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Speaker 1: and they wanted he was trying to get to a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. This seems a little different to me from

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Speaker 1: Stan Cronky and the crew out in in LA. They

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Speaker 1: have done it methodically. They've let those players come available

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Speaker 1: and get and then bring him in. And I think

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Speaker 1: they've done it with a little bit more thoughtfulness than

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Speaker 1: the guys in Washington did twenty twenty three years ago.

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Speaker 1: Twenty two years ago, they Aaron Donald is a stud.

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Speaker 1: They brought in Jalen Ramsey, who's a fantastic corner the

436
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Speaker 1: one thing, and they got, you know, Sean McVeigh, a

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Speaker 1: hot shot offensive coordinator who came in and now he's

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Speaker 1: a head coach and he got him to a super

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00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: Bowl already, So they've got a little bit of that

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Speaker 1: in him already. And now I think because of that

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Speaker 1: experience and McVeigh getting in here and now he's in

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Speaker 1: his fourth or fifth year there, I this Rams team

443
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Speaker 1: seems light years ahead of that one that I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about back in Washing where they did it at the

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Speaker 1: turn of the century. It's it's hard to do because

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00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: of the salary cap structure, and as of yet, the

447
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: Rams have not had to pay the piper with their

448
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 1: salary cap and dead money and all of that stuff.

449
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: All these guys are still playing at a high level.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's interesting. And they don't care about

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Speaker 1: draft picks. They but here's the thing, here's the sneaky

452
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Speaker 1: about Yeah, they treat draft picks like toilet paper. Here's

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Speaker 1: the sneaky part about that. So they sign o b

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Speaker 1: j and they add von Miller. Now, if they lose

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Speaker 1: them next year in free agency, they'll be entitled to

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Speaker 1: compensatory picks. The following year in twenty twenty three. Now,

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00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: I know that's a way he's off, but that's kind

458
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: of a sneaky way of getting some compensatory picks for

459
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Speaker 1: a player that could very well amount to a rental.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they'll trade their compensatory picks to us for Emmanuel

461
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: Sanders or one or the other guys. Well that Manuel

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Speaker 1: be gone. He's a one year deal, so yeah, one

463
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: of our guys, right right, crazy, Yeah, they definitely do

464
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: it a different way, for sure. Aggressive is an understatement

465
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to less sneed and the way he

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Speaker 1: wheels and deals out there to try to get players

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Speaker 1: on board. We heard the Packers were interested, but they

468
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Speaker 1: weren't going to move off of a minimum salary offer,

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Speaker 1: and the Seahawks had made calls. The Saints were very interested,

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Speaker 1: but I think there was luke warm interest from ob

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Speaker 1: j who you know, who's throwing me the ball, Trevor Simon,

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. Jameis Winston's out for the year, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that wasn't probably a very attractive place for

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Speaker 1: him to go either. Yeah, I think, and it came

475
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: out and this could be smoke too, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he said that all the offers were somewhat similar, so

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Speaker 1: it's not like one guy they were offering him, you know,

478
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: six million bucks over here and seven hundred and fifty

479
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 1: grand over here. It was they were in ballpark figures

480
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: obviously not identical. But the structure of the Rams deals

481
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Speaker 1: pretty enticing because if he hits it out of the park,

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Speaker 1: he'll he'll make a pile of money. And he's said,

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Speaker 1: and it's still pretty good money the way it's sitting

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Speaker 1: right now. So he did, and there's no question, you know,

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Speaker 1: he landed on his feet for sure financially and he's

486
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Speaker 1: sitting in a good spot after DeShawn Jackson just asked

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Speaker 1: for his release and got it and is now with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. We are going to take a break here

489
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Speaker 1: because when we come back, we'll be joined by the

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Speaker 1: man will be calling the game this Sunday at MetLife

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Speaker 1: Stadium on the Bills Radio Network. It's Paul Datina set

492
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Speaker 1: to join us next as he'll be filling in for Murph.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to him, see how he's doing with his

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Speaker 1: CRAM session and his boards, see how those are coming

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Speaker 1: along for Paul when we return here on One Deals

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Speaker 1: Live Presented Body call out to Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and please to be joined now

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Speaker 1: by a man who's covered the Giants for a long

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Speaker 1: time and has been in the booth before, and he

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00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: will be in the radio booth. The only thing is

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Speaker 1: he'll be in the visiting radio booth at MetLife Stadium

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00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday, as he will be filling in for John

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Speaker 1: Murphy who's gonna be out sick this week. And Paul

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Speaker 1: Dettino joining us here on the line. And Paul, good

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00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: to have you with us. And I guess the first

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00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: question should be how are your boards coming for this one? Well,

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00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: first of all, very very grateful and very respectful of

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00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: the Bill's Mafia and Bill's nations, So thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me as a part of this. And we certainly

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Speaker 1: hope that Murphy's doing well. My board's Actually I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you a little peak. Yeah, board boards come along

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00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: pretty good. I don't know how much of that you

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00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: can see, yeah, but boards come along pretty good. You know.

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Speaker 1: The beauty of doing a game with a team like

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Speaker 1: the Bills, when they have so much offensive prowess and explosiveness.

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00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: You can really fill up those little boxes in a hurry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, that is what's gonna be the biggest challenge

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00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, because you've you're a North Jersey guy,

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Speaker 1: You've been in You've been in MetLife Stadium a thousand times.

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Speaker 1: What's gonna be the biggest challenge for you? You know,

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Speaker 1: doing a game with the New York team as opposed

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Speaker 1: to the Jersey team kind of thing. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna these two teams see each other all the time,

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Speaker 1: and you certainly are familiar with both the the you know,

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Speaker 1: Giants and the Jets. What's the biggest challenge? Well, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I think what I need to do is make sure

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Speaker 1: that the Buffalo fans as they listen to this game

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Speaker 1: on the radio, that they don't necessarily since you know

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Speaker 1: that that I'm parachuting in, I've done a lot of research. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Bills PR staff is outstanding with their materials. I

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Speaker 1: did watch the entire game last week against Jacksonville, and

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Speaker 1: I did listen to that radio broadcast as well, So

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Speaker 1: I feel as though I'm very well versed in where

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Speaker 1: the team stands today. But but there is certainly a

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Speaker 1: challenge to make sure that you know, those fans feel

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00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: like they're getting all the information they need about tomorrow's

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00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: game as it's happening with the proper perspective. And to

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Speaker 1: be frank with you, you know, I could do all

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Speaker 1: the memorization that i'd like on the starting lineups, but

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Speaker 1: if you start getting down to your second and third

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00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: string guys, and I know this is going to go

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00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: right to the crux of you. Special teams tackles that

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00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: can be very, very difficult to navigate when you don't

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Speaker 1: know a team like the back of your hand. Yeah,

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00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: don't waste your team. Don't waste your time on special teams.

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Speaker 1: It's really not worth it, I promise you, Paul. The

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Speaker 1: other challenge is playing off of your color analysts. But

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Speaker 1: I understand you've already made contact with Eric Wood kind

550
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: of get ready for that, right you know. I told

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Speaker 1: Derek when we first had our Zoom meeting of this morning,

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Speaker 1: I said, it's it's ironic. I've been I've been broadcasting

553
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: now for thirty nine seasons, And I said to him,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I do games, I've done games with

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00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: a whole host of people played different positions. I've also

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Speaker 1: In fact, I do college games and my broadcast partner

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00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: is Kevin Gilbride. You guys, so you know, Kevin and

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00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: I have a great time and a great relationship in

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Speaker 1: the booth. But the truth is I find for the

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Speaker 1: most part, and Steve, please don't take offense, but I

561
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: find offensive linemen to most most often be the analysts

562
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: who adapt the quicketst They seem to be very sharp

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00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: and quick on their feet. Now I know most of

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Speaker 1: the time they're plotting in the trenches, but they're pretty

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Speaker 1: quick witted. Yeah, no question, I agree with you as

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Speaker 1: a rule. As a general rule, offensive lineman or the

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Speaker 1: sharpest guys on the field because they have to communicate

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00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: so well and they have to think analytically while they play.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you they're they're great at and much

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00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: time that I'll just keep that between us though, I

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00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: don't want it to get any further than But what

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Speaker 1: do you think now when you get ready for this

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Speaker 1: and I know the rhetoric and as a play by,

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Speaker 1: and I've been an analyst in the booth and all

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00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: of that stuff I've done all that you know coming

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00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: in that the Bills are a heavy favorite. But also

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00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: you know that Over the past two weeks, four teams

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Speaker 1: that have been favored by almost over a touchdown seven

