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Speaker 1: What time Steve Tasper done? Textown textown textown times. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a new year of One Bill's Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. I'm John Murphy alongside my broadcast partner

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Happy New Year, Steve. Did you have a

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Speaker 1: good New Year? I did did very good. Low key.

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Speaker 1: I was. It was typical middle aged guy. I was

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Speaker 1: your bed by like eleven, That's what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: Two tenth I got your beat. You know I've had

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Speaker 1: me too. We are joined by the general manager of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's, Brandon Being, and we start with what

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Speaker 1: time did you could have been on New Year's eat?

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Speaker 1: Did you bring any maybe two minutes after you went?

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Speaker 1: You didn't see the written? No? No, no, no, I was,

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Speaker 1: I was done. I went to I went to dinner.

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Speaker 1: My parents were in town and uh so we took

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Speaker 1: them to dinner because they were flying out the next morning.

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Speaker 1: If they didn't ring it in, no, I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody in my house ringed it in, right, I think

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Speaker 1: that's past it. I don't think anybody doesn't anymore. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody right. I haven't come to work and next people

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Speaker 1: standing in the rain. If I if I have to

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Speaker 1: work the next day. I might have had a few

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Speaker 1: more libations. Yeah, we didn't have to work to work.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in, Brandon. We got a lot of

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Speaker 1: ground to cover. He's gonna be with us for about

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Speaker 1: the next twenty twenty five minutes or so, and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you coming in starting after new year with a

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Speaker 1: fresh late. But we're gonna spend a little time talking

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Speaker 1: about twenty eighteen and let's start. I have a feeling.

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Speaker 1: Don't let me speak for you. I know you won't,

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Speaker 1: but I think at some point last spring, maybe after

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Speaker 1: the draft, you thought yourself, Okay, we got a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We're Our goal is to get him to play, win

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Speaker 1: as much as we can and get him to play

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Speaker 1: and get him indoctorated in the n NFL seasons over,

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Speaker 1: you have to look back and say we did that.

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Speaker 1: We accomplished kind of what we were looking to do. Yes, no, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Somebody brought that up at the press

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Speaker 1: conference a couple days ago, and we didn't go in

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Speaker 1: and say Josh has to play three games, five games,

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Speaker 1: sixteen whatever. We just said we'll know when when he's ready.

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Speaker 1: And we didn't want to rush it. Did it happen

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Speaker 1: a little quicker than we anticipated, Yes, But in the

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Speaker 1: end I think it helped speed speed up. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's nothing you can do to give him those

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Speaker 1: reps that he got starting, you know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the Baltimore game and then you know, the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: So he just let me ask you this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: because I talked to Bills fans wherever I go and

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Speaker 1: jump Murph and I talk about it every day. You

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Speaker 1: really gotta feel good about the guy you drafted. I

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Speaker 1: know there was all this question marks about all five

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Speaker 1: of those guys that were available, and certainly Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: and Sam and the other Josh, and certainly Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: They're all having good years and it looks like they're

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Speaker 1: off and running. But you gotta be rubbing your hands

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Speaker 1: together saying, man, we like the guy we got. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he looks like he's all of it. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I go back to what I said the initial day,

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Speaker 1: this guy is buffalo. And I think the more Josh's

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Speaker 1: personality and the more times he was behind the microphone,

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Speaker 1: and the more times he got up after a big

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Speaker 1: run and pumped his fist, and you know, you either

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Speaker 1: got that in your dn or adult and he is

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Speaker 1: blue collar all the way beyond the talent on the field.

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Speaker 1: He really fits this town, this culture and where we're heading.

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Speaker 1: I was telling Murph, obviously, you know, you stand around

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Speaker 1: the guy, people who haven't seen him in person. He's

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Speaker 1: a big dude, and he's got all that arm, and

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Speaker 1: he's got all those leg you know, he's runs it

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Speaker 1: and all that. Okay, so there's that, but there's a

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Speaker 1: couple other things that I saw. One he seems to

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Speaker 1: to Sean and some of the other players, he's really

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Speaker 1: got his nose to the grinst when he's working hard

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Speaker 1: he's working really hard. And then you know, Murph and

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Speaker 1: feel optimistic about how far he could go, even in

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Most definitely. You know that was part of

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Speaker 1: You know, at this point last year, i'd i'd only

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Speaker 1: what you started out with. Josh is very smart. He

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Speaker 1: picked up our you know, our offense and Brian runs

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Speaker 1: a complex offense. He picked it up well. And continue

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Speaker 1: every game, every rep. Um. But we like where he's at. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's by no means satisfied, nor are we. And that's

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Speaker 1: He's already We went through a whole plan the other

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Speaker 1: coming back. And he's already talking about when he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get some of the young receivers together and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw the ball here and there, and UM, it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: That's the leadership part of it, that he he wants

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Speaker 1: he kind of recovers the Brandon mean, the Bills general

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Speaker 1: manager in TUITI with us. I've never scouted Brandon, but

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Speaker 1: it seems to me that would be the most difficult part,

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how hard is this guy gonna work,

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Speaker 1: how badly does he want it, how competitive is he?

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Speaker 1: You can look at stats and video. You can probably

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Speaker 1: tell some of those things, can you? At least now

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Speaker 1: I first look, no, I mean that's where you go

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Speaker 1: back into you know, you know, the analytics stuff and

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Speaker 1: all the people that were smashing Josh in the spring

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Speaker 1: about his completion percentage in this and that those things

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Speaker 1: don't measure grit, toughs, leadership. You know, he had some

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Speaker 1: great fourth quarter drive. Some of them we didn't finish

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Speaker 1: can't measure that stuff in just stats. And I say

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Speaker 1: Those are the things that if you don't watch Josh

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Speaker 1: You kind of wring your hands over the fact that, now, okay,

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Speaker 1: You gotta wring your hands a little bit over this

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Speaker 1: first off season where these guys go back to wherever

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Speaker 1: it is there are. They got money in their pocket,

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Speaker 1: they got free time, they got a little notoriety. They

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Speaker 1: up between the lines in the offseason. That's something every

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Speaker 1: team faces. We did we you know, Sean made mention

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Speaker 1: rookies heading in their first offseason. We told them, listen,

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Speaker 1: your college season was over, you were preparing for the

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Speaker 1: Combine or playing in the Senior Bowl. We had a

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Speaker 1: then we brought you right in. These guys have had

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Speaker 1: time you're gonna have free time. You can't get stale,

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Speaker 1: you can't think you got it all figured out. People

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Speaker 1: now have film on you. They are going to study you.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna watch what you do well, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: watch what you don't do well. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: work on the things that you don't do well or

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Speaker 1: you're going to get exposed in year two. Hey, Brandon,

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Speaker 1: in the last week and a half or so, you

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Speaker 1: play in future? To mopent for Josh, Yeah, you know, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you can put in different rooms, you can put different blends,

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Speaker 1: led by day Ball. And then what DA brought, Uh Barkley,

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Speaker 1: a guy I have never gotten to know. I knew Da,

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Speaker 1: those two. The thing I really liked about Matt. Matt's

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Speaker 1: to play, not that DA doesn't, UM, but DA understands

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Speaker 1: But um, I think Matt really came in here and

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Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I do want to play

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Speaker 1: best backup I can be, and I want to watch seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I want to make him the best I can. And

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Speaker 1: those guys, I know they were, you know, giving him

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Speaker 1: and sometimes saying hey, if you don't do that, you

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Speaker 1: all in it for him. And you know that was

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Speaker 1: really neat to see that room. As as Dah and

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Speaker 1: Matt came in to both support Josh Barkley's game against

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Speaker 1: the Jets. I'm guessing probably was the most funny he's

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Speaker 1: listen the way Josh plays, he could get nicked up.

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Speaker 1: I mean he plays physical, he's big and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and he takes some hits and and he did improve.

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Speaker 1: You know, that was one of the things I got

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Speaker 1: are up. Which guys are priorities to keep that you

428
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Speaker 1: want to you know, avoid losing and letting them go

429
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Speaker 1: to free agency? And then which guys is a time

430
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Speaker 1: to move on from um? And is there anybody that's

431
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Speaker 1: under contract. Once you do that, then you can start

432
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Speaker 1: laying out where where are the holes? Where we got

433
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Speaker 1: to feel where do we have to target? And we

434
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Speaker 1: want to try and fill as many of those you know,

435
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Speaker 1: before the draft, whether it's cap casualties prior to free

436
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Speaker 1: agency or in free agency. And I say that the

437
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Speaker 1: other day, we have to be judicious with we do

438
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Speaker 1: have cap. Uh. It is freeing as I said Monday,

439
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Speaker 1: to not have to worry about what we can spend.

440
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Speaker 1: We can spend what we need to do to get

441
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Speaker 1: the right players. But it's not spend just because we

442
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Speaker 1: got the money. The offseason always begins with coaching changes.

443
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Speaker 1: A report out there today about Bill's offensive line coach

444
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 1: running game coordinator Wine Castillo being relieved of his duties.

445
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Speaker 1: Can you tell us anything about that? Yeah, you know,

446
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,159
Speaker 1: you know Sean, you know, decided that we wanted to

447
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Speaker 1: make a change there, and at the end of the day,

448
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 1: wands a good coach. Sometimes things just don't work out.

449
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 1: I know he'll land on his feet and it wasn't

450
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Speaker 1: just him or anything like that. But we have to

451
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Speaker 1: be honest with where we're at. And you know, I

452
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Speaker 1: know that's an area that Wan wasn't happy with, nor

453
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Speaker 1: were we, and we just decided to go in a

454
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Speaker 1: different directions. I was thinking about that and other over

455
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Speaker 1: the last several months. Actually, of all the decisions a

456
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Speaker 1: head coach makes, that Sean McDermott makes, assembling the staff

457
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Speaker 1: might be the most critical, right it might be the

458
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Speaker 1: most important thing he does. It is having a good

459
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Speaker 1: coaching staff can can definitely, you have to have players.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's you know, your job, that's my job and

461
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Speaker 1: um and I have to earn that, and I have

462
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Speaker 1: to help and and I gotta do you know, I

463
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Speaker 1: gotta do a dang good job this offseason to fill

464
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Speaker 1: some of these holes. M because of all the did

465
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Speaker 1: Cat money we had. You know, I really appreciate what

466
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Speaker 1: those guys did to get to six and ten. It

467
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 1: was not easy with such young players because we had

468
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 1: so many guys that Sean and his staff had to

469
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Speaker 1: play that lacked experience, all the guys that Steve went through.

470
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Speaker 1: And it's not easy, and it is hard, but coaching

471
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: is big in this league. You can definitely win games.

472
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Speaker 1: You saw what happened to the Rams from the previous

473
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Speaker 1: year before Sean McVeagh got there, and they put a

474
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Speaker 1: new staff in there and they really overhauled that offense

475
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Speaker 1: and have turned it around. One more coaching question. You

476
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Speaker 1: look around the league eight head coaching vacancies, various reasons

477
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,119
Speaker 1: for all of them. Some of them you say, Okay,

478
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Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. You know, Martin Lewis

479
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: been their sixteen years, Mike McCarthy has been there for

480
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Speaker 1: a while. Other guys get one year, including see Wilkes

481
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Speaker 1: out in Arizona. You kind of scratch your head and

482
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Speaker 1: say what's the plan here? Where are these teams going? Yeah?

483
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Speaker 1: You know, Steve Wilkes is a damn good coach and

484
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Speaker 1: that's a shame. You knew him in Carolina, Huh, I

485
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Speaker 1: worked with him. Well, he is head coaching material and

486
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Speaker 1: he should get another shot. I don't know what happened there.

487
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Speaker 1: I can't speak on it to what happened what went

488
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Speaker 1: wrong in Arizona, but I know this, Uh, he's a

489
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Speaker 1: damn good coach and you know, I wish he would

490
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Speaker 1: have got more time to show him what he could do.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, does Sean know Steve Wilkes

492
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Speaker 1: as well? Yes? Is there any chance he reaching out

493
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Speaker 1: to him and saying, hey, if you want a place

494
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Speaker 1: to spend your time in the next eight or ten months, Yeah,

495
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Speaker 1: I mean I think it is a nice place to live.

496
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Speaker 1: It is. I think you definitely do that. And but

497
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Speaker 1: at the same time, you gotta you can't just try

498
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Speaker 1: and force some putting a square peg in a round hole.

499
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Speaker 1: You know, Steve's got to look out for Steve as well.

500
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Speaker 1: You're always good, you know, you always want to add

501
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Speaker 1: good coaches. But he's got to make sure he puts

502
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Speaker 1: himself in the best spot to get another chance. He

503
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Speaker 1: should and I have no doubt he will get another chance,

504
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Speaker 1: and I can't wait till he proves people wrong. All right, well,

505
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Speaker 1: my question is you hold the ninth overall pick in

506
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Speaker 1: the draft this year, and you've got all this money

507
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Speaker 1: you're gonna spend in free agency? Is the philosophy too?

508
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Speaker 1: I was talking Murph and I were having this conversation.

509
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Speaker 1: Do you fill in all the gaps you can in

510
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Speaker 1: free agency so that you can take the best player available,

511
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Speaker 1: even if, like say, for instance, even if it's a

512
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Speaker 1: quarterback or a corner someplace where you feel like you're set,

513
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Speaker 1: Do you get enough guys off the free agency or

514
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Speaker 1: fill those holes so you can take the best player

515
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Speaker 1: available no matter the position. Is that the philosophy it

516
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Speaker 1: is you will burn yourself in the long run if

517
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Speaker 1: you don't take the best player available in the draft,

518
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Speaker 1: so you cannot go in their draft for need, and

519
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Speaker 1: you want to try and fill as many holes as

520
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Speaker 1: you can. You're rarely is a team going to say,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're good walking in the draft, we've got

522
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Speaker 1: no needs. But especially early in the draft, it is

523
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Speaker 1: important there are some really good football players that can

524
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Speaker 1: make impacts and if you reach down, I mean, let's

525
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Speaker 1: use last year. We started at twenty one. Okay. I

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Speaker 1: did not feel like before the draft that I was

527
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to get a quarterback to come in

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Speaker 1: here of Josh's talent at twenty one. So if we

529
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Speaker 1: had stayed there, we quarterback was a need, right, not

530
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Speaker 1: fooling anybody. But if I stay there at twenty one

531
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Speaker 1: and just take whoever the next quarterback was, we didn't

532
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Speaker 1: feel there was a guy at value that would have

533
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Speaker 1: been taking for need and not. So what I felt

534
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Speaker 1: we needed to do was get ourselves into range of

535
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Speaker 1: the value to get a Josh Allen and I said,

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Speaker 1: we have to. We're gonna have to get in the

537
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Speaker 1: top ten if we're gonna be able to select Josh.

538
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Speaker 1: So that's what you that's what you have to do.

539
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: You have to either get into range to feel that need.

540
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Speaker 1: And that was obviously fell into Tremaine. I was not

541
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Speaker 1: planning to trade it for Tremaine. I thought he was.

542
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Speaker 1: I thought he would go earlier and he once he fell,

543
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Speaker 1: it's like, listen, this is a need. Let's go up

544
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Speaker 1: and get him too. And we feel two big, two

545
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Speaker 1: big needs. But we didn't reach for those guys. And

546
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Speaker 1: now had Tremaine been drafted ahead of us, and we said, well,

547
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Speaker 1: at twenty two we need a linebacker. We're just gonna

548
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Speaker 1: take whoever's next, and it was a guy in the

549
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Speaker 1: second round. That would have been a mistake. Bigson, your

550
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: first draft here in Buffalo last year, it seems like

551
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Speaker 1: you got ten picks this year. You don't necessarily look

552
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Speaker 1: at it like ten picks ten players. You look at

553
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Speaker 1: those as tools. It seems right. Yeah, his currency is

554
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Speaker 1: why I call it. It's to be able to move

555
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Speaker 1: up and down to get guys where I think it's

556
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Speaker 1: very good value. And again we could we're at nine,

557
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: we could go back, we can go up. I think

558
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: to pigeonhole yourself to say I'm not gonna move or

559
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna move up, or I'm only gonna move down.

560
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's smart. And I think you see

561
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Speaker 1: what's going on where you can get guys, and you do.

562
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Speaker 1: You are paying attention to need, but you want to

563
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Speaker 1: you know, if we're at nine and we don't think

564
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Speaker 1: there's a guy that is worthy of that pick, I

565
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Speaker 1: need to look to move out of that pick and

566
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Speaker 1: move down. To gain more picks, to get the value.

567
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Speaker 1: What I don't want to do is sit there. That's

568
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Speaker 1: when you look to get out, right, man, before we

569
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: let you go. We're a little nostalgiic here on the

570
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 1: show as we just you know, just finished up the

571
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: last year twenty eighteen. We want to get you involved

572
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Speaker 1: in our Twitter poll. Are you okay? I don't have

573
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: Twitter on my phone, so you can just talk okay,

574
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: the old fashioned way, all right, And it's a simple

575
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: question we want. We got fans in on this too

576
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: on Twitter. What was the best moment of the twenty

577
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Speaker 1: eighteen Buffalo Bill season? Not talking about the best win,

578
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: the best game, but the best moment. We have a

579
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: couple of options for you. Was it, in fact, this

580
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: past Sunday Kyle William's final game? Sixty seven percent of

581
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: our respond and say that was it? Was it the

582
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: brawl sparked by Leonard Fournette in the Jaguars game where

583
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: you saw your team kind of come together and battle

584
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: the Jaguars on the field. Was it the Monday Night

585
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: Football Thurman Thomas halftime retirement ceremony. Twelve percent of respondent

586
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Speaker 1: say that was it? Something else? Would you look back

587
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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, Brandon, what do you think you'll remember

588
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: most what we look back at with your fondest memory

589
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen. Well, if Kyle was in here with us,

590
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say him. Hopefully he's not listening, but it's

591
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: definitely Kyle. You know, I'm a big Kyle Williams fan,

592
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: and you know, you try not to get too close

593
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: to players because of you know, you need that separation

594
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: from the seat I'm in. But I found myself trying

595
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: to have lunch with him as often to ask about

596
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: these young guys because he's around him and there's times

597
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: when maybe they're showing me or Sean they're really working hard,

598
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: but maybe they're not. And he was a great resource

599
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: for me just to hey, this guy's really doing this well,

600
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: you guys might want to remind him to do that,

601
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: and to see him go out the way he did

602
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: and stiff arming that ball. You know what's crazy is

603
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: if you look at that play, Charles Clay is wide

604
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: open for a touchdown. Go back and watch it sometime.

605
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: But Josh did the right thing with where the game was,

606
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: but they totally forgot about Charles Clay. He was running

607
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: a corner route and he's waving his arms wide open.

608
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: But Charles was so excited for for Kyle and that

609
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: stiff army head. I think everybody's hair stood up on

610
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Speaker 1: the back of their neck when Kyle stiff farm that

611
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: guy and got a nine yard game. It was perfect.

612
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: They send out for Kyle Sunday, wasn't it. It It was

613
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: every way, It was always perfect. You don't get that

614
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: off it. Nah, some guys never finished their final game. Yeah,

615
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: I've said that. I've said it a one hundred times.

616
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: It rarely ends well for great ones. Been well for

617
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: you because you got kicked out of here and it

618
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 1: could not have ended better for me, but it really couldn't.

619
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Speaker 1: But you know, you look around all the guys who

620
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: you know it rarely ends well because what happens is

621
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: they want to they want to keep playing until they

622
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: go out on a certain way, and it never happens

623
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: for them, and they get stick around too long. The

624
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: team is forced to release them, even the guys, I

625
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: even the Hall of Famers, and when they when the

626
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,479
Speaker 1: Bills released Bruce Thurman, Andre, you know what it happens,

627
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: John Elway. I mean he retired as a Bronco, but

628
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of guys that done in well.

629
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Speaker 1: It was great to see it end that way for Colin,

630
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: and I applauded the organization for getting it right because

631
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: it's not that easy. It's it's it is hard, and

632
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: you want to do the right thing. You don't want

633
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: to do too much, you don't want to do too little.

