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Speaker 1: We're right next door to newer Afield, John Murphy and

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Speaker 1: home opener in the Cincinnati Bengals. Good afternoon, coach Tasker,

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Speaker 1: how are you to doing good? It's time to turn

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Speaker 1: Believe me, it makes a difference. You can think back

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Speaker 1: offensive philosophy, there may be some different plays that you

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Speaker 1: like or don't or steer away from with Yelden in

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Speaker 1: the game as opposed to Singletary, because they are different

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Speaker 1: body types. I think they're different style players. Yelled in

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Speaker 1: a big back with good movement skills, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's quite as elusive as Devon is. So you

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Speaker 1: may change your play calling sheet a little bit based

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Speaker 1: on that. But you know you want to throw some

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Speaker 1: flare passes on third down to get the ball out

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Speaker 1: of Josh's hand because the pass rush is coming. T J.

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Speaker 1: Yeldon can absolutely one fit the bill there. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dot Com, reporting to us from

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Speaker 1: the practice field outside the ed Pro Sports Training Center,

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Speaker 1: Bills getting set for since and Eddie, Chris, I wish

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Speaker 1: you had a nickel for every time I've said this

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Speaker 1: this week. It's only two games. But it's only two games,

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Speaker 1: and yet last year's fifty two percent completion percentage passer

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Speaker 1: is now a sixty four percent completion percentage passer. Yep,

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Speaker 1: too soon to for Josh Hallo to start tagging bows

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Speaker 1: for that. What do you think now? I think it's

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Speaker 1: an encouraging sign. I think we were hoping that we

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Speaker 1: would see him build off of his last start last

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Speaker 1: season in the season finale against Miami. And you know,

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Speaker 1: say what you will about whether Miami was running for

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Speaker 1: the bus or not, but he was a sixty five

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Speaker 1: percent passer in that game, and everybody's like, wow, that

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Speaker 1: was one game. Miami really wasn't you know, going for

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Speaker 1: broke in that game. They were mailing in the season.

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Speaker 1: They knew their season was going nowhere. Okay, fine, But

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Speaker 1: I think the fact that he's been able to duplicate

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Speaker 1: that in these first two games in terms of completion

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Speaker 1: percentage on the whole is certainly an encouraging thing. And

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Speaker 1: people might say, well, you know, he's throwing a lot

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Speaker 1: more shorter passes. He's got Cole Beasley now with these

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Speaker 1: high percentage throws underneath. And I'll tell you, I'll take

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Speaker 1: that a step further. His yards per attempt last year

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Speaker 1: at seven and a half. So I think that kind

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Speaker 1: of refutes that argument. If you want to say he's

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Speaker 1: throwing more shorter, high completion throws, the yards per attempt

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Speaker 1: would indicate not, Hey, there's nothing wrong with throwing shorter

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Speaker 1: high completion throws. That's what everybody does. Do you think

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Speaker 1: problem with it? I'll have a problem with it. I

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Speaker 1: just I'm just saying, you know, there's the death advocate

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Speaker 1: out there that may that may come to the table

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Speaker 1: with that to argue, well, his completion percentage is up

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Speaker 1: because of that, and that's patently untrue. That's all the

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Speaker 1: people who you know, made a half a career out

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Speaker 1: of saying how inaccurate Josh Allen was, and it never

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Speaker 1: work in the NFL. Those people are kind of quiet

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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. He's given them less and less ground

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Speaker 1: to stand on. Yeah, I mean they're running out of arguments,

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Speaker 1: Yeah they are. Yeah, he is. And I'll say this too.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this was planned by coach McDermott,

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Speaker 1: but knowing how detail oriented he is, the first song

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Speaker 1: out here from the DJs at the start of practice

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Speaker 1: was public Enemies don't believe the hype. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's a message for the two and O

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Speaker 1: an interesting selection in terms of the playlist, shall we say? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I should also mention guys that two other guys not

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Speaker 1: could very well be veteran rest days. Again, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to wait on the injury report to know whether

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Speaker 1: here right now. One other guy I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about is Tyler Croft. He's been injured. He's

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Speaker 1: been on the shelf for the entire offseason. He had

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Speaker 1: surgery on his foot. He's back in and the note

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Speaker 1: by no maybe perhaps by some fortuitous break in destiny,

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Speaker 1: he's coming back or has a chance to come back

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Speaker 1: and fully practice in the same week they're playing his

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Speaker 1: old team. You think that was orchestrated for a month fortuitous?

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Speaker 1: I gotta write this downs break in his destiny. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is fantast I gotta keep that one. That's a

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Speaker 1: fifty cent sentence there, Steve, well done. Yeah, I would uh,

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Speaker 1: I would say the chances are good that he plays

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Speaker 1: this week. I think they They've been supremely cautious in

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Speaker 1: bringing him back in a very almost on an incremental

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Speaker 1: basis here, guys, and I think it's because this is

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Speaker 1: a foot injury that he's had before. He's had to

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Speaker 1: have surgery on it in the spring. He was listed

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Speaker 1: questionable in week two did not dress. There's no more

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Speaker 1: probable on the injury reports anymore. So you're hoping with

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Speaker 1: a full go in practice here today, that he feels

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Speaker 1: great tomorrow, and what that could hold is a very

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Speaker 1: promising chance for him to be dressed for Sunday's game

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Speaker 1: against his old team. So yeah, very fortuitous Bill's debut

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Speaker 1: against his former club. All four tight ends up on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Would you think how would they play that? Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: elements that are happening on the injury list. You know,

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Speaker 1: is Andre Roberts healthy, can he play? Does he make

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Speaker 1: his Bill's debut this Sunday? I think if he's up,

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Speaker 1: that probably means only three tight ends are up this week.

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Speaker 1: If Croft is healthy and ready to go, well, the

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Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is you see those tight ends

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Speaker 1: course Tyler Croft. They're all the same guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're all six five guys. The only guy that doesn't

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Speaker 1: fit is Lee Smith, who is a kind of an

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. But Sweeney and Knocks are really cut out

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Speaker 1: of the same carbon copy as Tyler Croft. They're all

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Speaker 1: kind of these tall, lanky dudes who really, I think

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Speaker 1: Now there are They are getting pretty on the pretty

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Speaker 1: good edge blocking from all of them. But Lee Smith

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Speaker 1: oh man, Tyler Croft, you talk about it. If if

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Speaker 1: you're looking at the Buffalo Bills, you gotta get a

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Speaker 1: pretty good idea of what they want in a tight end.

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Speaker 1: Look at the three top guys they've got. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: the interesting thing there is what let you know. And

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Speaker 1: let's assume for now that Tyler Crofts Croft is active

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Speaker 1: be interested to see what they feel comfortable with him

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Speaker 1: in his first game action. Are they simply just gonna

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Speaker 1: have him detached all day and running routes in the

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Speaker 1: passing game, or are they gonna have him stand in

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Speaker 1: there and grind and block a little bit in the

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Speaker 1: run game with Lee Smith? If they go twelve personnel,

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Speaker 1: for example. I'm just curious to see how much demand

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Speaker 1: and torque they want to put on that foot. Not

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Speaker 1: to say it's not going to be under stress and torque.

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Speaker 1: When you're running routes and you know, breaking down and

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Speaker 1: getting in and out of breaks, there's torque there too,

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Speaker 1: for sure. I'm just curious what the workload's gonna be

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Speaker 1: like for him. I don't think it's gonna be solely

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Speaker 1: predicated on the game plan. I think it might also

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Speaker 1: be predicated on what, you know, the medical staff and

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Speaker 1: everybody feels comfortable with him doing in the scope of

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Speaker 1: the offense. I'm with you, Brownie. I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be really interesting. If Dawson Knox is ready to

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Speaker 1: go and Andre Roberts is ready to go, how they're

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Speaker 1: gonna work their inactives this week off that fifty three man.

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Speaker 1: I think that's an enormous question. I think at the

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Speaker 1: Bengals have got to be sitting there scratching their heads

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Speaker 1: wondering as well. Yeah, and I don't know that it's

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Speaker 1: tremendously strategic, because you know, Cincinnati, if they're if they're

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Speaker 1: doing their due diligence, they're preparing for all of those

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Speaker 1: players to be available and up on Sunday and have

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Speaker 1: matchups planned for accordingly. But yeah, Croft has not been

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Speaker 1: on film in this offense yet. Andre Roberts basically preseason

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Speaker 1: film in this offense. So those are two elements that

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Speaker 1: the Bills could bring to the table this week where

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati really doesn't have much to go on. Chris, thanks

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Speaker 1: for this. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thank you, You got it, guys.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dot com. You can

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Speaker 1: catch his work there. He will write about today's practice

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Speaker 1: and let you know what went on to have the

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Speaker 1: updated injury report when practice ends. We thank him for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Got a good show here coming up today.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what's coming up. You just heard Chris

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Speaker 1: coming up at one o'clock. Field Yates from ESPN Fantasy

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Speaker 1: football guru and all around NFL expert and Oliver Bill's

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman coming up your practice today. Need your participation

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Speaker 1: as well. And look, we're not we don't have a

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Speaker 1: parade coming down Abbott Road yet, but the Bills are

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Speaker 1: two and oh. And our question of the day, not

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Speaker 1: a Twitter poll, but a question today, what's the best

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Speaker 1: thing the Buffalo Bills have done to get off to

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Speaker 1: this two and oz start. You decide, we have no

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Speaker 1: options for you to vona the best thing the Bills

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Speaker 1: have done to get off to a two and o

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Speaker 1: start this year. Love to hear from your phone lines

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Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Send it a tweet. We can read it on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Let us know what you think. What's the

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Speaker 1: best thing the Bills have done to get off to

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Speaker 1: this good start this year? All right, a break. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about that question and let you know what else

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Speaker 1: going on here and around the NFL. Come on back

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Speaker 1: with us. One Bill's Live presented by a Lot of Health.

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Speaker 1: We're at the Seneca studio at One Bill's Drive and

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Okay, one goes live. We

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Speaker 1: have had our check in with Chris Brown and stuff

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Speaker 1: to watch on the field today and the practice field today.

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Speaker 1: Turn Avious White starting corner in a red dawn contact Jersery.

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Speaker 1: No practice for Devin's singletary, no practice for Taran Johnson,

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Speaker 1: full practice for Tyler Croft and limited work for Andre Roberts.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you up to date on that all day long,

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Speaker 1: as soon as we know something, and of course of

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Speaker 1: the post practice injury report, we'll be out later today,

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Speaker 1: probably a three oh one. And but that's when it

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Speaker 1: living that, we're living the dream man. Everything happens just

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Speaker 1: after it meet after we can use it. Best thing

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Speaker 1: the Bills have done to get off to this two

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Speaker 1: and I'll start. That's what we'd like to talk with

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Speaker 1: you about today. And again we're not in celebration mode.

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Speaker 1: There's a long way to go. I say, said to

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Speaker 1: days one hundred and fifty times. Only two and only

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Speaker 1: and O. I mean I had you've got mad at me.

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Speaker 1: I had to stay at the other day. It's up

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Speaker 1: on the website now. The Bills started and oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, back in twenty eleven, finished that season with

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Speaker 1: six wins. I'm not saying that'll happen, but that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff can't happen. That kind of stuff can't happen

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Speaker 1: to this team or any team in the league. That's

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Speaker 1: it is a week somewhere, and I can't remember who

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Speaker 1: exactly says it's true. You know it is true things

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Speaker 1: They went into opening day thinking, all right, here we

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Speaker 1: go Bell, C. J. Mosley, Sam Darnold. Although, let's go, man,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be awesome. They are almost dead. Now

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Speaker 1: the season's not over, but right now they are almost

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Speaker 1: it's not over, but their planes on fire, and it

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Speaker 1: is diving nose first. Yeah, maydea May. It's unbelievously and listen,

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Speaker 1: Fox is going to start Week three at quarterback? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who was so? So you know, it could happen to anybody,

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Speaker 1: including the team were we cover, including the Bills, including

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, including all these other teams. It could happen.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it. The Patriots law another offensive lineman today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know they you know, so they've got their own

645
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Speaker 1: issues to deal with. And it's you know, the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first it was that we saw. First it

647
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Speaker 1: was Kiko Alonso, then it was Laramie Tunsel, and now

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Speaker 1: it was Mica Fitzpatrick. These guys, I'm out. They they're

649
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: bailing about the team tanking. The players are bailing. They're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm out of here, man, forget it. So that's the point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: two and O is great, but and uh, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee anything. And we don't know for you, what's

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Speaker 1: the best thing the Bills have done to get two

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Speaker 1: and O so far? Give us a call eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, or you can send in a tweet.

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Speaker 1: We'll read it on the tweet sheet. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to that in a moment. Call first, Jerry and Niagara

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Speaker 1: fall solo. Jerry, go ahead, you're on the air with us,

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Speaker 1: John and Steve. Hey, you know something. Our offense is

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Speaker 1: very good, but they're missing something. And I think McDermott

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Speaker 1: and I love them, it's missing something. If you had

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Speaker 1: a nice six four receiver in the end zone and

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Speaker 1: there's a guy I had the practice squad who with

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Speaker 1: Canada they thought was the best guy they ever seen,

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Speaker 1: and I think we need something like that when we

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Speaker 1: play these new England teams and better teams. I'll hang

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Speaker 1: up about I get it. Well, you got you got

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Speaker 1: four tight ends that are all six five. You can

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Speaker 1: throw all them out there too. I mean there's nothing

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Speaker 1: that said you don't have to run that fast when

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Speaker 1: you've only got a ten yard field too. So, say

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Speaker 1: Jones is not small. He's six two, two hundred pounds

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Speaker 1: on paper, He's not a small receiver. Yeah. So, I

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Speaker 1: mean they've got they've got believe me, when they want it,

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Speaker 1: they'll put somebody out there. They can do it. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, Duke Williams made a spot for

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Speaker 1: himself on the practice squad of this team. I think

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Speaker 1: they like what he brings to it, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to be interesting see if you ever gets activated. Right now,

681
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Speaker 1: they've got Robert Foster, Isaiah McKenzie, and Andre Roberts rounding

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Speaker 1: out the field from Cole Beasley, John Brown and Zay Jones.

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Speaker 1: So those are the six guys that are active. If

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Speaker 1: anything happens to any one of those, you can you

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Speaker 1: can bet that the next guy up is going to

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Speaker 1: be somebody and maybe Duke Williams. But yeah, it all

687
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Speaker 1: sounds great when you've got this nine foot tall wide

688
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Speaker 1: receiver who can go out we've seen it with those

689
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Speaker 1: guys are hard to find, and it's and they're you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's just not that easy, as I guess, is

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Speaker 1: what I'm trying to get at. It's not that easy

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Speaker 1: just to line the guy up and let him go

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Speaker 1: out there and jump for it. The other guys on

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Speaker 1: playing defense around the NFL that we're gonna be playing

695
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Speaker 1: in the upcoming weeks in Cincinnati and in New England,

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Speaker 1: in Miami and Pittsburgh, and they got some guys on

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Speaker 1: scholarship too, And it's if it was that easy, it

698
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Speaker 1: just be about going out and hiring a basketball player

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Speaker 1: to play wide receiver and bring him in on certain downs.

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Speaker 1: You can defend those guys too. So I get what

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Speaker 1: you're saying, Jerry, But by the same token, you need

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Speaker 1: the guys on your team to do a lot of things, well,

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Speaker 1: not just one. Hey, let's get to the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: It is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. I don't know from you,

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Speaker 1: what's the best thing the Bills have done that helps

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Speaker 1: them get off to this two And I'll start so far.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with John John tweetson Bean and McDermott rebuilding

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Speaker 1: the offensive line through free agency in the draft. Between

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Speaker 1: the pass protection and the run blocking literally pushing imposing

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Speaker 1: defensive players back or running them over. This sole line

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Speaker 1: is miles I had of last year. I agree miles ahead,

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Speaker 1: and I would think that that's the best thing I

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Speaker 1: think about the two and O's start, and to me,

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Speaker 1: it was the thing I was maybe least sure of.

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Speaker 1: I knew John Brown was a good player. I knew

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley had a role to play and would play

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Speaker 1: it he has. I knew that they you know, the

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Speaker 1: running backs were going to be fine. Once you saw

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Speaker 1: Motor Singletary in the preseason, I knew that would be fine.

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Speaker 1: But I did not know as recently as two weeks

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Speaker 1: ago what this offensive line would look like. Shoot two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, I didn't know who's gonna line up where.

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Speaker 1: And now that I see it, now they see how

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Speaker 1: they're doing, and they're not perfect, and they've got other

726
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Speaker 1: they were still trying to work some spots in. But

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Speaker 1: that I mean, he's the most surprising and the best

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Speaker 1: part of the two. And I'll start the way the

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Speaker 1: offensive line has played. I agree. I think that has

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Speaker 1: led to the fact that last year the team averaged

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Speaker 1: what fourteen points a game. Now they're averaging I think

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Speaker 1: similar like twenty two points a game they had twenty

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Speaker 1: seven and seventeen or twenty eight and seventeen respectively. I

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Speaker 1: think it's forty five points a game. So they they're

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Speaker 1: already averaging more than a touchdown more than they did

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Speaker 1: a year ago. And I think it starts with the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Certainly, the guys outside Cope Easley, John Brown

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Speaker 1: and the development of Josh Allen, Frank Gore, Devins, the

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Speaker 1: tight ends. All we've been talking about. All those guys

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Speaker 1: are good, but none of it happens if they don't

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Speaker 1: have time to throw the football or room to run

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Speaker 1: the football and be more balanced When they want to

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Speaker 1: be more balanced. The offensive line has been a huge factor.

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Speaker 1: It was an enormous foot point of emphasis. We spent

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Speaker 1: months talking about it, and we didn't know if it

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Speaker 1: was gonna work right up until opening day when Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morris finally showed up in that week and they got

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Speaker 1: their self settled in and already I mean, the contrast

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Speaker 1: is stark from where they were a year ago with

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Speaker 1: their offensive line and the results are evident already. It's

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Speaker 1: already they're scoring more than a touchdown a game more.

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Speaker 1: We're in the tweet shee, why don't you give us

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Speaker 1: another one? Off the tweet sheet their sheet from Johnny.

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Speaker 1: He says playing smart football on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 1: staying discipline and limiting penalties have been a huge positive.

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Speaker 1: And the limiting and the limiting number of and the

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Speaker 1: limiting of turnovers has helped out a lot on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Certainly, we saw them overcome

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Speaker 1: four turnovers in the Jet game, uh, Johnny, and then

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Speaker 1: not turn it over at all against the Giants in

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Speaker 1: a game. And both those games the Bills were in

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Speaker 1: control of both those games. I thought, even down sixteen

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Speaker 1: to nothing, and they were out playing the Jets. I

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Speaker 1: thought offensively, they were moving the football and the batted

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Speaker 1: passes and a muffed exchange. I don't want to they counted, yes,

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Speaker 1: But even so, the Bills inside those turnovers were playing

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Speaker 1: extremely well. And the Bill's defense holding him to just

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Speaker 1: eight points on the on the half or on the

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Speaker 1: game was huge in that I thought the Bills were

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Speaker 1: a better football team than the Jets. It showed in

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Speaker 1: the final outcome, even though it was by one point

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Speaker 1: and the Giants, outside of that first drive, for three

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Speaker 1: and a half quarters of that game, the Bills were

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Speaker 1: in control of that. So I'm I'm with you totally.