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: and a half plus have lost. The Dolphins were sub

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Speaker 1: five hundred they just beat the Ravens last night. The

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00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: Broncos were sub five hundred at five hundred and beat

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Jaguars, of course, beat the Bills last

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Speaker 1: week nine to six. The Titans were underdogs by seven

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Speaker 1: and a half and they beat the Rams. And a

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Speaker 1: bunch of five hundred or sub five hundred teams have

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Speaker 1: taken out division leaders over the last two weeks. What

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Speaker 1: kind of how do you put that in perspective? When

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00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: you come into a game like the Jets where the

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00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: Bills are quote unquote supposed to win, how does that

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Speaker 1: affect your broad cast if at all? Well, you know,

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00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: I don't think anything impacts the broadcast going in, Steve,

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00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: because you let the game tell the story. And as

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00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: an announcer you know this for being in the booth,

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Speaker 1: you have to play off the flow of the game. Now,

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Speaker 1: what I will say is this, in terms of my expectations,

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Speaker 1: I do expect the Bills to be chopping at the bit,

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00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: to come down to the meadowlands and to redeem themselves

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00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: off a real scuffling performance against Jacksonville. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: don't usually see Josh Allen play like that. We don't

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Speaker 1: usually see them commit double digits and penalties like they

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Speaker 1: did to me. I'm sure that those guys looked at

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00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: that tape and felt really ticked off about it, and

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00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure that their resiliency and redemption is going to

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: show through. But I think the other thing to keep

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Speaker 1: in mind is that last week, no matter what the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars record was, the truth is they got a ton

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00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: of heat on the quarterback. I mean, they had Alan

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00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: running for his life, and they really did a job

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Speaker 1: on the Bill's offensive line. Now, you and I both

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00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 1: know when you look at the Jets pass rush, they

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00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: supply about as much heat as a broken Bunsen burner.

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Speaker 1: There's not much there, and so you know that's the

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Speaker 1: number one factor that an underdog is going to have

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Speaker 1: to have if they're going to try to turn the

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Speaker 1: tables on a favorite. So honestly, as I look at

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Speaker 1: this game going in, I would be rather surprised if

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Speaker 1: the Jets were to pull off this upset. Paul, last

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Speaker 1: one I've got for you, and thanks for taking us

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Speaker 1: back to high school chemistry class there, Bunsen Burner. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the last one I've got for you is, since you're

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Speaker 1: there embedded in the New York metropolitan area, can you

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Speaker 1: provide a sense for us as to how out of

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Speaker 1: control it's gotten for Mike White, because some people are

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Speaker 1: comparing it to the old linsanity days of the New

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00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: York Knicks when Jeremy Lynn took the city by storm.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's reached that kind of a

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00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: pitch yet, but you tell me you're the one down there. No, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not that crazy yet. And I think the thing

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Speaker 1: that you want to keep in mind when you talk

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Speaker 1: about the environment here that he's playing in, Zack Wilson,

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Speaker 1: obviously as the number one draft pick in his rookie season,

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Speaker 1: is supposedly the anointed quarterback of the future. Now, remember

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Speaker 1: when Jeremy Lynn broke in with the Knicks, they were

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Speaker 1: really hurting at point guard. They didn't have a quote future,

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Speaker 1: and so Lynn came out of nowhere and he started

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00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: doing real well, real quick, and so everybody latched onto him.

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00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: I think Jets Nation, if you will, Gang Green Nation,

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00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: whatever they want to call themselves, I think they believe

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00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: that Zack Wilson is the guy and is their future.

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Speaker 1: Now are they thrilled that Mike White has come off

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Speaker 1: the bench out of nowhere, out of Western Kentucky, you know,

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Speaker 1: being drafted a few years ago by the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: lands on the Jets practice squad and sits around for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years, and basically out of nowhere has

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Speaker 1: had you know, a real good showing in these last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But at the same time, they all

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Speaker 1: know that Zack Wilson was drafted, you know, high in

648
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Speaker 1: the first round for a reason. He is their anointed

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. So I don't think they're going to get

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Speaker 1: carried away with Mike White, but I do think they're

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Speaker 1: pleased to at least see a quarterback who can throw

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Speaker 1: the ball downfield and actually throw a pass to his

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Speaker 1: own teammate. Yeah, Paul, it should be interesting. We'll look

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Speaker 1: forward to the broadcast. I know you're gonna enjoy it

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Speaker 1: as well. Hope. It's a great game and it's gonna

656
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how Mike White affairs against this

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00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: Bill's defense. They're number one in a ton of different categories,

658
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: and they say be doing although they're gonna be without

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00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: it looks like they're stalwart middle linebacker Tremaine Edmonds looks

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00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: like he's gonna sit down. Nevertheless, good luck on the broadcast,

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Speaker 1: we'll be watching, Thanks man, Thanks very much, fellas enjoy

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Speaker 1: all right. That's Paul Dutino, who'll be follow in the

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Speaker 1: game on the Bills Radio Network on Sunday Bills Jets

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Speaker 1: along with Eric Woods. They'll take a break here, but

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Speaker 1: come back with Tailgate Friday. What do you have in

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Speaker 1: buying as you tailgate for this roadie? Are you making

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Speaker 1: the trip down to MetLife Stadium? Let us know. Next

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live presented by collot To Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back, Chris Brownski

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Speaker 1: after with you here on an obil fan Friday mail

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Speaker 1: Bang edition of One Bills Live. It's also the day

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Speaker 1: of the week where we seek from you your Tailgate

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Speaker 1: official health plan of the Buffalo Bills. And we begin

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Speaker 1: the tail Gate Friday tweet sheet with Tashanna, who has

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Speaker 1: had some very interesting submissions in recent weeks. Menu for

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Speaker 1: Sunday for Tashana, marinated overnight chicken wings sauced in sweet

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Speaker 1: onion barbecue sauce. Steve Josh Allen's mild wing sauce served

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Speaker 1: with a side of Stefan Dig's blue cheese. Are we

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Speaker 1: sensing a theme here? Also homemade deep fried pickles and

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Speaker 1: a Cajun dipping sauce, hoping for a Bill's blowout win Steve,

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Speaker 1: have you ever had deep fried pickles? Yes? Aren't they glorious?

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Speaker 1: I recommend it? I do. Yeah, deep homemade, glorious, homemade

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Speaker 1: deep fried pickles in Cajun dipping sauce. And she's hoping

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Speaker 1: for a blowout with something's gonna blow out. If you're

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Speaker 1: gonna eat, I'm coming over. I'm doing sauce wing sauce. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a blowout waiting to happen. For sure. They want

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Speaker 1: to line the stomach with milk before that. One kid awesome.

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Speaker 1: Nicole offers this submission first NFL game for my family

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Speaker 1: and I. So I'm assuming they're going to the game,

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Speaker 1: gonna keep it simple with heroes and chips. Excited to

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Speaker 1: finally see our Bills play in person, might swing by

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Speaker 1: Lot twenty six and check out Pinto Ron and the

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Speaker 1: New York City Bills backers before we head into the game.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the k Gun on Facebook bills thirty

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Speaker 1: four Jet seventeen Go bills. Now, this is the dilemma.

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Speaker 1: You run into Steve as a road trip. You want

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Speaker 1: a tailgate, but you don't have all your equipment with

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Speaker 1: you unless you're driving a camper down to New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yep, I know exactly what

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Speaker 1: you got. You gotta kind of go cold, you know,

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Speaker 1: and like they said, go with cold hero sandwiches, chips.

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Speaker 1: You know, just keep it easy and store bought stuff.

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Speaker 1: You just drive over and unwrap it and need it

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00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: instead of unfurling the charcoal grill or four charcoal grills

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Speaker 1: or six charcoal grills, whatever they got and rolling it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the only way around that is you drive down to

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Speaker 1: Jersey and bring it all with you and a trailer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but even then, I mean, that's it. That's a heavy lift.

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Speaker 1: But some guys will do it. You're not as comfortable

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00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: tailgating in a strange parking lot either, because some you know,

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00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: rules are different in different states at different stadiums. You

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Speaker 1: can do this, you cannot do that. You can you

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Speaker 1: can have this kind of container or this kind of grill,

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Speaker 1: not that kind of grill. You're always worried about that,

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Speaker 1: although I guess you could call early and find out.

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00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: But obviously down in Jersey that they do everything down there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been through that parking lot. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the apocalypse down there. So so it's you know, apocalypse.

