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429
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Speaker 1: in that get up. Oh really yeah, oh boy, it's

430
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: taken on a life of it. I love you so yeah,

431
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: but that I'm I'm high on the Sabers man like

432
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 1: can I say? I love them? And there's a new

433
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: faces I want to get to own. Last night, I

434
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 1: have had no shot and I and I gotta be honest.

435
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: I can't jump. I can't go a head first into

436
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 1: the saves yet. I gotta wait till this the super

437
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: Bowl thing's over, this run that the Bills are on,

438
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,360
Speaker 1: and then I'll jump in. But but for now, it's

439
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: It was a nice it was a welcome diversion. It

440
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: was a nice little sigh of relief. Oh my god, yeah,

441
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: I hear you. Let's take one more phone call before

442
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 1: we have to break here. We go to Nathan and Ellicottville. Nathan,

443
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life. Hey, great, Kasid,

444
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Be brief. I've been living

445
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: down in elicability of the pandemic. We've been skiing all

446
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: the time, and just the energy down here is in saying.

447
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: You have people in jerseys everywhere, and I've had a

448
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: lot of friends come in from out of town and

449
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: we'll be on the ski lift and all of a

450
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: sudden you hear, hey, hey, everybody on the lift is

451
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 1: singing and shooting and holler and nobody knows what's going on.

452
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: Who's never experienced that before? And it's just a great run.

453
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,239
Speaker 1: I know we've all been anxious this whole weekend. I'm

454
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: looking forward it tomorrow. Thanks for taking my call, all right. Yeah,

455
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 1: the buzz is palpable. I think that's safe to say.

456
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: Just about everybody has put their arms around this team,

457
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: even the casual fans, even the non fans. To be

458
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: honest with you, everybody's on board. Yeah. It's interesting too

459
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: because it's always a pleasant surprise. Because you can't go

460
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: out to too many places, right, you don't, nobody. King

461
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 1: is one good outdoor activity you can do, although they're

462
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 1: making you go one at a time on the lifts

463
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: for social seriously, yeah, one at a time. I don't

464
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: know if it's different if you're with somebody that's in

465
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Speaker 1: your pond. But it makes so distancing you're together. For

466
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 1: everybody wears a mask anyway, usually right, not everybody, but

467
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: well maybe, Yeah, it's easy enough to put a little back.

468
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta, you gotta. I got lava on,

469
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: you know, just to you know what. And then uh

470
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 1: so that's it's a little bit like golf. You could

471
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: we could play golf this last off seat, this last summer,

472
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: because when you're golf you can stay. You can easily

473
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 1: stay six feet apart and you're outdoors, um skiing. Same

474
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: thing to me, you could except for the ski lift.

475
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: That's right, that's you know, Yeah, it's I guess something

476
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: to do. I guess they gotta it's something to do.

477
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: I know, just give me something to do other than

478
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: just turn into a potato on it. You are a

479
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,959
Speaker 1: big old tato I am. I am a I'm a

480
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: tragedy act man. I am just so pathetic. I'm a

481
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: pathetic human being. When I don't have just I'll get there.

482
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: I am an embarrassment. We'll get there. Break time for

483
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Speaker 1: us because when we come back. It is the latest

484
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Speaker 1: edition of Task Teammates. We got a doozy for Steve.

485
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Speaker 1: This week we'll see if he can guess which teammate

486
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Speaker 1: we're describing with the clues I'll be giving after the break.

487
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

488
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

489
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and it is that

490
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Speaker 1: time in the show where we test Steve's deeper recesses

491
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: of his memory. It is time for Tasker's teammates and

492
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: it's brought to you by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious

493
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Speaker 1: Meals delivered. Download the Wegman's app today. Are you prepared, Steve?

494
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: Are you ready? So ready, so ready? Okay, here we go.

495
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 1: I was born in Chicago and went to Mount Carmel

496
00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: High School. Okay, Chicago, Marve Leady, It is not Marve Ledy.

497
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: I was a good guest. It would be your coach,

498
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: not your teammates. Sarah. We're all in it together, all right,

499
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: fair enough, Mount Carmel, Chicago, Nader, all right, okay. Clue

500
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: number two. I played my college ball in the Big

501
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: Eight Conference. Big Eight. Oh man, that's my that's my wheelhouse,

502
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: the Big Eight. Um. I didn't want to give you

503
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: the school and make it too easy. But trying to

504
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: narrow it down for you. Jerryastrovski, it is not Jerry

505
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: as Trask Telsa. That's not right. Hold on, let me,

506
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: I got another one up. I will tell you that

507
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: these clues kind of build upon each other one by one.

508
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: So make sure you Big eight, commit these two memories

509
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: so it could have been it. As we move along

510
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: with stayed in Nebraska, Nebraska. Yeah, I don't know clue

511
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: number three. Steve I was a sixth round draft choice

512
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: of the Bills in nineteen ninety two. Defensive lineman out.

513
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: Think about defensive lineman out of Nebraska. I think about

514
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: all of your clues thus far. Defensive lineman out of Braska.

515
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: I can't think of his name, John not Um. I'll

516
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: never get that guy's name. We traded him to San Diego.

517
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: That's not him ninety two. I know who you're thinking of,

518
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: but no, it is not that guy. And I can't

519
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: think of his dang name either. John Perella that's it. Yeah,

520
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: it's not him. He's in the big I'm thinking Big

521
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: Eight's got me now, I said, I gotta go. I

522
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: don't know how I got that name. And how we

523
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: were both thinking of the same right, how we got that.

524
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm more a president that right? Oklahoma, Oka, almost a

525
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: sixth rounder, Okahoma, all right, I'm gonna move on to

526
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: number four here. Okay. I was a teammate of Steve's

527
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: for two seasons before before moving on to an NFC

528
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: team in nineteen ninety five. Russell Copeland, It is not

529
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: Russell Copelands from George Eckett. Um ah, oh wait, now

530
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: we've already had Carlton Bailey. That's right, we did that.

531
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: Carlton vill Right, all right, I'm gonna think and he

532
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: went to Carolina with Frank and Beebes and Pete Beebes

533
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: Don Beebes. All right, um, clue number five. I lined

534
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: up at two positions on offense in college, and I

535
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: was somewhat of a utility player for the Bills, playing

536
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: on offense and special teams. Oh, Jamie Mueller, we already

537
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: had him, did not Jamie Mueller? Yeah, we have already

538
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: had Jamie Wait, offense and special teams. Let's gotta kist

539
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: narrow it down right now. Carl Gardner, it is not

540
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: Carll Gardner. That was a good guest. This this may

541
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: give it one, give it away, but I'm gonna give

542
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: it to you. So next clue. Jordan Poyer currently wears

543
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: the number I wore with the Bills. Wayne. Uh no,

544
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: Champaign twenty one is the number? Yes, turner, do you

545
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: have the first one? It's n Nate turn turner. Correct turner,

546
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: and we have a Nate on the line. You finally

547
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: got him. Gosh, I knew he went in Nebraska, right, Nebraska? Yes,

548
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: look at you. How you doing man? Where are you

549
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: living now? Where are you living? Chicago? Okay, all right, Chicago,

550
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: go to Chicago. Good to see you, man, Thanks for

551
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: coming on. I knew you went to Nebraska, and I

552
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: did not know we were born in Chicago. Yeah, the raid.

553
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah you had you tell me about your career in Nebraska.

554
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: You know what, who was the player the whole time? Uh?

555
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: You know, I was the number one receiver in high

556
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: school coming out to high school and uh in the country.

557
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: So when I got to Nebraska, I really didn't have,

558
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, a quarterback. So it was the years we had,

559
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, strange quarterback stuff. So my father who told me, said, hey,

560
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: if you ever want to go to the next level,

561
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: you better start doing some stuff that shows up on tape.

562
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: So I, uh got in the weight room and started

563
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: blocking my ass off man. Yeah, yeah, that's it. I

564
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: remember that because you came in you were not built

565
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: like a wide out. I know that right right right now.

566
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: I end up moving moving to I played winging back

567
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: in Nebraska and then end up moving to tight end

568
00:30:54,840 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: and fullback in Buffalo. Who was your head coach at Nebraska, Tomma,

569
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: So you were a tom Osborne guy. Wow, that's what

570
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: was I want to know what it was like getting

571
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: recruited by tom Osborne. Did he ever make a visit

572
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: to your house or was it one of his assistant cars? Yes? Yes, no,

573
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: he came. He came. Actually at one point I had

574
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny when I get with the guys I

575
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: grew up with. Uh, I had tom Osborne in the

576
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: in the house. Uh, Joe Paterno was in a car

577
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: waiting outside and at the same time, at the same time,

578
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, at the same time. I just I've

579
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: always wondered that, like, what is it like when you

580
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: have a coach of that stature sitting in your own

581
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: living room? Like, as an eighteen year old kid, you

582
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: gotta be like, are you blown away or did you

583
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: kind of play a pretty cool you know what, you

584
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: know what it is, but you really don't like. It

585
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: means a lot more to me now right than it

586
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: did at that point. It's a great story, exactly exactly.

587
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of my favorite stories. I tell

588
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: people all the time. And congratulations seven on getting this

589
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. You know, hopefully you get the nod.

590
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: But I've seen I've seen Sevey take the ball off

591
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: of Chris Moore's foot like two or three times, and

592
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible to see. And there's something that athletically

593
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: you are you don't see that. Yeah, it's unbelievable. We

594
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: were all different people back then, right, no doubt, no doubt.

595
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I could take it front fi. I don't.

596
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't take it from him now if he handed

597
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: it to me. Uhy, you got two boys, right, and

598
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: what I think one of him is playing football right now? Right?

599
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Is he still in high school or is he at

600
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: the college level already? My youngest is a junior and

601
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: uh a Phillips Academy in Chicago. He's getting some national recognition.

602
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: He's doing well. Yeah, so is he's starting to whittle

603
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: that list down. I'm sure he's got some considerations that

604
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: he's making. He's yeah, yeah, we still we want to

605
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: Last year we didn't even play football, which really stunk. Right,

606
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: so they're trying to, uh, they're gonna play trying to

607
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: play a spring a spring season, and then that are

608
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: going to a senior season right now? What's his name? Tyler?

609
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: Tyler Turner? All right? So and he plays quarterback? Does

610
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: he play QB? He plays and plays QB? Right, what's

611
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: the scoutter report? What does he look like? Six three

612
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: two h five my homes type? He can throw the

613
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: ball from different angles. He's really he's a tough, tough kid. Yeah.

614
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: Did he play in the other sports track? Okay, so

615
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: is he he's I guess he's a runner, not a thrower.

616
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: Now he's a thrower, oh is he? Yeah? Yeah, we

617
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: got we gotta remember that name a couple of years.

618
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm writing it down. Yeah, Steve can't remember anything, right,

619
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: He's got to write it all down nowadays. Nay, thanks

620
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: for coming on, man, it's awesome to see you. It

621
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: looked great. A's and thanks for me. When was the

622
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: last time you're in buff have you ever been back

623
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: you know what went back for the Uh, there's a

624
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: ton of guys back for that and uh right, what

625
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: did the looks like to be going back soon? Hopefully? Yeah, hopefully. Yeah,

626
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: it'd be nice, it'd be nice. Right. That's thanks for

627
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: coming on, man, it's good to see you, and I

628
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on. It's really nice and uh and

629
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: it's good to see I hope, I hope things are well.

630
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: I hope your family stays healthy and well for the

631
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: rest of the pandemic and hopefully it'll end soon. Did

632
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: oh man, same to you, brother, all right, thanks for

633
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: playing a long Nate, we appreciate you joining us here

634
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: on Taskers. Teammate. That's Nate Turner, former Bills. I didn't know.

635
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Speaker 1: I thought we just I called him a utility man

636
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Speaker 1: because that's kind of what he was like. He's got

637
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: a number of jersey, number twenty one. But he played

638
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: tight end, he played some fullback, he played some running

639
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: back like special, some kick return even at a couple

640
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: of kick returns on his stats. Maybe it was because

641
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: he was an up short And it's interesting too, because

642
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: he started out as a wide I went to hback,

643
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: so he started doing different things, and that happened to

644
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 1: me as well, a guy like Nate Turner and got

645
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: a lot of young pro football players don't get what

646
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: Nate got, meaning they don't understand the more you can do,

647
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: the more ways there are for you to make yourself valuable. Yeah,

648
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: and also when you start, particularly when he started in

649
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: college doing different things like the same thing with me.

650
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: I was a wide receiver in college and a kick returner,

651
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: and then they started putting me on kick coverage and

652
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: punk coverage and stuff. And you get over your whatever

653
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: apprehension you have a boy doing other things about covering

654
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: kicks or returning kicks or whatever, and you start getting

655
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: over the like I'm a running back, I don't want

656
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: to do anything else, you know, or I'm a If

657
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: you get over that and start trying to be a

658
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: football player, it really makes you more valuable and it

659
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: also helps you in that one special thing that you're

660
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: gonna do anyway. Right, So I am And this is

661
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: what I asked him about his son. I was he

662
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: playing the other sports? That's an enormous advantage. Yeah, being

663
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: able to play at the sports like mahomes with baseball

664
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: and running even running track finding basketball, but finding some

665
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: other way to be good at another sport. It really

666
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: and it really broadens your mind less. Nowadays though kids

667
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: are so specialized now yeah, youth tough youth sports are

668
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: forcing kids in our country in particular, to specialize sports

669
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: so early in life. Yeah, because if you want to

670
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: just be good enough to play on your high school team,

671
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: it does what you got to do. So I think

672
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: it does an enormous disservice to the kids. I agree

673
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: with that. Um, how about that story though, He's got

674
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: tom Osborne in his living room and Joe Paterno is

675
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: in the car out front. That's that is big time.

676
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: Man is big time. That is so bad is unbelieved.

677
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: That's how do you not feel like a total badass

678
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: at eighteen? With Tom Osborne asking you to come to

679
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: Nebraska And if you say no, you got Joe Paterno

680
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: on deck? Are you kidding me? And I'll say this too, Wow,

681
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: He's right. When you're eighteen, it's like, it's just the

682
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: way it is. You don't get. You don't get how

683
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: unbelievable that is. You know what I mean, It's just

684
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: like the sway life is going to be. That's amazing.

685
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: That's tough time. I wish you would ask him why

686
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: he went to Nebraska and not Penn State. Yeah, because

687
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: you know Penn State. Well, you're caught in Chicago, what

688
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: are you? You're about halfway between those two schools, give

689
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: or take a few hundred miles. No, no, no, in

690
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: Chicago is a lot closer to Nebraska. No, Chicago's way

691
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: closer to Penn State. Okay, way closer to Penn State

692
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: because that's Western Pa. Well a little yeah, west Westernia.

693
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: And listen, you get out, listen, broce Leeve, I live

694
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: out there. You get out towards Missouri and Kansas, and

695
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: it's bella dog miles. It's like flat forever. It's unbelievable.

696
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: Anybody worried about overpopulation in this country just drive through

697
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: the plane stands. There's plenty of feel a lot better

698
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: penny space out there. All right, break time for us,

699
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we will talk to Andy Major,

700
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: the vice president of Operations and guest Experience, as he

701
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: preps those sixty seven hundred fans that will be attending

702
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: Saturday night's game against Ravens. If you're gonna go to

703
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: the game, or went to the game and you have

704
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: some questions for twee him out us real quick. Maybe

705
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: we'll get to Yeah, tweet him out as sure. We'll

706
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: take him at One Bill's Live. Send him over and

707
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: we'll have Andy answer him for us here on One

708
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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

709
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: Calling him back to One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve

710
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: Casker with you and joining us now Bills Vice President

711
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: of Operations and guest Experience, Andy Major. He was on

712
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: last week to kind of help us prep the fans

713
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: attending the wild Card game. He's back to do the same. No,

714
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: when there's probably a large percentage of new fans coming

715
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: out this week. Andy, how are you doing? You guys

716
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: all ready to roll for tomorrow? Yeah, we're ready. You know,

717
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: last week was a great week, a long week. Well,

718
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: we had a great outcome. We're looking forward to this

719
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: week as well even more. What is the any what

720
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: did you learn last week that you may not have foreseen?

721
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: And what was the biggest, you know, issue you had

722
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: with fans about you know, the way I think you

723
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: know it was all new and different to them. What

724
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: was the biggest adjustment fans had to make? Did you

725
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: hear about and was there anything unforeseen that popped up?

726
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you, I think the greatest thing

727
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: that we experienced last week was how how awesome the

728
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: fans were complying with all the rules. I mean, we

729
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: know it's a big ask, we know it's all for

730
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 1: a good reason for safety, but yeah, the fans were amazing.

731
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: They wore their masks. I think if you look at

732
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: all the photos online and in general, you know, you

733
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: can see our fans are socially distant, they're having a

734
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: great time, and they're wearing their mask and that was

735
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: a big deal for us to make sure we were

736
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: able to bring fans back again this week. That was

737
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: probably our biggest takeaway guys. Honestly, Yeah, and that's great

738
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: and I know that, you know, just going into the

739
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: facility myself, there were Department of Health officials, you know,

740
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: kind of keeping an eye on things. So it was

741
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: good that the compliance was so stringent by the by

742
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: the fans themselves. Kind of self discipline kind of deal.