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Speaker 1: I think their ability to stay disciplined, keep the turn

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Speaker 1: keep the penalties down, and limit turnovers. Man, they're a

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Speaker 1: tough team to beat. We'll get more on this. The

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Speaker 1: best thing the Bills have done to start this season two.

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Speaker 1: And I want to hear from you on the phones

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Speaker 1: or sending a tweet. We'll read it on the tweet sheets.

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Speaker 1: Steve came in today with a Smile Cookie from Tim Hortons.

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Speaker 1: How was that? It was right out here as a

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Speaker 1: goner dustin hour and that was in ninety minutes digested.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, it was really good. This is the

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Speaker 1: week from Smile Cookie. Yeah it wasn't my favorite kind

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Speaker 1: of cookie, but I ate it and it was forced

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Speaker 1: down surprisingly good for me. You know, I'm a chocolate

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Speaker 1: chip guy. This wasn't it. I don't know, some sort

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Speaker 1: of raising okay, oatmeal. It was really good. Smile Cookies

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Speaker 1: all this sweek at Tim Horton's Buffalo area locations. One dollar, right,

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Speaker 1: you paid a dollar for it a little early in

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Speaker 1: the day for me, but I still you know, I gotta.

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Speaker 1: I got it down. Proceeds go to the ECMC Trauma

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Speaker 1: Center and this Sunday, ECMC will sell cookies and the

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Speaker 1: lots and sweets here at New air Field on game Day.

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Speaker 1: And there's all kinds of promotion for the Smile Cookie

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Speaker 1: a contest. If you share a photo of a smile

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Speaker 1: cookie using the hashtag hashtag show us your Smile on

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Speaker 1: Twitter or Instagram, you have a chance to win two

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Speaker 1: tickets and pregame on field passes to the home opener

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, and a twenty dollars gift card to Tim Hortons.

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Speaker 1: I forgot about it. You still do it? Smile? I can't.

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Speaker 1: I don't have my cookie. It's gone. You don't need

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Speaker 1: a cookie, I do have. I gotta. You got a

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Speaker 1: share photo of a smile a cookie cooking. You have

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Speaker 1: to get one tomorrow. It's a huge mental mistake. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: smile cookies all this week, Tim Horton. It gives me

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Speaker 1: an excuse to do it tomorrow. Come on back, and

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Speaker 1: we got more of the show to come. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Ide presented by Kalidah Hell from our Seneca Studio at

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Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live. I'm John Murphy next to the

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Speaker 1: Steve Cancer. We're here until three today. Field Yates of

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Speaker 1: ESBN coming up with us at one o'clock today. We're

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Speaker 1: asking you the question this segment, what's the best thing

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Speaker 1: the Bills have done to get started to a oh

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Speaker 1: this year? What do you think? Give us a call

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Denny on the line from Henry

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Speaker 1: Heat of New York. Go ahead, Denny, Y're on the ear.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, I just want to say it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a three part thing. I want to say expectation management,

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Speaker 1: locker room management, and ego management. Well, the rest of

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Speaker 1: the AFC right now, looking at dumpster fire, I think

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Speaker 1: we look like a diesel engine. And I just want

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Speaker 1: to credit, you know, Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean. It's

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Speaker 1: not an easy thing to do, especially in a league

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Speaker 1: of you know, there's a lot of talent out there

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Speaker 1: and a lot of egos and I just don't see

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Speaker 1: that in this Bill team. And I just see them,

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Speaker 1: you know, a very tuttle vision mindset from these guys,

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Speaker 1: and uh, I'm excited. Interesting ego management was I always

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Speaker 1: thought Steve a large portion of Marv Levy's success as

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Speaker 1: your head coach. Seriously, not your big kid we had.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was included in. I was a you know,

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Speaker 1: I was a pig too, So I mean, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was a big issue back then and not so much here.

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Speaker 1: Uh that that back then was a different, little bit

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Speaker 1: different philosophy. Now, they did put a lot of emphasis

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Speaker 1: or at least they said they put a lot of

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Speaker 1: emphasis on on the character of that team and stuff.

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Speaker 1: But we also had some guys in there who are

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Speaker 1: high character, guys who were policemen, Guys like Daryl Tallet,

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Speaker 1: Ken hull Um, you know, guys who were able to

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Speaker 1: talk to those big big rock stars on you know,

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00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: John Paul George and Ringo, you know the Beatles. You know,

847
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: we had we had guys that could, you know, rain

848
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: those guys in and get them on the on the

849
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: right path, and and it was it was a lot

850
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: of fun to be a part of. And I'll go

851
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: along with Denny the caller, this crew doesn't have any

852
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: of that. It seems to be a real family type,

853
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: all in it together, nobody more important than anybody else

854
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: kind of atmosphere, and it starts with a head coach

855
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff. I think it's I think it's

856
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: a really really intriguing atmosphere that they've cultivated here. I

857
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: think it does make a big, big difference in the

858
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 1: outcome of these games and the way these games are

859
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: take place on the field and the way they prepare

860
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday, which is as big a factor in

861
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: anything as you can imagine. So I'm with Denny. I

862
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: think the atmosphere and all the expectations and the locker

863
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: room that they have and the egos that they manage,

864
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: I think it all goes into that pot and it

865
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: has made for this a huge and huge measure. Is

866
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: a reason for their fast start. And the name of

867
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: that pot, and people don't want to acknowledge it. The

868
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: name of that pot culture team culture. Right, there's all

869
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: that stuff is filed under team coach. We have this.

870
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: This is it's a big topic here in Buffalo about

871
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: this team because Sean McDermott has made a big point

872
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: about it. The team makes a big point about it.

873
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: They trumpet it a lot. It shows up every once

874
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: in a while in intangible ways at least. They say

875
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: it's it's culture that does it. And there's people, most

876
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: notably on this station, who they kind of poo poo it.

877
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I don't. I believe and have seen how

878
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: and felt and lived how important it is. That's all

879
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: there is to it. I mean, I think they don't.

880
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: Coaches all over the league don't say it because it's

881
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: not true. They say it because it is true. Say

882
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: you call here from Phil and Buffalo. Go ahead, Phil,

883
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey guys, how are you okay?

884
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: I just uh, I just remember watching the game Sunday,

885
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: that first drive when say, Quad they marched down the

886
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: field and he's scored, and I was like, oh, here

887
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: we go in for a long day. And then I

888
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: just you know, something happened. The coaches made the adjustment,

889
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: and the defense showed up and we shut him down

890
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: and that was the rest of the story for the

891
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: rest of the game. And it was neat to see

892
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: adjustments being made, uh in during end game and uh

893
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: see the results and see the you know that process

894
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: that we're talking about making strides. And there was one

895
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: play where Alan rolled out to the right and he's

896
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: on the run and he uh, he makes that throw.

897
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: I think he hit the tight end, but he hit

898
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: him right in the chest with a fastball, you know,

899
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: great throw. If that throws three yards wide either side,

900
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: that's an interception and that's a turnover. But he made

901
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: the throw and it was a third down I believe.

902
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but that that made me just be like,

903
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: do you know this guy gets it and he's doing it,

904
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just a great a great day

905
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: and a great game, and we did it. And now

906
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: we're onto Sinnati and the home opener, and I think

907
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: it's going to be a blast and can't wait for

908
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: the smells of the barbecues and all the fires and

909
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: everything on Sunday. It's going to be great. You're right, Phil,

910
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things you point to there.

911
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: That first drive where they got hit in the mouth

912
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: by the Giants, both offensively and defensive. There's a three

913
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: and out offensively and right after a defense that God

914
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: ran right through and they had to put it back

915
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: to that same offense, but something was different. They come

916
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: out for the second series and they talked about it,

917
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: made some adjustments and they shored it up and they

918
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: stopped him the rest of the game, with the exception

919
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,720
Speaker 1: of a drive. The offense came out and got it together.

920
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 1: You saw Josh Allen make a play when the team

921
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: needed him to make a play. You saw guys come through,

922
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: and all these things, you know, kind of compile to

923
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: buy confidence a confidence level from the fan base, right,

924
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean, we start to feel like, wow, look at

925
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: our coaching staff did make a difference there. They didn't

926
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: make you know, and they are thinking about this. They

927
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: even though they didn't go for they went conservative at

928
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: the end of the first half. Maybe it's because they

929
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: felt confident with what they they were in control. Again,

930
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: they're by two touchdowns. Why do we need to risk

931
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: anything here? Let them risk it? Right? All these decisions

932
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: and plays that guys make and adjustments that we can

933
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: more perceive than actually tangibly describe, give you a lot

934
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: of confidence going forward. But let me say it this time,

935
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: it's only two games. Hey, we got a long way

936
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: to go, taking off a long way to go, and

937
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: stuff will happen, good stuff and best stuff. Gotta be

938
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: ready for it. Hey, if you're coming out to the

939
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: games Sunday and if you're coming in a Limo or

940
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: a bus, don't forget you need a permit ahead of

941
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: time to park in the new Bust and Limo parking lot.

942
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: If your bus or Limo does not have a permit,

943
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: it'll be turned away from our information on Busts and

944
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: Limo parking permits. Contact Tailgate Guys, email Limit Bills at

945
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: tailgate guys dot com or call seven one six eighty

946
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: one nineteen Tailgate Guys. This week starts this week the

947
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: Bust and Limo parking field. Gates can join us if

948
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: you have a fantasy football questions. He's the guy to ask.

949
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 1: He's coming up next to after the top of the hour,

950
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: Field eighth from ESPN. We'll talk about the Bills and

951
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: the rest of the league as well. Come on back,

952
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Collaid to Health. This is

953
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Stories. The update from

954
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Bills practicing as we speak outside

955
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: the ad Pro Sports Training Center full practice today for

956
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: tend Tyler Craft were covering from surgery on his broken foot.

957
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: It happened last spring. He is he had to play

958
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: this year, but it may happen this week. Now limited

959
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: practice for a return of specialist wide receiver Andre Roberts.

960
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: He said that quad injury since the first week of

961
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: the regular season, hasn't played yet. No practice today for

962
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: running back Devin Singletary with his hamstring. No practice for

963
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: cornerback Terren Johnson still in the hamstring, and quarterback for

964
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: daboas White wearing the red non contact jersey today. No

965
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: word on whether he is injured or not. Those Bengals Sunday,

966
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: I want o'clock the home opener here at Newerrafield. Got

967
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: the play by play on the flagship in Buffalo WGR

968
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: Sports Radio five fifty. I'll have the call of the

969
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: game with Eric Wood on color analysis and salth Capacco

970
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. The Jets trying to add to their

971
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: depth chart at quarterback now they're going to sign quarterback

972
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: David Vales to back up Luke Flock for their Sunday

973
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots. The Jets and two and scrambling

974
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks ever since Sam Darnold was sidelined with mono nucleosis,

975
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: and then Trevor Simeon that started this last Monday, was

976
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: lost for the season when he tore ligaments in his

977
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: left knee. Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey likely not to

978
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: be gone before their Thursday night game. The Jaguars are

979
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: host of Tennessee Titans Thursday night. It's reported that a

980
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,760
Speaker 1: trade of the corner before the game is not likely,

981
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: even though Ramsey has requested a trade and the Jaguars

982
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: appear ready to do it. The Lions cut veteran running

983
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: back C J. Anderson yesterday after being awarded Paul Perkins

984
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: on waivers. Perkins had just been released by the Giants

985
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: last week, so they made a swap of veteran running backs.

986
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 1: Patriots have put starting tack Isaiah Win on injured reserve

987
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: with a toe injury. He could return later this season,

988
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: but he can't practice for six weeks is not eligible

989
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: to play in a game for eight weeks. The loss

990
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: of Win another blow to the Patriots offensive line, which

991
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: is dealt with a string of injuries and retirements since

992
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: last spring. Drew Brees headed to Los Angeles step surgery

993
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: on his injured hand the torn ligament in his thumb,

994
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: and the Savers lost their preseason game last night to

995
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: Columbus by a score of four to one. They play

996
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: Friday in Toronto against the Leafs as their preseason continues.

997
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker ready for hour two of the

998
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: show One Bills Live. Coming to you from our Seneca

999
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: studio at one Bill's Drive. Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for

1000
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: joining us and joining us on the line right now,

1001
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: our regular guest Wednesdays at one o'clock here to talk

1002
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: about the Bills, the NFL, and fantasy football. He is

1003
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: an ESPN NFL Insider, hosts of ESPN's The Fantasy Show,

1004
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: hosts of the fantasy focused football podcast Field Yates on

1005
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: the line. Hello, Field, John Murphy and Steve Tasker here

1006
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on. Hey, hey guys, how

1007
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: are we doing today? Good to talk to you, Yeah,

1008
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: doing great. Take it away so good. We just kind

1009
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: of ask you first some opening impressions about the Buffalo

1010
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,240
Speaker 1: Bills so far too And oh, I know that they've

1011
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: played the Jets, who well, maybe the Jets weren't on

1012
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: fire when they know a dumpster fire when they played

1013
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: an opening day. Certainly they've fallen off the cliff in

1014
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: the week first two weeks, and then they played the

1015
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: Giants who are switched quarterbacks. So what are your impressions

1016
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: about the Bills in their first two wins, well, I

1017
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: think you guys know, maybe some of those listening to

1018
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: the show know that I was optimistic about the Bills

1019
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: this offseason, felt like this was a team that was

1020
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction, that the process was clearly

1021
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: in place, like some of the moves made in free agency.

1022
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: But I would say that a sign of a good

1023
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: team or a team on the rise is one who

1024
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: takes care of business against teams. And I believe they

1025
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: should beat and I know that the Bills ever will

1026
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 1: never and don't ever go into a game saying publicly

1027
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: we should beat this team. None of the guarantees. It's

1028
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: a very different type of comment you would hear from

1029
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: someone like Sean McDermott, very measured, very expectful week to week,

1030
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: and the players are I think, following that lead that

1031
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: being said, those us on the outside or someone like

1032
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: myself fully that they are more talented than both the

1033
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: Jets and the Giants. And they went there on the

1034
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: road and back to back weeks in one games, and

1035
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: I believe they should have one, which is an excellent

1036
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: sign of a team because where I think the NFL

1037
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: becomes a not for long business quickly is when teams

1038
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: don't take care of business in games, you expect them too.

1039
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: We see that every single week in the NFL. We're

1040
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: going to see it again in week three. It's just

1041
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: a buy a product of how the game works. But

1042
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: I've been really encouraged. But what I've seen from the

1043
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: Bills through the first two weeks, going on the road,

1044
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: back to back games, it feels like they should be

1045
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,959
Speaker 1: the one they can call MetLife Stadium home now. Even

1046
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: the fact that they are two and oh. Do you

1047
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: believe the Bills are more talented than this week's opponents

1048
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: as Cincinnati Bengals. I do as well. This is why

1049
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: I think they have an excellent opportunity to progress to

1050
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: three and o. And again, I'm not trying to make

1051
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,959
Speaker 1: this a simple thing in the Bills just just show

1052
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: up and win. But I think this is a team

1053
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: that certainly is trending in the right direction. In the

1054
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: Bills playing the first game at home, you know that

1055
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: Western New York is very ready for a home game

1056
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: at one of the most I think one of the

1057
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: most enjoyed in stadium experiences. A new air of field

1058
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: that we have in the NFL. The Bengals are a

1059
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: team that was pesky in Week one. They certainly gave

1060
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: Seattle all they can handle on the road. Another place

1061
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: it's not easy to win is Seattle. But Cincinnati has

1062
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: had some major defensive struggles so so far. They have

1063
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: been generous to opposing passing games and the ground game

1064
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: has really not gotten going for Cincinnati. Through two games,

1065
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: the Bengals have sixty rushing yards. Now, they got plenty

1066
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: of passing yards, but the ground game has not been

1067
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: a strength, not been a hallmark, not been a calling

1068
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: card for Cincinnati the first two weeks of this season. Well,

1069
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: the Bills certainly struggled to get going last year. What

1070
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: do you think the biggest difference is for the Buffalo

1071
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: Bills compared to a team that they were last year.

1072
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: Had a top five defense a year ago, but their

1073
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: offense was certainly sputtering, and they did nothing but work

1074
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: on that this offseason. It seems to have paid some

1075
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: dividends already. Yeah, I'd say so. And certainly this is

1076
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: a team that has way more balanced this year. And

1077
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: I think that starts with the improved play of Josh Allen,

1078
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: who despite the fact that He's such an unbelievable threat

1079
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: with his legs as we've seen throughout the season so far.

1080
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: Ten carries this past week and that awesome design by

1081
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: Brian Daball, the offensive coordinator on the quarterback keep to score.

1082
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: Believe it was the second or third touchdown of the

1083
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: day for the Bills in Week two against the Giants,

1084
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: but much improved as a passer. The weapon certainly are

1085
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: much better. Cole Beasley has made an impact. John Brown

1086
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: was awesome in Week one and we haven't even seen

1087
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: Some of the guys are going to count down, like

1088
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, who I know John mentioned a minute ago,

1089
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: making progress in terms of his return from that offseason injuries.

1090
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 1: So very much excited to from what we can see

1091
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: or out of what we will see from this Bill's offense,

1092
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: with hopefully Devin Singletary being good to go on Sunday.

1093
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: We'll obviously see on that after leaving Week two with

1094
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: that hamstring issue. I Field, we know Josh Allen is

1095
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: not perfect, has not been perfect through two games, But

1096
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: from your perspective, what do we need to see from

1097
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: him next? What is maybe the missing link in Josh

1098
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: Allen's game right now? A little bit more accuracy. And

1099
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: you know, coaches will tell you that numbers don't matter,

1100
00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,479
Speaker 1: and that's correct. In a lot of ways, they don't matter.

1101
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: There are satistics that are slightly more pertinent than others, though,

1102
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: and I think that the improved accuracy for Josh Allen

1103
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: will be reflected as he continues to get just mature

1104
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: in this league, right, I mean, this is just what

1105
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: this will be his sixteenth start or seventeenth, fifteenth start

1106
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: coming up, So as a player that has minimal experience

1107
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: relatives where he's going to be eastern enough in his

1108
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: career trajectory, I think the consistency and the accuracy of

1109
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: the two things that are going to improve for Josh.

1110
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: But you know, again, when we're talking about a player

1111
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: who's twenty three years old, right, I mean, we're not

1112
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: talking about somebody that's anywhere close to being a finished product.

1113
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: That's just how the NFL world works. To Patrick Mahomes

1114
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: at twenty four is very much the rare exception as

1115
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: opposed to the rule in young quarterbacks in the NFL.

1116
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: So I think a bit more consistent accuracy from Josh

1117
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: Allen is going to be key. And then you know,

1118
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: I think one thing that Josh and this is not

1119
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: anything specific to him. It's just being a quarterback that

1120
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: is mobile enough to be a threat as a runner.

