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Speaker 1: sit on the bench and drink tea break time for

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Speaker 1: us when we come back, We'll have a Steelers beat

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Speaker 1: reporter and editor at Steelers dot Com one Bob Labriola,

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Speaker 1: to break it all down for us. Is we begin

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Speaker 1: preparations for this Sunday night tilt between the Steelers and

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Back in a moment here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Kasker Wednesday edition of One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line right now to talk Steelers

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Speaker 1: with us. It's covered the Steelers for decades. Steelers dot

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Speaker 1: Com reporter Bob Lambriola joining us on the line right now, Bob,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Thanks for making some time for us.

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Speaker 1: You and the family doing well during the pandemic? Here?

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Speaker 1: You guys healthy, Yeah, we're healthy. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: the bright spot is my wife hasn't murdered me and

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Speaker 1: buried me in the backyard yet, so um, I consider

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Speaker 1: that a victory. Hid hide the shovel. Yeah, well, I

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Speaker 1: you know, I was. I did ask her to uh

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Speaker 1: you know, not the bludgeon me, just you know, do

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Speaker 1: something quick. Yeah. Yeah, well we've got it on record

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Speaker 1: now in case that happens. You've got so we're covered there, Bob,

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Speaker 1: I gotta I got to get the handle from you

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Speaker 1: since your boots on the ground there. Uh you know.

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Speaker 1: You see some of the write ups after their latest game,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, for an eleven and one team to

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Speaker 1: even insinuate the sky is falling sounds preposterous. But are

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Speaker 1: people freaking out there after this or is this just

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Speaker 1: a run up to the first loss? That is that

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Speaker 1: has some people scratching their head and I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say panicking, but at least saying what the heck's

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Speaker 1: going on with this team? It seems prop not seriously,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know Steelers fans very well. I

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Speaker 1: mean the sky was falling the Tuesday after the opening

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Speaker 1: Monday night win in New York against the Giants. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we'ren't winning by enough, didn't look good enough winning,

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Speaker 1: you know all that kind of stuff. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: welcome to my world, that's what That's what it is. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, this has kind of been building and building.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that Steelers fans are ever really content.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to put it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: certainly that it's always something you know, well, what about this, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you beat the Browns thirty eight to six, but what

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Speaker 1: about this? You know they ran for you know, sixty

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Speaker 1: yards in the second half. What about this? So um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this guy is pretty much always falling here in Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I guess that a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: are spoiled and um, but that's kind of what it is.

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Speaker 1: I do think, though, however, and all seriousness that you know,

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Speaker 1: this this Steelers team now is one that you know,

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Speaker 1: they've had some talent drain. Certainly Devin Bush out for

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Speaker 1: the season. He is our Tremaine Edmonds um to explain

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo fans, uh and Bud Dupree was was having

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Speaker 1: a really good year. He is a big, fast, aggressive,

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Speaker 1: dangerous person for the opposing officer and uh t J.

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Speaker 1: Watts kind of you know Batman and Robin kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: And so they're both out, and you know, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: running game now is definitely an issue moving forward. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about what are there

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Speaker 1: some of their issues? Offensively? I know Big Ben makes

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Speaker 1: a big difference, but you know, I mean the last

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Speaker 1: six games you've thrown it well a ton you threw

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Speaker 1: it thirty two times six games ago. Then it's been

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Speaker 1: forty two, forty six, forty six, fifty one, fifty three attempts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that Connor has not been in there,

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Speaker 1: but is the past happy nature starting to rankle some people? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not so much that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the running game is just incompetent, you know, for

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Speaker 1: lack of a better word, it just is uh And

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you can I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Jim Brown, you know, descending from you know, coming directly

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Speaker 1: from the Fountain of Youth and coming to Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 1: suiting up is necessarily going to change that. You know overnight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it's it's a lot more

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Speaker 1: than that. There have been a lot of guys defenders

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Speaker 1: unblocked at the point of attack, even in situations where

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have more blockers, you know, to handle it

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Speaker 1: than defenders because you know, Roethlisberger's having a great year

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Speaker 1: and um he is. I still believe the quarterback who

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Speaker 1: gets the ball out of his hands quickest of anyone

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Speaker 1: in the league. You know, to this point in those

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Speaker 1: advanced stats, to this point in the season, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's Brady esque in terms of that. And so, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Steelers do have a nice core of

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Speaker 1: receivers and so you know, in my mind, when when

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Speaker 1: you can't run the ball, you still have to score points,

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Speaker 1: especially the way the league is this year, and so, uh,

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Speaker 1: throw it. I mean, you have him, you have good receivers,

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Speaker 1: You spread them out, you know, five wide, empty set,

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Speaker 1: you kind of say to the defense, so you're going

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Speaker 1: to cover. Now. What has been happening in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks is a lot to drop passes, and

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Speaker 1: so you know they can't have that in conjunction with

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Speaker 1: a running game. That is totally ineffective. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: let me just use this as an example. You know,

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Speaker 1: against Washington, which by the way, is a lot better

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Speaker 1: team than a lot of people might believe. But against

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Speaker 1: the Washington football team, the Steelers were up seven nothing

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Speaker 1: early midway in the second quarter. They had just scored.

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Speaker 1: Then they kick off to the Redskins. The defense turns

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Speaker 1: it over on downs. When Ron Rivera decided to go

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Speaker 1: for it on fourth and one in his own thirty four,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers tackle the running back for a three yard loss.

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Speaker 1: So I get the ball to thirty one. Two plays later,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's on the one yard line. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: ran five plays from the one yard line. It didn't score,

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Speaker 1: and the reason they got five was there was a

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Speaker 1: stupid personal file that a Washington the defender committed to

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Speaker 1: you know, reset the down clock five plays from the

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Speaker 1: one yard line. I mean, that's that's I would say

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Speaker 1: it's high school lesque, but I don't want to insult

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Speaker 1: high schools, so you can't have that. So if that's

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Speaker 1: what it's going to be, you know, throw at fifty

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Speaker 1: one times. But I don't think that you can sustain

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Speaker 1: that kind of one dimensional offense. Now that you know

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Speaker 1: these last let's see what the eleven and one last

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Speaker 1: four games? How to do a quick quick arithmetic. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Buffalo is the best team on the Steelers

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Speaker 1: schedule this year in my opinion. They also have games

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Speaker 1: against the Colts and at Cleveland, so, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is the toughest part of the schedule of the

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Speaker 1: toughest game coming up. I think that there's enough video

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Speaker 1: on this offense now that should give opponents a decent

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Speaker 1: read on what the Steelers want to do. The receivers

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Speaker 1: are not helping Ben or themselves by dropping the ball,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the sky's falling. Do you think, Bob, though,

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers are capable offensively of maybe changing their

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Speaker 1: spots a little bit, you know, with Connor coming back

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Speaker 1: and with Pouncy expected to be back in the pivot there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying they're going to wave a

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Speaker 1: magic wand and suddenly be able to run the ball

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Speaker 1: the way they were two and three years ago. But

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if they can with those editions at least

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Speaker 1: summon up a run game that allows them to be

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Speaker 1: more balanced, thereby making that passing game probably a little

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Speaker 1: bit more effective. Well yeah, and I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if it has to be what you just described. I

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Speaker 1: think that the Steelers can get by with a running

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Speaker 1: game that can get one yard and get into the

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Speaker 1: end zone with five cracks from the one yard line.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the kind of you know, they can

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Speaker 1: certainly attain that on fourth and one, third and one.

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Speaker 1: They also a third and one and a fourth and

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Speaker 1: one later in that game against Washington and couldn't get

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Speaker 1: either one of those either. So if the team could

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Speaker 1: just be able to, you know, function, if it's running

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Speaker 1: game could just be able to function in some of

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Speaker 1: those kind of situations, I think then that you can

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Speaker 1: at least convince the defense that there are going to

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Speaker 1: be situations where you're going to run the ball. And

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Speaker 1: if you convince them that you're going to run the

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Speaker 1: ball and they have to at least kind of pay attention,

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Speaker 1: then that helps the passing game as well. I just

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Speaker 1: don't know that it can be even good enough to

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Speaker 1: be balanced, because that would mean, you know, instead of

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Speaker 1: let's just pretend here, instead of throwing fifty three passes

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Speaker 1: and running eleven times, which is sixty four plays, you know,

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Speaker 1: balanced is maybe you know, thirty and thirty four thirty

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Speaker 1: four and thirty I don't think the running game can

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Speaker 1: be that good. But if say you only run it

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Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty times out of those sixty four plays,

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Speaker 1: and half of those are in situations where you convert, yes,

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Speaker 1: I think it can be that good. How much of

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Speaker 1: a sense of relief And I know nobody goes into

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Speaker 1: a games, you know, hoping they lose, But how much

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Speaker 1: of a sense of relief did you get out of

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh locker room about finally being done with this

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Speaker 1: undefeated thing so they can kind of reset and just

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Speaker 1: start playing football like everybody else without having this extra

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Speaker 1: suitcase to hang around. Well, I don't really know that

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Speaker 1: that has that was even an issue. I just don't, um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mike Tomlin this whole year and it was

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Speaker 1: almost like he was a prophet, and because his his

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Speaker 1: catchphrase for the season was, you know, this week, we

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Speaker 1: just want to be one and oh and that that

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Speaker 1: started back you know, in August. So the undefeated thing,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think was ever really an issue.

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Speaker 1: And certainly, you know, if you're an NFL player for

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers and you know you're in town during

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Speaker 1: football season, it's pretty hard not to be exposed to

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Speaker 1: a lot of what we were talking about when we

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Speaker 1: started this segment. And so I don't know that there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of you know, that that he'd even

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Speaker 1: taken hold yet, because I also believe that those players

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Speaker 1: know that this final four games are you know, these

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Speaker 1: are these are varsity teams. The Steelers are going to

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Speaker 1: play unlike some of the JV outfits that they faced

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Speaker 1: early in the schedule, either you know, because of their

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Speaker 1: those rosters, or injuries to those teams, or you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens totally blowing NFL protocol on the COVID nineteen thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Bills, the Colts, the Browns on the road.

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Speaker 1: I mean this this was going to be serious. And

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Speaker 1: so the the undefeated thing, I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: that that was ever an issue. Now. The other thing,

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Speaker 1: it has been kind of the race use that quotes

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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs for the number one seat because the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: while the Steelers were undefeated, the Chiefs had only one loss,

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Speaker 1: and with the situation where there's only one buy now

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Speaker 1: for the top seat per conference in the playoffs, that

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Speaker 1: was something that was talked about a little bit but

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Speaker 1: I think really a lot more that was going on

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Speaker 1: what we're players having to hear about and be asked

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Speaker 1: about of the deficiencies that were perceived in their performances

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Speaker 1: weekend and week out. Talking to Bob Labrioler from Steelers

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Speaker 1: dot Com, flipping it over to the defensive side, Bob,

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Speaker 1: it has been an opportunistic defense in terms of you know,

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Speaker 1: sacks and takeaways plus eleven in the turnover margin. That's outstanding.

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Speaker 1: I know they're a little nicked up, and Spillane's going

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Speaker 1: to probably be a question mark, and he's already filling

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Speaker 1: in for Bush to a certain extent, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Hayden's in the concussion protocol. Now after the game earlier

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Speaker 1: this week, you may get Nelson back on the other side.

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Speaker 1: But where do you feel this defense is at? Despite

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Speaker 1: some of the losses in terms of bodies and personality,

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Speaker 1: you still feel like this is a top end unit

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Speaker 1: that can kind of hold it together until the cavalry arrives. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this this defense is It's the real deal. You know.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that concerns me personally is this. You know,

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Speaker 1: at one point last week against Washington, the Steelers were

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Speaker 1: playing without Devin Bush, Bud Duprie, Joe Hayden, and Stephen Nelson.

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Speaker 1: Now you know, I don't know a lot of NFL

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Speaker 1: teams whose depth chart can withstand that kind of talent

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Speaker 1: drain out of eleven players on your defense. But as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned this T J. Watt, I believe that the

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Speaker 1: defensive player of the year he deserves it. Cam Hayward

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Speaker 1: Stefaunt to it. Those are both big time players and

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Speaker 1: so and make of Fitzpatrick to me is an All

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Speaker 1: Pro safety. So I do believe that the unit can

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Speaker 1: still be a top end one in the NFL. The

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Speaker 1: only thing that concerns me a little bit is, you know,

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Speaker 1: if the steel the Steelers need to get their offense

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Speaker 1: straightened out, because this is what you need. You need

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Speaker 1: to score enough points to dissuade the other team from

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Speaker 1: running the ball. Because the Steelers run defense is the

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Speaker 1: weakness of that unit. Okay, they're number one. They leave

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Speaker 1: the NFL in both sacks and takeaways, So the run

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Speaker 1: defense is a little the middle of the pack. So

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Speaker 1: if you can dissuade the opponent from running the football,

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Speaker 1: you force them into doing what your defense does best,

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Speaker 1: and then then you can really create the kind of

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Speaker 1: havoc that you're not waiting for the cavalry to right,

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Speaker 1: you are the cavalry. So, um, that's that's to me.

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Speaker 1: The concern is, and I'm laying this on the offense

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Speaker 1: because you know, the offense hasn't had that kind of

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Speaker 1: personnel loss that the defense has had to absorb, right,

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Speaker 1: and so, um, you know, these guys got to get

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Speaker 1: it together. I mean, you know, and and you mentioned

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Speaker 1: James Connor. Uh. And with regard to the running game,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to argue that, but let

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Speaker 1: me just say this. The Steelers have invested a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of money in this offensive line.

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Speaker 1: These guys are veterans, they have played together a long time.

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Speaker 1: Pouncey and David de Castro have been first team Hall

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Speaker 1: Pro more than once. So you know, sometimes it's time

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Speaker 1: for some people to step up, get a hat on

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Speaker 1: a hat and start moving them off the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage a little bit. And Um, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: it has to be scheme or play calls. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's always the gut reaction of the fans the

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Speaker 1: first place they go. You know, the play calls are bad,

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Speaker 1: the scheme is bad. Hey, you know, you have seven

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Speaker 1: blockers on five defenders. You can't get a yard. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the play call. That's just me. So

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Speaker 1: the offense has to pick it up. And if they do,

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Speaker 1: which they can, I think that this can still end

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Speaker 1: up being a successful season for this team. Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: this is the last one I've got for you, Bob.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's you know, addressed the drops that you were

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Speaker 1: mentioning earlier in the segment earlier in the week and said, listen,

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Speaker 1: they're either gonna catch it or they're gonna get replaced

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Speaker 1: by guys who do. It's easy to say, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you only got six or seven guys on the roster,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like there's something in the water and

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver room that they're all dropping it. What

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Speaker 1: do you think they are tangibly gonna do to alter

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Speaker 1: what they're or they just or is that just a

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Speaker 1: shot across the bounty will give them another week to

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Speaker 1: pick it up? Well, um, let me let me tell

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Speaker 1: you a quick quick story here, and this goes back

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Speaker 1: some years. Bill Nunn, the Steelers super scout. This was

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Speaker 1: back in the sixties when Bobby Lane was the quarterback here,

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Speaker 1: and he ran into Bobby Lane in a place where

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Speaker 1: you know Bobby Lane and those kind of guys and

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Speaker 1: usually went after practice during the week during the season,

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Speaker 1: and he was talking to Bobby Lane, and he said

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Speaker 1: to him, what makes a good NFL receiver? And Bobby

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Speaker 1: Lane pointed across the bar at Jimmy or who was

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Speaker 1: a stealer at the time, and he said, you know

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Speaker 1: why that guy's a good receiver because I throw him

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Speaker 1: the ball. So I don't know that you need different

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Speaker 1: people in the lineup, but they're not. If Ben just decides,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I can't trust you anymore and I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to throw you the ball anymore, that to

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Speaker 1: me is the same thing as benching them. And so

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Speaker 1: while you may only have five or six receivers in

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Speaker 1: a helmet on game day, who you throw the ball to,

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Speaker 1: who you trust, I think can change and can change quickly.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I would expect to see first in

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Speaker 1: terms of how you react to guys not catching or

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Speaker 1: guys dropping the ball. Should be a competitive game this weekend. Bob,

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Speaker 1: We're sorry we won't see up here. Nobody's traveling these days,

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Speaker 1: but be well, enjoy your holiday season and thanks for

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Speaker 1: the time. Ain't no problem, take careful. Thanks Right, that's

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Speaker 1: Bob Labriola from Steelers dot Com. Guy's been covering that

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Speaker 1: team for forty years. I mean, the guy knows up

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00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: down sideways about the Steelers from yeah, when you can

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Speaker 1: tell stories from the sixties and seventies, right, yeah, so's

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Speaker 1: he's deep in. It's as you would say, Steve, he's

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Speaker 1: neck deep in the Steelers and does a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: So our thanks to Bob. We have to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we return, we're gonna set up the Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll for you. Take your phone calls at eighth three,

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Stay tuned. We're back in a moment here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown Steeth. Yes, you're One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: First hour of the show coming to a close here,

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Speaker 1: two more hours to go, and we'll be joined by

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Speaker 1: NFL Networks Michael Robinson on the other side of the break.