743
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 1: There is a new element, though, Andy, that I wanted

744
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: to cover with you with this week's game, with it

745
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: being a night game and the Erie County rules coming

746
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: down from New York State. With regard to the concessions,

747
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: can you just outline how that's going to work with

748
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: this being a night game. Yeah, an, no, great question,

749
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: thanks for asking that one. You know, with the concessions,

750
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: obviously we're cash lists, which is great, and we did

751
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: open up a few additional concession stands per the requests

752
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: of New York State to just help further spread some

753
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: of the lines out there at halftime. But the new

754
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: thing for this game with the night game is at

755
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: ten o'clock at night, you know, is going to be

756
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 1: the cutoff time for selling food and beverage. So just

757
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: want to make sure all the fans are aware. Per

758
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: New York State guidelines, you know, we needed to make

759
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: sure we comply with that. So our partner, dough or North,

760
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: you know, they'll be shutting down the stand shortly before

761
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: ten to make sure we're in full compliance with that. Yeah.

762
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't make some messaging about that for the fans

763
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: on game day as well, but we appreciate everybody understanding

764
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: that call. Yeah, just basically plan ahead, maybe get that

765
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: bottle of water before halftime or something instead of waiting

766
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: trying to wait until the second half because it might

767
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: be too late by then, so just play ahead, right,

768
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: you may not have the numbers for this, Andy, but

769
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: how many of all that? You know? It just yeah

770
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: to test like what you know, eight thousand people for

771
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: this sixty seven hundred fans and whatever you know, personnel

772
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: staff and ever. And did you have a any idea

773
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: of how many of those people actually were gonna come

774
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: and then couldn't because they tested positive? Was there a

775
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: handful of those? And how did that happen? How did

776
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: that happen be handled? How is that handled? Yeah? I mean, yeah,

777
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: we did have a pretty good handle on that. We're

778
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: working very closely with Bioreference, who's doing all the testing,

779
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: and New York State as well, So we did get

780
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: the lists periodically throughout each day, almost every hour or

781
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: every two hours, we'd get an updated list of how

782
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: the numbers were transpiring. So that really helped our ticket

783
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: office out and helped by a reference out, you know,

784
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: with being able to manage you know, the ticket allotments

785
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: and the tickets themselves is a tough turnaround, as you

786
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: guys know, with the testing. So the folks tested positive

787
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: and they're one of the last people to test on

788
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: that Thursday, before game day on Saturday. You know some

789
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: of those were a little bit more difficult to deal

790
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: with than others. Well, you guys saw the numbers the

791
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: governor made that announcement. I think the rate announced was

792
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: one point nine percent. This game, we're you know, knock Wood,

793
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: we're trending at least that or lower. So we're looking

794
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: to be in a good shape, good position for Saturday again.

795
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: And then just to fill in the new fans coming

796
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: this week, why don't we just walk through Andy if

797
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: you could, when the parking lot's open and where fans

798
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: can look for their entry time, because I know there

799
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: were a couple of people last week who were wondering,

800
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: oh where I know I have to have a designated

801
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: entry time? Where is it? But it's right on their

802
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: mobile ticket? Right Yeah. I mean the ticket office has

803
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,720
Speaker 1: been phenomenal just dealing with all these calls and helping

804
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: us out operationally with some of this messaging on the

805
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: tickets themselves. So people will have an assigned ticket location, obviously,

806
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: they'll have a parking location to enter north or south

807
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: side will split the stadium into two zones, north and

808
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: South zone, and then fans will have a specific gate

809
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: to enter within their zone along with a specific designated

810
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 1: time to arrive at the gate. So what really does

811
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,959
Speaker 1: help us out is spreading all the fans throughout the gates,

812
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: throughout the entry level time period, keeps everyone socially distant

813
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: and really helps us comply fully with what New York State,

814
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: you know, asked us to do. And that's I've been

815
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: a big help from the ticket office to have that

816
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: info on the ticket. Yeah, the team, the time is

817
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: right there on the tickets. So if you're not sure

818
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: what your entry time is, just look at your mobile ticket.

819
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: It is on there somewhere, all right. So I want

820
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 1: to let's get I want to get to the human

821
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: side of this. I mean, you must have had a

822
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: lot of it feedback from and testimonials about not only

823
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: did people come, but it was pretty special day for

824
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: some people bringing kids for the first time. And some

825
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: of these kids aren't kids, I mean they're like you know,

826
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: they're like twenty somethings who have never been to a

827
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: playoff game in the stadium in their life. Yeah, and

828
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: you got families coming back into the stadium. So what

829
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: were some of the cool things that you got out

830
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: of the fan feedback from that side of it. I mean,

831
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Speaker 1: I just I love hearing the stories. You know, we

832
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: were out walking the stadium early just to make sure

833
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: everything was going well and checking in with our staff

834
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: and our team members that are out there in the

835
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: cold work in the game for the fans. But watching

836
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: the fans come in the gates welcoming it back to

837
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: the stadium to the game, you know, you can't help

838
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: but ask them some stories or ask them some questions

839
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: and get a sense for how they're feeling. You can

840
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: just see you could just see the excitement. But what

841
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: I got my biggest takeaway from game day was, you know,

842
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: there's it was a very emotional day, guys. I mean,

843
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if you I'm sure Steve, I'm sure

844
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: you felt it. It was an emotional day for all

845
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: of us, like with all that's been going on in

846
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: the world with this pandemic. You know, the Bills are

847
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: that that bond that ties our community together. You know,

848
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: we're not LA, We're not New York City, We're Buffalo.

849
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: We're very proud we support our team. We've talked about

850
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: the loyalty and the passion of our fan base and

851
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia, and it is second to none. And to

852
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: see that on game day, to see the tears of

853
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: joy literally we saw from fans and staff alike because

854
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: they were just so overcome with emotion and obviously the

855
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: game and the way we won the game at the end,

856
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: you know, really put that over the top. You know,

857
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: It's something honestly, I don't think I'll ever forget. You know,

858
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: twenty five years is a long time, and the stories

859
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: of dads with their kids, their kids have never seen

860
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: a playoff game. You know, their dads are trying to

861
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: share the history of the Bills with their kids. And

862
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: now the kids actually are there and look at that

863
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: game that they got to witness and go through. You know,

864
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: it was it was a memory I'll never forget. And

865
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: the last one for me is again for the new

866
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: fans coming in. While there are more restrictions in what

867
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: you can bring in because you can't even bring those

868
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: see through bags like you do for regular season games

869
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: when there isn't a pandemic, they do need to bring

870
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: a couple of things with them, namely either their their

871
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: mobile evidence of a negative test or a printed out PDF,

872
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: and then they also have to bring their own ID

873
00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: to match that up. With the testing, right, Yeah, that's

874
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: that's exactly right, Chris. You know, we've promised the fans

875
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: that we're going to have a lot of our lines open,

876
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: a lot more staff than probably what we really need,

877
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: but we want to make sure that it's a very seamless, smooth,

878
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: easy process for the fans to go through our gate

879
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: entry and get inside the stadium safely. And yeah, we

880
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: will have our staff out there, you know, checking the

881
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: negative tests and verifying the IDs. Well, we do ask

882
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: fans to please don't bring bags this game. We have

883
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: a no bag policy. Only the small four and a

884
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: half inch by five and a half clutch persons allowed

885
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: for some personal items. But we want to make this

886
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: a very easy process for fans. You know, we should

887
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: be able to deliver with that like we did last week.

888
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: And again we do appreciate the fans very very much

889
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: for following through and doing what we've asked them to do.

890
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: It's it's been a really good process after game one,

891
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: all right, Andy, thanks much for the time and bringing

892
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: us up to speed as well as all those new fans.

893
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 1: Good luck pulling it off a second time in a row. Here, guys,

894
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: we are as excited as last week. We really appreciate

895
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: the fans. Bring Bill's Mafia loud and proud, and please

896
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: wear your masks, social distance, do all the things we've

897
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: been asking and if things go our way, you just

898
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: never know. We might be here next weekend as well. Yeah, alright, mache,

899
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: thanks thanks Andy, got a root for the Browns to

900
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: do that one? Go Browns. Yeah, that's Andy Major, Vice

901
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: president of Operations and guest Experience. His staff has done

902
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: a monumental job. They've literally moved mountains over there, So

903
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: good on them for making it go so seamlessly the

904
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: first time. With the help of Bills fans who did

905
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 1: the right thing last week. It's a big reason why

906
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 1: there are fans getting the opportunity to go this week.

907
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: So good on that first group. Second group do just

908
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: as good a job, and who knows, if the Browns

909
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: win and the Bills win, they'll be right back in

910
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: that same stadium next week for the AFC title game.

911
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: Don't even don't start. You're not ready in a ready

912
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: for that break time for us. When we come back,

913
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: it's Lorenzo Alexander with the Lowdown. It's coming your way

914
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health.

915
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio the Week for the Lowdown with

916
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander making his weekly appearance and Lorenzo, I don't

917
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: know if you can see this, but Steve has gone

918
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: completely viral. Now they've got hand towels with this guy's

919
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: likeness on it. For all the fans coming into the

920
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: stands this week, it is uh, it's it's jumped the

921
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: shark man. It's Steve's out of control. He's like a

922
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: cult hero. Now it's a second career. Oh, he's used

923
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: to it, he's been he's been that hero for a

924
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: long time. Yeah. Yeah, that was an awesome commercially game

925
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: and we really loved it. Yeah. I'll put it this way.

926
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: My kids are more excited about this than anything I

927
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,919
Speaker 1: ever did on the field. There are more They think

928
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: that I have gained a level of respect unknown big

929
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: on social media now, so now that his kids are

930
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: in now there, kid, Yeah, forget all the about seven

931
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls and all the other stuff. Now that he

932
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: was big on social he's a big deal. Oh my gosh.

933
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: That Yeah, I got a viral video. Now, I'm all right,

934
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: So Zoe, let's start here. Because the prognosticators and the

935
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: outside observers. A lot of them are on different sides

936
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: of the fence here. A lot of people see this

937
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: as a coin flip type game. I know it was

938
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: a relatively tight game last year when you guys played

939
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: him in Week fourteen. At first glance, you know, first blush,

940
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: when you first before you really dove deep into this thing.

941
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: How did you see this game once the matchup was

942
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: set initially? You know, I think I'm right along those

943
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: lines as well. I mean, we are in the playoffs, right,

944
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: We're down to the last eight teams in the nfailing.

945
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: So all these teams are really good teams, and obviously

946
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: they have their flaws here and there, but they're the

947
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: remaining teams left in the playoffs for a reason. And

948
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: both these teams have been playing. It's a really good

949
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,479
Speaker 1: football of late. Obviously, Buffalo started hot, got a little cold,

950
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: and really finished like the last eight nine games strong.

951
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: You look at the Ravens that had an up and

952
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: down this season and got hot right the right the

953
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: right moment there in December, and it is, you know,

954
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: really two juggernauts going head to head, led by two

955
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:44,919
Speaker 1: high power quarterbacks that win games differently, but definitely are

956
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: have the ability to put the game on their shoulders

957
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: and carry it. You know. Now, we know it's gonna

958
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: have some weather out there, and what that means, I'm

959
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: not quite sure. I know it's hard to tackle folks

960
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: when it's cold, just as much as hard to run.

961
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: So we'll see how it comes down. But you know,

962
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: you look at Lamar Jackson is Ravens team. I mean,

963
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: they're perennial playoff team. They're Will coached, they've been there,

964
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: they've done that, they're physical, um, and they play great defense. Uh.

965
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: And then obviously Lamar is very explosive. But then you

966
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: look right on the other side of it, you see

967
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: an explosive Josh Allen led football team that's thrown the

968
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: ball around at will because of the matchup. They have

969
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: Josh's growth and a defense that's really coming on strong.

970
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: And so it's hard even for a guy like me

971
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: that I was in the locker room. And so I

972
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: obviously going to err on the side of Buffalo just

973
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: because I know the culture, I know those men. I

974
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: trust them more than I trust the Ravens because I

975
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: don't have a relationship with those guys. But I'm gonna

976
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: be honest and look, look at this game, um with

977
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: you know, a non biased lens. Yeah, I mean it

978
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: really is a corn flip because it's whoever comes out

979
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: establishes that that that physical mentality, who's able to maintain that,

980
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: and then who's ever to make the least amount of mistakes?

981
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna come down. Can can the Bills

982
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: limit um Lamar Jackson? Right? We all know he's gonna

983
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: get out some waste shape or form, But do they

984
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: minimize it like last of what we were able to

985
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: do to like maybe a twelve or fifteen yard game

986
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: versus a seventy yard touchdown? You know, are the Ravens

987
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get after Josh like they did

988
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: last year? Or has Josh taken that step along with

989
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: this off at the line that I believe they have

990
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: to be able to pick up these blitzes, deal with

991
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: their physicality and then went on the outside, which we

992
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: weren't able to do last year. So those are the

993
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,439
Speaker 1: things that that will be the telltale as the game

994
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: comes out. But because the history of the both these

995
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: organizations where they're at right now, how well they're playing,

996
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: it's really hard to say, who's gonna win this game?

997
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: When you look at the playoffs and everything that it

998
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: means you were on the field last year Week fourteen

999
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: when the Ravens beat the Bills by a touchdowns twenty three,

1000
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: seventeen or twenty four or seventeen, and this it's hard

1001
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: to imagine a Bill's team being more different than this

1002
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: one is from last year's team. Now, the Ravens may

1003
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: be a lot the same, but if you're looking at

1004
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: Week fourteen of last year, this Bill's team's vastly different

1005
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. Yeah, I mean it's

1006
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: someone's flip, right. You know, we kind of kept kept

1007
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: our team in the game last year from a defferent perspective.

1008
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: In the offense, you know, tried their best to put

1009
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: up points, where this year has been the opposite way

1010
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: around where you expect Josh Shallingham regardless how good this

1011
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: this UH Ravens defense is, because of the weapons they have,

1012
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,439
Speaker 1: because of Josh's masturation development, the way he's playing right now,

1013
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: you expect them to go out there and put up

1014
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: to some points regardless of what the weather situation is.

1015
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 1: It And I don't know if Lamar Jackson can keep

1016
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: up with that. So that's going to obviously help the

1017
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: Bills this year maybe get away or help them not

1018
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: have to defend the run as much. You know, I

1019
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: thought we played the run much better last year collectively

1020
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: throughout the whole season. We had a great plan for

1021
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: him last year. Obviously they're playing better, but that has

1022
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: been one of the things that I think people are

1023
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: looking towards, Like, we know they're playing better, but this

1024
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: is the Ravens And so if Josh keep continue to

1025
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: put up points and kind of take that away from

1026
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: Lamar a little bit, because you know, maybe late in

1027
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: the third quarter, early in the fourth quarter, they're down

1028
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: and they can't run the ball like early on in

1029
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: the game last week when they were down team early,

1030
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: they can still stay with their game plan, similar to

1031
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: with the Rams did early to the Buffalo Bills stayed

1032
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: with the game plan. They have to maintain scoring points

1033
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: to be able to stay on top of them. So

1034
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: I see that's how it shifted. It is led by

1035
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: the offense and the defense just has to do good

1036
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: job and not allow Lamar to be explosive to keep

1037
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: pace with Josh and the oh Speaking of the defensive approach, Zo.

1038
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: Last year, it looked like you guys effectively struck a

1039
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: balance between being aggressive in defending Lamar but not reckless,

1040
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And I guess what I mean

1041
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: by that is, you guys did a pretty good job

1042
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: of closing the space between you and Lamar when he

1043
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: declared himself as a runner. But you guys weren't flying

1044
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: past him or lunging at him. What's the what's the

1045
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: coaching points that you would expect, you know, Coach McDermott,

1046
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: Coach babbitte you know, and everybody else on that defensive

1047
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: staff with the defensive players that are gonna be lining

1048
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: up this week, the reminders, if you will right well,

1049
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: last year, you know, I gotta get my man, even

1050
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: though he's along with the team, you know, Ray Ray,

1051
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: I got to give him a big time shout out

1052
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: because he was a huge part of that, you know,

1053
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: in practice turning around. So I don't know who identified

1054
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: on the team this year to emulate what would Mr

1055
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: Jackson can do, but that really helped us. And so

1056
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: we saw that in practice. We saw the speed we

1057
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: were able to focus on, you know, keeping our inside

1058
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: foot up, outside footback so we can open up and

1059
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: chase him, make him go lateral, making shot you when

1060
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: you when you do close, you close and come in

1061
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: and collect yourself. And when you have your shot, take

1062
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: it and everybody else has to hunt up. And so

1063
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: even like last year, you know, my man Matt Malone,

1064
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: they're probably showing that that highlight like crazy, probably up

1065
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. He he gets broke off, but he makes

1066
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: himar do all this shaking, and I was able to

1067
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: come from the backside and trip him up. And so

1068
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: it has to be that type of mindset all day,

1069
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 1: knowing that he may make you look silly, he may

1070
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: get out of the pocket, but if guy's a line around,

1071
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: take his shot, make him slow down, and everybody else

1072
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: has to come and help to continue to make plays

1073
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: and then hopefully be able to get a couple of turnovers.

1074
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: Because if you can get a couple of turnovers and

1075
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: take away those possessions for a team that traditionally maybe

1076
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: have to really run the ball and methodically work their

1077
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: way down outside of the big explosure plays that the

1078
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: mark and get with his legs will definitely help you,

1079
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to win this game. Why

1080
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: have the Bills struggled to cover tight ends this year

1081
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: and not just the Bills. Other teams have struggled as well.