634
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: I thought it was nice, it was classy. I thought

635
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: it was Kyle, you know, Kyle's line over the top

636
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: look at me guy, and uh, you know, I think

637
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned it to one of the writers. He would

638
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: have probably just been fine going out and playing the

639
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: game and telling everybody when in his locker with his

640
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Speaker 1: kids next to him, Hey guys, I'm done. Here's my gloves,

641
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: just when you know. But we're like Kyle, you gotta

642
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: you gotta at least let the fans know. And and

643
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: I thought the fans. I challenged them to come out.

644
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: Told a couple of riders, right it, please come out.

645
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: And this guy has earned it. If for nothing else,

646
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: I know, it's two non playoff teams, but come watch

647
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: this guy. And I think they got what they deserved.

648
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Other than I tried to, I kept telling day Ball

649
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: to give him the jet sweep like like Isaiah McKenzie.

650
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: But they never got that in. Yeah, that would have

651
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: been great. Brandon, thanks for this. We know we'll see

652
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: you down the line that we'll be there at the

653
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and the Combine. We'll have chances to talking.

654
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Speaker 1: But we thank you for coming near today and kind

655
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Speaker 1: of wrap it up twenty eighteen. We got a happy

656
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Speaker 1: new year. Let's make twenty nineteen big. There you go, Okay,

657
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: Brandon being general manager of the Bill, Steve and I

658
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: coming back to get more on the show. Here we got,

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Speaker 1: We're here, Duille three. You up for that? Oh yeah,

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00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: all right, we're back One Bill's five from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Kyl Williams. Who else do you think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be? Kyle Williams is the Blue Rock Solar

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Speaker 1: supporter of the Buffalo Bills. Great Heaving and Brandon bean

672
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,959
Speaker 1: in here, wasn't it. He was great? He was great.

673
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: You know what, we know the guy and he works.

674
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: We know how already works in all this and he

675
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: just I love how he see him and McDermott both

676
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: they seem on top of it. You know, there have

677
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: been times in the past, over the last fifteen plus

678
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: years where you didn't always know that they were buttoned up.

679
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: These guys are and it's it's good to see and

680
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: it's the results are evident. I mean in the in

681
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: the improvement in the you know, the progression of the

682
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: team has just been fun to watch. Um. He said,

683
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: a couple of interesting thing things he has you asked, Yeah,

684
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: regrets about the way the quarterback room was set up

685
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. His answer, one hundred percent.

686
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: One hundred percent regrets about the way it worked out.

687
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, obviously it was a good

688
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: faith effort to bring in a j McCarron, to pair

689
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: him up with Nathan Peterman and to have Josh in

690
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: there doesn't always work out. It didn't work out, and

691
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: he said that one hundred percent regrets. You've mentioned they

692
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: had plans to get Derek Anderson in here sooner. He

693
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: said it on our show a minute ago. He should

694
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: have done that much sooner, get Derek Anderson in there.

695
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: One hundred percent regrets. That's that's pretty strong admission. A

696
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: lot of guys in his position would say, what are

697
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: you asking me? Why are you asking me that? Well,

698
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: they'd rationalize too, you know, we thought we thought a

699
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: Jim McCarron is gonna be better or whatever. But you

700
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: know that I think, yeah, they wanted to have that.

701
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: They thought having the competition would be better for the

702
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: quarterback room, give Josh a chance to you know, kind

703
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: of win the job. Maybe you'r how went. But basically

704
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: what they needed wasn't an old guy in the room

705
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: to say, hey, guys, hey, hey, you know, let's do this.

706
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: Let's do that. You need to need to think about this,

707
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: a guy that mentored him a little more. And that's

708
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: and they got there. But you know, like I said,

709
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: probably what six weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks too late, whatever,

710
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: but it was it was it was good to hear

711
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: that they know it's not always going to go well.

712
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,239
Speaker 1: But you know, you uh, if you don't think you're

713
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: ever gonna fail is because you're never gonna try anything.

714
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: So they tried it and admitted and hey didn't work

715
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: that time. Let's go on. They moved on. And it's

716
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: the other thing. I you know, obviously the news out there,

717
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: reports out there anyway, nothing established by the Bills, nothing

718
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: is sent out by the Bills. Nothing confirmed, well, I

719
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: guess confirmed if he confirmed it that one Castil Bills

720
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: offensive line coach run game coordinated the last couple of years,

721
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: has been relieved of his duties, but no announcement officially

722
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: from the Bills about that. Um Brandon Bean said that

723
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: was the case. So all of that on the table.

724
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: This is on the table as well. Bills news. Josh

725
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: Ellen the AFC Offensive Player of the Week that came

726
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: out today five touchdowns three passing, two rushing against Miami,

727
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: most by a Bill's quarterback since Jim Kelly threw for

728
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in nineteen ninety one. Josh Allen also only

729
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: the second rookie in NFL history with three passing and

730
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns in the game. David Woodley remember him

731
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: did it for Miami in nineteen eighty Josh Allen AFC

732
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week. That's the news here today.

733
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: I have to confess team coming in here Wednesday day

734
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: after New Year's You look around with our little offices

735
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: right inside the field house, and you look around. There's

736
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: no players. It's a little empty. I feel. I gotta

737
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: say it got me a little bit him crickets. Oh yeah,

738
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: no players, not for another three or four months. Right,

739
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: it'll be mid April, April fifteenth, I think until licks

740
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: it back. That's all right, but it's it's a little

741
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,239
Speaker 1: it's a little bit down. It's just us man. On

742
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: the other hand, the place was full with construction workers.

743
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: They are getting after it now, the new weight room,

744
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,479
Speaker 1: the new player training facility that's going to be right

745
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: on the other side of that wall over there. They're

746
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: getting after they started today. They shifted gears, didn't they. Yes, Yeah,

747
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: that was it was noticeable. It's gonna be fun to see.

748
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: I know the players are gonna love getting it done

749
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: and coming back. I don't they won't have it done

750
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: by then. We're late day. I think the plan is

751
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: to have it done by April. Really, I think that's

752
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: what they're shooting for me out there. They're cracking a

753
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: whip on those guys. They showed up today big time. Yeah.

754
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 1: Moving wait because you know they're trying to work out

755
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: of the way, they're trying to win. They don't want

756
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: they don't want all the you know, all that stuff

757
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: going on. But now, man, oh man, they got You're right,

758
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: they were all stuff in and out. I got they

759
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: got guys with safety harnesses, were going to work. I

760
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: was cool. Yeah, they're getting after it. Gonna be fun. Hey. Um,

761
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at. We got a good show

762
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: coming up. Andrew Brant, I feel like we haven't even

763
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 1: started the show yet, but Brandon Breen was gat great

764
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: for the last half hour. Andrew Brant, who writes about

765
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: the business of the NFL, will join us to talk

766
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: about various teams, including coaching hirings, including the Arizona Cardinals.

767
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a pretty strong statement from Brandon being

768
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: about what he views as the Cardinals mistake hire Steve

769
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: Wilkes a year ago. Let him go a year later. Fast,

770
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: but you think about what they went through too. Listen.

771
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: So here's a first time head coach comes in he's

772
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: you know, it's trying to get his find his way

773
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: and stuff. All of a sudden they suspend. Remember the

774
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: GM got suspended for six weeks, so you got a

775
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: first time head coach running the team. Is the GM

776
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: as well trying to get that done in the midst

777
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: of it? There, To me, they got a bad roster.

778
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're righting their neck deep in needs.

779
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: And this head coach is asked to be the GM

780
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: and run the team and do all this, and then

781
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: the GM comes back after getting suspended for six weeks,

782
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: he keeps his job and the head coach gets fired

783
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: for I mean, you're right, I'm we're a long way

784
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: away from that um and I don't know the ins

785
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: and outs of all how that happened, but from the

786
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: outside looking in, that does not look great to me,

787
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: no where you're in, and with with a rookie quarter

788
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they had a rookie quarterback, just like the

789
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: Bills did, and they're they weren't. They didn't have a

790
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: number two defense playing with him. You know, look, these

791
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: coaches don't hire themselves. Somebody on that team made the

792
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: decision to hire Steve Wilkes a year ago now what

793
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: changed in the last year. I mean, would your evaluation

794
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: of Wilkes that faulty that he had to be let

795
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: go a year later, or would your evaluation to something

796
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: else off. Maybe you thought your roster was better, but

797
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: somebody made the decision, whether it's the GM or the

798
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: owner or somebody in Arizona said, Wilkes is our guy.

799
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna hire this guy, the defensive coordinator from the

800
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, to be our next head coach. And I'm

801
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: sure you can find plenty of quotes from a year ago.

802
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: I think he was hired January twenty third, about how

803
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: they were all in on him and he was the

804
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: guy to take over Bruce Arians blah blah blah blah blah.

805
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 1: Where's that guy who made that call? That's what I'd

806
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: like to know, And what's his position now? A year later?

807
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: It's crazy? Look, and the Bills have had bad hires. Look,

808
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: this is a team here that has gone at least

809
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: a couple of years with a couple of head coaches. Right,

810
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: one of the moron left on his own accord, Rex Ryan,

811
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: only lasted two years. I don't know, you go one

812
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: year with a head coach and you gotta like commit

813
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: to a head coach. You've got to commit. And that's

814
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: been the problem around here. So here's the change coaches

815
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: so quickly that nobody gets a chance to build a program.

816
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, MURPHO. So you're the owner

817
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: of the team. Next head coach that comes in, they go, yeah,

818
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: you're yeah, that's good. Well let me ask you quick.

819
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Am I gonna get fired after one year? I ask

820
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: that question because I got I got, I got other

821
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: interviews I'm gonna do. Yeah, And I know I don't

822
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: think they're gonna kick me to the curb after one year.

823
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: When Mike GM got suspended for six weeks? Two, Uh,

824
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: what's a what's your deal? You know what happened with

825
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes? Why why did he not work out for you?

826
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: What was his problem? Because I don't want to you know,

827
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: I don't want to go down that road. If you're

828
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: gonna ask me to be the head coach or offer

829
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: me the job, why should I take it if it's

830
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: gonna if I'm gonna get kicked to the curb after

831
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: twelve months, and then you know, because let's face it,

832
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes is now if he goes he wasn't gonna

833
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: do an interview for another head coaching job. What is

834
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: he not? Is his career not crippled because he got

835
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: kicked to the curb after one year? What does that?

836
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: You know that that says something about him or you're

837
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: saying something about him. I don't want that set about

838
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: me in twelve months. Yeah, so I think that makes

839
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: that job a little less attractive to me. Not that

840
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is the best job available anyway.

841
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: Maybe Andrew Brant will have some thoughts on that when

842
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: we bring him on later in the show, but it's

843
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: nevertheless doesn't say something about the organization. Sure does, even

844
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: more so than Steve Will. Yeah, because people are looking

845
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: at that there said, well, listen, I don't know if

846
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: I had one with Josh Rosen either or the brand

847
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: the next guy. That's right, you know. So we'll talk

848
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: to Into Branda too. We're gonna talk with Dennis Pitta,

849
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: former tight end for the Baltimore Ravens at one thirty.

850
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: The Ravens getting set for a big playoff game against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers on Sunday. We'll talk with Dennis Pitta about

852
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Speaker 1: the remarkable season for the Ravens. It started with that

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Speaker 1: blowout victory over the Bills and included a quarterback change

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Speaker 1: about two thirds of the way into the season. All

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Speaker 1: of that on the table for Dennis Pitta when he

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Speaker 1: joins US today at one thirty pm. All right, you're involvement. Yes,

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00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: you you have a role to play on today's show.

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Speaker 1: We're happy to tell you that. And it's by virtue

859
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: of our Twitter poll and the topic of the day

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Speaker 1: as we kind of spend the next couple of days

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Speaker 1: looking back at twenty eighteen went right, what went wrong?

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Speaker 1: I don't know from you what was the best moment

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Speaker 1: of the twenty eighteen season. Not the best game, not

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Speaker 1: the biggest game, the biggest victory, the most damaging loss,

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Speaker 1: but the best moment. We've got a couple of nominees,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you can think of some. We haven't. One

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Speaker 1: of them just happened Sunday Kyle William's final game. Was

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Speaker 1: that the best moment? Sixty six percent of you say yes,

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00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: it was two thirds of you. I'm a little surprised.

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Speaker 1: I think there might be just sort of a recent

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Speaker 1: memory there that that's what happened most recently. Jaguars brawl

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Speaker 1: was pretty good. That was pretty good. I think we

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Speaker 1: won two. Didn't we win that fight? Yeah, the Bills

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Speaker 1: won the fight, won the game. Leonard Fournette got thrown

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Speaker 1: out of the game, and Leonard Fournette might get thrown

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Speaker 1: off the roster for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I think the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars brawl deserves some consideration. It was pretty fun the

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Speaker 1: way that went down. Fourteen percent of you say halftime

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Speaker 1: of the and look, I know the game was not

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Speaker 1: a was blot. Wasn't a great game Bills Patriots, Monday,

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Speaker 1: October twenty nine, But the halftime show Thurman's retirement ceremony,

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Speaker 1: the number of retirement was amazing, amazing visuals, you know

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Speaker 1: a place look fantastic. Thurman's speech was fantastic. That to

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Speaker 1: me was one of the great moments of twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Seven percent of you have something else in mine, give

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Speaker 1: us a call, let us know what you think eight

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Speaker 1: h three h five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty, or you can do

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Speaker 1: it on Twitter vote and our Twitter poll, or will

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Speaker 1: you in by a Twitter You got some stuff on

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Speaker 1: the twitch. H Yeah. From Darryl twenty nine he says,

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Speaker 1: I loved all of these, even loved Murph's white ass

893
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: open calls. Oh yeah. For me, it's that deep pass

894
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen threw to Robert Foster against the Jaguars,

895
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Speaker 1: And I remember this, making that throw as he was

896
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: getting hit was his first real moment with his arm.

897
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: And I agree with that when he stood in there

898
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: against the Jags, stepped up and two guys converging on

899
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: him and it looked like they were gonna get him.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, he waited too long to throw the ball.

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00:40:55,160 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: Oh there he got it off touchdown and that was

902
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Speaker 1: a mount two guys inway, and uh there was two guys.

903
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: That throw and that release and his ability and desire

904
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Speaker 1: and presence of mind to stay in there and make

905
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Speaker 1: that throw that was epic. I mean it was. It

906
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: was the play I think that said wait a minute,

907
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: that that's something we haven't seen before. And uh yeah,

908
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: I would agree. I would agree from with Darryl on

909
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: that one from another one from them from Eliza. I

910
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Speaker 1: got to see two of the three listed, and I'm

911
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: so happy I did. I have to say, though the

912
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Speaker 1: energy at Kyle's last game was powerful, the brawl was

913
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: more laughable than anything is laughable because you ain't never

914
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Speaker 1: been in one, Eliza. I'm taking a chance, I'm gonna

915
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: go out on LAMB and say, Eliza has never been

916
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: in one. That ain't no laughing matter. When you're down

917
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: there against that concrete wall in that corner of the

918
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: end zone and there's Haymakers getting thrown and the intensities

919
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: off the Listen. I've been in some fights on football

920
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: and it's a death match and the only thing that's

921
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: keeping it from doing that is the equipment. I'm telling you,

922
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: it is one ugly scene in the bottom of one

923
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: of those pots. And I tell I've said that Satan

924
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Speaker 1: lives at the bottom of an NFL pile. And when

925
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: that when that fight busted out, uh, nobody is. Nobody's

926
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: got huggy, touchy feely, and nobody's laughing. Let me just

927
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: tell you that right now, nobody is laughing, and you

928
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: can say what you want. It was memorable and we

929
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: can laugh about it now. Shaq Lawson probably will get

930
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Speaker 1: to a point in his life where you can laugh

931
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: about it. And we're watching highlights on on MSG right now.

932
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: But oh see, there's a yeah. Fournett comes in and

933
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: starts swinging taking haymakers. It was it was big. It

934
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: was a great moment, and I think it was one

935
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Speaker 1: thing time when not only did the team show what

936
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: it was made of. And another time was this this

937
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Speaker 1: week when Kiko Alonso came in and hit Josh late

938
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: and the scrum that ensued after that. You can't let

939
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: that slide if you're the Buffalo Bills. And I think

940
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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with this team showing its

941
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: identity like that. Just laughing about the walk up to

942
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: the tunnel. Two yeah, the two of them converted. Yeah,

943
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: let's walk these two guys that just brawl. Let's walk

944
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: up side by side up the time the plays down here,

945
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: way down at the end of the field, and the

946
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: more interesting action was going out over here. They walk

947
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: up the tunnel. Look at that was idiotic. Waiting. That

948
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: was bad. But listen, I like what they always say,

949
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,439
Speaker 1: and I think there's something to it that a team

950
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: will take the personality of its head coach. They'll they'll,

951
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: you know, his stamp will be on the team. Yet

952
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: And Sean McDermott was a rough wrestler, which is one

953
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: of the tough, scrappy kind of sports you can do

954
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: as an individual, and I think this team showed it

955
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: a couple of occasions, the brawl against Jacksonville and the

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00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: scrum after Josh gott hit late this last weekend. K

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00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: There's been some other things too, and I like it

958
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: that they don't back down. It's a I want to

959
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound, you know, like a pig.

960
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: It's a man's game. It's a man's game. Their fights

961
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: and there are bad feelings, and there's chippiness, and they're

962
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: short tempers and all things that make men great. Right,

963
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: So I'm being snarky, but listen it it was. It's

964
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: pretty cool to see the team's attitude and identity come

965
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: together around some pretty key young players six and ten.

966
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: They seem like there are more memorable moments than one

967
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: might think for a six and ten team, right, I

968
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot. I've told you, man, this is

969
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: when it's fun when your team's getting better and better,

970
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 1: because now they're always exceeding what they've done before there

971
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: was getting better. They're always more exciting to watch there

972
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: you're seeing something you haven't seen before. When you get good,

973
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: and even when you get good and you go to

974
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you don't you know you you kind of

975
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: Their expectations are different here. It's always a pleasant surprise

976
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: and that gives that makes it fun. We're gonna break.

977
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: We're back with more. What do you think the most

978
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: memora a moment, the best moment of the Bill's twenty

979
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: eighteen season. Give us a call. We'll get you down

980
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: the here and talk about it. Shooting in by a

981
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: Twitter and maybe voting in our Twitter poll. We're gonna

982
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: talk more about this as the afternoon rolls along. Come

983
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: on back One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on

984
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show. One Goes

985
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker here

986
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: at one Buffalo in our one Buffalo studio. Happy to

987
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 1: have you back. Well, Steve, let's take some phone calls.

988
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: What do you say? All right? Make them good ones? Though.

989
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. The biggest moment of

990
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: the season. How about Charlie and Buffalo. What do you

991
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: got Charlie? Oh, happy New Year guys? What I got, thanks, Charlie?

992
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: John is so is when we went to Minnesota and

993
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: we did to them a national television all and what

994
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: we did New York when we went to New York

995
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: and played the Judts, and what we did to them there.

996
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: We left all the big experts that do nothing but

997
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: deadmouth area of the badmouth our football team. We left

998
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: them speechless with their foot their mouth. And next it

999
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: made me to laugh out of anything out of this

1000
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: whole year. That's all I got to say, guys, And

1001
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: it does kind of And I know this too. There's

1002
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of we live on Twitter. I mean we

1003
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: do it because everything that happens happens first on Twitter

1004
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: because somebody tweets it out and you hear about it, right,

1005
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: So you spend so much time on it every you

1006
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: always hear the criticisms because it's a snark machine. But

1007
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: it's hard to look back at it and feel like

1008
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: the Bills got less than a number seven overall picked

1009
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: value for the guy they picked at quarterback. I mean

1010
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people, even Bills fans, and

1011
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: I get it too. I mean, we all had the

1012
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: guy we thought they wanted to draft, or we wanted

1013
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: them to draft, and all that they picked Josh Allen.