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Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll today, which Bill's wide receiver has exceeded

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Speaker 1: your expectations? And why? I think a lot of them

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00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: have exceeded our expectations. But the choices are Diggs, Beasley,

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Speaker 1: and Davis. So which Bill's wide receiver has most exceeded

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Speaker 1: your expectations? And why so hit us up on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, let us know what you think about that,

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Speaker 1: and give us a call as well on the phones

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Speaker 1: at eighth three, five fifty. We are going to go

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Speaker 1: to the phones now is waiting for us? There is

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Speaker 1: Brian and Alabama. Brian, welcome to the show. You're on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Hey, good afternoon, fellows. How you guys

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00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: doing good? Doing good? Hey? So I'm still on cloud

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00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: nine after that win. I think that was very needed.

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of the boys for getting it done. Um.

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Speaker 1: My question is or my thoughts and questions are with

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. Um. For some reason, I think he would

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Speaker 1: be the target of any offensive game plan going into

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Speaker 1: the game, regardless of the Treddavias White as opposite him

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00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: and opposite of him or not. And so my question

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Speaker 1: is why are what are we not seeing as fans

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00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: from Dane Jackson for him to get more playing time?

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Speaker 1: Because I think Levi is the liability of this defense

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Speaker 1: and is going to continue to be a target going forward,

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Speaker 1: regardless that they play Manna's own. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: Brian and I don't. We don't get too much feedback

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00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: on this because they don't, you know, Sean McDermott, Leslie Frasier,

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable. They won't give you any specifics about how

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Speaker 1: players are doing. But what you do see is, for instance,

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Speaker 1: this last week, Trent Murphy was a healthy scratch. A

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Speaker 1: Japaneza was up, Harrison Phillips was up so and the

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Speaker 1: in weeks past it has been the reverse. You gotta

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Speaker 1: I do and I hope you and I encourage Bills

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Speaker 1: fans do this. Trust what these coaches are doing, because

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Speaker 1: they will not hesitate that if a guy's starting to

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Speaker 1: play hard and play well, they will put him in

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Speaker 1: ike Butcker got in the game as a starter this

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Speaker 1: last week. He has not been there before. He went

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Speaker 1: in ahead of Brian Winters. These guys and the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff are constantly evaluating and watching these guys and talking

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Speaker 1: to him about how they can get on the field.

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Speaker 1: So if Cam or if Dane Jackson wants to get

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Speaker 1: on the field, this coaching staff will tell him and

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Speaker 1: give him a path to do that. So it's up

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Speaker 1: to him. But right now you can bet that if

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace is ahead of him and Josh Norman is

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Speaker 1: ahead of him, is because Dane Jackson hasn't done what

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Speaker 1: the coaches feel like they want to see before they

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Speaker 1: put him ahead of those two. And you're playing important

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Speaker 1: games right now. And if there's one thing that Dane

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Speaker 1: Jackson is lacking, it's experienced. Yeah, it's not like he

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00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: hasn't shown that the game's too big for him. When

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Speaker 1: he's been called upon to perform, he's performed well. If

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Speaker 1: he keeps doing that, he may get an opportunity. Coach

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Speaker 1: Frasier was asked specifically about whether there is a thought

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Speaker 1: of platooning Josh Norman with Levi Wallace much the way

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Speaker 1: we saw last year between Levi Wallace and Kevin Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and Coach Frasier didn't really entertain that all that much.

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Speaker 1: But Steve's right. These guys dissect this seventeen different ways

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Speaker 1: through the course of the week, not only watching practice live,

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Speaker 1: but reviewing it on tape and then in the meetings.

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Speaker 1: So I agree with Steve, You've got to kind of

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Speaker 1: go with what the coaches think is best because right

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Speaker 1: now they have a better sense of it than anybody else.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break. But when we return,

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Speaker 1: Michael Robinson from NFL Network, he was singing the praises

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Speaker 1: of the Bills last year, picked him to be Division

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Speaker 1: champs in twenty nineteen. His prediction might be right. It

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00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: just might be a year late. We'll talk with Michael

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Speaker 1: on the other side here on One Bill's Line, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. At a

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields, kind

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Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role player

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Speaker 1: for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

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Speaker 1: the straded fear of normalcy. We're number two of a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you and joining us on the line right now

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Speaker 1: is NFL Network Analysts. So you can follow on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at real Mike rob You can see him every Saturday

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network's Good Morning Football on the weekends there.

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Speaker 1: And he was a guy who was a soothsayer of sorts. Steve. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he had a prediction that was just a year or

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Speaker 1: two early. He had the Bills is AFC East champs

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Speaker 1: and Uh, it looks like it's gonna take three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five days, longer than he probably anticipated, but

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Speaker 1: there's a good chance it's gonna come. Drue. Michael Robinson

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Speaker 1: joining us on the program. Real Mike rob how you doing, man,

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Speaker 1: Man doing great, doing awesome. I have to I cannot

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Speaker 1: come on here first without giving a shout out and

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Speaker 1: saying how much I admire Steve Tasker. I was. I

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Speaker 1: was a special teamerum. Bro watched everything that you did. Man,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for making the special teamer um a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of a glamorous position. Man. That was what

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Speaker 1: I was. And so I appreciate you. Well, that's I

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Speaker 1: am flattered. Thank you for saying it's nice. Nice's nice

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Speaker 1: to have you on. I appreciate it's it's it's good

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Speaker 1: to talk to a guy I know as a fullback,

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Speaker 1: you can appreciate what it is to play special teams,

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Speaker 1: to be a little bit under appreciated. Uh so that's great,

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Speaker 1: it's and I appreciate too. You You said, you know

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Speaker 1: during the break you really like this Bills team. What

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00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: caught your I know because it hasn't been that you know,

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00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: it was a long time before they got good. And

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has built something here with Brandon Bean, When

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Speaker 1: did they first start catching your eye as a team

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Speaker 1: that may turn the corner. I think it was maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe two off seasons ago. I was just seeing how

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Speaker 1: Brandon Beaming and coach Sean McDermot. I've always at miaka

849
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot. I played against his defenses. They've always been

850
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: tough nose. One thing you know with two things you

851
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: know going up against the Sean McDermott defense is you're

852
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: gonna be sore and you better have your chiropractice number.

853
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: And so that's one of those things that I've just

854
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: always respected about the guy. And so I just saw

855
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: a couple off seasons ago how they were building this team.

856
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: They were building it the right way, they were building

857
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: it with great character guys. They were building me it

858
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage on up. And to me,

859
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: you can't win in this league without the line of scrimmage,

860
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: the offensive line of course, and defensive backs and defensive

861
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield. I mean it's I mean some of

862
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: the schemes that you see Sean McDermott and this defense

863
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: doing the red zone, I mean, guys just can't complete

864
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: passes against it. So I just thought they were built

865
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: the right way with great character. Guys. Yes, as you

866
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: guys mentioned before, I was probably a year or two

867
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: too early. And then it's built around that that big,

868
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: strong arm quarterback who has made who has gotten better

869
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds from his rookie year. I mean,

870
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: the arm talent is undeniably there. I mean this group

871
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: is going to be good for a very long time. Yeah,

872
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Michael, we're boots on the ground here in Buffalo.

873
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: We see Josh every day and watch every minute of

874
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: every game, and we're blown away by not the fact

875
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: that he did improve, but the level of improvement here

876
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: in year three. I mean it's off the charts. I

877
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: think it exceeds what anybody anticipated he would be in

878
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: year three. We all thought he'd be better, but to

879
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: this degree, I don't know if anybody had this pegged.

880
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: So what stands out to you as the greatest improvement

881
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: of his game? That just kind it makes you sit

882
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: back and say, wow. Well, I mean I'm looking at

883
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: some of his status. First year, he was fifty two

884
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: point eight percent completion. Last year he was only about

885
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: fifty eight or fifty nine percent completion. This year he

886
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: jumped that almost eleven points. He's sixty nine point nine.

887
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 1: Let's round that up because I'm a Bill's fan. Let's

888
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: round up the seventy percent completion. Are you kidding me?

889
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: I mean that you just don't see these types of

890
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: jumps in completion percentage. I mean, I was a quarterback

891
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: before in college, and I wouldn't. I didn't get a

892
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: chance to play it in the National Football League. But

893
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: to have your completion percentage jumped that much, that is phenomenal.

894
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: And it just shows that now he has a lot

895
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: more command of the football, a lot more control of

896
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: that big arm. I thought too far, too oftentimes in

897
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: the past that he would get in trouble because of

898
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: that big arm. Try to push the ball downfield, maybe Buffalo,

899
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: maybe down by fourteen points. He's trying to get back

900
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: into the game with one pass. But now he's being

901
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: he's learned how to control that arm. He throws it

902
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: exactly where he needs to needs to control it. And

903
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, and you can

904
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: put Russell Wilson in this category as well. On the

905
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: move on the run. I'm not sure that there are

906
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 1: better controllers of the football not just in the National

907
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: Football League right now, but this game has ever seen

908
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: in the great part about Buffalo Bills fans, Josh Allen's

909
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: on it in his third season, He's only going to

910
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: get better. Yeah, And it's easy enough to be a

911
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: little bit of a prisoner of that Monday night game,

912
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: that show that he put on a Monday night in

913
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: the desert against the forty nine ers. I mean it

914
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: was it was his best game as a pro. So

915
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: it's easy to pump his tires today. But by the

916
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: same tone, he was also AFC Offensive Player of the

917
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: Week this week. And and but you said before any

918
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: you said that this is a Bills team that if

919
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: they put it together, maybe a conference championship kind of

920
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: level of team. Now and that we're week thirteen into

921
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 1: the season and other teams have developed. Now we're kind

922
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: of we got a hand on who everybody is. Do

923
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: you still feel absolutely do you still feel that way?

924
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you see the Chiefs out there, you see

925
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers out there, and of course then this team's

926
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 1: like Indianapolis and Tennessee who are still in the mix,

927
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: and Cleveland who's nine and three. So now that we've

928
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: got to handle on who some likely playoff people are.

929
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: What do you feel about this tournament coming up? I

930
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: feel really good about the Bill's chances. I mean, as

931
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: long as Josh Allen can continue to listen to that

932
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley moved music get them calmed down before games,

933
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: so sometimes he don't overthrow the ball, you know, overthrow

934
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: some of the receivers. And then that defense man led

935
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: by those two safeties and Jordan Poyer and Micah High,

936
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: they may be one of the one of the two

937
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: of the top two safeties and they're on the same

938
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: team and on the same defense. So as long as

939
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: they can stop the explosive pass down the football field defensively.

940
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: You know, when you get into the playoffs and you

941
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: start to look at some of these matchups. Pittsburgh obviously

942
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: they throw the ball all over the place. You look

943
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: at Patrick Mahomes and what they have going on in

944
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and I think if you truly look at

945
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: that Las Vegas Raiders tape and even the Denver game

946
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: last week playing the Kansas City Chiefs, and just look

947
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: at how they defend Kansas City. If you don't give

948
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: up the explosive the explosive pass play, you can stay

949
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: in games. Now, if there is a concern that I

950
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: have with the Buffalo Bills offense, and I've stated on

951
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: NFL Network airs before, is the run game, you know,

952
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: I'd like to see when you know, Josh Allen and

953
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: this offense gets up in the fourth quarter in the playoffs,

954
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be able to turn the football, turn,

955
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: you know, turn around and hand the ball off to

956
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: Zack moss and and Devin Singletarre and that great group

957
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: of running backs that Buffalo has. And I just hadn't

958
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: seen too much too much of that right now, because

959
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: when you get into the playoffs, you're gonna have to

960
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: preserve leads, because every offense is pretty good the deeper

961
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: you go, do you think that, like you say, like

962
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: a four minute offense, you think that's the only thing?

963
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: How much more like during the regular part of the

964
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: first quarter, in the third quarter, first the first part

965
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: of the each half. How much a part of the

966
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: running game do you think the Bills need to have?

967
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers, we just spoke to a

968
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: guy from Pittsburgh. They don't run the football enough as

969
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: well at all. Yeah, Right, so there's a there's a

970
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,399
Speaker 1: spot for the run game if you've got it. But

971
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams, if we can, we will,

972
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: but if we're done, we're not gonna worry about it. Yeah,

973
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: And I think that's what teams are doing right now

974
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: to being survival mode. You know, you're you're just playing

975
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: the games. Um, you have these dynamic quarterbacks. I mean,

976
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: Brian Dayball is one of the most dynamic play callers

977
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. All of these guys, they

978
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: have all of these weapons now, they have all of

979
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: these ways to create leverage on defenses. And the human

980
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: nature part of it is, let's just go out there

981
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: and do it right. And but but again, when you

982
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, and I didn't really realize this

983
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: is Steve, you know exactly what I'm talking about. When

984
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: you get into the playoffs, the level of competition, the

985
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: level of pressure, the level of focus takes a little jump,

986
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: and you have to play a style of football that

987
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: you're sure is gonna work, no matter the weather, no

988
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: matter no matter what the what the defensive scheme may be.

989
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes running the football and I think

990
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo and I'm gonna say we even though I was

991
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 1: a former Seattle Seahall. I think we in Buffalo. I

992
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: think Buffalo has the players along the front, the offensive

993
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 1: line and deep for the life for that matter, to

994
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: be able to control the line of scrimmage, run the football,

995
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: and stop the run. And I think if they can

996
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 1: do that at a consistent on a consistent basis, I'm

997
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: telling you this playoff could get pretty interesting. When you

998
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: talk about the Buffalo Bill last one for me, Michael,

999
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: because I know your time is short. You mentioned Brian

1000
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: Dable and you think about the offseason that was with

1001
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: the pandemic, the limitations, the restrictions. Yes, there were signs

1002
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: that Josh was improving last year the passing game could

1003
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: really do some things in the scope of this offense.

1004
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: But to go from that and to get to where

1005
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: we are now, how amazing is it that Brian Dable

1006
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: was able to have that level of trust in Josh

1007
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: to hand him the keys to an offense that's throwing

1008
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: the football forty times a game and producing the way

1009
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: they are with very limited evidence on the field through

1010
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: the course of this past offseason. It definitely shows the

1011
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: level of trust that coach Dable had in Josh Allen.

1012
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: But it also showed the level of trust this entire

1013
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: organization had in the quarterback in Josh Allen. I mean,

1014
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: again I talked about the completion percentage. We can go

1015
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: into touchdowns, he's twenty six touchdowns, only eight interceptions. I mean,

1016
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: we can go into all every passing metric. But to me,

1017
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: the bigger, one of the bigger differences, It has nothing

1018
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: to do with anything physically. Just to see Josh Allen's

1019
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: demeanor in critical situations in games in the previous two years,

1020
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: sometimes I would think that it looks like, you know,

1021
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: he's kind of confused or all over the place. But now,

1022
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: I mean his eyes are calm, He's throwing the ball

1023
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: with laser focus, He's throwing the ball with laser accuracy.

1024
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's pretty incredible at the state of the

1025
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: world right now that this offense and this team was

1026
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: able to keep the continuity together and produce numbers that

1027
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: they're producing right now. But again, it's all encapsulated in

1028
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: the quarterback. To me, the quarterback handles a lot of this.

1029
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: The quarterback is the one that's taking that taking with

1030
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball is saying to the quarterbacks are saying

1031
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: in the big offensive team meeting room, even saying with

1032
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,959
Speaker 1: coach McDermott is saying in the big team meeting room

1033
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: and kind of infusing it throughout the team. And I

1034
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen is showing not only how great of

1035
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback he is, but how great of a leader

1036
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: he's becoming. And I always said the lucky part and

1037
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: the great part about this, he's only a year three, guys.

1038
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: He has a lot more growing to do. Thanks Michael, Yeah,

1039
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,439
Speaker 1: we know your time. It's sure, we appreciate it. Thanks

1040
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: for the time and the insight. We'll look for you

1041
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football this weekend. Thanks man, Take care,

1042
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thank you guys anytime. All right. That's

1043
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: Michael Robinson from NFL Network. He's on Good Morning Football

1044
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: on Saturdays. You can find him on Twitter at real

1045
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: Mike rob And he is a card carrying Bills fan

1046
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: and not afraid to say it. It's not too any

1047
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: guys in the media that wear it right on their sleeve.

1048
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: He is not shy at all. And he has been

1049
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: on this Bill's train for quite some time. I mean

1050
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: he was high on the Bills in like year two

1051
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: of mc dermott, then got really excited last year and

1052
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: was saying the Bills were gonna be AFC's champs, and

1053
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: they were in the hunt there for a little bit

1054
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: and then fell off at the end. Yeah, it looks

1055
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: like that prediction is gonna be right here in twenty twenty. Yeah,

1056
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: the second Patriots game is what did it to the

1057
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: Bills last year? But when you think about that, and

1058
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about this, you know, we've we've gone

1059
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: round and round with all the Josh Allen haters are

1060
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: that we're out there, and now they're you know, they're

1061
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: few and far between now even you know, even some

1062
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: of the most art and critics are like going on, oh,

1063
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong, but I going back. And it

1064
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: just occurred to me. Michael Robinson being one of the

1065
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: guys kind of clicked for me, and Dan Rolovsky, who

1066
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: was always on Bills on Josh's side. My buddy Phil

1067
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: Simms from CBS was always on Josh's side. It seems

1068
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: to me a lot of guys who were not critical

1069
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen, who were kind of him a chance

1070
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: to improve. They knew he had some work to do

1071
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 1: and acknowledge that, but they thought, yeah, he can get

1072
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: it done. Were the players who are the analyst guys

1073
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: and not the guys who were like, uh, just media people,

1074
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, people who who hadn't played before, who you know,

1075
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: and I and I get it. There's been few and

1076
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 1: far between quarterbacks we've seen improved, like Josh Allen has improved. Well, yeah,

1077
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: And I mean that's why Bill Parcels built a draft

1078
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 1: philosophy around those numbers. Like if his draft philosophy with

1079
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks was at least thirty starts in college, at least

1080
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: sixty percent completion percentage in college and you know, winning guy,

1081
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: guy that wins, you know that kind of stuff. I mean,

1082
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: that was Parcel's baseline, sixty percent. He wouldn't even looked

1083
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: at Josh Allen, right, I mean under those and let's

1084
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: face it, just Bill Parcells is in the Hall of Fame,

1085
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: right yeah. And Bill Well, and he'll give you another one.