1082
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: But why have the Bills struggled with you know, holding

1083
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: tight ends in check to this year? I mean it's

1084
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: a it's a hard matchup. I mean, you have these

1085
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: big guys, some of them will really athletic, long body,

1086
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: you up basketball style, and you have to have guys

1087
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: that can get physical and then are athletic. And that's

1088
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: why you know, a guy like Matt Mlano is such

1089
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: a premium right and he's been hurt in and out

1090
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: of this lineup all year. But it's not too many

1091
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: linebackers that can you know, play the run like he

1092
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: does and then be able to match up on a

1093
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: really good running back or a really good tight end.

1094
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: And the same thing with safety. There's some guys that

1095
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: can cover, but then they can't play the run, and

1096
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: so it's really hard to find the guys that can

1097
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: do dynamically both ways. But it really goes to just

1098
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: having really good tight ends that you know, at one

1099
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: point of time probably wouldn't be able to play tight

1100
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: end because they weren't great blockers. You know, maybe in

1101
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: the late or the early two thousands and even in

1102
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: the early nineties because that's how tight ends were utilized,

1103
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: and they were more seen as populive receivers that weren't athletic,

1104
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: and so they couldn't really get on the field and

1105
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: it was like no place for them. But now you

1106
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: have guys and offensive coordinators are finding these guys that

1107
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: are greatest space, have these big bodies and utilize them

1108
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: more like receivers and it's just a hard matchup. And

1109
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: that's why overall you see tight ends if you have one,

1110
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: you look at them, Kittle, Kelsey, there's a couple other

1111
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: guys around the league that just really caused this hard

1112
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: matchups because of their body type. Yeah, and taking that

1113
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: a step further though, though, you know last year this

1114
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: is a team that employed those three tight end looks,

1115
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: which were real big match up problems from personnel grouping standpoint.

1116
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: You know when they had Boil Hurst and Andrews They

1117
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: trade Hurst in the off season and then Boil as

1118
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: a season ending injury. It's really just andrews Now. Does

1119
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: that reduce the degree of difficulty for the Bills defensively

1120
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: knowing that it's it's really just andrews Now and they

1121
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: can't throw those extra two tight ends and match you

1122
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: up bed in a passing game, or if you put

1123
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: like personnel out on the field, they just run you over.

1124
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: That it looks like that element of their offense is

1125
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: not there anymore. No, not as much they try to

1126
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: spread you out and make you go small and run

1127
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: it from there now because they don't have the personnel

1128
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: groups and those guys. But just speaking from last year,

1129
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously all those guys can play in the game,

1130
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: but none of those like really fearless. We still want

1131
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: to make sure at the end of the day that

1132
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: we stopped the Ravens and what they really love to

1133
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: go to. Those guys are great, you know when the

1134
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: run game is going, play action. Let me find Andrew's

1135
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: little pop pass over the middle or deep over when

1136
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: guys are flying up. But the goal and the emphasis

1137
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: was stopping the run. I mean, and that's the goal

1138
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: in emphasis every week. But that's even more so when

1139
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: you play a team like the Ravens. His wing on

1140
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: first and second down and putting Lamar in situations where

1141
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: he's not as comfortable. And yes, they beat his last

1142
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: year we had a bust and he was able to

1143
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: find I think hurst you know, for a seventy yard touchdown,

1144
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: but that's not where he likes to live. He hasn't

1145
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: quite grown in that area as much as some of

1146
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: the other quarterbacks that have come out with him, And

1147
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: so it has to be first and second down, playing downhill,

1148
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: stopping that run, putting those guys in third and seventy

1149
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: plus consistently throughout the game, and not letting them methodically

1150
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: run the ball down the field using that book big

1151
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: fullback slash d lineman they love to use too. They've

1152
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: been throwing him more of the ball in the flatting

1153
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: and getting him more involved, but just being physical with

1154
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: him and you know, size and stretches and everything. These guys,

1155
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: I know, the mentality of the Bills defensive line really

1156
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: has to win that line of scrimmage. Linebackers playing downhill,

1157
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: and then you react to everything else because if you

1158
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: don't stop the run, it's gonna be a long day. Yeah,

1159
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: And we're all really looking forward to this game to

1160
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: see how this Bill's offense stacks up against another really

1161
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: good defense like so many they faced this year. In

1162
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: the offseason, Lorenzo, you were involved in all the CBA

1163
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: stuff and getting this season up and off the ground.

1164
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: Can you now at the end of it, when we

1165
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: got like three weeks left in this season or three

1166
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: weekends left in this season, how unbelievable is it that

1167
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: the NFL you got every single game in the schedule done.

1168
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: They're headed into the divisional round of the playoffs with

1169
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: the championships next weekend and the Super Bowl to follow.

1170
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: It is an absolutely monumental accomplishment by the NFL. I

1171
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: know the players Union should take a great sense of

1172
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 1: pride in what they've done as well. Yeah, it's really

1173
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: impressive and attesting it to the men, you know, trying

1174
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: to go about the business as safe as possible and

1175
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: adhering to all the protocols and even giving a shout

1176
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: out to the NFL for holding coaches and organizations accountable

1177
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: as well as we saw throughout the year, to let

1178
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: them know that if you're not doing this thing to

1179
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: the letter of the law and putting everybody at risk,

1180
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: whether you're player or coach or owner or whatever you

1181
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: may be in that call, that you were going to

1182
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: get fine. And I think once you had some teeth

1183
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: in it, guys were ready to adhere to it. As

1184
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: far as coaches and organizations and so that's the only

1185
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: reason when we were able to make it and make

1186
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: some other amendments where you could bring guys up from

1187
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: the practice squad. It'stending the practice squad to help feel

1188
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: roster spots. And the guys also did a great job

1189
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: as far as being flexible, because you know, you had

1190
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: a couple of games get moved to know who you're

1191
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: going to play. But through the resilience of our men

1192
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: in our league, was able to get those games and

1193
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: still play. And now here we are enjoining playoff football,

1194
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: especially last week where we had six you know, wildcard games,

1195
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: which was awesome. I really love that change as well

1196
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: to the whole shift, and it's just, you know, it's

1197
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: really happy for the guys, you know, because that was

1198
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: a big thing, a big harsh hip, a lot of

1199
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: sacrifice that wins to making the season happen on all sides.

1200
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: Is there a chance and would you be in favor

1201
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: of it as a former player, Is there a chance

1202
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: now that they could abbreviate further and much more like

1203
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: they did this year, abbreviate that offseason, give the players

1204
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: more time off. I know it puts a lot more

1205
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: pressure on the coaching staff to get these guys up

1206
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: to speed for opening day, but you know, one or

1207
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: two preseason games would go a wrong way towards that.

1208
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean, is that How much of a change do

1209
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: you anticipate now that it's been such a success this

1210
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: year with no offseason, that you guys don't just say, hey,

1211
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: how about it, let's do that again. Yeah, I see

1212
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: guys pushing for that. You know, honestly, now that I've

1213
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 1: transitioned out and I'm working on a Hall of Fame

1214
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: flag football career, I know how important time is with

1215
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: players and how much those coaches are going to push

1216
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: back on that as much as they can, right And

1217
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily that they want our time, but they

1218
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: actually needed so they feel that that we're prepared and

1219
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: they can give us all the tools we can. I

1220
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: know one caveat is going to be without having a preseason.

1221
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: I know, probably just maybe reducing it more so than

1222
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: the race will be the amount of injuries that we've

1223
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: kind of suffered early on. It's kind of almost it

1224
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: feels like it was it was almost last season that

1225
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: every week we was losing a marquee player. And I

1226
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: know there's going to be some studies and some correl laces,

1227
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, conducted this off season to see was that

1228
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: tied to not having your traditional preseason games, our preseason games?

1229
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: Do we need? You know? Was that not having an

1230
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: off season where guys could be here trained in a

1231
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: traditional sense. Obviously, moving forward, there won't be a pandemic,

1232
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: so gyms won't be shut down across America either, which

1233
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: will help guys getting ready. So that may play into

1234
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: that decision making as well. But that's one of the

1235
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: biggest things that I'm always worried about. I know it

1236
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: was through a pandemic, we didn't have an OTAs and

1237
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: a traditional preseason, but the significance of injuries that seemed

1238
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: to increase without having any of those things that occurred.

1239
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: One of the interesting numbers included in that that I

1240
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: don't have any idea about. It be interesting to see

1241
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: is they also keep track of the type of injuries

1242
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: that they suffer. I mean they are they I mean

1243
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: not for none. I'm used to play too. Nobody cares

1244
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,960
Speaker 1: if you pull a hammy, you know, but if you're

1245
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 1: if you got like if you got like fifty thousand

1246
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: blown knees, Yeah, that's a problem. That may be something else,

1247
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: but you know, hamstrings and calf muscles and that kind

1248
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: of stuff that that seems fixable if those are the injuries.

1249
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: But having not I don't know the numbers, well, they'll

1250
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: be able to make some some assumptions on the type

1251
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: of injuries the guys um suffered as well. Important Yeah,

1252
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: last one, Yeah, and all that normally comes up doing

1253
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: the combine. The guys are working on those numbers now,

1254
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: the medical professionals, and so we'll be able to make

1255
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: some some real decisions moving forward or some real changes

1256
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: or ads based on that information that we receive and

1257
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: then with the NFL to make it as best and

1258
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: safe and possible for our men. Last one we got

1259
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: four years, Zoe. We heard this week and Brian Dabele

1260
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: has already been mentioned in upwards of three head coaching

1261
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 1: vacancies as a candidate, but leslie Free was asked by

1262
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: the Texans for a requested interview. We're assuming that's going

1263
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: to probably happen at the end of the week, maybe

1264
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 1: as early as Sunday. Just from having been in the

1265
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: room with him as long as you were, what do

1266
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: you think is most appealing about him as a coach

1267
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: to serve in a head coaching capacity. Yeah. Well, first

1268
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Speaker 1: of all, it's long overdue. I mean, I know he

1269
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: got some interviews in seventeen, but definitely should have got

1270
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: some over the past couple of seasons as well. And

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Speaker 1: so congratulations to Leslie Fraser and his family for being

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01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: able to achieve that. But he's a great man. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really love him. I think his biggest attribute to me,

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01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, being on the sideline with him and also

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01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: knowing him obviously played the game played at the highest level,

1276
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: but his calmness when chaos is going around you, and

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01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: we all know that being a coach is chaotic. There's

1278
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 1: always something that comes up with your players, organizationally, business side,

1279
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: so many things that you have to be able to handle,

1280
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: and you have to have somebody that has a sense

1281
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: of calmness about him that relieves everybody arelse around him

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01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 1: so that people can do their their job. So that's

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01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: probably his superpower. If he has one um and then

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01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: he's a he's a great leader of men um. He's

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01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: not a micromanager. He hires it, brings in people that

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01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: he trusts to allow them and give them space to

1287
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: do their jobs, you know, while trying to get them

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01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: to become the best version of themselves as well. And

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: so I have a great appreciation for Lesie Frage and

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01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: what he did from my career and how he's helped

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01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: me grow on it off the field. And so whoever

1292
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: decides to hire him, and hopefully he's able to get

1293
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: this Houston job or any other job that he interviews for, um,

1294
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a great man that's gonna come in

1295
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: and establish a great culture that's gonna lead to winning.

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Speaker 1: All right, Joe, that's all the time we've got this week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the insight. Enjoy the game tomorrow night. We've

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01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: got a lot of people in here in the Western

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01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: New York area. They're already gripping. They can't wait to

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01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: get the kickoff. It's gonna be a long way to

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01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: eight pm. Yeah, it's been a long week for me, man.

1302
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: I've been used up all week ready to go, which

1303
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: I can come back because it's a physical game gonna

1304
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: be played. So good luck to the Bay and I

1305
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: can't wait to see them go out there and play well.

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01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: All right, Bill, thanks for the time. As always, we

1307
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: appreciate that Sorenzo Alexander with the lowdown. We have to

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01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we return, more analysis of

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01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: tomorrow night's game and from an x's and oh's perspective,

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01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: we'll dive deep with NFL films. Greg co Sell coming

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01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 1: up next for his weekly appearance on One Bills Live

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01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

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01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Taster. At that

1314
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: time in the show where we bring in the guy

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01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: that loves the xs and ohs from NFL films and

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01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,560
Speaker 1: from ESPN's NFL Matchup Show, it is one Greg co

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01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 1: Sell making his weekly visit here, Greg, how you doing

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01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: doing great? This could be my favorite weekend with the

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01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: four games, six games. I watched them all, but boy,

1320
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: it was a lot of football last weekend. Then followed

1321
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 1: by the Monday night National Championship game. You know, even

1322
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 1: for me, that was a lot of football. I was

1323
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: gonna say, look forward to this weekend. I was gonna say,

1324
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: I thought, this is a better time a year for

1325
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: you because you have fewer games to review every week.

1326
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: You got, oh, no, that's great, and we'll get to this.

1327
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: But just to show you, Chris, and I know you'll appreciate,

1328
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 1: this is just to show you how crazy I am.

1329
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: I even went back and looked at how the Bills

1330
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: defended the Ravens last year in the Week fourteen game,

1331
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 1: because I was very curious to see if it was,

1332
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, tactically different than what they've been doing this year.

1333
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 1: I'll say this, though, it last weekend with all the football,

1334
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 1: it was a little bit gagalicious. I was like, yeah

1335
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:40,440
Speaker 1: it was. It was a little crazy. It was delicious,

1336
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: but it's almost like it was hard going down by

1337
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: the end of the Sunday. YEA, So give us an

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01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: idea what you're of all? You know, all right, we

1339
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: got so we got four games, Um, give us your idea.

1340
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: What's like? Give us a ranking of the matchups? How

1341
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: how's this is gonna go? Is it gonna be Drew

1342
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: Brees and Tom Brady is the number one matchup? Or

1343
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,719
Speaker 1: is this Bills Ravens? Have some not because I'm sitting

1344
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 1: with you guys, but the Baltimore Buffalo game is the

1345
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: most fascinating to me. Then then probably the Brady Breeze game,

1346
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, Tampa, New Orleans. But but I'm fascinated by

1347
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Buffalo game. I think there's so many really

1348
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: interesting tactical elements to this game. So let's let's start there.

1349
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: And you know, I went back to look at the

1350
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: Baltimore Kansas City game in Week three just because I

1351
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: think some of what Josh does and some of what

1352
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,640
Speaker 1: they do offensively in personnel, it's it's somewhat similar to

1353
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: what Kansas City does. So I was curious what Martindale's

1354
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: approach was going to be to the Chiefs, and he

1355
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: wasn't shy about blitzing him early. Nope. But but then

1356
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 1: you know, Mahomes does what he does. He extends plays,

1357
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 1: he makes throws off platform, gets away from the rush,

1358
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: and I couldn't help coming away from that Greg thinking

1359
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: that Josh is capable of some of those same things,

1360
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: especially if Martindale, as he's been quoted as saying this week,

1361
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,560
Speaker 1: is going to bring the heat and play man coverage.

1362
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: He's going to They're a single high defense, so whether

1363
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: they play Cover one, which is the man version of

1364
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: single high, or Cover three, which is the zone version,

1365
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: the fact is is outside the numbers, it's man to man.

1366
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: It just becomes a matter of what technique the corner plays,

1367
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 1: but it's man to man, and he is going to

1368
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 1: come after the Bills and Josh Allen. And by the way,

1369
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has been the most blitzed quarterback in the

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01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 1: NFL this year. He's also thrown for the most yards

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01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,640
Speaker 1: against the blitz They've handled the pressure very well, and

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Speaker 1: Alan in many ways is like Mahomes. Allen is a

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01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: bigger version of Mahomes. Alan sixty Mahomes is not. I've

1374
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 1: been around Patrick Mahomes and he's obviously super talented, but

1375
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 1: he's not a big man. Josh is a big man,

1376
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: as you guys know. So to me, it's how they

1377
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: handle pressure. Now, yes, we'll Josh move and make some

1378
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: plays that way, absolutely, but I think they also have

1379
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 1: to handle it tactically as well. I think they have

1380
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: to block it up at times. Josh has to make

1381
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:03,719
Speaker 1: some throws from pocket. Everything can't become improvisation as great

1382
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: as Josh is doing that, and he is special at

1383
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: times doing that, obviously, I don't think you can live

1384
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:14,200
Speaker 1: for four quarters just counting on him to be special improvisationally.

1385
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 1: I think they are going to have to block it up.

1386
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I think back, let me give you a

1387
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: great example. I think back to the touchdown he threw

1388
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: to John Brown against Miami. Okay, where now Miami and

1389
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: Baltimore are not exactly the same, but somewhat similar. Both

1390
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,639
Speaker 1: teams will play cover zero. And I'm sure you remember

1391
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: the touchdown where he actually called Isaiah McKenzie into the

1392
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: formation to block Eric Rowe because he knew that Eric

1393
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: Rowe would blitz. It was actually what we call a

1394
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 1: green dog. Eric Rowe had Dawson Knox man to man,

1395
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: but he knew that when because Knox was part of

1396
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: the protection. And here's the play right here. Knox was

1397
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: part of the protection, and you see it that mackenzie

1398
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: was brought in to block him. So, you know, I

1399
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: think those kinds of things are critical. Everything cannot be improvisational.

1400
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: And this this, uh, what kind of consideration do you

1401
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: give when you get to this point of the season.

