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Speaker 1: day off here in One Bill's Drive. No days off

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Speaker 1: for One Bill's Live, however, welcome to the show. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to new air Afield. It's summer like at in Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park today, eighty to green sunny Skies. That's right back

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Speaker 1: to August. It's what it feels like. Good afternoon, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to our one Buffalo Studio, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: taken over where the instigators left off here until three

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Speaker 1: o'clock today with Bill's Talk NFL Talk at afternoon. Steve,

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Speaker 1: it does feel like August. I think we should be

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Speaker 1: back out there in the in the Pelaconic Pavilion at

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Speaker 1: Saint John Fisher College. Right, that was great out there

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Speaker 1: was great if it was fun, a lot of love

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Speaker 1: was cool. Hey. Yeah, we got stuff to talk about today,

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Speaker 1: including the signing of a new quarterback, Derek Anderson. Is

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Speaker 1: been reported since Sunday, it was completed today. Fourteen year

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Speaker 1: veteran Derek Anderson is now a Buffalo Bill. The announced

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Speaker 1: became just about forty five minutes ago. Thirty five year

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Speaker 1: backing up Cam Newton. He played in the twenty five

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Speaker 1: time with Arizona, last seven years with Carolina, comes to

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Derek Anderson is now a Buffalo Bill

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Speaker 1: a backup certainly, and it would seem signed to mentor

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, right, Steve, isn't that what we're looking at

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Speaker 1: who and I remember talking to hearing from Al Davis,

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Speaker 1: Derek Anderson will be ready to play pretty quickly, I think,

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Speaker 1: even in this offense. So and He'll be a guy

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Speaker 1: wonder whether he's not speaking from experience. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's it's an obvious move for the Bills, and the

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Speaker 1: only criticism is what took him so long? I get that,

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Speaker 1: But by the same token, you know kind of where

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Speaker 1: two of his starts. Anyway, Charn McDermott as a strong

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Speaker 1: belief and having that sort of veteran leadership in every

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Speaker 1: in linebacker with Lorenzo Dean, line, with Kyle Williams in

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot yesterday on what Derek Anderson might mean for

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Speaker 1: first five weeks. They release safety Dean Marlow in order

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Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen takes every snap for the next

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Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years, so you know that's the plan. But

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Speaker 1: probably won't be this week. Well, what do you think

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Speaker 1: this Tuesday afternoon, typically the quiet day here at one

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Speaker 1: good sleep after your long night Sunday night. Huh? I

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock. I watched I watched the Bills game again

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Speaker 1: last night. Why'd you get into that? I got Baltimore

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Speaker 1: of where the safety's line up and where they don't

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Speaker 1: line up, and their ability to disguise what's going on

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Speaker 1: in the secondary and therefore by by association the front

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Speaker 1: as well, it really gives teams problems. Now once the

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Speaker 1: ball is snapped and they stem out to where they're

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Speaker 1: going to run out from out of position into position,

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Speaker 1: the scheme becomes very simple, and that's really good for

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Speaker 1: guys like Edmonds and Milana, the young guys who can

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to think once the ball

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Speaker 1: is snapped. It's really let this team play fast defensively.

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Speaker 1: It lets them think about things other than if if

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Speaker 1: they've got the right guy, or they are their eyes

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Speaker 1: going to the right place, are they looking for the

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Speaker 1: right things defensively in their keys. It takes all that

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Speaker 1: off their plate because they can play with a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence because it is such a simple scheme, and

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Speaker 1: that leads to turnovers when they play fast, run to

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Speaker 1: the football and don't have to think about all this

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Speaker 1: other stuff. They can think about things about how to

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Speaker 1: make the tackle and make the tackle while still pulling

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Speaker 1: the ball out or going in for the football and

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Speaker 1: not thinking about guys I hope I'm garden and actually

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Speaker 1: guarding the right guy. It takes all the thought process

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Speaker 1: out of it for these young players and that's really

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Speaker 1: been a help. And I think it also has helped

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Speaker 1: all the young secondary players who've had to go in

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Speaker 1: and play extended mounts because of the injuries to Micah

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Speaker 1: Hide and the injury also to the cornerbacks. So I

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Speaker 1: think that makes a lot of sense. And then this

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Speaker 1: article that Benoit wrote, a lot of things come together

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Speaker 1: and it's really been beneficial for the young players on

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Speaker 1: the defense, and there's a lot of them out there

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Speaker 1: that are playing significant roles that are first year, second

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Speaker 1: year players. More from the tweet sheet. When we asked

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Speaker 1: the question what's been the biggest factor in the Bill's

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Speaker 1: defensive improvement, Trey Hellman tweets and McDermott taking over defensive

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Speaker 1: play calling. Once that change was made, they looked like

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Speaker 1: a different defense. Well, obviously two quarters, yeah, he had

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Speaker 1: the second half of the Chargers, But if your point,

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Speaker 1: Troy Hillman, is that mcdermot's approach kind of changed their

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Speaker 1: whole approach and continued not even when Leslie Fraser resumed

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Speaker 1: play calling duties. Yeah, you might be honest something there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe McDermot took over play calling to sort of emphasize

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Speaker 1: what he wanted them to do defensively, what he saw

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Speaker 1: on defense, and what he thought they could do well

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Speaker 1: in that case, maybe maybe you're right about that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. And one more from the tweet sheet from

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Speaker 1: Brian Cook Unsung Heroes. He says, we hemorrhaged yards yards

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Speaker 1: through the air for six quarters. It took us that

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Speaker 1: long to find out something that works opposite Trey White

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Speaker 1: side of the field. Some is coaching, some is cornerback personnel,

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Speaker 1: some is safety scheming. A lot of subtle pieces went

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Speaker 1: into plugging that big hole. Can't argue with it. I

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Speaker 1: cannot argue with that. There's a lot of and I

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Speaker 1: think we've all noticed this, and you watched this team

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Speaker 1: and they're much different team obviously than they were Week one,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's going to continue to be the case.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this game they put together against the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: what's much different than I think the one they were

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Speaker 1: able to put together in the first two three weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season. Their running game was there, Their offensive

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Speaker 1: line played much better than it did early on. They're

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Speaker 1: getting better. At least they did this last week and

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Speaker 1: it led to a really good rushing game from Chris

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Speaker 1: Ivory and Lashawn McCoy. That was the real difference for me,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that this team is still kind of evolving. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: this recipe is hard to beat for this squad offensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're not with Josh Allen, even as gift

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Speaker 1: as he is, They're not gonna throw the football all

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Speaker 1: over the field. I don't. You're not gonna You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna win games with him throwing the football forty times.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna win games with him running the football forty times.