1086
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: My guy Bill Polliant, who is three time Executive of

1087
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: the Year with three different organisax sasons time for three

1088
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: different teams. I mean, the guy was was brilliant. He

1089
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: missed on Lamar ja He could not have whiffed more

1090
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: on Lamar Jackson. You know, he's like, hey, he'd be

1091
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: a good wide receiver. You know, you just you can't tell.

1092
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: And that's why when you talk to guys like who

1093
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: me and Michael Robinson, who we just had on Dan Orlovsky,

1094
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: Phil Sims and something that Now, not not every player

1095
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: was like that, but like arch Archiletta, he didn't think

1096
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: Josh would ever get there. But a lot of the

1097
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: guys because how many people have right, right, I mean,

1098
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: he's he's a he's a case study unto himself. We

1099
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,919
Speaker 1: had Brian Billick on our show what two months ago,

1100
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: and I said to him, in your twenty years of

1101
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: coaching and your forty years of being around this game,

1102
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a young quarterback improved their completion

1103
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 1: percentage to this degree? I've never seen it, never seen it.

1104
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: He's a unicorn. Yeah, it's there's so many layers to

1105
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: this Josh Allen thing, right, because so many people said,

1106
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I don't think he can do it.

1107
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. And then other guy said,

1108
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: well wait a minute now, And we had had this

1109
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: conversation as well. The thing about Josh early in his

1110
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: career and even at college particularly, it was his It

1111
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: wasn't so much that he wasn't making good throws. It

1112
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: was that he was making bad decisions and throwing to

1113
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: the wrong people, or that his offense wasn't given him

1114
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: anybody else to throw too. So I saw a lot

1115
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, a lot of quarterbacks told me that's what

1116
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 1: they saw on the film that you know his outlet

1117
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: in college, you know the wide hash marks. His outlet

1118
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: is a twelve yard out on the far side of

1119
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: the field. Seventy percent of the college quarterbacks in the

1120
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: country can't even make and that's his outlet. So you're

1121
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,439
Speaker 1: you know, if somebody's not running wide open, he's got

1122
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: a decision to make, and his decisions, you know, even

1123
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: if they were good, weren't easy throws. There was a

1124
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: very interesting conversation that Josh had this past week on

1125
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: the Pad McAfee show. The former colts punter who was

1126
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: a very popular show, podcast, whatever you want to call it,

1127
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: he was on the show last week and he referenced

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01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: the story. And I'm presuming that Josh did this while

1129
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: at the Jordan Palmer QB Summit, because he said, I

1130
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 1: didn't really realize how much I needed to fix my

1131
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 1: throwing mechanics until I had my throwing motion digitally mapped.

1132
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: You know, all those little they put those little stickers

1133
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: on your body and they wire up and they wire up,

1134
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: and you know, they have you throw the football and

1135
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: they measure all the different body movements and angles and

1136
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. He said, I was last in line,

1137
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: you know. So he was talking about how up until

1138
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: that point in time that he had his body digitally

1139
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: mapped in his throwing motion. He never put his hip

1140
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: into any throw all arm like, never drove his hip

1141
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: into the throw and then pulled his arm through afterwards,

1142
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: like lead with your hip, you know. You see you'd

1143
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: see Jack Prescott doing those hip warm ups, you know,

1144
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: fire the hip, fire the hip, and he looks ridiculous

1145
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: and pregame. But that is an exercise for quarterbacks as

1146
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 1: a as a reminder to get their hip through first

1147
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: and then the arm comes through after because you generate

1148
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: more drive and distance on your passes and velocity. So

1149
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: Josh is relaying this story to Pat McAfee and he's saying,

1150
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: first guy comes through, and the guy's like, oh, yeah,

1151
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 1: you're doing a good job firing that hip there and

1152
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: then bringing your arm through elbow to wrist and blah,

1153
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: blah blah. Yeah, that's pretty good. You just may want

1154
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: to do a little bit of this. Okay, second guy, Yeah,

1155
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: you know what you're you're activating the hip really well

1156
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. That he goes. By the time

1157
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: they get to me, the guy's like, dude, man, you're

1158
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: not using your hip at all, Like what are you doing?

1159
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: But that was the light bulb moment for him where

1160
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 1: he completely revamped his throwing motion from the ground up,

1161
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: more with his lower half than anything else, and putting

1162
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: his shoulders on a plane. He talked about that this

1163
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,439
Speaker 1: offseason with us. We had opportunities to interview him, and

1164
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: we're seeing the results of all of that work. I mean,

1165
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: he broke it down all the way to the lowest

1166
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: brick in the foundation and then built it back up

1167
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: in one offseason. Yeah. It starts like you said, it's

1168
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: from the ground up. It starts with where your feet

1169
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: are when you start to throwing motion, and then it platform, yeah,

1170
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: and where your weight goes, and then it's where your

1171
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: hips go, then your torso, then your shoulders follow through

1172
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: and your arms. The last piece, right, so you don't

1173
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: want that front shoulder goal in the top everything and

1174
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: you don't want the front shoulder to lie open too

1175
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,439
Speaker 1: early and all that stuff. And I know this too.

1176
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: People out there who you know, you know baseball and stuff,

1177
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: they get, you know, they go down into the science

1178
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: of the hitting and yeah, hitting all that. It's the

1179
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: same thing with quarterbacks. They go through the throwing motion

1180
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: in their delivery because all of this. What this does

1181
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 1: is obviously it maximizes your throwing motion so you can

1182
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: be as strong as arm as you have you've got

1183
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: in you to be, and it makes you accurate, the

1184
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: ball goes where you throw it, and all that stuff

1185
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: together helps everything, helps everything. Eight o three five fifty

1186
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty to get

1187
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: on board with us, we got some open lines for

1188
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: you there. Twitter poll today. Which Bill's wide receiver has

1189
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: exceeded your expectations? And why is it Diggs, Beasley or

1190
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: Davis who's exceeded their expectations the most in terms of

1191
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: what you thought they could be for this Bill's offense

1192
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: this season. I think, quite frankly, Steve, every one of

1193
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: them is exceeded expectations. I think people knew Diggs was

1194
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: going to be good. Did they expect him to be

1195
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: top of the league and receptions and receiving yards good.

1196
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if people expected all

1197
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, that's that's top shelf. Here's the thing.

1198
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: He's elite. But did you expect elite performance in year

1199
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: one with the team? You think about this? I think

1200
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people and you and I

1201
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: guess obviously now that we're looking at the Josh Josh's numbers,

1202
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: you and I probably thought Diggs would be better than

1203
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: Josh could make him Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

1204
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: I didn't think could even you know, get the ball

1205
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: to him that much, right, I thought, you know, I

1206
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: then think about it. We thought he was Josh is

1207
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: gonna be maybe sixty three percent, you know, right, we

1208
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: thought he's gonna be I thought if he got to

1209
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 1: sixty four, sixty five percent, that would be a very

1210
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: good job we'd be doing. We'd be doing cartwheels. Well,

1211
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: now he's at seventy and it's crazy, and what is

1212
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: the fifth in completion percentage in the league's hitting everybody?

1213
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: So having said that, you think, okay, you know what,

1214
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: Digs should be at the top of the list, and

1215
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: he is. But Beasley has played and filled his role

1216
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: extremely well. But he's he's having a better year than

1217
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: he had. He had a career year. Last year's best

1218
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: year of his career. Now he's way past it. He's

1219
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: gonna be past that. You know. Maybe this week got

1220
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: a shot at of a thousand yards and then it's

1221
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: six months ago, seven months ago, we're like Gabe Davis, Okay,

1222
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: which which receiver is he? Okay? All right, I hope

1223
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: he's hope you know, we got him in the suppress

1224
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the guys on the field all

1225
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: the time, and he's taking on the team and touchdown

1226
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: he's taken over for John Brown, like and they they

1227
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: didn't even miss a beat. One out of every five

1228
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,439
Speaker 1: completions to him has been in the end zone. Yeah,

1229
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: twenty five catches, five touchdowns. That's a big number. So

1230
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: for a roll of the let's face it, they all

1231
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: and I said this too, they all exceeded expectations because

1232
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: the guy throwing the ball has has been lights out.

1233
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: There's a lot of footballs to go around. They're throwing

1234
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: the football everywhere. The running game is not an afterthought,

1235
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: but certainly a side dish and right, and it is

1236
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of footballs to go around. Yeah. I

1237
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 1: remember early in this season thinking, I was sitting there

1238
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: watching these guys playing that first month of season when

1239
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: they were we were knocking it out of the park

1240
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 1: and we finally we're getting a handle on Wow. They

1241
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,280
Speaker 1: were still kind of proving it to us every week.

1242
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: They did it one week, okay, yeah, but you know

1243
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: now it's another week. Now, it's another week now. That

1244
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: fourth weeks they were completing third and eleven, third and twelve,

1245
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: third and thirteen, third and ten, third and nine, third

1246
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: and twelve, third and eleven, like like it was nothing.

1247
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: They were leading the league in third down conversion. Are

1248
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: now there's still number one in the league. Unbelievable, they like,

1249
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 1: and like third night, we got this guy, like Monday night,

1250
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 1: it's fourth and two. What's he doing in the shotgun? Yeah,

1251
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw it here too, third and two. Al right,

1252
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: first down, here we go, five yard game, first down,

1253
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: Diggs boom, it's a first and ten in the I

1254
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,759
Speaker 1: was just showing you today that they had three guys

1255
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,759
Speaker 1: on that they had. They had they had knocks Beasley

1256
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: Davis on the outside and Diggs by himself on the

1257
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,839
Speaker 1: left side of the formation. They run this and Diggs,

1258
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Beasley comes out, five yard slant, round boom,

1259
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:48,720
Speaker 1: fourteen yard game boom, first and ten. It was. It's unbelievable.

1260
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: And I know this game against machine like it was

1261
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: machine like that, and it'll be different this week. They

1262
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 1: have been doing that all the number number two pass

1263
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 1: defense in the league. Their face. These guys are legit,

1264
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: and these guys and they start with pressure. They're good

1265
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: in the back end, but that's not all it is.

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Speaker 1: They got guys up front. T J. Watt is a

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Speaker 1: monster and Casey Hampton sorry, Cameron guy, Cameron Haywood is

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01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: having a year. Stephan to it too, the guys. And

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see for me what the

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Speaker 1: Bills do against these guys. What I mean, this might

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Speaker 1: be one of those games because like like uh, Bob

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01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: Labriola told us, because their run defense is yeah, but

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01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: then again, if you're not Tennessee and you're not Baltimore,

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01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: everybody else's running game is like yeah, okay, we'll see

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Speaker 1: if we can do it something here. The Steelers, much

1276
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: like the Bills, have built their defense to stop the

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01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 1: pass because that is what most teams in this league

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01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: do to score points, they throw the ball. It's a

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01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,440
Speaker 1: little bit. Tennessee is Kansas City as well. Yeah, Tennessee

1280
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: is more of an anomaly. They win in a different way,

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01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: and that poses problems for teams because they're used to

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01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: defending teams in a different way, namely against the past.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Eight oh three, oh five,

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Speaker 1: fifty one eighty five, fifty two, five fifty we go

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Speaker 1: to John and Buffalo. John, welcome to the show. You're

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Thanks guys, a great show. I

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01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: got one point to make and a question. I don't

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01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: think Josh was ever supposed to play his rookie year.

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01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: He never got I was at training camp, he never

1290
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 1: got ever any chance with the first team. It was

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01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: supposed to be the kid from Alabama and Peterman. He

1292
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 1: was supposed to sit back and watch. He got thrust in.

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01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:32,759
Speaker 1: I blame that. I'm Brandon and maybe Sean thinking Peterman

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01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:36,759
Speaker 1: was ever going to be a quality NFL quarterback and teach.

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01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 1: You know, I was really upset about that, not having

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01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: a real true veteran where he could learn from, similar

1297
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 1: to what it happened a year before in Kansas City

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01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: where he sat back and watched Alex Smith and he

1299
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: learned a lot. So when he came in that second year,

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01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: he was ready to his really his first year. With

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01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: his second year he was amazing. And I think Josh

1302
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: is getting the same backlash because he had to play

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01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: that rookie year and his numbers were so bad. So

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01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: people are looking at that is what he was and

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01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 1: the only hum he didn't have the experience of the

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01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:13,519
Speaker 1: other guys had in college. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I

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01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: respect what you're saying, John. I think we do have

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01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 1: to remember how that all unfolded that year. Josh did

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01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: rotate in occasionally with the ones in training camp, if

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01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: memory serves as a rookie, not all that often, but

1311
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: on occasion. And what happened through the course of training

1312
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 1: camp in the preseason is I think that Sean McDermott

1313
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 1: came to realize that AJ McCarron was not going to

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01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: be the kind of mentor that he needed for Josh Allen.

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01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: And that's why at the end of the preseason AJ

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01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 1: McCarron was not on this roster. He was out the door.

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01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: So now you're down to a second year guy in

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01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: Peterman and a rookie and Josh Allen. Peterman had an

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01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: unbelievable preseason. I think he had something like seventy eight

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01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: percent completion in the preseason games against Caroline. Yeah, I

1321
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 1: mean he lit it up. Yeah, he lit it up,

1322
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 1: and so you understand why that happened. But then Peterman

1323
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: gets hurt. One great catch to keep the drive alive. Yeah,

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01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: that's only that's the only thing he did the whole

1325
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,719
Speaker 1: freesea right, and then but well, his body of work

1326
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: was very good. It was very convincing. And preseason is

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01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: not regular season, and we found that out the hard way,

1328
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: as did Nathan Peterman. He gets hurt in week one,

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: and now you have to put Josh Allen in against

1330
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens in a forty seven to three blowout.

1331
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 1: He's got to start the next week as a rookie.

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01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 1: And then you know, after that, they had to bring

1333
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson in, so he did not go without a

1334
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 1: mentor his rookie season. He did eventually get one in

1335
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson, who he still references today as a guy

1336
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,839
Speaker 1: that helped him immeasurably. And then mid season, Matt Barkley

1337
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 1: comes in after the team parts ways with Nathan Peterman

1338
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 1: when it became evident it just wasn't gonna work here. Um,

1339
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 1: And so there were mentors that came on board after

1340
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: the fact that I think helped bring him along. Ye,

1341
01:12:56,520 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 1: he still speaks glowingly about d I think they were

1342
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: extremely disappointed in aj mccaren and what right brought to

1343
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: the table. That's why they traded him right before training.

1344
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: I don't think he had the DNA they were looking right,

1345
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 1: and so yeah, and you're right, But John, you're right,

1346
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 1: Josh was never supposed to play his rookie year. But

1347
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,600
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? I mean, things change in

1348
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: the midst of a training camp and by that time

1349
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 1: got to adjust. You gotta wait for other guys to

1350
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 1: be available. You had another question, John, are you gonna

1351
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: he's gone around? Okay? But he's right. They had a

1352
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 1: full fledged quarterback cont petition because this that was McDermott's

1353
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: first year, right, no second year. He was all about

1354
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: that competition. Listen, if you're gonna be the quarterback in

1355
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: if everybody's gonna earn it, so you're gonna play. He

1356
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: earned it, Josh, you're gonna play. McCarron, You're gonna play Peterman,

1357
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: You're gonna play let's go, and and it fell where

1358
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: it did. M Josh was too good an athlete and

1359
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 1: too big armed not to keep off the field for

1360
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: a guy like Nathan Peterman who didn't have an arm

1361
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: and through interceptions. So you give it to the big

1362
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: athlete and let him learn on the fly and get

1363
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: what you can get. It was a washout year, no

1364
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: question about it. Six wins, and showed some progress at

1365
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 1: the end of the year. He got better every week,

1366
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: but he had so far to go, And then he

1367
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: got into the work in the offseason and he became

1368
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: the guy who was last year. And I think that's

1369
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: what people probably missed on Josh more than anything else.