1121
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: The real challenge is not letting your instincts in the

1122
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: pocket go and just becoming a runner because you can

1123
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: standing tall in the pocket, playing well under pressure. Things

1124
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: that I've seen from Josh Allen and things that I

1125
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: want to see from them continuing going forward, Well, they're

1126
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: gonna get on the home field for the first time

1127
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: this season. I guess the Cincinnati Bengals to Bengals, as

1128
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: you said, they're struggling to run the football and they

1129
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: but they're throwing it pretty well. They found John Ross,

1130
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: They've got Tyler Boyd in their arsenal. What's Josh Allen

1131
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: and what are Josh Allen? The Buffalo bill is going

1132
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: to be able or have to do to beat a

1133
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: team that's structured like Cincinnati is right now. Yeah, I

1134
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: think on defense the Bills primary focus should be sudden

1135
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: change plays or explosive passing plays. Now, John Ross's big

1136
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: touchdown last week came at the end of the game.

1137
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: It was I think forty one to Tad at that point,

1138
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: so very much out of reach against the forty nine ers.

1139
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: But I would say this in the Week one game

1140
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: where they gave Seattle all they could handle. The explosive

1141
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: plays of John Ross were you know, as potent as

1142
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: any player in Week one. And when I say he

1143
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: has world class speed, I'm not exaggerating. Fastest player ever

1144
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: at the NFL combine at four two two, they're going

1145
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: to find ways to take vertical shots down the field.

1146
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: And then last week the sixty six yard touchdown. For

1147
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: those watching, we'll see it right now. It was really

1148
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,720
Speaker 1: it's a slant and explosive plays beyond that, John Ross

1149
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: just so fast and just such a you know, explosive

1150
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: player that for the Bills it's first keeping it in

1151
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: front of him and then second of all, tackle him

1152
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: because he's a slippery guy. He may not be very big,

1153
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: but he is slippery that much as for sure. With

1154
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: Field Yates from ESPN, he is the host is the

1155
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 1: host of their fantasy show ESPN NFL Insider, you can

1156
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: imagine Field Buffalonians. Bills fans have a soft spot on

1157
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: their hearts for Andy Dalton for obvious reasons. And he's

1158
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: been back here, Stephen. I met him this offseason. He

1159
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: was here he's a great guy, but I thought he

1160
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: was like the you know, like the timberline of NFL quarterbacks.

1161
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: If you're better than Andy Dalton, you're pretty good. If

1162
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: you're not quite as good as Andy Dalton, you're not

1163
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 1: very good. Right Well, what do you make of him

1164
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: in his career so far? Yeah, so I'd say it's

1165
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: been steady, it's been solid. Ultimately, though, quarterbacks are going

1166
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: to wear things like team win loss record more than

1167
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: any other position to the NFL. So while they may

1168
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 1: not be a quarterback stat ultimately a quarterback is going

1169
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: to be the one whose legacy is defined by wins

1170
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: and losses. That being said, a couple of years ago,

1171
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: the Bills made a decision that some viewed as bold,

1172
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: some viewed as audacious. I thought was smart, which was

1173
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: they evaluated Tyrod Taylor and did not feel as though

1174
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: he could be a quarterback that could take them to

1175
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: the next level. He was a quarterback that could help

1176
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 1: lead them to a nine and seven playoff season, but

1177
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: they felt as though quarterback was a more pressing need

1178
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: going forward. Josh Allen obviously trapped his seventh overall for

1179
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: that reason. I think with Andy Dalton, there are parts

1180
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: of me that believe that it would have to take

1181
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: very unique circumstances around him on the roster to be

1182
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: a player that kind of pushes you over the top. Solid,

1183
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: can be accurate, certainly, can throw for a ton of yards,

1184
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: experienced that much as for sure. He's been in the

1185
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: league since twenty twelve and started basically every game except

1186
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: for when he has been hurt. But and Dalton is

1187
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: a guy that I'm sure the Bills will show a

1188
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: lot of respect for just because of how much he

1189
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: has thrown it over the first two weeks. I believe

1190
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: he's on pace right now for seven hundred and seventy

1191
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: seven passing attempts, which is a gargantuan number for a

1192
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: sixteen game season. And that also says a little bit

1193
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: something about the situations they found themselves in weeks one

1194
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: and two. Seattle jumped out into a big league and

1195
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: they climbed back into that, and of course being way

1196
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: down to the forty nine ers set them up for

1197
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: a lot of passing yards as well. Does that also

1198
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: play in to their run game deficiencies or is their

1199
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: run game bad? Is it just or is it just

1200
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: lack of a lack of attempts. I think it all

1201
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: kind of ties together. So a couple of context points here.

1202
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: The Bengals are down. They're starting left tackle Jonah Williams,

1203
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: their first round draft pick this past year out of Alabama,

1204
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: very well regarded offensive line prospect and some people's eyes

1205
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: the best offensive line prospect in the draft, and play

1206
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: guard and play laft tackle probably will be a left

1207
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: tackle for them when everything settles. He's out for the year.

1208
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: They also are you know, this is a team that

1209
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: had to deal with some injuries throughout the offseason to

1210
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: the offensive line, so they have been playing with some

1211
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: spare parts along the offensive line as it is. Andre Smith,

1212
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: a career right tackle, as taking snaps at left tackle

1213
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: for them, So certainly a lot of injuries have impacted

1214
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: the running game there. And then I think when teams,

1215
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, one through dare a quarterback to beat them,

1216
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: then I think it's possible that you can sort of

1217
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: have a situation where the ground game is a byproduct

1218
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: of circumstances, even if it's not so much just a

1219
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: talent issue. I think Joe Mason, Joe Mixon is a

1220
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: talented runner, that much is for sure, But they have

1221
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: not been getting anything going whatsoever so far this season

1222
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: with Field atspn NFL Insider. Let's get around the league

1223
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: a little bit. Field and as you might imagine, folks

1224
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: in Buffalo fascinated by what's going on around them in

1225
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: the AFC East, including the Dolphins. Are the Dolphins creating

1226
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: a new prototype for how to rebuild? I mean, this

1227
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: looks like a full on tank. And when you think

1228
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: about the Make and Fitzpatrick trade and everything else that's

1229
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: gone so far with them, it's hard to say whether

1230
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: they're creating a trend or nine for a couple of reasons.

1231
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: First of all, it's the very beginning of this process

1232
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: for them. As you noted, Fitzpatrick was traded that came

1233
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: on the heels of a Laramie tons of trade. You know,

1234
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: they've acquired a bunch of extra first round picks and

1235
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: you get some of the motivation, right, But this goes

1236
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: back even further. They traded away Robert Quinn this passed

1237
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: off season. Kiko Alonso was traded to the Saints right

1238
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: at the end of the preseason. There have been a

1239
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: lot of moves Miami has made. They've cut veteran players.

1240
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: It is down to you know, a lot of unfamiliar

1241
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: faces there in Miami. Here's the question, though, is it

1242
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: be is it a trend or not? Because it doesn't work?

1243
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: And how do you quantify working? You know, because in

1244
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 1: the NFL it's not often that a team is patient.

1245
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: Let's say GM or a head coach see through to

1246
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: his vision. Because I think that if given time, Chris Squeer,

1247
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: the general manager, and head coach Brian Flores have a

1248
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: chance to say to show like our idea was to

1249
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: strip this down to the studs, acquire a bunch of

1250
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: valuable commodities in first round picks and try to rebuild

1251
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: this thing. If they're given the time, then maybe we'll

1252
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: find out whether this can be a precedent's going forward.

1253
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: Is it bad to say you hope not two cousins

1254
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, but for everybody? Is it bad to say

1255
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 1: you hope it doesn't work? I hope this isn't that

1256
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: what you have to do? I think there's some people

1257
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: that don't believe in non competitive football, and I'm not

1258
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: one of that. Yeah, and I don't. They're working hard,

1259
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: everybody is down there, but they've got ten points in

1260
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: two games. They've got to believe a minus seventy nine

1261
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: or ninety two on or something ridiculous, almost one hundred

1262
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: point differential through two games, fifty nine to ten and

1263
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: not much of a math guy, but you know, something

1264
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: like that, ninety two points, I believe it is through

1265
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: two games. So yeah, it's going to be And there

1266
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: are other sports who we've seen it and it's worked

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Speaker 1: a great success. The Houston Ashville I think they're the

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Speaker 1: best example of that. I think there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that go into it though, beyond just you know,

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Speaker 1: trading away good players for good pieces and hoping for

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Speaker 1: the best. There's a lot more and I know the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins know that. So we'll see and is there anything

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Speaker 1: to be said for it looks as though as well

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Speaker 1: that you've got reports coming out of players not wanting

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Speaker 1: to be a part of that plan. Kiko Alonso wanted

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Speaker 1: out of their early MINCA Fitzpatrick asked for a trade

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Speaker 1: after their Week one shellacking. There were reports that a

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Speaker 1: multitude or multiple players wanted to be traded away from

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. So if if it doesn't work, one reason

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Speaker 1: it may not work is because players don't want to

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Speaker 1: risk a year of their career to be a part

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Speaker 1: of it and they asked to be traded. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: And here's what I think people sometimes overlook or maybe

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Speaker 1: sometimes we try to just think of people think of

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Speaker 1: these players. Sometimes there's commodities too frequently, which they're not.

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Speaker 1: They're humans, and yes, they want to make a good

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Speaker 1: livelihood for their family and their future. These guys are

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Speaker 1: competitors too, right, I mean, you only get so many

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Speaker 1: shots in the NFL, and you know, do you have

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Speaker 1: a season sort of go by the wayside? You know?

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Speaker 1: And I know not that anybody ever thought this, but

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Speaker 1: you know, their GM yesterday said we knew this is

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't we know this is a season

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Speaker 1: we're gonna win the Super Bowl. Well, like every team

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Speaker 1: at the start of the year goes in with expectations

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Speaker 1: to win the Super at least to win be competitive, right,

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Speaker 1: I know, to verbalize that, I think is something that's

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit jarring for players the year. I

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Speaker 1: think guys want to be competitive. They want to go

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Speaker 1: in every single Sunday and feel like they are going

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Speaker 1: to win. Otherwise, why are you putting in the work right?

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Speaker 1: Feel would you make the Giants decision, you know, to

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Speaker 1: switch out Eli Manning for Daniel Jones. Manning has been awful. Well,

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01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: you know, it was time, and you know, I think

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Speaker 1: the question probably is not so much about the decision

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Speaker 1: to move Daniel Jones into the starting lineup, but maybe

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Speaker 1: about how the process played out over the last offseason.

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Speaker 1: So Eli Manning seventeen million dollars in cash this year,

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01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: so a lot of money might be even more than that,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, that he's making. And the question might be,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're allocating resources that how you want

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Speaker 1: to spend your money in your cash and your cap

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Speaker 1: for a player that you were going to move off

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Speaker 1: of after two weeks. And I understand the Patch firm

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Speaker 1: and GM Dave Getleman, We're not planning to move off

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Speaker 1: of Eli Manning after just two weeks, but they did

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Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones. Here's what I would say. It was

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Speaker 1: time in the sense that Daniel Jones is a talented player.

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Speaker 1: And in the same way that Josh Allen has quieted

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Speaker 1: a lot of the critics who wonder what the Bills

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Speaker 1: were doing when they took him seventh overall last year,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has a chance to do the exact same thing,

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Speaker 1: because if he's a really good player. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: whether the Giants were the only team or one of

1325
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Speaker 1: thirty two teams that wanted to take him at pick six.

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Speaker 1: No one will be talking about where he was drafted.

1327
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Speaker 1: If he shows out like the Giants believe he can,

1328
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 1: it's a good point. They quarterbacks are really the story

1329
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: around the National Football League. I was going to ask

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Speaker 1: you about Teddy Bridgewater. I want to switch gears and

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Speaker 1: go back to the AFC. Ben Roethlisberger's elbow surgery that's happening,

1332
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Speaker 1: and then the fact they've got Mason Rudolph in the wings.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh all of a sudden went from a team that

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Speaker 1: was gonna show everybody what they could do without Levy

1335
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: on Bell, without Antonio Brown. They were gonna come together

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Speaker 1: and kind of rally. That's not probably gonna happen. Now, Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. They really feel confident, and I think that

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Speaker 1: the Mink of Fitzpatrick trade yesterday was a bit of

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Speaker 1: a reflection of that. So they straight away a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty first round pick to acquire make of Fitzpatrick. There

1341
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: are other conditions in the trade as well, other picks involved.

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Speaker 1: I should say, I get the sense that it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty resolute group, make Mike Thomlins pretty resolute coach. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if Pittsburgh has more confidence in their

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Speaker 1: own ability to be competitive this year and be competitive

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Speaker 1: with Mason Rudolph. And maybe the outside perception is right now.

1347
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Speaker 1: How to get into some fantasy football with you? Field Yates,

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Speaker 1: our guest host of ESPN's The Fantasy Show, host of

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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Fantasy Focus Football podcasts, and we've had

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Speaker 1: folks tweet in some questions Field about their fantasy concerns.

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Speaker 1: From Steph, she wants to know should I start Josh

1352
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 1: Chandler this week since our home against Cincinnati? What do

1353
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 1: you think? Well, depends on who your other options are, staff,

1354
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: but generally speaking, Josh Allen is a very strong play

1355
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: inside the top ten for quarterbacks this week, depending on

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Speaker 1: who you're choosing between, but I think in many cases

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01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: you'll be starting Josh Allen. We have another fantasy question

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Speaker 1: from William. Given what's happened at the quarterback position in Pittsburgh,

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01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: is it time to sell high on James Connor, the

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Speaker 1: running back in Pittsburgh. Well, the problem is, I'm not

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01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: sure you gonna be able to sell high from very much.

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Speaker 1: He's hurt and he hasn't been particularly productive so far

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01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: for two games. If you can get a great deal

1364
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: for another starting running back that's top ten caliber, go

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Speaker 1: for it. Otherwise I think I'd hang tight. Here's one

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01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: from Jay. Should I start Aaron Jones Packers versus Brocos

1367
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Speaker 1: or Sony Michelle Patriots versus Jets? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: You know? I think I would lean towards Sony Michelle.

1369
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 1: Here two players. They don't have great involvements on, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the passing game, but Jones has more than Sony Michelle.

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Speaker 1: And the line right now is twenty two and a half.

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Speaker 1: I think for the Patriots over the Jets. It feels

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Speaker 1: like the kind of game that maybe you could run

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Speaker 1: the ball effectively like Sony Michelle did last week when

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Speaker 1: he found the end zone. We've got another question from Jay.

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Speaker 1: Should I start Austin Eckler versus the Texans? The Chargers

1377
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: running back versus the Houston Texas. Of course, yeah, sounds great.

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01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been awesome. I don't you would have

1379
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: to have unbelievable options to not want to start Austin

1380
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: Eckler this week. And one more from George. Should I

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01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: have any concern about Baker Mayfield against the Rams, Yes,

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01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: because it's a very very good defense. Now, they've been

1383
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: better at home than on the road, but that has

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01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: been more of a reflection of the offense and I

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01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: think the defense. So I'd be a little bit concerned

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: about Baker Mayfield. He's outside my top ten quarterbacks this

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01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: week against the Rams that although Aaron Donald is not

1388
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: yet sacked a quarterback this season, he's been very disruptive

1389
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: and I expect that to change this weekend. I feel,

1390
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: why do I have to watch the Browns again this

1391
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: Sunday night. They weren't that good on Monday Night? Were

1392
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: they were? They Get used to it. We'll see plenty

1393
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: of it. Get used to it. I've had enough of

1394
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: the Browns already one game. They weren't that good that

1395
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: Monday night? Were they long seat? They had to listen?

1396
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I would say about the Browns.

1397
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: It's just they got to figure out the offensive line.

1398
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 1: Did not scare a lot of people one Monday Baker,

1399
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: maybe it was under the rest. Got to figure out

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01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: the offensive line and then we'll see whether the coverage

1401
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: issues that reared themselves in Week one, are going to

1402
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: be any better? D Lanny Walker? Right, a big day.

1403
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: Titans had some success in the middle of the field.

1404
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: Let's see if the Browns can turn that around this week.

1405
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: It's a very very good test again, all right, Field,

1406
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,719
Speaker 1: that's good stuff, man, Thanks for coming on. Thanks, guys,

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01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,640
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Fields in the NFL Insider the host of

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Speaker 1: ESPN's The Fantasy Show, and we'll do this every week

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's at one o'clock. Talk to Field about the Bills,

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Speaker 1: the NFL and get some of your fantasy questions in there.

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: And he has good answers for him. And you know

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Speaker 1: he did that right now? Excellent? Yeah, I did. I've

1413
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: had enough of the Browns, right, I mean, what did

1414
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: they show us Monday night that makes you think, oh,

1415
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch this team again? Nothing? Nothing, nothing, nothing.

1416
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's early, right, It's only two games, right,

1417
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: I keep saying that it's only two games. I chimed in,

1418
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: You're right, there's only two games. There's a lot a

1419
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: lot of still a lot of question marks going out.

1420
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those. We're still at

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Speaker 1: that point of the season. And I said this yesterday

1422
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: we're still kind of projecting what we think teams are

1423
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: now is that what they were last year, And just

1424
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: like the Bills, so much has changed for this team.

1425
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: You got to think it's a lot of it's changed

1426
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: for other teams as well, and we're starting to see

1427
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Speaker 1: not just because they're different teams starting the season, but

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Speaker 1: also now you've got teams losing quarterbacks and getting guys

1429
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: hurt and guys in and out of the lineup like

1430
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: we always do during greater season. You kind of forget

1431
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: about that when you're trying to project what's going to

1432
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Speaker 1: happen because there's so much unpredictability week to week. Ye,

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Speaker 1: it's a week to week league. Somebody wants somebody said that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: the Bills on the practice field when practice hends today,

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Speaker 1: at some point, we're gonna get Ed Oliver in here,

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Speaker 1: Bills first round draft pick, the rookie defensive linemen. They'll

1437
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: be sitting down here with Steve and I. We're gonna

1438
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,719
Speaker 1: hear from Josh Allen. We think after practice as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna get back to our discussion of

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Speaker 1: got time to talk today about the bills. That's what

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Speaker 1: we do. What do you think? What's the reason for

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Speaker 1: the bills? Two? And I'll start what's the best thing

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Speaker 1: will get to some tweets. We'll read some tweets on

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Speaker 1: that topic in a moment or two. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: let's let's do lunch, Steve, what's for lunch? It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a segment that we haven't really kept up with lately,

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Speaker 1: and I feel bad about that because that's not my favorite.

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01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: The season jumps on us, and we got so much

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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about lunch. We have to skip lunch

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Speaker 1: every day, so we got real content help the that's right.

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01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: I hope the listeners out there will appreciate our sacrifice.

1476
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: You're the lunch guy, so you get it coming figured out?