1402
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: Do you ever take into consideration like quality of schedule?

1403
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: I know the Baltimore Ravens finished the season on a real,

1404
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 1: real high note. I they won five in a row,

1405
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:28,759
Speaker 1: but they did, but the teams that they played were

1406
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: you know, it was the Jacksonville Jaguars, it was the Giants,

1407
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: it was Cincinnati, it was Dallas, and they just got

1408
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:44,639
Speaker 1: by Cleveland given up forty two points and winning that game.

1409
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: Do you put in stock into difficulty of schedule and

1410
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: the quality of opponents they faced? We do, when we're

1411
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 1: putting together the matchup, show, you know, for instance, nothing

1412
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. I certainly don't want Urban Meyer getting them

1413
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: mad at me, But I mean wouldn't show a play,

1414
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,600
Speaker 1: for instance, against Jacksonville just because you know, the average

1415
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: fan would say, oh, that's Jacksonville. They stink. But as

1416
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: far as the way I approach it, I look more

1417
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 1: Steve at the tactics and the concepts and the schemes

1418
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 1: and how you have to defend those things than I

1419
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:21,879
Speaker 1: do who they're against. You know. So in fact, Tennessee

1420
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: did a very very good job last week against the

1421
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. And because it's Lamar Jackson who's truly dynamically special.

1422
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: You know, he has that forty eight yard touchdown run

1423
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 1: on a scramble and that changes the whole outlook of

1424
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: the game. But I thought Baltimore did a really really

1425
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: good job last week. I mean, excuse me, Tennessee did

1426
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: a really really good job. So last year, Greg in

1427
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:48,160
Speaker 1: the matchup and yeah, fourteen between the Ravens and the Bills.

1428
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: The Ravens blitz Josh sixty nine percent of the time.

1429
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: We know they're league leading blitz rate this year is

1430
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: forty five and a half percent. Against Mahomes this year

1431
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: forty seven point six percent blitz they lost by fourteen.

1432
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson forty six point three percent blitz and the

1433
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: Ravens won thirty three to sixteen. Those are the two

1434
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 1: quarterbacks I found on their schedule who are closest in

1435
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: physical ability to Josh. Where does where do they come down?

1436
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: Probably somewhere in the range of how they blitz Mahomes

1437
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: and Watson, or do you think it's as high as

1438
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: they did it against Josh last year? Probably somewhere in

1439
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 1: the middle. This is who they are, Yeah, Chris, They're

1440
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: not going to change who they are. Obviously, they're going

1441
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,640
Speaker 1: to be playing any in nickel or in dime. They

1442
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: could go with a fourth corner when the Bills go

1443
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: with four wide, but they're gonna be who they are.

1444
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: The one thing that Martindale's made very clear, they're a

1445
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: proactive defense. They're not reactive to the opponent. They're gonna

1446
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: play the way they want to play, which means they

1447
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: are going to pressure. Now. The only way they would

1448
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: stop pressuring is if, let's say the first two series,

1449
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, Josh hits two fifty or touchdowns and maybe

1450
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 1: they reassess. But they are going to come into this

1451
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: game aggressive and they're going to pressure. I would bet

1452
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: even in their meetings, despite how well Josh Allen has played,

1453
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 1: and he's played at a really high level, I bet

1454
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: they're still saying, hey, if we pressure him, he's still

1455
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: going to throw a couple up and we can maybe

1456
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: steal a possession and pick one off. I guarantee they're

1457
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: saying that. So they're going to pressure, and they'll do

1458
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: it in multiple ways, and they'll feel very comfortable about

1459
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith and Marcus Peters on the outside and Humphrey

1460
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: in the slot. They'll feel they'll feel very good about that.

1461
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: What about the Ravens running game, And we know that's

1462
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: the one thing that keeps Bills fans awake at night

1463
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: is the Bill's inability to kind of hold the line

1464
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and defend all the complexities that they bring

1465
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,759
Speaker 1: at you. Certainly the quarterback read and the quarterback option

1466
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: and the preestap motion snap motions, all of those things,

1467
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: and plus they're just the general physicality upfront that they

1468
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,640
Speaker 1: bring to it. I mean, that's enough. That's really going

1469
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: to give Bills the bill. I think a real problem

1470
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 1: because you know, with Zimmer and Harrison Phillips, Vernon, Vernon

1471
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: Butler and at Oliver, they're little undersized down inside on

1472
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: their defensive line. Yeah, I mean, that's that's the issue.

1473
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,519
Speaker 1: Because they're the most different and most creative run game

1474
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And they've expanded some of their principles

1475
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: this year because they're a different old line this year,

1476
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: they're bigger and not as athletic. You see a lot

1477
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:32,719
Speaker 1: more gap scheme principles and fewer zone concepts because zone

1478
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 1: tends to require, as you guys know, more athletic offensive linemen.

1479
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: So they've become a lot more gap scheme base. But

1480
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: they're very, very difficult. Their foundation is the run, and

1481
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,560
Speaker 1: unlike other teams, like we know Tate Tennessee's foundation is

1482
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 1: the run, this is a team whose foundation is the

1483
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:52,759
Speaker 1: run because of the quarterback, not because of the backs.

1484
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: So it's very very difficult to defend. You know, I

1485
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: went back and looked at Week fourteen last year, where

1486
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: the Bills actually did a very very good job. But

1487
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,880
Speaker 1: they were a different defense than last year in that game.

1488
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys is Chris, if

1489
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: you happen to take a look at that as well,

1490
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: But they played a four three stack, They had the

1491
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: three linebackers inside the defensive ends, and they had two

1492
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: split safeties very close to the line of scrimmage, and

1493
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 1: they did a really, really good job. The passing game

1494
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: was almost negligent for the Ravens. They hit that long

1495
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: touchdown to Hayden Hurst which was a bust, so they

1496
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,600
Speaker 1: really had no passing game. Now, the Bills are a

1497
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: totally different defense this year, as you guys know, they

1498
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 1: play over nine of their snaps and nickel with Tarron Johnson,

1499
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 1: who is very, very competitive and aggressive as a run defender.

1500
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: So I would doubt that the Bills would dramatically change

1501
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: the way they've played all year. Yeah, I wonder if

1502
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:52,719
Speaker 1: they'll mix and match, whether they bring a J. Klein

1503
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:56,839
Speaker 1: on as a third linebacker or you know, in heavy sets,

1504
01:18:56,920 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, when they've got recard in the game, if

1505
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: they have Dean Marl or Saran Neilon right as the

1506
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: nickel hybrid linebacker Nickel corner kind of guy. I would

1507
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: expect a mix maybe there a little bit just to

1508
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: kind of keep him off guard. But what I was

1509
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 1: impressed with the with the job the Bills defense did

1510
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: last year, Greg, was how those defensive ends, whether it

1511
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: was Trent Murphy or Shack Lawson, they kept forcing Lamar inside.

1512
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: They overplayed the escape lanes on the outside and forced

1513
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: him inside where they knew they had help. Is that

1514
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: a tactic that you've seen other defenses successfully employ against

1515
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:36,040
Speaker 1: him this year? Well, that's what teams try to do

1516
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: because and you're talking in you know, obvious passing type

1517
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: situations in particular, Yes, his teams try to be disciplined

1518
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: and not have that outside Russia go beyond Lamar because

1519
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 1: that gives him an automatic lane. That's what you try

1520
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: to do. Sometimes it's hard, but yeah, you really would

1521
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: like to do that. If he's going to escape, and

1522
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: he will look to escape, you want him to either

1523
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: have to go sideways or backwards initially. You certainly don't

1524
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 1: want him escaping forward through any kind of gap. So

1525
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: we'll see. Because last year in that game, the Bills

1526
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: played a decent amount of man coverage on third down

1527
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: but because they were so disciplined with their pass rush,

1528
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:21,639
Speaker 1: Jackson did not hurt them running the football scrambling. Yeah,

1529
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: and give us an idea too, if you're looking at

1530
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: Week fourteen of last year to this year at the

1531
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:32,520
Speaker 1: Ravens offense, well, a casual fan, notice any if evolution

1532
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 1: there for the Ravens offense. Yeah, they'll see a lot

1533
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: more pulling offensive linemen because now they run a lot

1534
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 1: of those double pulls, almost like the old counter tray Steve.

1535
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: It's just that they don't hand it to John Riggins,

1536
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's but it's the guard and the

1537
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,639
Speaker 1: tackle both pull across the formation. They do a lot

1538
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: more of that this year than they did a year ago. Yeah.

1539
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: More gap stuff, right, yeah, yeah, more gap scheme stuff. Yeah.

1540
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: Just looking at how they used Recard last week, I

1541
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: was shocked that the Titans just he was an afterthought

1542
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: for them, and there he is in the flat catching

1543
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: passes against the Titans here. I mean, he was a

1544
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: fact they made a nice adjustment. I thought Chris during

1545
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: the game and the Ravens that is, you know, they

1546
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: ended up because what the Titans did is they played

1547
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 1: their safeties split kind of tight to the formation, and

1548
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: they played their corners you know, outside and off and

1549
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: off coverage, and there were a lot of reduced splits

1550
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: by the Ravens, and normally with versus reduced splits or

1551
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 1: corners are off. So they just decided to throw those

1552
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: quick throws into the flat. It was almost like an

1553
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,639
Speaker 1: extension of the run game. They did it with Recard,

1554
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: they did it with Marquis Brown. I mean, it's it's

1555
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 1: an extension of the run game. They're easy throws too

1556
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:47,160
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. It's just you know, pitch and catch.

1557
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,599
Speaker 1: So you know, that's something to look for as well,

1558
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:53,839
Speaker 1: all those reduced splits where the receivers are much closer

1559
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage than they are split out wide.

1560
01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, who's the better team against Baltimore Buffalo? You

1561
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: mean overall? Yeah, um, I would say and again, you

1562
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 1: know again, maybe it's because I'm old school, but I

1563
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 1: would say that I like the Bills offense more. I

1564
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: think that the Ravens defense is better and and the

1565
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: Ravens defense can be dominant. You cannot let the Ravens

1566
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: defense dominate this game because then, to me, the Bills

1567
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,799
Speaker 1: have to score and there's nothing to suggest that they won't.

1568
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: But they have to score. And when I say score,

1569
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't think this can be a seventeen thirteen game. Um,

1570
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: I think this has to be a a thirty one,

1571
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: twenty eight game. This, this Ravens offense is different, and

1572
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to deal with looking at some of

1573
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: the other games. Let's let's look at the other AFC

1574
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: game here, Greg, because you know some eyes in Buffalo.

1575
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: If if the Bills are up on the scoreboard, we'll

1576
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: be drifting that way. Um the next day on Sunday

1577
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:56,839
Speaker 1: if the Bills emerge Victoria's So the Browns the Chiefs.

1578
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:00,080
Speaker 1: Can the Browns offense go toe to toe with his

1579
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs offense? Well, I think they have to try within

1580
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: their scheme because I'm not a believer and I think

1581
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: it's a myth. Personally, I'm not a believer in the

1582
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: philosophy of keep the opposing quarterback on the sideline. Because

1583
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: in a normal NFL game, an offense gets twelve possessions.

1584
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 1: So let's say Mahomes gets ten possessions and he scores

1585
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, you have to score. The goals should not

1586
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: be to keep this quarterback on the sideline. The goals

1587
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:29,640
Speaker 1: should be to score touchdowns. So I think that the

1588
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: Browns have to be a little more aggressive early in

1589
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 1: the game within their scheme. You don't change your whole approach,

1590
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: but you have to be a little more aggressive. You've

1591
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 1: got to score touchdowns. Yeah, the Browns have shown some

1592
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: ability as well this year to do just that. I mean,

1593
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: you look back at the game they had against these

1594
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. They hung forty two points on the Ravens.

1595
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: They had twenty four against the Steelers, they had forty

1596
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:55,639
Speaker 1: one against the Titans, and of course you know they

1597
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: lit it up against Cincinnati, but they also scored thirty

1598
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 1: two against Indianapolis or earlier in the season. So they

1599
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: have the ability to go out and make some Hey offensively,

1600
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 1: what's key for that for the for the Browns to

1601
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: be able to do that, well, they're going to They're

1602
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: going to have to create some explosive type plays. It

1603
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: can't be It's very hard in this league to go

1604
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen play drives consistently. They're going to have to

1605
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: create by design and sometimes you just have to win

1606
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 1: one on one matchup Steve as you know, but they're

1607
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: going to have to create explosive pass plays. Yes, they'll

1608
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: run the ball, that's what they do. They're not going

1609
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: to There's no mystery to what the Browns are offensively.

1610
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 1: But I just think within the context of who they are,

1611
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,560
Speaker 1: they're going to have to be a little more aggressive

1612
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: in their run pass ratio, a little more pass early,

1613
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: and they're going to have to try to attack vertically.

1614
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: They don't have a great vertical receiver. Maybe they're best

1615
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: as the rookie Donovan people's jones at in Michigan, but

1616
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: they're going to have to try to take some shots.

1617
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, listen, we appreciate all the time you

1618
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: gave us today. Enjoy the playoff matchups this weekend. We'll

1619
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 1: look for you on the Matchup Show. Appreciate it, guys,

1620
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Greig. All right, that's great hotel from

1621
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: NFL Films and ESPN's NFL Matchup Show breaking it down

1622
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 1: for us. Mostly Bills and Ravens there, but we got

1623
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: them to touch on the Chiefs and Browns matchup. Hopefully

1624
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: Bills fans are eagerly watching that on Sunday because the

1625
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: Bills won Saturday night. That's the hope. Anyway. Can you

1626
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: imagine where we're I don't go there where my head

1627
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 1: will be if this game, you know, Baltimore wins this game,

1628
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: where my I'm just I might be off the air

1629
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: for a while. Okay, you'll be Okay, I'll probably you'll

1630
01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:42,639
Speaker 1: probably have to listen to me, but yeah, emotionally, I'll

1631
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: be a trainer. I think I think that Cleveland Chiefs

1632
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 1: game could Betty. I really think that could be the

1633
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: shootout of the weekend. I think I think this game.

1634
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm with Greg about the Bills Baltimore. I think the

1635
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: Bills have got to hang a thirty burger at least

1636
01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,719
Speaker 1: and maybe more than that to get this team under wraps.

1637
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 1: And I think they're going to have to really do

1638
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: some things consistently. They've got to find a way to

1639
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: protect Josh. Yeah, but I gotta say, Steve, if there's

1640
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: one thing this offensive line has done well, it's pass

1641
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 1: protect They've done a good job of that. Josh. It's

1642
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 1: hard to sack, well, He's hard to sack to begin with,

1643
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,599
Speaker 1: even when the protection is an't ideal. But more often

1644
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: than not, these guys up front have done the job

1645
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 1: in pass protection, even when they're throwing forty times a game.

1646
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 1: I mean, they've done a pretty good job. And Judeon's

1647
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 1: a good pass rusher, but he's not Von Miller. You're like,

1648
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, not to Aaron Donald or

1649
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: any of those guys I get, And he's not teach.

1650
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: They don't have like a super elite, but they are

1651
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: disciplined and well coached, and they're aggressive, and like I

1652
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 1: say this too, they get some help by how physical

1653
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: they play on the outside. Now the Bills can battle

1654
01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: that by putting guys in motions and shifts and stuff.

1655
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: It's harder to get your hands on a guy when

1656
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: you line up late or if the guy's moving at

1657
01:26:56,000 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 1: the snap. So we'll see, I'm gonna say this to me,

1658
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith and Marcus Peters are handsy. They're grabby because

1659
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:09,719
Speaker 1: they don't think they play with discipline technique on every snap.

1660
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: I think they take chances and they get a little

1661
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: grabby and fortunately, and Mark Gon pointed this out in

1662
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 1: his column in the Buffalo News today, Carl Cheffer's is

1663
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 1: the head referee. Now I don't know if he has

1664
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: the entirely same crew because they've changed the crew based

1665
01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: on geographics and not having guys travel too far, but

1666
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 1: they call the most penalties, I mean, their first or

1667
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:36,559
Speaker 1: second in the league almost every year his crew. So

1668
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: the hope is because he calls about two to two

1669
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,639
Speaker 1: and a half pass interference penalties on average per game.

1670
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 1: So the hope is they got the right official in

1671
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 1: here this week to call some of that handsy, physical

1672
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:51,120
Speaker 1: play that the Dolphins, that the Dolphins, that the Ravens

1673
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,960
Speaker 1: corners are known for. So cross your fingers and hope

1674
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 1: they're calling it early to kind of back those guys off.

1675
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:58,720
Speaker 1: Because Greg Cosell said, they're gonna do what they do.

1676
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: They're gonna blitz and they're gonna pla man coverage. I'll

1677
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: sign me up for that. I like that because I

1678
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 1: liked what I saw against Miami, and those two corners

1679
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: in Miami are arguably better than anybody that the Ravens

1680
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:11,640
Speaker 1: are putting on the field. Right, that's give me some

1681
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: of that. The Bills lit Miami up, and Josh scored

1682
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 1: twenty one three touchdowns in the first half of that

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01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: game against the Dolphins. Um. Now, the Bills were up

1684
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:25,639
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three, because that was because Isaiah McKenzie

1685
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:27,639
Speaker 1: had a punt return, but the other three touchdowns Josh

1686
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 1: threw and look good doing it, And you're right, that's

1687
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 1: that's the kind of defense that the Ravens run. Those

1688
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: they lean on those corners on the outside and send

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01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: some pressure and if you don't get home, those guys

1690
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: got to hold up. Yeah, we'll see. And then listen

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01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 1: to another thing too. If the Bills get beat by

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01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: a defense playing like that and they outman him and

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01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: God bless him. You Okay, man, we gotta get better.