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Speaker 1: That's a little strong. But I say this though, it's

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Speaker 1: late in the week and we start getting, you know,

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Speaker 1: research packets from around Brownie and I got some statistic

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Speaker 1: just a couple I want to read to you. You're ready, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because then we'll get to some comments from Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: and coach McDermott. All right, here we go. First one

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Speaker 1: from since twenty nineteen. Now, the Bills are coming off

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Speaker 1: at nine six loss of the Jaguars. Over the last

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Speaker 1: three years after a loss, the Bills are number two

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Forget for winning percentage, they're

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Speaker 1: eight and two. It's an eight hundred winning percentage, second

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Speaker 1: only to the Green Bay Packers, who are seven and zero.

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Speaker 1: So the Bills, if you go by history, are really good.

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Speaker 1: At not putting multiple losses together. That's only happened twice

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Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen. Also, the point differential through the first

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Speaker 1: date games of all time for Buffalo. For the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills franchise, the Bills are plus fourteen and a half

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Speaker 1: point differential to their opponents. That's second only to the

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four Buffalo Bills. No other Buffalo Bill team

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Speaker 1: other than the sixty four for championship team AFL championship

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Speaker 1: team has had a bigger point differential in their favor.

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Speaker 1: And guess what. The Bills are number one in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one in the National Football League at the minimum

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Speaker 1: time trailing in games, they have only trailed for forty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes and fifty two seconds of game time. They

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Speaker 1: are in first place by a time over the Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers, who have been one hundred and seven and

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Speaker 1: twenty three second seven minutes and twenty three seconds. The

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Speaker 1: Bills are absolutely They're hard to get ahead of there.

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Speaker 1: And I would bet twenty of those minutes that they

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Speaker 1: were trailing happened last week. Yeah, for sure, twenty of

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Speaker 1: those total, would you say, forty eight minutes, forty eight

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Speaker 1: fifty two almost forty nine minutes. I would bet twenty

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Speaker 1: of those minutes came last week. It's less than half

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Speaker 1: of what Tampa Bay has. The Cardinals are right there

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Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay at one oh seven. Change Minnesota one

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Speaker 1: twenty two, and change Seattle Seahawks one twenty seven, and

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Speaker 1: change the Bills have forty eight minutes and change. Oh

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00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: my goodness, they're they're really really now. The team that

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Speaker 1: has spent the least time in the league in game

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Speaker 1: time leading on the scoreboards on the scoreboard? Which team

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Speaker 1: in the n The Jets, The New York Football Jets.

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Speaker 1: I knew that was because through the first four weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season, at no point in any one of

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Speaker 1: their first four games had they had the lead. So

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Speaker 1: that puts you in a hole you're never climbing out, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just so almost a quarter of your

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Speaker 1: season where you have not had the lead in four

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Speaker 1: complete games, right, I mean, there's you're not overcoming that.

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Speaker 1: I don't care how good you get as the season

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Speaker 1: wears up. All right, good stats that there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: more here, but they're kind of esso. They're kind of

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Speaker 1: like on a Thursday, you know, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna get there kind of like based

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Speaker 1: on the Thursday when it's exactly I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get into all that. I'm fair enough, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: get what we do want to get to. Is a

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Speaker 1: couple of comments from coach McDermott and Micah Hide on

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Speaker 1: how things are shaping up for Sunday. First, and foremost,

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott addressed the recent rash of penalties that the

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Speaker 1: Bills have committed in games, and each of their last

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Speaker 1: four games they've committed at least eight penalties, had a

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Speaker 1: season high twelve for a season high one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighteen yards in penalties assessed against them last week in

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Speaker 1: the nine to six loss. And coach McDermott has already

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Speaker 1: done his research on the officiating crew this week. So

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Speaker 1: here is coach McDermott on the impact of the officiating

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Speaker 1: crew this weekend for Bill's Jets. It shouldn't impact it

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Speaker 1: week to week. We shouldn't be adding and flowing with that.

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Speaker 1: But it's just more awareness. And so that's what we

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Speaker 1: try and do every week is just say hey, this

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00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: is It's another like knowing the opponent and what they

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Speaker 1: do or don't do. And similar in this regard heightening

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Speaker 1: awareness that said we should bring we should be bringing

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Speaker 1: our discipline and all that type of stuff every week.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see if we learn our lesson

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Speaker 1: from from what we lived through last week. How much

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Speaker 1: of an emphasis this week, you know, given those issues

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Speaker 1: last week where the penalties and like making sure everyone

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Speaker 1: understood what went from there. Yeah, I can tell you

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Speaker 1: it was definitely. It's definitely been part of our process,

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Speaker 1: probably more than normal. It's always a part of our process.

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Speaker 1: But again it's all just goes, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: under the under the list of our title of um,

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Speaker 1: what do we need to act, what do we need

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Speaker 1: to improve, what do we need to work on, and

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00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: those tough conversations as well that have to be had.

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Speaker 1: So M always looking at how we can move our

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Speaker 1: team forward, and that is one of those areas we

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Speaker 1: have to improve them. There it is, And no surprise.

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Speaker 1: I mean we heard him on Wednesday, Steve at his

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Speaker 1: press conference where we were sitting there and he was

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Speaker 1: asked about penalties then and he says, our players have

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Speaker 1: great clarity on it, which was okay, message has been delivered.

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's pretty candid right there. Somebody

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Speaker 1: was pretty demonstrative in communicating to his players. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: keep the flags to a minimum, fellas I will tell you,

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Speaker 1: I did look up the last two games against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Seven penalties for seventy nine yards and eleven penalties for

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Speaker 1: one hundred and one yards. So penalties have cropped up

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Speaker 1: in the this game against the Jets because sometimes it

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Speaker 1: gets chippy with these two teams. The officiating crew that

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Speaker 1: the Bills are getting in New York as well, and

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the gentleman's name, but they all Steve

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Speaker 1: nova Steve Novak and his crew have called more penalties

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Speaker 1: this season than any other crew in the NFL. So

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Speaker 1: there is that to look forward to. If you're underful officiating.

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Speaker 1: It could be a flag fest if they so desire

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Speaker 1: that this officiating crew once again calls more penalties than

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Speaker 1: anybody else in the So one other, one other comment

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Speaker 1: we wanted to pass along to you was the prospect

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Speaker 1: of Tremaine Edmund's not playing, which coach McDermott confirmed this morning.

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Speaker 1: Edmunds will be out this week with his hamstring injury.

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Speaker 1: Has not practiced at all this week and Hamstring injuries

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Speaker 1: usually keep guys out for a week at least, so

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Speaker 1: it'll be a j. Klein. He's the anticipated replacement, as

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott kind of outlined that to some degree at

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Speaker 1: his press conference on line this morning, but Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: talked about the impact of not having Tremaine in the lineup,

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Speaker 1: knowing he's put together what you could argue is his

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Speaker 1: most consistent season. We preach a lot obviously Maine is

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Speaker 1: is you know, one of the leaders on our team. Um,

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00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: that's that's obvious. And what he's able to, what he's

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Speaker 1: been able to do for the last you know, four

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00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: years he's been here is is is remarkable. The boyfly

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00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: is slide line, the sideline, he does a lot for us.

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00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: He communicates, he's getting everybody lined up. And at the

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Speaker 1: same time, though, we preach next man in, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you guys have seen it plenty of times. So even

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Speaker 1: throughout this season already with guys being hurting, guys stepping

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Speaker 1: in and having good games, and even last season, ye

852
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, year before, so you know, we're always preaching

853
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: next man in. So whoever steps in, if if man

854
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: can't go, then um, you know we hope to hope

855
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: to go out there not skip a beat, and we've

856
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: seen them do that before, Steve, and I think the

857
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: most important thing here now is after having a JA

858
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: Kline in the fold, they know how to utilize him

859
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: to his strengths and steer him clear of maybe sell

860
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: some of the things that he can't do that Tremaine can.

861
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we know that he's I mean, Tremaine is

862
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: a freak athlete. There are many people that can run

863
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: like Tremaine in his size, and so his coverage range

864
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: is far greater than just about anybody else on the

865
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: roster at that position, maybe with the exception of Milano.

866
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what, I'm confident they'll put him

867
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: in positions to succeed this week age, right, And we're

868
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: taking it for granted that it's aj Klein. If you

869
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: go by the technical nature of you know, their depth chart,

870
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: Tyrrell Dodson's is named as the direct backup to Tremaine Edmonds,

871
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,399
Speaker 1: but it's always been a J. Klein as the third

872
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: linebacker off the bench, whether it's in a three linebacker

873
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: set or whichever linebacker is out, whether it's Tremaine Edmonds

874
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: out or Matt Milano out Aj is though we're the

875
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: first guy in, we're taking it for granted that that'll

876
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: happen again. Yeah, although Michael Hyde said, hey, well, whoever's

877
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: in there, we got to do it, you know, So

878
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: he didn't mention aj Clein by name or whatever, so that,

879
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, it gives me maybe, okay, maybe they're not

880
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: going to put him in, but either way, it's not

881
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: going to change the thought process of the players around them. Yeah.