1370
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: Not a lot of time on task even in college,

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01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: Like he's finally the starter at Wyoming. I think it

1372
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: was the second or first or second game, bang breaks

1373
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 1: his collarbone. Misses the whole year. He was gonna be

1374
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: the starter as a sophomore, I want to say, and

1375
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 1: got broken collar bone like second or third game, and

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01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: he's out for the year. So now two years as

1377
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: a starter, only in the whack, and you know, not

1378
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 1: playing top flight competition all that much, and players his

1379
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 1: senior year two right graduation after his junior year, lost

1380
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the best talent that was on that roster, so,

1381
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: you know, and then he gets to the league, and

1382
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: this is a guy that had to play at junior

1383
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: college to play at the next level after high school obviously,

1384
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: And yeah, he didn't go to those um all eleven camps,

1385
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, all those high falutin quarterback camp. He didn't

1386
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: go to any of those things. So to say that

1387
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: his I mean, he was a very very raw skill

1388
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: set and really all he needed was time on task

1389
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 1: continuity within the structure of the offensive staff, which he

1390
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: got here. And then he also needed to put the

1391
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: work in, and he put the work in. You get

1392
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: out what you put in, and he put in an

1393
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 1: awful lot of time and effort and we're seeing the

1394
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 1: fruits of that labor now. David Lockport, Hang Tight will

1395
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:43,639
Speaker 1: get to you first after the break eight h three

1396
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: h five fifty open line for you Twitter poll, which

1397
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: Bill's wide receiver has exceeded your expectations? And why let

1398
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: us know when we return here On One Bill's Live,

1399
01:15:53,479 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: presented by Collot of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris

1400
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Jasker one Bills Live well with Josh Allen

1401
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: getting the AFC Offensive Player of the Week for the

1402
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: third time this season, becoming the first Bills player ever

1403
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: to do that in the span of a single season.

1404
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: He's naturally been put under the microscope by those who

1405
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: wished to praise him, those who wish to apologize for

1406
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: doubting him. And it was funny because ESPN's mel kiper Junior,

1407
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 1: who who did say that he thought Josh Allen had

1408
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: the potential to be a good player in this league

1409
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: pretty much from the outset for the most part. He

1410
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: was recently on Get Up ESPN the Morning Show with

1411
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 1: Mike Greenberg and got a little perturbed when he was

1412
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 1: asked about all of those people who doubted what Josh

1413
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 1: Allen could be. Let's listen to this because it's gold.

1414
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: Defending Josh Allen seems like I've been doing it since

1415
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: day one, even going back to Wyoming days. People are

1416
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: looking at that completion percentage, looking like that's the finding

1417
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: part of the evaluation. His completion percentage. That's lazy scouting.

1418
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: It goes beyond that. If you're gonna be lazy, fine.

1419
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 1: There's a lot of lazy people. Okay, fine, be lazy.

1420
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: Bottom line is, there was more than that. Dig dig

1421
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: into Josh Outen. Let me tell you what happened. Let

1422
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: me tell you what happened with me. Guys. What happened

1423
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 1: to me was late in the season, late that year,

1424
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: when he had lost his center, his running back, his

1425
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: tight end, and his wide receiver all moved on into

1426
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 1: the NFL. Three of those guys still in the NFL,

1427
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: by the way, coming out of Wyoming. But that year,

1428
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: without those guys, he had him winning. He had a

1429
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. He missed two games against bad opponents that

1430
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 1: they should have won. Pig he wasn't playing. They lost

1431
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: both of those games. When Josh Allen didn't play, he

1432
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 1: didn't have to come back. He had a shoulder injury.

1433
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 1: I was talking to guys in Wyomen. He's gonna play.

1434
01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: What's gonna I don't know, We don't know. He's not.

1435
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: Craig Bowls, the head coach. Right, he comes back for

1436
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: the bowl game. He didn't have to do. You see

1437
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: all these opt outs, these guys quitting on their teams.

1438
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: Josh didn't quit on his team. He came back with

1439
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury to play in that Bowl game. They

1440
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 1: won that game in a route. He didn't need to

1441
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: play in that game, did not need to play in

1442
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: that game. Then you think about Josh Allen, Hey, who

1443
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: did I compare him to Grady? I didn't compa him

1444
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: to Ben Roethlisberger team. They're not comparing to Randy Johnson

1445
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: the wild Grady Johnson had one hundred and forty four

1446
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 1: walks in nineteen ninety two with a twelve and fourteen

1447
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 1: record and a three seven seventy r A. Three years later,

1448
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: he's eighteen and two with a two four eighty r

1449
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: A and he's got sixty five walks, one hundred and

1450
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: forty four walks down the sixty five Why because they

1451
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: have coach before their name. These guys aren't finished products.

1452
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 1: They go into the NFL and there's coach whoever, coach whoever,

1453
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 1: there's a coach before your name, because you're getting paid

1454
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: to be a coach and get those guys who improve

1455
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 1: and be better. There he was. He started down a

1456
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: rabbit hole there for a minute, But he's right. Everybody

1457
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,799
Speaker 1: who comes to the National Football League who sticks around

1458
01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: for more than a minute improves, well, most of them do.

1459
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: If they stick around. Yes, and that is true. It's

1460
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: as true as anything. Guys improve. Now, some guys improve

1461
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: a lot, some guys don't improve at all. But a

1462
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: lot of guys not only improved, but they're transformed. So

1463
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 1: there you hear the guys laughing in the background, as

1464
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: mel Kiper did. Those are all family players. Yeah, a

1465
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: lot of those guys are all former players. So those

1466
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: guys and they know you got You're gonna get better

1467
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 1: as you get in the league. And coaches do make

1468
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: a difference. Ask Sam Darnell about the coaching position he's

1469
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: been put in. Asked Baker Mayfield about the carousel that

1470
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: he's been a part of. Asked Josh Rosen about the

1471
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 1: coaching he received at two different clubs. Ask all these guys.

1472
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 1: Ask Nick Foles how he got to be a Super

1473
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: Bowl champion in MVP Um it was because the atmosphere

1474
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 1: that was built around him. Josh has been the beneficiary

1475
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:57,720
Speaker 1: of being coached at a high level by guys who

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01:19:57,760 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: know how to do it, who have built a culture

1477
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: in here Buffalo, who've made him better. And part of

1478
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: the reason he got the opportunity to do that would

1479
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: be and they'll tell you this, Bean and mcderbott will

1480
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: tell you this, Josh showed the intelligence and the work

1481
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: ethic to be a guy who was gonna want to

1482
01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,120
Speaker 1: be coached and want to get better. That was his goal.

1483
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 1: He goes, he wants to be great. He wants to

1484
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:22,799
Speaker 1: be great. He wanted to be one of the best

1485
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: top quarterbacks in the NFL at some point during his career.

1486
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: He wanted to get there. He wanted to be one

1487
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: of those guys. That's what keeps you going in an

1488
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: offseason where you're not going to get a play with it.

1489
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: That's why you go out and work out by yourself.

1490
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: That's why you go seek out, help round up guys

1491
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 1: to go to South Florida. You guys are going to

1492
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: get better. And if you can quantify or capture a

1493
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 1: guy who's got that characteristic well everything it comes after,

1494
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna be better and better and better and better

1495
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: and better. And he's blessed with ridiculous physical ability, already

1496
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: checks all those boxes better than any of the other

1497
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 1: guys in that draft. So you know, if he's going

1498
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: to get better and he checks all those boxes, his

1499
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:04,560
Speaker 1: baseline is way above what some of these other guys is,

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01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: right and That's why I think people are like, well,

1501
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 1: how the heck did Lamar Jackson go so late in

1502
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: round one? Why did he go last? And he's the

1503
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: MVP two years later and he's a Heisman Trophy winner, right.

1504
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 1: I think it's due in part to the fact that

1505
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,799
Speaker 1: I think the ceiling on Lamar isn't quite as high

1506
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,759
Speaker 1: as it is for a guy like Josh Allen, maybe

1507
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: not even as high as the ceiling is for Sam Darnold.

1508
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 1: But you see the difference based on where these guys go.

1509
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: It's it's to a great degree where a lot of

1510
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: these people land steve that especially a quarterback. Because we've

1511
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:44,680
Speaker 1: talked about it on this show, I know we have.

1512
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: The chief failure of the New York Jets organization is

1513
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:57,679
Speaker 1: player development. It does not exist. You can count on

1514
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 1: one hand how many plays that the Jets have drafted

1515
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 1: that have gotten better after they got there, and Sam

1516
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: Darnold ain't one of them. I actually feel bad for

1517
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I do because I think he wants to

1518
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: succeed in this league and be a good player in

1519
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: a quality quarterback, but he just doesn't have the tools

1520
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: to help him move his career along. That guy works

1521
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: with Jordan Palmer all off season two, just with Josh

1522
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: every single day. He's putting the time in, but there

1523
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:32,680
Speaker 1: is no player development in the Jets organization to make

1524
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: him advance his game at all. And there are other

1525
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:39,639
Speaker 1: examples of that around the league too. The player development here.

1526
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: A premium was put on that when Sean McDermott assembled

1527
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: his coaching staff and we are seeing the dividends of

1528
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: that investment here in Buffalo with players up and down

1529
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: the roster at a host of different positions. Yeah, and

1530
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 1: that's been one of the hallmarks of this organization. That's

1531
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: one of the things Sean McDermott sold ownership here in Buffalo,

1532
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,680
Speaker 1: Kim and Terry Pagoula and about what it was going

1533
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 1: to take to win. You've got to develop the players

1534
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: you draft. You can't just draft them, plug them in

1535
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: and forget about them. They got to get better. And

1536
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: I think one of the ways they do that. We

1537
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: had a caller today saying that why why Dane Jackson

1538
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: isn't on the field, its player development. It's why Ed

1539
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: Oliver was a different player week fifteen last year than

1540
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: he was Week five last year. And that's why he's

1541
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: a different player now. That's why aj Epanessa's coming along

1542
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:30,799
Speaker 1: is on the field now, whereas he was unhealthy scratch

1543
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: for the first couple of weeks of the season. These

1544
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: guys need time to develop, and when they do, when

1545
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: they start to earn it and they realized they got

1546
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: to put a lot of work into getting better, it

1547
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 1: becomes part of who they are and part of their culture,

1548
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: and it's part of their routine, is part of their

1549
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: their process, their own personal process. And then you get

1550
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: guys that improve and continue to improve throughout their career.

1551
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 1: And Josh is the lead poster boy for that here

1552
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, his own personal hard work as well as

1553
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: the coaching he's gotten and the stability he's gotten from

1554
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: this franchise. I mean, he's you know, the guys hanging

1555
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: three seventy five and four tds on one of the

1556
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 1: best defenses in the league on a primetime game, and

1557
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 1: it everybody knows it took him a while to get there.

1558
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 1: They were his third year. I get it. He's still young,

1559
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: no question, still ceiling though. That's the scary Yeah, he's

1560
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: got an I think he's got another gear. I mean,

1561
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:26,720
Speaker 1: when he can put even if he puts the game.

1562
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: That's it. That game. I'll take that every I'll take

1563
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: that game for the rest of his career. But he's

1564
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,679
Speaker 1: got to do it every week. That's the next ceiling. Yeah,

1565
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:40,600
Speaker 1: is when a defense has got to do something incredibly

1566
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: special to keep that guy off the scoreboard like that

1567
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 1: and not right now. I don't know. There's too many

1568
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 1: defensies gonna do it. We're gonna find out this week. Yeah,

1569
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 1: we will. To the phones and to Dave and Lockport. Dave,

1570
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Yeah,

1571
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the offensive line. We need to be

1572
01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: more smashed mouth football. We need tomorrow have more continuity

1573
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 1: because last week we almost lost Josh when Boza came

1574
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:09,799
Speaker 1: in and almost broke his leg because Winners was teaming

1575
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:12,839
Speaker 1: up with Marris and Williams was out in left field.

1576
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:17,840
Speaker 1: We need better offensive line community, and we need to

1577
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: be strong and smash mouth. Okay, Dave, I appreciate that

1578
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: they did make a change. As we know this past week,

1579
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: Brian Winners found himself on the sidelines and Ike Pucker

1580
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: was in the starting lineup at left guard, and they

1581
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: moved Feliciano over to right guard, which was the spot

1582
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: Winters had been manning week. This coaching staff doesn't blink

1583
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: when they need to make a change that they feel

1584
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: is for the genuine betterment of the club. They don't hesitate.

1585
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: They pulled the trigger. It was done yesterday. I mean,

1586
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: they know it. And it's interesting too because we had

1587
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 1: Brian Greasy on the show on Monday and he said

1588
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 1: that game Monday night was probably going to be as

1589
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: physical and Monday night football game as they've had all year.

1590
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: He thought the Niners are that kind of team of

1591
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 1: bullying team. The Bills answered a big time um certainly.

1592
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: The Niners showed up. First drive of the game, they

1593
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 1: got a fourth and goal stop on the Bills and

1594
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:14,800
Speaker 1: stoned them. Then they went ninety seven yards and the

1595
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: Bills stoned them back with There was a couple of

1596
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: short yardage plays and I'll tell you what, Tremaine Edmunds

1597
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. He made some beauties. And I'll tell

1598
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: you this too. The stop on the the was it.

1599
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: I can't remember the running the receiver who caught the

1600
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:32,320
Speaker 1: ball and Micah Hyde came up and stopped him short

1601
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: and they called it a touchdown and they pulled it

1602
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 1: and they called it back. Us check was also in

1603
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: the end zone and that he was down before the

1604
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: end zone. That called him back and they got nothing

1605
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: out of that. That was on the Tredavious White touchdown

1606
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 1: on the interception. So the Bill's defense answered the Bill

1607
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: big time, and so do I think for the most

1608
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 1: part their offensive line. Feliciano came out halfway through, winners,

1609
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:54,559
Speaker 1: went back in and they continued to play well. So

1610
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 1: I I hear you, I hear you, Dave that they

1611
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: need to play smash mouth. But I think they played

1612
01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: much better. And I think everybody played much better this

1613
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 1: last week up front on both sides of the ball

1614
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:08,639
Speaker 1: than they have in a while. Break time for us.

1615
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 1: When we return, we'll get to the tweet sheet and

1616
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,679
Speaker 1: get some of your comments there in terms of which

1617
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: Bill's wide receiver has exceeded your expectations the most. Stay

1618
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: with us. We're back in a flash here on one

1619
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:34,719
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio time.

1620
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 1: Now for the Buffalo Bills and ad Pro Sports to

1621
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 1: present and partner to recognize some of the best coaches

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01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 1: that Western New York has to offer. Through the twenty

1623
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 1: twenty high school football Coach of the Week program. With

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01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: games not being played here in twenty twenty, the Bills

1625
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 1: are taking the opportunity to recognize the outstanding work that

1626
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:54,080
Speaker 1: our community's varsity football coaches have done with their programs,

1627
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:56,759
Speaker 1: both on and off the field this week. In Section six,

1628
01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:00,759
Speaker 1: it's Albion coach Adam Krenning. Crenning's coach in the Albion

1629
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: football program for fifteen years, spending the past four as

1630
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: head varsity coach. Over his four seasons, he's increased the

1631
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: enrollment in the program from twenty one varsity players to

1632
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 1: almost forty. In addition to his role as head varsity coach,

1633
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: Crenning is also the athletic director for the Albion District.

1634
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:21,160
Speaker 1: In Section five, it's Pittsford coach Keith Mulanich. Mulanich, who

1635
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: is an alumni of Pittsford High School, has spent twenty

1636
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:25,720
Speaker 1: five years coaching in the Panthers program. It's been a

1637
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 1: school counselor in the district during that time as well.

1638
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 1: It's led Pittsford as the head varsity football coach for

1639
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: the last fourteen years, recording a win loss record of

1640
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: eighty seven to thirty five while winning five league titles.

1641
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 1: So good job on those men for the work that

1642
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: they do. The work that we have to do now

1643
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 1: involves the tweet sheet, Steve As we have yet to

1644
01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:49,879
Speaker 1: get to that today. Which Bill's wide receiver has exceeded

1645
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: your expectations the most? Your choices there are Digs Beasley

1646
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 1: and Gabe Davis, and the tweet sheet is always brought

1647
01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems. The officials Griben been

1648
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills, and Jeremy says Davis has

1649
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: been great, but I did not expect that we could

1650
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: potentially have two wide receivers this year each have one

1651
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: thousand yards. I don't know that that's happened since molds

1652
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 1: and price. Davis is an excellent addition to this team,

1653
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: and just glad we have these pieces here. They could

1654
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: get it two one thousand yards. Jeremy decided to go

1655
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 1: middle of the road between the three. Yeah, he's got

1656
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:28,680
Speaker 1: a weggie. He's sitting on the fence exactly, so exactly.

1657
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: He's right, though, I think Davis has been the one

1658
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:33,240
Speaker 1: that surprised me the most. I expected all those other

1659
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: guys to play well and digsn't. I didn't know how

1660
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: good he was gonna be. I knew he would help.

1661
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:44,800
Speaker 1: He has been phenomenal, But he's your number one guy.

1662
01:29:44,840 --> 01:29:46,680
Speaker 1: You kind of expect him to make the most of

1663
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 1: his opportunities. Yeah, I just don't know if we expected

1664
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: quite this much. We knew he was an elite route runner,

1665
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: a productive player, had two one thousand yards seasons under

1666
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 1: his belt coming in the door, but in year one

1667
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: to us eventually just have his way with almost any

1668
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 1: defensive back every single week? How much even Eric Molds Steve,

1669
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:12,320
Speaker 1: even Eric Molds, in some of his best seasons of

1670
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: his career here had games where it was two catches

1671
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 1: for twenty nine yards, you know, three catches for forty

1672
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: eight yards. He hasn't had one of those. He's had

1673
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: four or more catches. I think in nine games this season,

1674
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: which is set a record for the Bills, he's got

1675
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 1: like five or six games with six catches or more.