1014
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: And remember the night of the draft, we were sitting

1015
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: right here and all we heard about was like they

1016
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: got the wrong guy. They got the wrong guy that

1017
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: got them everybody, but there was a you know, those

1018
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: are the people that that spout off. Those the people

1019
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: that were mad that they didn't get Darnald or Mayfield

1020
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: or Rosen. Remember there's a lot of Rosen fans out there,

1021
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, whoever it was, Mason Rudolph the guy the

1022
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers finally got later on now and even when

1023
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: they got in, Oh, he's only complete and fifty two percent.

1024
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: You know, his completion percentage is lower. He's listen right now,

1025
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: this is Twitter. We write this down Jay Twitter poll.

1026
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 1: Do you feel like they got the right guy now?

1027
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: Do you feel like they didn't make a pretty good choice? Now,

1028
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: maybe he's not the best guy of the bunch. Maybe

1029
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield you think he's going to be a better

1030
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: quarterback long term. I don't know, but man, oh man,

1031
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: it was pretty fun to be a part of all that,

1032
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: right and now four and a half months later, things

1033
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: don't look too bad. No, they don't. That's like when

1034
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: I was at Northwestern University. I got there, they were

1035
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: and thirty one before I got there. Over the last

1036
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: previous three years, my college team. I transferred from a

1037
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: community college go to Northwestern. Over the last three years

1038
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: before that, they were oh and thirty one. Picture that Murph.

1039
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: We get there and we start oh and three. So

1040
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: it's so it's oh and thirty four. We set the

1041
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: NCAA record for consecutive losses at Northwestern. Dennis Green was

1042
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: the head coach, my head coach at college, right, the

1043
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: former Vikings head coach. We go three and eight that year.

1044
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: It was the happiest three and eight bank would of

1045
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: all time, right, And it's kind of where we're sitting

1046
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Six and ten, Hey, number nine overall

1047
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: pick we got that guy and this guy and these

1048
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: guys over here, and we got Yeah, it's not too bad. Yeah,

1049
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: nobody's happy about six and ten. No, but you know what,

1050
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy about where we're headed. There's I don't

1051
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: think it's a dot on the horizon anymore, you know,

1052
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: I don't think where we're going is just a some

1053
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: fairy tale thing that's over the horizon and some fairy

1054
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: land that we haven't seen before. I think we're pulling

1055
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: into town, you know, I think were the city limits, right,

1056
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: I hope? So yeah, So that's what it feels like.

1057
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: I mean, we may not. I mean we you know,

1058
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: this whole thing could blow up in our face him

1059
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: in a heartbeat, right, but because we've seen it happen

1060
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: to other teams. But you know, it's you sit here

1061
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: and you think, well, you know, and I don't. I

1062
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: got off on this because you know there's there's some

1063
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: because of a snark on Twitter in recent Yeah, Charlie says, Hey,

1064
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I was laughing at all the people. It's hard to

1065
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: be a Josh Allen hater these days. We show up

1066
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and Josh's hurdling guys six to four, and

1067
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: he comes out and he's throwing for three touchdowns and

1068
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: running for two. At the end of the year and

1069
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: he's literally the best player on the field for either team.

1070
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: Hard to say that was a dumb pick. Oh yeah,

1071
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: and there are people who did. Yeah. Here's a call

1072
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: from Terry and Billings, Montana. Hello, Terry, Terry and Billings, Montana.

1073
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: Are you there, Terry, Terry got tired of it'd be

1074
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: my bed going on and on. Try it again. Nods. Okay,

1075
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: let's go to a Yeah, sorry Terry, Gary on a

1076
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 1: cell phone, Go ahead, Gary, Hey, guys, how y'all doing good?

1077
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: Like I want to get back. If you don't mind

1078
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: about the coach, Yeah, go ahead, Arizona. Yeah, you guys,

1079
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna hire you wilt get fired. Unfortunately, you're gonna

1080
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: hire them. You gotta give m a chance that that

1081
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: roster's worth thing ours. In my eyes, I thought that

1082
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: was like one of the worst rosters the end of

1083
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: the season. Maybe we were up there a come on

1084
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: dead money, but I mean, Arizona, what they got fading

1085
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: with Caesar and a running back, that's about it. I

1086
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: mean Rosen, you know everyone, I'm not a Rosenator. Actually

1087
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: I was one of them. Thought we should have drafted Rosen.

1088
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got Jock that on now. Yeah, but

1089
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, I was a big Wilsen fan. Gary. It's

1090
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: hard to even it's hard to even evaluate how good

1091
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: Rosen could be. Right, what I mean, they didn't give

1092
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: him the I don't think they gave them off of

1093
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: the players. Maybe the staff, I'm not sure what's off

1094
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: of the corner was well. I mean, come on, you

1095
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: gotta give him a tool, the coach the tool, and

1096
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: some players two years. You can't have built within a

1097
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: one year, you know, in ten games. Come on, man,

1098
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got n Normant and that they're giving

1099
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: him the time. You know, that's a smart move. I agree, Yeah,

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00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. That's a good call. Gary, And

1101
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, you look at the Arizona Carls. Oh, listen.

1102
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: I don't spend time studying their roster, but you know

1103
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 1: how good and talented can that roster be having the

1104
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 1: kind of season they had. Now, maybe you might maybe

1105
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 1: in years down the road, we find out that maybe

1106
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: it was the players behind the scenes going back channel,

1107
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: saying listen, this is maybe telling the ownership, hey, this

1108
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: is not the guy. I have not heard that. I

1109
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,720
Speaker 1: have not heard that. I have not heard any inkling.

1110
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: That's maybe like a Larry Fitzgerald or whatever went to

1111
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: Steve Kim or or Bill or Jim Bidwell and went

1112
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: the owner and said, hey, this guy's not going to

1113
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: get it done. This is not that. I haven't heard

1114
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: any of that, and I haven't heard it during the season.

1115
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: I have not heard anything untowards about what Steve Wilkes

1116
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: or the job he was trying to do or trying

1117
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: to get done. Maybe he'll come out in years down

1118
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: the road I doubt it. I don't think there was

1119
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: anything other than what we're looking at to evaluate Steve wilkeson.

1120
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: So there's always that chance, But no, I think this

1121
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: was just a you know, an organization that seems to

1122
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: be a little bit dysfunctional at the present moment. All Right,

1123
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: we gotta break here. We're back with more One Goes

1124
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: Live from One Goes Drive, and this is Buffalo Bills

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00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: Radio Low Bills Radio Network Sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1126
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: The report that offensive line coach run game coordinator Wine

1127
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: Castillo has been let go by the Buffalo Bills. That

1128
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: confirmed on our show about an hour ago by general

1129
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: manager at Brandon Bean. Bills had a rough time running

1130
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: the football this past year twenty first in the NFL

1131
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 1: and yards Kirk Carey four point two four wand Castio

1132
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: let go after one year. Gestillo and Sean McDermott had

1133
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: worked together in Philadelphia under Andy Reid from two thousand

1134
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: and one through two ten. Guessio was the offensive line coach,

1135
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: McDermot the team's defensive coordinator. Guestio hired by Sean McDermot

1136
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: a year ago, and now he has gone reportedly and

1137
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: confirmed let go by the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen, Bill's

1138
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: quarterback has been named the AFC Offensive Player of the

1139
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: Week for his performance against the Dolphins. Five touchdowns produced

1140
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: three through the air two in the ground, the most

1141
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: via Bill's quarterbacks since Jim Kelly through for five touchdowns

1142
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one. Around the league, coaching interviews are underway.

1143
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: The Jets conducting their first head coaching interview today in

1144
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: Kansas City, talking with Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric b Enemy.

1145
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: He's also meeting me the Bucks today. He's a popular candidate.

1146
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have the number one offense. Also, he comes

1147
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: from the Andy Reid coaching tree. Also, former Texas Tech

1148
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: head coach Cliff Kingsbury has been with the New York

1149
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: Jets and the Arizona Cardinals interviewing for a head coaching

1150
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: job there. Those interviews come just about a month after

1151
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: Kingsbury was named the offensive coordinator at USC interviewing with

1152
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Jets regarding their vacant head coaching positions.

1153
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: Around the league, Detroit Lions are moving on from offensive

1154
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: coordinator Jim Bob Cooter. He'd been the Lions offensive coordinator

1155
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 1: for the last three and a half seasons and remained

1156
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: with the team during the transition from former head coach

1157
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: Jim Caldwell to Matt Patricia. Jacksonville Jaguars fired a couple

1158
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: of coaches, including running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley and three

1159
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: more assistant coaches. That happened last night. A lot of

1160
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: the problems with Jacksonville centering around Leonard Fournette. Buffalo Sabers

1161
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: returning to practice today without injured captain Jack Eichel left

1162
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: Monday's game against the Islanders after four shifts with an

1163
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: upper body injury. He had a maintenance day yesterday as

1164
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: the team skated Monday morning prior to the game. Maintenance

1165
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: day from practice on Sunday, skated with the team Monday,

1166
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: got hurt in Monday's game. They not practice yesterday. He

1167
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: did not practice today. The Sabers home tomorrow night against

1168
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: who him against he the Florida Panthers. Panthers, are you

1169
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: worried about Jack Ichael Steve Sabers mister worried about the

1170
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: Sabers without him? Yeah, I was at the game the

1171
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: other night. Man. He disappeared from the bench and I

1172
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: was like, what's wrong with this? What? What's going on

1173
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: with our team, and all of a sudden, I looked down.

1174
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: He's not on the bench. He's nowhere to be seeing panic.

1175
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: I get it. Um, they need him. I mean, there's

1176
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: no question about he's the best guy on their squad

1177
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys get their pen chemistry from him,

1178
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 1: and gush, darn it. I want to see him play.

1179
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: I mean, right you tomorrow night home, yeah, Florida tomorrow night. Yeah.

1180
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 1: Different set up for me that I'm going with some friends.

1181
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: So what do you normally go with enemies? My son? Oh, okay,

1182
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: I got invited. Actually I'm a guest. Oh, they got

1183
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: they got some tickets and so it's my buddy and

1184
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: his wife and me and mine and we're gonna go excellent. Yeah, yeah,

1185
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: a little dinner beforehand. For dinner, we'll talk about that,

1186
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: all right, we'll talk about Nobody wants to hear about that.

1187
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: You do, but if nobody else does, Welcome to the show.

1188
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: We're here for two hours. Coming up at the bottom

1189
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: of this hour, we're going to preview the Chargers Baltimore

1190
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: Ravens playoff game. Dennis Pitta, former Baltimore Ravens tight end,

1191
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: one of their broadcast team members. He will join us

1192
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: at one thirty two o'clock. Andrew Brandt from He covers

1193
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 1: the business side of the NFL. A lot of business

1194
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: going on, as you heard us talk about the coaching

1195
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: moves around the league, the Bills again Brandon being confirming

1196
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: that Wandcast is out as offensive line coach. No other

1197
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: moves announced by the Buffalo Bills. We'll see if anything

1198
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: else happens. Maybe it happens this week. And we want

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Speaker 1: to know from you, what was your best memory, your

1200
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: best moment of the twenty eighteen Bills season. We have

1201
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: a Twitter poll up asking that questions with a couple

1202
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: of suggestions, the best moment of the Bills twenty eighteen season.

1203
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: What do you think it was? You have thoughts on that?

1204
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three five fifty toll

1205
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1206
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: Want to get Terry in Billings, Montana on the line.

1207
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: I accidentally lost you earlier. Terry, Welcome to the show.

1208
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for being patient. Yeah, Steve, thanks for putting me on.

1209
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: I well, actually Terry, I'm the one who clicked the

1210
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 1: button to put you on. Okay, thanks, you're welcome. Yeah,

1211
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: I played quarterback at Wyoming a million years ago. But

1212
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: I watched Steve or Josh played quarterback for twenty five

1213
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: games at Wyoming. He only had a career lasting twenty

1214
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: five games. And fans need to understand that two Wyoming

1215
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: never threw the ball between the hash marks while Josh

1216
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: was at Wyoming until finally when we beat Boise State,

1217
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: they threw to the tight end up the middle. It

1218
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: gave us the win and put us in the championship game,

1219
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: and I was deliriously happy they finally did it. No

1220
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: one was there to help him with these quarterback skills.

1221
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: And so what's your point about Josh with the Buffalo

1222
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: Bills Terry, Well, it's just that I think he takes

1223
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism about things that he didn't really

1224
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: have any control over at Wyoming. Gotcha, what do you

1225
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: think of that, Steve, It's probably true. I've heard I

1226
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: say it too. I talked to my boy. Uh, I

1227
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: don't know if he's my boy or I'm his boy.

1228
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: Bill phil Simms when he was doing the analyst job,

1229
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: better straightened that out. He goes which one of us,

1230
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: He told me, he goes listening, he goes. I like

1231
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: he likes Josh Allen did like before the draft, and

1232
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: he when he watched tape of Wyoming, he noticed the

1233
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: same things that Terry told us when he just called

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00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: Wyoming was asking Josh Allen and makes some throws nobody

1235
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: else could make. It affected his completion percentage, but it

1236
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: also was a nod to how much how physically gifted

1237
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: the kid was. They asked him to make throws nobody

1238
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: else could make, which meant the defense had to defend

1239
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 1: throws that nobody else could make. So his out let

1240
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: throw on a number of occasions with the wide hash

1241
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,439
Speaker 1: mark was twelve yard deep out on the far side

1242
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: of the field. That was his outlet after he going

1243
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: through his progression. So it wasn't like he was getting

1244
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: very many It wasn't getting very many easy completions. You

1245
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: look at a guy like and this is phil Simms Tarry.

1246
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: This is all stuff he told me that he got

1247
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: by watching the films he goes, you get Baker Mayfield.

1248
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: He threw one hundred little whip screens, quick screens, screen

1249
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: passes to his receivers over the course of a year,

1250
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 1: Josh through twenty five. It's just in that's like to

1251
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: a game that inflates a completion percentage. So you for

1252
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: the things that that Josh got come criticized for the Terry,

1253
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 1: the caller from Wyoming just or Billings, Billings, Montana, just

1254
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: called in to said and he goes I was it

1255
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: was corroborated by an NFL analyst, Phil Simms, whom and

1256
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: Terry said he played quarterback at Wyoming twenty five years

1257
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: ago or so. So yeah, there's there's that out there.

1258
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons to think Josh is going

1259
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: to be the guy, notwithstanding what we've seen already from

1260
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: him as a Buffalo Bill. So yeah, it was a

1261
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: good call by Terry and it and it was bolstered

1262
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: by what I had already heard from other guys. Well,

1263
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: it was the best moment of the Bills season. That

1264
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 1: just ended Kevin and Hamburg on the line with the

1265
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: thought on that Kevin, what do you have? How are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Okay? Um? I think the best part of

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01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: the seat is after the Bear game. Um, we really

1268
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: didn't suffer any more massacres. I mean, we lost the

1269
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: Pats by twelve, which is pretty good for them, because

1270
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 1: these murderers like forty to fourteen sometimes. So I think

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01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: that we returned it around because the judge really lost

1272
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: by four or five the Dolphins by three or four,

1273
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: and those two games should not have been lost. Right, Yeah,

1274
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: well that's what that's what it should feel when you lose.

1275
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: Murph especially listen that it didn't always feel like that

1276
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: whenever you lose again. I remember feeling this when when

1277
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: I was on those really good teams. You never felt

1278
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: like you should have lost the game ever. Ever, well,

1279
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 1: this team wasn't that talented, obviously. You know the interesting

1280
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: part about the schedule. We were looking at it the

1281
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: other day, I think you were in the room. We

1282
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: were talking about how first nine games this year the

1283
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: Bills lost six. No, the Bills played six playoff teams

1284
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: currently and lost to them all in the first nine.

1285
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: So they played three non playoff teams, six playoff teams

1286
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: in the first nine games and lost to everyone. Of

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Speaker 1: the last seven games two and seven, right, yeah, were

1288
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: they two and seven? Yeah? Okay, the last seven games

1289
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: of the year, they played one playoff team, the Patriots,

1290
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: and they won three of the four of those. Yeah,

1291
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: they didn't beat They won four in the final seven games.

1292
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: So the schedule flipped for the Bills. Remember we talked

1293
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: about it even before the season. There were more home

1294
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: games on the back end, there were more manageable games

1295
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: on the back end of the season, and it showed.

1296
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: And then then the victories they were getting you all right, right,

1297
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: six playoff teams in the first nine opponents and just

1298
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: one in the final seven. It showed it played out

1299
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, but I don't think there's any question

1300
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: that is untalented as the roster was for the Bills,

1301
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: are unproven anyway. Um, they were really really competitive with

1302
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: everybody who they found their level. I mean, let's face it,

1303
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: and they weren't a team that you expect to go

1304
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: deep into the playoffs this year, and they you know,

1305
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: and team, and I think it says something that, like

1306
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: you said, even the games they lost in those four

1307
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: out of those seven, get three out of those seven games,

1308
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: even those games they lost, you felt like we should

1309
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: have had that. Yeah, not a competitive in you know,

1310
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: early half of the season against the Ring they weren't

1311
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: very good. They not against the Colts, not against the Texans. Well,

1312
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: the Texans they were competitive Chicago, Chicago Colts. And the

1313
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: caller mentioned that Chicago, Yeah, not competitive. We remember we

1314
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: were talking today the negator of this whole thing, this

1315
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: whole process of getting trying to get to where they were.

1316
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: I think it was the Chicago game, the Colts in Chicago,

1317
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: right around there when the quarterbacks were injured. Josh wasn't

1318
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: playing and they were trying to find you know, they

1319
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: played Derek Anderson through two of them and he you know,

1320
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: he was here in town for two weeks before, and

1321
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: then the same thing with Matt Barkley and that that

1322
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: extended it a little bit, I think, and you look

1323
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: back at it's like, wow, it was bad. It was bad.

1324
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: We were talking to each other. I don't know, we

1325
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:11,919
Speaker 1: didn't say it really that much on the air. Maybe

1326
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 1: we did, but that was the nature of this whatever

1327
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: rebuild you think it is. But since that time and

1328
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: Josh got back on the field after his injury, elbow injury,

1329
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: this has been the funnest team to watch in twenty

1330
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: years in Buffalo. I think it's been the most fun

1331
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: of any team you can watch in the last two decades.

1332
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:32,959
Speaker 1: I've already thought about that, but I think it's true.

1333
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: This has been a fun team to watch. And yeah,

1334
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's like the expectations are growing and the

1335
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 1: fun is growing and the like the eye can't take

1336
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: my eyes off this team. Thought the feeling has been growing,

1337
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been great to see and I

1338
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: think but that's where it was. It was just like

1339
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: like the caller said, it was like that Chicago game

1340
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 1: was when it was so dark and it was you know,

1341
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: Josh wasn't gonna play and they didn't know who was

1342
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: going to start at quarterback. Wow, it was rough. Yeah,

1343
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: it was bad. It was rough. What was the best

1344
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: moment for you with The Bill's twenty eighteen season? Here

1345
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: is Steve and Albany. Go ahead, Steve, Welcome to the show.

1346
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 1: Hey guys, Happy new year. How is everything going great? Good? Good?

1347
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: So I have what my favorite my best moment was

1348
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: for twenty eighteen and actually leads to a question for

1349
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. And one of the big things for me

1350
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: was how polarizing of a quarterback prospect Josh Allen was

1351
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: going into twenty eighteen and just doing the eye test

1352
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 1: overall myself watching the whole season, and I think the

1353
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: best moment was seeing Josh Allen's growth, you know, seeing

1354
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: him be the type of leader on the sidelines and

1355
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: chatting up his team to just knowing that the kid

1356
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: wants to be great, and I think that's rare. I

1357
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: think that's rare and NFL players nowadays is you know,

1358
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: you have guys that might want to be good NFL

1359
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: players or have their own goals of you know, where

1360
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: they want to be, but to be great or to

1361
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: fulfill a legacy I think puts people on different levels.

1362
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: And it kind of leads me into twenty nineteen and

1363
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 1: seeing what some of these kids might have that mentality

1364
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: in mindset, like maybe a Robert Foster or a Tremaine Edmonds.