1477
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: All right, here's a lunch menu. Here we go. I

1478
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 1: have number one on lunch, you your appetizer. Who's gonna

1479
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: be the bigger game changer on Sunday? Patrick Mahomes or

1480
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson Chiefs Baltimore? Which quarterbacks a bigger game change?

1481
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: I have yet to see either team play Chiefs or Baltimore,

1482
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: but I'm going to answer with my heart. Come on, man,

1483
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 1: Lamar jack He's played a couple of good games. Patrick

1484
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes is the man. This is a no brainer. Mahomes

1485
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: is a game changer. I don't know. Lamark Jackson has

1486
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: been good. I had a guy friend of mine where

1487
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: the Cardinals some of the other day that Lamar Jackson

1488
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: is the real deal. I get that he's a real quarterback.

1489
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is really good, He's MVP. Yeah, I'm gonna

1490
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: say the other way. I'm gonna say Lamar Jackson because

1491
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: I think Patrick Mahomes has more weapons to use, and

1492
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: I think Lamar Jackson brings a dimension with his legs

1493
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes doesn't. Maybe he doesn't need to because

1494
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: he throws the ball so well. But Lamar Jackson, I

1495
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 1: think it'll be the biggest game changer on Sunday because

1496
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't think the Chiefs have an answer for him.

1497
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore will have an answer for Patrick Mahomes.

1498
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: But I don't think Lamar Jackson. I don't think teams

1499
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: have quite the hand on him. I think he's gonna

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01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: have a bigger act. I think he's gonna be a

1501
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: bigger factor than Mahomes in Week one. Okay, that was

1502
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: the appetizer. Here we go entre biggest week three loss

1503
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees or Eli Manning. Oh boy, it's

1504
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: it's amazing that they're all three out. I know, you

1505
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: know week three Week three breeze, and I'm not sure

1506
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,719
Speaker 1: there's a couple reports coming out of well. Sean Payton

1507
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: said it today before practice, quote, we will approach this

1508
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: game with two quarterbacks, Teddy Bridgewater and Taysom Hill. They

1509
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: use Taysom Hill as son of a kind of a

1510
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:16,760
Speaker 1: utility guy, and they you saw him a couple of

1511
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: Monday nights ago, right in that game against Houston, lines

1512
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 1: up all over the place, takes snaps, runs with the ball,

1513
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: He can throw a little bit. So I don't know

1514
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: that adds. I think a little bit of intrigue into

1515
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: what the Saints might look like. But Um, Drew Brees

1516
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: is the trigger man for for that prolific offense has

1517
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 1: been for a decade or more. UM Roethlisberger is really good,

1518
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: but they're already kind of struggling without some of their

1519
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: big pieces offensively Manning. That's a bad team. He doesn't.

1520
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: You know, they still don't have a Golden Tate. They

1521
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: still don't have any real weapons over there other than Sequan.

1522
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: It's a tough question, but I'm gonna say the biggest

1523
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: losses Drew Brees to the time say, I don't think

1524
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: it's tough at all. Drew Brees, that the Saints team

1525
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: goes from a super Bowl contender to maybe not even

1526
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: a playoff team without Drew Brees. They are they stick

1527
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: a fork in the Saints. They are absolutely done Pittsburgh.

1528
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 1: Maybe they can fight back into it. What if what

1529
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: if a breeze is back in six weeks? Still done?

1530
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: I might be too late. It might be too late

1531
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 1: by that time. If they can get in, but they

1532
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,839
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta go, you know what, three and three

1533
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 1: at least while he's gone, they ain't gonna do it.

1534
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna do it. Um six weeks as an

1535
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 1: eternity in the National Football heaves a week to week league,

1536
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: I get it and all that stuff. The Pittsburgh Steelers

1537
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,639
Speaker 1: still have some hope. Mace Rudolph's been in that offense

1538
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: for a while and they you know, they think they've

1539
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: they've got a really good offensive line. Still, they think

1540
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 1: they can run the football. Still, We'll see. Pittsburgh's not

1541
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: dead in the water. They just traded for Menka Fitzpatrick

1542
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 1: and he talked to field Yates just a minute ago.

1543
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: He thinks there's still hope. At least, Pittsburgh still believes

1544
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:50,759
Speaker 1: they can make something happen. And the Giants are different animals.

1545
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:54,680
Speaker 1: They were they're waiting for Eli to go down. They

1546
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: were waiting for an excuse to bench him, and the

1547
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: Bills gave it to him this last weekend. So now

1548
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is the guy who leaves the biggest void

1549
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: for his team. Okay, laugh, Next, good thing on the

1550
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: lunch menu, better chance of happening? Wait, will you skip

1551
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 1: one which I like? Okay? Yeah? Player trade Rick Chriss. Yeah,

1552
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: the thing we've been talking about, all these guys asking

1553
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: to be traded for their team or making the trade happen.

1554
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:19,240
Speaker 1: Do you blame the team, or do you blame the player.

1555
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: It's a great I got an option three. I blame

1556
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,880
Speaker 1: the culture, the culture of the NFL and professional sports

1557
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: in general, where because of the way it's played, because

1558
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: of the way the game is played, because of the

1559
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 1: way teams handle players, players feel like, well, I've got

1560
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: to look out for number one here and look if

1561
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: you're if you're making Fitzpatrick in a number one pick

1562
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: or a first round pick of the Dolphins, and you

1563
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 1: see what's going on around you. Yeah, I understand that. Well,

1564
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to be part of this. Get me

1565
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,680
Speaker 1: out of here, he asked. He was rewarded different you know,

1566
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: circumstances with every one of them, obviously, But I blame

1567
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: the culture. I blame the way professional sports is now.

1568
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 1: And I didn't agree with everything Steve Young said the

1569
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: other day, but I do agree with this. It's a

1570
01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: lot like the NBA. That's what happens in the NBA.

1571
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: Player dictate where they should go. Is that wrong? Not necessarily,

1572
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 1: but I think it kind of furthers the degradation of

1573
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,639
Speaker 1: the sport to where people watching think, well, these guys

1574
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: are just in it for themselves, you know what they are,

1575
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 1: and the owners, by the way, in it for themselves too.

1576
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: So I blame both the team and the player, but

1577
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: mostly I blame the professional sports culture. How's that. So

1578
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: you're asking the waitress to do a special order off

1579
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: the menu. Okay, you're off the menu. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

1580
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm blaming the team if if you're not trying to win,

1581
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: players smell it. And in a game like football, that

1582
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: means everything. It's a game that demands a lot from

1583
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: its players, and the players are in turn, have the

1584
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 1: right to respect that. I expect that the team is

1585
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: trying to give them every opportunity to be successful. When

1586
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: they smell a lack of effort above them in the ranks,

1587
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:54,640
Speaker 1: they cut and run, and they have every right too.

1588
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 1: They're risking physical harm, they're risking their injuries, they're wasting

1589
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: their careers playing for a team that doesn't want to

1590
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: win when these guys are competitors and then expecting the

1591
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 1: team turning around and expecting them to give them their

1592
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: full effort on the field. Um, I think you blamed

1593
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: the team when these guys all asked to be traded. Uh,

1594
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: And it's uh, And you're right, I see what you're

1595
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: I see your point completely about the culture of professional sports.

1596
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: But let's face it, those guys have a skill set

1597
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: and a commodity that is in high demand. They can

1598
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: say where they want to sell it if they want to.

1599
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: That's that's well. They can do a greater extent now, right,

1600
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: forty years ago they couldn't. That's right. And and that's

1601
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: what people have a hard time adjusting to. And I

1602
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: get that. I'm not anti free agency, Yeah, I get it,

1603
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: but you know, welcome to planet Earth. Guys are in

1604
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: it to get what they can get out of it.

1605
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: That's why they do their jobs. And the owners are

1606
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 1: raking in money later. I know. Why is that a shock?

1607
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be. All right, let's show we do the

1608
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: which one you want? Well next to the other one.

1609
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: I'm ready for both. All right, you can do both, big,

1610
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: all right? Right, better chance of happening. Patriots sixteen and

1611
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: O Dolphins and sixteen. Oh, the Patriots have been so good,

1612
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: so good on defense two through two weeks. It's only

1613
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: two weeks, right, Dolphins have been so bad. Field Yates

1614
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 1: was right, it's one o two, one out two and

1615
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 1: two to ninety two. Yeah, no, it's one out two

1616
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: to ten, scoring one out two to ten and ninety

1617
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: two points. They've got out scored in two games. It's

1618
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: hard to go oh in sixteen, but it's really really

1619
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 1: hard to go sixteen and oh. And there's a team

1620
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: that's practicing about a couple hundred yards away from here.

1621
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: There might have something to say about the Patriots, well,

1622
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: actually about both of them, um, but especially about the

1623
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: Patriots winning every game. I got. The Dolphins going on

1624
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: in sixteen has a better chance, but not by a lot. Yeah,

1625
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to help you go oh in sixteen. Yeah,

1626
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: nobody wants you to go sixteen and now, right. I

1627
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: think that's the difference. Nobody cares if you go in sixteen.

1628
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 1: Everybody will throw themselves in front of us to keep

1629
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: you from going sixteen to now. So I would say

1630
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 1: it's more likely than the Dolphins to go sixteen to No,

1631
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: they've almost done it once already. They were one of

1632
01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: fifteen and one on an overtime. So, and I said

1633
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: to Armando Salgaro a couple of weeks ago on the show,

1634
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: if they do go in sixteen, I would hope that

1635
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Dolphins for years in the future meet

1636
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: every year when the last team has won a game

1637
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 1: and celebrate. Pop open a bottle of champagne. Our own

1638
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 1: sixteen records still intact. Let's celebrate. You think they'll do that, right,

1639
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: They do that for when somebody loses. I know, I know,

1640
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 1: I hope they do that. I hopep that tradition going.

1641
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: Get together with the undefeated dolphin team, you know, get

1642
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: that group and get that and then get them together

1643
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: together have a party. There you go. We're gonna have

1644
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: two parties. One when the last team wins, and then

1645
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,040
Speaker 1: when the last team loser. Gotcha all right? Last one?

1646
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: This is dessert for the lunch. Which is gonna be

1647
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: the bigger upset? Or which would be the bigger upset?

1648
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: The Broncos beating the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh

1649
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: Steelers beating the San Francisco forty nine ers. I'm gonna

1650
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: go with the Steelers would be the bigger upset. They

1651
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 1: gotta go out west. They're probably rocked, maybe went into

1652
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 1: the season a little bit unsteady with the you know

1653
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:57,600
Speaker 1: the departure of some of their key playmakers. To go

1654
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: out west. The Niners are home for twenty five kickoff

1655
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That's a tough assignment for Pittsburgh. The Broncos.

1656
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 1: I think Kevin enough defensively so that they might be

1657
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 1: able to come up with something. Both of them would

1658
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: be upsets, but I think the Steelers would be the

1659
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: bigger upset there. I would go along with that as well.

1660
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,679
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers after losing the franchise quarterback who's

1661
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 1: been there and one two Super Bowls, having him go

1662
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: down unexpectedly with a second year player making his first start,

1663
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 1: no question, I think the Steelers would be a bigger

1664
01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: upset over this year's forty nine ers. Not always at

1665
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: the forty nines, but this year's forty nine ers are

1666
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: pretty good. So I think that's the bigger upset too.

1667
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 1: That's that's lunch, very nice for it was great. Yeah,

1668
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: let's set for your special order on the culture thing.

1669
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: Let's take your call a call here on the Dolphins,

1670
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 1: Mike and Buffalo. Hello, Mike, go ahead, you're on the air. So,

1671
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 1: like this is kind of future thinking, but what's going

1672
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: on in Miami now. It's not going to end the tank,

1673
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 1: the era of the tank, but it is going to

1674
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: like seriously put it on hold and make teams reconsider

1675
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: if they want a tank or not. Why you say that,

1676
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: because I mean, what's going on in Miami right now?

1677
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: Like what part what specifically are you're talking about going on? Mike,

1678
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: You're talking about the players wanting to leave. Yes, yeah,

1679
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 1: they'll lose every single piece, right. I agree with you,

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01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,839
Speaker 1: you're right. I think you're right. I think in football

1681
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: it's hard because listen, and I'll tell you this too.

1682
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 1: In football, it doesn't surprise me that when Minka Fitzpatrick,

1683
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: when Kiko Alonso, when all these guys say, hey, I

1684
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,639
Speaker 1: don't want to be here, the clubs are very willing

1685
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: to say do whatever they can to to give them

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01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: what they want. Because in a football a football team

1687
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 1: is not like a basketball team. It is not the

1688
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,759
Speaker 1: same thing. It is not like these other sports. In football,

1689
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:43,759
Speaker 1: if a guy doesn't want to be there, nobody wants

1690
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,720
Speaker 1: him there, and you're better off without him. Get what

1691
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: you can get for him and get let him go.

1692
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 1: You've got to create an atmosphere where guys want to play.

1693
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: Because it is a physically demanding and risky game. You

1694
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,719
Speaker 1: got to pour a lot into it. It's complicated. Your

1695
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:01,599
Speaker 1: job depends on ten other guys in any given moment

1696
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: to do their job. It is every player in the

1697
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:08,240
Speaker 1: locker room is so interwoven in their responsibilities and their

1698
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: expectations and their sacrifice for one another that you can't

1699
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: have one guy who doesn't want to be there because

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01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: it affects the mindset and therefore the production of every

1701
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: other guy on the team. It spreads like wildfire. And

1702
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,960
Speaker 1: if a guy doesn't want to be there and says

1703
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: it publicly, the club does the right thing and get

1704
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: him what he wants. You gotta get what you can

1705
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: get for him and cut and cut him or release

1706
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: him or trade him. It's just different, and I think

1707
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 1: it will have a chilling effect on these teams. Who decides,

1708
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: you know why, it's time for us to just, you know,

1709
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 1: break this thing down and rebuild. I think teams are

1710
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: going to figure out ways to do it on the fly,

1711
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: rebuild on the fly with what they've got, and go

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01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,519
Speaker 1: from there. I don't think you need to go out

1713
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: and if you want to high picking the draft, trade

1714
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,559
Speaker 1: for it. Trade up, give him some assets and a

1715
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: player to go up and get the guy you want

1716
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: in the draft. Don't lose games thinking you're gonna get

1717
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: a higher draft pick. It just won't work. It could

1718
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: be it could have happened here. I don't want to

1719
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: say yet because I don't think that. Obviously the process

1720
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:13,600
Speaker 1: here is not complete. But the process that McDermott and

1721
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: being talked about when they first got here. And yes,

1722
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs the first year, and yes they

1723
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:19,640
Speaker 1: took a step back, which is six wins last year,

1724
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: but maybe this is the template for how to do it.

1725
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. I'm not ready to make that

1726
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: argument yet because they want to see how this season

1727
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 1: turns out, right, and it's only two weeks. I think

1728
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: they I'll tell you what, I think they're onto something.

1729
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: And they got blindsided midway through that. By last year,

1730
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: the big problem was the offensive line. They got blindside.

1731
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 1: Remember they lost two guys. They didn't know they were

1732
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: gonna lose starters, and they couldn't replace them. They really

1733
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: could not replace them with anybody, and that cost them

1734
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: big time last year and it set them set them

1735
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:47,519
Speaker 1: back big time, and they had to use assets and

1736
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: do things during the regular season that cost them. So

1737
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: they kind of got blindsided. But every team should expect

1738
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 1: maybe a little of that to happen to him, Sure,

1739
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 1: but the bills. That's what did it for them last

1740
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: year and really set them back. I think to the

1741
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: tune of a couple of wins one more call on

1742
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, Wade and Chickdowaga, Hello, Wade, go ahead, hey,

1743
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:08,640
Speaker 1: guys whatever. What he seems to be overlooking is the

1744
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:12,800
Speaker 1: fact that those contracts are laden with incentives. If you're

1745
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: on a team that's tanking, you're losing a lot of

1746
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: money right there, and nobody's talking about that. Well, there's

1747
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: all every every contracts different and I don't know what

1748
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 1: incentives you're talking about. I'm not familiar with Minca Fitzpatrick

1749
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: or Kiko Alonso's incentive or Antonio Brown's incentives. Most of

1750
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: these guys, it does have. There is some financial contract.

1751
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: There's a penalty to pay if you're losing, right there's actually, yeah,

1752
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. Some of these guys know, I mean,

1753
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna get paid no matter what. But some of

1754
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 1: these guys do have some of some of that tied

1755
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 1: up in there. I don't know what exactly incentives you're

1756
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: talking about, but there are some perhaps some financial implications

1757
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: for some of these past The Clauset says, I make

1758
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I get X amounted. And if you're

1759
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: on the this year's Miami Dolphins team playing lousy, you're

1760
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 1: not gonna make the Pro Bowl. You're not likely to

1761
01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: make the Pro Bowl. That's how it would cost you. Yeah,

1762
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: but that's I mean, that's not what you're Yeah, those

1763
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:09,480
Speaker 1: are yeah, right, I get it, I get it. Quarterbacks

1764
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: might have a clause in there for wins, right, they might. Maybe.

1765
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 1: Incentive clauses are very tricky and they're not as prevalent

1766
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: as they wanted because of the cap, so teams don't

1767
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:23,120
Speaker 1: put those in there very much. The contracts are what

1768
01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: they are for the most part, so I don't content.

1769
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: The problem comes up with guaranteed money, signing bonuses, pro

1770
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: rated contracts like For instance, the Giants are on the

1771
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: hook for eleven point five million for Eli Manning because

1772
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: he was on the roster opening day. Thirteen days later,

1773
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,440
Speaker 1: they wish they'd to cut him opening day. It's stupid,

1774
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 1: I mean there, it's absolutely idiotic. If you're gonna move

1775
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 1: on from him after the game. Two games he just

1776
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:55,680
Speaker 1: played with those guys around him. What are you doing?

1777
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 1: You think? Right, So they're on the hook for eleven

1778
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 1: point five unless they cut him. Hey, we're gonna get

1779
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: at all of her on after practice. Practice just wrapping up,

1780
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: so stick around. That might be any minute now. And

1781
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: we want to hear also from you. What's the best

1782
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: part of the bill starting two and oh so far

1783
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:10,759
Speaker 1: this season? What are the best things that have happened

1784
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: in the two and oh star Give us a call

1785
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:14,760
Speaker 1: to discuss sending a tweet. We can read it on

1786
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. The phone lines are open eight O

1787
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 1: three five fifty or outside Buffalo toll free at one

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01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty one goes Live,

1789
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:25,559
Speaker 1: presented by Collata Help. We're live in the Seneca Studio

1790
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. All right, practice

1791
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 1: is over. Welcome back by the way to orch Parkett.

1792
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: Is a gorgeous day. I'm going to check the temperature

1793
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: seve because it is. It is perfect September weather. Brownie

1794
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: nailed it when he joined us early on when he

1795
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 1: said it is it's classic September. We're seventy three degrees

1796
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:59,120
Speaker 1: in Sonny right now, in a low humidity, oh perfect humidity.