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Speaker 1: They did that forty three times last week, and they

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Speaker 1: only threw at twenty one times. That's the difference, and

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Speaker 1: that's why you can win games. When you can keep

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Speaker 1: your running game, their defense keeps. In a close game,

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Speaker 1: you're within one score, you can still hand the football

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Speaker 1: off on a second and eight and have him snap

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Speaker 1: off a first down maybe even and said that was huge.

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Speaker 1: I think this past week a couple of phone calls,

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Speaker 1: they answer to this question, what's been the biggest factor

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Speaker 1: in the Bill's defensive improvement. They are six in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They were twenty six last year. Jose and Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: some thoughts on this, So go ahead, you're on the air. Hey, good,

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Speaker 1: good morning, guys. They're gonna have to do guys, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Before I started, Murph, I got a bone to pick

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Speaker 1: with you because I remember early on in the year

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Speaker 1: you were talking about you were getting on Steve about

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Speaker 1: how they were gonna be uh he was saying that

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Speaker 1: they were gonna be top ten and you were like, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, and this right, I come

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Speaker 1: on and I said they're gonna be top five. So

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Speaker 1: I think me and Steve were kind of on on

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Speaker 1: on the bright side on this. But you're Steve's right

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Speaker 1: for now listening. Yeah, and it's it's week six. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's you know, we gotta pump the brakes a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they'd be better. Yeah, they are better, and

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Speaker 1: they're playing their best right now. They're playing really good

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Speaker 1: football and um market and they they've made some hay

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Speaker 1: against Marcus Mariota they didn't make so much hay against

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Speaker 1: and they did pretty well against Kirk Cousins too. Um

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, they held off the scoreboard pretty much. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the first couple of weeks they gave up

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Speaker 1: some big numbers. Sure, but I will acknowledge they played

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Speaker 1: some decent teams and Jose, we're gonna get to your

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Speaker 1: point in a second here, but it came across this

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Speaker 1: ESPN every week is their power rankings. Bills ranked very low,

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth. Okay, we get that, but they also ranked

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season strength of schedule. You know what,

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Speaker 1: The strength of schedule for the Bills rest of the

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Speaker 1: season is thirtieth in the NFL. In other words, the

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Speaker 1: third easiest schedule in the NFL belongs to the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills the rest of this year. Now things will change.

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Speaker 1: Teams will get better, teams will get worse. That strength

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Speaker 1: of schedule will switch. But when I said last week

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Speaker 1: that the worst is behind them schedule wise, there's proof

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Speaker 1: right there. The rest of the season strength of schedule

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills is thirtieth, third easiest schedule remaining

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That means something. Steve I believe, and

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Speaker 1: it means something in terms of the defensive rankings. You're

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Speaker 1: top ten. May happen. Yeah, I'd be perfectly happy if

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Speaker 1: you were right. By the way, Jose, go ahead. What

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Speaker 1: the other point do you have? All right? Well, I

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Speaker 1: was hoping you guys would settle a dispute for us

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Speaker 1: on We're having a low dispute on Facebook the Bills

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Speaker 1: Mafia page. Um, somebody was actually talking crap about Star

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Speaker 1: Latoule personally. I believe he is the biggest factor for

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Speaker 1: the reason for this improvement me personally, and that's because

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Speaker 1: of the double teams he's eating up. I actually seen

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Speaker 1: him getting triple teamed and um, that front, that front,

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. I mean, I just I believed him

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Speaker 1: was probably Star Latole, in my eyes, was probably the

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Speaker 1: biggest freason acquisition this year for US. Um. Everybody else

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Speaker 1: is trying to say it's it's other people, and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking of Star Latoule. And another thing, I wish, I wish,

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Speaker 1: I really wish these these national people would start giving

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Speaker 1: my boy Trey White some credit. He is the best

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Speaker 1: shut down corner in the league, hands down. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: I'm saying it now and we'll see it again next

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Speaker 1: week when he shut down, when he shut down Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: So I'll hang up and let you guys talk about that.

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Speaker 1: If he can shut down DeAndre Hopkins, he will get

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Speaker 1: some attention because DeAndre Hopkins is a tough guy to

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Speaker 1: shut down. They target him, they don't care who's guarding him.

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Speaker 1: He is a great receiver with a lot of ability,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a ton ton ton of confidence. So

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Speaker 1: if they match up Trey White on DeAndre Hopkins exclusively,

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Speaker 1: he's got his He's got his work cut out for him.

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Speaker 1: Because DeAndre Hopkins is not gonna go away. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: keep going at him, and and it's gonna be a long,

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Speaker 1: long day. And I'll tell you what I And I'm

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Speaker 1: as big a Trey White fan as there is. I

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Speaker 1: think he's great. You're right, he is one of the

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Speaker 1: He's in the top whoever, whatever week you want to pick,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's in the top three at least of DBS,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes he is the guy all over the league.

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Speaker 1: You're right. But I'll tell you what. He shuts down

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins this week, there will be no disputing it,

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Speaker 1: and even his critics will turn him in he'll say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's the best because I'll tell you what, DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: is playing better at wide receiver right now named buddy

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Speaker 1: in the league, and they go at him. They throw

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Speaker 1: to DeAndre Hopkins no matter what. So if he shuts

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Speaker 1: him down, the Bills will win that game. Could be

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Speaker 1: a great if the Bills will If he shuts DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins down to like two catches for less than twenty

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Speaker 1: yards or whatever like that, the Bills will win that game.

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Speaker 1: It will be a great matchup to watch. Here's a

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Speaker 1: call from Genie in Houston. Go ahead, Genie, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Hi. Hi, did you say? Oh? Thanks? I

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Speaker 1: just thought a call him and tell you. I normally

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Speaker 1: listen to our local WORTS radio here and this morning

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Speaker 1: they were talking about how the Vegas line dropped down today.