1365
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: And I guess my question is is, and this comes

1366
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 1: to you, Steve, is how important is that? And isn't

1367
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: that maybe one of the things that we should be

1368
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: looking at Not so much the cap space or not

1369
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: so much what we're gonna do in free agency or

1370
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: the draft next year, but what about the growth of

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01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: the current kids on the team, the guys like the

1372
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds that might already have that mindset or mentality

1373
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:31,479
Speaker 1: did not just be a good player, but to create

1374
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 1: a legacy, the Josh Allens and maybe other people within

1375
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: the roster that want to be great. Steve, that is

1376
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: the only thing that's important. I mean, that is the

1377
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: only perhaps not important free agency. I'm talking about the mentality,

1378
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: the only thing that's important. If you get a guy

1379
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: that wants to be the greatest, if he wants to

1380
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: be as great as he can be, that's the only

1381
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: thing that is important. And it's hard to find out

1382
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: because you can't find out until if it really is

1383
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: the truth, he can say it all he wants, and

1384
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: all these guys are trained to say it. I just

1385
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 1: want to be the best I can be, or you know,

1386
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 1: I that's it. Because here's the thing that when you

1387
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: find out about guys like Carlos Williams about four years ago,

1388
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: he was a kid that came out and splashed big

1389
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 1: time for the Buffalo Bills. His goal was to play

1390
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, the problem with that is he

1391
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: did it. He played in the NFL, and his goal

1392
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: was reached and he had nothing more to motivate him.

1393
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: And he's out of the league the next year and

1394
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 1: has never been back. Once you reach your goal, everything

1395
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 1: goes away. And that's that mentality of I've got to

1396
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: be the best I can be. I've got to be

1397
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. I've got to be something

1398
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: that is that is still out there. No matter how

1399
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: good you play, no matter how good you are, no

1400
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 1: matter how statistically great you are, how many championships you win.

1401
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: If that goal is still out there, you will still

1402
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: be motivated. You'll never reach it, and that's that is

1403
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: the difference. The desire to be the greatest is the

1404
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: most underrated thing of an NFL player. You've got guys

1405
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: who like guys like me. I had no you know.

1406
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: I people told me I would never do it, you know.

1407
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: And it's not just proving them wrong. It's about being

1408
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: the best you can be and being a part of

1409
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: something bigger than yourself. You've got to have a motivation

1410
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 1: in your life that is further than you'll ever reach,

1411
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: because then you'll never stop being motivated. You've seen a

1412
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: ton of times Marcel Darius he wanted to sign the

1413
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: big contract. His goal was to get to his second contract. Well,

1414
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: if that was his goal, he got there, and he's

1415
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: taken it out of gear and taking his foot off

1416
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: the gas ever since. He is not the player he

1417
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: was when he got that contract, and he hasn't been

1418
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: and he probably never will be. That motivation that puts

1419
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: those that's out there ahead of those guys. Is the

1420
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: only thing that these guys look for. The physical ability's

1421
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: already there. I mean, that's the easy but they can

1422
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: measure that. What they can't measure is what motivates this guy.

1423
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's the right things, and sometimes it's not.

1424
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you hand that guy that first check, he's

1425
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: never the same. And that's that's the great problem for

1426
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: NFL gms and in gems in every sport. Question of

1427
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: the day, what was the best moment for you of

1428
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,720
Speaker 1: the bill twenty eighteen season. We'll talk about it on

1429
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: the phone lines at eight oh three five fifty two

1430
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1431
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: On the tweet sheet from Nicholas Karia best moment for

1432
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen Bills, he says, Josh Allen jumping like

1433
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 1: a gazelle over a would be defender against the Vikings.

1434
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: He wasn't that would be he was a defender and

1435
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: Josh jumped over him. And he goes on to say

1436
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: someone actually got a tattooed on their body. He jumped

1437
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: over the linebacker running down field, got a big pick

1438
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: up on it. A play that immediately everybody said, oh,

1439
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: great play, don't do it again. It was a tremendous play.

1440
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: Somebody liked it so much they got a tattooed on

1441
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: their body, which is pretty amazing. That's really was that

1442
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: somebody's shoulder play somebody check of his shoulder. Yeah, that's

1443
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: uh yeah, you gotta yeah, there's a there's a you

1444
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: can't have it. You can't deny you're a fan if

1445
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: you get the tattoo. I mean you can. You can

1446
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: doubt your intelligence, but you can't doubt you're a fan.

1447
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: Here's one more from the sheet from j W. Sox.

1448
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: How can it be any other game but Kyle's retirement game.

1449
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: We didn't ask for the best game. We asked for

1450
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 1: the greatest moment. But how could it be? JW. Socks?

1451
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 1: How could it be any of the game but Kyle's

1452
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: retirement game? The game was great. It made every Bills

1453
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: fan feel good about the future. The retirement of Kyle

1454
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: made you think about family and maybe if you're a

1455
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: little older like myself, had brought a tear to your eye.

1456
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I got a little choked up.

1457
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: Kyle's out there greeting his family both before and after

1458
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: the game. The game was fun. It went back and forth.

1459
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: The Bills had a big lead, it got away, they

1460
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: came back, played great in the second half. Yeah, look,

1461
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: you don't have to convince me that that was the

1462
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: best moment of the season. Kyle's retirement came. But there

1463
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: are others too, right, we want to hear from you.

1464
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:45,640
Speaker 1: Some people think it was Josh Allen jumping over the

1465
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: linebacker in Minnesota. Maybe something else. I don't know. What

1466
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: would you vote for? Kyle's game? Is the best Moment's deep? Well? Right,

1467
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: there were some good moments. It's hard great moments. Yeah,

1468
01:09:56,120 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: it was halftime ceremony was spect time ceremony was really big.

1469
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:06,560
Speaker 1: I love that one. I like Josh's hurdle. I like

1470
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,600
Speaker 1: that throw against the jaguar. I love the brawl. I

1471
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: also liked the Keiko Alonso scrap after he took a

1472
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: cheap shot on the quarterback. There's a ton of stuff

1473
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:20,719
Speaker 1: I loved. There's and there's some other stuff that people

1474
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: also now from a Terror Winner suite. Way too difficult

1475
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: to distill into one moment, and I think some people

1476
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: are getting caught up in that. He says, way too

1477
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: difficult to distill into one moment. Our hearts and minds

1478
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: are full with Kyle's last game on Sunday, but the

1479
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: Jags brawl was epic, lit a fire under the team.

1480
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: Josh's deep ball to Foster for the TD was awesome.

1481
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: I was skeptical about number seventeen initially, but I'm one

1482
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: hundred percent all in now, and I think a lot

1483
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: of people are in that boat. Because he had to

1484
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: be skeptical. We've how many guys have they drafted, oh

1485
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: my quarterbacks over the years, right, aren't we all just

1486
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: a little bit jaded about another JP lost or I

1487
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: would say gay manuel or skeptical, I think means you

1488
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: expect a negative thing. I thought, Okay, here's the next guy.

1489
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 1: Let's see what he's got. Ye, Skeptical is probably not

1490
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: the accurate word. It's although some people were, Oh many

1491
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 1: people were. I was. I think you and I were

1492
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 1: both like, okay, we'll see. You know, we didn't know

1493
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,680
Speaker 1: we were we were unsure for sure, for certain, I

1494
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: mean we just we were sure certain, we were certain

1495
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: in our uncertainty, right, and so knowing full well that

1496
01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: any one of those five was a bit of a crapshoot, right,

1497
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: did you know that Baker Mayfield was going to be

1498
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 1: that good. I didn't know that. Listen, the five of

1499
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: the guys, A couple of them, three, four, all of them,

1500
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,960
Speaker 1: you could still go to the Hall of Fame, and

1501
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,560
Speaker 1: they could all still I mean, anything could happen. You know,

1502
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: we've seen they could all get derailed for a million

1503
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: different reasons. But you know, a couple of them, two

1504
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: or three of them look good already, right, yeah, four

1505
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: of them and there it's one year in. Rosen is

1506
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: the only guy that maybe he's like and you know what,

1507
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: he's on a bad team. Yeah, but Lamar Lamar Jackson's

1508
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs. He's the starting quarterback on a

1509
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: playoff team. Baker Mayfield went six and one over his

1510
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 1: six and two over his last eight games with an

1511
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: interim head coach Sam Darnold. I mean, you and I

1512
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: both thought he looked really good when he played against

1513
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: the Bills and Josh good grief. He was the best

1514
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: player on the on the field in every game we

1515
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 1: saw him play this year, or not every game, but

1516
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: these last four or five games, he was the best

1517
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: player on the field for either team. I mean, this

1518
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: is it's been a fun quarterback class. Yeah, it's been

1519
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: really fun. And I can't I can't wait. I can't

1520
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: wait to see all of them play. I want to

1521
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: see Lamar Jackson play. Let's see yeah next year's I

1522
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,719
Speaker 1: want to see if he can keep going because he's

1523
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: a running quarterback. He's playing. He's playing old nineteen eighties

1524
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Sooner triple option quarterback and they're winning. We're gonna

1525
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: talk about him with our next guest coming up after

1526
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Take a break for the Bills.

1527
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: Talk about the playoff on Baltimore Ravens. That's how the

1528
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo season began. At dreary, rainy day in Baltimore. We'll

1529
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: talk with Dennis Pitta, radio broadcast analysts on the Baltimore

1530
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 1: Ravens Radio network. He joins us when we come back

1531
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio.

1532
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bial's Live from One Bill's Drive, John

1533
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: Murphy Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo studio on a cold,

1534
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: blustery day in Orchard Park. Playoffs start this weekend. They

1535
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:41,959
Speaker 1: start without the Bills, obviously Indian Houston for thirty on Saturday,

1536
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: Seattle and Dallas eight fifteen Saturday Night Sunday, the late

1537
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: game Philadelphia at Chicago, the early game, one that really

1538
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: intrigues me, one oh five pm in Baltimore. The Chargers

1539
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: and the Baltimore Ravens talk about that game. We've got

1540
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: a man who played seven seasons with the Ravens in

1541
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:59,600
Speaker 1: the NFL A one Super Bowl. Let me do my

1542
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 1: seven with the Ravens in twenty thirteen. Part of their

1543
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: radio broadcast team. Happy to have former Ravens tight in

1544
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 1: Dennis Pitt on the line with us. Oh, Dennis, John

1545
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Task. You are in Buffalo, How are you?

1546
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you guys doing? Back to the well,

1547
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: back to the playoffs with the Ravens. It must be

1548
01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: a comfortable and familiar feeling for you and most of

1549
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 1: the people to follow Baltimore Ravens. Huh, well, yeah, I

1550
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: think that's always the standard when you talk about the

1551
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 1: Baltimore ravensh. You know, you look at the last handful

1552
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: of seasons and they've missed the postseason for the last

1553
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:30,640
Speaker 1: five years, and so that's been a tough pill for

1554
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: Ravens fans to swallow, certainly, and they're excited to be

1555
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: back in the playoffs and then see this team hopefully

1556
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 1: make a run. I mean, I don't know that there's

1557
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are playing better football right

1558
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: now than the Ravens. So there's a lot of excitement

1559
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: coming out of Baltimore. Yeah, and there was because it was,

1560
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: you know, in the offseason that happened after not getting

1561
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,160
Speaker 1: in the playoffs for that handful of years, that you

1562
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: mentioned John Horrball's job, you know, the owner was, you know,

1563
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems a long time ago now the

1564
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: owner was thinking about making a change, and now they're

1565
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: thinking about extending him. Not only going back to the playoffs,

1566
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: you're doing it with largely the work done by a

1567
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback and a running game in a defense. And

1568
01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 1: I think you've really got to give John Horball a

1569
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 1: lot of credit, do you not, Well, you do. And

1570
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: you look at where the Ravens were at midway through

1571
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: the season. They had their bye week, I think a

1572
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: week eight or week nine. They had just come off

1573
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: a three game losing streak. Joe Flacco was injured at

1574
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: the end of that losing streak going into the bye week,

1575
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 1: and all the reddick around Baltimore was this would probably

1576
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: be John Harbaugh's last year they weren't gonna ask him

1577
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: to come back for his final year on his contract.

1578
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 1: There certainly wasn't going to be an extension. Well, that

1579
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: certainly has changed. You insert Lamar Jackson and the job

1580
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: that coaching staff has done essentially completely changing their offensive

1581
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 1: philosophy and system mid season and tailoring around that young

1582
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and him playing at the level he has been

1583
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,640
Speaker 1: playing at over the last handful of weeks. What a

1584
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: coaching job and certainly, in my opinion, save John Harbaugh's job.

1585
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: And now they're working on an extension. And so how

1586
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: quickly things changed throughout the course of one season. Who

1587
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: gets credit for that turnaround in the offensive scheme Dennis Is,

1588
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 1: I imagine because I know him a little bit. Greg

1589
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: Roman might have had something to do with that. Huh, Yeah,

1590
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. And a lot of the run game,

1591
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: a lot of the the RPO zone read stuff, the

1592
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 1: play action stuff, a lot of that's what they used

1593
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: to do with Kaepernick in in San Francisco, and I

1594
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 1: think he did a little bit of that with Tyrod

1595
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: Taylor as well in Buffalo. And so that's a lot

1596
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: of his offense that he's bringing. And so Marty Morning

1597
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: Wig has done a great job of relying on Greg

1598
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 1: Roman and allowing him to implement some of those things

1599
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: that he's used with more mobile quarterbacks then they were

1600
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: using with Joe Flacco at the beginning of the year.

1601
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: And so it's really been a combination of those guys

1602
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: tweaking this offense and tailoring it to fit Lamar Jackson's strengths, because,

1603
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: like we've all seen, Lamar Jackson is a great runner.

1604
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: He's incredibly athletic. He relies on his legs a lot

1605
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: more than his arms, certainly, and it's paid dividends. This

1606
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 1: run game has been tremendous to the last handful of weeks.

1607
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: Can I ask you one more question about quarterbacks? And

1608
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: it's back to Joe Flacco for a second, Dennis, And

1609
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 1: it's two part question. What of his future? I know

1610
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: that's not paramount, that's not the top priority for the

1611
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,880
Speaker 1: Ravens right now, but what happens to Joe Flacco down

1612
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: the line? And how difficult was it to essentially bench

1613
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning quarterback there in Baltimore. Well, it's

1614
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 1: it's difficult to bench Joe, and I think it happened

1615
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more organically because they go into the

1616
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: bye week. Joe was injured in the game right before that.

1617
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: He needed three, four or five weeks to heal from

1618
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 1: a hip injury, and so Lamar Jackson was naturally inserted

1619
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: in replace of Joe, and Lamar just did enough to

1620
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: not give the job back up, and so once Joe

1621
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: was healthy, Yeah, there was a decision to be made,

1622
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 1: and it was probably difficult for the Ravens to do so.

1623
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been their long standing franchise quarterback

1624
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: for eleven seasons now, and to not reinsert him when

1625
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,799
Speaker 1: healthy and have him as a healthy backup, it was difficult,

1626
01:17:57,840 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure for a lot of people, and and certainly

1627
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: difficult for Joe. I think he talked about it in

1628
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: his press conference after that announcement, where he was disappointed.

1629
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: He wanted to play, he felt healthy enough to do so,

1630
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: but he understood the decision. Lamar was playing at a

1631
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,280
Speaker 1: high level. This team was rolling. They had won four

1632
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: or five games at that point, and so you just

1633
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 1: can't disrupt that at that point, and he understood that

1634
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: better than anyone. So is the Ravens head into the

1635
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:22,760
Speaker 1: playoffs and whether they go deep and go to the

1636
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning or not. The big question around the

1637
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:28,600
Speaker 1: NFL from the outside guys like us outside looking in,

1638
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: is how how is it that the Ravens can run

1639
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 1: this type of offense and have it be sustainable going forward?

1640
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: Is that possible? And it looks like going on the

1641
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: second month of it it is is that. I think

1642
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: that's the big question, not only around the NFL, but

1643
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:53,840
Speaker 1: even for Ravens fans in Baltimore and certainly within that organization.

1644
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: I think when they first implemented this dial of offense,

1645
01:18:57,400 --> 01:18:58,720
Speaker 1: there was a lot of nath There's a lot of

1646
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: people myself included that and think it was going to

1647
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: be sustainable. Thought defenses would quickly catch on be able

1648
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: to pack the box and really limit what Lamar was

1649
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: able to do with his legs and forced him to

1650
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: be a passer. But you know what, over the last

1651
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: six seven weeks, they've found ways to continue to make

1652
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: plays in the run game. Lamar is just so dynamic

1653
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 1: around the edge and his ability to keep the ball

1654
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: and get around the edge or even up the middle

1655
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: and all that has just really stretched defenses out and

1656
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:30,960
Speaker 1: kept them guessing. And I've called a lot of his

1657
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: games now and watching from the booth perspective. It's difficult

1658
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: to see who the ball carrier is from that perspective,

1659
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: and so you can imagine how difficult it is for

1660
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: a defender with lineman and everybody else in your face

1661
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 1: trying to identify who has the ball. There's so much

1662
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:48,679
Speaker 1: misdirection and things involved in this offense that it's very creative.

1663
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: And I think when you talk about sustainability, I don't

1664
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: think it's is this offense sustainable? I think the offensive

1665
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: system is sustainable. What isn't sustainable, in my opinion, is

1666
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:01,560
Speaker 1: the health of Lamar Jackson. I just don't think he

1667
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:06,280
Speaker 1: can get fifteen sixteen seventeen carries like he's getting right

1668
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:09,680
Speaker 1: now and remain healthy through an entire season. And so

1669
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: that part of it they're gonna have to scale back,

1670
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: in my opinion, because I understand how difficult it is

1671
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 1: in this league to take those kind of hits over

1672
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: and over and remain healthy. And so that's the part

1673
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 1: of it that I think you're going to have to

1674
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,479
Speaker 1: pay close attention to. Talking with Dennis Pitta, he played

1675
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: seven seasons in the league tight end with the Baltimore Ravens,

1676
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: not part of the radio broadcast team, Well, let's talk

1677
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: about more immediate concerns, Dennis, this Sunday one o'clock and

1678
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. You mentioned about Lamar Jackson getting

1679
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: outside the defensive ends. He's got a couple of good

1680
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: ones to look at here, Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa.

1681
01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: Handling those two might be the number one job for

1682
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens offense this week, wouldn't you think? Yeah, certainly,

1683
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: But you know, I think the style of offense at

1684
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: the Ravens play it eliminates the pass rush ability of

1685
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 1: those two edge rushers, because now you're just talking about

1686
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: a lot of RPOs where you're really reading those guys

1687
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: coming off the edge. If they fire at the quarterback

1688
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: and going to hand it off, if they try and

1689
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: come down the line and take out the running back,

1690
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: he'll get around the edge. And so those guys, I

1691
01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 1: think going against an offense like this, are less effective.

1692
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,400
Speaker 1: And listen, this is a team that these two teams

1693
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: played each other two weeks ago. They've been now very

1694
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 1: familiar with each other. The Ravens got the better of

1695
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers in LA, but now LA has to travel

1696
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: to Baltimore, and in LA arguably has been a better

1697
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 1: team away from their home stadium, if you can call

1698
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: it that, then they have been there, and so this

1699
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:33,800
Speaker 1: is going to be an interesting matchup, I think from

1700
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: my perspective, I think this is one of the more

1701
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: difficult matchups the Ravens could have had hosting a playoff

1702
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: game being the division winner. I mean, the Chargers arguably

1703
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,919
Speaker 1: are the first or second best team in the AFC,

1704
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: and now you have to host them in the first round.