1797
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: Now you want to know about Sunday. It's too early

1798
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:03,599
Speaker 1: to look at so we're even doing here afternoon showers

1799
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: partly cloudy s guys during the morning hours, giving way

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01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: to occasional showers in the afternoon. High seventy six on Sunday,

1801
01:27:09,520 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: wins ten to twenty miles per hour, forty percent chance

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01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:15,120
Speaker 1: of rain. Whether people are funny, I don't trust most

1803
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: of them, but I heard a couple of last night

1804
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 1: saying that don't worry about the showers. It'll be after

1805
01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 1: the game is over. So those are the ones that over,

1806
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 1: which means it's going to be at a different I

1807
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 1: always the closer it gets, the better they get. But

1808
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:29,640
Speaker 1: the further out you go, the more you know it's

1809
01:27:29,680 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: going to be like twenty four hours off. So now

1810
01:27:32,560 --> 01:27:35,759
Speaker 1: that we're about now that we're about four days away,

1811
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,839
Speaker 1: you know, three five days away, I'm thinking they're probably

1812
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 1: going to be like twelve or fourteen hours wrong. So

1813
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 1: it can still happen. You've got a math formula for

1814
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: figuring out how wrong the forecast, sir, Yeah, welcome to

1815
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:51,519
Speaker 1: the show. We're talking about the bills. They're two and

1816
01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: I'll start and Oliver is going to join us in

1817
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes as he wraps up practice. What's

1818
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: the best part of the bill starting two, and oh

1819
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 1: the best thing they've done that helped them get off

1820
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: to the two start. A couple of calls here, We

1821
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: got Vinnie on the line from Buffalo. Hello, Benny, go ahead,

1822
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: you're on the air of this Vinney, Murph Steve, first

1823
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: time caller, love the show. Hey, guys, I just want

1824
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:13,679
Speaker 1: to talk about our quarterback, number seventeen, Josh Allen. Josh Allen,

1825
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:17,559
Speaker 1: number seventeen. Yes, I love him. I'm most impressed with

1826
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: his poise. The two road victories were incredible. You know,

1827
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:23,720
Speaker 1: an NFL team is an NFL team, and then being

1828
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:25,800
Speaker 1: on the road, I mean, just great to see that.

1829
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: I love his size. But I got a question for

1830
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 1: you guys, if not already, do you think Josh Allen

1831
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: is possibly one of the better or could be the

1832
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: best throwing que on the run, because those are some

1833
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: impressive throws, very difficult on the run. I've heard a

1834
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: lot of fans think Josh throws it better when he's running.

1835
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:47,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true or not. They look

1836
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: at that throw that he made to Dawson Knox on

1837
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:52,439
Speaker 1: the run, and everybody's been talking about it was just

1838
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: it was really an impressive throw, and they're thinking, see

1839
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 1: there it is. There's the proof that, you know, let's

1840
01:28:57,400 --> 01:28:59,560
Speaker 1: see him do it a lot. I don't want to

1841
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:03,120
Speaker 1: see him run too much or particularly when it's not planned.

1842
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 1: But certainly that throw was right on the money and

1843
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: it was a dynamite throw. And you could see two

1844
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: and I was laughing to Murph, I go, look at

1845
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: the giant sideline when he makes that throw. Those guys

1846
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: you could just see him all exhale, like, oh my god.

1847
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:16,720
Speaker 1: They just saw that throw and they are, you know,

1848
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: Eli's not gonna make that throw, you know, and to

1849
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: see it in a in a situation like that, you

1850
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 1: could just see the body language of the giants sideline

1851
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: kind of like, go, oh my gosh, did you just

1852
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:32,679
Speaker 1: see that? If you were a dying Yeah, he threw

1853
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: a dart and you know, and the giants saw it.

1854
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: Thanks Benny, Hey, I'm the Twitter poll the best part

1855
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: of the Bills two and I start the tweet sheet,

1856
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,320
Speaker 1: brought to you by car Again Moving Systems, the official

1857
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills. Nikki Boy tweets this him

1858
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:52,560
Speaker 1: the best thing they've done is moved the ball consistently

1859
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: on offense. We have not had to rely on big

1860
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 1: plays or turnovers to get points because we've been able

1861
01:29:57,160 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 1: to sustain long drives and regularly convert downs. Eating in

1862
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:04,559
Speaker 1: the Jets game, the offense was efficient, just unlucky, that's true.

1863
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: Jack tweets this in using the passing game and moving

1864
01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:09,960
Speaker 1: the ball through the air, that's the best thing they've

1865
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: done the staff is that Joshua quarterback can use more

1866
01:30:12,439 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: advanced passing attack than in years passed and for the

1867
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: most part, the online has allowed Allen time to make

1868
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:19,760
Speaker 1: his reads and find open receivers. Hopefully they can keep

1869
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 1: it up. It's a different offense, Steve, because of I

1870
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 1: think because of the additions they've made the receivers in

1871
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:29,120
Speaker 1: the offensive linemen. I believe that. Yeah, it's It's not

1872
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: like they were keeping the reins in on the josh

1873
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,120
Speaker 1: Allen last year because he was a rookie or anything.

1874
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: There were no horses. He was holding the reins with

1875
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:40,760
Speaker 1: no horses. Yeah, all right, all right, a break, Ed

1876
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:42,439
Speaker 1: Oliver's going to join us when we come back. Him

1877
01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:44,599
Speaker 1: on back for that one. Bill's Live presented by Kalata

1878
01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 1: Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park and this

1879
01:30:47,200 --> 01:31:15,960
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio time. I remember three of the show.

1880
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 1: We got a special guest just off the practice field.

1881
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:20,800
Speaker 1: Builds first round draft pick, ninth overall selection in the

1882
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: NFL draft a couple of months ago. Two NFL games

1883
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:25,639
Speaker 1: under his belt. Happy to have an Oliver in studio

1884
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: with us. How you doing? Happy to be great? You

1885
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,120
Speaker 1: coming in off the field. I want to start right

1886
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: with us. You we talked about you and your horses

1887
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,920
Speaker 1: and at your home in Texas. Have you've done anything

1888
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:37,439
Speaker 1: with the horses or up here with horses? Don't you better? Uh?

1889
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little spot in my house cleared off

1890
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: for him right now. I don't know how soon I

1891
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 1: wanted to actually get here, but they're coming. I'm gonna

1892
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:49,599
Speaker 1: get him. Oh I have four right now, but uh,

1893
01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 1: and no telling when I how many I have When

1894
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 1: I get up here. You got your boys hauling them up. Then. No,

1895
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my own horse. You're gonna get him

1896
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 1: and drive him up here. But like a bye week thing. No, No,

1897
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 1: it'll definitely be after the season, maybe next year, doing

1898
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 1: OTAs he goes. It's a lot to going into that.

1899
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: I gotta get the bomb put up gott got a

1900
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,160
Speaker 1: find time to do that. So there's gonna be a

1901
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: long process. And then with the snow, who knows how

1902
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: long ago. That sounds like you're playing on like twenty

1903
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 1: four three, five days a year being up here at

1904
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 1: home base. Uh nah, but it ain't. It ain't that

1905
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:29,640
Speaker 1: bad to take horses back. Yeah, okay, you miss it?

1906
01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:31,680
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I do. What do you miss about it?

1907
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:34,639
Speaker 1: It's just just a way for me to just get away.

1908
01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:37,559
Speaker 1: It's coming to me. It's a way for me to relax,

1909
01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a fun way to out of trouble.

1910
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:46,519
Speaker 1: Yea and Oliver, our guests, bills, defensive linemen. So anything

1911
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 1: about your first two games in the NFL, surprise you're like, whoa,

1912
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: I didn't expect that or I didn't see that coming. Um,

1913
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: just playing in the atmosphere like that, the big the

1914
01:32:54,960 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 1: biggest stadium, crazy fans driving up to the game, fans, fans,

1915
01:33:00,160 --> 01:33:03,920
Speaker 1: it's just crazy. And uh obviously you you had a

1916
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 1: Waite stadium, so they don't like you, so help right,

1917
01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:09,480
Speaker 1: Just things like that and just going in there overcoming adversity.

1918
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:14,200
Speaker 1: And it's been a fun two games. You've got a

1919
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: chance to you know, come out and play in two games.

1920
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 1: This last sence second game against the Giants, they came

1921
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 1: out and they really had some some success in their

1922
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:23,720
Speaker 1: first drive and then you guys tightened it up. What

1923
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: was it like? What was the messaging? I mean, you

1924
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: have to get in the excess and those but what

1925
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:29,519
Speaker 1: was the vibe on the sideline after that first series

1926
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:32,639
Speaker 1: in New York. It's just how it's how we pract

1927
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: this is how we train. Um. I can't priesch to

1928
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,080
Speaker 1: it more than that. It's just calm, breeze, calm u.

1929
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: That's they priest to us. And I'm sutly on the

1930
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:45,760
Speaker 1: sideline when that happened. It wasn't like, oh, what are

1931
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:48,640
Speaker 1: we gonna do running around your head on fires? Is

1932
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:51,639
Speaker 1: just calm down, play football, and that's who we did.

1933
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:54,080
Speaker 1: Tighten it up and play a good game. After the

1934
01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:56,760
Speaker 1: Jets game in which the Bills were down sixteen and nothing,

1935
01:33:56,840 --> 01:33:59,840
Speaker 1: talking to Micah Hyde, pretty veteran guy, he said something

1936
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 1: the Lange, this is what we're built for. It's almost

1937
01:34:02,040 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, we expect them, We're gonna have troubles

1938
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:05,759
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to overcome. But that the message

1939
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 1: that they get to the younger guys like you. Yeah,

1940
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: it's tries and tribulations. Actually the coach played, Um, what

1941
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: game was that in preseason? Came all the way back

1942
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: at the end. I think, yeah, I think he played

1943
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: that game. Maybe it was the um the one with

1944
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:23,720
Speaker 1: the pick, I mean the strip at the end to

1945
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 1: see the game. I don't know, he played one of them.

1946
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:30,200
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know why because it just coincidence

1947
01:34:30,320 --> 01:34:32,479
Speaker 1: has just lined up like that, and he was showing

1948
01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:35,200
Speaker 1: how hard we played, and we played the whole game

1949
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: and you never know, so we went out there. He

1950
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 1: just never panic and just keep faith. Yea. It shows

1951
01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:42,840
Speaker 1: what's the vibe on your side of the bowl, Like

1952
01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: I know you guys have that mindset where you want

1953
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 1: to get better and better and better. He played very

1954
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 1: well in the first couple of weeks. Um, what's the vibe? Like,

1955
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:53,720
Speaker 1: what's the next step for this defense? Um, they just

1956
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 1: preached to us, just do your job, do your one eleven. Uh,

1957
01:34:57,160 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing about our defenses there. If

1958
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 1: everybody does that job, we would be pretty good. We

1959
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 1: would be pretty special. So just just getting better at

1960
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: our job every day and just execute execute your sign

1961
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 1: we'll be all right. And when the Bills drafted you,

1962
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 1: and even before you know, after they draft you and

1963
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:15,720
Speaker 1: brought in here, kind of your calling card was going

1964
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:18,519
Speaker 1: to be your quickness and your athleticism, and that's been

1965
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: on display through a couple of games that there have

1966
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:22,519
Speaker 1: been times in these games when you think, wow, he

1967
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 1: didn't realize how quick I was or how how quickly

1968
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:26,920
Speaker 1: I got off the snack. I mean, there have been

1969
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 1: times going to look like that. But I wonder if

1970
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:30,960
Speaker 1: if opponents react that's way that way through the first

1971
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:34,439
Speaker 1: couple of games. Uh, Like I said, I don't know,

1972
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm most of the time, I'm just out there having fun,

1973
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 1: just doing what I love to do. Um, it's been

1974
01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 1: a it's been a long time coming. So just me

1975
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,000
Speaker 1: getting a chance to go out there and play and

1976
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:50,400
Speaker 1: just let loose and have fun. And it's a great feeling. Yes,

1977
01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 1: you play that position down inside where you know fans

1978
01:35:53,479 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 1: see you jump off and get across the line scrimmage,

1979
01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:58,599
Speaker 1: real quick explosion and your quickness and stuff shines through.

1980
01:35:58,800 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: But you're kind of playing a position where it's tough

1981
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 1: to get like numbers and stats bunch. You gotta had

1982
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 1: to change that I need something. Yeah, but you gotta know,

1983
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,120
Speaker 1: they gotta they've been pretty happy with what you've been doing,

1984
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:11,479
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't show up for fans. But batting

1985
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:14,120
Speaker 1: down passes you've been doing. You set up the interception

1986
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:17,639
Speaker 1: by Trent Murfer the other day, like like goes back

1987
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: to doing your one to eleven. Whether that's me getting

1988
01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: the sack or me setting up the sack, or me

1989
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:25,719
Speaker 1: just executing my job. You gotta do your one eleven

1990
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: and uh, that's it. That's just what I gotta do. Man,

1991
01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 1: I gotta do my one eleven play within the scheme

1992
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: and make as many play as you can within this scheme.

1993
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: Do you do your job? That's it? Why ask you

1994
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: about a picture I saw on social media of you

1995
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 1: in a T shirt not unlike the one you have

1996
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:43,400
Speaker 1: on here, but on the shoulder here you have the

1997
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:46,240
Speaker 1: word chip in other words, a chip on your shoulder.

1998
01:36:47,760 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 1: Where do you get Is that a bill shirt? I

1999
01:36:49,280 --> 01:36:53,520
Speaker 1: can't tell. No, that's as a University of Houston shirt, Okay,

2000
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 1: And that was the thing down there. You don't have

2001
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:57,240
Speaker 1: any reason they have a chip on your shoulder, do you.

2002
01:36:57,600 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: I got a plenty of reason to have a chip

2003
01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, Like, what, what's the biggest chip on

2004
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 1: your shoulder? Just just when I'm coming from the odds

2005
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: stat against me. Uh, it was just you gotta have

2006
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 1: something about you to to come from where I came

2007
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:13,360
Speaker 1: from to where I am now, you have to have

2008
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:15,719
Speaker 1: something about you, have to have something that constantly reminds

2009
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 1: you of what you don't want to go back to

2010
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: and and we're pushing you to go forward. So I

2011
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,120
Speaker 1: will have a chip on much shuld Okay, where do

2012
01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 1: you want to go? I'm not saying any goal, but

2013
01:37:27,479 --> 01:37:29,000
Speaker 1: I just want to do my one eleven. Let me

2014
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: just say that he's not getting no goals. One thing,

2015
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:35,800
Speaker 1: I've also know that you Kyle Waves been around a

2016
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,000
Speaker 1: couple of times in training camp. He was here week one.

2017
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 1: What are you getting from him? And why have you

2018
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 1: referred to him as your cheek coat? Because I mean

2019
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 1: literally he is. I mean when when Kyle come down,

2020
01:37:48,320 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know if it's a if he

2021
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: just it's a confident thing with him or what he's

2022
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:56,880
Speaker 1: just So when I see Kyle, it's like he did

2023
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:59,240
Speaker 1: what he did in this league for so long and

2024
01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: he knows so much, so if he could do it,

2025
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 1: why can't I do it? And looking at him, I like,

2026
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: I know I live a better athlete the Kyles right athlete.

2027
01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,880
Speaker 1: But I think, well, I think he have it here

2028
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: and that that's that's more than than anything I could

2029
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:17,720
Speaker 1: ever do any For that I can ever run, any

2030
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:20,120
Speaker 1: quick twitch I can never have is here with him,

2031
01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 1: and that part of the game was one't gonna take

2032
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: me to the next level. It means something too when

2033
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:26,880
Speaker 1: a guy like Kyle says it, as opposed to if

2034
01:38:26,920 --> 01:38:29,479
Speaker 1: somebody else says it, and you think, Okay, I wonder

2035
01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:31,920
Speaker 1: where he comes from. You know Kyle's doing it because

2036
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:34,760
Speaker 1: it would work for him. Correct. Yeah, And I know

2037
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:36,559
Speaker 1: I know when Kyle talk to me to come from

2038
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 1: the heart, and uh, it's because he wants me to seceed.

2039
01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: And that is just an undescribable feeling when he when

2040
01:38:43,040 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: you come to me and talk to him, because I

2041
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: just know what he had to do to get to

2042
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 1: where you want to go on him, even pouring in

2043
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:51,880
Speaker 1: to me is just if you're gonna pour into you

2044
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 1: better listening. Yeah, I listen. First week you're here, before

2045
01:38:55,320 --> 01:38:58,040
Speaker 1: the first game, he was like, your your personal coach, right,

2046
01:38:58,120 --> 01:38:59,640
Speaker 1: you'd come off to the same time, and he was

2047
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:02,599
Speaker 1: right there. He didn't pay them to anybody else. I

2048
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 1: mean he he helped out. But uh, I guess I

2049
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 1: needed I guess that's what you're trying to say. I

2050
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:12,000
Speaker 1: needed Mozel, so uh anything that he could give me,

2051
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: like I say, I run to him or anything. How

2052
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:16,000
Speaker 1: was that play? How was that play? If I could

2053
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: ask him, how was that play? Every play in the

2054
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:21,720
Speaker 1: game or whatever? I do it. So you get out

2055
01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:24,520
Speaker 1: here Wednesday of a new week, you're looking towards Cincinnati.

2056
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: What's the out of the box. What are the first

2057
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,559
Speaker 1: impressions of the Bengals are coming in here on opening day?

2058
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: How's that gonna being at home? Changing something? Maybe a

2059
01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:36,719
Speaker 1: little bit, But um, what's the first impressions of the Bengals? Well,

2060
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:39,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not so much about them as it

2061
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: is about us doing our job and playing physical, and

2062
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to who wants some more. How

2063
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: have you guys managed to tip so many passes up front?

2064
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 1: Defensive line staying active, whether it be you're getting blocked

2065
01:39:54,720 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 1: and you block a pass, are are you getting the

2066
01:39:57,840 --> 01:40:00,519
Speaker 1: quarterbacks facing you block a pass? Either way, go however

2067
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 1: you get it, you get it and Uh, it's just

2068
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: being active. You're always active to affective play. I mean

2069
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:10,640
Speaker 1: you gotta yeah interception out of it last week. Yeah, turnover. Um,

2070
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 1: it's not as good as a sack, but if you can,

2071
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: you're affecting throw your affecting a quarterback. He gonna think

2072
01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:17,599
Speaker 1: about it next time you try to throw the ball

2073
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: through the b gap. So yeah, I mean it is

2074
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:23,040
Speaker 1: what it is. What's been the personality of the defensive

2075
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:25,000
Speaker 1: line room. You guys have been rotating through a lot.

2076
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:29,320
Speaker 1: You're watching film together. You can watching film together running

2077
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:33,400
Speaker 1: through there. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Um, I

2078
01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 1: think everybody is pretty much so close. We always together.

2079
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: If we're to if anybody together on the team, the

2080
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:42,760
Speaker 1: most probably be the d line. Um, right, Like I

2081
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 1: know me and darrere always with each other. The two

2082
01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:49,639
Speaker 1: rooks did, we probably the closest and then start. I mean,

2083
01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're just real close. Yeah, just to

2084
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,000
Speaker 1: put it in simplest turn, we're real close. You played

2085
01:40:56,040 --> 01:41:00,120
Speaker 1: in big, loud home venue, your venues anywhere in college football.