1694
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 1: But but that's you're gonna go down, going down, playing

1695
01:28:57,120 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 1: to your strength, and that's where you want to be.

1696
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 1: All right. Well, I like the Bills against man coverage.

1697
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, break time, break too deep. They go

1698
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: too deep on the roster. Break time for us. When

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01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,439
Speaker 1: we come back more of your comments from the OBL

1700
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 1: fan mail bag, we'll answer some of your questions and

1701
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 1: get to that here in short order. We'll also take

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01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 1: some phone calls at eight oh three five fifty one

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01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1704
01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:35,679
Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:40,519
Speaker 1: on a Game Day Eve Friday edition, and the OBL

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01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:44,640
Speaker 1: fan mail Bag is officially open and as we know.

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01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:48,040
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

1708
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:52,360
Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and leading us

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01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:55,719
Speaker 1: off today in the fan mail bag is DJ, who says,

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01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: given what happened with last week's fumble that wasn't why,

1711
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: oh why is the NFL's last two minutes of the

1712
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: game replay review slash no coaches challenge system so dysfunctional?

1713
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:09,280
Speaker 1: Why does it take a Bill's time out to get

1714
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: it right even when it didn't get it right? Two words,

1715
01:30:14,040 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 1: Al Riveron, that's your answer. He is the director of

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01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: officiating for the NFL and is not nearly as proficient

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01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: in his job as the previous two holders of that position,

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01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:30,880
Speaker 1: who were Dean Blandino and Mike Pereiro. So it's unfortunate,

1719
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: but he does not make good decisions in terms of

1720
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:40,200
Speaker 1: when to impact a game and when not to. We

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01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:42,599
Speaker 1: don't need to rehash the play call that they missed

1722
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: last week after reviewing it and needing a Bill's team

1723
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: to call a time out to decide, oh, you know what,

1724
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: maybe we should look at that and then still get

1725
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:54,600
Speaker 1: it wrong. So it doesn't it shouldn't surprise us that

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01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 1: are going to get it wrong, but to not even

1727
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: view it without the Bills taking a time out to

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01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:05,600
Speaker 1: get it done. Yeah, I mean I said it on

1729
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 1: the broad They were asleep. I mean, what were they doing.

1730
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:11,000
Speaker 1: It's problematic. It's it's problematic, to say the least. And

1731
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:14,000
Speaker 1: that's why if you're the Bills, and why they took

1732
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 1: this approach after losing a game on a hailm area

1733
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:18,679
Speaker 1: in Week ten, they tried to just put their foot

1734
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 1: on the gas and blow teams out of the water

1735
01:31:21,160 --> 01:31:24,599
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard so one play or one bad call

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01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:27,160
Speaker 1: would not cost them a football game, and it came

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01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 1: perilously close to doing so last week. From Jack Bills

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01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 1: are the most Bills are mostly a nickel D. We

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01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:37,360
Speaker 1: will use more four three against the Ravens to have

1740
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: another run stuffer or should we expect a bigger nickelback

1741
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:44,280
Speaker 1: Marlowe or Neil We can't forget tight end Andrews. Would

1742
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 1: they ever consider going four D linemen and using Oliver

1743
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,519
Speaker 1: as a middle backer to add more girth than the

1744
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:51,880
Speaker 1: run D? I would say unstantly, No, Yeah, it's not.

1745
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 1: This isn't youth football. You're gonna You're not gonna put

1746
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: a number one draft pick who's had a good season

1747
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 1: playing defensive tack Not gonna put him the middle line.

1748
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,840
Speaker 1: That's crazy talk. So no, they're gonna have a plan,

1749
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:09,880
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be within the scheme that they run,

1750
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:12,120
Speaker 1: and they're gonna and it's gonna be up to them

1751
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:14,799
Speaker 1: to execute it and and it just if it doesn't

1752
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:16,400
Speaker 1: go their way, it's not because they didn't have a

1753
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:19,599
Speaker 1: good plan. And it's certainly not because they didn't put

1754
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:21,920
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver at middle lineback. They had a good plan

1755
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,559
Speaker 1: last year in the playoff game. The reason they lost

1756
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:26,559
Speaker 1: the playoff game in Houston last year was because of

1757
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: execution or lack there. Up. Think about the play that

1758
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,040
Speaker 1: got him beat Deshaun Watson. He gets and they were

1759
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:34,560
Speaker 1: crushing the Bills defensive corps. I'm like, what are you

1760
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:37,759
Speaker 1: kidding me? Leslie Fraser had Matt Milano and Dean Marlow

1761
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 1: on a free run. Huh. They had a free run

1762
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:46,959
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. They had free run to the quarterback

1763
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: unblocked two defenders. What more could you ask from a

1764
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator? He can't tackle the guy himself. He had

1765
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 1: two guys unblocked in on the quarterback. The quarterback buckled

1766
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 1: over knew he was had and they boundunce off each other.

1767
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: That's poor execute. Brian Dabele had a great play call

1768
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, throw by Josh

1769
01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:09,680
Speaker 1: the end zone to do Williams. Williams can't pull it in.

1770
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:11,920
Speaker 1: They have to kick a field goal instead of getting

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01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 1: a touchdown. That's yeah. And then the refs, you know,

1772
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 1: had a hand in it as well. And then this

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01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: and Al Riveron chimed in from New York and decided

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01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: that he was going to overthrow. And this is one

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01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:25,000
Speaker 1: of the interests where he went outside the rules in

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01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:28,800
Speaker 1: order to do that. And he decided to do that,

1777
01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: and he takes a touchdown off the off the return

1778
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 1: and I and I was okay, I mean, I get it.

1779
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:37,720
Speaker 1: It's an out. But not only officials always tell you

1780
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 1: they don't want to they don't want to be insert

1781
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 1: themselves into the outcome of the game. That's by definition,

1782
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: they affected the outcome of the game by breaking the rules.

1783
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 1: He decided to absolve the kick returner of his responsibilities.

1784
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: Of his responsibilities. It's yeah, yeah, and that's that's where

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01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:57,760
Speaker 1: we sit. So I hope the Bills are up by

1786
01:33:57,760 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 1: more than one score when we get to the end

1787
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 1: into this game, because that's the only way anybody's gonna

1788
01:34:03,479 --> 01:34:06,839
Speaker 1: breathe easy. For fear of other elements coming into play

1789
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:10,040
Speaker 1: and impacting the outcome of the game, we have to

1790
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:12,479
Speaker 1: take a break. But when we come back, we've got

1791
01:34:12,479 --> 01:34:15,680
Speaker 1: an open third hour of the show for you to

1792
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,920
Speaker 1: chime in either on the phones at eight oh three

1793
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 1: five fifty with your questions for the obl fan mail bag,

1794
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 1: and we'll take more of the questions on the tweet

1795
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:28,080
Speaker 1: sheet as well at one Bills Live. So send him in.

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01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: Steve and I are ready for the third hour the

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01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: program here on one Bill's Line, presented by Kalida Health.

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01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

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01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

1800
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you state literally,

1801
01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:03,559
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated beer

1802
01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 1: of normalcy here. Oh if you could hear the conversation

1803
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 1: Steve and I have during the break might be even

1804
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:14,400
Speaker 1: more entertaining than what we do on the air. It's

1805
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 1: a low bar. He was just showing me a camera

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01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: shot of his backyard, which apparently is is home to

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01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: a to a herd of deer. Yes, what is that?

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01:35:25,040 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 1: How many were there? Twelve? Like twelve of them, twelve

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01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:31,479
Speaker 1: of them in his backyard right now, just feeding on

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01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:36,800
Speaker 1: the grass. I'll send this picture to Jay Insane people now,

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01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in Lancaster, but we got deer traps

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01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 1: and through our yard all the time too. One of

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01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 1: our neighbors puts bird seed out for the birds. Well

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01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:49,120
Speaker 1: everybody else gloms onto that stuff before the birds even

1815
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 1: have a chance at it, between the squirrels and the deer,

1816
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: just chomping it all down, working it down like nobody's business.

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01:35:56,360 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 1: So they're coming through our yards like it's no big deal.

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01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:00,960
Speaker 1: You said, you get focked, so we get fox too.

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01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: We haven't guy coming through all the time to me

1820
01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:10,120
Speaker 1: deer or hoofd rats because i'm't gonna apologize. I mean

1821
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:13,519
Speaker 1: I watched baby, just like everybody. Is an overpopulation issue

1822
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:17,960
Speaker 1: my my landscaping, of which you know it's not not

1823
01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: I gotta pay for that, yeah it is. Yeah. They

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01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:28,720
Speaker 1: went after one cold winter we had, the deer were

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01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: eating the bark off of my burning bushes. Those are

1826
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 1: like you know, the shrubbery that I have. They eat everything. Yeah,

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01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:36,559
Speaker 1: I mean eating the bark off the dang thing. I

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01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:38,679
Speaker 1: was like, the times are tough right now, I guess

1829
01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 1: for the deer um, but yeah, they And the best

1830
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:45,600
Speaker 1: part is when you come outside and you try to

1831
01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:47,640
Speaker 1: like get them off your property, they just kind of

1832
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:49,840
Speaker 1: look at you like, yeah, what are you gonna do, buddy,

1833
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:52,679
Speaker 1: I outweigh you buy like four hundred pounds. I send

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01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:55,559
Speaker 1: vern out after him the dog, okay, and he'll chase

1835
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:58,040
Speaker 1: him up. But now see, I don't like doing that

1836
01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:00,839
Speaker 1: with my dog when there's a d year with antlers,

1837
01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:03,960
Speaker 1: because that that could present a problem. Yeah, but but

1838
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 1: if it's just doze, yeah, let your dog go. I

1839
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: used to have the big dog, the big dog we

1840
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, the ninety pound lab great Dane mix who

1841
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 1: is you know? That would put some they would put

1842
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 1: something high tailing. But Verne is you know, he's a

1843
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:20,599
Speaker 1: French bulldog. Yeah, not quite the intimidation I'm gonna nip

1844
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:23,120
Speaker 1: your ankle off, like right. They hop into the high

1845
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:24,760
Speaker 1: grass and turn around and look at him, and he's

1846
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 1: not going to high grass after him. Yeah, he's right.

1847
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,680
Speaker 1: So he's like, oh, you can stay there, but not

1848
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:33,800
Speaker 1: over here. Not over here all right? So yeah, so

1849
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: it's yeah, what are you gonna do that? Jay says,

1850
01:37:36,160 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: have you got that picture? Here's the picture. It's just

1851
01:37:38,160 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 1: Steve's backyard. There's a herd of deer out there. Count

1852
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: those room, one, two, four. There's ten in them. There's

1853
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,120
Speaker 1: ten in the pictures. I can see ten. There's ten

1854
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: in the pure all spread. It looks like it looks

1855
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:51,360
Speaker 1: like a cow pasture. That's in so many of them. Well,

1856
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, so bad, clearly have no issue making themselves

1857
01:37:54,920 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: at home so bad. Um, yeah, well, what are you

1858
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:01,400
Speaker 1: gonna do we My dog got skunk one time. Yeah,

1859
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: that's how she went out in the morning to do

1860
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:06,880
Speaker 1: her business, and then she came back in the kitchen.

1861
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:09,559
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, get out of here, get out

1862
01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 1: because like a dope, she's got to go say hi

1863
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:14,320
Speaker 1: to everybody. And the skunk did not appreciate that and

1864
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: sprayed her literally right in the face, like right up

1865
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:21,679
Speaker 1: or nuts. It's not good that happens. It's not We

1866
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 1: are going to get back to the obl fan mail

1867
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 1: bag as we are taking all of your questions there,

1868
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:30,839
Speaker 1: but we do have some callers on the line waiting

1869
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: to ask questions as well and give us their thoughts.

1870
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:36,720
Speaker 1: On the game for Saturday, and we'll lead off with

1871
01:38:37,120 --> 01:38:38,920
Speaker 1: David and Buffalo. David, what do you have for us?

1872
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:43,400
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. I was interested in your

1873
01:38:43,439 --> 01:38:46,680
Speaker 1: guys were thinking about who the spy is going to

1874
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:51,240
Speaker 1: be on Lamar Jackson because we need one obviously. Yeah,

1875
01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: I think that's that's something you don't want to do

1876
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:56,840
Speaker 1: all the time, right, Steve, because you're taking a person

1877
01:38:56,840 --> 01:38:59,280
Speaker 1: out of your problem. I don't know that you would

1878
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 1: do it. I don't know that you'd have a spy

1879
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:03,760
Speaker 1: like like what you're talking about. I think what you

1880
01:39:03,880 --> 01:39:06,559
Speaker 1: do is you give everybody an assignment because if you

1881
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:08,439
Speaker 1: take a guy out of if you got to put

1882
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:10,320
Speaker 1: a spy on, he's not rushing the pass or he's

1883
01:39:10,360 --> 01:39:13,840
Speaker 1: kind of mirroring the quarterback, and if you put him

1884
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: into cover, you know, and if you rush him, he's

1885
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 1: rushing IF's and he's not rushing where he's not covering either.

1886
01:39:18,400 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 1: He's not doing anything. He's just standing around watching the quarterback.

1887
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:23,599
Speaker 1: And if the quarterback's gonna throw it, he's the quarterbacks

1888
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:25,679
Speaker 1: gonna throw it. If he's gonna run it, well, you'd

1889
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 1: rather have the guy up closer because if if Lamar's

1890
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 1: got enough spy, enough space for a spy to be

1891
01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: away from the pass rush kind of mirroring him. That's

1892
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 1: too much space for any normal defender in that much

1893
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:40,519
Speaker 1: space to cover it to tackle him. So I don't

1894
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 1: think spy is the way to go. I think you

1895
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:44,760
Speaker 1: got to defend Lamar with a front eight or front

1896
01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:47,200
Speaker 1: nine or front seven, and you got to keep him

1897
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 1: where he's at. If you can do that, you got

1898
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:52,760
Speaker 1: a chance. But I don't think spy. You should have

1899
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: like nine spies on Lamar. I mean right, I mean

1900
01:39:57,080 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: it's truly a group effort. It's not some thing you

1901
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 1: can assign one person. One guy is not going to

1902
01:40:02,479 --> 01:40:04,680
Speaker 1: do it as a spy. There's absolutely no way. It's

1903
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: too much field for him to exploit one person. And

1904
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:09,680
Speaker 1: they don't throw it enough to do that, because why

1905
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 1: don't you use a spy in that situation where the

1906
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:14,599
Speaker 1: quarterback drops back and you're worried about him getting out

1907
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:17,040
Speaker 1: of the pocket. He'll throw it twenty five times a game,

1908
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 1: that's it. You want Lamar to throw the ball, yeah,

1909
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 1: invite him to invite him to throw the football, and

1910
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:26,960
Speaker 1: that's a hard thing to do. Let's go back to

1911
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: the phones, we go to Dan, who's down on Long Island. Dan,

1912
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

1913
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 1: I just had a quick time and I watched the

1914
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:41,240
Speaker 1: replay yesterday of the Ravens Buffalo game, and I was

1915
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:44,120
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it live because I lived down here

1916
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:47,120
Speaker 1: and it wasn't on and so on foot looking at

1917
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:50,640
Speaker 1: how many drop passes on third down and so on

1918
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: and so forth, and with the outcome event that much

1919
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 1: different last year and with the receiving core this year,

1920
01:40:57,120 --> 01:40:59,720
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's a totally different ball game.

1921
01:40:59,800 --> 01:41:03,679
Speaker 1: And um, you know, maybe maybe maybe last year would

1922
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:06,639
Speaker 1: have been different. Yeah, i'd like to think. So you're

1923
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 1: talking about Buffalo's drop pass Yeah, in the game last year, right, Um,

1924
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:14,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't even count how many. I was, you know,

1925
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:15,920
Speaker 1: it's just on in the background, But every time I

1926
01:41:15,960 --> 01:41:17,960
Speaker 1: looked up, there was third you know, in the third down,

1927
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:22,720
Speaker 1: and we had a drop pass here, a drop pass there. Um.

1928
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: I just think you know that that's been a huge

1929
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:29,880
Speaker 1: difference right here in the Bill's offense, is you know,

1930
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 1: sure handed receivers. Yeah, and you're right, Um, that was

1931
01:41:34,240 --> 01:41:37,800
Speaker 1: my only comment. This is we've talked about it all week.