1705
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: It that's a difficult matchup in my opinion. And now

1706
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: a team that's seen Lamar Jackson seeing their personnel work

1707
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: against him, and Lamar Jackson was very effective in that

1708
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:59,560
Speaker 1: game with his leg and so they didn't score a

1709
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: lot of points. They turned the ball over a couple

1710
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: of times, but he did a lot of things that

1711
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: moved the ball very effectively on that Chargers defenses. So

1712
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: I do think it plays to the Chargers advantage that

1713
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: they've seen him in live action now and they have

1714
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 1: a lot of tape on that and they can make

1715
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: adjustment and so it'll be a very interesting game. I

1716
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a very tough test for

1717
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens at home. Yeah, what is your take on

1718
01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: what teams will do to Lamar Jackson when they see

1719
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: him for a second time. What's the general feeling about

1720
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:29,840
Speaker 1: the strategy that you can anticipate. I mean again, I

1721
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 1: think you just have to try and force Lamar Jackson

1722
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: to be a pocket pass or however you can accomplish that.

1723
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: And I think it's it's more difficult to do than

1724
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: it is to say. Certainly because there's been a lot

1725
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 1: of tape on Lamar Jackson now for seven weeks that

1726
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 1: keeps have not been able to accomplish that. They have

1727
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:48,679
Speaker 1: not been able to slow him down on the ground.

1728
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: And like I mentioned, this ground game is not just

1729
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: your typical handoff one way or another ground game. I mean,

1730
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 1: there's so much misdirection. There's so much I don't want

1731
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: to say flight of hand, but ball handling that goes

1732
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,440
Speaker 1: on at the mesh point in the backfield that oftentimes

1733
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 1: you don't know who has the ball, and if it

1734
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,040
Speaker 1: is Lamar Jackson keeping it, he just stretches a defense

1735
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:11,639
Speaker 1: out and almost freezes the second level that linebackers because

1736
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 1: they have to honor him and they can't just fill

1737
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: those holes to stop the run. And so it's difficult.

1738
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: I think the chargers are going to have another challenge,

1739
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,640
Speaker 1: and I'm interested to see how they're going to try

1740
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,080
Speaker 1: and defend it. But if it were me, I would

1741
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:28,559
Speaker 1: recruit as many defenders as possible up to the line

1742
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, try and sloat on that run game and

1743
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: make him become a passer, make him throw the ball

1744
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: down field, and see if he can do it well

1745
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: enough and consistently enough to win the game. What kind

1746
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:41,879
Speaker 1: of challenges Philip Rivers present the number one ranked Baltimore

1747
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: Ravens defense Dennis Well two weeks ago, he didn't present

1748
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,639
Speaker 1: much of a challenge. He really struggled against that defense,

1749
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: and that front five of his offensive lineman did not

1750
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 1: give him a lot of time, did not give him protection.

1751
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: He had guys in his face all day. He was

1752
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: thrown off his back foot. He never looked comfortable that game.

1753
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: And he's got a ton of weapons. He's got a

1754
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,600
Speaker 1: lot of great receivers, big receivers now, a stable of

1755
01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 1: running backs that will be healthy coming into this game.

1756
01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a tough test because now again,

1757
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 1: this is the teams that played two weeks ago. There's

1758
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: it's fresh in their minds. They kind of know what

1759
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 1: to adjust what they're gonna do. They have to try

1760
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: and find a way to give Philip Rivers more time,

1761
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,160
Speaker 1: and if they could do that, he's going to be

1762
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,560
Speaker 1: dangerous like he always is. And so that's going to

1763
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: be their challenge though, because the Ravens defense there hasn't

1764
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: been a better defense over the last half of the season. Well,

1765
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:32,880
Speaker 1: it's setting up. It's a great game. I'm sure you're

1766
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 1: looking forward to that one. Then it's gonna be a

1767
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: fun game. I think, huh, I will be. Yeah, we're

1768
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 1: all excited. I think Baltimore is buzzing right now. There's

1769
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 1: a lot of energy and we're all excited to watch

1770
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: this one. Thank you, Dennis, thanks for being with us

1771
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: here today. We appreciate it. All right, Thanks guys, have

1772
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:48,799
Speaker 1: a good one. Dennis Pitted a long time a Ravens

1773
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: tight end and now the radio analysts on the Baltimore

1774
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 1: Ravens Radio Network joining us today on the Subway Fresh

1775
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Take Hotline, Subway Eat Fresh. I can't wait for that game.

1776
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my favorite game of the weekend. Steve.

1777
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: I think so. I like Philip Rivers. I've always thought

1778
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: he was a great player. He's a great quarterback. I

1779
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: think getting a first look at each other. I mean,

1780
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 1: this may be one of those games where it's like,

1781
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, six to three kind of game. I don't know.

1782
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:19,320
Speaker 1: I don't think Baltimore is going to be able to

1783
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: score a lot of points. But then they're that defensive.

1784
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:25,680
Speaker 1: There's is gonna make it tough for Philip Rivers to go.

1785
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: But you know, when they get a look at these teams,

1786
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: sometimes something will happen where a coaching staff will have

1787
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: something for a team the second time around that they

1788
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: don't have an answer for, and then it can get

1789
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: out of hand. We'll have to see it. And in

1790
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: my opinion, these second matchups of the season are all

1791
01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: about coaching staffs in their preparation, how they get it.

1792
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: I think it's less about the players more about the

1793
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 1: coaching staffs the second time around. Steve changing topics. You

1794
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:53,280
Speaker 1: remember a year ago when football was dying on TV.

1795
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,679
Speaker 1: The ratings were down. Everybody's worried. Yeah, football, the NFL's dead.

1796
01:25:56,760 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 1: Yeah right. We got some news on that just came

1797
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: across someone. We'll talk about return John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

1798
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health from one Bill's

1799
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: drive in. This is Buffalo Bills Radio in a hurry.

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01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 1: Now there's the snap, Alan packed the troll, gonna run

1801
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 1: it and keep it himself to the forty cheptober a

1802
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 1: man at the forty five and he gets the first

1803
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 1: down all the way up to the forty one yard line.

1804
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: One of the great moments of the Bills twenty eighteen season.

1805
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about today on a Twitter poll,

1806
01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:35,599
Speaker 1: talking about with you on the telephone lines, what were

1807
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: your favorite moment? What was your favorite moment? Let's limit

1808
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 1: it to one. Can you pick one? What was the

1809
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 1: best moment, not best game, that best win, the best

1810
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 1: moment for the Buffalo Bills in twenty eighteen. The season

1811
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 1: just ended. We've got a Twitter pole up on this

1812
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: and you can vote in on that at one. Bill's

1813
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: Live right now. More than two thirds of you say

1814
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:55,280
Speaker 1: the Kyle Williams final game was the best moment for

1815
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:59,560
Speaker 1: the Bill season. Fourteen percent say they brawl against the Jaguars,

1816
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,759
Speaker 1: ten percent say Thurman's retirement, uh, the halftime ceremony against

1817
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots, seven percent have something else. Give us a

1818
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: call eight three five fifty toll free one eight eight

1819
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty were on Twitter. What

1820
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 1: do you got? Eight? I was gonna ask you what

1821
01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: he said? What was your favorite? That's a tough one.

1822
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really liked Thurman's halftime retirement someone

1823
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:21,640
Speaker 1: in a in a in the middle of a disappointing

1824
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 1: game performance against the UH Patriots. But I'm trying to

1825
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: look I'm not trying to go against the crowd here,

1826
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: but I guess no, I'll go with that. I'll go

1827
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: with Kyle Williams Day, because you know what, everything was

1828
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 1: perfect from start to finish on Kyle Williams, Kyle Williams

1829
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,879
Speaker 1: Day on Sunday, right. The outcome was great, the pregame

1830
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: was great. Um, the post game, you know, Kyle walking

1831
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,679
Speaker 1: around the perimeter of the ring wall and shaking hands,

1832
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: his reaction I actually like last night for some reason,

1833
01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:53,280
Speaker 1: I watched his uh I didn't hadn't. I did not

1834
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 1: see it Sunday night, But his postgame comments at the

1835
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 1: podium fantastic. Um. Yeah, I'd go with that. I'm surprised that.

1836
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,639
Speaker 1: I'm more the voting isn't distributed a little more evenly

1837
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:04,759
Speaker 1: among the choices. Maybe we don't have the right choices

1838
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:06,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, but that's always a question because

1839
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: we only have four options and the other and there's

1840
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:13,080
Speaker 1: only what how many what percentage says something else other

1841
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,920
Speaker 1: than what we put up there, But um, you know

1842
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: that's I think I'm with you. I mean, I like

1843
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 1: the Kyle game for on a lot of different levels.

1844
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: Once the organization got it right, Kyle did it right.

1845
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 1: The game came out the proper way. He caught a pass,

1846
01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: they gave him a curtain call where they sent they

1847
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:33,560
Speaker 1: substituted in for him. The team stepped up on a

1848
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:36,439
Speaker 1: you know, on a cheap shot to their young quarterback.

1849
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:41,680
Speaker 1: Kyle has handed over the reins of leadership. There's a

1850
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 1: lot of things that went well that day, and the

1851
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:46,240
Speaker 1: game was just one of the Kayle's thing was just

1852
01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:49,600
Speaker 1: one of them. I don't know. I mean when we

1853
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: first said this, the first thing that popped into my

1854
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: mind about the seminal moment of the season was Josh

1855
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: hurdling the guy in Minnesota. The brawl certainly was right

1856
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: up right up my alley. I mean, I love that. Yeah,

1857
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 1: it said something about the team because the Bills didn't

1858
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:12,560
Speaker 1: start that thing, but you know, they certainly jumped in

1859
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: and finished it. Um. I like that, and uh, same

1860
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: thing with you know, with the thing that happened on

1861
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 1: Sunday with Tikikoum and Kelso's reaction to it was priceless.

1862
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: But I like, there's something about Kyle's last game that

1863
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 1: turns the page for the franchise going forward. And I

1864
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 1: think that's something that, uh, well, it's hard to say

1865
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 1: goodbye to a great play player like Kyle. It is

1866
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 1: something about moving forward, and that's where this team is

1867
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 1: all about right now, moving forward, and that's good. Take

1868
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: a call on this, Jim and Hamburg, What do you think, Jim,

1869
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:53,719
Speaker 1: best moment for the Bills this season? Jim Hamburg gone,

1870
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: how about Bob and Orchard Park? Bob? Are you there?

1871
01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: Bob and Orchard Park? Are you there about? Yes, I'm

1872
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: there now, you're here, you're on the air. Go ahead ahead, Bob, Yeah,

1873
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm here, Yes, I'm here. John uh okay. I was

1874
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: agreeing with the poll that the best moment of the

1875
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: season was the Kyle Williams in the in the last game,

1876
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 1: mainly from a fan standpoint because normally a game like

1877
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:34,679
Speaker 1: that last game and the December nobody would have shown

1878
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: up hardly for that game. In fact, ticket sales were

1879
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:44,960
Speaker 1: very sluggish before Kyle Williams announced his retirement. After he

1880
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: announced his retirement, ticket sales took a big uptick and

1881
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:57,679
Speaker 1: it showed the fans loyalty to players that give everything

1882
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:01,160
Speaker 1: to the team, just like the ends give everything to

1883
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: the team. And uh, that's my reason for that good.

1884
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: But you know, as first ticket sales, I think ticket

1885
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:11,160
Speaker 1: office people told me they figure maybe one thousand extra

1886
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:14,599
Speaker 1: tickets sold from the point last Friday until the game

1887
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It wasn't just ticket sales, it was who

1888
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 1: showed up. Right, A lot of season ticket holders are like,

1889
01:31:19,479 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm not going to that game December thirtieth, nothing, that's

1890
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:23,920
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, something was at stake. There's something

1891
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 1: to watch, and I think people showed up. Sixty six

1892
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: thousand I believe was the announced attendance. Yeah, that's a

1893
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 1: good It was a good crowd, really good crowd, and uh,

1894
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 1: I get it. Some people at that point needed a

1895
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,560
Speaker 1: little extra something something to come see the team, and

1896
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: they got it, and they got they got it. It

1897
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:42,800
Speaker 1: was a fun game to go see, man, it was.

1898
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:46,560
Speaker 1: In fact, that was probably as good a good a

1899
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 1: home win as you've had in a while here, and

1900
01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: that's good for them to be rewarded for it. Tweet

1901
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:54,040
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from Matt See. When we asked

1902
01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:56,360
Speaker 1: the question the best moment of the Bills twenty eighteen season,

1903
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 1: Matt See says, the last game of the season this

1904
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,679
Speaker 1: year ended up more exciting and emotionally draining than any

1905
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 1: game I can remember since the Super Bowl years. The

1906
01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: future definitely looks great, and it's awesome to finally feel

1907
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:11,559
Speaker 1: that way. I think that kind of sums it up, right. Yeah, Yeah,

1908
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:14,519
Speaker 1: I mean that's right. There's a lot to be a

1909
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:16,920
Speaker 1: lot to be excited about for the team and they

1910
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:21,879
Speaker 1: because they've not only it's it's not like that scenario

1911
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:23,840
Speaker 1: where we've seen sometimes where you think, well, guys, it

1912
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:25,680
Speaker 1: could be pretty good next year. We'll see you know.

1913
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 1: It's like you, I mean, it's like, wow, we let's go,

1914
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, let's line it up. There's a lot of production,

1915
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 1: a lot of young players on this roster that you've

1916
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:38,360
Speaker 1: got to be excited about seeing next year. Now. It's

1917
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: easy too that it's a long offseason. I mentioned this

1918
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: to Brandon Bean when he was on the show at

1919
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 1: the right at noon when we started about the big

1920
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 1: thing for a lot of these young guys is okay. Now, listen,

1921
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 1: you got a little money in your pocket, You've got

1922
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:53,320
Speaker 1: a little fame going for you. Now, you're an NFL player,

1923
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: You've been through one season, you're a veteran NFL player.

1924
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 1: Now keep it, but you know, keep it between the

1925
01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 1: lines here and the off season. Don't go off the rails.

1926
01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: Don't forget that you've got to work hard to stay here.

1927
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 1: You've got as hard as you work to get here,

1928
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: you've got to work hard to stay here. Let's you know.

1929
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:12,920
Speaker 1: So we're kind of projecting that the progress they've made

1930
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 1: this season is going to continue through the off season.

1931
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:17,879
Speaker 1: We still have to see that. But still the tangible

1932
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: proof of how good they have been or how good

1933
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: they can be is on the table, and I think

1934
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: that's fun to think about in the off season. Ye Hey,

1935
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 1: coming up in the third and final hour of the show,

1936
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk with Andrew Brandt, who covers the business

1937
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 1: of football for Sports Illustrated dot com. He's standing by

1938
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:33,920
Speaker 1: to join us plus more on this What was the

1939
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 1: best moment of the Bills twenty eighteen season? How about that?

1940
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 1: We're talking about the best moments of a six win

1941
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:41,120
Speaker 1: ten last season. It's different here and there, and there's

1942
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,920
Speaker 1: some choices. Yeah, we have some choices. Pretty amazing. We're

1943
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:45,840
Speaker 1: back with more One Bill's I've presented by a lot

1944
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 1: of health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's

1945
01:33:48,400 --> 01:34:04,280
Speaker 1: Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Day Up. They come from

1946
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:07,479
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. With the Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon

1947
01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: Being confirming for us on our show today that the

1948
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 1: Bills were moving on from offensive line coach one Castile,

1949
01:34:12,479 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: the report came out last night that Castillo, the Bills

1950
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: online coach and run game coordinator, was let go after

1951
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 1: two seasons with Buffalo. Brandon Being confirmed that this year.

1952
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: Castillo worked with Sean McDermott in Philadelphia under Andy Reid

1953
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:27,639
Speaker 1: for several years. Castillo the oline coach then and McDermott

1954
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 1: team's defensive coordinator. The Juan Castio has been it has

1955
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: been confirmed that he's been let go by the Buffalo Bills,

1956
01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 1: the only coaching move that has been confirmed by the

1957
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:39,599
Speaker 1: team so far. Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen is the AFC

1958
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:42,679
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week for his performance last Sunday

1959
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:46,120
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins. Five touchdowns produced three through the

1960
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: air two on the ground against the Dolphins, marking the

1961
01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: most buy the Bill's quarterbacks since Jim Kelly threw for

1962
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in nineteen ninety one. First time a Bill's

1963
01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 1: quarterback has one Offensive Player of the Week honor since

1964
01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:00,519
Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe back in two thousand and two. The league

1965
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:03,639
Speaker 1: coaching vacancies to be filled, and the Jets are getting busy.

1966
01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 1: They're conducting their first head coaching interview today in Kansas City,

1967
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:11,000
Speaker 1: talking with Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric B. Enemy. He's forty

1968
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 1: nine years old. He's also meeting with the Tampa Bay

1969
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:16,080
Speaker 1: Bucks leader today. The Enemy a popular candidate because of

1970
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,680
Speaker 1: the Chiefs number one offense and because he comes from

1971
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: the Andy Reid coaching tree. The Jets also reportedly ready

1972
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:25,960
Speaker 1: to talk with the offensive coordinator at Southern California, Cliff Kingsbury,

1973
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:29,560
Speaker 1: former Texas Tech head coach, interviewing with the Jets and

1974
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals regarding their head coaching position today. Kingsbury

1975
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 1: was named the USC offensive coordinator in early December after

1976
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:39,960
Speaker 1: he was let go by Texas Tech. Around the league,

1977
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:41,920
Speaker 1: the Lions say they will not renew the contract of

1978
01:35:42,280 --> 01:35:45,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Jim bob Cooter. He's been their OC for

1979
01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:48,720
Speaker 1: three and a half seasons. The Jaguars fired running backs

1980
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:51,519
Speaker 1: coach Tyrone Wheatley in three assistance last night, according to

1981
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: a person familiar with the situation. There and the Buffalo

1982
01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 1: Sabers did not have Jack Eikelad practice today and left

1983
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,759
Speaker 1: Monday's game against the Islanders due to a body injury.

1984
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 1: Savers home tomorrow night against the Florida Panthers. That's the

1985
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 1: update from One Bill Drive, John Murphy's team tasker in

1986
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:10,040
Speaker 1: our One Buffalo studio. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy to

1987
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:11,880
Speaker 1: have you in our audience today. Happy to have our

1988
01:36:11,920 --> 01:36:14,679
Speaker 1: next guest on the line weekly Connomness for the MMQB,

1989
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:17,560
Speaker 1: the host of the Business of Sports podcast, director of

1990
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:20,720
Speaker 1: the Morad Center for Sports Law at Villanova, a frequent guest,

1991
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:23,080
Speaker 1: one of our favorite guests, Andrew Brandt joined us on

1992
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: the line. Andrew's John Murphy and Steve here and Buffalo.

1993
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Thanks for joining us here today. Yeah,

1994
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:28,920
Speaker 1: same to you guys, Happy New Year. Are good to

1995
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 1: be with you. Hey, we were talking a lot about

1996
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:32,639
Speaker 1: the Bills here. This is what we do for a living,

1997
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: and I wonder what do you think it does to

1998
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 1: a team that has got a pretty good year from

1999
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: their rookie quarterback. What kind of a pressure does it

2000
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:42,559
Speaker 1: create to get better in a hurry around him? Knowing

2001
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:46,080
Speaker 1: that the template now is for teams to win while

2002
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:48,519
Speaker 1: they're rookie, their quarterbacks on his rookie contract, do you

2003
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:50,519
Speaker 1: think they feel that pressure like, Okay, we got to

2004
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 1: get better in the next two years here to take

2005
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: advantage of the value we get from Josh Allen. Well,

2006
01:36:56,000 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, necessarily get better, Yeah, of

2007
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: course you always want to get better, But in terms

2008
01:37:00,479 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 1: of making hay contract and cap wise, I think that's

2009
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: what a lot of teams have done and are doing.