1676
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he has been a measure of consistency. Yeah,

1677
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 1: every single week, and he's the number one concern of

1678
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: every past defense they face. I think that's but I'll

1679
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:50,679
Speaker 1: tell you this, if you'd ask me if Josh Owner

1680
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 1: was going to have this kind of year. I would

1681
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 1: expect Digs and Beasley to have the kind of years

1682
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 1: they're having, You know what I'm saying, Yeah, it's less

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Speaker 1: shock value. The shocking thing to me is how big

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01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: a contributor Gabriel Davis has been and how consistent he

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01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:11,439
Speaker 1: has been, and the fact that he and it was

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01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 1: his play alone in training camp in the lead up

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01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 1: to this to the season, his play alone. It was

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01:31:17,520 --> 01:31:21,200
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis that allowed the Bills to go four wides

1689
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,639
Speaker 1: early and often in this season. It was. It wasn't

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01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:30,240
Speaker 1: Beasley or Brown or Digs, it was Gabe Davis. And

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01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 1: I think when you're good enough, particularly as a first

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01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:37,240
Speaker 1: year player, to alter the tactics and the personnel on

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01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: the field in a way that they had not anticipated,

1694
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and not anticipated using that says a

1695
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:45,680
Speaker 1: lot about it what they think of you. And it's hard,

1696
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:47,760
Speaker 1: and I think that's the expectation. I think that is

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01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:51,840
Speaker 1: unbelievable that he has exceeded. So I'm going to say

1698
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis in this because I know how hard of

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01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: a transition it is to come from college to the NFL,

1700
01:31:57,120 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: and he has done it with flying colors and altered

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01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:05,439
Speaker 1: the team's passing game. Yeah. As a result, he is

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01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:07,720
Speaker 1: where I've voted as well, and he is leading the

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01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: voting right now with forty seven percent of the vote.

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01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley right behind with thirty three percent of the vote,

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01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 1: Diggs with about twenty percent of the vote. Thus he's

1706
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: only got he's averaging like two catches a game, but

1707
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:24,719
Speaker 1: he's made a difference five touchdowns and twenty five receptions.

1708
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:27,439
Speaker 1: That will get your attention from Dinah. I expected to

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01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs to be great. He has more than lived

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01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 1: up to my expectations after last year. I expected Cole

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01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 1: Beasley to be good, but he has been phenomenal, So

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01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 1: I have to go with Cole. Didn't really have expectations

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01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 1: for Gabe Davis in his rookie season. I should have. Well,

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01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:45,640
Speaker 1: good on you, Dinah for admitting that, but we are

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01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 1: all three of them have exceeded the Yeah, I think

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01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: that's safe to say, which were why we thought it

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01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:51,760
Speaker 1: would be an interesting pole. Get your take on it,

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01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 1: so keep sending in your comments. We'll get to more

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01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: of them a little bit later on in the show.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break because when we come

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01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:05,600
Speaker 1: back from NFL Network Brian Baldinger with some Baldy's breakdowns.

1722
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 1: He's gonna be breaking down this Bills game from Monday

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01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 1: night and maybe give us a little preview of his

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01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:16,839
Speaker 1: for Bills Steelers on Sunday night. Stay tuned. Brian Baldinger

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Speaker 1: coming back next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalata Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network

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Speaker 1: Sports Date, your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Josh

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01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: Allen getting recognized for his performance against the forty nine

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01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 1: Ers in Week thirteen. Allen named this week's AFC Offensive

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01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,639
Speaker 1: Player of the Week. He finished the game against San

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01:33:50,680 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: Francisco thirty two or forty four three hundred and seventy

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01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:55,800
Speaker 1: five yards, tied a career high with four passing touchdowns,

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01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:58,679
Speaker 1: and finished with a one thirty nine point one passer rating.

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01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,559
Speaker 1: He is now the first Bills offensive player to win

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01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:05,160
Speaker 1: that award three times in a single season. Alan and

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01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,799
Speaker 1: the rest of the Bills returning to the practice field today,

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01:34:07,840 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 1: it's a light jog through practice as they prepare for

1738
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: Sunday Night's game against the Steelers. Speaking of the Steelers,

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01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: following their first loss of the season, Head coach Mike

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01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,720
Speaker 1: Tomlin delivered an ultimatum to his receiving corps who led

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01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,799
Speaker 1: the league. Who lead the league and drop passes, seven

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01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:25,840
Speaker 1: of them coming against Washington on Monday night. Tomlin met

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01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 1: with the media on Tuesday and said, quote, they can

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01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:30,160
Speaker 1: catch the ball, or they can get replaced by those

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01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:32,920
Speaker 1: who will catch it end quote. Pittsburgh leads the league

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01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 1: with thirty three drop passes this season. Broncos cornerback aj

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01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 1: Booyer is the latest notable player to face punishment for

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01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 1: taking a band substance. Booyer was slapped with a six

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01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:45,759
Speaker 1: game suspension from the NFL for violation of the league's

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01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: policy on performance anncing drugs. Booyer has dealt with the

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01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:51,600
Speaker 1: shoulder injury this season, only playing in seven games. He

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01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 1: will now miss the Bills Week fifteen matchup in Denver

1753
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:58,840
Speaker 1: while serving that suspension. Last night, Dez Bryant got disappointing

1754
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: news ahead of his highly end dissipated match up against

1755
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: his former team to Dallas Cowboys. The Ravens receiver tweeted

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01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,719
Speaker 1: that he got pulled from warmups prior to the game

1757
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:09,680
Speaker 1: after he had a COVID test that came back positive

1758
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 1: and it got strange as the veteran receiver tweeted he's

1759
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 1: done for the season, but when prompted by a follower,

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01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 1: says he's coming back. No clarity if that meant this

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01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:20,960
Speaker 1: season or next, although there's no way for any player

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01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:23,040
Speaker 1: to opt out at this point in the game. Lamar

1763
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:26,000
Speaker 1: Jackson returned last night from about with COVID nineteen himself

1764
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:27,839
Speaker 1: to help the Ravens to a thirty four to seventeen

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01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:30,760
Speaker 1: win over the Cowboys. Jackson and the Ravens ran all

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01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: over Dallas to the tune of two hundred and ninety

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01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: four rushing yards. Jackson him his last week's game had

1768
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,840
Speaker 1: ninety four yards and a touchdown on thirteen carries, while

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01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:43,440
Speaker 1: adding one hundred and seven passing yards and two more touchdowns.

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01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:47,120
Speaker 1: That is the sports update here from One Bill's Drive

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01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,639
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker our number three of the program

1772
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: as we're broadcasting live from the Seneca Studios, and as

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01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:58,559
Speaker 1: promised in our number three of the program is the

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01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 1: man from NFL Network who was fondly known as Baldy

1775
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:06,320
Speaker 1: and has the well known Baldy breakdowns as he cuts

1776
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 1: up the tape for just anybody who's willing to watch

1777
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:13,080
Speaker 1: and listen and learn. It is one Brian Baldinger joining

1778
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:14,840
Speaker 1: us on the program. Brian, how are you doing? Good

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01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 1: to have you on. Yeah, good afternoon. Guy's good to

1780
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:19,759
Speaker 1: be with you. Thanks for having me again, appreciate it. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So have you had a chance to dice up the

1782
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 1: Bills Niners game from Monday night? And if so, is

1783
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 1: there anything that grabbed you quite as much as Josh

1784
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: Allen's performance? No? No, it was because he made it

1785
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:36,639
Speaker 1: look so easy, you know. I mean, honestly, he could

1786
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:38,719
Speaker 1: have played that game in a tough sedo It would

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01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:41,640
Speaker 1: have made a difference. There was anything he couldn't do

1788
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:45,920
Speaker 1: in San Francisco is a quality defense. They played good

1789
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,519
Speaker 1: man to man defense. They were. They came into that

1790
01:36:48,600 --> 01:36:53,439
Speaker 1: game in a top ten defensively in points scored. Richard

1791
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: Sherman and Jason Brett are good corners. They completely wired

1792
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:01,160
Speaker 1: up the ram receivers the week before and it didn't

1793
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:04,080
Speaker 1: seem to make any difference. He was so clear in

1794
01:37:04,200 --> 01:37:06,880
Speaker 1: what he was looking at and what he did to

1795
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:09,600
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, not in the normal Cole Beasley throws, but

1796
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: the ones down the scene, twenty yards down the field.

1797
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: He couldn't put it in better position. He was thirty

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01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 1: two or forty and I counted four throwaways. I mean,

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01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, four touchdowns and four incompletions, you know, over

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01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:27,960
Speaker 1: forty passes. Is at a pretty amazing a pretty amazing

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01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:30,919
Speaker 1: night by him. Yeah, obviously he was named AFC Offensive

1802
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: Player of the Week for the third time this season.

1803
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:35,599
Speaker 1: And one of the things that has grabbed Bills fans

1804
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 1: here is and maybe you got a chance to dive

1805
01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:41,320
Speaker 1: this deep into it, but the Bills seem to just

1806
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:43,720
Speaker 1: shrug their shoulders and say, listen, it's fourth down. We're

1807
01:37:43,760 --> 01:37:45,680
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and try it. And they have been

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01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 1: really successful doing it. What are some of the reasons,

1809
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 1: if there's any, what's the short list of reasons why

1810
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: the Bills a are so aggressive and going forward and

1811
01:37:53,280 --> 01:37:57,080
Speaker 1: be why they're so successful. I think Steve, they've they've

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01:37:57,080 --> 01:37:59,160
Speaker 1: only gone for it six times this year. Now, they

1813
01:37:59,200 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 1: weren't a couple of times of the night. I think

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01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,680
Speaker 1: they were two for three. Um, you know, I mean

1815
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:07,519
Speaker 1: sometimes it's field position, sometimes it's uh, you know, it's

1816
01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 1: the opponent, you know. I think you get a chance

1817
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,080
Speaker 1: to put a team like the forty nine ers away

1818
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,760
Speaker 1: when you can you take advantage of it. You know

1819
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: that your defense is playing really well in that game,

1820
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:21,640
Speaker 1: and you know the backup quarterback wasn't really lighting them up.

1821
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: So we said, you know, sometimes that factors into it.

1822
01:38:25,240 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 1: But I think as a league wide trend though, Steve,

1823
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just seeing a lot more teams. I mean,

1824
01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 1: it used to be anytime it was fourth down, you

1825
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: were in your own zone, it was a punt, you

1826
01:38:34,080 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: played field position, and you know, teams just and Anna

1827
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:40,120
Speaker 1: Lakes have shown that that's just not always the right

1828
01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 1: play anymore, and so it has changed. You were seeing

1829
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:46,280
Speaker 1: many teams now on fourth downs. It's it's a four

1830
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:49,960
Speaker 1: down territory from a lot of different places on the field. Yeah,

1831
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: what are the things too? You look at the comparison

1832
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:54,720
Speaker 1: between the Bills and this next opponent of the Pittsburgh

1833
01:38:54,880 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has gone for it fourteen times over twice as

1834
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 1: many as the buffet that way for a few years. Right,

1835
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:03,800
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's not just the Bills, and it's

1836
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: not just you know, one or two team, it's everybody

1837
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:08,880
Speaker 1: in the league that has gone into the statistics and

1838
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 1: the analytics of it and said, you know what, maybe

1839
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: these guys are right because it doesn't in a lot

1840
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:16,960
Speaker 1: of places go against your gut feeling, but the numbers

1841
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:19,600
Speaker 1: bear it out. Well, you know, Mike Tom there's a

1842
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: lot of guys that really follow the analytics now. I mean,

1843
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 1: I'm in Philadelphia. I know Doug Peterson believes in it

1844
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 1: big time and sometimes it bites you. But I think

1845
01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 1: they want a Super Bowl three years ago in large

1846
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:32,519
Speaker 1: part because of how aggressive they were. And it's just

1847
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 1: not fourth downs, it's two point conversions. Mike Thomas not

1848
01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:38,559
Speaker 1: afraid to just go for two at any point during

1849
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: the game, regardless of whatever the you know, the Jimmy

1850
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 1: Johnson sheet said to do or the Dick for Meal

1851
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: sheet said to do. Over the last thirty years, I mean,

1852
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:49,719
Speaker 1: that's that's changed quite a bit also, so we didn't

1853
01:39:49,720 --> 01:39:52,360
Speaker 1: continue as to evolve. But you know, like a lot

1854
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 1: of sports, it's driven by analytics. I don't always agree

1855
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:58,959
Speaker 1: with them by any stretch in some of the decisions

1856
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 1: and how much they want to throw and no full

1857
01:40:01,320 --> 01:40:03,439
Speaker 1: backs on the field and no nose talks with all

1858
01:40:03,479 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: the stuff that they say, you don't win by long

1859
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 1: term or you know, if you count, you know, one

1860
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 1: million coin flips this is what you do, but a

1861
01:40:12,080 --> 01:40:14,639
Speaker 1: lot of teams are driven by it for sure. We're

1862
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: on the line with Radio dot Com NFL insider Brian

1863
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:20,519
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1864
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1865
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Speaker 1: really goes. You can also hear Brian with Jason lock

1866
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:28,360
Speaker 1: on four on Baldi's Breakdowns, with new episodes out twice.

1867
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Speaker 1: So we just searched Baldy wherever you find podcasts. So, Brian,

1868
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:34,439
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you about the Bills defense,

1869
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:36,800
Speaker 1: who you know, came up with another strong effort again

1870
01:40:36,880 --> 01:40:38,800
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. They've really kind of come into their

1871
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,600
Speaker 1: own the last few weeks here, Steve and I, I

1872
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:44,960
Speaker 1: know we're concerned going into this game about that forty

1873
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:47,559
Speaker 1: nine Ers rushing attack, knowing how prolific it can be

1874
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: and how much speed they put on the field no

1875
01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:52,839
Speaker 1: matter who they line up in the backfield. How impressed

1876
01:40:52,840 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 1: were you with the way the Bills defense was able

1877
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 1: to really seal the edges and not let guys get

1878
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:03,040
Speaker 1: out much at all. Well, I saw make a you know,

1879
01:41:03,120 --> 01:41:06,439
Speaker 1: a pretty drastic change between the first quarter and the

1880
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:09,200
Speaker 1: second quarter. I mean they went from a real four

1881
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:12,960
Speaker 1: man defensive front to really uh you know, a double

1882
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 1: eagle look a bear defense, you know, covering up the

1883
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 1: inside three and having the guys Tremadan Edmunds go outside,

1884
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, on line up on the outside and really

1885
01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 1: protect the edges. And so you know, I saw a

1886
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 1: real adjustment there in the second quarter, and that really

1887
01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 1: seemed to slow the forty nine Ers run game down.

1888
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 1: So you know, I credit you know, Leslie and you

1889
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 1: know Sean to be able to make that change. Some teams,

1890
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, they were till half time to make a change.

1891
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 1: I mean, they they changed it up going into that

1892
01:41:40,200 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 1: second quarter, So that was that credit to them. Yeah,

1893
01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: And what do you think the Steelers you know, personality

1894
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:49,479
Speaker 1: is on offense. I know they've over the last six games,

1895
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: they've been thrown it all over the yard. Their running

1896
01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:57,080
Speaker 1: game has been uh you knowest footnote. Yeah, I mean

1897
01:41:57,120 --> 01:42:00,400
Speaker 1: it's been it's been almost completely forgotten. Do you think

1898
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:02,360
Speaker 1: that has been by design or do you think they

1899
01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:06,800
Speaker 1: just kind of let Ben do it because he's been productive? Well,

1900
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:09,280
Speaker 1: I think sometimes they run the ball just arrest his arm,

1901
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, just to give it arrest. That's what it

1902
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:14,719
Speaker 1: looks like sometimes. I mean I had fourteen runs against

1903
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Washington and seven of them didn't gain a yard. So

1904
01:42:18,240 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: if you're not productive, you know why I keep doing it.

1905
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:22,880
Speaker 1: He hasn't been sacked, you know, Ben has not been

1906
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:26,160
Speaker 1: sacked since November first, So it's well over two hundred

1907
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:28,600
Speaker 1: and fifty passes now without being sacked. Now, part of

1908
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 1: it he gets rid of the ball really quickly. They

1909
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:34,360
Speaker 1: have missed Marquise Pouncy the last two weeks, and so

1910
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:38,280
Speaker 1: they're playing JC Hatsenhower in there at center. Nothing against JC.

1911
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:40,720
Speaker 1: He started two games in his life. But there's not

1912
01:42:40,800 --> 01:42:44,000
Speaker 1: really many people that can replace Marquise Pouncy, so that

1913
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,639
Speaker 1: that's part of it as well. They're without James Connor.

1914
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,280
Speaker 1: They're starting running back as well, so I think that

1915
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: dic takes some of it. But I think if they

1916
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 1: just dropped back and try to throw it fifty times,

1917
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:58,000
Speaker 1: eventually a guy like Montes sweat on Monday night from

1918
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 1: the from Washington, I mean, tips a bar that gets

1919
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:03,240
Speaker 1: intercepted by Mill I'm backer, and you know, seals their fate.