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Speaker 1: They think maybe just Sean Watson is hurt. Yeah, Watson,

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Speaker 1: I've banged around a lot. I know I didn't see

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Speaker 1: any specific mention of any injury, but I know he

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Speaker 1: got banged around a lot. I know that Bill O'Brien

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Speaker 1: was talking about we can't let that happen again. I

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Speaker 1: did hear. I don't follow the betting lines, but I

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Speaker 1: did hear there was some they did they just shut

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Speaker 1: down for now the Benning line. Did that happen, Jennie, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they studied to day. So interesting to watch. Maybe there's

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Speaker 1: some influence. Will happen is they'll probably list him is questionable.

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Speaker 1: I'll probably give him a day off tomorrow. He may

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Speaker 1: take a Wednesday off or something. But there's to me, Genie,

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Speaker 1: there ain't no way he ain't gonna play. He's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: I know he's gonna play. Cookie, But my family's coming

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Speaker 1: in from Buffalo and we're gonna be at the game.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. Ah, there you go. Thanks Jeannie,

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. We're talking about the Buffalo defense. They were

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Speaker 1: They're the ones they're gonna have to deal with. The

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Speaker 1: Shawn Watson you would think, and of course with DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think about that Buffalo defense right

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Speaker 1: now ranked sixth in the NFL, way above where they

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Speaker 1: were a year ago when they finished a year ranked

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Speaker 1: twenty six. What's been the reason for that, What's been

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Speaker 1: the biggest factor in the Bill's improvement on defense? Give

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Speaker 1: us a column. Will the Scotts eighth three fifty two

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. It's One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Well, it's time for our reds milestone. From

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Speaker 1: Sunday's Bills victory over the Tennessee Titans. Bill's quarterback Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen ran for a fourteen yard touchdown in that game.

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Speaker 1: In the first quarter. He had a touchdown run that

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Speaker 1: sets a new Bills rookie record for the most rushing

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the season. Three of them now for Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: two against the Vikings and that one against Tennessee. Three

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, new Bills rookie record most rushing touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: a season. I hope you run for twenty five more, bro,

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Speaker 1: I hope he throws for twenty five. I don't care

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Speaker 1: why our Twitter poll today, I will be throws for

639
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Speaker 1: thirty five and runs for twenty five. It's that's an

640
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Speaker 1: NFL record, superhuman. Yeah, it's long were wishing. Are you

641
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: sure you got enough sleep last night? Yeah? I watched

642
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: a little Monday night football last night, by the way,

643
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: And which is what I want to tell you. Why

644
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell you that, oh, because of

645
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. We'll talk about Drew Brees later on the show.

646
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: It was the Drew Brees Sean last night. I didn't

647
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: see a single snap of that. I was you were

648
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: doing duns. I had a great night over here. They

649
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: had the Bill's Speaker Series, which is a club that

650
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: season ticket holders and premium seat holders can join. UH.

651
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: Eric Wood, Kyle Williams, two cornerstone players, foundational players over

652
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: the last decade or more. UH in to talk to

653
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,479
Speaker 1: these one hundred and fifty or so people at the

654
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: bill Speaker Series. The meaning in the Buffalo Bill's Home

655
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: locker room over at the stadium at New Airfield like

656
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: set up with chairs and every year and it was

657
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: all cleaned up. And they have cleaned up. I said

658
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: that the folks in the back on the one corner,

659
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: I said, you folks back there, it's pretty clean. But

660
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: you should know that fifteen twenty years ago, Fred Smurleiss

661
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 1: Locker was in that area that was an officially EPA

662
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: super fun site. For a while, it was environmentally dangerous

663
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: and hazmat suits here. They didn't need a last night

664
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: that was cleaned up nice. It was. It was a

665
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: good night. And did they have like a white board

666
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: or something? I mean what, no, no, what did they

667
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: speak about? Oh? Well, I led the discussion. It was

668
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: a panel discussion kind of thing. Yeah, I just questions

669
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: were those two? A lot of questions from the folks

670
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: in the audience. It was good. A lot of questions,

671
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about the the victory over in

672
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: Miami last last New Year's Eve. You know Kyle touchdown, Yeah,

673
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: Kyle's touchdown. We talked about that watching the Cincinnati Yes, yes, yes,

674
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: it was. It was good. And a lot of discussion

675
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: about the Sunday's game and a lot of discussion, a

676
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: lot of questions for Eric about what he's doing now,

677
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: how he felt about being leader of the Charge. It

678
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: was good. It was a good session. And a lot

679
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: of questions about also about you know, the culture change

680
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: and the MCDA erat all of that well and actually working.

681
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: And we talked a little bit about what happened today

682
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: with the quarterback move Derek Anderson signed and I got

683
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: them talking about, you know, the the leadership role named

684
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: mentorship role that Sean McDermott likes to set set up

685
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: in each meeting room. You gotta believe Eric was that

686
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: was that leader in the offensive line meeting room right

687
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: the last year, so I maintains his I said, I

688
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: would guess you're the leader in the defensive lineman. He said,

689
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: your guess is right. I consider myself the leader there.

690
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: But we talk a lot about that too. Yeah, Yeah,

691
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: it was good. It was a good session the Bill

692
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: Speaker series last night. It's interesting because it used to

693
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: be back in the day, leaders like well I'm you know,

694
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: you'd say, guys. Guys didn't really like say, well, you know,

695
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do my thing. But now I

696
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: think it's become acceptable. I'm actually expected that. You've got

697
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: to embrace the same. Yeah, I am a leader, and

698
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a leader. You can follow me, and

699
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: you can, you know, not follow me, but join me.

700
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna do this. We're gonna do this together.

701
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: Used to be guys to say, hey, watch him, he'll

702
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: he'll show you how to do it, and you guy

703
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: would do it. He wouldn't really say anything. Now, uh,

704
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: the modern technique of doing it is to have these

705
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: guys stand up and say, listen, here's how it is.