2010
01:37:05,760 --> 01:37:08,320
Speaker 1: You look at the spending of the Rams in these

2011
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:11,439
Speaker 1: early years of golf. You look at a team like

2012
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,720
Speaker 1: the Bears now in the playoffs. I just noted to

2013
01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 1: someone they've got seventy five million a payroll on three

2014
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:21,439
Speaker 1: players who are not quarterbacks, Alan Robinson, Kendall Fuller, and

2015
01:37:21,600 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. They couldn't do that with the twenty five

2016
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: million dollar quarterback because then you're spending seventy percent your

2017
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:32,160
Speaker 1: payroll and four players. So this is something that teams

2018
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:36,040
Speaker 1: are realizing. I think it started with Russell Wilson, where

2019
01:37:36,080 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: he was making a ridiculously low number like six hundred

2020
01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:42,719
Speaker 1: thousand dollars as a Super Bowl quarterback, and the team

2021
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:46,760
Speaker 1: signed up Sherman and Thomas and Chancellor and Bennett and

2022
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:50,640
Speaker 1: really went to the point where, Okay, we're taking care

2023
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: of all these guys while we can. And then when

2024
01:37:53,280 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: you get to the point where you're paying a twenty

2025
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:57,519
Speaker 1: five million dollar quarterback, you have to pull back in

2026
01:37:57,600 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: other areas. And now you see it around the league

2027
01:38:01,120 --> 01:38:03,800
Speaker 1: as well. Now that Seattle and those contracts have come

2028
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:05,920
Speaker 1: about and they've had to pay their quarterback, they're trying

2029
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 1: to win it a different way, right, And if you've

2030
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:10,640
Speaker 1: got this franchise quarterback like a Russell Wilson, you got

2031
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: to lean on him. Yeah, I think you do. But listen,

2032
01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:17,360
Speaker 1: I also have a pet peeve about, because I did

2033
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: this for ten years with the Packers, about people who

2034
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 1: say you can't build around a thirty million dollars quarterback.

2035
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:26,040
Speaker 1: You can. I mean, if you have one hundred eighty

2036
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety million dollars cap, it's okay to

2037
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: have your best player making twenty five to thirty million.

2038
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 1: The way the team's get in trouble is all this

2039
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: extra stuff they do with these contracts of renegotiating and

2040
01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 1: stacking up future cap room. You know, you got a

2041
01:38:42,120 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 1: player like Drew Brees, if he were to leave, he's

2042
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:48,200
Speaker 1: going to leave behind ten I'm fifteen to twenty million

2043
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:52,599
Speaker 1: of caps of cap Pole or Roethlisberger or all these

2044
01:38:52,720 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 1: guys where they've just sucked away all this extra cap

2045
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: room in order to just sort of stay alive. So

2046
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:01,719
Speaker 1: it's not the big contracts that get teams in trouble,

2047
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 1: it's the cat management around him. We listen, It takes

2048
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:08,800
Speaker 1: more than you know, just a roster. Also takes a

2049
01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:11,439
Speaker 1: head coach to get it all done and to build

2050
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:14,600
Speaker 1: a roster. And there's a lot of teams looking for

2051
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:16,960
Speaker 1: a new head coach. What do you think? And I

2052
01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: know you mentioned your time in Green Bay? Do you

2053
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: and you really think that is the most attractive head

2054
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: coaching vacancy there is right now? Yeah, I mean, Steve

2055
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:30,640
Speaker 1: unbiased and I hired Mike mccartheo as part of that

2056
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:33,080
Speaker 1: group twelve years ago that hired him, and now he's

2057
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: a hot candidate. But you know, I'm not into sort

2058
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: of comparing rosters and Brown's roster or this roster against

2059
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: the Packers roster. That's for other people to do. I

2060
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 1: just think in terms of autonomy, in terms of for

2061
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: anyone to say the Brown's job is better than the

2062
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 1: Packers job. That owner has fired how many coaches over

2063
01:39:53,160 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: seven year, ten years, There's no way that's a better job.

2064
01:39:57,800 --> 01:40:00,360
Speaker 1: I don't care that you have Baker Mayfield any young roster.

2065
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:04,280
Speaker 1: It's the Packers have this unique ability to let the

2066
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:09,679
Speaker 1: coach focus on football. All revenues go to football. There's

2067
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:12,880
Speaker 1: no taking out for other businesses. So I just think,

2068
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, forget about the roster comparisons. Green Bays is

2069
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:18,639
Speaker 1: the most attractive job. Who pulls the trigger out there?

2070
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 1: Is it Mark Murphy's decision to make? Yeah, I mean, listen,

2071
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,120
Speaker 1: I guess things have change a little bit since I

2072
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:30,840
Speaker 1: was there. But you know, from administration, which Murphy is,

2073
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: Bob Harland before him have always deferred to football, always

2074
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 1: going back to Ron Wolfe when he took the job.

2075
01:40:39,479 --> 01:40:42,840
Speaker 1: There's as GM there's just so much deference to the

2076
01:40:42,920 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: football side that I saw a close and personal for

2077
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:49,680
Speaker 1: ten years. So yeah, technically Murphy will make the call

2078
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:53,760
Speaker 1: along with the GM Gudekunst. But you know, once the

2079
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 1: coach is in place, I really think there's little to

2080
01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 1: no interference. What do you think as you look around

2081
01:40:59,560 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 1: the league? I mean, there's some instances where and you

2082
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:04,880
Speaker 1: and I agree with you totally. What makes a job

2083
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 1: attractive or not attractive is what happens above the coach.

2084
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:13,519
Speaker 1: And for instance, another franchise that has been notoriously difficult

2085
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:16,720
Speaker 1: to work for has been Cincinnati. Now Marvin Lewis is

2086
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: moving on, and Mike Brown has forever been reticent to

2087
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 1: hire outside the organization. It looks like they're going to

2088
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: do that again with Hugh Jackson. Yeah, we'll see if

2089
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: that happens. You know, I was a little surprised by

2090
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:36,280
Speaker 1: the move, frankly, not so much that Marvin's been there

2091
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:43,560
Speaker 1: a long time, but the reticence and frankly thriftiness frugality

2092
01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:47,759
Speaker 1: of that organization because they've got another year on Lewis

2093
01:41:47,800 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 1: at a big number. I just didn't think they would

2094
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 1: do that. But yeah, we'll see huge if Hugh Jackson's

2095
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:58,360
Speaker 1: the guy there. But listen, there's that's an organization in

2096
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:00,800
Speaker 1: need of a shakeup. Some things have to evolve and

2097
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:04,840
Speaker 1: maybe the new coach has a different look at quarterback

2098
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 1: or a different way of operating things, but that, maybe

2099
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:13,479
Speaker 1: more than any other franchise needs to evolve. And I

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Speaker 1: think this will be a move towards us and your

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Speaker 1: brand is with us. Monday Morning Quarterback Weekly Colu'm just

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Speaker 1: hosted the Business of Sports podcast. Another coaching situation to

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Speaker 1: ask you about And we were talking about this on

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Speaker 1: our show last hour Andrew about the Arizona Cardinals. What

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Speaker 1: damage have they done to their prospects of hiring the

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Speaker 1: next coach based on the fact that the last coach

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Speaker 1: just got one year. Yeah, the one and done surprised

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Speaker 1: me really a lot, especially with Larry Fitzgerald endorsing him.

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Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald's like more powerful than the governor of Arizona

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Speaker 1: for good reason. Yeah, And I don't get it, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the team just beside the Fitzgerald, I mean, didn't

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Speaker 1: respond to him. It just seems odd that they would

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Speaker 1: make a move so quickly. I don't know, it depends

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Speaker 1: on the ros you know, what a coach feels like there.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll get, you know, who they want, because

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Speaker 1: it's a head coaching job in the NFL, and they'll

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Speaker 1: probably get a but you know, we see McCarthy turned

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Speaker 1: down opportunity there. They may not get someone with skins

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Speaker 1: and the skins on the wall like Mike, right, but

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Speaker 1: they'll get a first timer. Yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: too because you got a first time head coach. We

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Speaker 1: talked about this earlier Steve Wilson for six weeks. He

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Speaker 1: had to run the franchise in the absence of a

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Speaker 1: GM as well, so we had a lot of things

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01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:28,920
Speaker 1: he was dealing with it nobody else had to deal with,

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Speaker 1: and then to pull the plug on him just seems

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Speaker 1: spectacularly unfair. Yeah, it does. And listen, I still have

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Speaker 1: my allegiance to the Packers, and I watched that team

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Speaker 1: beat the Packers, which Mike was fired that night. But

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Speaker 1: that's that seems to be enough to save a job,

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Speaker 1: to go into lambeau Field in the cold and win. Hey, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of the future of Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: He's going to interview, I'm certain in a couple of places.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of the best landing spot for

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Speaker 1: him might be? Yeah, and I did. I can't name

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Speaker 1: the team, but I did give a reference on him

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Speaker 1: about a couple of hours ago. Like I said, Skins

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Speaker 1: on the wall, you know, won a super Bowl, constant

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Speaker 1: perennial playoff team. You know, I'm a fan of Mike.

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01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:20,800
Speaker 1: I hired him. He's just got a good emotional intelligence

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01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:24,640
Speaker 1: about him. He is a he is what he is.

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Speaker 1: He's a western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh guy that's no nonsense. Got

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Speaker 1: a good offensive scheme. It's not the sexiest scheme like

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Speaker 1: a McVeigh or a Naggy, but we've seen how much

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Speaker 1: success that scheme has had, you know, and again, you

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Speaker 1: can't throw it all on Aaron Rodgers. That's been a

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Speaker 1: partnership that's really worked well over the years, so long

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Speaker 1: and short. I think Michael have his pick of jobs

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Speaker 1: and we'll see where he goes well. The playoffs get

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Speaker 1: kicked off this weekend. What are your thoughts on some

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Speaker 1: of the teams that we had. We just had Dennis

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Speaker 1: pitt On, who is the radio analyst for the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I think they're one of the most interesting teams enter Again.

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Speaker 1: Not only are playing great football, they're doing it in

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01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:08,479
Speaker 1: a way that we haven't seen since the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the way the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: are winning games amazing, and I love them. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: I realize I could be getting swept up in all this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm picking them and I'm picking the Eagles. I

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01:45:23,080 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: think these two teams are just incredibly whatever the word

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01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:32,920
Speaker 1: is karma right now. And I know in case of

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, how good the Bears defense is. But I

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Speaker 1: just you know, there's something about Nick Foles. There's something

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Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. There's something about these two teams that

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Speaker 1: are forces right now. Both has six seeds or maybe

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Speaker 1: five see whatever they are in Baltimore, but they're going

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Speaker 1: to be a force to be reckoned. With these two teams.

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Speaker 1: There's something about them. There's something about the way the

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Speaker 1: goals respond to Nick Foles. It is a magical thing.

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Speaker 1: I live in around Philadelphia. I've seen it now two years.

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Speaker 1: This guy is special when it comes to managing this team.

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Speaker 1: And Andrew, you currect me if I'm wrong. You have

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Speaker 1: written that because of his contract, this is probably it

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Speaker 1: for Foles in Philadelphia. Huh Yeah. And I get all

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Speaker 1: these people saying, well, can't they trade wins? They're not

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Speaker 1: gonna trade wins. There's no way they're gonna trade sh right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's the future and he's You can't get guys like Wentz,

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Speaker 1: you just can't get them right now. Foles is an

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Speaker 1: attractive option, you know if Wentz is hurt. But you

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Speaker 1: know they're not going to carry folds of twenty million

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Speaker 1: dollars unless Wentz has a real problem. So Nick has

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Speaker 1: said it in press conferences this week. He knows it's over,

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Speaker 1: but he's going to enjoy the ride. What are other

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you too, something popped up.

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Speaker 1: I had the game in Pittsburgh win Cincinnati went in

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Speaker 1: there in week seventeen, and we thought that Antonio Brown

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01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 1: was out because of question mark about his knee injury.

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Speaker 1: It turns out it was anything but his knee injury.

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01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:09,360
Speaker 1: That team just always for all season from Levion Bell

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Speaker 1: and now this at the end of the season, they're

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Speaker 1: neck deep in drama. How do you think that plays out?

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Speaker 1: Surprises me because I see, you know the way I

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Speaker 1: viewed Tom and I don't know him from Adam, but

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Speaker 1: it seems like a stern guy, seems like a taskmaster,

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Speaker 1: seems like a disciplined guy. But you're right, they're all

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Speaker 1: over the place there and you know, again, my expertise

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Speaker 1: is cash and cap. To me, there's no way Antonio

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Speaker 1: Brown's not there, because we just talked about it. That

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Speaker 1: contract is just too burdensome to get rid of. He's

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Speaker 1: a twenty million dollars plus hole in the cap if

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Speaker 1: he's cut or traded. So he's there. So now they've

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Speaker 1: got to realize how to deal with them, yea, and

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Speaker 1: how to get the best out of them. Seems like

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Speaker 1: they're getting the best out of them on the field,

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Speaker 1: but it's off the film. Andrew, last question for you,

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Speaker 1: and it deals with the business of sports and the

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Speaker 1: television business of sports. NBC just announcing today that their numbers,

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Speaker 1: their ratings for Sunday Night Football, the primetime Sunday Night package,

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Speaker 1: up seven percent from last year. After a couple of

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Speaker 1: years of kind of declining ratings, the ratings have rebounded

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Speaker 1: this year pretty significantly all over the league, haven't they. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the metrics are all north, you know, and listen, I

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Speaker 1: also saw that attendance numbers are out and they're down.

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Speaker 1: And there's the future of sports, guys. Attendance is going

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Speaker 1: to matter less and less, right because revenues are coming in. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I did commentary for Amazon Thursday Night Football this year,

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Speaker 1: and that's the future. You've got network Fox, you've got

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Speaker 1: cable NFL Network, and you've got streaming Amazon. I think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a lot more than Thursday Night Football.

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Speaker 1: So now the NFL is going to have three revenue

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Speaker 1: streams for its games, and I just think a ticket

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Speaker 1: sales are going to matter less and less. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do about some of

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Speaker 1: these empty, empty looking stadiums. But in the bottom it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really affect the bottom line anywhere near like it

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Speaker 1: used to. No question. It's a smaller percentage of the pie, correct, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean media revenues are everything where ticket sales. When

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Speaker 1: I got to the Packers in nineteen ninety nine, our

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Speaker 1: ticket sales were probably forty percent of our revenues, and

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Speaker 1: now I would think that numbers in the twenty to

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Speaker 1: thirty percent. Over the years, the end of the league

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Speaker 1: has always been sensitive about, you know, not becoming a

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Speaker 1: studio sport, a TV studio sport. Does that still exist?

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Speaker 1: I mean, will they want lower ticket prices and to

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Speaker 1: make sure that there are active fans in the stadium

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Speaker 1: to provide a good TV show. Well, the one saving

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Speaker 1: grace for end game, but it's also out of game.

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Speaker 1: But the one saving grace for end game might be gambling,

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Speaker 1: because that's you could have the kiosks, you could have

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Speaker 1: the book inside. I just think it's not the most

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Speaker 1: moral way to get people in the stadiums. But this

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01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:11,760
Speaker 1: is an entirely new revenue source. And I know it's

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Speaker 1: only in eight states right now, but it's growing where

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01:50:15,439 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: this is a way to get people back in. I mean,

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01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: now everyone's trying to figure out how to get people

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Speaker 1: too stadiums, but you know the hassles and parking and

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01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:25,439
Speaker 1: ticket sales. So how do you do it. It's a

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01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:27,800
Speaker 1: good question. That sounds like the horse racing model. That's

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01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: what horse racing does, right, get them in there with

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Speaker 1: the apps that you can bet in game, and make

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Speaker 1: it so you can't bet if you're on your couch. Yeah,

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01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, And it's game day experience. Has long

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01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: been a thing with NFL cities in NFL in ticket sales,

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01:50:46,720 --> 01:50:49,519
Speaker 1: and it's going to become probably even bigger issue for

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Speaker 1: most teams going forward. Given the extra tool in the

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Speaker 1: toolbox of gambling and how they use that as going

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Speaker 1: to be critical to how it goes forward. Correct, totally exactly. Andrew,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this happy new You're good talking with you.

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01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Likewise, An Andrew Brand m MQB week,

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Speaker 1: The columnist hosted the Business of Sports podcast, joined to

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Speaker 1: sign the Subway Fresh State huntline presented by Subway Restaurants

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01:51:12,439 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 1: Proud to be locally owned and operated. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I think. I don't want to play football in

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Speaker 1: a casino, but they kind of have horse racing in

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01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,200
Speaker 1: casinos now, right, I mean, is that what we're suggesting here?

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01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's going to be interesting

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01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,040
Speaker 1: to see how the league handles it and what's going

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01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:30,839
Speaker 1: to be allowed. Certainly eight states are allowing sports gambling,

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Speaker 1: and I think what will happen do is illegal have

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Speaker 1: a league rule and they'll go in with gambling sites

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01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:40,800
Speaker 1: or whatever to say, listen, the only prop bets you

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01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:44,160
Speaker 1: can make. It'll be like the blackout rule, except in

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01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:46,920
Speaker 1: exact reverse. If you're gonna bet on this game in

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01:51:47,040 --> 01:51:48,400
Speaker 1: the game, while is that you've got to be in

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01:51:48,479 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 1: the stadium to do it. You can bet beforehand. All

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01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 1: the big stuff but like in game stuff. They might say. Listen,

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01:51:53,960 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 1: you have to be in the state to do it

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01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 1: that you know, and you can get a ticket a

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01:51:58,360 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 1: great seat, fifty yard line. Team rose up for twenty bucks.

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01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:03,439
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I know what you're saying,

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01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:06,360
Speaker 1: that it's all gonna it's all gonna change, Murphy. You

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01:52:06,439 --> 01:52:10,640
Speaker 1: know it will. And I don't know if you know

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01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: Smarker Sport buffet like a casino. Yeah, I don't know,

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01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: you know, And I don't know enough about it to

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01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: even start a conversation about it. I know, but I

2286
01:52:18,040 --> 01:52:20,280
Speaker 1: know it's it's gonna look a lot different. Hey, our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today deals with this twenty eighteen Buffalo Bill season.

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01:52:23,840 --> 01:52:25,479
Speaker 1: I don't know what you think and what was the

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01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:28,200
Speaker 1: best moment for the Bills in the twenty eighteen season?

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01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:31,120
Speaker 1: Pretty simple question. We got a couple of suggestions out there.

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Speaker 1: What do you think was the best moment for the

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Speaker 1: Bills in the twenty eighteen season? Most of you about

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01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:39,280
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of you sixty nine percent say it

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01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:42,160
Speaker 1: was Kyle Williams final game. Fourteen percent say it was

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01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:44,919
Speaker 1: the brawl in the Jaguards game. Was Hey, your suggestion

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01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:47,200
Speaker 1: to put that in that policy, No, because I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that was a moment. I am not touching

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Speaker 1: this one. I mean, can do with this ten percent

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01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 1: say it was the Thurman Thomas halftime retirement ceremony, seven

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Speaker 1: percent of something else in mind for me. For me,

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Speaker 1: it was the Josh Allen hurdle, and yeah, that should

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Speaker 1: have been that Jaguars. Yeah. Well, now the brawl is

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I like it better than I love Thurman

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Speaker 1: as much as anybody, believe me, except for maybe Patty,

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, Thurman's thing was really big for me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the brawl and Josh Allen's hurdle and Kyle, I

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01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:20,760
Speaker 1: gotta tell you not. So you know, I've been through

2308
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:23,639
Speaker 1: so many seasons where I've seen really good guys say goodbye.

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01:53:23,720 --> 01:53:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a callous to it now, I think

2310
01:53:26,680 --> 01:53:28,760
Speaker 1: even guys like Kyle, so i'd say, what you think

2311
01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:30,519
Speaker 1: it us A called Dave on the line from Florida,

2312
01:53:30,560 --> 01:53:32,479
Speaker 1: Hello Dave, Happy New Year. What do you think best

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01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:35,320
Speaker 1: moment for the Bills in twenty eighteen? Well, I don't

2314
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:38,640
Speaker 1: hobos uh. I think it's I like the way at

2315
01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:41,439
Speaker 1: the end of the game Kyle Williams last game we

2316
01:53:41,560 --> 01:53:45,280
Speaker 1: had the ball down and we went Josh Allens through

2317
01:53:45,320 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 1: the ball into the ground four times to give Kyle

2318
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: Williams an opportunity to be put back out on the field.

2319
01:53:50,800 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 1: And I thought that was great, that it was very graceful. Yeah,

2320
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:55,600
Speaker 1: he put him out and took him off like a

2321
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:57,599
Speaker 1: basketball time out to take him off. Get the round

2322
01:53:57,640 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 1: of applause with mccrowd. That was great, It was great.