882
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: I did listen to coach mcdermot's press conference this morning

883
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: and the first name out of his mouth was Aj Fine,

884
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: but then he proceeded to mention Tyrell Dodson, Tyler Matakavic.

885
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: I mean he ran down the list after that pretty quickly.

886
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe there could be a mixer match situation there,

887
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: but I don't think you want to change too much

888
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: knowing you're replacing a guy to begin with with different

889
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: roles in response, and so I think it'll mainly be

890
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: kline if they have a package where they like dots

891
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: and better because if he might be a little bit

892
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: more athletic, cover little more ground, maybe that's the key story.

893
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: We got to take a break because we come back

894
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: in the second hour on Friday with you know Who,

895
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: the senior producer from NFL Films to talk xs and

896
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: ows with us about Bill's Jets this weekend. What does

897
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: he think of Mike White and what bent wrong for

898
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: the Bill's offense last week. We're gonna have Great Hosell

899
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: dissect it all next, you know, on one Bill's Live,

900
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: presented by a lot of help. It's all great at

901
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field,

902
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

903
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:28,919
Speaker 1: flighter for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

904
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: in the straded fear of normalcy. All right here we

905
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: are our number two on a Friday, and that can

906
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: only mean one thing. Senior producer from NFL Films, Greg

907
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: Cosell joining us, of course, Greg, good to see you

908
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: as always. Are you ready for this scintillating Division matchup

909
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: between the Bills and the Jets. The Jets playing better

910
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: football of late. I mean, it's certainly a more attractive

911
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: game than people might have thought a month ago. Well,

912
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you as as you guys, as we

913
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: all found out last Sunday, I guess there's a lot

914
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: of games that are a lot more attractive, and we

915
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: might think on paper. I was wondering how long it

916
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: was gonna take for you to bring the fact it

917
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: might not be the right word for the Bills. I

918
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: hope they don't go after me on social media now.

919
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: But we certainly found out last week, and certainly Steve

920
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: knows this from his playing days that you know, coaches

921
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: will tell you that the toughest thing to do in

922
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: this league is to win on Sunday. And it doesn't

923
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: matter who you're playing. Everybody's an NFL team. Yeah, and

924
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 1: that was proven um again last night with the Dolphins

925
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: in Baltimore radio the same thing. Um, you know, it's

926
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 1: just you gotta show up and play. Um. And well,

927
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: I think there are some things we can talk about

928
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: and and and I think I know that there was

929
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about what what Sean McDermott did

930
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: on Monday, you know, having meetings, and you know, again

931
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm not there. You guys are there, so you might

932
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: know more about it. But I think if and I've

933
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: I've made notes of this every time I watched the

934
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: Bill's offense, it seems that one of my final notes

935
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: involves two things. Number one, I say this, I say

936
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: they don't really have a viable run game, either in

937
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: terms of volume or production. And number two, I always

938
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: type that I think their offensive line is not among

939
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: the better old lines in the NFL in terms of

940
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: past protection. And I've been doing this a long time.

941
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: And I know Steve you played, You know you've been

942
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: doing this a long time too as a player and

943
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: following the league, and Chris I'm sure you as well.

944
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: But I've always believed that anytime you have a weakness,

945
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: a flaw and inconsistency, whatever you want to call it,

946
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: it can come up and bite you in any given game,

947
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: and it's you know it. And then I'll add one

948
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: more point. I love Josh Allen as a player. I

949
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: think he's on his way to being arguably the best

950
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. But it is very, very difficult

951
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: every week, no matter how good your quarter is, to

952
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: pretty much say, even if you don't say it in

953
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,760
Speaker 1: so many words, to say you have to be great

954
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: every week or we don't have a chance to win.

955
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: I think that's a tough way to play. And I

956
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: think last week it was very evident that the entire

957
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: burden of the outcome of that game, at least on

958
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, was squarely on him

959
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: because it seemed as though no one else could rise

960
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: above their matchup and and help. Not only that, it's

961
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: they asked him to drop back more than fifty times

962
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: in a game that was close. He had more than

963
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: thirty dropbacks, I believe in the first half or something

964
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: along those lines in a game that was close. It's

965
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: one thing if you're down twenty to nothing early in

966
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: the second quarter, but this was a normal game in

967
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: terms of closeness. How much do you think that, I'm sorry, Steve,

968
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: how much do you think that was predicated by the

969
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: fact that either Sean McDermott or Brian Dabo for that matter,

970
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: or anybody else was sitting up in the box or

971
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: on the sidelines saying, we can't run it because our

972
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: offensive line is getting crushed. I mean, it looked up

973
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: front the Bills had they were taking turns, letting the

974
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: guys rush free on Josh Allen and they didn't want

975
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 1: to run against And they did the same thing in

976
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: the run game. Yeah. Again, that's hard for me to

977
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,919
Speaker 1: answer that question because I think they've played this way,

978
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: even going back to last year. Pretty much. They've been

979
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: a passing football team, and Josh has improved so dramatically

980
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: where we don't really think of him having a bad

981
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: game anymore. And obviously this was not his best game,

982
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: which he freely admitted, and I know for a fact

983
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: because I know people who know coach as well, that

984
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: he's a very accountable young man, and he took full

985
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: credit for the fact that he played poorly. And he's

986
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: got to play better, and he will play better. But

987
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: I think the run game is a patience issue. In

988
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: other words, you're gonna have us if you're if you

989
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: try to run the ball, you're going to have runs

990
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: that game one, that game two, that lose two. I

991
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: think teams that really believe in the run game don't

992
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: give up on it if that happens. We know the

993
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: Bills are not one of those teams. Now, they did

994
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: come out on the first two plays of the third

995
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: quarter and they ran the ball, and they actually got

996
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: nine yards on those first two runs, And I thought, okay,

997
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: because to be honest with you guys, what I do

998
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: on Sundays is I kind of watched Red Zone and

999
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: let everything wash over me because I worked seventy hours

1000
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: a week, and so Sunday I just kind of let

1001
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: everything wash over me. I'm not watching just one game

1002
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: in particular. So when I put the tape on and

1003
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: saw that the first two plays of the third quarter

1004
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: were runs, I thought, Okay, you know, maybe that that

1005
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: was a halftime adjustment. They're gonna come out, they're gonna

1006
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: try to establish some kind of continuity and stability with

1007
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: their offense, and then they kind of abandoned it right

1008
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,479
Speaker 1: after that. So we'll see what the meetings were about

1009
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: this week. But it's just hard to play that way.

1010
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: And I think most coach would tell you that. I

1011
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: know Sean would if you really got him with truth SIA,

1012
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: he would tell you that it's hard to play that way. Well, yes,

1013
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: and he even said his chief message to his team

1014
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: on Monday was this is a game that's played in

1015
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: a physical way, and we have to play more physical. Yeah,

1016
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: if you look at all three of their losses, they've

1017
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: been beaten at the line of scrimmage and have not

1018
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: outplayed the other team in terms of physicality. But the

1019
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: question I want to ask you, Greg, is Zach Moss

1020
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: is still in the concussion protocol. It looks as though

1021
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: Matt Brita is going to get an opportunity to be

1022
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 1: in the lineup this week. We know he of four

1023
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: three eight speed is familiar based on his days in

1024
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: San Francisco with some outside zone stuff. I don't know

1025
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: how effective he would be inside. What kind of way

1026
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: could you deploy Matt Brita to help your run game

1027
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: if you are the Bills, where might he help you

1028
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: the most in terms of run game concepts? Well, there's

1029
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: no question. Outside zone is his baby. That's what he

1030
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: ran when he was with the nine. He had some

1031
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 1: long runs when he was there because he's an explosive player,

1032
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: and they run outside zone of Buffalo. It's not as

1033
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: if they don't run outside zone, so they don't have

1034
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: to change anything if they play Matt Brida. The question

1035
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: is commitment to it. And here's something else I would

1036
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: say that a lot of people don't think about. I

1037
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: think at some point you've also got to put Josh

1038
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: under center. And I'll tell you why, because when you

1039
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: put a quarterback under center and you run the ball,

1040
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 1: here's what you get. In the play action pass game

1041
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: number one, you get the outside zone element. So what

1042
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: you get is the defensive line moving laterally and not vertically.