2086
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 1: What do you expect out here this week? Your first

2087
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: home regular season game with the Bills. What do you

2088
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,839
Speaker 1: think it'll be? Late I didn't hear so many stories.

2089
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:09,519
Speaker 1: I expect to see somebody go through a table. I

2090
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: don't expect anything less than somebody going through a table.

2091
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:16,080
Speaker 1: You go, all right, you're not room for that, I hope. Yeah,

2092
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 1: thank you, Ed, appreciate it great. Thanks for coming in

2093
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: and Oliver Bill's first round draft pick defensive lineman joining us.

2094
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen just met with the media after practice ended today,

2095
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Speaker 1: answering questions about this week's game and maybe the return

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Speaker 1: of tightening Tyler Croft, who was a full participant in

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Speaker 1: practice today. Here's quarterback Josh Allen. Well, he's obviously another

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Speaker 1: added threat that you gotta worry about in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: You know his speed, you know the way he can

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Speaker 1: run routes, the way he catches a football. You know

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Speaker 1: that that's an added plus for us. So happy to

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Speaker 1: have him back running around, you know, in practice. Whether

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Speaker 1: he goes Sunday or not, it's really not up to me.

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad he's out with us right now and

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Speaker 1: getting these reps back in and trying to get back

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Speaker 1: in the swing of things. Yeah. One of the things

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Speaker 1: that you stood out on offense for you guys is

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Speaker 1: the downshield of the backs type them to receivers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think three of the touchdowns you had one of

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Speaker 1: those guys leading somebody into the ends of how how

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Speaker 1: important does he make that in practice? That did they

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Speaker 1: have to do that? They got to buy him the ball? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's extremely important for us. You know, we take pride

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Speaker 1: in what we do. Um. You know, our receivers know

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01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:20,560
Speaker 1: that the run plays, they're not getting the ball, but

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Speaker 1: they're still doing their job and blocking on the field.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was everyone buddy wanted to go celebrate

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Speaker 1: with nineteen a little jet sweep yesterday or Sunday, but

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Speaker 1: I was the first one to go get Knox and

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Speaker 1: make sure that he knew or that he knew that

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01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:34,719
Speaker 1: I understood what he did. And you know how crucial

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Speaker 1: he was to that play. So, um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate those guys. Our guys come out here and they

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Speaker 1: work extremely hard. And the way we practice translates to

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Speaker 1: the way we play in games. And you can see that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: how what is the mentality kind the mindset of this

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Speaker 1: team right now being to it all? You know, with

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Speaker 1: a chance to beat three and all, maybe you know,

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01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: to not get ahead of things and it kind of

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Speaker 1: will be level ahead, and what's the mentality in the mindsel, Well,

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Speaker 1: we are really taking one game at a time. We

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Speaker 1: understand that, you know, it's only been two games. Um,

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Speaker 1: last time I checked, nobody's done anything special by just

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Speaker 1: winning two games. So, um, we're putting those behind us.

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Speaker 1: Focusing on Cincinnati right now, just trying to put our

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Speaker 1: best foot forward and game plan and prepare us as

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Speaker 1: well as we can so we can go out there

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Speaker 1: on Sunday and you know, strive for I want to

2139
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Speaker 1: know each week last year, you guys we're at the

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Speaker 1: Hogan and two team going on the road to face

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Speaker 1: a team that is in Minnesota. This year the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I'm here only two doing out. How do you make

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Speaker 1: sure that you guys don't becomes Well, we understand, you know,

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Speaker 1: the tensions and the hot, the hopes, the energy, and

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Speaker 1: the stadium is gonna be really high on Sunday. We

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Speaker 1: got to kind of be able to weather that and

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Speaker 1: understand and play within ourselves. You know. Coach, you know

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Speaker 1: told us today it's not where we play, it's how

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Speaker 1: we play. We're gonna take that, you know, to heart.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna game plan, like I said, our coaches are

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01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna do a good job game planning. Um, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do a good job putting it in. We're gonna do

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01:43:58,360 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: good job practicing, and then hopefully on Sun Day we

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Speaker 1: go out there and we execute how we're supposed to.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know that's all we're kind of looking

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Speaker 1: forward to is just being able to execute how we

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Speaker 1: know we can. Um, not really letting anything outside of

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Speaker 1: us affect us up too. Yeah, I mean you know

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Speaker 1: that games past them, Um, it's still I think it's

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Speaker 1: a very talented group. They got on defense, this major

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Speaker 1: past disruptors upfront. Um, you know with Atkins and uh

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Speaker 1: ninety six there, and you know in the back end,

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Speaker 1: they got some corners that can run and that can

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Speaker 1: be physical, and their safeties move very well. So UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think from from one to eleven on

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Speaker 1: that defense, they got guys that really care about doing

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Speaker 1: their job. You know, they're gonna be energetic, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: come to our place and and try to get in

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Speaker 1: our face. And UM, you know, we're excited for the challenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a good team, so we got to

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Speaker 1: prepare as hard as we can. Um. I think it's

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Speaker 1: just kind of how we practice. UM, you know that

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Speaker 1: it's the calls that are being put in. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: Coach Daves and UM the staff have been doing a

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Speaker 1: really good job of game planning and making sure that

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Speaker 1: we got the right stuff in UM and then obviously

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Speaker 1: you get to call the plays. But we got to

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Speaker 1: go out there and execute. So we've had you know,

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Speaker 1: eleven guys doing their job when we get down there,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's what you want to see. We got

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Speaker 1: to continue to do that. Well. I think the difference

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Speaker 1: between seven and three points down there is huge. I

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Speaker 1: think obviously you want points no matter what, but to

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Speaker 1: have so called four point plays where UM, it's either

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Speaker 1: seven or three and you obviously want the seven. So

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Speaker 1: I guys know that, and it's a point of emphasis.

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Speaker 1: We want to try to put it in the endzone

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Speaker 1: as much as possible to help our defense out and

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Speaker 1: really play you know, team football. How much love did

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Speaker 1: you get a social media Twitter, Instagram, whatever after you

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Speaker 1: one New York team common after the game a little bit, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was good to get to see in

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Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to take a shot at any other

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Speaker 1: team or anything. I was just trying to stay to

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Speaker 1: fact and um, and I think the fans here it

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed that. And you know, just I like being

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Speaker 1: very logical and speaking facts. So um, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what I did. I wasn't trying to upset anybody's feelings

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Speaker 1: or you know, throw shade on anybody else, but just

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Speaker 1: stay in the fact the field, Like, what is that something?

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Speaker 1: He kind of left himself hoping that it was fun? Dude,

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Speaker 1: why don't you go that It just it just popped

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Speaker 1: in my head. Um. So I get that they're you know,

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants and New York Jets and um,

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01:46:38,120 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: but just the first thing that popped in my head.

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Speaker 1: We are the only team in New York that actually

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Speaker 1: plays in the city of New York. So uh, like

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Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't trying to hurt anybody's feelings or

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Speaker 1: kind of take it that way. Um, just stating the fact.

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Speaker 1: Were you trying to maybe reinforce that given the fact

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Speaker 1: you're just beating Bob? You know, not not really, He's just,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the first thing that popped in my head,

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Speaker 1: and um, it came out. And now I'm turning my

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Speaker 1: attention to Cincinnati about just town reacts to something like that. Yeah,

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01:47:10,080 --> 01:47:12,760
Speaker 1: for sure. UM, I'll tell you what I love where

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Speaker 1: I'm at. I love being in this community, um, in

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Speaker 1: this city, and I can honestly say I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be anywhere else. How much of your early season's

2219
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: success in your second year do you attribute to the

2220
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Speaker 1: amount of work to able to get calm fielding games,

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01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,720
Speaker 1: last seasons working, Um, I'd definitely say, you know, I

2222
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Speaker 1: attribute a lot to it. Um. But bringing in guys

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01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:35,600
Speaker 1: like da and matt Um, bringing in this offseason a

2224
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Speaker 1: guy like dors some UM, guys that have just played

2225
01:47:38,720 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: the position, that have been in the league for a while,

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01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 1: been able to pick their brain and understand, you know,

2227
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:44,880
Speaker 1: how they attack daily life and being a profession of quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's helped out a lot. And then

2229
01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:48,960
Speaker 1: having the support system, um, you know, with my family

2230
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:51,400
Speaker 1: and trying to stay leveling to stay grounded and just

2231
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: taken one day at a time, trying to be the

2232
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:57,160
Speaker 1: best quarterback that I can be in other circumstances, plays game,

2233
01:47:57,240 --> 01:48:01,120
Speaker 1: situations that you're in that you will remember how they were,

2234
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,080
Speaker 1: how you reacted, and how you deal with them last

2235
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:06,400
Speaker 1: years a rookie, and maybe how it's helped you go

2236
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 1: a different I just think the nerves um really aren't there.

2237
01:48:10,720 --> 01:48:13,640
Speaker 1: I think I'm very calm in these situations and I

2238
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: do I owe that, you know, a lot to coach

2239
01:48:15,560 --> 01:48:17,680
Speaker 1: McDermott and how he's kind of prepared us, you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that we practice, the situations that go on

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01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:22,920
Speaker 1: in our practices, you know, starting from OTAs through training

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01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: camp and even in practices now. M you know, he

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01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: does a really good job of kind of paying attention

2244
01:48:28,479 --> 01:48:31,639
Speaker 1: to what the league's doing, um, certain situations that have happened,

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01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: bringing those up and letting the team know how we're

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Speaker 1: going to attack that situation. So he's been doing a

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01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:38,920
Speaker 1: really good job on preparing us as a team to

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01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:41,120
Speaker 1: do that. And you know, it's fun when you got

2249
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 1: a coach that really cares about each aspect of the game,

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Speaker 1: and that's one we got. Rare obviously gives you the

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01:48:46,120 --> 01:48:47,920
Speaker 1: frame to it right in terms of how you're prepared,

2252
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:50,320
Speaker 1: but there's something in you about how you rise to

2253
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: the occasion. Beautiful. Do you feel a difference, you know,

2254
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:57,720
Speaker 1: different experience, Yeah, last year this year, how much of

2255
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 1: a difference do you feel in game? And you know,

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Speaker 1: I I'd say it's night and day. Um, you know,

2257
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 1: coming out here understanding that, you know, I got ten

2258
01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: other guys on the field with me, Um, you know,

2259
01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:11,479
Speaker 1: and I really enjoy working with these guys. I love

2260
01:49:11,479 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 1: each and every one of my teammates, and the trust

2261
01:49:13,880 --> 01:49:15,640
Speaker 1: that we have within each other, I think is a

2262
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:17,599
Speaker 1: good thing right now, and it's continuing to go into

2263
01:49:17,600 --> 01:49:19,720
Speaker 1: positive direction. Um. We got to make sure that we

2264
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:23,799
Speaker 1: stay focused, stay um communicating on that end, and continue

2265
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: to grow relationships, you know, on and off the field,

2266
01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:28,400
Speaker 1: because I definitely think it helps only concern about the

2267
01:49:28,479 --> 01:49:31,800
Speaker 1: conistry on the offensive of the season. How do you

2268
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:35,439
Speaker 1: feel like they've developed? You know, they're extremely well coached

2269
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:38,160
Speaker 1: with coach Bobby Um. They do a great job in practice.

2270
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 1: They talk a lot, you know, obviously having Mitch Um,

2271
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:43,960
Speaker 1: you know that center and how he communicates and how

2272
01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:46,360
Speaker 1: John and how Q kind of related everything to our

2273
01:49:46,400 --> 01:49:49,280
Speaker 1: tackles outside. You know, they do a good job. You

2274
01:49:49,280 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: know that it's really what it comes down to is communicating.

2275
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:53,200
Speaker 1: And they go out there and we got some dogs

2276
01:49:53,240 --> 01:49:55,160
Speaker 1: up front, We really do, and I appreciate how hard

2277
01:49:55,160 --> 01:49:57,040
Speaker 1: they work and when we got in the field, Um,

2278
01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:59,680
Speaker 1: we really got each other's backs. Um. Yeah, I love

2279
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:06,520
Speaker 1: those guys. How much is Mitch changed the entire dome? Um,

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01:50:06,560 --> 01:50:09,479
Speaker 1: I mean I completely do. Yeah, I definitely think that

2281
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:11,320
Speaker 1: he's got a lot. It's a collective effort, don't get

2282
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:13,639
Speaker 1: me don't get me wrong. Um, but just the knowledge

2283
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:16,639
Speaker 1: that he has things that he's seen, how he talks

2284
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:19,880
Speaker 1: to the guys, Um, you know, they really are. They're

2285
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:21,720
Speaker 1: they're one heartbeat up front right now. And we had

2286
01:50:21,720 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 1: to continue that and keep working in that direction and

2287
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,920
Speaker 1: make sure that nothing gets in between us like that.

2288
01:50:25,960 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 1: So um, But he's been doing a great job as

2289
01:50:28,479 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: long as with you know, everybody else in our line.

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01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, look team and all you know, they they've

2291
01:50:32,400 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 1: been given our defense a really good look. So um,

2292
01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:37,599
Speaker 1: that's all we can ask us to continue that progress

2293
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:41,639
Speaker 1: there last one jill Um, you guys have been able

2294
01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:44,240
Speaker 1: to assist the same drives. What do you think it's

2295
01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:47,040
Speaker 1: just led you to be able to consistently pick up

2296
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely think it's first and second down production,

2297
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:54,000
Speaker 1: how we're moving the ball there and then we get

2298
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 1: into third down. I think we've been really good on

2299
01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:59,040
Speaker 1: third down just as far as you know, splits um

2300
01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:01,519
Speaker 1: spacing with the receivers you know, if it's third and

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01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:04,439
Speaker 1: short running and getting our paths down and really getting

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Speaker 1: a push up front protecting. You know, I think it's

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Speaker 1: all eleven guys kind of pulling in the same direction,

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01:51:09,160 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 1: not panicking, and that you know, when you can confert

2305
01:51:12,600 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 1: on third downs, when it's third and six, third and seven,

2306
01:51:14,600 --> 01:51:16,680
Speaker 1: third and eight and you can move drives, it's kind

2307
01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:20,479
Speaker 1: of that hurts a defense and it hurts their mentality. So,

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01:51:20,720 --> 01:51:22,000
Speaker 1: like I said, we just got to keep working on

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01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:25,040
Speaker 1: what we're doing, understanding that there's gonna be stuff that's

2310
01:51:25,040 --> 01:51:26,960
Speaker 1: gonna get thrown off. Stuff we haven't seen. Each week's

2311
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:29,040
Speaker 1: gonna be harder, you know, because people are gonna be

2312
01:51:29,080 --> 01:51:31,040
Speaker 1: able to see what we're doing on our offensive side,

2313
01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:33,679
Speaker 1: you know, through film and everything. So we gotta stay

2314
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:36,840
Speaker 1: dis planned in and just continue goo. Josh Allen, Bill's

2315
01:51:36,880 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 1: quarterbacks said a couple a lot of interesting things here, Steph,

2316
01:51:39,439 --> 01:51:42,599
Speaker 1: including m I love what he said about the hype

2317
01:51:42,640 --> 01:51:44,559
Speaker 1: and there is hype about the home opener and the

2318
01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:47,719
Speaker 1: excitement about the home opener. It is real, it is genuine,

2319
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 1: and it should be. But as you said, Coach mcdermot's

2320
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:52,360
Speaker 1: been telling these players, look, it doesn't matter really where

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01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:54,400
Speaker 1: you play, it's how you play. And I think that's

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01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:56,439
Speaker 1: a good lesson for all of us. Right, Yes, a

2323
01:51:56,520 --> 01:51:59,200
Speaker 1: home field is great, it's gonna be fun, the atmosphere

2324
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:01,880
Speaker 1: will be fantastic. Stick it should be worth a little

2325
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 1: bit of a boost, you know, a couple of points

2326
01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: or whatever. But it doesn't guarantee anything. You still got

2327
01:52:05,600 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: to play well. You gotta play well, and you're up

2328
01:52:07,520 --> 01:52:09,680
Speaker 1: against a team that with every passing week, and you know,

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01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:11,880
Speaker 1: these and one teams, these O and two teams, they

2330
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: get more and more desperate. This is not in any way,

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01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:17,040
Speaker 1: shape or form. Just like we're always saying, hey, it's

2332
01:52:17,080 --> 01:52:20,200
Speaker 1: only two weeks, they're saying that too, and they're getting

2333
01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:22,080
Speaker 1: more and more desperate to win one and get up,

2334
01:52:22,200 --> 01:52:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, and get back on track. Where they are

2335
01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:28,720
Speaker 1: teams like Cincinnati, who you know, they've got designs on

2336
01:52:28,800 --> 01:52:30,680
Speaker 1: playing well. They want to they don't want to be

2337
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:32,760
Speaker 1: oh and three, they're gonna be desperate and they're gonna

2338
01:52:32,760 --> 01:52:35,519
Speaker 1: come out with all with all their weapons intact and

2339
01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:38,120
Speaker 1: try and win. So you're gonna play a desperate team

2340
01:52:38,400 --> 01:52:40,840
Speaker 1: and they're always more difficult to be. Yeah, they got

2341
01:52:40,840 --> 01:52:43,280
Speaker 1: issues though, I mean Corty Glenn has been out as't

2342
01:52:43,680 --> 01:52:46,120
Speaker 1: played or practiced. A lot of former Bills on that team. Yeah,

2343
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:49,200
Speaker 1: Preston Brown is playing, He's playing fine. John Miller starts

2344
01:52:49,200 --> 01:52:50,720
Speaker 1: over at right guard where he started here for a

2345
01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:53,639
Speaker 1: few years. But their offensive line has issues. They brought

2346
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:56,320
Speaker 1: back Andre Smith's former first round picking and started him

2347
01:52:56,400 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 1: last week in place of Courty Glenn. They may have

2348
01:52:58,080 --> 01:53:00,720
Speaker 1: to start them again. It's got like twelve years in

2349
01:53:00,760 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 1: the league. They got some holes. But still, as you said,

2350
01:53:03,520 --> 01:53:05,960
Speaker 1: the desperation factor for the Bengals will be huge. I

2351
01:53:05,960 --> 01:53:07,720
Speaker 1: think that's right, huge, right, And they gotta you know,

2352
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:10,840
Speaker 1: rookie head coach, first time head coach, who's who certainly

2353
01:53:10,840 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: doesn't want to start out in the way it looks

2354
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:15,280
Speaker 1: like he's starting out. He wants to show that he's

2355
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,200
Speaker 1: got something under the table. He was hired for a reason.

2356
01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:20,440
Speaker 1: And they're gonna play. They're gonna face a desperate team

2357
01:53:20,479 --> 01:53:23,960
Speaker 1: who's already gone on the road once and played very well.

2358
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:26,200
Speaker 1: In fact, they played I think better in Seattle than

2359
01:53:26,240 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 1: they did in Cincinnati. So we'll see if they can.