706
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: You can you know, join me in doing this or

707
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I am going to be a

708
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: leader here. Well, I mean I think in a case

709
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: to be. I think he empowers people to do that,

710
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: he wants his veterans to do that. Well, they get

711
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: openly labeled. Yeah, you know it used to it used

712
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: to be kind of an under he's kind of our

713
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: leader over there. You know, you can you know you

714
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: guys would do it would be the same kind of effect.

715
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: But now it's they talk about it openly, and I

716
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: think it's a difference than it in this day and

717
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: age than it was in decades. Talks about all the time,

718
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: player driven leadership, you know, and so that's where it's

719
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: got to be. And that's so and that's why it

720
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: wasn't all the healthy teams that I was on, and

721
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: it's the way it wasn't when on all the you know,

722
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: the dysfunctional teams that I played on as well, it

723
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: just wasn't a factor. And now I think by making

724
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: it a priority, at least, that's one thing you have

725
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: in place that you don't have to think about. And

726
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: then and when it's not there, it's obvious and it's

727
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: an issue you gotta fix. So I don't think it's

728
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: I think it's great that they don't sweep it under

729
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: the rug. Yeah they do not. Hey, we're talking about

730
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: defensive improvement. Dramatic defensive improvement death through the first third

731
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: of the season here for the Buffalo Bills defense currently

732
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: ranked six in the NFL after being ranked twenty six

733
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: last year. What are the reasons for that? Give us

734
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: your reasons? Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

735
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: by fifty two five fifty Mitch on the line in

736
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: Buffalo Although, Mitch, go ahead, you're on the air with us. Oh,

737
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: how are you going? John? Okay respond to the pull question.

738
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: I think a huge improvement has been the nickel corner

739
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: Tehron Johnson. Um. I think he's been playing really well.

740
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you guys thought he had the

741
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: potential to start outside of Stavius White in the future. Well,

742
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I wouldn't look for that this year. I

743
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: think they like where they're at. I think nickel cornerback

744
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: is a starter. It's a starting position, and it's a

745
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: rookie who's kind of settling in there and doing a

746
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: pretty good job. So I would not look for that

747
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: this year. Who knows what they look at next year?

748
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: What do you think? I agree? I mean, for now,

749
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: they like where they're at. But if he shows the

750
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: you know, the wherewithal to do it, to move outside

751
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: because it is a different a different area, and I

752
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 1: don't know if it's I don't know that it's harder

753
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: or easier to go outside rather than inside. I think

754
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: the nickel Inside is kind of a tough place to

755
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: play and you've got to have some physical attributes to

756
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: do it. But on the outside it's it's not that

757
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: different either. I mean, you gotta have some physical attributes.

758
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: So uh, there's no question that I would think as

759
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: long as they've got their guys, they're gonna The only

760
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: way that Tarren Johnson would move outside there would be

761
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: because of somebody else's injury. Um, for right now, I

762
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: think he's gonna stay right where he's at. But I

763
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying too that the pick he

764
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: made on that play was as an excellent pick. I

765
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: spoke about it just a few minutes ago, saying, you know,

766
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: this secondary is starting to trust that that ball's coming

767
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: out because the pass rush is getting there. Last year

768
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: it didn't and they were kind of they wouldn't jump

769
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: routes so much as they would, you know, just cover

770
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: their guys. Now they're displaying some confidence and jumping some

771
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: routes because they know the ball's coming out because the

772
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: pass rush has been upgraded up front. The biggest factor

773
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: in the Bill's defensive improvement, What do you think it

774
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: is or anything you'd like to discuss eight fifty twenty

775
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Speaker 1: three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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Speaker 1: Nico and kem ra the line with us, Hello Nico,

777
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: how you doing? John? And now Steve Um. So, I

778
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: do think the defense is planning and playing at a

779
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: fast level, and they're they're flying to the ball, which

780
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: is you know, caused a lot of the fumbles and interceptions. UM.

781
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: And I just saw that Josh Reid put out um

782
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: a post about um Lashaw McCoy, that Philadelphia UM sent

783
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: an offer to the Buffalo Bills about Leshawn McCoy in

784
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 1: a trade. I was just curious about your guys and thoughts,

785
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of interactions on Facebook about it.

786
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: So I was just curious about what you guys think

787
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I'm starting to get some notifications on

788
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: my timeline about you know what I think about what

789
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: would happen? Listen. I'm I've always said listen to everybody's

790
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: for sale in the NFL. That's a business first and foremost. Um.

791
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: But you know, you've got to you've got to decide

792
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: what he's worth for me. I think Lashawn is really

793
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: valuable to this team right now, really valuable. Uh And

794
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: I don't And then with ten picks in the draft

795
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: already in the draft coming up, I don't know the

796
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: Bills are ready to bay on this season or to

797
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: leave Josh Allen with even one less thing that's helping

798
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: him play well. It would have to be a really

799
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: good offer for me if I would even consider it.

800
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: And there's certainly the Eagles are in a spot where

801
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: they think they're still a super Bowl team. They're a

802
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: little bit of a hangover mode, no question about it

803
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: from their super Bowl a year ago. But they got

804
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: running back issues and giz Now on ir so they

805
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: need a guy and they know Lashawn McCoy can play

806
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: in Philly. He's done it before. He's still playing at

807
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: a high level. We've seen it here, we saw here

808
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: this last week. I don't know how he trade that guy.

809
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: It would have to be a knock your socks off

810
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: wow offer for me to get rid of Lashawn McCoy.

811
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: I know he's thirty, so saying yeah, look, there's all

812
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: that is it in play? Right? Gi is gone? The

813
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: Eagles considered themselves Super Bowl contenders. They have familiarity with

814
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: Shady played there six years, still the I believe, the

815
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: all time leading rusher in Eagles history. But what's in

816
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: it for the Bills other than dismantling whatever their twenty

817
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: eighties and the twenty eighteen season is going to be

818
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: for that reason at this time, Steve. And maybe it

819
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: changes a month or two down the road. Obviously it's

820
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: got to be done before October thirtieth, so maybe it

821
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: changes in the next three weeks. But at this point

822
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 1: in time, I don't see a benefit of the Bills

823
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: unless you get a ridiculous something in return. Now, what's ridiculous?

824
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: I would you do it for a third round? I wouldn't.