1043
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks of play action it's just impacting second level

1044
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,320
Speaker 1: players linebackers, but you get the defensive line moving laterally

1045
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: and that helps your offensive line. The other thing you

1046
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: get is the play action boot pass game, which you

1047
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: don't really get with anywhere near the same efficiency when

1048
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: you're in the shotgun. So there's elements that get added

1049
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: to your pass game that help your offensive line when

1050
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 1: you put your quarterback under center in the play action

1051
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: pass game. And I think that that's something that would

1052
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: be of value to the Bills have. What kind of

1053
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: run game, if any, I think they have, But what

1054
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: kind of run game? Have the Jets been the most

1055
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: susceptible too? Defensively? You know? The way I'd answered that,

1056
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: Steve is I don't think it matters, I think to me,

1057
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: and I know it matters when teams are game planning.

1058
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: That's not my point, but I think, to me, the

1059
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: Bills have to line up and run the ball, and

1060
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: they have to line up and run the ball no

1061
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: matter who they're playing against. It's always easy to say, well, oh,

1062
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: we can't run it against this team, and then you

1063
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: get caught up in games like you just had and

1064
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: look that's worked more often than not because Josh is

1065
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: developed into a really good player and they've got good receivers.

1066
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: But the other factor that's coming into play here is

1067
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: there's no explosive plays in the pass game. So if

1068
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: you're not going to run the ball and you're not

1069
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: sustaining offense and you're not creating explosion plays in the

1070
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: pass game, your offense gets stuck. And you can't rely

1071
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen to run around and make plays every

1072
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: single week. As good as he is at that, there's

1073
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: a random improvisational element to that, and sometimes that doesn't work,

1074
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: you know. So even on that final fourth down play,

1075
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,959
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people think, oh, he's running

1076
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: to his right, he's gonna make a great throw now,

1077
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: and obviously he was incomplete. You know, you know, it's

1078
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: in an odd way, the same thing's happening in Kansas City.

1079
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: Not that Bills MANFIA fans care about Kansas City, you

1080
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: beat them already, but the same thing's happening there. Everybody's

1081
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: waiting for Patrick Mahomes to make these plays where he

1082
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: runs around. You can't count on that every week, no

1083
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: matter how good your quarterback is. Yeah, and last week.

1084
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: The only time they were really able to successfully manipulate

1085
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: defenders at the second level was when he was running

1086
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: out of the pocket and he was pulling second level

1087
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: defenders with him, and that created voids for the receivers

1088
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: to fill. But as you said, there's no way to

1089
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: count on that. I mean, when he when he rolled

1090
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: left on third and was at twenty two, was that

1091
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: the yea and he threw that seed to Sanders. I mean,

1092
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: you know that's Josh Allen. You know there's not a

1093
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks in the NFL who can do that.

1094
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: And then you think, okay, maybe we're now going to

1095
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: settle into the game. But it obviously didn't work out

1096
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: that way. But you can't count on those kinds of

1097
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: special plays every single week. So let's flip it over

1098
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: to the Jets here, and Mike White is yeah guy

1099
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: that certainly opened some eyes in his first career start

1100
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: thirty seven to forty five passing. I would venture to

1101
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: say he's almost been the polar opposite of Zach Wilson,

1102
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: who has held onto the ball a long time, snapped

1103
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: a snap and then flees the pocket. And just as

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00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: we were talking about Josh Allen, tries to make some

1105
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: of these bigger plays on the run. I don't know

1106
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: if it's because he's trying to get it all in

1107
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: one shot due to inexperience, or may he doesn't trust

1108
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: what he sees or isn't taking what the defense gives

1109
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: him enough. But Mike White is all too happy to

1110
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: take a check down and get it out quick and

1111
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 1: work out of the pocket very quickly. Right. Well, it's

1112
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,919
Speaker 1: funny you say that because he's almost had two different games,

1113
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: and I know he got hurt against the Colts and

1114
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: didn't have that many throws, but the week prior against Cincinnati,

1115
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: Cincinnati basically gave him those throws. They played soft zone

1116
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: coverage and they gave him easy throws, easy by NFL standards.

1117
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: So he was more than happy, Chris, as you just

1118
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: suggested to do that. I thought against Indianapolis he actually

1119
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,439
Speaker 1: hung in the pocket more and allowed a few things

1120
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: to develop, and he made a few excellent late in

1121
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: the down throws that were more at the intermediate level.

1122
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: So you know, he's been I don't want to say

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01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: impressive just because the guys played a game and a

1124
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: quarter or get whatever it was against the Colts, but

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01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: he certainly looks like he belongs on an NFL field,

1126
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: and I'm very curious to see how they attack. Look,

1127
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: the Bills lost in all this is the fact that

1128
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: the Bills have a great defense. I mean, the fact

1129
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: is they're the best third down defense in the NFL.

1130
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: They're very selective with their blitzes, but they're really good

1131
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: when they blitz. So, you know, they just lost the

1132
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: game nine six. You can't really put that on the defense.

1133
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: This defense has played at a really high level for

1134
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: most of this season, so there's no reason to suggest otherwise.

1135
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: But I just want to come back to one point

1136
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 1: that Steve asked me, because I felt like I didn't

1137
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: answer it about the Jets and their run defense. The

1138
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: Jets the last time they played against Indy, they just

1139
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: got stonewalled in the run game. Now, clearly Indy's old

1140
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: line is better than Buffalo's all line, Steve, as you know,

1141
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: but in that game, they just their d lineman just

1142
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: got moved to the second level on way too many plays.

1143
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,919
Speaker 1: So if you look at that tape, which obviously Buffalo has,

1144
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: you have to believe, you know what, Let's try to

1145
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: run the football. Let's see what we can get done

1146
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: and not stop if our first two runs only gained

1147
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: four yards. You know, let's see what we can do.

1148
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: Because running the ball does other things for you besides Chris,

1149
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: as you said, the physical element. It does other things.

1150
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 1: It sets up things, It forces the defense to react

1151
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: a certain way that it doesn't have to if you

1152
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: just line up in the gun in spread formations to

1153
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: start tossing it all over the yard. What do you

1154
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: think that? Is there any systemic reason or thing that

1155
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: you notice in general as to why the Jets have

1156
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: turned it over so many times? Oh? Yeah, that's a

1157
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: hard question to answer. I mean they turn it over

1158
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: a lot when Zach Wilson was playing quarterback, and he's

1159
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: not the quarterback because Zach Wilson quite honestly, at this

1160
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: point still plays at the NFL level like he's in college.

1161
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: There was a looseness and undisciplined nature to his game

1162
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: and he'll learn that as he plays more ideally for

1163
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: the Jets. From the Jet standpoint. Whereas Mike White over

1164
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, obviously through two interceptions in

1165
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: his first game that he played against Cincinnati, if I recall,

1166
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 1: one of them was not his fault. I think he's

1167
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: a tighter, cleaner player at this point just because he's

1168
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: not a big armed kid. He's not going to sit

1169
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: back there and try to make, you know, those throws

1170
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: that Zach Wilson, who has a live, loose arm might

1171
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: try to do when Zach Wilson was used to doing

1172
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: that at BYU. So obviously Zach Wilson, I think at

1173
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: the time he went out he was leading the league interceptions.

1174
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: He's not anymore because he hasn't played the last number

1175
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: of weeks. But yeah, there was a looseness and undisciplined

1176
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: nature to his game which is not really present in

1177
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: Mike white Ski So coach Lafleur for the Jets the

1178
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: OC greg he's gotten some credit for being a little

1179
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: bit more aggressive the last couple of weeks with his

1180
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: offensive play calling. He's sprinkled in some four wide to

1181
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: try to get Elijah More on the field a little

1182
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: bit more. And I think More and Crowder together present

1183
01:03:55,520 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: problems for opposing defense. Is they're good route separators. What

1184
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: have you seen teams do on the defensive side when

1185
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: they've kind of gone into those ten personnel looks to

1186
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: match up? Well, Yeah, then it depends on what your

1187
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: defense is. You know, that's the thing you have to decide.

1188
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: I mean the Bills to me, because the Bills are

1189
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: a nickel defense. Okay, so think of what the Bills

1190
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: would do. The Bills would play zone to that. You know,

1191
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: they might try to disguise it, and because they're not

1192
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: just going to line up and say, okay, here we are,

1193
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: this is what we do. But the Bills don't play dime.