1932
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 1: This offense for Buffalo is it couldn't be more different

1933
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:45,439
Speaker 1: than it was a year ago, even if they were

1934
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:49,200
Speaker 1: running the same schemes. Um, they've got weapons on the outside,

1935
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:54,960
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs has completely changed their ability in the passing

1936
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:57,480
Speaker 1: game and their approaching the passing game and their effectiveness

1937
01:41:57,479 --> 01:42:01,839
Speaker 1: in the passing game. And that a fact, has improved

1938
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 1: John Brown's ability, improved Cole Beasley's ability, improved Devin's single,

1939
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,759
Speaker 1: Terry's ability, and forget about you know, all those guys

1940
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: being better. Josh Allen is light years from where he

1941
01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: was a year ago, so in not only in his

1942
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:20,439
Speaker 1: ability to have answers under quick pressure, but his ability

1943
01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:23,599
Speaker 1: to make plays off the page that has always been

1944
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 1: really good. Um yeah, this is a different team that

1945
01:42:27,080 --> 01:42:30,280
Speaker 1: the Ravens will be facing tomorrow than it was in

1946
01:42:30,320 --> 01:42:34,640
Speaker 1: Week fourteen. So I'm with you. This offense would have

1947
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:37,120
Speaker 1: won the game last year. But that defense was pretty

1948
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: special last year for the Bills. And that's that's the

1949
01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 1: thing that you got to get around too. This defense

1950
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:43,759
Speaker 1: has got to do some things tomorrow against the Ravens

1951
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:46,280
Speaker 1: to give the Bills, you know, a chance to win.

1952
01:42:46,320 --> 01:42:49,760
Speaker 1: That's why quantifying the value of one versus the other

1953
01:42:49,840 --> 01:42:52,559
Speaker 1: is so hard for people to assess going into this

1954
01:42:52,640 --> 01:42:55,320
Speaker 1: game in terms of trying to figure out how this

1955
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:57,599
Speaker 1: thing's gonna look and how it's gonna unfold. Of all

1956
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:00,679
Speaker 1: the surprising things that have happened this sees and there's

1957
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,680
Speaker 1: been a million of them, not only getting all the

1958
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: games in, but you know, the scheduling and all that.

1959
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:08,200
Speaker 1: But one of the most surprising things about this season

1960
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 1: has been the switch in strength between the Bills offense

1961
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: and the Bill's defense. Last year, the defense carried and

1962
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:18,960
Speaker 1: they were an elite team on top three and every

1963
01:43:18,960 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: major category. They were tough, really carried the team to

1964
01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:25,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This year, it's been the exact reverse. This

1965
01:43:25,439 --> 01:43:28,200
Speaker 1: offense has been the engine and it's been the force

1966
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:32,599
Speaker 1: that has driven this team to fourteen wins and it's

1967
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,800
Speaker 1: and the defense has turned into what we hope is

1968
01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 1: just a team that can get a tip pass interception

1969
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 1: or force fumble and maybe get them off the field

1970
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:43,720
Speaker 1: on third down. It's been that big a turnaround, and

1971
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 1: I think that's been the most surprising thing about the

1972
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:48,759
Speaker 1: entire season for this Buffalo team. Back to the phones

1973
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:51,640
Speaker 1: into Jay and Lancaster, Jay, what do you have for us?

1974
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:54,720
Speaker 1: You're all one Bills live. Yeah, Hey, Chris, I just

1975
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:56,400
Speaker 1: wanted to let you know if you let your dog out,

1976
01:43:56,439 --> 01:43:58,479
Speaker 1: I've never seen a deer attack a dog. I'm pretty

1977
01:43:58,520 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: sure you'll just have to chase the dog down the

1978
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: old for maybe two or three miles. Yeah, and my

1979
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 1: dog's old. She didn't run that far anyway, so I'm

1980
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: not really worried about her running away. Her biggest motivation

1981
01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:11,519
Speaker 1: is food, so she's not going far. Say it again

1982
01:44:11,680 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: on time for someone to actually talk about the referees

1983
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,639
Speaker 1: in New York. And as far as that play goes

1984
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:19,800
Speaker 1: last year in the end zone, it'd be like in

1985
01:44:19,840 --> 01:44:22,719
Speaker 1: the World Series, somebody hits a home or a foul

1986
01:44:22,720 --> 01:44:24,280
Speaker 1: ball with one out and the guy throws it in

1987
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:26,600
Speaker 1: the stands and then they say, oh, you know, he

1988
01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: didn't mean it. Come first in third advance and they

1989
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 1: score twenty three nothing, game over. Yeah. The reason we

1990
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,599
Speaker 1: lost that game, Yeah, it was contributing. And there's about

1991
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 1: nine other things in that game that would have helped

1992
01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 1: the Bills to a victory that didn't happen as well.

1993
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean, so it wasn't like you didn't have an

1994
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:47,080
Speaker 1: entire half of football to play still and a sixteen

1995
01:44:47,120 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 1: point lead. But yeah, that I thought it was an

1996
01:44:50,360 --> 01:44:54,920
Speaker 1: egregious error, and I thought the league was out of

1997
01:44:54,920 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: bounds and not calling it. I know it was. It

1998
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:00,680
Speaker 1: was ticky tack. I know it was like that. It

1999
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: was that it was so bad. It was such an

2000
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: egregious mistake. They almost said nine, wait a minute, waiting,

2001
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:12,360
Speaker 1: Well it was a mistake. Yeah, so yeah, all right, whatever,

2002
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody, you know they're gonna come out and

2003
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:17,720
Speaker 1: rub his tummy when when he, I mean, come on,

2004
01:45:19,920 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: is the inter rub his tummy? Oh boy, let's go

2005
01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 1: to Bob and Buffalo Bob, what do you have for us?

2006
01:45:24,280 --> 01:45:26,880
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, Chris Steve, how are

2007
01:45:26,920 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: you guys today? We're going all right good? Thanks for

2008
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:32,120
Speaker 1: having me on. Sure, um, listen, we all watched the

2009
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:34,960
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins game and we saw Antonio Williams come in Layton.

2010
01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 1: He ran fairly well and scored two touchdowns. My question

2011
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:40,800
Speaker 1: kind of is, uh, God forbid that we would have

2012
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: Moster Singletary go out on the sidelines for any any reason.

2013
01:45:44,160 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 1: But you know, nobody can help that. But what is

2014
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:49,160
Speaker 1: our depth chart for the running backs for this upcoming game. Well,

2015
01:45:49,280 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 1: you believe that Williams, uh, if he's not active, that

2016
01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:55,679
Speaker 1: he could be here. They could be he's because no question.

2017
01:45:55,680 --> 01:45:58,240
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, They'll go in with t J. Yelden,

2018
01:45:58,280 --> 01:46:00,200
Speaker 1: who the only reason t J. Yelden was and in

2019
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 1: the game was because he was on the COVID list.

2020
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 1: So there's a chance we would never have seen Antonio Williams,

2021
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:09,760
Speaker 1: and coach McDermott said yesterday that t J. Yeldon will

2022
01:46:09,800 --> 01:46:13,000
Speaker 1: basically fill the role left by Zach Moss and his

2023
01:46:13,040 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: ankle injury. Now, as Steve has mentioned before, the third

2024
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:18,800
Speaker 1: man on your depth chart at running back, if it's

2025
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: just Yelden and Singletary who are active, it's Taiwan Jones,

2026
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: who's been that way all year. Yeah, so he's like

2027
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:29,760
Speaker 1: your emergency third running back. So coach McDermot yesterday when

2028
01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:31,439
Speaker 1: he spoke to the media, did not rule out the

2029
01:46:31,479 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 1: possibility of calling Antonio Williams up from the practice squad

2030
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:39,080
Speaker 1: and potentially making him active for the game. But as

2031
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:40,960
Speaker 1: Steve and I have discussed on the show this week,

2032
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 1: if they're going to do that, it's only because they

2033
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 1: have a defined role for him on special teams and

2034
01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 1: for an undrafted rookie to be trusted on special teams

2035
01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:51,559
Speaker 1: when you have a player like Taiwan Jones who's done

2036
01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:54,760
Speaker 1: it his entire eight nine year career, I just don't

2037
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:57,280
Speaker 1: see it in the cards for Antonio Williams this week. Yeah,

2038
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:00,240
Speaker 1: it's just a crowded room and you've got to get

2039
01:47:00,280 --> 01:47:04,000
Speaker 1: production and contribution from every guy on the roster. So, um,

2040
01:47:04,400 --> 01:47:07,040
Speaker 1: if you bring Antonio Williams up, somebody's got to sit down.

2041
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:13,120
Speaker 1: And that's that's the case. Um. So you can bet

2042
01:47:13,160 --> 01:47:15,200
Speaker 1: the t J. Yelden's gonna get some run in this

2043
01:47:15,439 --> 01:47:17,720
Speaker 1: in this game, just because the way the Bills run

2044
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 1: their philosophy, they're gonna do it and keep keep uh

2045
01:47:20,880 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 1: Motor Singletary fresh as they can. Now, that doesn't mean

2046
01:47:23,439 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 1: he's gonna take one hundred percent of the snaps, but

2047
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 1: it may be that he takes eighty five percent or

2048
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:31,479
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the snaps and and TJ takes the rest.

2049
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:34,960
Speaker 1: But I think they um in a game like this, TJ.

2050
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:37,720
Speaker 1: T J. Yelden's a running back. Some people may not

2051
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:42,800
Speaker 1: realize he's pretty fast. He's a faster back than either

2052
01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:46,679
Speaker 1: Singletary or Moss uh and probably Antonio Williams as well,

2053
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: and he's bigger as well, and he's a good receiver

2054
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:51,320
Speaker 1: and he's been in the system for a while, so

2055
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:54,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of trust there. Uh. The only downside

2056
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:56,120
Speaker 1: of t J. Yeldon, which I haven't and I haven't

2057
01:47:56,120 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: seen in a while, is he has a propensity to

2058
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:02,599
Speaker 1: fumble the football once in a while. But that's not

2059
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 1: that hasn't that hasn't and it all hasn't, you know,

2060
01:48:07,920 --> 01:48:12,200
Speaker 1: been his identifying factor lately in his career. And I

2061
01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: would venture to say that you should probably expect Devin

2062
01:48:15,560 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 1: Singletary to get Devin Singletary to probably get about two

2063
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:21,400
Speaker 1: thirds to three quarters of the workload, where t J.

2064
01:48:21,560 --> 01:48:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeldon will just spell him here and there. And I

2065
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:27,800
Speaker 1: think in most past protection situations it will be Singletary

2066
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:32,439
Speaker 1: on obvious passing downs unless because he is I will

2067
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:36,639
Speaker 1: say this, Singletary is very good in past protection. Even

2068
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:40,439
Speaker 1: though he's a low, squatty guy, he's enough, he's good

2069
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:44,400
Speaker 1: enough to hold up and he's very sound in executing

2070
01:48:44,439 --> 01:48:46,840
Speaker 1: his assignment in terms of knowing who his man is.

2071
01:48:47,080 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: And I would think too, and we don't know this

2072
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:51,960
Speaker 1: at all either. Um, it may be the t j.

2073
01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:55,519
Speaker 1: Yelden gets more reps in the passing downs when he's

2074
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:57,840
Speaker 1: in protection because he's even better at it than anybody else.

2075
01:48:57,840 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: But you know, he doesn't run the ball as well

2076
01:48:59,560 --> 01:49:02,160
Speaker 1: as single harrier Moss, so he doesn't get a player

2077
01:49:02,200 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's a third running back. He may

2078
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,600
Speaker 1: have he brings some strength to the game. Yeah, and

2079
01:49:06,760 --> 01:49:10,360
Speaker 1: big guy six one two twenty three, right, So he's

2080
01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 1: he brings a little something something to the game. And

2081
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: you can bet that the Bills are going to try

2082
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 1: and maximize what t. J. Yelden's gifts are when he's

2083
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: in there. So whatever those strengths are, and we could

2084
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:24,680
Speaker 1: even tell you because we don't see him. He had

2085
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: a game was Week five against Tennessee. He had some

2086
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:30,679
Speaker 1: he had some really nice runs early in the year.

2087
01:49:30,800 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: I think it was against the Rams. He had seven

2088
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: carries for fifty two yards against the Titans and had

2089
01:49:35,120 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: a touchdown catch. So there you go. He's he's got

2090
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 1: some skills and it'll be interesting to see how the

2091
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:41,559
Speaker 1: Bills use them. But if he's in the game, you

2092
01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:44,240
Speaker 1: can bet that he will be on the menu for

2093
01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:47,280
Speaker 1: getting the ball, putting his hands from Paul on the

2094
01:49:47,320 --> 01:49:50,639
Speaker 1: obl fan mail bag tweet cheet Steve. Have you noticed

2095
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: on kickoffs that some kickers take a long run up

2096
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: to the ball while some take two steps and they're

2097
01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:59,679
Speaker 1: into the ball like a field goal. Any thoughts on that? Yeah,

2098
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Speaker 1: I've I've noticed that as well, and it doesn't always

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Speaker 1: mean it does mean this. They're probably gonna count on

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Speaker 1: the other team to return the ball. But it also

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Speaker 1: means too that when they take their field goal approach.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I've noticed, and I don't know, maybe they different

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Speaker 1: teams do it for different reasons, but without a hard

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Speaker 1: run up, unless the guy's pretty special or the conditions

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Speaker 1: are such with the wind that they can kick it

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Speaker 1: into the end zone, they're not going to kick it

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Speaker 1: into the end zone. They're looking to pop it up

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Speaker 1: because they believe their coverage team is good enough to

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Speaker 1: stop them. Short of the twenty five? Is that it?

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Speaker 1: That's right. They're trying to put this ball and one

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Speaker 1: if you can kick it like a field goal down

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Speaker 1: the middle, where you put your middle on the numbers

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Speaker 1: or just outside the numbers and put it five yards deep,

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Speaker 1: that gives you a chance to get down there and

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Speaker 1: him and the guy in short of the twenty five

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Speaker 1: and gain some field position. I've seen a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams do that, So that's what you're right. They're kicking

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Speaker 1: a different type of kickoff when the guy takes a

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Speaker 1: short kickoff. Now what he's doing could be one a

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Speaker 1: number of different things, a directional or a squib or

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01:50:56,360 --> 01:51:00,040
Speaker 1: a surprise on side even but yes, it does a

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Speaker 1: good difference in their run up, and the team that's

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Speaker 1: on the return side of things definitely takes note of it.

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Speaker 1: Be ken to, they have a plan in case he

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Speaker 1: does any of those things. From Nick with respect to

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Speaker 1: this game, is it advantageous to rewatch the Chiefs Ravens

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Speaker 1: game and try to mimic what the Chiefs had done

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Speaker 1: in their game? That's why I watched this morning, Nick,

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Speaker 1: go man. Both the Bills and the Chiefs run similar

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Speaker 1: offensive styles. What do you say to that one, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'd be in favor of that. Yes, go back and

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Speaker 1: watch the Chiefs against the Ravens in Week three, and

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Speaker 1: we should mention that Brian Dayball, along with a host

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Speaker 1: of other offensive coordinators in this league, we'll look at

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Speaker 1: other games to get some ideas. I mean, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: put it past Brian Dabele for a second to borrow

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Speaker 1: some things from other teams that had success against the

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Speaker 1: Ravens and just incorporated into the game plan this week.

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Speaker 1: Whether they had never ran the play in training camp

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Speaker 1: or week one, two, three, four, five, six, or seven,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't care. If it's gonna work and he thinks

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Speaker 1: his team is capable of executing it. They're sticking it

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Speaker 1: in practice this week, and if it looks good, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna run it. Yeah. Absolutely, and there's no reason not

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Speaker 1: to if it and every offensive coordinator does that. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't just take the x's nose and stick him

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Speaker 1: on a piece of paper and put it in his playbook,

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Speaker 1: he will at least be inspired by it and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: we can do that. In variation. We're gonna flip it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna use our tight end in the spot where

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Speaker 1: they had their wide receiver and put our wide receiver

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Speaker 1: where you know that kind of stuff. So all of

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Speaker 1: that stuff is on the table, and yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 1: And we talked to Greg Cosell a little bit ago.

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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, that's that's a good comparison. The Bills

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01:52:31,800 --> 01:52:34,360
Speaker 1: are offense is built a little bit like the Kansas

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01:52:34,400 --> 01:52:38,200
Speaker 1: City Chiefs with it centers around their quarterback and some

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01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:41,720
Speaker 1: speed weapons on the outside and everybody's ability to go

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Speaker 1: off the page together and make big plays out of

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Speaker 1: that thing. And that's what the Chiefs do. I would

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Speaker 1: say the Chiefs running game at this point is probably

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Speaker 1: a little better than the Buffalo Bills are at least

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Speaker 1: more consistent. But other than that, it's a blueprint that

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Speaker 1: the Bills followed and it you know, that's why I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean this game notwithstanding tomorrow. I mean, we felt

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Speaker 1: like this is a Bill's team that's been on a

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Speaker 1: collision course with the Chiefs for a long time and

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Speaker 1: we'll see if if they're good enough to get there.

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Speaker 1: From Kevin during these head coaching interview requests for our

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Speaker 1: OC and DC, do you think there is any consideration

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Speaker 1: for a raise and potential assistant head coach title with

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Speaker 1: Buffalo to retain these guys, Well, they already did that

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Speaker 1: with Leslie Frasier. He already is the assistant head coach

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Speaker 1: and defensive coordinator. Now, Sean McDermott didn't do that to

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Speaker 1: retain him. He actually did that to raise Leslie Frasier's

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Speaker 1: profile in an effort to get him more head coaching consideration.

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Speaker 1: So his aim in giving him that additional title was

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Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what you thought it might do,

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Speaker 1: Kevin in terms of keeping him here. What it means

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01:53:42,760 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: as well is that when you get the assistant head

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01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 1: coach til this is a different for everybody. The agreement

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Speaker 1: kind of goes like the general thought process goes like this.

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Speaker 1: When you get to be at an assistant head coach,

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Speaker 1: that means you're privy to the conversations that ownership has

2185
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Speaker 1: with a head coach, how the head coach handles the ownership.