2323
01:53:59,560 --> 01:54:01,880
Speaker 1: I thought I was a great movement. And you're right, David,

2324
01:54:02,000 --> 01:54:04,480
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that I think Sean McDermott

2325
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: has always guys gotten right in the last couple of years.

2326
01:54:06,479 --> 01:54:08,439
Speaker 1: Remember he gave him the touchdown last year in Miami,

2327
01:54:08,520 --> 01:54:11,000
Speaker 1: and then this year they called the time out and

2328
01:54:11,240 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 1: sent somebody out and it's like Kyle didn't realize what

2329
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:15,400
Speaker 1: was going on. He waved it off right. Yeah, he

2330
01:54:15,479 --> 01:54:17,840
Speaker 1: wanted to send him back and h then they said, no,

2331
01:54:17,920 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 1: you're you're missing the point here, Kyle. You're supposed to

2332
01:54:20,800 --> 01:54:23,759
Speaker 1: come out, and then of course he and McDermott embraced

2333
01:54:23,800 --> 01:54:25,560
Speaker 1: and it was and then it was all over. His

2334
01:54:25,680 --> 01:54:28,080
Speaker 1: career came to a close, and good for him. Phil

2335
01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 1: on the line from Pittsburgh, New York, Phil, what do

2336
01:54:30,040 --> 01:54:33,800
Speaker 1: you think best moment for the Bills this past season, Well,

2337
01:54:34,120 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: Steve stole my thunder with the hurdle, So there, yeah,

2338
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: go ahead. Would you like about that one, Phil, Yes,

2339
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just it just proved that, um,

2340
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:47,200
Speaker 1: it just proved that we have we have a guy

2341
01:54:47,240 --> 01:54:50,320
Speaker 1: that's willing to compete now and and I don't think

2342
01:54:50,320 --> 01:54:53,360
Speaker 1: anybody knew it quite what is athleticism wasn't you know

2343
01:54:53,440 --> 01:54:56,360
Speaker 1: his running ability and just as athleticism in general. But

2344
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:58,960
Speaker 1: went until we saw that, and I mean you saw

2345
01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:02,360
Speaker 1: the sideline in it, you know, amazement. I just wish

2346
01:55:02,400 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 1: you'd learned a slide a little earlier. But I think

2347
01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: that was I think that was the moment that kind

2348
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:09,880
Speaker 1: of changed the you know, or dictated the rest of

2349
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:11,600
Speaker 1: the season, saying I got we got a guy here

2350
01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:15,880
Speaker 1: that compute, make sure with our pick. And but one

2351
01:55:15,920 --> 01:55:17,360
Speaker 1: other thing that was really cool to see. As I

2352
01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:19,960
Speaker 1: was looking through the Bill's website yesterday, I'm started the

2353
01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:24,280
Speaker 1: Facebook page. How many people you know contributed it, whether

2354
01:55:24,320 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 1: it be Trent Murphy or Chris Hivory or Josh Allen,

2355
01:55:28,080 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: But it just I went down the list and there

2356
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:31,880
Speaker 1: was like seven guys that really made a difference in

2357
01:55:31,960 --> 01:55:34,600
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday, So you know, I really like

2358
01:55:34,720 --> 01:55:37,640
Speaker 1: what mcdermot's doing there. So anyway, thanks a lot, Thanks Phil.

2359
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:40,560
Speaker 1: I think I do think Josh learned how to slide

2360
01:55:40,600 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: better as the season went along. I don't think Kiko

2361
01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 1: Alonso learned what a slide meant a long care didn't care.

2362
01:55:47,520 --> 01:55:49,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's the fact that you bring up

2363
01:55:49,840 --> 01:55:51,360
Speaker 1: the slide thing. I think that's one of the things

2364
01:55:51,440 --> 01:55:54,640
Speaker 1: that we as outsiders and casual observers even could see that, Hey,

2365
01:55:54,720 --> 01:55:56,600
Speaker 1: Josh is getting better because he is sliding there. That's

2366
01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:59,320
Speaker 1: one of the things we counted as part of his progress.

2367
01:55:59,480 --> 01:56:01,960
Speaker 1: He slid better. There are another thing that he did better,

2368
01:56:02,040 --> 01:56:03,880
Speaker 1: and it's in all these plays are like, you know,

2369
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 1: not helping him win games, but the kind of are

2370
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:08,720
Speaker 1: he throwaways? He in Detroit, he started throwing the football.

2371
01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 1: We're saying that to you and Steve. You walked in

2372
01:56:11,280 --> 01:56:13,160
Speaker 1: the Monday after the Detroit game, we're talking about the game.

2373
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 1: I said, see, you know, it was good. It's weird

2374
01:56:15,440 --> 01:56:17,280
Speaker 1: to say, but he threw the ball away. Threw the

2375
01:56:17,280 --> 01:56:18,720
Speaker 1: ball away a couple of times when he showed all

2376
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:21,120
Speaker 1: that stuff where he learned to slide where he learned

2377
01:56:21,120 --> 01:56:23,960
Speaker 1: to run out of bounds and not take a hit,

2378
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:28,120
Speaker 1: throwing the football away, all of that stuff where things

2379
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:30,240
Speaker 1: you could point to. It's just a casual observer and say, oh,

2380
01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:31,800
Speaker 1: that makes more now you look at him. He's making

2381
01:56:32,080 --> 01:56:34,320
Speaker 1: he's saving himself and he's not taking those huge hits

2382
01:56:34,360 --> 01:56:36,760
Speaker 1: and stuff. And then and then the thing is too

2383
01:56:37,720 --> 01:56:39,960
Speaker 1: and I had forgotten about it until we were just

2384
01:56:40,080 --> 01:56:42,720
Speaker 1: seeing it the highlights on MSG for those of you

2385
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 1: on radio watching a few of them. He makes the

2386
01:56:45,200 --> 01:56:49,080
Speaker 1: hurdle in Minnesota and he goes down. He went down

2387
01:56:49,080 --> 01:56:50,680
Speaker 1: almost to me, he hurdle, came down and kind of

2388
01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 1: fell forward, got the first down. He stood up and

2389
01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:55,920
Speaker 1: gave the big hard first down signal like he was

2390
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:58,800
Speaker 1: fired up over it, and that you know, that just

2391
01:56:58,920 --> 01:57:02,560
Speaker 1: shows motion he wants to win every single play. I

2392
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: keep saying it, and I think it's an attribute. It's

2393
01:57:05,040 --> 01:57:07,080
Speaker 1: not a bad thing. I think it's awesome, absolutely, and

2394
01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:09,520
Speaker 1: it's what you know, it's what guys rally around. They

2395
01:57:09,640 --> 01:57:11,320
Speaker 1: want to jump in on that, and I think it's

2396
01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:14,320
Speaker 1: huge to see and I think it's it's fun to

2397
01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:17,680
Speaker 1: watch guys who want to win every play go out

2398
01:57:17,720 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 1: and compete, and that's exactly what he did. He hurdles,

2399
01:57:19,800 --> 01:57:23,480
Speaker 1: the guy, comes down and then gets up and says, yeah,

2400
01:57:23,560 --> 01:57:26,520
Speaker 1: how about that? You know, yeah, that was great. That's

2401
01:57:26,760 --> 01:57:28,480
Speaker 1: one of That's one of the things I'd forgotten about

2402
01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,560
Speaker 1: that play. Getting your thoughts on the best moment of

2403
01:57:30,600 --> 01:57:33,080
Speaker 1: the Bills twenty eighteen season, give us a call. Here's

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01:57:33,160 --> 01:57:37,680
Speaker 1: Brad and Rochester. Hello, Brad, welcome, Welcome to the show. Hey, gentlemen,

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01:57:38,040 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 1: Steve john Um can I give it a co co

2406
01:57:41,920 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 1: vote on both? I was at the sermon Monday night

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01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:47,680
Speaker 1: with my son. That was a great moment. Yeah, I

2408
01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:51,080
Speaker 1: bet season tickets for thirty years and Sunday didn't make

2409
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,800
Speaker 1: the game, but I was glued to the TV with Kyle.

2410
01:57:54,120 --> 01:57:56,720
Speaker 1: Everything was picture perfect. It couldn't have been better. So

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01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 1: I vote for both. You bet, Brad, and I appreciate it,

2412
01:57:59,600 --> 01:58:02,520
Speaker 1: and you're right than I. Let's face that, there are

2413
01:58:02,560 --> 01:58:05,440
Speaker 1: two pretty good guys in that, you know, Hall of

2414
01:58:05,480 --> 01:58:10,200
Speaker 1: Famer and Thurman Thomas getting his jersey retired after everything

2415
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: he had meant to the club as a player and

2416
01:58:14,040 --> 01:58:16,320
Speaker 1: now have him living in the community and doing all

2417
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:18,040
Speaker 1: the things he's doing off the field that you know,

2418
01:58:18,120 --> 01:58:19,800
Speaker 1: we have him in here all the time talking to him,

2419
01:58:20,920 --> 01:58:23,200
Speaker 1: the spectacle that the stadium was, and for all the

2420
01:58:23,280 --> 01:58:25,720
Speaker 1: things that people around the country we all know, well

2421
01:58:26,040 --> 01:58:28,240
Speaker 1: here people here in Buffalo, and the Bill's fan base

2422
01:58:28,640 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 1: around the world. You know that what people think about

2423
01:58:32,240 --> 01:58:34,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo say about Buffalo not always flattering. And then to

2424
01:58:34,880 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 1: see the Thurman Thomas retirement ceremony and see New Era

2425
01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:44,760
Speaker 1: Field lit up and looked like it did, and see

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01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:47,040
Speaker 1: the emotion and the ceremony and all the things that

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01:58:47,120 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 1: happened with that night, you know, I was you had

2428
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:52,560
Speaker 1: to be really proud of not only the Bills and

2429
01:58:52,640 --> 01:58:56,360
Speaker 1: of Thurman, but also our city. And I was really Yeah,

2430
01:58:56,360 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 1: it was a great moment, It really was. It made

2431
01:58:59,080 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 1: me feel really good. I never saw the stadium look

2432
01:59:01,080 --> 01:59:02,960
Speaker 1: any better than it did that night. Yeah, can I

2433
01:59:03,040 --> 01:59:05,400
Speaker 1: say that? I mean, is that sacrilege now? Just the

2434
01:59:05,440 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 1: way that the the UH the heaters in the in

2435
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:13,200
Speaker 1: the club level, club seat level, the way they illuminated

2436
01:59:13,280 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 1: that section and red it was perfect. I've never seen

2437
01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,760
Speaker 1: the fantastic absolutely look fantastic. I don't know if it

2438
01:59:18,840 --> 01:59:21,000
Speaker 1: was expected or unexpected. Away it looked like that with

2439
01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:25,320
Speaker 1: those UH heaters on underneath the second deck and the lights,

2440
01:59:25,360 --> 01:59:29,280
Speaker 1: everybody's cell phone being on awesome, I mean, and Thurman,

2441
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:34,919
Speaker 1: the speech was poignant and heartfelt and genuine and inspire

2442
01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 1: inspiring and uh and all the alumni for me, all

2443
01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:41,760
Speaker 1: the alumni that were there. Uh, and that was it

2444
01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:45,480
Speaker 1: was really was a special night. And as Yeah, it

2445
01:59:45,560 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite moments of the season, no question.

2446
01:59:47,360 --> 01:59:48,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear from you the best moment of

2447
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:51,200
Speaker 1: the Bills eighteen twenty eighteen season. Let us know what

2448
01:59:51,280 --> 01:59:53,320
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2452
02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:19,240
Speaker 1: least fourteen points in the first quarter five different games

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Speaker 1: this season. That's the most in the NFL. I came

2454
02:00:21,400 --> 02:00:24,040
Speaker 1: across something similar to that going into the game, Steve,

2455
02:00:24,640 --> 02:00:26,040
Speaker 1: they were a team. The Bills were a team that

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02:00:26,120 --> 02:00:28,800
Speaker 1: typically got off to a good start in several games

2457
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:31,280
Speaker 1: and usually won those games. But five times this year

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02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:33,320
Speaker 1: the Bill scored at least fourteen points in the first quarter,

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Speaker 1: the Bills twenty eighteen season. Oh, I want to get

2463
02:00:43,720 --> 02:00:46,080
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the best moments of the twenty eighteen season.

2464
02:00:46,560 --> 02:00:49,480
Speaker 1: As they said a little while ago, not often do

2465
02:00:49,560 --> 02:00:51,440
Speaker 1: you talk about a six and ten season is having

2466
02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:54,400
Speaker 1: several golden moments. This one had some interesting moments and

2467
02:00:54,520 --> 02:00:57,200
Speaker 1: it's I find that fascinating most. And you know what,

2468
02:00:57,360 --> 02:00:59,920
Speaker 1: here's what happened to season started off with some horror,

2469
02:01:00,560 --> 02:01:03,839
Speaker 1: horrible blowout losses. Right. The Baltimore game was that chokesy.

2470
02:01:03,960 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 1: We were we were crushed to see them come out

2471
02:01:05,880 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: and play that way. The following week came out a halftime,

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02:01:09,840 --> 02:01:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean the following week the Chargers game was awful.

2473
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:15,360
Speaker 1: At halftime they were they were terrible. Um green Bay

2474
02:01:15,400 --> 02:01:18,760
Speaker 1: they got shut out. Uh, you know, the the Indianapolis loss.

2475
02:01:18,800 --> 02:01:20,760
Speaker 1: The Bears lost. That first half of the season, the Bills,

2476
02:01:20,840 --> 02:01:23,800
Speaker 1: we were getting beat up a lot, and it was

2477
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:25,880
Speaker 1: difficult to hang with them for a while for many fans.

2478
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:28,000
Speaker 1: Don't don't forget it was. It was kind of piling

2479
02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:29,840
Speaker 1: on too. Not to say that the season didn't start

2480
02:01:29,880 --> 02:01:32,520
Speaker 1: when it started, but before the season and just after acts,

2481
02:01:32,600 --> 02:01:36,840
Speaker 1: particularly after the Baltimore game. People around the country, some

2482
02:01:37,040 --> 02:01:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, pundits and a lot of guys do this

2483
02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:41,280
Speaker 1: just to get some clicks, obviously, but they were saying, listen,

2484
02:01:41,560 --> 02:01:43,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the worst team in football. Yeah, there's no

2485
02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, they were. They were just piling on the

2486
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:49,240
Speaker 1: club and it was tough. Now, you and I were

2487
02:01:49,280 --> 02:01:51,640
Speaker 1: doing shows and you come in after doing those games,

2488
02:01:52,160 --> 02:01:54,840
Speaker 1: and it was funny. After the first three weeks of

2489
02:01:54,880 --> 02:01:56,960
Speaker 1: the season, we had two blowout losses and then a

2490
02:01:57,000 --> 02:02:02,960
Speaker 1: blowout win and it was like, what, yeah, what's going on?

2491
02:02:03,280 --> 02:02:05,920
Speaker 1: You know? I mean they looked like world beaters against

2492
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:10,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota and yeah, so it's and then they come out

2493
02:02:10,120 --> 02:02:12,160
Speaker 1: and get shut out by Green Bay. I mean, what

2494
02:02:12,360 --> 02:02:14,240
Speaker 1: is going on? It was. It was such a roller

2495
02:02:14,320 --> 02:02:16,080
Speaker 1: coaster of a season. In the beginning of the season

2496
02:02:16,200 --> 02:02:18,800
Speaker 1: was more downs than ups, but the ups were pretty good. Yeah,

2497
02:02:19,160 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 1: you know that's what we're talking to you crazy. The

2498
02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 1: best moment of the season for the Bills. A couple

2499
02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:25,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of news today from Bills general manager

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02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: You're Brandon being on our show. In the first hour

2501
02:02:28,040 --> 02:02:29,760
Speaker 1: of the show's first few minutes of the show. He

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02:02:29,920 --> 02:02:34,320
Speaker 1: essentially confirmed an earlier report from CBS Sports Jason Lakanfa,

2503
02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:37,120
Speaker 1: who reported last night that Bill's offensive line coach and

2504
02:02:37,200 --> 02:02:40,200
Speaker 1: run game coordinator Wine Castile has been let go. Here's

2505
02:02:40,200 --> 02:02:43,880
Speaker 1: what Bills DM Brandon Bean had to say. You know, Sean,

2506
02:02:44,240 --> 02:02:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, decided that we wanted to make a change

2507
02:02:46,840 --> 02:02:51,040
Speaker 1: there and at the end of the day, wands a

2508
02:02:51,120 --> 02:02:53,280
Speaker 1: good coach. Sometimes things just don't work out. I know

2509
02:02:53,400 --> 02:02:56,920
Speaker 1: he'll land on his feet and it wasn't just him

2510
02:02:57,000 --> 02:02:59,120
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but we have to be honest

2511
02:02:59,200 --> 02:03:01,440
Speaker 1: with where we're at, and you know, I know that's

2512
02:03:01,480 --> 02:03:03,880
Speaker 1: an area that Juan wasn't happy with, nor were we,

2513
02:03:04,080 --> 02:03:06,480
Speaker 1: and we just decided to go in a different direction.

2514
02:03:06,680 --> 02:03:10,560
Speaker 1: One Castio relieved of his duties. Reports out there other

2515
02:03:10,640 --> 02:03:13,560
Speaker 1: coaching moves, but nothing. Actually Castillo hasn't been officially announced

2516
02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:16,000
Speaker 1: by the Bills, but of course General manager Brandon being

2517
02:03:16,720 --> 02:03:19,760
Speaker 1: confirmed it for us. It's difficult. I'm sure, right, Castillo

2518
02:03:19,840 --> 02:03:21,720
Speaker 1: a guy that John McDermott brought over here, the Bills

2519
02:03:21,760 --> 02:03:24,240
Speaker 1: brought over here a couple of years ago, the guy

2520
02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:26,560
Speaker 1: that he had worked with before. I'm sure those are

2521
02:03:26,600 --> 02:03:30,160
Speaker 1: not easy decisions or conversations to make to have this

2522
02:03:30,280 --> 02:03:33,120
Speaker 1: time of year. I'll tell you when you're a player,

2523
02:03:33,160 --> 02:03:36,840
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Kyle Williams, I'm sure, Fred Jackson, I'm

2524
02:03:36,880 --> 02:03:38,760
Speaker 1: sure other players have gone through the exact same thing

2525
02:03:38,800 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: I do. When you when you end your career, they

2526
02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:42,880
Speaker 1: always ask you, Hey, you know, have you ever thought

2527
02:03:42,880 --> 02:03:44,560
Speaker 1: about being a coach? People still ask me if I'd

2528
02:03:44,640 --> 02:03:46,280
Speaker 1: like to be a special team's coach or do all

2529
02:03:46,320 --> 02:03:51,760
Speaker 1: that yesterday and today, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, this week. That's

2530
02:03:51,800 --> 02:03:55,880
Speaker 1: why I don't coach. Really, you're you're signing up for

2531
02:03:56,200 --> 02:03:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's two years here in Buffalo, it was

2532
02:03:58,040 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: four years in Caroline, It's going to be a year

2533
02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:02,200
Speaker 1: and a half in Cincinnati's going to be that. You're

2534
02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:04,920
Speaker 1: moving around all the time. My buddy Frank Wright, who's

2535
02:04:04,920 --> 02:04:08,800
Speaker 1: really done well, starts out in Indianapolis for a couple

2536
02:04:08,840 --> 02:04:11,560
Speaker 1: of years, goes to Arizona for a year, goes to

2537
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:14,120
Speaker 1: San Diego for two years, goes to Philly for one year.