825
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't think I would. Would you do it for

826
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: a second rounder? I might think about it a little harder,

827
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I might, but i'd you know what,

828
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: if October I'd almost wait till after the Monday night game,

829
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: yea twenty ninth. Yeah, I think get as much out

830
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: of him as you can, see how your season is going,

831
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: and then make your decision. I think just tapped into

832
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: shady Sunday, right, I agree? I agree. I was hurt

833
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: had the Ribs missed a game and they've just started

834
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 1: to tap into him, And now you want to trade

835
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: him for what? If you're ready to move ahead and say, well,

836
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: forget about the twenty eighteen season, go ahead. I'm not

837
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: there yet and it's gonna be a while before I

838
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: am there. I'm not ready to turn the page on

839
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Are they gonna make the playoffs? I wouldn't

840
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: been on it, but I wouldn't rule it out either.

841
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: At this point, I told you they got He's the

842
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: thirty easiest scheduling the NFL down the thinker this team

843
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: was last year. I mean, coming into the season, trading

844
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: away all those guys, and all of a sudden they're

845
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: what are they five and two right? Something like that,

846
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: and it's like all of a sudden, it's like, wow,

847
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: you know, you know we're not gonna do that. Now

848
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade And what happens if you know you

849
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: do go to Houston. Deshaun Watson isn't one hundred percent.

850
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: You find a way to win there. You go to

851
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and find a way to contain Andrew Luck and

852
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: you went and now with a sudden now you're four

853
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: and three, you know, and it's season looks a little different,

854
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I don't trade him now. I don't.

855
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: Somebody make the case to me, why now? And if

856
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: your case is based on because this season's over, will

857
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: be ready to be in your face. I don't believe it.

858
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: And it's not like I would. I listened. Shady's a

859
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: great player. You need him on your team, the best

860
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: player on this roster. So I don't. I have a

861
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: real hard time doing that unless they throw in a

862
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: player you need. I mean, I don't know who if

863
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: you get into like a what a Nelson Agalore, they're

864
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: not going to do that right right there? Yeah, John

865
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: and Depew on the line on the same topic. John,

866
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: go ahead, Yeah, I have the same question about Sean.

867
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: I'd say, if we do trade them, we have to

868
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: get we have to get at least a number two

869
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: and possibly an offensive lineman. What do you think, Yeah,

870
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: as much as you can get. I mean I mean, yeah,

871
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: you're talking about here's the thing. And I do this

872
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: all the time, and I imagine some fans do it

873
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: as well. When you think about a trade, like we're

874
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: gonna trade Lashawn McCoy, you come up with a thing

875
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: that they're you know, something you're gonna get in return,

876
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: And every time you think of something, it's like, of course,

877
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, of course we're going to do that. Of

878
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: course we'll take a number one, and and you know,

879
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, you know we'll take a starting right tackle

880
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: or starting left tackle and a number two. You know, Okay, yeah,

881
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: I'll make that deal. Yeah, of course. But the question

882
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: is if you get one draft pick back and is

883
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: it gonna be a three, is it gonna be a four,

884
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: is it gonna be a two. You're not gonna get

885
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,479
Speaker 1: a one for thirty year old running back, but would

886
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: you do it for a one? Yeah? Yeah. A lot

887
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: of this is timing. And look, I've learned with this group,

888
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: with McDermott and being you don't rule out anything. Right,

889
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: everything's in place, Like I said, everybody's listen. It's a business.

890
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: Everybody's for sale. Everything's in play. Um, they would probably listen,

891
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: but I think they would probably hold out for a

892
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: lot and then you kind of wait him out till

893
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: you get to the deadline and squeeze Philadelphia a little bit.

894
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: Now it's October twenty eighth, twenty ninth. The deadline is

895
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: the thirtieth. Okay, what's your offer now? Because if you

896
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: really want him, it's our last chance here, right, Because

897
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: I don't think the best player on the Bill's riding.

898
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: The Bills aren't lining up saying, hey, gosh, we'd love

899
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: to get rid of him. They're not saying now, are

900
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: you kidding me? All they have kidding way we want

901
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: We love the guy, he's staying here. We were leaning

902
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: on him. He's got marks from where we're riding him

903
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: and whipping him with a riding car man. We're riding

904
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: him all the parts. He's gonna take it. Yes, So

905
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: if you want on him, it's going to be a

906
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: pretty price. And I don't think you do it just

907
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: say just because the first phone call they say is

908
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: a number whatever, even if it's number three, I mean, like, no,

909
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: we're trying to we're trying to win this game this week,

910
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: and we need him to do it. All right, a break,

911
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: We're back with more We're going to talk about Drew Brees.

912
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: He was all over the place on your TV last night,

913
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: Steve and I will talk about that when we return.

914
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: It is One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, and

915
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, One Bill's Live

916
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, Peter King.

917
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: Coming up at one o'clock. Chris Brott. Now Chris isn't

918
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 1: here today. Here yesterday, Yeah, he was here yesterday, Andy,

919
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: butnoight's gonna join us. Coming up at two o'clock today. Well,

920
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: it was Monday Night football last night, and it was

921
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: kind of a special night. You got to say. I

922
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: watched it, watched the Drew Brees set records last night.

923
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. I wonder why Drew Brees seems

924
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: like he's under the radar. Yeah, that's a good question

925
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: because he shouldn't be he is. I mean, you always

926
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: talk about Tom Brady and you know, Peyton Manning and

927
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers, even Eli Manning some you know,

928
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: all that he doesn't he having the numbers near that

929
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: Brees does. But Breese is, you know, he's got to

930
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: be in the conversation for the goat absolutely and especially

931
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: after last night. Sixty two yard touchdown pass to Trequan

932
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: Smith to put the Saints up by twenty in the

933
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: second quarter, and he becomes With that pass, he became

934
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: the NFL's all time leader in career passing yardage, surpassing

935
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. Big celebration with his teammates. He went over

936
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: to the sidelines, presented the ball to a big David Baker,

937
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: the president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his

938
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: family was over there. Seventy one, nine hundred and sixty

939
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: eight career passing yards with that touchdown pass, and he

940
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: wasn't finished. He went on to set more records, right,

941
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: um five hundred, well not a record, but a milestone,

942
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: five hundred career um touchdown passes. Why is he underrated?