1920
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:07,360
Speaker 1: So you know, like everybody always has always said about

1921
01:43:07,400 --> 01:43:09,720
Speaker 1: throwing the football, you know, three things can happen in

1922
01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:11,640
Speaker 1: two of them are bad. So I think they just

1923
01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:14,440
Speaker 1: keep dropping back fifty times and theyglect to run. Eventually,

1924
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:19,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna bite them. Brian, just about Pittsburgh's defense, Since

1925
01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: you've probably seen more of their tape than we have

1926
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 1: to this point, you know, it's been a battle of

1927
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:27,519
Speaker 1: attrition for them. They've lost some pretty high profile names

1928
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:29,960
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. Devin Bush, Bud Dupree.

1929
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:33,639
Speaker 1: Now it looks like Bush's backup Spillane may not play

1930
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 1: this week, Joe Hayden's and concussion protocol. They may get

1931
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:39,960
Speaker 1: Steve Nelson back. I mean the list goes on and on.

1932
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:43,880
Speaker 1: Do you think this defense is still good enough to

1933
01:43:44,040 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 1: maintain their level of play, you know, second against the past, etc. Etc.

1934
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:53,880
Speaker 1: Despite the losses they've incurred, Well, nobody can, you know,

1935
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:58,559
Speaker 1: can overcome the number of players Devin Bush and nots

1936
01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:00,600
Speaker 1: playing and Bud Dupree. I mean, through the list of

1937
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:03,639
Speaker 1: guys that they've lost. It showed up on Monday night.

1938
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean they had a real breakdown on it. The

1939
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas touchdown pass for fifteen yards, I mean it

1940
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 1: was just a voided zone. It was an easy read

1941
01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 1: by Alex Smith. I mean, if you look at him statistically,

1942
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: I mean there's still a number one in the league

1943
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 1: and fewest points given up. Now, a lot of that

1944
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 1: is due to a sauce schedule against you know, Dallas

1945
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati and Jacksonville and you know Houston when near

1946
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: about him, So you know, something that is that. But

1947
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:31,920
Speaker 1: they did not look like the same defense. Now there's

1948
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:35,080
Speaker 1: his own defense, and you know, and Buffalo just saw

1949
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: his own defense in San Francisco. Josh Allen wasn't fooled

1950
01:44:38,439 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: at all. So I just don't think you can go

1951
01:44:41,080 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: up there and just play his own against Josh Allen

1952
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 1: and think you're gonna win. He's got five great targets

1953
01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 1: he can throw to, including Dawson Knox. He seems to

1954
01:44:49,400 --> 01:44:52,880
Speaker 1: see the feel really well. Pittsburgh does things a lot differently,

1955
01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:57,760
Speaker 1: you know, than San Francisco does. But you know, I

1956
01:44:57,880 --> 01:45:01,519
Speaker 1: think if you don't have your elite players out there,

1957
01:45:01,680 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: eventually there's you know, the attrition rate is just too

1958
01:45:05,200 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 1: great and you can't play the same level. Yeah, so

1959
01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:11,080
Speaker 1: you're right. So the Steelers come out and you know,

1960
01:45:11,080 --> 01:45:13,400
Speaker 1: they've got this great defense and they've got one of

1961
01:45:13,400 --> 01:45:15,600
Speaker 1: the all time great Steeler quarterbacks. I mean, let's face it,

1962
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: the guys won Super Bowls. He's and he still throws it. Well,

1963
01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 1: he's thrown to Chase Claypool, Deontay Johnson, Ray Ray McLeod,

1964
01:45:22,120 --> 01:45:25,080
Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster, and James Washington and none of them

1965
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 1: can catch it. What do you think is the issue

1966
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 1: with that? Is that you know, when you can see

1967
01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:36,000
Speaker 1: a team that gets the drops like this, it's a

1968
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 1: real issue for a team that's going to throw it

1969
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: fifty three times. Well, Mike Tomlin addressed it, saying, so

1970
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: if the guys that are dropping it can't catch it,

1971
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:47,680
Speaker 1: then we'll go put the guys in there. Ken. Now,

1972
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:50,120
Speaker 1: all those guys you mentioned they dropped it. All those guys,

1973
01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:52,559
Speaker 1: they're all so you know, And but the whole thing

1974
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:57,760
Speaker 1: I'd say, um is Ben is h He's going to

1975
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 1: get rid of the football in less than two seconds.

1976
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,839
Speaker 1: So a lot of these plays are very contested catches.

1977
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:07,800
Speaker 1: So I like Deante Johnson a lot, but he's you know,

1978
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,680
Speaker 1: he's five nine and he's one hundred and seventy five pounds,

1979
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 1: and so if he's going up against corners that are

1980
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,000
Speaker 1: bigger than him, and Ben's put it up there on

1981
01:46:15,040 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: a back shoulder. I mean, he's going to come down

1982
01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: with some, but he's not going to come down with

1983
01:46:19,080 --> 01:46:21,799
Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, Juju just had two flat

1984
01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 1: out drops in the middle of the field, I mean

1985
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 1: one of them. I mean he's just pounding the turf

1986
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: like in frustration about himself because the ball was right

1987
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:33,600
Speaker 1: thrown right to him. So they're not they really, I

1988
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:35,599
Speaker 1: mean Mike Thomas could say that, but they really don't

1989
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:38,639
Speaker 1: have anybody else they can go to, so they've got

1990
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 1: to kind of live and die with this right now,

1991
01:46:41,479 --> 01:46:44,559
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, I mean I remember just being a

1992
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:48,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo for a training camp and watching James Lofton and

1993
01:46:48,120 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, the guys literally catch a half hour worth

1994
01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:54,720
Speaker 1: their balls before and after every practice, and so you know,

1995
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,320
Speaker 1: sometimes you just gotta work harder at it, you know,

1996
01:46:57,400 --> 01:47:01,160
Speaker 1: and just get used to doing all the different drills

1997
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: to work on with respect to passing games. Brian, you know,

1998
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: I we get an opportunity to talk to Brian Dable

1999
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:12,760
Speaker 1: the interviews with the media once a week, and I'm

2000
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm marvel and knowing that you know, you watch tape

2001
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 1: as much as you do, You've seen the evolution of

2002
01:47:18,280 --> 01:47:21,479
Speaker 1: this passing attack for the Bills. I don't think anybody

2003
01:47:21,600 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 1: envisioned it becoming what it became this year, at least

2004
01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 1: to this degree. What does it say about Brian Dable

2005
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:33,040
Speaker 1: in a truncated offseason with very limited evidence on the

2006
01:47:33,080 --> 01:47:35,680
Speaker 1: field as to the leap that Josh Allen was going

2007
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: to take, let alone, how the blend was going to

2008
01:47:38,080 --> 01:47:41,920
Speaker 1: be with Stefan Diggs and the like to say and

2009
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:44,000
Speaker 1: put his stamp on this and say, you know what,

2010
01:47:44,360 --> 01:47:46,760
Speaker 1: I have confidence that this is what we can be

2011
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 1: in the passing game. What does that say about Brian

2012
01:47:50,240 --> 01:47:53,880
Speaker 1: Dable's acumen? And I mean to me, it seems like,

2013
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 1: at least to some degree a leap of faith based

2014
01:47:57,040 --> 01:47:59,680
Speaker 1: on how this offseason went for everybody in the league,

2015
01:48:00,160 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. But you're also seeing the

2016
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 1: elite talent of Stefan Giggs, and that's a credit to

2017
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:10,240
Speaker 1: the front office for recognizing that he is one of

2018
01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:12,160
Speaker 1: the great route runners in the league. If you look

2019
01:48:12,160 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 1: at all the guys at the top of the leaderboard

2020
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 1: and receptions right now, Davante Adams, Keenan Allen, I mean,

2021
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:20,720
Speaker 1: they're they're great route runners. And so if you can't

2022
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: consistently beat great man coverage, then you're not going to

2023
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:27,080
Speaker 1: catch ninety balls in twelve games. And I think, you know,

2024
01:48:27,120 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 1: Brian understands, like you've got to give this guy time

2025
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:32,360
Speaker 1: to run some of his routes. You know, fourth and two,

2026
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:35,479
Speaker 1: the route he ran against Jason Brett last week for

2027
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:37,720
Speaker 1: a first down. I mean, there's aren't many guys that

2028
01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: can run that route and get six yards of separation

2029
01:48:40,880 --> 01:48:43,800
Speaker 1: and convert the fourth down easily. And really, I mean

2030
01:48:43,840 --> 01:48:47,560
Speaker 1: I think to your question or a statement, you know

2031
01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:51,640
Speaker 1: Brandable recognizes that. And then you know Josh allen Is

2032
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,400
Speaker 1: understands just that you have to be a little bit

2033
01:48:54,439 --> 01:48:57,280
Speaker 1: more patient sometimes when he's going to do that to

2034
01:48:57,360 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: a corner, like you don't get off that route so quickly,

2035
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 1: let him finish what he's setting this guy up to do.

2036
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 1: And so there's a little bit of timing with all that.

2037
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,400
Speaker 1: But that being said, I mean that you know, the

2038
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:10,240
Speaker 1: addition of Gabriel Davis, who would have thought that, you know,

2039
01:49:10,240 --> 01:49:12,439
Speaker 1: a rookie could come in and you know, have five

2040
01:49:12,479 --> 01:49:15,000
Speaker 1: touchdown catches, you know, on a trunk case of season

2041
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:17,680
Speaker 1: like you talk about, You've seen film on a lot

2042
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:20,519
Speaker 1: of teams, all the teams in the NFL ball and

2043
01:49:20,600 --> 01:49:22,600
Speaker 1: you see this game that the Bills put together on

2044
01:49:22,640 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 1: Monday Night against the forty nine ers. So let's take

2045
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:27,240
Speaker 1: for instance that that's the top end for the Bills.

2046
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 1: They're going to play exactly like they did on Monday

2047
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:32,960
Speaker 1: Night on offense and defense and special teams. They're gonna

2048
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:34,479
Speaker 1: do it for the rest of the season. How far

2049
01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 1: will they go, Well, they might meet Kansas City, you know,

2050
01:49:38,320 --> 01:49:40,960
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, you know, for a

2051
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:43,080
Speaker 1: championship game. I mean, if they play at that level,

2052
01:49:44,280 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, they could easily go right up against Patrick

2053
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:52,320
Speaker 1: Mahomes and and they're defending world champions because I mean,

2054
01:49:52,439 --> 01:49:54,679
Speaker 1: I think they could beat Pittsburgh. I think they can

2055
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 1: beat Baltimore. I think they could beat Cleveland. Now they

2056
01:49:57,160 --> 01:49:58,880
Speaker 1: got to go do it, and you got to play

2057
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 1: at the level that you're described right there, Steve. But

2058
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:03,040
Speaker 1: I think they could be on a collision course with

2059
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:05,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City, who looks to be just a little bit

2060
01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 1: better than everybody else. I mean, be honest with you,

2061
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City looks like that right fielder and t ball, Steve.

2062
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:13,320
Speaker 1: You know, when you're six and he's just out there,

2063
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:16,559
Speaker 1: they'll they'll just pick it out, weeds, you know, board,

2064
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:18,880
Speaker 1: you know, until they'll have to go finish a game

2065
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:21,600
Speaker 1: and then they kind of wake up and you know,

2066
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:24,479
Speaker 1: look when they're that good, sometimes you like that until

2067
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:26,800
Speaker 1: you get to the postseason and then you just, you know,

2068
01:50:26,880 --> 01:50:29,920
Speaker 1: you turn it on. But I don't see anybody really

2069
01:50:29,920 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 1: stop in Kansas City at this point. But I can

2070
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:34,120
Speaker 1: see a collision course with Buffalo if they play like

2071
01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 1: they did, you know, the secondary. This is a defense

2072
01:50:38,120 --> 01:50:42,080
Speaker 1: for the Bills that's been built back to front, you know,

2073
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:44,240
Speaker 1: in terms of the steps that they've taken to do that.

2074
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:47,760
Speaker 1: A J Klein, I kind of want to throw some

2075
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:51,120
Speaker 1: love his way because Milano was out for a while

2076
01:50:51,200 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: here on IR he has come back in a limited capacity.

2077
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 1: Just the job that the defensive staff has done to

2078
01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:02,519
Speaker 1: maximize what aj Klein does well, because initially when he

2079
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:04,720
Speaker 1: went in the lineup for Milano, they tried to have

2080
01:51:04,800 --> 01:51:06,439
Speaker 1: him do a lot of the same things that Milano

2081
01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 1: can do, and he's just not quite the athlete that

2082
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:13,760
Speaker 1: Matt is. Just the job that the coaching staff's done

2083
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:17,640
Speaker 1: to maximize the strengths of AJ Klein's game and incorporated

2084
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:20,240
Speaker 1: into this defense. Well, I mean, first of all, you know.

2085
01:51:20,240 --> 01:51:22,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he started his career in Carolina when he

2086
01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:24,719
Speaker 1: came out of Iowa State, you know, as a free agent.

2087
01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:28,320
Speaker 1: So you know, they they know what his you know,

2088
01:51:28,360 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean, I mean,

2089
01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:33,320
Speaker 1: they know what his strengths weaknesses are. He's been a

2090
01:51:33,320 --> 01:51:35,599
Speaker 1: good player in New Orleans and Carolina. I mean, leads

2091
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:38,799
Speaker 1: your team in sacks right now. He's the AIRFC Defensive

2092
01:51:38,800 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 1: Player of the Week two weeks ago. And you know,

2093
01:51:41,120 --> 01:51:43,439
Speaker 1: they win against the Chargers, I believe, And you know,

2094
01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how many tackles he Hadn't seemed like

2095
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:48,439
Speaker 1: he made every tackle, so you know, I mean I

2096
01:51:48,479 --> 01:51:51,080
Speaker 1: think I don't know how much you have to change

2097
01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 1: your scheme. It seemed like he's better as a single

2098
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:57,960
Speaker 1: linebacker than sharing the middle with Tremaine, and so they

2099
01:51:57,960 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 1: put him off position, but they put him outside, played

2100
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 1: him inside. They you know, they they I mean, he

2101
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:06,920
Speaker 1: did everything. So I think he's just been enough. System

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01:52:06,960 --> 01:52:09,360
Speaker 1: has been around long enough. He's a veteran player who

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01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:11,800
Speaker 1: just knows how to play and whatever they ask him

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 1: to do, including lost of money out against the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers. I mean, he seems to do it really well.

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Speaker 1: If if how good I was gonna I needed to

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Speaker 1: ask you this about this matchup coming up with the Steelers.

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01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 1: How good is the Steelers secondary? If John Brown comes

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01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,040
Speaker 1: back in the wide receiving corps for the Buffalo Bills

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01:52:29,080 --> 01:52:31,600
Speaker 1: or one hundred percent with digs Beasley, John Brown and

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Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis, how good is this Pittsburgh secondary. Well, you know,

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01:52:36,920 --> 01:52:39,639
Speaker 1: he sustained some injuries. Steve Nelson went out and they

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01:52:39,640 --> 01:52:41,519
Speaker 1: lost a bunch of guys through him. I saw Marcus

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01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:45,679
Speaker 1: Allen playing safety for him. You know, to me, Mica

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01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:48,000
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick is the best free safety in football. I mean

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01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:50,840
Speaker 1: he saved He saved two touchdowns the other night all

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Speaker 1: by himself. You know, he and the guy robs the

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01:52:54,600 --> 01:52:56,400
Speaker 1: middle of the field. I mean, there's really nothing he

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01:52:56,439 --> 01:53:00,519
Speaker 1: can't do. He's a tremendous player. Joe Hayden has a

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01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:05,680
Speaker 1: renaissance at that left corner position. He's been awesome. You know,

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01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:09,800
Speaker 1: Terrell Edmonds has been really solid in the role they play.

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01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:13,080
Speaker 1: They play six defensive backs much of the game, but

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01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:14,840
Speaker 1: a lot of them got hurt the other night and

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01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:17,680
Speaker 1: they weren't the same secondary they you know, they had

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01:53:17,720 --> 01:53:20,320
Speaker 1: to go to some young guys and some depth, and

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01:53:20,400 --> 01:53:23,000
Speaker 1: it looked like, you know, that was a reason why

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01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: guys like Logan Thomas had a career day against the

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01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 1: Steelers on Monday night. Baldi, thanks for the time. As always,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you're breaking it down for us. Thanks much,

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01:53:33,160 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Guys, take care of see us. Steve. Thanks

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01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,600
Speaker 1: all right. That was Radio dot Com NFL Insider Brian Baldinger.

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Speaker 1: Insider calls are brought to you by Mercedes Benz Drive

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Speaker 1: or Mercedes Benz Van and find out how far an

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01:53:45,080 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 1: extra mile really goes. I just like tapping into his

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01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:51,240
Speaker 1: film watching, much like we do with Greg every week

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01:53:51,280 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 1: when we get Baldi on, because you know, he grinds

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01:53:54,080 --> 01:53:56,639
Speaker 1: it just like Greg does. And I like it too.