2360
01:53:29,400 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: You know, if they're gonna get on track, they're gonna

2361
01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: they have yet to run the football at all, whether

2362
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:34,840
Speaker 1: they continue to try to do that or where they

2363
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:37,280
Speaker 1: do something different, you don't know yet. It's it's gonna

2364
01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:38,680
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen. So I think there's some

2365
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:40,920
Speaker 1: question marks coming into this game about the Cincinnati Bengals,

2366
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:42,880
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, how they're gonna deploy their players,

2367
01:53:43,240 --> 01:53:45,000
Speaker 1: and also how desperate are they going to be and

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01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:47,960
Speaker 1: how you know how hard they're gonna play. I think

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01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:50,120
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get a full effort from these guys,

2370
01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:51,679
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be hard to beat them. Home Field

2371
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:53,680
Speaker 1: is fun, but it doesn't guarantee anything. I didn't you

2372
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 1: know what. The builds are won six of their last

2373
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:58,000
Speaker 1: ten home openers, so they lots last year, lots badly

2374
01:53:58,040 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 1: last year. It's fun, it's great to be home. I'm

2375
01:53:59,520 --> 01:54:01,640
Speaker 1: glad they're home. We need to be home. All of this,

2376
01:54:02,439 --> 01:54:05,840
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean much. Let me

2377
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:07,479
Speaker 1: say that when it comes out of the game plays out,

2378
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 1: all right, what's the best part of the Bills two?

2379
01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 1: And I'll start so far? What have you seen? What

2380
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:13,120
Speaker 1: do you like? What's the main reason, what's the best

2381
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:15,200
Speaker 1: thing that Bills have done? Took it off to a

2382
01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,080
Speaker 1: two and I start, that's our topic of the day.

2383
01:54:17,120 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: We got some tweets to read. We got phone lines

2384
01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:21,439
Speaker 1: wide open if you want to participate. Lines open at

2385
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:23,800
Speaker 1: eight O three five fifty and toll free one eight

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01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:26,720
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. The best thing

2387
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:28,559
Speaker 1: the Bills have done took it off to A two

2388
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:30,320
Speaker 1: and I start. Let's hear from you. We'll recap what

2389
01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:32,600
Speaker 1: went on at practice today when we come back as well.

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01:54:32,640 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: Come on back One Bill's Live, presented by KLADA Health

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01:54:35,120 --> 01:54:50,400
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

2392
01:54:50,440 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, Steve. We've

2393
01:54:53,480 --> 01:54:55,840
Speaker 1: had great weather, right, I was telling you during the break.

2394
01:54:56,200 --> 01:54:59,839
Speaker 1: Since third week of June, when I started my prolonged vacation,

2395
01:55:00,760 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 1: we've had great weather. I disappeared for a while, great weather.

2396
01:55:04,320 --> 01:55:06,520
Speaker 1: And can I say this. I just took a walk

2397
01:55:06,520 --> 01:55:09,960
Speaker 1: outside right outside our door here in our Seneca studio today.

2398
01:55:09,960 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: He might be the greatest day of them all this summer.

2399
01:55:12,240 --> 01:55:16,120
Speaker 1: It is amazing out there today. It is perfectly blue skies.

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01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: Calm Wins. I'm gonna look up the temperature. I'm sure

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01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 1: it's seventy six. I'll guess it's just a spectacular day

2402
01:55:22,520 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 1: out there. It's seventy forty degrees out there right now.

2403
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:28,080
Speaker 1: It's amazing out here. If you know, Buffalo, Western New

2404
01:55:28,120 --> 01:55:30,800
Speaker 1: York always gets crushed for the weather because it snows.

2405
01:55:30,840 --> 01:55:32,120
Speaker 1: We have blizzards once in a a while. But let me

2406
01:55:32,120 --> 01:55:35,080
Speaker 1: tell you something, it goes the other direction. You get

2407
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:39,080
Speaker 1: into September October, this is the best. This is the

2408
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: spot on the planet where you want to be. Yeah,

2409
01:55:42,240 --> 01:55:44,800
Speaker 1: all right, you go out there today. I mean today,

2410
01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:48,960
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a gift, unbelievable. Great. Hey, we

2411
01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:51,400
Speaker 1: just heard from Josh Allen. Sean McDermott talked about the

2412
01:55:51,440 --> 01:55:54,280
Speaker 1: Bill's quarterback earlier today. And here's that's an interesting question.

2413
01:55:54,320 --> 01:55:56,640
Speaker 1: I wanted to get Steve's take on this. Josh Allen,

2414
01:55:56,800 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: is he you know, he's been successful here right too?

2415
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 1: And oh this year had a pretty good game against

2416
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:03,680
Speaker 1: the Jets and a really good game against the Giants.

2417
01:56:03,880 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 1: And does last year's experience twelve starts for Josh ammon

2418
01:56:06,920 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 1: last year? Is he building on that experience? Does McDermott

2419
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:11,840
Speaker 1: see that That's what he was asked. Here's what he

2420
01:56:11,880 --> 01:56:15,880
Speaker 1: said today. I think that was important. Um, you know,

2421
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:18,520
Speaker 1: you look back at the film where he shows up

2422
01:56:18,560 --> 01:56:22,600
Speaker 1: and overlap games and everything, so um, you know, and

2423
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:25,280
Speaker 1: he'd probably be the first to tell you that he

2424
01:56:25,480 --> 01:56:28,120
Speaker 1: learned and you learn the hard way. There's some scars

2425
01:56:28,120 --> 01:56:30,280
Speaker 1: that are built up, um. And I think we as

2426
01:56:30,320 --> 01:56:32,560
Speaker 1: a team, myself as a head coach, you know, I've

2427
01:56:32,600 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 1: made plenty of mistakes and you take those scars. But

2428
01:56:36,120 --> 01:56:38,200
Speaker 1: it's what you do with those scars. It's the lessons

2429
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,240
Speaker 1: that are baked into those scars that you that you

2430
01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 1: carry with you as you continue to grow and evolve

2431
01:56:42,400 --> 01:56:44,880
Speaker 1: and and hopefully have more success. Sean started to give

2432
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:46,480
Speaker 1: us a good answer there, and then he veered up

2433
01:56:46,520 --> 01:56:49,160
Speaker 1: and they didn't want to get He felt himself opening

2434
01:56:49,200 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 1: up and he closed the door quick. But I think

2435
01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:54,720
Speaker 1: he's on there, right, I do think right he did.

2436
01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 1: He said, oh wait, minutem talking about one guy too

2437
01:56:56,960 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: long here, right, But I do think there's some there's

2438
01:56:59,160 --> 01:57:02,760
Speaker 1: some truth. There's something Josh Allen benefits from the rough

2439
01:57:02,880 --> 01:57:05,200
Speaker 1: days he had last year. There were several rough games

2440
01:57:05,280 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 1: last year. You can see it already this year. And

2441
01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:09,120
Speaker 1: I've heard other quarterbacks say this as well, when they

2442
01:57:09,120 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: start to see these teams twice in a row, and

2443
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:13,160
Speaker 1: they start to see the same thing, the same team

2444
01:57:13,280 --> 01:57:16,000
Speaker 1: again after they've seen him once, it does start to

2445
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,560
Speaker 1: reverberate what they have learned and they start to gain.

2446
01:57:18,720 --> 01:57:22,360
Speaker 1: You gain a little traction on some progress that's tangible

2447
01:57:22,400 --> 01:57:26,120
Speaker 1: to them. And he's right. I think the more Josh sees,

2448
01:57:26,160 --> 01:57:28,960
Speaker 1: the more helping. There's no question what we saw him

2449
01:57:28,960 --> 01:57:31,120
Speaker 1: go through last year, as rough as it was at

2450
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:33,800
Speaker 1: times to watch, he was still the most fun guy

2451
01:57:33,840 --> 01:57:35,880
Speaker 1: to watch in a long time for this franchise and

2452
01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:38,080
Speaker 1: he still continues to be now. He's got guys helping

2453
01:57:38,160 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 1: him that are fun to watch as well. So it's

2454
01:57:41,080 --> 01:57:43,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be optimistic about this group. But

2455
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:47,680
Speaker 1: we're two games into a long season, and you know,

2456
01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:50,920
Speaker 1: to this point it has been all that easy. They're

2457
01:57:50,920 --> 01:57:53,280
Speaker 1: two and oh. But there are still a lot of

2458
01:57:53,280 --> 01:57:54,760
Speaker 1: things we'd like to see him clean up, and I'm

2459
01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 1: sure they're they're looking at the exact same things we are.

2460
01:57:57,080 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 1: The news today for him, the practice field, a full

2461
01:57:59,080 --> 01:58:02,360
Speaker 1: practice for tight end Tyler Croft covering from surgery on

2462
01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: his broken foot, the foot proken last spring just when

2463
01:58:04,680 --> 01:58:06,800
Speaker 1: they got the workouts going. I don't know if he's

2464
01:58:06,840 --> 01:58:08,280
Speaker 1: going to be in or out, but he's trending in

2465
01:58:08,320 --> 01:58:10,920
Speaker 1: the right direction and had a full practice today, limited

2466
01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:14,160
Speaker 1: work for return specialists, wide receiver Andre Roberts from the

2467
01:58:14,280 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 1: quad injury. No practice today for Devin Singletary, No practice

2468
01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: today for Taran Johnson. The official and full injury report

2469
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:23,880
Speaker 1: is coming out a little bit later on today, Good

2470
01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: Show tomorrow. I just made a note because I didn't

2471
01:58:25,760 --> 01:58:27,600
Speaker 1: want to forget, and we'll talk about it again before

2472
01:58:27,600 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 1: we go off the year today. Tomorrow, Chris Brown will

2473
01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 1: be a practice for us. We know that Thurman Thomas

2474
01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:33,760
Speaker 1: is going to join us tomorrow about twelve thirty or

2475
01:58:33,800 --> 01:58:36,320
Speaker 1: so one o'clock. That's gonna be fun. Jake della Galla,

2476
01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:39,879
Speaker 1: third string quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals. Native of Hamburg,

2477
01:58:40,640 --> 01:58:42,800
Speaker 1: played his high school football, much of it at Saint

2478
01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:45,720
Speaker 1: Francis and Athall Springs, went to Central Connectian. I was

2479
01:58:45,720 --> 01:58:48,160
Speaker 1: thinking about it last night. I was doing my Bengals

2480
01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:50,280
Speaker 1: depth chart. Last time I saw Jake Della Gala was

2481
01:58:50,320 --> 01:58:51,680
Speaker 1: in the field house. We're sitting there talking to you.

2482
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:56,200
Speaker 1: He's at there working out here the work. Yeah, pro day,

2483
01:58:56,360 --> 01:58:58,640
Speaker 1: and look now he's coming back to be on the roster.

2484
01:58:58,680 --> 01:59:00,960
Speaker 1: Will he play, Probably not, but he's a third quarterback.

2485
01:59:01,200 --> 01:59:04,200
Speaker 1: Undrafted rookie Jake Delaga had great moments in preseason. He's

2486
01:59:04,200 --> 01:59:05,680
Speaker 1: gonna be on the show with this tomorrow one. He

2487
01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:07,280
Speaker 1: played so well in the preseason they didn't want to

2488
01:59:07,280 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 1: put him on the practice squad. Yeah, they knew they'd

2489
01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:12,520
Speaker 1: lose him. Um, he's a six six kids, got a

2490
01:59:12,560 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: great arm, and he's a He's a perfect example of

2491
01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:17,120
Speaker 1: a guy who had a couple of bad breaks in

2492
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 1: his football career but kind of hung in there. He

2493
01:59:19,440 --> 01:59:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, he kind of uh, he just worked hard

2494
01:59:22,320 --> 01:59:24,280
Speaker 1: at it. He got a shoulder injury at the wrong

2495
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:27,880
Speaker 1: time of his high school career and went to Connecticut

2496
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: and he said it didn't get didn't go to Alabama,

2497
01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:31,480
Speaker 1: didn't go to Clemson or any of these other schools,

2498
01:59:31,520 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 1: and you know, I think he could have had he

2499
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:37,080
Speaker 1: stayed healthy. Uh, he would have been a Division one athlete.

2500
01:59:37,600 --> 01:59:40,880
Speaker 1: But he hung in there, played played very well and

2501
01:59:41,160 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: knew at the time when he when when this time came,

2502
01:59:43,280 --> 01:59:45,440
Speaker 1: he would get a look and has made the most

2503
01:59:45,480 --> 01:59:47,800
Speaker 1: of that. It's he's a great story. He's a great kid,

2504
01:59:47,840 --> 01:59:51,360
Speaker 1: and he's one of our local guys here and great family. Yeah,

2505
01:59:51,400 --> 01:59:53,240
Speaker 1: it's great family, wishing the best for him and kind

2506
01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:56,200
Speaker 1: of like to see him prosper someplace. You know. Yeah,

2507
01:59:56,240 --> 01:59:58,400
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna be on a shooting. His grandfather one

2508
01:59:58,400 --> 02:00:00,600
Speaker 1: of the all time great Buffalo Albima. Yeah, one of

2509
02:00:00,640 --> 02:00:02,840
Speaker 1: the great Buffalo Bills. He was on. He's part of

2510
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:05,760
Speaker 1: the group that I played with. Al was always the

2511
02:00:05,800 --> 02:00:08,720
Speaker 1: guy that was standing next to security for marks, right,

2512
02:00:08,760 --> 02:00:11,560
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. An old former offensive lineman used

2513
02:00:11,560 --> 02:00:13,640
Speaker 1: to be the security guy for the head coach, Marv Levy,

2514
02:00:13,720 --> 02:00:17,280
Speaker 1: former all AFL off right, all AFL offensive lineman. He

2515
02:00:17,320 --> 02:00:19,200
Speaker 1: would walk Marv on and off the field and you know,

2516
02:00:19,400 --> 02:00:21,400
Speaker 1: be his kind of his body guard. That was alb Miller.

2517
02:00:21,440 --> 02:00:22,800
Speaker 1: He was on the sidelines with us for all those

2518
02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:25,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and all that. So his grandson, Bengals third

2519
02:00:25,400 --> 02:00:27,360
Speaker 1: string quarterback Jake Dolagala's going to be on the show

2520
02:00:27,360 --> 02:00:29,320
Speaker 1: of those tomorrow and Saran Neil will be in the

2521
02:00:29,360 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 1: show with us tomorrow. That is a totally Buffalo scenario

2522
02:00:32,240 --> 02:00:37,600
Speaker 1: right there, right, It is total Buffalo. The grandfather of

2523
02:00:37,640 --> 02:00:41,760
Speaker 1: the third string Cincinnati Bengals quarterback was a former Buffalo

2524
02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:45,520
Speaker 1: Bill center who worked security during the Super Bowls was

2525
02:00:45,600 --> 02:00:47,840
Speaker 1: on the sidelines during Super Bowls because you know, you

2526
02:00:47,880 --> 02:00:49,800
Speaker 1: getting old former players and knew how to act. Yeah,

2527
02:00:49,840 --> 02:00:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, we are all connected. We were all one big, happy,

2528
02:00:53,640 --> 02:01:00,120
Speaker 1: dysfunctional family right at times. Hopefully we're all in it together. Baby.

2529
02:01:00,160 --> 02:01:01,520
Speaker 1: What's the best thing the Bills have done to get

2530
02:01:01,560 --> 02:01:03,400
Speaker 1: off to a two and oz start? What do you think? Well,

2531
02:01:03,440 --> 02:01:05,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna read some tweets in a moment. Let's take

2532
02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:07,760
Speaker 1: a few phone calls here to discuss it. Here is

2533
02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:10,080
Speaker 1: this Steve calling from all the New York helos. Steve,

2534
02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:14,360
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi guys, first time caller. It's

2535
02:01:14,400 --> 02:01:17,120
Speaker 1: an honor to be speaking with you both. Ramiss if

2536
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:20,360
Speaker 1: I didn't specifically thanks Steve for everything he's done for

2537
02:01:20,400 --> 02:01:22,960
Speaker 1: this franchise into the city. You're a true pro. Well,

2538
02:01:22,960 --> 02:01:26,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. What's on your mind, Steve? So, the

2539
02:01:26,560 --> 02:01:28,760
Speaker 1: biggest thing I think the Bills have done is make

2540
02:01:28,800 --> 02:01:32,400
Speaker 1: the moves to protect Josh. And obviously it was a

2541
02:01:32,400 --> 02:01:34,880
Speaker 1: little time coming. They had to you know, square away

2542
02:01:34,960 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: some existing contracts and cap space, etc. But I'm just

2543
02:01:38,200 --> 02:01:40,320
Speaker 1: curious about your take on what are the lessons learned

2544
02:01:40,320 --> 02:01:43,480
Speaker 1: by the teams around the league, especially given the Andrew

2545
02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:47,400
Speaker 1: lux situation, the rash of quarterback injuries. I mean to me,

2546
02:01:47,440 --> 02:01:49,720
Speaker 1: it ought to be just like obligatory. You draft your

2547
02:01:49,760 --> 02:01:52,400
Speaker 1: quarterback for the future, and very next pick should be

2548
02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:56,440
Speaker 1: you're starting left tackle it, right, you know, we got

2549
02:01:56,440 --> 02:01:58,640
Speaker 1: to protect these guys. And I realized and appreciate that

2550
02:01:58,680 --> 02:02:01,000
Speaker 1: there's been some some rule change to help with that

2551
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:04,560
Speaker 1: along with the punters. You know, these guys that are vulnerable.

2552
02:02:04,960 --> 02:02:07,920
Speaker 1: I think that's a great thing, but really, we got

2553
02:02:07,920 --> 02:02:09,640
Speaker 1: to protect these guys. And I'm just curious what the

2554
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:13,280
Speaker 1: coaches are taking away right now. Yeah, I agree with you.

2555
02:02:13,280 --> 02:02:15,680
Speaker 1: You're right. There is a way to build a football team.

2556
02:02:15,720 --> 02:02:18,280
Speaker 1: We all know the pieces that are crucial to it.

2557
02:02:18,280 --> 02:02:19,920
Speaker 1: Starts with a quarterback, and then you got to protect

2558
02:02:19,960 --> 02:02:21,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback, and then you got to give him weapons

2559
02:02:21,720 --> 02:02:24,040
Speaker 1: to use. But you'd also like to have a defense

2560
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:26,480
Speaker 1: that could lean on that they could that quarterback could

2561
02:02:26,520 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: lean on during his formative years in the league, a rookie,

2562
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:33,000
Speaker 1: first second year guy, a good A good defense really

2563
02:02:33,040 --> 02:02:35,600
Speaker 1: helps that out, as does a running game. But most

2564
02:02:35,600 --> 02:02:37,440
Speaker 1: of that on the offensive side of the ball for

2565
02:02:37,480 --> 02:02:40,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback is all about the offensive line and getting

2566
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:43,480
Speaker 1: those guys up there that can push people around. Unfortunately,

2567
02:02:43,480 --> 02:02:45,680
Speaker 1: with five guys that got to play in a starting

2568
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:50,600
Speaker 1: offense for every NFL team, they don't fall on off trees.