943
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's underrated. I mean, you don't

944
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: let lump him in there with the Rogers. And there's

945
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: been seven At one point there had been seven seasons

946
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: where a quarterback in the history of the NFL. There

947
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: have been seven seasons where a quarterback through for five

948
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Seven of them. He's got five of them, Yeah,

949
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: five of them. And nobody else has got more than one,

950
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: and there's only two other guys. I mean, it was

951
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: that's an amazing stat And he got traded or let

952
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: go by the did he get traded to the No,

953
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: he was a free agent, free agent. He was a

954
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: free agent. And everybody listen, now you here, you go back,

955
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: and every every head coach, everybody who had anything to

956
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: do with personnel on their team said I wanted to

957
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: get Drew Brees so bad and they wouldn't let me.

958
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to get it. Everybody said it. Well, no,

959
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: you know whatever, they can say what they want. Now,

960
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: New Orleans got him, and they won a Super Bowl

961
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: with him, and he's been as good or better than

962
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 1: anybody else in the league. So twenty six of twenty

963
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: nine passing last night night, the stage was set. He

964
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: knew he was the focus of attention. And he didn't

965
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: just go out and he shatters the record and throws

966
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: his five hundredth career touchdown pass and he goes twenty

967
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: six or twenty nine, just to let you know that

968
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: he is the ninety percent. Yeah, he completed last night.

969
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, and I know a little bit

970
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: about New Orleans. We got to talk to Thurman about

971
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: this because he is a botified Drew Brees friend. But

972
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is so valuable to the folks of New

973
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: Orleans for the way he came in after Katrina and

974
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: sort of calmed everybody down, took control of the New

975
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, led them to eventually a Super Bowl championship,

976
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: and kind of revived the Saints. I mean, after Katrina,

977
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: people thought the Saints would have to move, right, can't

978
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: play in that Supernome anymore. They're gonna have to move somewhere.

979
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: They did move during the five season after Katrina. Drew

980
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: Brees came in there and just took over, took over

981
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: the city. He is beloved in that city. He is

982
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: a he and there's so many there's so much news

983
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: about bad actors in the NFL. He might be the opposite,

984
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: like the paramount opposite character, Steve. He just is great

985
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: with kids, great family man, you know, with his kids

986
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: on the sidelines last night. You remember the famous shot

987
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: from their Super Bowl victory with his then younger son,

988
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 1: you know, holding him in his arms up on the stage,

989
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: the earphones, earphones. He just as an amazing character and

990
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: maybe you know at least one of the top three

991
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of all time career passing leader, and right up

992
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: there in touchdown passes, it's gonna be he's gonna have

993
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: the touchdown lead and now there's gonna be somebody that

994
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: passes him. I mean, that's just the way it is.

995
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: The lead's getting more and more pass happy, it's getting

996
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: more and more easy to throw in the league. It's

997
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: getting easier to stay healthy in the league because of

998
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: all them. And we're gonna get to that. We're gonna

999
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: talk about the roughing the passer calls as well later

1000
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: in the show, because it'll be easier for quarterbacks to

1001
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: stay available because they won't get hurt so much. And

1002
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: so somebody's gonna eclipse his numbers. But I'm telling you

1003
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 1: what to see what Drew Brees has done, and you're right.

1004
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: You go back to Hurricane Katrina, and it was one

1005
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: of the all time great moments in the NFL when

1006
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: the Saints took the field for the first time after Katrina,

1007
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: when they had to rebuild the Superdome and go in

1008
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: there and uh and play in that game and uh

1009
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: and to put the performance up the way the Saints

1010
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: did to do that it was. It really was amazing,

1011
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees was a huge central figure in all

1012
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: of that. He passed Peyton Manning as the NFL's all

1013
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: time passing yardage leader in Peyton was pretty funny about

1014
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: it last night in a couple of spots that he

1015
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 1: recorded for ESPN. Peyton Manning last night is Drew Brees

1016
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: passes him, Peyton, Drew Brees just broke your records, which

1017
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: one all time passing yards, passing yards. Okay, so I

1018
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: still have the touchdown record right He's actually on pace

1019
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: to break that too. What great, Drew. For a thousand days,

1020
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: I've held the record for all time passing yards in

1021
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: the NFL. I gotta tell you, it's been the greatest

1022
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: a thousand days of my life. And thanks to you,

1023
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: that's over now and you've ruined that for me. So

1024
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I have nothing left to look

1025
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: forward to except slicing my tomatoes, making dinner for my family,

1026
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: putting together this wedge salad. Also, let this service the

1027
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: congratulations for the touchdown record, because as you can see,

1028
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: I'm very busy. I don't have time to keep doing

1029
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: these videos for you congratulating you. But in all seriousness. Drew,

1030
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: congratulations on this record. You've done it the right way.

1031
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: All your hard work and dedication have paid off. You

1032
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: and I have come a long way since this picture

1033
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: back in two thousand when you were in college and

1034
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: I was in my third year in the NFL. So

1035
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: way to go, proud of you, Good luck the rest

1036
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: of the way. Can I say, Peyton many little funny

1037
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: and pretty classy too, congratulating Drew Brees. So yeah, he's

1038
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: it's it's nice when the great ones are nice to

1039
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,479
Speaker 1: each other and they you know that musual respect because

1040
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: he didn't have to. But um, I can't. I can't

1041
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: get over it. Drew Brees. In the career he's had.

1042
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: If you meet you've met him, right, never met him.

1043
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: He's like six one yeah tops tops. Thurman knows him well.

1044
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 1: Thurman's gonna be on the show the tomorrow at one o'clock.

1045
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas a good buddy at Drew Brees. We'll talk

1046
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: about that record, and I want to know more about

1047
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: the kind of guy Drew Brees is. All reports are

1048
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: that he is one of the best, one of the

1049
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: best all time people you'll ever meet. We'll talk with

1050
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: Thurman about that tomorrow, You're gonna talk with Peter King

1051
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: about Drew Brees a little bit and some other issues

1052
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: around the NFL and the Buffalo Bills. Peter King joins

1053
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: us in the next hour of the show. Come on

1054
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health from One

1055
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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Bills Radio Network Sports.