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01:53:56,680 --> 01:53:59,960
Speaker 1: He played, he played offensive line us in the Elite

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01:54:00,360 --> 01:54:02,599
Speaker 1: and he plays he and he understands, I think more

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01:54:02,840 --> 01:54:08,559
Speaker 1: than most analysts how everything kind of feeds, even your

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01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 1: technique and your route running, and everything feeds off your

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01:54:10,880 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: mindset and your emotion. He always inserts the mindset and

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01:54:14,479 --> 01:54:16,720
Speaker 1: the emotion of the game into what he's looking at.

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01:54:18,960 --> 01:54:21,639
Speaker 1: I think it's it's really interesting to hear him because

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01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:24,679
Speaker 1: he talks. It's a little bit like like that old

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01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:28,200
Speaker 1: television show Mystery Science Theater three thousand. I love that show.

2147
01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 1: Are my favorites as well. He's kind of like that.

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01:54:31,240 --> 01:54:33,360
Speaker 1: He's one of the little guys in silhouette down on

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01:54:33,400 --> 01:54:34,920
Speaker 1: the bottom of corner of the screen. He's like, see

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01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:36,960
Speaker 1: this here, and he's like talking about and he's either

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01:54:37,080 --> 01:54:41,600
Speaker 1: plot positive or negative, you know, And so Baldi had

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01:54:41,800 --> 01:54:44,880
Speaker 1: it's really good to get his take on how what

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01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:48,280
Speaker 1: they could because he knows when you're watching her on film,

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01:54:48,560 --> 01:54:50,720
Speaker 1: the players who are on that film have seen it

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01:54:50,760 --> 01:54:54,280
Speaker 1: a hundred times. They go back and he and when

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01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:56,320
Speaker 1: they see it a hundred times, they're talking about it

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01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: just like he's talking about and the emotion comes through,

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01:55:00,680 --> 01:55:03,000
Speaker 1: and that's I think it's really interesting to hear his

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01:55:03,080 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 1: breakdowns because of that. What did you make of the way?

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01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:10,640
Speaker 1: I asked him that question because I wanted to get

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01:55:10,680 --> 01:55:12,800
Speaker 1: his take on it, just the way the Bills were

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01:55:12,800 --> 01:55:16,160
Speaker 1: able to kind of seal the edges against that Niners run.

2163
01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:19,120
Speaker 1: Baldy referenced the adjustment that they made in the second quarter,

2164
01:55:19,720 --> 01:55:21,720
Speaker 1: moving Tremaine on the outside, which I thought was a

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01:55:21,760 --> 01:55:24,920
Speaker 1: brilliant move because you get a guy that long playing

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01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:27,400
Speaker 1: out on the edge like that. There are other There

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01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: were other instances exactly like Bam Johnson the play I've

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01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:32,520
Speaker 1: talked about, and even AJ his length AJ and his

2169
01:55:32,720 --> 01:55:35,640
Speaker 1: like that play. I saw that as well. And I

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01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: saw when they wanted to do this now that the

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01:55:38,600 --> 01:55:40,880
Speaker 1: Niners did a lot of the trap blocking and sham

2172
01:55:41,000 --> 01:55:43,280
Speaker 1: blocks and stuff where the guy crosses the formation and

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01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:45,560
Speaker 1: blocks somebody out in the back cuts inside of it.

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01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:48,080
Speaker 1: They did that. But what the Bills were good at

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01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:50,720
Speaker 1: doing was when they did that zone stuff when they

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01:55:50,960 --> 01:55:54,240
Speaker 1: try and spread everybody out to the edge. Yea, the

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01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 1: stretch put they forced the back to go wide, but

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01:55:56,520 --> 01:55:59,680
Speaker 1: they were they were sprinting to get out there ahead

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01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 1: of him. That edge was set and they were setting

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01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:04,560
Speaker 1: it way wide. They were getting up the field hard,

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01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: and it seemed like everybody on the front seven was

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01:56:07,160 --> 01:56:08,800
Speaker 1: like on the same minds and we got to get

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01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,680
Speaker 1: out there. Well. The end, it was almost light and

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01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. This was just the untrained

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01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 1: eye looking at this. It almost looked like the end

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01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,760
Speaker 1: At times it was in almost like a wide nine. Yeah,

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01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:22,160
Speaker 1: and to be out there already he was, And sometimes

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01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:24,600
Speaker 1: that works against you because that wide nine they yeah,

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01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:26,760
Speaker 1: they kick you out. Then the guy comes across kicks

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01:56:26,800 --> 01:56:28,600
Speaker 1: you out. That's what happened on one of the long runs.

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01:56:28,640 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 1: A J Clin comes to fill the hole. Jerry Hughes

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01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:35,080
Speaker 1: got kicked way out and there's a you know, it's

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01:56:35,120 --> 01:56:38,960
Speaker 1: too big a hole like double socially distance out there, right,

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01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:41,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, so the back you know, AJ

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01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:43,560
Speaker 1: Clin had no chance to fill that hole. He just

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01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:46,320
Speaker 1: didn't have enough body and U and it turned into

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01:56:46,400 --> 01:56:49,520
Speaker 1: a big gainer. That's what you risk when you do that.

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01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 1: And certainly the Niners took advantage of that alignment, but

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01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:54,240
Speaker 1: they did do that wide nine once in a while,

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01:56:54,320 --> 01:56:56,880
Speaker 1: and I think they kind of got away from it

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01:56:56,960 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 1: because of that and just the fact that they stacked

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01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:03,880
Speaker 1: three guys inside on their their two guards in their center.

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01:57:04,440 --> 01:57:06,200
Speaker 1: I just thought it was kind of a unique switch

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01:57:06,400 --> 01:57:08,560
Speaker 1: on the fly, and I'm sure it was part of

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01:57:08,600 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 1: the game plan, but making that change when they did

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01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:15,680
Speaker 1: to kind of hemmed them up and it had them

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01:57:15,680 --> 01:57:18,240
Speaker 1: crossed up. I thought. I thought the Niners were not

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01:57:18,320 --> 01:57:20,120
Speaker 1: quite sure what they were seeing there. I noticed this

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01:57:20,200 --> 01:57:23,440
Speaker 1: too about Leslie Fraser and this defensive staff, like, for instance,

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01:57:23,440 --> 01:57:25,320
Speaker 1: the first drive of the game that the Niners come out.

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01:57:25,360 --> 01:57:26,880
Speaker 1: Bills had the ball first, go the length of the

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01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 1: field and get stopped on downs right out the inside

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01:57:29,440 --> 01:57:32,200
Speaker 1: the one, and they ah, man, that stinks. So they

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01:57:32,240 --> 01:57:35,280
Speaker 1: turn around and the Niners are coming out, and they

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01:57:35,320 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 1: go the length of the field and had really, up

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01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 1: until garbage time, their most productive drive of the game,

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01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:47,560
Speaker 1: and it ended up with a stop on fourth and

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01:57:47,640 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 1: goal right, but they moved the field. And I've noticed

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01:57:51,040 --> 01:57:54,000
Speaker 1: that this defensive staff during that first drive they kind

2220
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:55,720
Speaker 1: of get a handle on, and after that first drive

2221
01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:57,440
Speaker 1: of every game they kind of get a handle on.

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01:57:57,520 --> 01:57:59,400
Speaker 1: It's harder for that offense to move it. But they

2223
01:57:59,440 --> 01:58:02,720
Speaker 1: make in game adjustments right away after that first drive,

2224
01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:05,240
Speaker 1: because you always know they're gonna have scripted plays and

2225
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:07,400
Speaker 1: a guy like Kyle Shanahan's gonna have some stuff drawn

2226
01:58:07,480 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: up you haven't seen, or some wrinkles involved. Certainly they would.

2227
01:58:11,720 --> 01:58:13,360
Speaker 1: They were about to go off the field until we

2228
01:58:13,480 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 1: got a tremendously bad pass interference so then so they

2229
01:58:19,080 --> 01:58:21,480
Speaker 1: almost got a three and out before it turned into

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01:58:21,480 --> 01:58:25,120
Speaker 1: a ninety seven yard drive. But be that as it may,

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01:58:25,160 --> 01:58:28,960
Speaker 1: I've noticed that the Bill's defense, they get hit in

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01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:32,000
Speaker 1: the mouth a lot of times early in games before

2233
01:58:32,040 --> 01:58:34,120
Speaker 1: they could just and they get that handle on, and

2234
01:58:34,120 --> 01:58:35,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they settled down, and all of

2235
01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:37,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, then they turned into a defense. It's a

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01:58:37,640 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 1: lot better and that that's exactly what happened against the

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01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 1: Niners because of the rest of the game up until

2238
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:46,960
Speaker 1: garbage time when they were thirty four seventeen, they wrapped

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01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:49,600
Speaker 1: him up pretty good after that first drive. Yeah, break

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Speaker 1: time for us when we return a little Coffee with

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Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that as Christian Wade brings you

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01:58:59,360 --> 01:59:01,800
Speaker 1: his latest guest on Coffee with the Bills. Next here

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01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:04,280
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01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:22,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Time for coffee. No, it's not time to coffee.

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01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 1: I almost did it against you know, Coffee with the Bills.

2247
01:59:25,960 --> 01:59:28,240
Speaker 1: What's the scoop? We got all these different things, can't

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01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:31,000
Speaker 1: keep track of them? My bad. It's time for what's

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01:59:31,040 --> 01:59:34,839
Speaker 1: the scoop? Presented by Perry's ice Cream. Here's Maddie glab

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Speaker 1: with Bill Safety, Micah Hyde. Michael, We've got some ice cream.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to open yourself? And try it for us.

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01:59:42,720 --> 01:59:46,640
Speaker 1: I've got some pepper already opened it. Let me know

2253
01:59:46,680 --> 01:59:50,560
Speaker 1: what you think. Hmm, the Brownie blitz does it for me?

2254
01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:53,560
Speaker 1: That's good? Be good, pretty good. First question for you, Mica.

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01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:55,680
Speaker 1: You came in with Sean McDermott. You were one of

2256
01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:59,240
Speaker 1: the ogs of this squad when McDermott came in. So

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01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:02,440
Speaker 1: what's like a pride do you have? And how far

2258
02:00:02,720 --> 02:00:06,640
Speaker 1: this build team has come since joining? Um? A lot

2259
02:00:06,640 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 1: of fun, a lot of fun. I look around here,

2260
02:00:08,480 --> 02:00:12,120
Speaker 1: you know, to see the original. Like I said, the ogs, um,

2261
02:00:12,600 --> 02:00:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, poem to Davis obviously, guys on other close

2262
02:00:14,600 --> 02:00:17,440
Speaker 1: two in the secondary. We came in together. We were

2263
02:00:17,440 --> 02:00:19,280
Speaker 1: a part of this thing from just slipping into the

2264
02:00:19,280 --> 02:00:21,680
Speaker 1: playoffs in seventeen eighteen, having a down in year nineteen,

2265
02:00:21,720 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 1: getting better and now this year just um, yeah, sky's

2266
02:00:25,680 --> 02:00:28,160
Speaker 1: limits for this group and you know, yeah, I'm just

2267
02:00:28,400 --> 02:00:30,200
Speaker 1: is it's a blessing to be here. What's it like

2268
02:00:30,360 --> 02:00:32,880
Speaker 1: being that there? You've got all these rookies coming in,

2269
02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:35,520
Speaker 1: these younger players coming in, and they're like, oh, Buffalo,

2270
02:00:35,600 --> 02:00:37,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo is a great team. Years ago, I guess people

2271
02:00:37,840 --> 02:00:39,400
Speaker 1: are saying, I don't want to be drafted by Buffalo

2272
02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:42,160
Speaker 1: and a bad team, cold weather, all that type of

2273
02:00:42,200 --> 02:00:45,320
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't have the case anymore. Um, you know,

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02:00:45,520 --> 02:00:46,960
Speaker 1: I think I think it starts with the guy like

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02:00:47,040 --> 02:00:49,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you know, the quarterback that's you know, a

2276
02:00:49,520 --> 02:00:51,360
Speaker 1: competitor that's able to get it done. And you know,

2277
02:00:51,400 --> 02:00:53,360
Speaker 1: we had a pretty good defense around here for some years.

2278
02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:55,440
Speaker 1: So you know, like I said, it's a great organization.

2279
02:00:55,760 --> 02:00:58,400
Speaker 1: So Mica, you're a new dad. What's it like to

2280
02:00:58,800 --> 02:01:00,920
Speaker 1: be a dad? Just have a little one to care

2281
02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:04,880
Speaker 1: for it in your life? It's amazing. Um, words can't

2282
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:08,080
Speaker 1: explain how how cool it is, um to walk in

2283
02:01:08,160 --> 02:01:10,160
Speaker 1: the house as in the day and see see a

2284
02:01:10,280 --> 02:01:13,640
Speaker 1: miniature you, um, you know, and how excited he is

2285
02:01:13,680 --> 02:01:17,440
Speaker 1: to see his dad. Um, you know the quarantine happened

2286
02:01:17,440 --> 02:01:19,400
Speaker 1: and um, you know he was born and for us

2287
02:01:19,440 --> 02:01:22,080
Speaker 1: to be home though in the entire time twenty four seven,

2288
02:01:22,480 --> 02:01:25,840
Speaker 1: see my wife you know, be a mother and um,

2289
02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:28,680
Speaker 1: it's so cool. It's obvious to see that you and

2290
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:32,280
Speaker 1: your wife love to travel. So how many countries have

2291
02:01:32,400 --> 02:01:35,440
Speaker 1: you been to? What's one of your favorite ones? And why?

2292
02:01:35,800 --> 02:01:39,400
Speaker 1: I think just traveling traveling in general is is all

2293
02:01:39,600 --> 02:01:41,880
Speaker 1: is is just awesome, just because you know, I kind

2294
02:01:41,880 --> 02:01:44,440
Speaker 1: of thrive off o being in a country and not

2295
02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:47,920
Speaker 1: knowing the language, um and just kind of having the

2296
02:01:47,960 --> 02:01:50,120
Speaker 1: figure stuff out, like to me, that's cool. We've been

2297
02:01:50,200 --> 02:01:53,240
Speaker 1: to a bunch of different countries, um, you know, We've

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02:01:53,280 --> 02:01:58,760
Speaker 1: been to Thailand, in Australia and New Zealand, Fiji, um, Morocco.

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Speaker 1: That's just to name a few. Personality wise, are you

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Speaker 1: an introvert or an extrovert in why? I don't really

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02:02:07,320 --> 02:02:10,240
Speaker 1: know if by person that I'm kind of just am cool,

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02:02:10,280 --> 02:02:13,760
Speaker 1: calm collective. If Matt Mulana was here, he would say,

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02:02:14,200 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a vibe. I'm just a vibe,

2304
02:02:17,200 --> 02:02:20,720
Speaker 1: you know, kind of just try to stay, you know,

2305
02:02:20,760 --> 02:02:23,720
Speaker 1: even kill and go to flow. Do you have a

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02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:26,840
Speaker 1: favorite artist that you're listening to in the locker room

2307
02:02:26,920 --> 02:02:29,520
Speaker 1: or just in general? Horse and of the artists that

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02:02:29,560 --> 02:02:32,400
Speaker 1: you like to listen to. I like all types of music.

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Speaker 1: You can put on some country music and I can

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Speaker 1: I can ride out to that. You can put on

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Speaker 1: some rat hip hop. So you have a good taste

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Speaker 1: in music. You listen to everything. You also have your

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Speaker 1: own foundation, it's imagined for you. How did you start that?

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Speaker 1: And what does it provide to the community. Um, so

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Speaker 1: I started back in TS thirteen. We provide sporting equipment

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Speaker 1: for kids that aren't able to afford it. Also, academically

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Speaker 1: we're able to provide you know, we've had backpack drives,

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Speaker 1: we give away shoes for Christmas. So, M we'd like

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Speaker 1: to focus around sporting equipment. But UM, I think we

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Speaker 1: thought the last couple of years, you know, academic just

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Speaker 1: a really big aspect of what I foundation I stop

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Speaker 1: providing for. I was reading your bio and it says

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Speaker 1: that you worked on a farm growing up. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: And I guess what did you do on that far

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Speaker 1: un and what did you get from that experience? Um?

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Speaker 1: The number one thing I got from my experience was

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Speaker 1: just the value of hard work earning a dollar. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know farm with Bill Straw, Bill, Hey, um

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Speaker 1: you know we pick up you know, rocks in the field.

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Speaker 1: There was a cool experience. UM. I started doing it.

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Speaker 1: I think seven eighth grade. I did allay through high school,

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Speaker 1: even a little bit of college. If you could go

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Speaker 1: back to any point in your life, where would it

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Speaker 1: be And why I want to go back? I don't

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Speaker 1: want to go Okay, I like that. I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to live in the moment right now that

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Speaker 1: I'm in. Obviously I had some amazing memories, amazing experiences,

2338
02:03:56,640 --> 02:04:00,000
Speaker 1: but the moment that I end right now, I'm beyond blessed.

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02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:02,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have any other way. This is, you know,

2340
02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:05,400
Speaker 1: being a part of this organization and you know, being

2341
02:04:05,400 --> 02:04:07,720
Speaker 1: here with the guys that I'm with, um during this

2342
02:04:07,800 --> 02:04:10,640
Speaker 1: quarantine during twenty twenty. I wouldn't change it for the world.

