --> 02:08:55,200
Speaker 1: minds than it needs to be. That this game is

2510
02:08:55,280 --> 02:08:57,520
Speaker 1: the next opponent in front of you. It happens to

2511
02:08:57,600 --> 02:08:59,800
Speaker 1: be on Thanksgiving, it happens to be out four or thirty.

2512
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:03,400
Speaker 1: Don't let the stage get in your way. It's getting closed, folks.

2513
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:05,360
Speaker 1: The Bills are off on their way down to Dallas.

2514
02:09:05,480 --> 02:09:07,840
Speaker 1: Murphy is with him, Mattie glab in for him. Today

2515
02:09:07,880 --> 02:09:10,160
Speaker 1: we're holding down the Ford until three o'clock. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us, was one Bills Live, presented by Clyde to help.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this break. Got a little

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Speaker 1: more to do before we finish up. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody,

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. What we learned brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skywork, the official equipment rental company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Thank you for that. We had Field Yates

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Speaker 1: on the program today and we asked him about the

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Speaker 1: dichotomy between the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys, which

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Speaker 1: team was coming from, which direction was general overall thoughts

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Speaker 1: were and he had an interesting take on what the

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Speaker 1: differences were between the Cowboys and the Bills. And here's

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Speaker 1: what Field Yates had to say. You've got this Cowboys

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Speaker 1: team that is routinely playing below expectations. Then you've got

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Speaker 1: an owner that's calling out his head coach, and then nobody, seriously,

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Speaker 1: nobody has seemingly fixed up up for Jason Garrett in

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Speaker 1: the past few days. Most people, he seems the company

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Speaker 1: line has become well, you know what Garry says, So

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Speaker 1: so we do need to play better. We are not

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Speaker 1: media expectations. Meanwhile, in Buffalo, you have a team that

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Speaker 1: keeps winning even though people tell them that they're not

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Speaker 1: good enough, a head coach and a GM and an

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Speaker 1: ownership group that are entirely in concert, a fan base

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Speaker 1: that clearly supports this team. Endlessly. That was Field Yates

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Speaker 1: on what do we learned? That was brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skywork's, the official construction equipment rental company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And we also had Edward Or on the program,

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Speaker 1: the Dallas ESPN reporter. We asked him about going back

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Speaker 1: to your old town like Cole Beasley is about to

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Speaker 1: do for the Buffalo Bills, and what it might mean

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Speaker 1: for a player like Cole Beasley to go back to

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Speaker 1: a place there where he began his career. And here's

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Speaker 1: what Edward had to say. The player who will know

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Speaker 1: all likely to pose him most often in the game

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Speaker 1: tomorrow is Jordan Lewis, And he said, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: coming off a game where he just covered Julian Edelman

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Speaker 1: with some degree of success. And he said, hey, I

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Speaker 1: know they do a lot of different things, but you

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Speaker 1: can't look at him like they're the same guy. Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley can do every route. A lot of people think

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Speaker 1: he's just an underneath guy, but he can go over

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Speaker 1: the top. And he said, as far as the quickness

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Speaker 1: he has, the stop and start, he said, is the

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Speaker 1: quickest I've ever seen in my life, So I definitely

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Speaker 1: know it's going to be a challenge. So I think

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Speaker 1: if you have a highly motivated Cole Beasley's coming off

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Speaker 1: a pretty good game, getting the big stage for the

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Speaker 1: first time with the Bills and against just former team, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would think the adrenaline and the expectation is going

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Speaker 1: to be pretty high from Cole Beasley. Tomorrow Edward or

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Speaker 1: ESPN on our show earlier today talking about Cole Beasley,

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Speaker 1: What have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, Mattie,

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Speaker 1: So the time has come. Do you have a feel

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Speaker 1: about how this game is going to play out? What

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Speaker 1: are your predictions? I mean, I've been saying all day,

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Speaker 1: I feel really good about this one. I think a

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Speaker 1: couple of things that are going to be key have

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Speaker 1: to do with the Bills defense and playing a strong game.

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Speaker 1: The defense has eighty one negative plays force, that's the

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Speaker 1: most in the NFL. They have sixty pass breakups, the

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Speaker 1: fiftieth in the NFL, and they lead the NFL and

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Speaker 1: TFLs with sixty nine. These are all things that are

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Speaker 1: going to play a huge part in making the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys not rack up those yards when it comes to

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Speaker 1: total net yards and getting in the end zone. So

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Speaker 1: you're picking the Bills and picking the Bills. Baby, I

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Speaker 1: think I've got to pick the Bills too, and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to pick a score. We can't pick scores. I'm

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Speaker 1: picking the Bills as well because if they don't win,

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Speaker 1: that shoots my eleven plus win prediction. They've kind of

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Speaker 1: followed my prediction predictive nature all the way down. So

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm picking the Bills probably, I'm saying, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty three. Yeah, twenty seven twenty three. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I want to go at the score prediction.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a lower, lower scoring game.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna score. I think it'll be more

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Speaker 1: points than the Patriots game. Okay, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be close. I think they're gonna win by like

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Speaker 1: a field goal. It's gonna it's gonna come down to

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Speaker 1: something big. I think. All right, Maddi glab in from her.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. We're gonna see you guys on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Everybody have a great Thanksgiving holiday. We'd like to thank

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Speaker 1: our production assistant, George Bloss, Jeff Colton, act, Thomas Hollander,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Territo, Kevin car Just James Roebel, and

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Speaker 1: of course Jay Harris, our producer. And we're gonna thank

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Speaker 1: everybody and hope everybody has a wonderful, wonderful, safe holiday season,

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Speaker 1: holiday weekend. We'll see you back here on Friday, which

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Speaker 1: will be like a football Monday because it's a one

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Speaker 1: day after the game. This has been One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, and this has been Buffalo Bill's

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