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01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:05,200
Speaker 1: You're in with the personnel decisions with the general manager

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01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 1: and head coach. You're in the loop with the tippy

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01:54:08,200 --> 01:54:12,519
Speaker 1: top of the organization, and you have a voice, and

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01:54:12,640 --> 01:54:16,679
Speaker 1: that's big, and that's you get a chance to interact

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Speaker 1: with the owner. And you can bet too that when

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Speaker 1: Brian Dabole goes to Houston or the Chargers or wherever

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Speaker 1: else he goes Detroit to do an head coaching interview,

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01:54:29,080 --> 01:54:32,040
Speaker 1: there's nothing that says that the ownership group doesn't pick

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01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,160
Speaker 1: up the phone call Terry Paula, say what about this guy?

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01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:40,160
Speaker 1: You know, what's your relationship? Like that's not out of

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Speaker 1: the realm of possibility. So being up that high and

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Speaker 1: having interaction with the owner gives him more of a

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Speaker 1: base to say, yeah, you know what's he's got it,

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Speaker 1: you know. So that's what being an assistant head coach means.

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Speaker 1: It means you're at another level with personnel decisions, roster decisions,

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Speaker 1: scouting decisions, game plan schedule, all of those things you're

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Speaker 1: exposed to as an assistant head coach that other guys

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01:55:03,640 --> 01:55:05,080
Speaker 1: on the staff you just don't have time to do.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's all the time we have for this segment,

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Speaker 1: But when we come back, it'll be time for this

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Speaker 1: week's edition of the Team Reporters. Our colleague Maddie Glab

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Speaker 1: will be joined by Cassie Calvert from Baltimore Ravens dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Be back with that when we return here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio

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Speaker 1: time Now for this week's Team Reporters segment, where our

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Speaker 1: very own Maddie Glab caught up with Ravens host and

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Speaker 1: reporter Cassie Calvert. Kathy, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: on here today and helping break down this matchup between

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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Ravens. A very interesting matchup. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we saw each other last season. It didn't go in

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01:55:59,280 --> 01:56:03,080
Speaker 1: the Bill's face. It was a unique game for both teams.

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Speaker 1: I was looking back at the stats and both teams

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01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:09,560
Speaker 1: converted under thirty percent of their third downs. The total

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Speaker 1: yardage in that game was like four hundred and sixty

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01:56:12,280 --> 01:56:15,680
Speaker 1: six total yards for both teams combined. So we didn't

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Speaker 1: see either team move the ball that much. And I

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Speaker 1: look at these teams now and their offenses look different.

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01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see who moves the ball

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01:56:25,440 --> 01:56:27,920
Speaker 1: more if both teams are able to move the ball

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01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:31,880
Speaker 1: more against two talented defenses here in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, the Ravens they have the best

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Speaker 1: rushing offense in the NFL. Duh, pretty much anybody could

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Speaker 1: say that. But the second best scoring defense in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: which has carried over from last season the stout defense

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens had. But you guys have finished the

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01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: regular season riding a hot streak much like the Buffalo Bills.

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01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: You have a six game win streak going on. So

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Speaker 1: how has this team been able to finish the regular

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01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:02,160
Speaker 1: season and into the play off so hot? Yeah? And

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Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned that matchup from last year,

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Speaker 1: because the Ravens talked this week about how the Bills

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01:57:06,880 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 1: defense was the hardest thing that they saw all last season,

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01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: and it was a season where they played some tough opponents.

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Speaker 1: So you're looking at the Chiefs game things like that,

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Speaker 1: and they really nailed that Bills game. But yeah, looking

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Speaker 1: at this year, like you mentioned, kind of turned around

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01:57:20,720 --> 01:57:23,840
Speaker 1: mid season for the Ravens. They started off pretty hot,

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01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:25,600
Speaker 1: hit a little bit of a rough packs there, and

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01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:27,760
Speaker 1: that's kind of when you saw a lot of the

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01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:29,960
Speaker 1: COVID stuff flare up for the Ravens. They missed a

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01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:32,640
Speaker 1: lot of players, lost a few games there down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: But when Lamar Jackson came back from his COVID absence,

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01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:39,800
Speaker 1: he's just really struck a nerve. Ever since he got back,

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Speaker 1: he's been on a hot streak. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of the players have talked about how he's just come

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Speaker 1: back with like a joy. You know, he's been rejuvenated

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Speaker 1: down the stretch here. Just you know, it's one of

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01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:52,040
Speaker 1: those things that when you have something and you can't

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01:57:52,080 --> 01:57:54,200
Speaker 1: have it, you know, you really realize how much you

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Speaker 1: love it when you can't have it. And that's definitely

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Speaker 1: been the case the Ravens as they all kind of

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Speaker 1: came back from their COVID app sences, and like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the run game has just been a huge part of

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Speaker 1: that down the stretch. There was a little bit of

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Speaker 1: figuring out the offensive line early. Ronnie Stanley, who's just

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Speaker 1: been a stalwart on this Ravens offensive line, went down

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and so there's kind of been

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01:58:13,560 --> 01:58:16,080
Speaker 1: a little bit patchwork as the season goes on, shuffling

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Speaker 1: guys in and out. There's been some snapping issues with

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Speaker 1: the centers, so figuring out the offensive line was kind

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Speaker 1: of key. It's still a little bit of a rotation there,

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01:58:24,480 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 1: so you'll see a few guys shuffle in that last spot.

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Speaker 1: But the offensive line has really come on strong down

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Speaker 1: the stretch, and that's just really attributed to this huge

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Speaker 1: run game that we see from the Ravens these past

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Speaker 1: two seasons. It was a franchise record in the last

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Speaker 1: regular season game with four hundred and four rushing yards,

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Speaker 1: and overall the entire season they finished only second in

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Speaker 1: franchise history just to last year. You know, this run

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01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 1: game has just been really really dominant, and it's something

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Speaker 1: that when you have a backfield that has Lamar jacks

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Speaker 1: and Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins, who all finished the

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Speaker 1: season over seven hundred yards, only the third team in

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Speaker 1: NFL history to do that. It's definitely things special to behold. Yeah,

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01:59:02,440 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 1: the Ravens are one of few, if not the only

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01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:09,960
Speaker 1: team in the NFL who's really not gone towards the

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01:59:10,000 --> 01:59:14,120
Speaker 1: passing way of the NFL and have said, look, we

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01:59:14,240 --> 01:59:16,480
Speaker 1: have a quarterback here in Lamar Jackson who knows how

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Speaker 1: to run the ball. We're going to build it around him,

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01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:21,120
Speaker 1: and we're going to also put some awesome runners next

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01:59:21,160 --> 01:59:24,600
Speaker 1: to him to compliment that he to compliment the way

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Speaker 1: that he's able to run the ball. But compared to

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Speaker 1: last season, how do you think this team has changed

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01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 1: from last season? This season? I mean JK. Dobbins, of

2290
01:59:33,640 --> 01:59:37,080
Speaker 1: course is an addition. You lose a tight end. The

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01:59:37,080 --> 01:59:40,160
Speaker 1: tight end isn't as used as much as it was,

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01:59:40,200 --> 01:59:42,680
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the frequency and number of tight

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01:59:42,800 --> 01:59:46,040
Speaker 1: ends in the offense this season, and you look at

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01:59:46,080 --> 01:59:49,840
Speaker 1: your defense and you guys added some good players up

2295
01:59:49,880 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: front on defensive end, much like the Buffalo Bills have.

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01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:56,080
Speaker 1: So how do you compared the last season to this

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01:59:56,120 --> 02:00:00,440
Speaker 1: season and how this team has been able to change. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: our offensive coordinator Greg Roman talked about that this week,

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Speaker 1: and you do have a lot of the same key

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Speaker 1: pieces there and offense, like you mentioned, they did lose

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Speaker 1: Nick Boyle at tight end and he's a huge part

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Speaker 1: of the blocking game as well, so that's been a

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Speaker 1: bit of adjustment. Fullback Patrick Card has filled in pretty

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Speaker 1: nicely there. He's picked up a lot of Nick Boyle's load.

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Speaker 1: But Greg Roman just talked about this week, this team

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Speaker 1: is just kind of matured, you know, and you last

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02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:24,960
Speaker 1: season there was really a boat race where they were

2308
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,160
Speaker 1: just blowing teams out of the water week and week out,

2309
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:29,200
Speaker 1: and there wasn't a lot of adversity down the stretch

2310
02:00:29,280 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 1: finish this season fourteen and two going into the playoffs,

2311
02:00:32,120 --> 02:00:34,920
Speaker 1: and like maybe besides the Bills game, not a ton

2312
02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:38,120
Speaker 1: of challenges there, especially towards the latter half of that season,

2313
02:00:38,160 --> 02:00:40,760
Speaker 1: and so you hit some adversity when he hit the playoffs,

2314
02:00:40,800 --> 02:00:42,720
Speaker 1: and he just kind of felt the team wasn't really

2315
02:00:42,760 --> 02:00:45,320
Speaker 1: ready to handle that yet. But this year they are,

2316
02:00:45,440 --> 02:00:47,960
Speaker 1: like we talked about before, just going through all of

2317
02:00:47,960 --> 02:00:50,160
Speaker 1: the absences of COVID, the Ravens had one of the

2318
02:00:50,160 --> 02:00:52,880
Speaker 1: worst outbreaks and having to deal with having so many

2319
02:00:52,920 --> 02:00:56,240
Speaker 1: missing pieces, you know, just the maturity of having guys

2320
02:00:56,280 --> 02:00:59,920
Speaker 1: having experienced the playoff atmosphere before. It's a really young team,

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02:01:00,160 --> 02:01:02,760
Speaker 1: especially on offense. You have such a young quarterback like

2322
02:01:02,880 --> 02:01:05,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and so when you don't have that playoff experience,

2323
02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:08,200
Speaker 1: it's obviously an adjustment and just being able to kind

2324
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:10,600
Speaker 1: of battle through those things. You know, it's inevitable and

2325
02:01:10,680 --> 02:01:13,120
Speaker 1: a football season, he talked about that, like a few

2326
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:15,240
Speaker 1: things aren't going to go your way. So what happens

2327
02:01:15,240 --> 02:01:18,000
Speaker 1: when that does happen and how do you respond to that?

2328
02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:20,640
Speaker 1: And that's just something that this team is more capable

2329
02:01:20,680 --> 02:01:23,280
Speaker 1: of doing. We've seen them last week playing the Titans,

2330
02:01:23,280 --> 02:01:25,640
Speaker 1: coming back from ten points down, and you know, in

2331
02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:27,839
Speaker 1: the past, it was always this narrative of Lamar Jackson

2332
02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:31,040
Speaker 1: can't come back from a sit and he's proven that wrong,

2333
02:01:31,080 --> 02:01:32,640
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that took a year under

2334
02:01:32,680 --> 02:01:35,240
Speaker 1: his belt, you know, getting some of that experience, figuring

2335
02:01:35,280 --> 02:01:38,480
Speaker 1: out how to make those game time adjustments, and like

2336
02:01:38,560 --> 02:01:42,280
Speaker 1: you mentioned, some defensive adjustments as well. The offseason the

2337
02:01:42,360 --> 02:01:45,000
Speaker 1: Ravens saw last year. You know what Derrick Henry was

2338
02:01:45,040 --> 02:01:46,760
Speaker 1: able to do to them in the playoffs, and part

2339
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:49,400
Speaker 1: of the offseason moves were to come back that, you know,

2340
02:01:49,440 --> 02:01:51,280
Speaker 1: and it's funny that they did end up seeing him

2341
02:01:51,280 --> 02:01:53,640
Speaker 1: again in the playoffs, and this year you add clay

2342
02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:56,320
Speaker 1: As Campbell and Derek Wolf and they're able to stop him.

2343
02:01:56,320 --> 02:01:59,720
Speaker 1: They held him to his lowest run total of the season,

2344
02:02:00,120 --> 02:02:03,360
Speaker 1: just forty rushing yards. So they really made those moves

2345
02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:06,120
Speaker 1: in the offseason to prepare for what their deficits were

2346
02:02:06,240 --> 02:02:09,400
Speaker 1: last year, and we've seen that really payoff down the stretch. Yeah,

2347
02:02:09,440 --> 02:02:12,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have definitely done that as well. They

2348
02:02:12,120 --> 02:02:16,000
Speaker 1: wanted to increase their point total and give josh Allen

2349
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:18,720
Speaker 1: Moore guys who could catch passes from him, and we

2350
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:21,200
Speaker 1: saw that with the addition of Stefan Days. They go

2351
02:02:21,240 --> 02:02:23,880
Speaker 1: and draft a wide receiver like Gabriel Davis and they

2352
02:02:23,960 --> 02:02:27,160
Speaker 1: increase their points per game average by eleven point seven,

2353
02:02:27,200 --> 02:02:29,879
Speaker 1: which is more than any other team in the NFL.

2354
02:02:29,960 --> 02:02:32,200
Speaker 1: So it's really been incredible to watch the Bills get

2355
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:35,400
Speaker 1: better in that facet. But when you look at Lamar

2356
02:02:35,480 --> 02:02:39,120
Speaker 1: Jackson and how he's grown from last season and since

2357
02:02:39,120 --> 02:02:41,840
Speaker 1: he's gotten into the NFL, I mean, josh Allen Lamar

2358
02:02:41,920 --> 02:02:44,680
Speaker 1: Jackson coming into the league at the same time. These

2359
02:02:44,680 --> 02:02:47,280
Speaker 1: are two quarterbacks who had a lot of doubts about

2360
02:02:47,400 --> 02:02:51,240
Speaker 1: them and who their teams were looked at when they

2361
02:02:51,320 --> 02:02:55,440
Speaker 1: drafted these quarterbacks. As is this going to pan out

2362
02:02:55,480 --> 02:02:59,200
Speaker 1: for this team? You just spent a high, high draft

2363
02:02:59,240 --> 02:03:02,800
Speaker 1: pick and you're riding the franchise on this quarterback. And

2364
02:03:02,840 --> 02:03:05,800
Speaker 1: we've seen how it's paid off for both teams, and

2365
02:03:06,200 --> 02:03:09,240
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson can finally say he's won a playoff game.

2366
02:03:09,320 --> 02:03:12,520
Speaker 1: That narrative has been burned and put down to the

2367
02:03:12,560 --> 02:03:16,680
Speaker 1: ground for him, thankfully being able to beat the Titans

2368
02:03:16,760 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: as we saw last week and do it with his

2369
02:03:19,080 --> 02:03:22,040
Speaker 1: legs and rush for over one hundred rushing yards. But

2370
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:24,920
Speaker 1: when you look at his game, how has he grown

2371
02:03:25,120 --> 02:03:28,480
Speaker 1: in his game this season? Yeah? I think the two

2372
02:03:28,520 --> 02:03:30,440
Speaker 1: of them are really just going to be fun to watch,

2373
02:03:30,480 --> 02:03:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, this AFC going forward having such two I mean, really,

2374
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:36,120
Speaker 1: you look at all the ANC teams in the playoffs,

2375
02:03:36,120 --> 02:03:39,080
Speaker 1: all these young quarterbacks. I'm really excited to get to

2376
02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:40,840
Speaker 1: watch them for years to come. I think it's going

2377
02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:42,240
Speaker 1: to be a lot of fun and I feel like

2378
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:44,920
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the first you know, big chapter

2379
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:47,360
Speaker 1: of that journey. But yeah, we talked about it a

2380
02:03:47,440 --> 02:03:50,280
Speaker 1: little bit before, Like coming back from COVID, Lamar has

2381
02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:52,440
Speaker 1: just really flipped a switch. You know. It's kind of

2382
02:03:52,440 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, like he's just been more relaxed, more

2383
02:03:55,840 --> 02:03:58,720
Speaker 1: aggressive and being willing to you know, like not feel

2384
02:03:58,720 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: like he needs to force things aren't there. I think

2385
02:04:01,320 --> 02:04:03,440
Speaker 1: part of it is wanting to prove that he does

2386
02:04:03,520 --> 02:04:05,600
Speaker 1: have the arm, you know, and make those connect on

2387
02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:08,320
Speaker 1: those deep balls. But what makes him so special is

2388
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: his ability to do so much. And I think that

2389
02:04:10,440 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 1: now that he's come back, he's just really you know,

2390
02:04:12,720 --> 02:04:16,200
Speaker 1: gotten back into having fun out there, relaxing, being dialed

2391
02:04:16,240 --> 02:04:18,240
Speaker 1: in a Teammates have talked about it a lot. It's

2392
02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:21,680
Speaker 1: just in a different energy. He's always a fun, energetic guy, fun,

2393
02:04:21,760 --> 02:04:24,360
Speaker 1: great to be around, but just coming back, it's really

2394
02:04:24,360 --> 02:04:27,000
Speaker 1: been on another level for him. And he talks about

2395
02:04:27,040 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 1: this week too, like he was just more conservative at

2396
02:04:29,640 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, just kind of figuring things out,

2397
02:04:32,560 --> 02:04:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, when his first raad's not there, second read

2398
02:04:34,680 --> 02:04:37,240
Speaker 1: isn't there. Now he's taking advantage of what defenses are

2399
02:04:37,320 --> 02:04:39,200
Speaker 1: giving him. And you saw that in the Titans game.