2343
02:04:10,840 --> 02:04:12,920
Speaker 1: When you're just having ice cream on your own, what

2344
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:15,960
Speaker 1: toppings go on your ice cream? Don't? I don't really

2345
02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:18,400
Speaker 1: put the toppings on. I like you. I like rorios,

2346
02:04:18,640 --> 02:04:20,400
Speaker 1: this brownie. I can eat it just like this. I

2347
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:22,800
Speaker 1: don't need no surrup or sprinkles or none of that

2348
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Speaker 1: on it sounds great. Well, Mica, thanks for answering those questions.

2349
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:28,080
Speaker 1: Good to get to know you a little bit better

2350
02:04:28,120 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 1: that safety Mica Hide. Another episode of Parents of What's

2351
02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:35,000
Speaker 1: the Scoop? Go ahead and get to your local shop

2352
02:04:35,040 --> 02:04:37,600
Speaker 1: and get some Harry's ice cream, or purchase some online

2353
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Speaker 1: at Harry's ice Cream dot Com. All right, that's Maddie

2354
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:46,000
Speaker 1: glab with Mica Hide. New Dad, Mica Hide. Um, we

2355
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Speaker 1: want to get back to the tweet sheet brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, where we're asking you today

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02:04:50,760 --> 02:04:53,640
Speaker 1: which Bill's wide receiver has exceeded your expectations the most.

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02:04:54,160 --> 02:04:56,800
Speaker 1: Ryan says, I think it's Cole Beasley. We knew Diggs

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02:04:56,840 --> 02:04:58,840
Speaker 1: was in a lead number one NFL receiver when we

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02:04:58,840 --> 02:05:02,400
Speaker 1: traded for him, and he has disappointed. Davis was much

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02:05:02,560 --> 02:05:05,840
Speaker 1: vaunted coming out of college, albeit in a deep wide

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02:05:05,840 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: receiver group, and has lived up to the hype. Bees

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Speaker 1: though it's true he's always open for Beasley. I was

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02:05:13,840 --> 02:05:20,600
Speaker 1: always open when I played eventually where you open usually

2365
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 1: I was open when I got back to the sidelines

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02:05:22,760 --> 02:05:25,280
Speaker 1: that stood next to Marv. You know that's when I

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02:05:25,320 --> 02:05:28,800
Speaker 1: got open. But yeah, Bees gets open. He gets open fast,

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02:05:28,800 --> 02:05:31,520
Speaker 1: and he gets open consistently. So yeah, that's he's right.

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Speaker 1: I think he's been a I think he has been

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Speaker 1: a real resource for Josh in this play. That the

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02:05:38,480 --> 02:05:40,560
Speaker 1: play that keeps getting shown over and over. We're seeing

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02:05:40,560 --> 02:05:42,800
Speaker 1: it again here is that early right in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the first drive when he gets that thirty one

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Speaker 1: yard shot down the scene and you know he had

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Speaker 1: what do you have eleven catches for one thirty? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty yards. Yeah, and uh, most of it,

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Speaker 1: one thirteen of it was in the first half. Just

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02:05:57,640 --> 02:06:00,720
Speaker 1: an amazing night, really, And I think that when you

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02:06:00,760 --> 02:06:04,400
Speaker 1: have a game like that and see if you feel

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Speaker 1: the same way. Beasley's success in the first half set

2381
02:06:09,200 --> 02:06:11,120
Speaker 1: the rest of the offense up in the second half

2382
02:06:12,640 --> 02:06:16,360
Speaker 1: forced the Niners to think, you, who is it? We

2383
02:06:16,440 --> 02:06:18,920
Speaker 1: gotta do something about that guy. And all of a sudden, well,

2384
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:20,320
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do something about him, what are you

2385
02:06:20,320 --> 02:06:22,560
Speaker 1: gonna do about number fourteen on the other side, right

2386
02:06:22,680 --> 02:06:26,840
Speaker 1: or you know, or thirteen, you know, Big Davis or Digs.

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02:06:27,400 --> 02:06:29,840
Speaker 1: And now I think he really forced the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers hand. Yeah, And the deck was stacked against the

2389
02:06:34,320 --> 02:06:36,920
Speaker 1: Niners to a certain extent. I mean, they were missing

2390
02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:39,880
Speaker 1: four of their top six corners. They had to call

2391
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Speaker 1: the guy up from the practice squad for the game.

2392
02:06:42,880 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: Dante Johnson was playing his first start ever in the

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Speaker 1: slot against a veteran like him. I mean, that's not

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02:06:49,160 --> 02:06:51,960
Speaker 1: even fair, you know what I mean. So it was

2395
02:06:52,000 --> 02:06:54,640
Speaker 1: smart for them to go right at that kid right

2396
02:06:54,720 --> 02:06:57,760
Speaker 1: away and see if he could handle it. And it

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02:06:57,880 --> 02:07:00,480
Speaker 1: was clear that he could not, so then they tried

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02:07:00,600 --> 02:07:03,880
Speaker 1: to adjust maybe roll coverage, you know, more to the

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02:07:03,920 --> 02:07:05,960
Speaker 1: middle of the field and the outside, and then you

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02:07:06,000 --> 02:07:08,480
Speaker 1: know that's when Diggs keeps moving the sticks and then

2401
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 1: Davis is wide open. They get Mackenzie involved. Even the

2402
02:07:12,800 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 1: run game kind of picked up in the second half.

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02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:17,760
Speaker 1: You know, Singletary got loose on some plays. You know,

2404
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 1: helped stay keep the offense on schedule. Yeah, there's too

2405
02:07:22,560 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 1: many things to account for, and when you're shorthanded personnel wise,

2406
02:07:25,720 --> 02:07:28,840
Speaker 1: to boot, it becomes an issue. And that's why it's

2407
02:07:28,880 --> 02:07:32,880
Speaker 1: going to be very important to monitor the Steeler's injury

2408
02:07:32,920 --> 02:07:35,919
Speaker 1: situation on the defensive side of the ball. Is spelaying

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02:07:35,920 --> 02:07:37,760
Speaker 1: and be able to play a linebacker, it's not looking

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02:07:37,800 --> 02:07:39,720
Speaker 1: like it after that knee injury. So now you're gonna

2411
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:43,600
Speaker 1: be on your third string inside linebacker. Then in the secondary,

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Speaker 1: Joe Hayden's and the concussion protocol. Is he gonna make

2413
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Speaker 1: it back in six days to play in this game.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not. They're gonna get Steve Nelson back the other corner,

2415
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:54,400
Speaker 1: but they might be down Hayden, who I think is

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02:07:54,400 --> 02:07:57,480
Speaker 1: a better player than Nelson. Question, and I agree with you.

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02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:01,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you missed one guy or two guys in

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02:08:01,280 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 1: your back seven against a receiving corps like this that

2419
02:08:04,200 --> 02:08:05,960
Speaker 1: the Bills can throw out on the field with Alan

2420
02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:07,600
Speaker 1: who can throw it to any part of the field.

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02:08:07,760 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 1: It's a problem. Need all your horses. The problem is

2422
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:14,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills is the pressure they've got to handle.

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02:08:14,600 --> 02:08:16,480
Speaker 1: T J. Watt, they got to handle the rest of

2424
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:21,200
Speaker 1: those guys up front, Cam Hayward they can bring it,

2425
02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:25,360
Speaker 1: and they still run that three four defense where you know,

2426
02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:27,960
Speaker 1: the outside linebackers can drop or rush and they can

2427
02:08:28,000 --> 02:08:29,800
Speaker 1: mix those guys up and move them around. So if

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02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:31,480
Speaker 1: they get a match up up front that they like,

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02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:33,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna exploit it, and they're gonna exploit it time

2430
02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:36,080
Speaker 1: after time after time. So the Bills are gonna have

2431
02:08:36,160 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 1: to come up with a game planner. This is up

2432
02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 1: to Brian day Ball and the crew and Ken Dorsey

2433
02:08:40,280 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: and also Josh Allen, Matt Barklay and all those come

2434
02:08:44,600 --> 02:08:46,760
Speaker 1: up with a game plan that allows Josh to get

2435
02:08:46,760 --> 02:08:50,800
Speaker 1: the ball out on time and to a matchup that

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02:08:50,840 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 1: he likes. So it'll be interesting because that's gonna be

2437
02:08:55,360 --> 02:08:59,040
Speaker 1: a little different because we've seen Josh he waits on it.

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02:08:59,400 --> 02:09:01,640
Speaker 1: You know, he don't have time to wait in his

2439
02:09:01,840 --> 02:09:03,720
Speaker 1: right he ain't gonna have time to wait. The ball

2440
02:09:03,800 --> 02:09:05,200
Speaker 1: is gonna have to come out, and that's gonna be

2441
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:09,760
Speaker 1: a little bit different demand than other games we've played.

2442
02:09:09,840 --> 02:09:12,600
Speaker 1: From Rachel on the tweet, she says the wide receiving

2443
02:09:12,600 --> 02:09:17,000
Speaker 1: corps as a whole has exceeded expectations, but particularly Beasley.

2444
02:09:17,480 --> 02:09:19,720
Speaker 1: He was good last year, but even with his age,

2445
02:09:19,720 --> 02:09:22,040
Speaker 1: he seemed to take a step forward this year. His

2446
02:09:22,160 --> 02:09:24,920
Speaker 1: stats are even better and there have been games where

2447
02:09:24,960 --> 02:09:28,960
Speaker 1: we've leaned completely on him to get the offensive offense going.

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02:09:29,000 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: Just as you referenced, you know, Monday night game, he

2449
02:09:31,760 --> 02:09:34,680
Speaker 1: was the catalyst. He was the catalyst. Yeah, and I

2450
02:09:34,720 --> 02:09:39,720
Speaker 1: think we've seen it before. I think the one thing

2451
02:09:39,720 --> 02:09:44,400
Speaker 1: that Josh does, I really he sees the field and

2452
02:09:44,440 --> 02:09:47,280
Speaker 1: he knows what he's looking at. And I don't think

2453
02:09:47,320 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 1: he's getting enough credit for that. For instance, last year

2454
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:52,440
Speaker 1: in the playoff game, you know, of course, it was

2455
02:09:52,480 --> 02:09:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, they were up sixteen to nothing and the

2456
02:09:54,280 --> 02:09:57,080
Speaker 1: game got away from him and Josh was turned into

2457
02:09:57,120 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 1: sugar High Josh at the end of that game. But

2458
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:02,960
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is this. The wide receiver

2459
02:10:03,120 --> 02:10:05,520
Speaker 1: that was at the bottom of the Bills rotation was

2460
02:10:05,760 --> 02:10:09,320
Speaker 1: Duke Williams and Josh went to him because that was

2461
02:10:09,360 --> 02:10:12,040
Speaker 1: the matchup that the defense said this is where you're

2462
02:10:12,080 --> 02:10:15,600
Speaker 1: gonna go now, and he got I mean he had ten,

2463
02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: ten targets, five five catches. But at that point Duke

2464
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:21,520
Speaker 1: Williams was the guy you stick in there. And I

2465
02:10:21,600 --> 02:10:23,480
Speaker 1: like Duke a lot and he has a skill set,

2466
02:10:24,160 --> 02:10:27,160
Speaker 1: but he's not Gabriel Davis. It's not John Brown or

2467
02:10:27,520 --> 02:10:30,760
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. You know, they were going three wides and

2468
02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:34,000
Speaker 1: it was Duke Williams. This year it's four wides and

2469
02:10:34,000 --> 02:10:38,600
Speaker 1: it's Gabriel Davis and Cole Beasley. That's a different animal.

2470
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Speaker 1: Great time for us. We'll be back with what if

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Speaker 1: we learned? Next. On One Bill's Live presented by Collot

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Speaker 1: of Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio out to you by Skyworks,

2473
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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills

2474
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:08,879
Speaker 1: had NFL Networks. Michael Robinson on the show a big

2475
02:11:08,920 --> 02:11:12,879
Speaker 1: Bill's fan, self proclaimed, and he talked about the progression

2476
02:11:12,880 --> 02:11:17,280
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen's game. To have your completion percentage jump

2477
02:11:17,360 --> 02:11:19,880
Speaker 1: that much, that is phenomenal and it just shows that

2478
02:11:19,960 --> 02:11:22,000
Speaker 1: now he has a lot more command of the football,

2479
02:11:22,080 --> 02:11:24,680
Speaker 1: a lot more control of that big arm. I thought

2480
02:11:24,680 --> 02:11:28,480
Speaker 1: too too oftentimes in the past that he would get

2481
02:11:28,480 --> 02:11:30,640
Speaker 1: in trouble because of that big arm. Try to push

2482
02:11:30,640 --> 02:11:34,000
Speaker 1: the ball downfield, maybe Buffalo, maybe down by fourteen points.

2483
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:36,760
Speaker 1: He's trying to get back into the game with one pass.

2484
02:11:36,760 --> 02:11:39,440
Speaker 1: But now he's being and he's learned how to control

2485
02:11:39,560 --> 02:11:42,000
Speaker 1: that arm. He throws it exactly where he needs to

2486
02:11:42,640 --> 02:11:45,440
Speaker 1: needs to control it. And I think Josh Allen and

2487
02:11:45,480 --> 02:11:48,240
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahons, and you can put Russell Wilson in this

2488
02:11:48,320 --> 02:11:52,280
Speaker 1: category as well. On the move on the run, I'm

2489
02:11:52,320 --> 02:11:56,360
Speaker 1: not sure that there are better controllers of the football,

2490
02:11:56,680 --> 02:11:59,240
Speaker 1: not just in the National Football League right now, but

2491
02:11:59,400 --> 02:12:01,800
Speaker 1: this game has ever seen In the great part about

2492
02:12:01,840 --> 02:12:05,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans, Josh Allazon in his third season, He's

2493
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:11,600
Speaker 1: only gonna get better. Scary scary thought. Also had Bob Labriola,

2494
02:12:11,840 --> 02:12:15,760
Speaker 1: long time Steelers beat reporter for Steelers dot Com, and

2495
02:12:16,120 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 1: gave us the lowdown on the Steelers and what to

2496
02:12:19,200 --> 02:12:22,720
Speaker 1: expect from this team coming in and an overview on

2497
02:12:22,840 --> 02:12:28,320
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's come back season. Roethlisberger's having a great year

2498
02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:33,760
Speaker 1: and he is I still believe the quarterback who gets

2499
02:12:33,760 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands quickest of anyone in

2500
02:12:36,640 --> 02:12:40,240
Speaker 1: the league. You know, to this point in those advanced stats,

2501
02:12:40,920 --> 02:12:44,160
Speaker 1: to this point in the season, you know, it's it's

2502
02:12:44,280 --> 02:12:48,080
Speaker 1: Brady esque in terms of that. It'd be hard to

2503
02:12:48,120 --> 02:12:50,480
Speaker 1: get some heat on Big Ben this weekend. Know, when

2504
02:12:50,480 --> 02:12:52,400
Speaker 1: he gets the ball out quickly, you wonder if the

2505
02:12:52,480 --> 02:12:55,280
Speaker 1: Dbs will squat on some routes though, and try to

2506
02:12:55,360 --> 02:12:58,120
Speaker 1: jump something to get a takeaway. Ben twelve takeaways in

2507
02:12:58,160 --> 02:13:00,280
Speaker 1: the last six games for the Bills. Yeah, Ben's Ben

2508
02:13:00,320 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: slings it though. He's so accurate with it. He has

2509
02:13:02,480 --> 02:13:05,000
Speaker 1: the ability to put great touch on footballs and put

2510
02:13:05,080 --> 02:13:06,960
Speaker 1: him into areas where his guys have a chance out.

2511
02:13:07,040 --> 02:13:08,960
Speaker 1: He's been betrayed a little bit by the drops, don't

2512
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:12,320
Speaker 1: You can't count on that happening. The Steeler's gonna shore

2513
02:13:12,360 --> 02:13:15,360
Speaker 1: that up. They'll catch the ball this week, and it's

2514
02:13:15,360 --> 02:13:18,680
Speaker 1: going to come down to maybe to whose offense has

2515
02:13:18,720 --> 02:13:20,880
Speaker 1: the ball last, as to who wins this because Ben

2516
02:13:20,960 --> 02:13:23,320
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and this Steeler team they don't care. They will

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Speaker 1: throw it fifty five times to win this game. Through

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Speaker 1: it fifty three last week, and the Bills have got

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Speaker 1: to be ready to either match that or have a

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Speaker 1: plan to counteract it. We mentioned some of the injuries

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers have had. The one we didn't mention

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Speaker 1: and didn't ask Bob about today on the show was

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Speaker 1: their kicker, Chris Boswell. They had Matthew Wright called up

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Speaker 1: off their practice squad. He was kicking for them last week.

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Speaker 1: There was a forty seven yard attempt available to them.

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Speaker 1: Tomlin chose to go for it instead of kicking it.

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Speaker 1: That's the edge of his range. If the defense can hold,

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Speaker 1: could be hard for them in the kicking game. If

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Speaker 1: Boswell doesn't play again, particularly on Chris Collins on the

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Speaker 1: show tomorrow. Join us the m H