1194
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the last two games they played

1195
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: nickel on every snap. If I'm not mistaken, and I

1196
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: know that Johnson got hurt this week. I don't know

1197
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: what his status is, but obviously Neil came in. They

1198
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: didn't miss a beat. They just played nickel on every

1199
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: snap against the Jaguars team that I think had over

1200
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: twenty snaps of base personnel. So clearly the Bills, as

1201
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: we know from a year ago as well, they're committed

1202
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: to nickel. That's in a sense, they're base defense. So

1203
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,919
Speaker 1: if you're gonna line up with four wide, you're gonna

1204
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: have to play you know, you don't have to look.

1205
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: There was a snap this week I noticed watching the

1206
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: tape where Hide matched up man to man on Marvin Jones.

1207
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: So they're willing to do that, and I think they

1208
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: would on occasion. I don't know if they'd be willing

1209
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, fifteen snaps, but I think

1210
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: they're willing to do that. So they would mix and match,

1211
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: but I think they predominantly play his own to it.

1212
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: Well just quickly before go ahead, real quickly, Steve, just

1213
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: so Greg knows cam Lewis was just called up to

1214
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster this week. He is a

1215
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: slot corner as well. He's got a lot more short

1216
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: area quickness than Serendial does. So I'm wondering if that

1217
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: might be an answer to that. And and maybe it's

1218
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 1: a week where they say, you know what, we'll play

1219
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: some snaps of dime. It's not something they've they've not

1220
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: done in the past. They played dime with sixtybs before.

1221
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: And you talk about the short area quickness. I loved

1222
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore coming out of Mississippi State. It was a Mississippi,

1223
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: Mississippi state. I can't I forget Mississippi, Mississippi right all

1224
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: miss I loved his tape. I mean I actually they

1225
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: liked him more and we'll see how it plays out.

1226
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: I liked him more than Kadarius Tony. I really like

1227
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: Moore's tape a lot, and I think obviously the quarterback

1228
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: situation there has not quite worked out just yet the

1229
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: way the Jets wanted it too with Zach Wilson. But

1230
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: I think more can be a really, really good player,

1231
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see him get more, more and

1232
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: more snaps. What about the young running back Michael Carter,

1233
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: he seems I mean, he's not very big, five ten

1234
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: a buck eighty four, but he seems to be have

1235
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: the wherewithal to carry the ball as much as they

1236
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: want him to. Yeah, he's another guy who's tape I

1237
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: really like because I watched a ton of North Carolina

1238
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: because they had Javant to Williams as well, and they

1239
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: had all they had the wide receiver, So I like Carter.

1240
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: I think Carter is a really good combination back. He's

1241
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 1: a runner, he's a receiver. You can split him out wide,

1242
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: you know. I'm not sure he's a twenty carry a

1243
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: week guy. I don't know. I doubt they see him

1244
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: that way anyway, But he's got some juice to him.

1245
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: He's a really good receiver that you can detach from

1246
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: the formation. So I think he's a really good player.

1247
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: I thought he's a really good prospect coming out of

1248
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And then Greg flipping it over to the

1249
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: Jets defense. Obviously, their pass rush has suffered after the

1250
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: season ending loss, season ending injury to Carl Lawson. They

1251
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 1: haven't been able to generate pressure with as much effectiveness. Now,

1252
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 1: you know, in the course of the first nine ten

1253
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, they lost LaMarcus Joiner for the year,

1254
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: and now Marcus May, who some might argue was one

1255
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: of the two best players on their roster on defense. Yes,

1256
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 1: so he gets those young players lined up on the

1257
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: back end. Now it looks like Ashton Davis. You know,

1258
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: the second year safety is going to have to fill

1259
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: that void. That's those are big shoes to fill. How

1260
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: much do you think that impacts their effectiveness back there, Oh,

1261
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: it definitely impacts. It means a good player. And again,

1262
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: now you get stuck with the idea that, hey, this

1263
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: is a defense you feel you can throw it against.

1264
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: You See, that's what you brought up with, because you know,

1265
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 1: I think their corners have played a little better than

1266
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: people probably think. They're not well known names. Echoes as

1267
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 1: a rookie from Kentucky ball as a kid from Virginia.

1268
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: They played a little better than people might think that

1269
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: they've played. But you know, I'm sure they're gonna look

1270
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: at this this secondary and think, you know what, we

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01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 1: can throw the ball against this team. And it's easy

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01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: to say that, and we'll see what they do. I

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01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: in all honesty, I thought last week that they're two

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01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: stacked linebackers. Mosley and Davis really played poorly in the

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: run game. I mean, the Colts old line just kept

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01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: they were driving them back. Those guys played laterally instead

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01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,680
Speaker 1: of attacking gaps. I thought they played really with hesitancy,

1278
01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: with uncertainty, and they just set themselves up to be blocked. Now,

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01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 1: this is a different offense than what the Cold spring

1280
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: to the table obviously with Taylor Jonathan Taylor. So we'll see.

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01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: But because both those guys are pretty athletic and they

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: look apart, But I think the Bills are gonna look

1283
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: at this defense and feel like we can throw the balls. Right.

1284
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: What did right before we go? I'm gonna bounce around.

1285
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,559
Speaker 1: Did you see Thursday Night Football last night? What did

1286
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: you think of the Miami Dolphins be able to upset

1287
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 1: the Ravens I'm gonna tell you this, and I'm just

1288
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 1: being honest. I actually watched twos throws this morning. But

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01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I actually watched Kenny Puck Pickett,

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01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: and Sam Howell last night, Oh Carolina start. I was.

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01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: I was watching North Carolina and Pittsburgh because I've actually

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01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 1: watched I watched Howell's tape this summer from last year,

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01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: and I've actually watched Pickets tape from both two thousand

1294
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: and nineteen and twenty and twenty, and I personally think

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01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett will be the first quarterback chosen. Okay, Yeah,

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01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 1: I heard people comparing Mayfield, comparing Howell to Mayfield in

1297
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 1: terms of skill sets, you know, stature, all of that stuff.

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01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 1: I don't know how I actually I don't think that's

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01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: gonna play out, to be honest, Chris, once all the

1300
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 1: evaluation is done. But that's just my opinion. Yeah, all right,

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01:09:57,600 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: fair enough, all right, look at it. He's already dipping

1302
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: his te in the college draft waters. We're only a

1303
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: week ten. I know, I wish I could actually watch

1304
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 1: college tape, but that doesn't quite fit into my seventies. Yeah.

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01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: I worry about you sometimes, Greg, although I can I

1306
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: can I can picture the games washing over you. You're

1307
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: in a recliner, probably at about forty five degrees. There's

1308
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 1: a beverage in your way. I got my sweats. Oh yeah,

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01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: I could see though, I could picture it now. All right,

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: very good Greg, as always, thanks for the insight. We'll

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: look forward to talking to you next week. All right, guys,

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01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks so much. All right. That's Greg co Sell,

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01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: senior and producer from NFL Films, also co host of

1314
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 1: the NFL met Up Show on ESPN. You take a

1315
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: break here, but come back with answers to your questions

1316
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,639
Speaker 1: and the Yobi l Fan Friday Nail Day. We'll see

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01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: on the other side here on One Girl's Live to

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Speaker 1: Buy collaud to Health Buffalo Bill breaks. All right, welcome

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01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: back at One Meal of Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: with you, and it is that time in the show

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01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: for the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate Forgot all about It?

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01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker's Teammate, brought to you by Wegman's Meals to

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01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 1: Go Delicious Meals Delivered download the Wegman's app today, Steve,

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01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I think so? All right, there we

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01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 1: go clue number one. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi. I ran

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01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: track and played football and baseball at Tupelo High School.

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01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: I took quickly to football, earning all state honors as

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01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: a senior. Tupelo, Mississippi. Yes, Russell Copeland, and you got it.

1329
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: I was afraid that would be given away way too much.

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01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: I should have just said Mississippi, but even that might

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01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: not have done it. Russell cop franchise. Yeah, that's right.

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01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: Russell Copeland is the answer. It is correct. You got

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01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: it in one clue. I think that's the fifth time

1334
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: Steve has guest Tasker's teammate correctly on the first clue.

1335
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: Obviously played his college ball at the University of Memphis,

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01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: where he played for three seasons. He scored three touchdowns

1337
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: in one game Steve against Tennessee, one of five Memphis

1338
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: Tigers in school history to do so. And we've got

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01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: Russell Copeland on the line. Is he is he ready?

1340
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:34,759
Speaker 1: Can he hear us Russell? Hear me? Yes, Steve guessed

1341
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: you in one guest care you needed was Twopelo, Mississippi,

1342
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: and he got your Russell correct me if I'm wrong?