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Speaker 1: The update from One Bill's Drive. A roster moved for

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Speaker 1: the Bills today. They have signed quarterback Derek Anderson to

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Speaker 1: the roster of the veteran quarterback signed to deal with

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Speaker 1: the Bills to make room the Bill's release safety Dean Marlowe.

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Speaker 1: They signed tight end Keith Towbridge to their practice squad,

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Speaker 1: a guy that spent some time with them during training camp.

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Speaker 1: But Derek Anderson is the big story here. The thirty

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Speaker 1: five year old, fourteen year veteran six six, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty five pounder, Derek Anderson pro bowler in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven with the Cleveland Browns. He spent the

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Speaker 1: last seven seasons with the Carolina Panthers, backing up Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: worked sometime there with Brandon Bean and with Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: He will be a mentor to quarterback Josh Allen. According

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Speaker 1: to head coach Sean McDermott yesterday, Derek Anderson is the

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Speaker 1: newest Buffalo Bills signed to a contract today. Washington running

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Speaker 1: back Adrian Peterson said he suffered a dislocated shoulder and

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Speaker 1: last night's lost in New Orleans forty three to nineteen,

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Speaker 1: but he's optimistic he won't miss any time. Redskins coach

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Speaker 1: Jay Gruden called it initially a strained shoulder. He said

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Speaker 1: Peterson again an MRA to MIRA today to determine if

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Speaker 1: there's any issue. The Eagles put running back Jagi e

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Speaker 1: On injured reserved yesterday, a major bload of their offense

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Speaker 1: that has struggled to score points so points so far

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Speaker 1: this season. He tours ACN on Sunday against Minnesota defending

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Speaker 1: champion Philadelphia. Two wins, three losses have been hit hard

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Speaker 1: by injuries this year. They restructured the contract and Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl defensive tackle Fletcher Cox over the weekend, but they

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Speaker 1: will not use the added salary camp space to trade

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Speaker 1: for Stevens running back Lebyon Bell. According to league sources,

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Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette is set to miss his fourth game of

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Speaker 1: the season. With a hamstring injury. Jacksonville Jaguars working out

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Speaker 1: running backs, bringing in veteran Jamal Charles this week. The

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Speaker 1: ex Chiefs running back Chark Hendrick West also working out

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Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. Los Angeles Chargers and ounce today that a

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Speaker 1: long time owner, Alex Spanners, passed away this morning. He

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Speaker 1: was ninety five years old. He purchased a minority share

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Speaker 1: of the Chargers in nineteen eighty four. Over the next

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Speaker 1: decade brought up most of the remaining stock to become

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Speaker 1: the majority owner. Buffalo Sabers a four two win over

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Speaker 1: Guest yesterday. They went back to back games. They're home

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Speaker 1: on Thursday against Colorado. And that is the update from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker. We begin hour

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Speaker 1: two of One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and

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Speaker 1: joining us on the subway fresh Day Kline for his

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Speaker 1: regular Tuesday visit from NBC Sports. He writes Football Morning

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Speaker 1: in America, the column that shows up on Mondays on

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk and NBC Sports. Happy to have Peter

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Speaker 1: King on the line with us. Hell about Peter, John

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Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve here in Buffalo. How you doing, John?

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Speaker 1: You are one versatile dude. You do the update, you

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Speaker 1: welcome me in. You make it possible for Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: to sound competent. If you're just you're a one heck

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Speaker 1: of a guy. I babysit. Steve is what we call

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Speaker 1: him here, I Peter. We wrapped up our last hour

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Speaker 1: Steve and I talking about Drew Brees and last night's

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Speaker 1: and I loved your tweet today, Hearty. Congratulations to Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees for being a great football player and for being

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Speaker 1: the healer in New Orleans needed so desperately. That's the

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Speaker 1: part about Drew Brees that I like the most, what

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Speaker 1: he means to that city, especially in the wake of

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Speaker 1: Katrina back in two thousand and five. You know, John,

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Speaker 1: I just finished taping my podcast who Will Dropped Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and I had a little riff about about Breeze the

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Speaker 1: quarterback in Breeze the Guy, and I wrote a story

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Speaker 1: in two and ten about you know, Breeze went to

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Speaker 1: New Orleans obviously in two thousand and six, right after

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Speaker 1: Katrina had laid waste of the towns, and that over

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Speaker 1: the next few years they got really good. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: as a national writer for SI, I went in a

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Speaker 1: bunch of times to do stories on them. At one time,

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Speaker 1: I went to Commander's palace in New Orleans with Breeze

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Speaker 1: one night as he convened what he called his secret

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Speaker 1: Society to help New Orleans. And what this was is

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Speaker 1: he got ten people, ten community leaders in New Orleans too.

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Speaker 1: At the time twenty five thousand dollars each and later

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Speaker 1: it became fifty thousand dollars. But to do a bunch

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Speaker 1: of projects in the city that, you know, places that

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Speaker 1: had been ruined or destroyed or whatever, and that couldn't

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough money to rebound and breathe in. The

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Speaker 1: society gave him the money to gave them the money

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Speaker 1: to do so. And they were all kinds of things,

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Speaker 1: high school football fields, there was an orphanage that had

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Speaker 1: been destroyed that they rebuilt. It just was It's an

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Speaker 1: incredible story. But anyway, I was with him that night

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Speaker 1: and I sat next to him as he talked, and

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Speaker 1: he made a couple of speeches and called on others

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Speaker 1: to talk, and he just said, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: really the reason I'm hearing. You know, I'm sort of

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Speaker 1: glad it didn't work out in Miami because once and

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Speaker 1: everybody remembers probably that two thousand and six, when he

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Speaker 1: was a free agent, he was choosing between Miami and

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, Nick Saban, and the coach of Miami basically

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Speaker 1: said that we can't trust him his surgically repaired shoulder

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Speaker 1: to be ready to play this year. We need a

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Speaker 1: quarterback this year. The Saints went all in and the

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Speaker 1: rest of his history. Saban is maybe the greatest college

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Speaker 1: coach of all time because of that, because I'm convinced

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Speaker 1: that Breeze goes to Miami. Who knows, maybe maybe Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban went to Super Bowl or two and he's still there.