2538
02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:17,600
Speaker 1: Now he's back in Indianapolis. I mean, your family is

2539
02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 1: you're living in a tent. You know, you just pitching

2540
02:04:21,960 --> 02:04:24,520
Speaker 1: your tent until the next job comes. Around. I saw

2541
02:04:24,520 --> 02:04:26,520
Speaker 1: Alex van Pelt this last year. He was in Green

2542
02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:28,640
Speaker 1: Bay certainly for a good stint with Mike McCarthy. Now

2543
02:04:28,680 --> 02:04:31,040
Speaker 1: he's in Cincinnati. Now their head coach is fired. Now

2544
02:04:31,080 --> 02:04:33,280
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to him and his family? These

2545
02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:36,160
Speaker 1: coach and they're real guys with real families, real lives,

2546
02:04:36,200 --> 02:04:39,040
Speaker 1: and they're wonderful people. Almost every single one of them

2547
02:04:39,080 --> 02:04:41,480
Speaker 1: that I've ever met, I've thought, Wow, what a great dude.

2548
02:04:41,760 --> 02:04:43,200
Speaker 1: Because you kind of have to be that way as

2549
02:04:43,240 --> 02:04:46,680
Speaker 1: a coach. You got to connect with players. And you know,

2550
02:04:46,800 --> 02:04:52,480
Speaker 1: this week, what a hundred guys around the National Football

2551
02:04:52,520 --> 02:04:54,560
Speaker 1: League are going to be kicked to the curb. You know,

2552
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:57,960
Speaker 1: you say, thirteen or fourteen guys on every staff, new openings,

2553
02:04:58,240 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 1: boots done, Yeah they're all gone, you know. And yeah,

2554
02:05:02,640 --> 02:05:09,440
Speaker 1: it's twenty guys and their families, their wives, their kids

2555
02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:12,880
Speaker 1: being uprooted going to another school across the country, wherever

2556
02:05:12,920 --> 02:05:14,560
Speaker 1: they are on any idea where they're going, and maybe

2557
02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:16,640
Speaker 1: not and maybe never get another job. I mean, maybe

2558
02:05:16,680 --> 02:05:18,480
Speaker 1: they ended up, you know, having to do something else.

2559
02:05:18,600 --> 02:05:21,480
Speaker 1: You don't know, Um, you want to know why you

2560
02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:23,920
Speaker 1: don't want to be a coach? That's it? Right there. Yep,

2561
02:05:24,080 --> 02:05:26,880
Speaker 1: Now there's now they're obviously there are great things about it.

2562
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, the money's good, maybe sure. The fact that

2563
02:05:30,720 --> 02:05:32,800
Speaker 1: you know you can go to sleep at night. Uh,

2564
02:05:33,160 --> 02:05:35,120
Speaker 1: knowing that there are guys on your team that you're

2565
02:05:35,160 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: really helping. You know, you're making a difference in their lives.

2566
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:39,400
Speaker 1: You see a lot of young guys, particularly the older

2567
02:05:39,440 --> 02:05:41,440
Speaker 1: guys who have done it for years and years, guys

2568
02:05:41,480 --> 02:05:43,240
Speaker 1: will come back to him later in life and really

2569
02:05:43,400 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 1: and say thank give him a hug and say thank

2570
02:05:44,960 --> 02:05:46,520
Speaker 1: you so much for what you did to me when

2571
02:05:46,560 --> 02:05:49,160
Speaker 1: I was a kid, helping me through that. There's a

2572
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:51,040
Speaker 1: lot of reward in that. But I'll tell you what,

2573
02:05:51,160 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: your wife and kids have to live with it, and

2574
02:05:53,120 --> 02:05:55,240
Speaker 1: it's it's a hard it's a hard, hard thing to do.

2575
02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:57,160
Speaker 1: And I'm my heart goes out to guys like one

2576
02:05:57,240 --> 02:05:59,440
Speaker 1: Castillo and and all the other guys who have lost

2577
02:05:59,480 --> 02:06:02,640
Speaker 1: their jobs and are moving on. Brandon Mean also talked

2578
02:06:02,640 --> 02:06:04,800
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen, his quarterback, when he joined us on

2579
02:06:04,840 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 1: the show in the noon hour today, Bill's general manager.

2580
02:06:07,440 --> 02:06:10,000
Speaker 1: We asked him about thinking back to the draft, back

2581
02:06:10,040 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 1: to the criticism of Josh Allen and that selection seventh

2582
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:15,760
Speaker 1: overall in the draft, and what he thinks now after

2583
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:18,560
Speaker 1: getting through a season watching Josh Allen the progress of

2584
02:06:18,600 --> 02:06:21,000
Speaker 1: the year. Here's a Brandon Bean said about his decision

2585
02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:23,200
Speaker 1: to draft Josh Allen and what they saw from Allen

2586
02:06:23,400 --> 02:06:26,920
Speaker 1: that led him to be their pick. Yeah. I mean,

2587
02:06:27,000 --> 02:06:28,960
Speaker 1: I go back to what I said the initial day,

2588
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:32,240
Speaker 1: this guy is Buffalo, And I think the more Josh's

2589
02:06:32,320 --> 02:06:35,000
Speaker 1: personality and the more times he was behind the microphone,

2590
02:06:35,040 --> 02:06:37,040
Speaker 1: and the more times he got up after a big

2591
02:06:37,160 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: run and pumped his fist and you know, you either

2592
02:06:40,840 --> 02:06:44,400
Speaker 1: got that in your DNA or you don't. And he

2593
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:48,240
Speaker 1: is blue collar all the way beyond the talent on

2594
02:06:48,360 --> 02:06:52,560
Speaker 1: the field. He really fits this town, this culture, and

2595
02:06:52,680 --> 02:06:55,840
Speaker 1: where we're heading. You gotta feel optimistic about how far

2596
02:06:55,960 --> 02:06:58,720
Speaker 1: he could go, even in his offseason. Most definitely, you

2597
02:06:58,800 --> 02:07:01,879
Speaker 1: know that was part of what these uh these quarterback

2598
02:07:01,920 --> 02:07:04,200
Speaker 1: trips that we did last spring. You know, at this

2599
02:07:04,320 --> 02:07:06,520
Speaker 1: point last year, I'd I'd only seen these guys on

2600
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:09,440
Speaker 1: film and live. I'd never got to talk to him

2601
02:07:09,440 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: the first time. So that's what was so important, is

2602
02:07:12,240 --> 02:07:14,880
Speaker 1: getting to know what's in the core, what's what's in

2603
02:07:14,960 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: the you know, what's in the heart. Um, what's in

2604
02:07:17,760 --> 02:07:20,840
Speaker 1: the soul, what's in the brain, and uh, what you

2605
02:07:21,040 --> 02:07:23,880
Speaker 1: started out with. Josh is very smart. He picked up

2606
02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:26,760
Speaker 1: our you know, our offense and Brian runs a complex offense.

2607
02:07:27,120 --> 02:07:29,640
Speaker 1: He picked it up well and continue to grow and

2608
02:07:29,680 --> 02:07:33,280
Speaker 1: get more comfortable, you know, you know, every game, every rep. UM.

2609
02:07:33,360 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 1: But we like where he's at. Um. He's by no

2610
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:40,360
Speaker 1: means satisfied nor we And that's what's exciting about where

2611
02:07:40,400 --> 02:07:42,840
Speaker 1: we're heading. And I know he is. He's already We

2612
02:07:42,960 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 1: went through a whole plan the other day of what

2613
02:07:44,800 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna do from the time he leaves here and

2614
02:07:47,200 --> 02:07:49,200
Speaker 1: goes back to California to when he's coming back. And

2615
02:07:49,480 --> 02:07:51,040
Speaker 1: he's already talking about when he's gonna get some of

2616
02:07:51,080 --> 02:07:52,920
Speaker 1: the young receivers together and they're gonna throw the ball

2617
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:56,080
Speaker 1: here and there, and Um, it's exciting. That's the leadership

2618
02:07:56,160 --> 02:07:58,120
Speaker 1: part of it, that he wants to get back with

2619
02:07:58,200 --> 02:08:01,320
Speaker 1: our guys so fast. He kind of recovers Bills Genner

2620
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:03,600
Speaker 1: manager Brandon being on our show a couple of hours ago.

2621
02:08:03,640 --> 02:08:05,440
Speaker 1: You know, he said something that we never really we've

2622
02:08:05,520 --> 02:08:07,920
Speaker 1: not spent a lot of time talking about this season

2623
02:08:07,960 --> 02:08:11,120
Speaker 1: when he said Bryan Gables offense is a complicated offense.

2624
02:08:11,440 --> 02:08:13,200
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think, you know, I don't

2625
02:08:13,240 --> 02:08:15,160
Speaker 1: know the intricacies of it, but I believe it is.

2626
02:08:15,440 --> 02:08:18,400
Speaker 1: And especially when you see how versatile this Buffalo offense

2627
02:08:18,520 --> 02:08:20,960
Speaker 1: was this past season, how many different things they tried

2628
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:22,800
Speaker 1: to do it. Look, they weren't very capable of doing

2629
02:08:22,800 --> 02:08:24,840
Speaker 1: a lot of things successfully, but they tried it a

2630
02:08:24,840 --> 02:08:26,760
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Is they tried to find answers.

2631
02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:29,920
Speaker 1: It had to be a very complicated offense, especially for

2632
02:08:30,280 --> 02:08:32,560
Speaker 1: like the earlier Carler pointed out, for a rookie coming

2633
02:08:32,600 --> 02:08:34,680
Speaker 1: in from the University of Wyoming. You know, like you said,

2634
02:08:34,720 --> 02:08:36,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't as successful as you'd like to be in

2635
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:38,120
Speaker 1: a lot of different areas. But I'll tell you this,

2636
02:08:38,240 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 1: the thing that should give a lot of people comfort

2637
02:08:40,360 --> 02:08:44,160
Speaker 1: is they tried everything, and they were trying to find

2638
02:08:44,280 --> 02:08:46,720
Speaker 1: something that some of their their guys did well by

2639
02:08:46,800 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: putting more speed on the field. They started sitting these

2640
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:51,040
Speaker 1: guys deep. Josh throws a great deep ball. He likes

2641
02:08:51,120 --> 02:08:54,720
Speaker 1: doing it. They let him do it. They got these

2642
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:57,200
Speaker 1: young fast guys. They were using these these you know,

2643
02:08:57,400 --> 02:09:00,600
Speaker 1: end to rounds, and these these whips greens and the

2644
02:09:00,760 --> 02:09:03,840
Speaker 1: and the Jets. Jet sweeps were these guys in motion.

2645
02:09:03,880 --> 02:09:06,120
Speaker 1: They tried absolutely everything. You look back and you know,

2646
02:09:06,280 --> 02:09:08,160
Speaker 1: trying to run the ball inside the tackles, trying to

2647
02:09:08,240 --> 02:09:10,000
Speaker 1: use pitch plays, trying to do all this stuff in

2648
02:09:10,040 --> 02:09:12,200
Speaker 1: the running game and the stuff they thought they could

2649
02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:15,000
Speaker 1: lean on wasn't there, right, and they had They were

2650
02:09:15,040 --> 02:09:17,280
Speaker 1: trying a lot of different things, and they changed their

2651
02:09:17,360 --> 02:09:19,640
Speaker 1: roster mid season. We've talked to Brandon Bean about that

2652
02:09:19,720 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: and he says, yeah, we had. You know, they were

2653
02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:22,840
Speaker 1: trying a lot of different things. And I think it

2654
02:09:22,840 --> 02:09:26,440
Speaker 1: should give a lot of people a lot of comfort

2655
02:09:26,520 --> 02:09:28,840
Speaker 1: knowing they've got an offensive staff and a coaching staff

2656
02:09:28,960 --> 02:09:32,680
Speaker 1: that was really and running a system that was versatile

2657
02:09:32,760 --> 02:09:35,160
Speaker 1: enough to have all that stuff in there and trying

2658
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:37,960
Speaker 1: to pull out anything and everything to make it work.

2659
02:09:38,080 --> 02:09:42,280
Speaker 1: And so I'm I'm I'm really happy with what happened

2660
02:09:42,320 --> 02:09:44,920
Speaker 1: with the coaching staff. And I know there's always people

2661
02:09:44,920 --> 02:09:47,200
Speaker 1: who complain about play calling, and I know that and

2662
02:09:47,320 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: I get it. But for me, I don't have too

2663
02:09:50,760 --> 02:09:53,320
Speaker 1: many complaints. I mean, we got to get to break here.

2664
02:09:53,360 --> 02:09:56,080
Speaker 1: I defy anyone to tell me what the twenty eighteen

2665
02:09:56,120 --> 02:10:00,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo offense was because it evolved September ninth, last Sunday.

2666
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 1: Totally different. They're trying totally different things. We'll talk more

2667
02:10:03,560 --> 02:10:05,520
Speaker 1: about that. We're gonna talk more about the twenty eighteen

2668
02:10:05,560 --> 02:10:07,240
Speaker 1: season the rest of this week, So make care your

2669
02:10:07,280 --> 02:10:08,960
Speaker 1: stick around for that. Hey, we want to let you

2670
02:10:09,000 --> 02:10:12,360
Speaker 1: know about reds Milestones presented by Reeds Jewelers, the official

2671
02:10:12,480 --> 02:10:15,520
Speaker 1: jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. Bills quarterback Josh Allen eight

2672
02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:18,800
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns this season, two of them this past Sunday

2673
02:10:19,000 --> 02:10:21,560
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins. Eight rushing touchdowns in a year.

2674
02:10:21,800 --> 02:10:25,600
Speaker 1: That ties Jack Kemp's eight rushing touchdowns in nineteen sixty three.

2675
02:10:26,680 --> 02:10:28,960
Speaker 1: That's a fifty five year old record for the most

2676
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:31,520
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns by a Bills quarterback in a single season.

2677
02:10:31,800 --> 02:10:35,320
Speaker 1: That's milestones presented by Reeds Jewelers, the official jeweler of

2678
02:10:35,360 --> 02:10:37,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We're back with more one Bills Live

2679
02:10:37,760 --> 02:10:55,640
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio time.

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02:10:55,680 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 1: Now for what have we learned? Presented by Advanced Alarm

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02:10:58,200 --> 02:11:00,720
Speaker 1: providing Western New York's homes and business is with the

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02:11:00,800 --> 02:11:04,080
Speaker 1: finess and security and home theater the preferred alarment home

2683
02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:06,560
Speaker 1: theater provider of the Buffalo Bills, started out the show

2684
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:08,760
Speaker 1: with the general manager of the Buffalo Bills, Brandon Bean,

2685
02:11:09,080 --> 02:11:11,080
Speaker 1: and they talked about Josh Allen and how well he

2686
02:11:11,160 --> 02:11:15,080
Speaker 1: fits with the Buffalo Bills. I mean, I go back

2687
02:11:15,120 --> 02:11:17,520
Speaker 1: to what I said the initial day, this guy is Buffalo,

2688
02:11:17,720 --> 02:11:21,040
Speaker 1: and I think the more Josh's personality and the more

2689
02:11:21,200 --> 02:11:23,360
Speaker 1: times he was behind the microphone, and the more times

2690
02:11:23,560 --> 02:11:25,600
Speaker 1: he got up after a big run and pumped his

2691
02:11:25,760 --> 02:11:29,360
Speaker 1: fist and you know, you either got that in your

2692
02:11:29,480 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 1: DNA or you don't. And he is blue collar all

2693
02:11:33,120 --> 02:11:37,120
Speaker 1: the way beyond the talent on the field. He really

2694
02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:41,720
Speaker 1: fits this town, this culture, and where we're heading. We

2695
02:11:41,840 --> 02:11:44,240
Speaker 1: learned what else we talked with about the Baltimore Ravens

2696
02:11:44,280 --> 02:11:47,280
Speaker 1: and about their rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson. Talked with longtime

2697
02:11:47,360 --> 02:11:49,560
Speaker 1: Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta, who's not part of the

2698
02:11:49,640 --> 02:11:52,839
Speaker 1: Ravens radio team, talked about Jackson and the Ravens offenses.

2699
02:11:52,880 --> 02:11:55,840
Speaker 1: They approached this home playoff game Sunday had won against

2700
02:11:55,840 --> 02:12:00,280
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. I think when they first mens

2701
02:12:00,320 --> 02:12:03,240
Speaker 1: of this dial of offense, there was a lot of nase.

2702
02:12:03,280 --> 02:12:05,320
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people myself included, that didn't think

2703
02:12:05,360 --> 02:12:08,040
Speaker 1: it was going to be sustainable. Thought defenses would quickly

2704
02:12:08,120 --> 02:12:10,560
Speaker 1: catch on be able to pack the box and really

2705
02:12:10,640 --> 02:12:12,480
Speaker 1: limit what Lamar was able to do with his legs

2706
02:12:12,520 --> 02:12:16,600
Speaker 1: and forced him to be a passer. But you know what,

2707
02:12:16,920 --> 02:12:19,720
Speaker 1: over the last six seven weeks, they've found ways to

2708
02:12:19,840 --> 02:12:23,240
Speaker 1: continue to make plays in the run game. Lamar is

2709
02:12:23,280 --> 02:12:25,720
Speaker 1: just so dynamic around the edge and its ability to

2710
02:12:26,720 --> 02:12:28,720
Speaker 1: keep the ball and get around the edge or even

2711
02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:32,280
Speaker 1: up the middle and all that has just really stretched

2712
02:12:32,440 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 1: defenses out and kept them guessing. That's what have we learned.

2713
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,200
Speaker 1: In today's show, tomorrow show, what do you think, we'll

2714
02:12:39,200 --> 02:12:40,960
Speaker 1: talk about quarterbacks. You know, see where there's an old

2715
02:12:41,000 --> 02:12:43,480
Speaker 1: scene on the show here. You can never get tired

2716
02:12:43,520 --> 02:12:48,080
Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks. We did it all spring. We got

2717
02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:49,320
Speaker 1: to find out a way to figure out a way

2718
02:12:49,320 --> 02:12:50,760
Speaker 1: to get all the because there's a lot of people

2719
02:12:50,760 --> 02:12:53,280
Speaker 1: who had and we didn't know. But when Josh got drafted,

2720
02:12:53,360 --> 02:12:55,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of outrage, a lot of outcry about

2721
02:12:55,880 --> 02:12:58,280
Speaker 1: they wanted somebody else, They wanted Josh Rosen, they wanted

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or something. Those guys weren't available, you know,

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Speaker 1: Darnold and Mayfield weren't available when the Bills picked. But

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Speaker 1: you know they picked the wrong guy. I hear from them,

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Speaker 1: from those people because they had every right to think

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Speaker 1: that because we didn't know any better. We could say

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Speaker 1: we did, but you know I didn't know right, we

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I want to hear what do you want

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Speaker 1: you on an apology from the No. I want to

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Speaker 1: hear what if they if they said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe I was wrong, But no, I still think

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Speaker 1: I was right. I don't know. I think Josh is

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Speaker 1: the right guy. I'd like to hear from what they say,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know if we're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: word a Twitter poll in the right Wait, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: work on it. I mean, maybe give him a chance

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Speaker 1: to say, you know what, I was wrong, Thanks, I'm

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Speaker 1: back on board with Josh and the Bills again. Or

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Speaker 1: a chance to say, you know what, I'm done with

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Speaker 1: your people. Yeah, most of them probably say that. I

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Speaker 1: still see this. I see that I need to see this. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's all about the future with Josh Allen. There's a

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Speaker 1: long way to go. And also we'll do we'll do

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Speaker 1: a little comparison with the other four. First rounders in

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Speaker 1: that we're in that mode. We're kind of wrapping up

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Speaker 1: this last season that just ended. We're gonna do that

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Speaker 1: for this the rest of this week, probably talk about

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Speaker 1: what happened, where we're headed, and then we'll get into

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Speaker 1: you know, we got free agency on the horizon, they

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Speaker 1: got the draft, got the senior a little bit of level.

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Speaker 1: You know, right, it's all come. But let's let's still

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Speaker 1: talk about this last season, what it meant and maybe

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Speaker 1: what it means for the future. Moron Josh On Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: show joined the un twelve noon. Our production assistants George

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Speaker 1: Blastcheff Colton, Nick Thomas, Donalder, Kelly Road, j J. Turto,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cartis, James Rubell, Our producer Jay Harris. We will

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