1343
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: Did you not score touchdown the first time? He touched

1344
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: the ball in the NFL game, absolutely the first first

1345
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: game of his NFL career punt return. Caught a nice

1346
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: punt and took it to the house. And I'll never

1347
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:01,600
Speaker 1: it was so great, Like I came where he he

1348
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: had the great line of all time. After he did that,

1349
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,759
Speaker 1: he was standing over the side. We were all stoked

1350
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 1: for him. Right, it's so great. I come over snap

1351
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: and he looked at me and he just said, I

1352
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: feel so good right now. Man. That says it all.

1353
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: It was so awesome. Yeah, Russell was great. That was

1354
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: good to see you, man. How you doing and I'm

1355
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 1: doing well, Stave. Good to see you man. Yeah, that's good.

1356
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: That's good. Now you're are you Where are you living now?

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01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: Are you back in Mississippi? Now? Yes, I'm living outside

1358
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 1: of Memphis in South Haven. Okay, all right, thanks for

1359
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: coming on man. It's good to talk to you. Man.

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01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. Man. You know, I see you,

1361
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, doing some things on television, man, and uh,

1362
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 1: it's just great. You know, when you look at your

1363
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: career and after you get a little older, you appreciate

1364
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:47,960
Speaker 1: the guys that you played with. You appreciate your time

1365
01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: that you played and and um, you know, playing with you,

1366
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: man was awesome. And you know, just going to a

1367
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: team such as the Buffalo Bills, a team that had

1368
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: been the three straight Super Bowls for me as a

1369
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,560
Speaker 1: young player, you know, the tone was already set. It

1370
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 1: was already set for you to have a great career,

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01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: to be around professionals, and and you were awesome. Man.

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01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: You're a great player on and off the field. And

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01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 1: I just know numerous times I could come and talk

1374
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 1: to you about whatever it was, and you was always

1375
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and And I appreciate that. I'll say this, Russ.

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01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: You picture this being a wide receiver and coming and

1377
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 1: getting drafted by the Bills and you come in, there's

1378
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 1: James Lofts in the room, babies in the room. I'm

1379
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 1: in the room. Andre Reid's in the room. That was

1380
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 1: a really difficult roster to make. And Cope came hand

1381
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: and made the roster. I mean it was hard to do.

1382
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: There was a lot of guys during the first of

1383
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: those first three Super Bowl years and just before they

1384
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: could not get it done, and and Cope came in

1385
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: and h and was part of that team that was

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01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: that was that really that above all other things. Of

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01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 1: everything you accomplished was probably as big a feather in

1388
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: your cap as anything. You know, absolutely, And you just

1389
01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: mentioned you know the guys that are in the room,

1390
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: and you look at James Lofton Hall of Fame, and

1391
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: you look at Andre read A Hall of Fame, and

1392
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: you look at our coach, Charlie Joiner hall of Famer,

1393
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,840
Speaker 1: Don beebe very fast. You know, you guys had been

1394
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 1: the three straight Super Bowls, and for me to come there,

1395
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 1: I wanted to learn the playbook as fast as possible.

1396
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: Confidence I was never lacking, but the playbook. Understand the

1397
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,680
Speaker 1: playbook and just learning how to run professional routes from

1398
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: you guys, and just understanding coverages and knowing where I'm

1399
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 1: supposed to be and that was big. And the way

1400
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: we practice it just helped me to be able to

1401
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: be a better professional, I'll say that. And I was

1402
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: doing some research Steve, you know, to get ready with

1403
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: all these clues, none of which I got to use

1404
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: because he gets you on the first day and clue Russ.

1405
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 1: But Dwight Adams, the former director of Player Personnel One,

1406
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: said of Russell, there are not many people I know

1407
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: who are tougher than him. This is a physically tough kid.

1408
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: And then I saw something else. Cornelius Bennett said, Copeland

1409
01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 1: came in the locker room and he didn't take any

1410
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: crap from any of the veteran players. Threw it right

1411
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 1: back at him, and Biscuits said, I actually like that.

1412
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: I like young guys that come in and don't take

1413
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: any guff from anybody. That's not an easy locker room

1414
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: to deal with. I mean, if you're a young guy

1415
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: or a new guy, did you get razzed a little bit? Well,

1416
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:15,640
Speaker 1: to be honest about it, I wanted to be a

1417
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: part of something great. I want to be a part

1418
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: of something successful. Um. And when you look around on

1419
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 1: the defensive side, when you have Bruce Smith, you know,

1420
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 1: when you have Carniz been at, when you have Darryl Tallely, um,

1421
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of other players, um that were

1422
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: playing Kelso Um. You you you looked around and you

1423
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: see these great players, players that you have seen when

1424
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: you were in college, players that you emulated, such as

1425
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: Andre Reid. And then you look at Steve Tasker, Um.

1426
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: You know, we came in as rookies. We saw something

1427
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: like a highlight wheel. And when you when you looked

1428
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,560
Speaker 1: at it. I saw eighty nine on so many of

1429
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: those reels. And when I had to meet him, you know,

1430
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:55,680
Speaker 1: I saw his size and I saw how big he was,

1431
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:58,560
Speaker 1: and I was just really marveled and and I was

1432
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,799
Speaker 1: even more a mayor's once I saw when real practice started,

1433
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: how he practiced and how he went at his business

1434
01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:09,560
Speaker 1: and and the things that he was able to do

1435
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: with his size and his speed. And and just to

1436
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,600
Speaker 1: talk about you, Steve, you know, you were an outstanding

1437
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: football player. And I think in order to appreciate the

1438
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 1: greatness of Steve Tasker, I think one has to have

1439
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: played with him or played against him and you and

1440
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: you're talking about, you know, a player that's versatile, cerebral, tough, elusive, fast,

1441
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: um had the tenacity and it was just great, you know,

1442
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,639
Speaker 1: to see to see him in game day, to see

1443
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: you know, when you come in and you make a

1444
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 1: team as a rookie, you're probably gonna have to play

1445
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 1: special teams. Um, if you're not going to be in

1446
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: the mix, you know, as a defensive player offense, but

1447
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to play special teams. And just to

1448
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: see Steve to the versatility, to see him line up

1449
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: on a kickoff team, and he could line up outside.

1450
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: You can line up in the middle. He makes tackles.

1451
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: You look at the kickoff return team, he could be

1452
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 1: a return he could be a blocker in the middle.

1453
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 1: You look at the punt block team. You can line

1454
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: him outside, line him inside. He found a way to

1455
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: get inside to make those blocks. Punt return team, you

1456
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 1: know he was there. You look at the punt team, Um,

1457
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 1: he lines up as a gunner. And a gunner to

1458
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: me in football is the hardest position to go down

1459
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: and make make plays. And I would say myself ninety

1460
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: percent of the time he probably was untouched and the

1461
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: time that he was because he still made a way

1462
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: to make a play. So for me to see that,

1463
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,759
Speaker 1: then I saw the level of competition. So I wanted

1464
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: to be a part of that. I'll say, well, let

1465
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: me say Russ Copeland is now my favorite Bill's catcher's

1466
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 1: teammate of all. Thanks for that, man. You may there

1467
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of you make a lot of bouquets,

1468
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: and now you're my favorite. I gotta say, right, you

1469
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta say this though, and getting getting back

1470
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: to what you know, what A J. Smith said and

1471
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: all those guys most people don't know, and people would

1472
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,680
Speaker 1: think if if you could picture yourself walking into an

1473
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: NFL there is no tougher root in all of in

1474
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: anywhere to go in and be a part of. Because

1475
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: it's not like you're a performer where you're going into

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Speaker 1: a tough crowd as a comic or a comedian. You're

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01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: going into a room like an NFL locker room with

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01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: the biggest, baddest guys on the planet and trying to

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01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 1: fit in and be one. And it was it said

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01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: something about a guy like Cope who walked into that room,

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01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: who guy has been the three straight Super Bowls and

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01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: walk in and take ownership of it. That as much

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01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 1: as anything, told everybody in the room like, well, okay,

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01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: this this guy's got something like he was gonna help us,

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01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: even if it was just being a guy, right, I mean,

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01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 1: because he was gonna help us just because of his attitude.

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01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: He was gonna be able to compete at the highest

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01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: level because he was that sure of himself and had

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01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: that much self confidence and was willing to work that hard.