2400
02:04:39,320 --> 02:04:41,440
Speaker 1: Greg Roman talked about how they had seen some of

2401
02:04:41,440 --> 02:04:44,480
Speaker 1: those coverages before and how if they saw certain things,

2402
02:04:44,480 --> 02:04:46,360
Speaker 1: they wanted Lamar to just take off and do what

2403
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:48,640
Speaker 1: he does. And like we saw that on that incredible

2404
02:04:48,680 --> 02:04:51,400
Speaker 1: touchdown run he had last week, so and just like

2405
02:04:51,520 --> 02:04:53,960
Speaker 1: over the last five games the regular season once he

2406
02:04:54,040 --> 02:04:57,360
Speaker 1: did come back the NFL best QBR and rushing for

2407
02:04:57,360 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty yards to the last five games incredible.

2408
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:02,560
Speaker 1: I mean, when he's in his zone, he's such a

2409
02:05:02,600 --> 02:05:05,520
Speaker 1: special player to watch, and like you said, I think

2410
02:05:05,640 --> 02:05:08,720
Speaker 1: he really does enjoy kind of proving the haters wrong.

2411
02:05:08,840 --> 02:05:10,400
Speaker 1: You know, it was a big thing for him to

2412
02:05:10,440 --> 02:05:13,600
Speaker 1: get that playoff win, and he's someone that's definitely fueled

2413
02:05:13,600 --> 02:05:15,920
Speaker 1: by that. But at the same time, you know he

2414
02:05:15,960 --> 02:05:18,000
Speaker 1: has bigger goals. You know, he's always talks about the

2415
02:05:18,040 --> 02:05:20,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl is the end goal and nothing means anything

2416
02:05:20,600 --> 02:05:22,120
Speaker 1: if you don't win in and so I think he's

2417
02:05:22,120 --> 02:05:24,160
Speaker 1: just really keyed in on that. Now. He's not letting

2418
02:05:24,200 --> 02:05:26,880
Speaker 1: that one playoff victory he go to his head. You know,

2419
02:05:26,960 --> 02:05:30,400
Speaker 1: there's definitely loftier goals in mind for him for sure,

2420
02:05:30,640 --> 02:05:33,360
Speaker 1: And I know Lamar said he doesn't want to see snow.

2421
02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:36,360
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to play in snow, but snow shouldn't

2422
02:05:36,400 --> 02:05:40,320
Speaker 1: bother him. The wind shouldn't bother him because he's got

2423
02:05:40,360 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 1: the tools that you need if you're going to play

2424
02:05:42,720 --> 02:05:46,280
Speaker 1: in a cold weather, win the game like there might

2425
02:05:46,320 --> 02:05:49,480
Speaker 1: be in Buffalo on Saturday night. So it'll be a

2426
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:54,440
Speaker 1: great matchup, two good teams, two great teams from last season.

2427
02:05:54,960 --> 02:05:57,600
Speaker 1: It'll be really awesome to see how it all plays

2428
02:05:57,680 --> 02:06:01,240
Speaker 1: out for both of them. Personally, I'm hoping for no snow,

2429
02:06:01,360 --> 02:06:04,720
Speaker 1: but the team will be prepared. Just selfishly, I would

2430
02:06:04,760 --> 02:06:08,120
Speaker 1: prefer their sto. You'll be nice and warm in the

2431
02:06:08,200 --> 02:06:12,080
Speaker 1: press box, so let's hope. So all right, thanks so much.

2432
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Speaker 1: All right, that's our own Maddie Glab with Cassie Calvert,

2433
02:06:18,240 --> 02:06:22,600
Speaker 1: the Ravens host and reporter down there in Baltimore. Chris Brown,

2434
02:06:22,640 --> 02:06:25,680
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, closing things up on the tweet

2435
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:29,360
Speaker 1: sheet in the obl fan mail bag. And next one

2436
02:06:29,480 --> 02:06:32,320
Speaker 1: is from Patrick who says, can we get off the field?

2437
02:06:32,360 --> 02:06:36,040
Speaker 1: So the Ravens don't control time and possession and field position,

2438
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 1: that's the only way they hold down number seventeen and

2439
02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:44,000
Speaker 1: the offense as I see it, the Ravens have been

2440
02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:46,960
Speaker 1: hot on third down. Steve sixty percent conversion I think

2441
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:49,720
Speaker 1: in their last three games. I believe it is something

2442
02:06:49,760 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: like that. So they've been very good at converting on

2443
02:06:51,920 --> 02:06:53,920
Speaker 1: third down of late. As we know, the Bills finished

2444
02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:56,480
Speaker 1: first in the league and third down conversion percentage themselves.

2445
02:06:57,000 --> 02:06:58,960
Speaker 1: But the Bill's defense in terms of getting off the

2446
02:06:58,960 --> 02:07:01,040
Speaker 1: field on third down last week, it was a chore.

2447
02:07:01,520 --> 02:07:04,800
Speaker 1: It was a chore. Absolutely. The Colts were nine of thirteen,

2448
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:07,280
Speaker 1: I want to say, or nine of the fourteen. The

2449
02:07:07,280 --> 02:07:11,600
Speaker 1: Colts throw it better than the Ravens do, though, we'll see.

2450
02:07:11,640 --> 02:07:13,680
Speaker 1: I think when you get if you can get the

2451
02:07:14,320 --> 02:07:20,560
Speaker 1: Ravens into third and five plus or third and three plus,

2452
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:24,080
Speaker 1: you've got a better chance. Obviously, Yeah, third and two,

2453
02:07:24,120 --> 02:07:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard. They just lean on you and

2454
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:27,480
Speaker 1: fall forward for the first down. I mean they just

2455
02:07:27,480 --> 02:07:30,080
Speaker 1: power you through. I mean, that's what I think I've said.

2456
02:07:30,080 --> 02:07:31,840
Speaker 1: I say it every week. First and second down have

2457
02:07:31,880 --> 02:07:34,040
Speaker 1: as much to do with your third cut down conversion

2458
02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:36,720
Speaker 1: as the actual down. So if you can give yourself,

2459
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:39,440
Speaker 1: you set yourself up for a success, you're better off.

2460
02:07:39,440 --> 02:07:43,840
Speaker 1: Now the Bills, on the other hand, for our team,

2461
02:07:44,080 --> 02:07:46,080
Speaker 1: it don't for me, it doesn't matter if it's third

2462
02:07:46,080 --> 02:07:48,600
Speaker 1: and eight or third and third and one or third

2463
02:07:48,640 --> 02:07:52,160
Speaker 1: and twelve. They feel like they're gonna pick it up. Yeah,

2464
02:07:52,680 --> 02:07:54,800
Speaker 1: because they get deep in a hurry and they can

2465
02:07:54,840 --> 02:07:57,720
Speaker 1: they can find dead spots. So I'm the Bills are

2466
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:01,120
Speaker 1: are tough out on third down as well. From Nick,

2467
02:08:01,240 --> 02:08:04,240
Speaker 1: it's been said that Josh plays better versus man defense

2468
02:08:04,280 --> 02:08:06,160
Speaker 1: than he does versus own. Is that true of all

2469
02:08:06,240 --> 02:08:08,880
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or is there something specific about Josh that makes

2470
02:08:08,920 --> 02:08:13,320
Speaker 1: him better against man? Yeah, it's it's his receiving corps,

2471
02:08:12,120 --> 02:08:16,280
Speaker 1: Steph Digs and Cole Beasley and John Brown. They love

2472
02:08:17,440 --> 02:08:19,720
Speaker 1: one of those three guys is coming loose and H

2473
02:08:19,880 --> 02:08:23,680
Speaker 1: and Josh's finding him. So yeah, that it's a it's

2474
02:08:23,720 --> 02:08:26,440
Speaker 1: a team effort being that good against man, and you

2475
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:28,720
Speaker 1: gotta have guys to give you a window to throw into,

2476
02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:31,280
Speaker 1: and Josh has got some really good ones with these guys.

2477
02:08:31,280 --> 02:08:34,680
Speaker 1: A perfect example of that is, you know how many

2478
02:08:34,800 --> 02:08:39,000
Speaker 1: years Bill's quarterbacks struggled against man coverage because they didn't

2479
02:08:39,040 --> 02:08:42,480
Speaker 1: have the receivers who could get consistent separation against it.

2480
02:08:42,760 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, why can't this quarterback beat more

2481
02:08:44,880 --> 02:08:47,280
Speaker 1: defense as well? You gotta have the guys that can

2482
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:50,000
Speaker 1: beat coverage, you can deliver the football. You're dependent on

2483
02:08:50,040 --> 02:08:53,560
Speaker 1: those guys, and that's why Josh has had as prolific

2484
02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 1: a season as he's had, because he's got guys that

2485
02:08:56,240 --> 02:08:59,920
Speaker 1: consistently get open whom he trusts. From Ghost of West

2486
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: New York. With Yelden set to share snaps at running

2487
02:09:03,160 --> 02:09:05,600
Speaker 1: back as anybody else hoping, ball security was a major

2488
02:09:05,640 --> 02:09:09,280
Speaker 1: priority at practice this week. I know Buffalo leads and interceptions,

2489
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:12,200
Speaker 1: but the Ravens dbs are relentless and successful at taking

2490
02:09:12,240 --> 02:09:15,880
Speaker 1: the ball away via punch strip combinations. You're right, they

2491
02:09:15,920 --> 02:09:18,320
Speaker 1: do punch a lot of balls out. They've recovered less

2492
02:09:18,320 --> 02:09:21,400
Speaker 1: than half of their forced fumbles this season twelve out

2493
02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:23,760
Speaker 1: of twenty six. I want to say it is, but

2494
02:09:23,800 --> 02:09:26,000
Speaker 1: they do punch the ball out a lot. And as

2495
02:09:26,080 --> 02:09:28,280
Speaker 1: I said earlier, I'm of the belief that it'll be

2496
02:09:28,320 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 1: more two third Singletary, one third Yelden. At the most,

2497
02:09:32,800 --> 02:09:36,480
Speaker 1: it might even be three quarters Singletary one quarter Yelden,

2498
02:09:38,080 --> 02:09:41,040
Speaker 1: because as we've mentioned, Yelden hasn't played since Week five.

2499
02:09:41,920 --> 02:09:44,240
Speaker 1: To jump back into the fray in a playoff setting,

2500
02:09:44,640 --> 02:09:46,560
Speaker 1: even for a veteran player, can be a little bit

2501
02:09:46,560 --> 02:09:48,600
Speaker 1: of a shock, So I think they eased him in

2502
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:51,560
Speaker 1: with a lighter workload than even Zach Moss had in

2503
02:09:51,600 --> 02:09:57,120
Speaker 1: recent weeks. Right, yeah, Dj Yelden, I'd be surprised if

2504
02:09:57,160 --> 02:10:01,240
Speaker 1: he's a huge factor, although he could be. I think

2505
02:10:01,240 --> 02:10:03,720
Speaker 1: it's Zach Moss. I think it's uh, Devin Singletary and

2506
02:10:03,760 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 1: everybody else. Um, yeah, I don't think the Bills. I

2507
02:10:08,480 --> 02:10:10,800
Speaker 1: think the Bills are gonna be who they've been. Yeah,

2508
02:10:10,840 --> 02:10:12,800
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I think they're gonna be

2509
02:10:12,840 --> 02:10:15,760
Speaker 1: who they have been, and they're gonna take their chances

2510
02:10:15,800 --> 02:10:19,160
Speaker 1: with with those guys. Last one here from Joe. I've

2511
02:10:19,160 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 1: always been curious did Steve have any pregame superstitions and

2512
02:10:22,720 --> 02:10:24,560
Speaker 1: if he didn't, did a teammate have one that you

2513
02:10:24,640 --> 02:10:28,520
Speaker 1: thought was weird? I didn't have. In fact, I was

2514
02:10:28,560 --> 02:10:30,360
Speaker 1: thought there's gotta be a weird one in there, though,

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Speaker 1: oh you know there's more than one. The most superstitious

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Speaker 1: guy on the team was Jim Kelly. Yeah, we know

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02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:40,760
Speaker 1: that one. And he's he was off as rocker and

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Speaker 1: he had and to be you know, to his credit

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Speaker 1: and this is you know, that's why he was a

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Speaker 1: good leader. He involved everybody in his superstitions, right, so

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Speaker 1: they were all you know, so he had you know

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Speaker 1: Frank Me, I think Adam Lingner, the long snapper, he

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Speaker 1: had one with you know, all this you know, this

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Speaker 1: weird stuff. A start it on Friday afternoon and went

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Speaker 1: all the way through Sunday at one. So yeah, me,

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Speaker 1: I was I, oh, yeah, yeah, the milkshake thing with Frank, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was only that was a tip of the ice.

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Speaker 1: But then he had the puking in the locker room

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Speaker 1: before the game, and that wasn't really that really wasn't

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Speaker 1: a superstition. That was more of a nervous energy. Yeah,

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02:11:19,240 --> 02:11:22,400
Speaker 1: that was more of a physical reaction. But yeah, Jim

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02:11:22,440 --> 02:11:24,920
Speaker 1: was very superstition. I made it a point to myself

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Speaker 1: if I started thinking I was had a superstition, and

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02:11:27,480 --> 02:11:30,920
Speaker 1: I would change it up because I didn't want that.

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02:11:31,160 --> 02:11:35,200
Speaker 1: You didn't want to be lassoed to it. Whichever ankle

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02:11:35,240 --> 02:11:37,280
Speaker 1: I taped first was not the reason I was going

2537
02:11:37,320 --> 02:11:39,760
Speaker 1: to play well or not. Whichever T shirt I had on,

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02:11:39,760 --> 02:11:41,560
Speaker 1: whichever that none of that had, he can do it.

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02:11:41,640 --> 02:11:43,720
Speaker 1: Let me just go play. Yeah. I didn't want to

2540
02:11:43,720 --> 02:11:45,520
Speaker 1: think about anything other than what I was thinking about.

2541
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:47,880
Speaker 1: So if I started thinking like I was gonna and

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02:11:47,920 --> 02:11:49,800
Speaker 1: if I did something the same every week, it was

2543
02:11:49,840 --> 02:11:51,920
Speaker 1: because it made me. It was just comfortable doing it,

2544
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:54,320
Speaker 1: because it made sense with my day, and that's what

2545
02:11:54,400 --> 02:11:56,960
Speaker 1: I told myself. Meanwhile, we got fans that haven't washed

2546
02:11:56,960 --> 02:11:59,200
Speaker 1: their clothes in seven weeks here based on this Bill's

2547
02:11:59,200 --> 02:12:02,200
Speaker 1: winning streak. Right now, it might be some rank people

2548
02:12:02,240 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 1: out there watching this game smelling pretty ripe. You might

2549
02:12:06,560 --> 02:12:09,880
Speaker 1: get social distancing without even trying clothes. Maybe did body

2550
02:12:09,880 --> 02:12:13,560
Speaker 1: odor know washer washer clothes? Break? Time for us back

2551
02:12:13,560 --> 02:12:15,200
Speaker 1: to close it up for the week and get ready

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Speaker 1: for this one one. Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health.

2553
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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. So I'm for what have we

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Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Presented by Skyworks, the official construction

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Speaker 1: I've learned through the course of this week. The more

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Speaker 1: I try to study the matchup, the better I feel

2558
02:12:44,760 --> 02:12:47,760
Speaker 1: about it. I don't know what it is, but I

2559
02:12:47,840 --> 02:12:49,400
Speaker 1: seem to believe this is going to be a high

2560
02:12:49,480 --> 02:12:56,040
Speaker 1: scoring game and that the Bills offense is I still

2561
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:59,760
Speaker 1: I know that this time of year, you go with

2562
02:13:00,160 --> 02:13:02,560
Speaker 1: your strength has been all year. What got you to

2563
02:13:02,640 --> 02:13:06,880
Speaker 1: this point? I just I can't believe that Martindale, the

2564
02:13:06,960 --> 02:13:09,000
Speaker 1: defensive coordinated for the Ravens, is actually going to come

2565
02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:11,680
Speaker 1: in here and play man coverage, single safety high. I

2566
02:13:11,720 --> 02:13:13,480
Speaker 1: think the Bills are gonna eat him alive if he

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Speaker 1: does that. And I just think it's a foolish approach

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Speaker 1: to use it almost exclusively, which is what they are.

2569
02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:22,120
Speaker 1: They use it a lot. They can't change who they are,

2570
02:13:22,200 --> 02:13:24,160
Speaker 1: just like the Bills shouldn't change who they are. You

2571
02:13:24,160 --> 02:13:28,240
Speaker 1: gotta go with what you got and let your guys play. Certainly,

2572
02:13:28,240 --> 02:13:30,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna get some help from their front. They can

2573
02:13:30,720 --> 02:13:32,800
Speaker 1: bring extra people, and Josh Allen's got to get rid

2574
02:13:32,840 --> 02:13:35,200
Speaker 1: of it. They had success doing that against him last year.

2575
02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:38,280
Speaker 1: Certainly Josh is a different guy, but they're probably thinking

2576
02:13:38,280 --> 02:13:41,360
Speaker 1: they're better as well. So it's gonna be a great game.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the matchup. And thanks for spending

2578
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Speaker 1: the week with us. Everybody, look forward to the weekend

2579
02:13:46,960 --> 02:13:49,600
Speaker 1: and go Bills. Let's go. We'll have the One Bill's

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Speaker 1: the Beltway. We'll see on the pregame show tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: six pm on the Bills Radio Network.