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Speaker 1: Welcome to one Bill's Light, your numbers oriented discussion on

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Speaker 1: all things bills in the NFL. Coming up, the merits

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Speaker 1: of getting off to a fast dart in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: Steve is quizzed on fast dart history in the NFL

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Speaker 1: and the popularity of the two point conversion. Let's hit

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Speaker 1: the field at a Steve taster who has been all

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Speaker 1: over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

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Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

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Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy here, all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to your latest numbers crunching session on

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Speaker 1: the Bills in the NFL. Chris Brown and Bill's Wall

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Speaker 1: of Famer Steve Tasker here with you as always, and

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Speaker 1: with the NFL season now underway, with the NFL kickoff

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Speaker 1: game in the books, we address the subject of fast starts. Naturally,

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Speaker 1: every team wants to get off to a fast start.

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Speaker 1: The benefits are evident. But where do you come down,

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Speaker 1: Steve on needing to start your season fast stacking up

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Speaker 1: wins in relation to finishing your season strong. Ideally you

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Speaker 1: want to do both, but does one have higher ranking

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Speaker 1: and importance than the other. It's you always equate fast

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Speaker 1: starts with wins, right, Yes, I think it goes deeper

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Speaker 1: than that. I think you start your season fast by

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Speaker 1: playing well, you can win. You can lose a close

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Speaker 1: game and still play well. You can. And I've seen

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Speaker 1: other teams like, for instance, Joe Gibbs is famous for

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Speaker 1: saying one of the things in his early years with

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Speaker 1: the Redskins, when the Washington football team was the Redskins,

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Speaker 1: Joe Gibbs, they started their season oz and five, and

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Speaker 1: they were number one in offense and number one in defense.

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Speaker 1: No way, they weren't playing well, but they were getting

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Speaker 1: beat by bounce the ball that gap. Now, they obviously

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Speaker 1: went on to do great things, but that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of you got. You gotta step back and say, it's

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Speaker 1: not all about wins and lasses, although that's the best

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Speaker 1: measuring stick and usually the key to job security. Right.

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Speaker 1: You want to just play well and when you do that,

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Speaker 1: you're good. So it's not all about wins and losses.

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Speaker 1: But certainly that really helps you. It does, and that

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Speaker 1: thing that you reference about Joe Gibbs will give you

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Speaker 1: an indication as to where the NFC East used to be.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, not there right now. Yeah, I always

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Speaker 1: you know, you hear it from coach. This is like

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Speaker 1: part of the coach speak lexicon, right, we want to

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Speaker 1: get off to a fast start, got to get off

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Speaker 1: to a fast start. Blah blah blah blah blah. It

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Speaker 1: helps set the tone for the season. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any question about that. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: you also hear coaches say, well, the teams that are

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Speaker 1: going to be there at the end, find their identity

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Speaker 1: and hit their stride in November and December. You know,

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Speaker 1: you always hear that all the time. So it's just like, well,

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Speaker 1: which one is more important? They're both important. You'd both

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Speaker 1: you'd like to have both parts of the equation because

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Speaker 1: then that means you're winning a ton of football games.

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Speaker 1: I would like to look into the long term history

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Speaker 1: of how often teams that don't get off to fast starts,

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Speaker 1: And then you have to say, well, what is a

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Speaker 1: fast start? What isn't a fast is one and two

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Speaker 1: a slow start? Probably is two and three a slow start?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like where is the cutoff there? Do

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Speaker 1: you have to have a winning record? Like is three

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Speaker 1: and two an okay start but not a fast start?

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Speaker 1: I mean four and oh, three and one. These are

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Speaker 1: considered fast starts. What does it translate into is you

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Speaker 1: know the big question here? The Bills got off to

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Speaker 1: a four and o start last season. It was instrumental

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Speaker 1: Only once in Sean McDermott's first four years as head

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They're only non playoff berth season under McDermott.

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Speaker 1: But we've also seen an instance where this Bill's teams

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Speaker 1: And those seem to be exceptions though when you think

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Speaker 1: like the Pittsburgh Steelers did a year ago, starting out

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Speaker 1: as you said, four and oz, and they finished that

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Speaker 1: they were on fire last year, and they were they

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Speaker 1: much better scenario, right, And the two thousand and four Bills,

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Speaker 1: So then the Giants did it twice with Eli Manning.

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Speaker 1: We're going to provide some context here to fast starts

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Speaker 1: in this week's edition of The Numbers Game, as we

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Speaker 1: put Steve to the test. Over the last ten years,

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Speaker 1: seven NFL teams have a winning percentage of at least

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Speaker 1: those seven teams have a combined forty four playoff berths

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Speaker 1: and ten super Bowl appearances. So Steve, I ask you,

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Speaker 1: that's the easy one. Yep, New England Patriots is correct.

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, New Orleans is not on this list. Not

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, twenty six and nine, nine playoff berths,

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Speaker 1: not on this list. Seattle twenty one and thirteen. That

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Speaker 1: the NFC Dallas, Dallas is one, Yes, twenty one and

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Speaker 1: one it's not Pittsburgh. No, this one's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a surprise, Buffalo. It is Buffalo. Twenty one and fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Well done, Steve. Yeah, Sean McDermot era accounting for a

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Speaker 1: twenty one and fourteen since two thou eleven the Bills

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Speaker 1: in the first month of the season. Second part of

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Speaker 1: our numbers game deals with going for two after a

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Speaker 1: touchdown and its increase in the popularity league wide. Steve

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Speaker 1: teams attempted a total of one hundred thirty one two

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Speaker 1: point conversions last season, the most since nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 1: They also converted sixty three of them, second most in

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Speaker 1: league history. So I want to see if you can

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Speaker 1: this doesn't always mean that it's a great Cleveland. Cleveland

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