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01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: So Cope was a guy who you know when they

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01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 1: drafted when they drafted him, they got it right. I

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01:19:56,240 --> 01:19:59,599
Speaker 1: mean there's no question about it. Yeah, and real quick,

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01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: so you know, Steve again going into my research notes here,

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01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 1: Cope went back to school, got his degree at Memphis,

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01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:13,839
Speaker 1: finished up broadcast journalism. And you are on the Memphis

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01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: radio broadcast team. Am I right about that? You're on

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01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 1: the Tigers radio network. Yes, yes, yes, that's correct. I

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01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: went back to school. Um, you know, finished up and

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01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: enjoyed football. Love football. So I wanted to give back

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01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,560
Speaker 1: to the game, so to speak. But I think it

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01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: was important for me leaving school as a junior um

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01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 1: to go back and get um, you know that that

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01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: piece of paper that I should have you know, done

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01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,640
Speaker 1: earlier in my career. Yeah. And how's it going. It's

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01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 1: going pretty good. Like you know, doing the doing the games.

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01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: It's it's great, love it, enjoyed. Um, Like I said,

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01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 1: still around the game, get a chance to talk to

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01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: young players, uh, you know, give him some advice on

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01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: and off the field. But it's just fun, um, you know,

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01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,759
Speaker 1: following the footstepp of guys like Steve Tasker, just enjoyed

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01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: James Lofton guys such as that. But just just to

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01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: give back to the game. And you know, I do

1513
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: have knowledge, experience, and I think if players can get

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01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:08,680
Speaker 1: that on and off the field, they can help them

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01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: down the road, whether they play professionally or just once

1516
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: they start their lives their careers after college. Well, Russell Man,

1517
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: it's great to see. It's great to hear from you.

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01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you got into the broadcasting into things.

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01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense to me. And I

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01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 1: hope you can help those young guys at Memphis come

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01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: out and be the best version of themselves. It's nice

1522
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,760
Speaker 1: to see you giving back to those guys and helping

1523
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 1: them out as they as they start their own careers.

1524
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. That's awesome. Thanks Man, definitely. And you know,

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01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: like I say before we get off, you know, I

1526
01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 1: think in my mind, and I'm not just blowing smoke,

1527
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 1: I think you're Hall of Famer. I you know, I

1528
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 1: think that there are three phases of football. There's offense,

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01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: there's defense, and their special teams. But when I look

1530
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: at the game today, I don't think that there's anyone

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01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: that has the versatility that you had when you were playing.

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01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: After you and now, when I say that, is that

1533
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: being able to play at a high level on all

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01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,639
Speaker 1: of the special teams and also able to be put

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01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: in as a receiver to come in and play, I

1536
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 1: mean play at a high levels, to make plays. Love you, man,

1537
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: enjoy playing with you, and I appreciate it more. Now.

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01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot of everything that you've done, Cope, take

1539
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: care man, I appreciate it. Done. Look, we gotta get

1540
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: Cope in the room. And good Ducktor Memphis Stephen Ducted,

1541
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 1: good lucks of Memphis Tigers. Cope. Thanks, thanks man. All right,

1542
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: Cope's gonna get Coach's gonna get Steven duct. We gotta

1543
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:25,879
Speaker 1: get him in the room with the Hall of Fame selectors.

1544
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:28,600
Speaker 1: We gotta get him as your presenter here. That's unbelievable.

1545
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 1: I mean we get calls all the time, Cope from

1546
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: fans saying, Steve you belong in the Hall of Fame,

1547
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 1: and we all know that he does. But man, you

1548
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 1: that's a great case study. I mean you you gave

1549
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: every place where he lined up in special Team's history.

1550
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: Good job on you, man, doing your homework. Look at that.

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01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 1: Appreciate appreciated, Appreciate it. Then all right, we that's this

1552
01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: editionive Tasker's teammate. Good to see you, Russ. Good luck.

1553
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you down the line. We have

1554
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, Steve

1555
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: and I to wrap things up with a couple of

1556
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 1: OBIL fan mail bag questions. We'll see you in a second.

1557
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 1: We're back here one Live, buzzing things down for the week,

1558
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 1: and we got to dive into the OBL Friday fan mailbag.

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01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:22,640
Speaker 1: Steve from Nick, do you expect more short to intermediate

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01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: passes going forward? Until now? It seems like we've been

1561
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:28,360
Speaker 1: trying to push the ball down feel like last year,

1562
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's working. With all the two

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01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: deep coverage we've been getting. I don't know if they've

1564
01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: really pushed it down field all that much. They've tried

1565
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: to take what the defense gives them. Where do you

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01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: come down on that, Steve, Uh, it's Harry, I don't know.

1567
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 1: I let me just say I'm were they the run

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01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: pass ratio you're talking about? Hold on, hold on, they're

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01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: talking about. No, I don't expect. I don't expect more

1570
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:02,639
Speaker 1: intermediate passes going forward. Yeah, I think that. I think

1571
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna I think Josh is gonna complete between sixty

1572
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: five and seventy percent of his passes, whether they're short

1573
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 1: or long. And I think the more question. The bigger

1574
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: question is are they gonna run it more than they

1575
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: throw it or more? Are they gonna run it more

1576
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: now than they've been running it, and they're gonna do

1577
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: it more successful. Their passing game doesn't need to change.

1578
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 1: All it needs is a little help, if you know

1579
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know what I mean. So I no,

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01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna see more in any intermediate

1581
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: passes um they've and you're right, there hasn't been any

1582
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: big you know, Greg Coseltolas, You know, there hasn't been

1583
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: any explosive plays in the passing game. And one of

1584
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: the reasons is because their run game doesn't. They don't

1585
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: have any play action passes at all to get open

1586
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, to use uh that's non non existing in

1587
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: their offense. So I think the one thing we see

1588
01:24:57,479 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 1: a ton of is that little hip screen where they

1589
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: they're sending press sure to get to Josh fast, and

1590
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: they're whipping it out to the sidelines fast, you know,

1591
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: a lot until they come up with an answer that's

1592
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 1: different than that. We're going to see that. But when

1593
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 1: Josh has time, teams know he's going to be really successful.

1594
01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: So I don't think they're gonna change much about what

1595
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: they do, like more of this, more of that. I

1596
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be more run and less pass or

1597
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:25,560
Speaker 1: different runs and you know, different passes. I don't know

1598
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: about different passes. But their passing game doesn't really need

1599
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 1: to change that much. To me. They've got they've just

1600
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 1: got to pull teams out of that cover two shell.

1601
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: They've got to get that extra safety to have to

1602
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: come down in the box to stop the run game,

1603
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: you know where they think they have to stop him

1604
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 1: With eight said, it's just six or seven. Rachel says,

1605
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: is there or asks, is there anything schematically we can

1606
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 1: change to help our run game or has it been

1607
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 1: purely a talent execution issue. I don't know if it's

1608
01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: purely a talent an execution, but I think that's a

1609
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:01,560
Speaker 1: lot of it to domination of things. I think I

1610
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:07,560
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's execution, poor execution. Yeah, I

1611
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: think it's a lack of execution. You can say they

1612
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: might you know, and I get this too. I've said

1613
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 1: it a million times and I can't back away from

1614
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,600
Speaker 1: it now. Better players will make you play better, but

1615
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,360
Speaker 1: I you know, so, I don't know that they need

1616
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,400
Speaker 1: to change personnel because they got some guys in there.

1617
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 1: They've got some chops in the league, plus they could

1618
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: get healthy, get their number one guys in there. So

1619
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:32,040
Speaker 1: that'll help Spencer Brown getting back in the lineup. I

1620
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: don't know how much that'll help. That's just one guy.

1621
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see if there's a ripple effect across

1622
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: the line by one guy getting back in there and

1623
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 1: moving everybody back to where they're more comfortable. Freed asks,

1624
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: what's the downside to giving Antonio Williams a shot? He

1625
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: looked good and limited action last year. It could provide

1626
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:52,600
Speaker 1: a spark with his intensity. Bigger back does have some

1627
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: some speed and wiggle to him. But I think this

1628
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: is a Matt Breed a week. I think they try

1629
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 1: some things with Breeda first and then if they want

1630
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: to go down the rung another peg. Yeah, I wouldn't

1631
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: rule out seeing Antonio Williams at some point if the

1632
01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: run game continues struggle. I see that and I hear it.

1633
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: But with you know, if they were going to do

1634
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 1: something off the wall, you'd get Matt Brita and Antonio

1635
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 1: Williams and you'd bench the other two guys. I don't

1636
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. They make these guys earn their

1637
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 1: way onto the field until Brita and Williams burn their

1638
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: way on. You're not gonna see him. So we're gonna

1639
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: get what the best guys in practice, all right, don't

1640
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:35,960
Speaker 1: forget check out our weekly podcast, Bills by the Numbers,

1641
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,759
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1642
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: up the Jets game.