2569
02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:56,160
Speaker 1: They're hard to find. That is a position of great rarity.

2570
02:02:56,800 --> 02:02:59,200
Speaker 1: When you talk about talent around the country we live in,

2571
02:02:59,360 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: it's hard to find big, huge, strong guys that are

2572
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:06,000
Speaker 1: athletic and that have been playing football since they were

2573
02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:08,320
Speaker 1: a kid. You know, they just don't. They don't come

2574
02:03:08,360 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: along that often. They're hard to find, and they're hard

2575
02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:12,440
Speaker 1: to have a whole bunch of good ones. You see

2576
02:03:12,480 --> 02:03:14,600
Speaker 1: every team in the league. Sometimes at some point it's

2577
02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 1: struggling to find him. But you're right, I think, as

2578
02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:19,720
Speaker 1: you said, protect him that you know they got Josh

2579
02:03:19,720 --> 02:03:21,280
Speaker 1: Allen now they need to protect him and they worked

2580
02:03:21,280 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: hard to do it. It's not just about protect him,

2581
02:03:23,080 --> 02:03:26,240
Speaker 1: it's about building a team around him that allows him

2582
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:29,200
Speaker 1: to be successful. And that means the coaching staff too.

2583
02:03:29,320 --> 02:03:32,080
Speaker 1: That means a backup quarterback. Two means a quarterback coach,

2584
02:03:32,120 --> 02:03:36,240
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator as well, and having the stability to

2585
02:03:36,360 --> 02:03:39,240
Speaker 1: let him just state for just a minute and learn

2586
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:42,120
Speaker 1: and be in an offense the same offense for more

2587
02:03:42,160 --> 02:03:44,800
Speaker 1: than just one year before you fire the offensive coordinator,

2588
02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:47,000
Speaker 1: bring the next guy in. You know, you see that

2589
02:03:47,040 --> 02:03:50,800
Speaker 1: all the time, and none of that has been the

2590
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:54,480
Speaker 1: problem with the Buffalo Bills. They've been stable. They did

2591
02:03:55,040 --> 02:03:57,600
Speaker 1: huge things to fix and help him on his side

2592
02:03:57,600 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: of the ball this year, because, let's face it, it

2593
02:04:00,120 --> 02:04:01,720
Speaker 1: looked like he was gonna have to play last year.

2594
02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:04,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that was the plan, and then their offensive

2595
02:04:04,200 --> 02:04:07,200
Speaker 1: line got ravaged by two of retirement and an injury.

2596
02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 1: Two retirements really basically with Eric Wood Richie incognito, and

2597
02:04:10,760 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 1: they never recovered from it, and I think that's what

2598
02:04:12,720 --> 02:04:14,320
Speaker 1: really dug him to hold they couldn't get out of.

2599
02:04:14,720 --> 02:04:17,000
Speaker 1: But you're right, that was a good call, Steve. That

2600
02:04:17,160 --> 02:04:19,040
Speaker 1: is one of the great things that we're seeing the

2601
02:04:19,120 --> 02:04:21,240
Speaker 1: fruit of right now is the decisions they made in

2602
02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:24,320
Speaker 1: the offseason and the guys they actually picked to be

2603
02:04:24,400 --> 02:04:26,520
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen's side of the ball. Thanks team, here's

2604
02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:31,480
Speaker 1: Frank and Montreal. Hello, Frank, welcome to the show. Good good,

2605
02:04:31,480 --> 02:04:35,320
Speaker 1: thank you. What they've improved from week one to week two,

2606
02:04:35,520 --> 02:04:38,000
Speaker 1: both offense and defense, and I hope it continues in

2607
02:04:38,080 --> 02:04:41,080
Speaker 1: week three and go on and so on. Um My

2608
02:04:41,200 --> 02:04:44,880
Speaker 1: question was, I know it's just week as, just two games,

2609
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 1: but do you think maybe it's time to maybe like

2610
02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:51,000
Speaker 1: bench z Jones and put in Duke Williams because he's

2611
02:04:51,040 --> 02:04:54,760
Speaker 1: a big guy of redland fret I don't. I know

2612
02:04:54,840 --> 02:04:57,280
Speaker 1: people have suggested that I think za Jones has something

2613
02:04:57,280 --> 02:04:59,600
Speaker 1: to offer this offense, and I think he will u

2614
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 1: The receiver picture is likely to get a little more

2615
02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:06,040
Speaker 1: clouded once Andre Roberts comes off, you know, gets ready

2616
02:05:06,080 --> 02:05:08,520
Speaker 1: to play. He got limited work in today. But no,

2617
02:05:08,600 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. I think Duke Williams is an

2618
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:13,200
Speaker 1: untested NFL commodity. He hasn't done it get in the NFL.

2619
02:05:13,320 --> 02:05:15,040
Speaker 1: Z A Jones ass Yeah, we don't. We may not

2620
02:05:15,120 --> 02:05:17,800
Speaker 1: know the reasons why Duke Williams is not playing and

2621
02:05:17,920 --> 02:05:20,440
Speaker 1: Zay Jones is. It might be as simple that Zay

2622
02:05:20,520 --> 02:05:22,480
Speaker 1: Jones is just faster than he is. They like his

2623
02:05:22,520 --> 02:05:24,440
Speaker 1: speed and it puts more pressure on the defense in

2624
02:05:24,480 --> 02:05:27,720
Speaker 1: a different way than Duke Williams size. Zay Jones is

2625
02:05:28,080 --> 02:05:31,040
Speaker 1: as tall as Duke is, or almost as tall, although

2626
02:05:31,040 --> 02:05:33,440
Speaker 1: he's not as physical as Duke by any stretch of

2627
02:05:33,440 --> 02:05:35,600
Speaker 1: the imagination. And one of the things I noticed in

2628
02:05:35,640 --> 02:05:37,680
Speaker 1: the preseason was all the things that Duke brings bring.

2629
02:05:38,000 --> 02:05:41,280
Speaker 1: He brings a nasty edge to the wide receiver position,

2630
02:05:41,360 --> 02:05:44,800
Speaker 1: does Duke Williams. But we may never know the reasons

2631
02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:47,760
Speaker 1: why Zay is ahead of him or in the depth chart,

2632
02:05:47,800 --> 02:05:49,600
Speaker 1: and why Duke Williams is on the practice squad. We

2633
02:05:49,640 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: may find out later in the season that maybe it

2634
02:05:51,920 --> 02:05:54,640
Speaker 1: took him that long to how about fifty seven catches

2635
02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:57,800
Speaker 1: for Za Jones last year? Maybe yeah, Zay Jones has

2636
02:05:57,800 --> 02:05:59,000
Speaker 1: got a little bit of a track reader in the

2637
02:05:59,120 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 1: National Football League, But maybe just as simple as Duke

2638
02:06:01,760 --> 02:06:04,240
Speaker 1: Williams getting more acclimated to this offense and the rules

2639
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:07,400
Speaker 1: in the American game south of the border getting back

2640
02:06:07,400 --> 02:06:09,960
Speaker 1: acclimated to that. So we don't know what that is,

2641
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:11,680
Speaker 1: but I know this, they liked what he did in

2642
02:06:11,720 --> 02:06:13,600
Speaker 1: the preseason. I don't think we've seen the last of

2643
02:06:13,680 --> 02:06:16,000
Speaker 1: Duke Williams. If if there's a problem with the depth

2644
02:06:16,520 --> 02:06:18,680
Speaker 1: in the Buffalo Bill's wide receiving room, I know that

2645
02:06:18,720 --> 02:06:21,120
Speaker 1: they feel confident putting Duke Williams and bringing him up.

2646
02:06:21,160 --> 02:06:26,240
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Frank from Montreal. I hear that,

2647
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: and I think, like you, I'd like to see Duke

2648
02:06:29,160 --> 02:06:31,000
Speaker 1: Williams play, but I don't know that there's room for

2649
02:06:31,080 --> 02:06:33,800
Speaker 1: him just yet on the on the field. Thanks for

2650
02:06:33,840 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 1: your call. Will take one more call in this segment.

2651
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:38,080
Speaker 1: Here we'll go to Jerry in Columbus. Go ahead, Jerry,

2652
02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:41,240
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. It was going on as Drew

2653
02:06:41,360 --> 02:06:46,840
Speaker 1: its Drew is Drew Drew. Yeah, Hey, how y'all doing today? Good? Um,

2654
02:06:47,560 --> 02:06:52,320
Speaker 1: I just was, I just was thinking that the main

2655
02:06:52,400 --> 02:06:55,520
Speaker 1: thing that I'm seeing, I know, still early, but clearly

2656
02:06:55,600 --> 02:06:58,840
Speaker 1: we could see that this is a totally different team

2657
02:06:58,880 --> 02:07:02,040
Speaker 1: than last year. And for the most part afore I

2658
02:07:02,080 --> 02:07:06,520
Speaker 1: will seeing from the from the highlights and everything. We're

2659
02:07:06,560 --> 02:07:09,280
Speaker 1: staying on the field. On third down, third and ten,

2660
02:07:09,880 --> 02:07:12,240
Speaker 1: third and six, them are hard downs to get off of,

2661
02:07:12,520 --> 02:07:16,360
Speaker 1: ye you know, so we're staying on the field. We're

2662
02:07:16,400 --> 02:07:19,920
Speaker 1: utilizing our weapons. I'm very excited this year. I know

2663
02:07:19,960 --> 02:07:23,440
Speaker 1: it's storially like I said, but I think I think

2664
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: I've been very optimistic. So I think we gotta I

2665
02:07:27,040 --> 02:07:30,879
Speaker 1: think we got a chance and then uh, injuries and everything.

2666
02:07:31,080 --> 02:07:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, we we we the door loathing for us.

2667
02:07:33,000 --> 02:07:35,040
Speaker 1: We just got to play our ball, trust the process,

2668
02:07:35,440 --> 02:07:37,280
Speaker 1: and I think we'll be all right. Yeah, third times

2669
02:07:37,320 --> 02:07:40,200
Speaker 1: have been good there, you're right, converting forty four percent

2670
02:07:40,240 --> 02:07:44,000
Speaker 1: of third downs I think percent. You're right. That's a

2671
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:45,960
Speaker 1: big difference from last year they led the league. I

2672
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:47,880
Speaker 1: said it all offseason and pointed to it as something

2673
02:07:47,880 --> 02:07:50,200
Speaker 1: that had to change. They led the league last year

2674
02:07:50,240 --> 02:07:53,600
Speaker 1: in three and ounce uh. That has not been the case.

2675
02:07:53,680 --> 02:07:57,320
Speaker 1: They've been there a one hundred percent offense in the

2676
02:07:57,320 --> 02:07:59,840
Speaker 1: red zone, they get a touchdown every time they have

2677
02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:02,800
Speaker 1: in the red zone this season, they have gotten a touchdown.

2678
02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 1: They have done some things that are and as you said,

2679
02:08:06,760 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 1: Drew completely different than they did a year ago. They

2680
02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:13,640
Speaker 1: are a completely different and totally different football team than

2681
02:08:13,680 --> 02:08:15,720
Speaker 1: they were a year ago, particularly on the offensive side

2682
02:08:15,720 --> 02:08:18,280
Speaker 1: of the ball, and that has made all the difference.

2683
02:08:18,320 --> 02:08:20,120
Speaker 1: That's why they're two and oh instead of o and

2684
02:08:20,160 --> 02:08:22,120
Speaker 1: two this year. Max Uere cal Drow, We're going to

2685
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 1: take a break here. We're gonna let you know the

2686
02:08:23,840 --> 02:08:27,280
Speaker 1: official injury report is in from the Buffalo Bills after

2687
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:29,960
Speaker 1: this Wednesday practice, and we take a look at it

2688
02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:32,880
Speaker 1: and see that Trudavious White was the one that got

2689
02:08:32,960 --> 02:08:35,960
Speaker 1: us interested. White was limited today with a neck injury.

2690
02:08:36,440 --> 02:08:40,720
Speaker 1: Terren Johnson no practice today. He was he's got the

2691
02:08:40,840 --> 02:08:44,160
Speaker 1: quad muscle injury. Andre Roberts limited today. I'm sorry, Terren

2692
02:08:44,240 --> 02:08:47,000
Speaker 1: Johnson is a hamstring. Andre Roberts says the quad. He

2693
02:08:47,080 --> 02:08:50,200
Speaker 1: was limited. Devin's singletary no practice today with a hamstring,

2694
02:08:50,200 --> 02:08:51,960
Speaker 1: and a couple of players get the veteran rest day.

2695
02:08:52,240 --> 02:08:55,440
Speaker 1: Offensive lineman Tie and Seki, wide receiver John Brown and

2696
02:08:55,560 --> 02:09:00,160
Speaker 1: linebacker Lorenzo Alexander. Limited work for Tredavious White today. Okay,

2697
02:09:00,160 --> 02:09:01,920
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that. I'm not really concerned

2698
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:04,240
Speaker 1: about it. We saw him work doing some individual work,

2699
02:09:04,280 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably just a little day of

2700
02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:08,440
Speaker 1: rest to make sure that he's one hundred percent before

2701
02:09:08,440 --> 02:09:14,120
Speaker 1: he actually risks having a little incidental contact during practice. Yeah,

2702
02:09:14,600 --> 02:09:16,400
Speaker 1: Steve gives him the seal of approval. I give him

2703
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:21,200
Speaker 1: him my thumb printing ignorant approval. A breakcare, we're backward

2704
02:09:21,200 --> 02:09:23,560
Speaker 1: the morning Moment one Bill Slide presented by Kalaida Hell

2705
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:26,000
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, and this is

2706
02:09:26,040 --> 02:09:42,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio time. Now for what have we learned

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02:09:42,320 --> 02:09:45,280
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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. What have

2709
02:09:48,680 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: we learning? You heard Josh Allen a moment ago. The

2710
02:09:50,760 --> 02:09:54,560
Speaker 1: Bill's got Tyler Croft back as a full practice participant. Today,

2711
02:09:54,960 --> 02:09:57,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was asked what could Tyler Croft bring to

2712
02:09:57,400 --> 02:10:11,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo offense. Here's his answer. All right, let's start over.

2713
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Speaker 1: What have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: going here? Field Yates? Field Yates was the man who

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Speaker 1: was we're learning something from Field Yates and his thoughts

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Speaker 1: about the Bills first two weeks. Someone like myself believes

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Speaker 1: that they are more talented than both the Jets and

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Speaker 1: the Giants. And they went there on the road and

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Speaker 1: back to back weeks and won games, and I believe

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Speaker 1: they should have one, which is an excellent sign of

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Speaker 1: a team, because where I think the NFL becomes a

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02:10:41,560 --> 02:10:44,200
Speaker 1: not for long business quickly is when teams don't take

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Speaker 1: care of business in games, you expect them too. And

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Speaker 1: we see that every single week in the NFL. We're

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Speaker 1: going to see it again in week three. It's just

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Speaker 1: a buyer product of how the game works. But I've

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Speaker 1: been really encouraged. But what I've seen from the Bills

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Speaker 1: through the first two weeks, going on the road back

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Speaker 1: to back games, feels like they should be the one

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Speaker 1: thinking called MetLife Stadium home now given the fact that

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Speaker 1: they are two and U field yates. We learned something room,

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Speaker 1: let's say even get the second half of this right.

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Speaker 1: And Oliver joined us on the show today and we

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Speaker 1: asked that Oliver about the vibe on the sidelines after

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants marched down the field where their

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Speaker 1: first touchdown, their first scoring touchdown in the game last Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Here's that, Oliver, That's just how It's how we pride.

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Speaker 1: This is how we train. Um. I can't priest to

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Speaker 1: it more than that. It's just calm, breee, calm. That's

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Speaker 1: what they priest to us. And I'm say on the

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Speaker 1: sideline when that happened, it wasn't like, oh, what are

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02:11:36,640 --> 02:11:39,480
Speaker 1: we gonna do right around your head on fires is

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02:11:39,520 --> 02:11:42,520
Speaker 1: in calm down, play football and that's who we did.

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Speaker 1: Tighten it up and play a good game. Learned a

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Speaker 1: lot there, see something from of us to learn. Calm,

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02:11:47,280 --> 02:11:50,360
Speaker 1: breeds calm. If you stay calm, you will continue to

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Speaker 1: be calm. Calm breeds. Colm. We're not calm about the

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Speaker 1: other day, back and forth about oh it was yesterday,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it? Yeah, it was yesterday. I got another out there.

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Speaker 1: I thought another thing? Is that yesterday? It was? It

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Speaker 1: was yesterday yesterday? Wow? Good show? Yeah, that was a

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Speaker 1: good show today. You're gonna pack yourself on the back,

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Speaker 1: you do, No, I was gonna talk about tomorrow show.

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Speaker 1: Who's on? Good show? Tomorrow? Who's on? I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: right now. Chris Brown from practice, Thurman Thomas joins us,

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Speaker 1: Jake Delagala from the Cincinnati Bengals, Hamburg guy playing quarterback

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Speaker 1: and after practice or in Neil. That'll be a good show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really good. We'll do our best to keep it good tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you join us tomorrow. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: our production. Am I too early here? I'm about a

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Speaker 1: minute too early? Yeah, I got this segment has been

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Speaker 1: the worst. I saved the worst for the end. Finished

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Speaker 1: strong every it's too late to finish Strong's Wednesday. What

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do this weekend? It's too late to finish? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did. We had Josh Allen stuff the stuff he said,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to catch that online. That was some

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02:12:55,680 --> 02:12:58,840
Speaker 1: good stuff. They're asking Himmy's starting to get this face

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Speaker 1: of the franchise thing pretty good. Oh yeah, you get that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he knows the right things to say, Yeah he does.

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Speaker 1: He's starting to be just as empty in his answers

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Speaker 1: as Sean Mcca. You know what's interesting to watch a

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Speaker 1: weekend will be the front row seats here over the

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Speaker 1: next couple of months. If Josh continues to progress, which

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Speaker 1: he has, and the Bills continue to play well, which

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Speaker 1: I think they will, We're gonna have front row seats

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Speaker 1: for all of the Josh Allen doubters who said, what

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Speaker 1: a mistake, how could they draft? And they should have

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Speaker 1: had Josh Rosen And there were legions of people who thought,

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Speaker 1: lots of them. Where are they now? I want to

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Speaker 1: hear from them, and I'll tell you this too. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be if you know, if this team gets out

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02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:36,960
Speaker 1: there and goes to the bye week undefeated or something

2784
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Speaker 1: like that, there's gonna be a lot of national media

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02:13:38,880 --> 02:13:41,320
Speaker 1: people in here every week saying, Okay, now they're gonna

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Speaker 1: start digging in, and then then there really will be tested.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for our production assistance, George Blast, Jeff Colton, Thomas

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Speaker 1: Honald Or Kelly Rude, JJ Turto, Kevin Cargis, James Roebel,

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02:13:50,040 --> 02:13:52,720
Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. Back tomorrow at twelve noon. We'll

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Speaker 1: have a better final segment of the show tomorrow, I promise.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by a lot of health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio one. He was in Dents