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Speaker 1: But but I just I think that is really I

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Speaker 1: think Breeze almost felt like this was this was a

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Speaker 1: calling to him, you know, this is something that he

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Speaker 1: felt was really important for him to do, and so

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Speaker 1: I kind of look at this. I kind of looked

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Speaker 1: at it last night, and I felt like, Drew Breese

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Speaker 1: did something really really great in the football Since last night,

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Speaker 1: but he's done something just as valuable to New Orleans

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Speaker 1: for the person he is, not the football player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he has been a really good football player for

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. I was talking to John and I were

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Speaker 1: speaking just before he got on and I mentioned that

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Speaker 1: there had been seven seasons where a quarterback had throw

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Speaker 1: him for five thousand yards or more, and he had

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Speaker 1: five of them. And yet he seems outside of New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: outside of New Orleans, he seems I said it kind

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Speaker 1: of under the radar. I mean, you don't say you'll

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Speaker 1: throw him in with Peyton Manning, and you don't throw

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Speaker 1: him in there with Tom Brady. But yet in so

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Speaker 1: many ways on the football field, he was better. I

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Speaker 1: think you should throw him in there with Manning. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think, I look, Steve, this is not this is

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Speaker 1: not a popular way to look at football now because

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Speaker 1: all the analytics people, they totally dismiss quarterback wins as

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Speaker 1: a meaningful statistic in any way. And I am when

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Speaker 1: I look at football history, I say, let's not forget

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Speaker 1: Otto Graham, and everybody says, who's Auto Graham? A Lotto

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Speaker 1: Graham played in professional football for ten seasons. Remember, in

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Speaker 1: the forties and fifties, a lot of times players retired

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Speaker 1: law before it was their time to retire. But they

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Speaker 1: just retired because they had to get on with their

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Speaker 1: lives and go to jobs that would pay them more

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Speaker 1: than football would. Because in those days, most good jobs

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Speaker 1: in our society paid more than being a football player.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, Otto Graham played ten years of professional football

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Speaker 1: and played in the championship game of his league all

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Speaker 1: ten years, and in fact, he won seven league championships

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Speaker 1: in that period of time. And so, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback has a lot to do with it, a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with the success and failure of a team,

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Speaker 1: more than statistics. But anyway, I think I think we

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Speaker 1: have to remember where the New Orleans Saints were when

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees walked into that team. Nobody wanted to go

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Speaker 1: to New Orleans. I mean nobody. They were They were

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Speaker 1: a bad team, and everybody thought that, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: they're not going anywhere that first year. I can just

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Speaker 1: tell you this, that first year, two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: when he went there. I covered the draft that year,

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Speaker 1: and the one thing I'll remember vividly is when when

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Speaker 1: Reggie Bush, the rookie running back, is great running back

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Speaker 1: from USC showed up on a charter plane in New

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Speaker 1: Orleans to come and take a victory lap around the town,

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Speaker 1: which first round draft picks always do. I can just

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Speaker 1: tell you he looked horrified when he got there. He

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Speaker 1: was shell shot. He's just thinking, oh my god, am

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Speaker 1: I really gonna play in this town where half the

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Speaker 1: town is kind of plundered and still ruined from Katrina?

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Speaker 1: But Breese took it on and that was that was

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Speaker 1: a really bad football in life situation that I think

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Speaker 1: you've got to give Breeze an awful lot of credit for, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, being able to revive that franchise in the

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Speaker 1: wake of all the problems they had with Peter King

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Speaker 1: from you see Sports Football Morning in America. I wrote

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Speaker 1: the writes a column every week and Peter. The Bills

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Speaker 1: signed the quarterback Derek Anderson today, Um, what are they getting?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we think we're getting a mentor here, right

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Speaker 1: for Josh Allen as that it's he's an excellent mentor type.

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Speaker 1: He's an unselfish guy. You know. I think he's got

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Speaker 1: a lot of Josh McCown in him, got a lot

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Speaker 1: of Alex Smith and him the way that he's going

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Speaker 1: to come in there and basically, you know, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: say to Brian Dable, he's gonna say to to Sean mcdervitt,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, He's gonna say it all of him. Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: you tell me what I can do to help make

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Speaker 1: this guy better. And he's gonna work with Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be there, he's gonna he's gonna help him

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Speaker 1: everyway can. And by the way, Peterman as well. This

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Speaker 1: is not just gonna be h and he's going to

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Speaker 1: help the whole quarterback room. I think it's uh. I've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for somebody to sign uh, you know, to

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Speaker 1: sign Derek Anderson, and I'll go back. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: a quick story when he had his one really good

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Speaker 1: year in the NFL when the Browns won ten games

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Speaker 1: I think it was or maybe nine, you know, a

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Speaker 1: decade ago, and he was such a team guy. You

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Speaker 1: talked to everybody in the organization at the time. They

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Speaker 1: loved him. He's not out for him selfie at some

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Speaker 1: very big games, but he was totally a team guy.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't have cared if you know, they threw it

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Speaker 1: forty five times a game or ran it forty five

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Speaker 1: times a game. So I'm I'm bullish on that as

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Speaker 1: sort of you know, the mentor helper make these guys

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Speaker 1: better and make this quarterback room better. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a really good move by the Bills. One of the

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Speaker 1: other things that have been traped out just this morning.

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Speaker 1: Another move that the Bills are involved in is the

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Speaker 1: trading of Leshawn McCoy to Philadelphia. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Bills are getting crushed by his cap number because they

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Speaker 1: have so much money to spend next year. But he's

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Speaker 1: their best offensive player. I don't know how that you

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Speaker 1: how you trade him in the current client that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are in in offense offensively with Josh Allen a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and the way they leaned on their running game this

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Speaker 1: last week against Tennessee. Yeah, I don't. I don't see

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Speaker 1: it happening, um, and I'm I've not. All I've heard

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Speaker 1: is what I've seen this smarting written and said. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anything to it at all, um,

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Speaker 1: But I will say one thing about both Howie Rosen

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Speaker 1: and Branded Beings, the two respective general managers of those

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Speaker 1: two teams. Um, they are old fashioned, sporting general managers.

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Speaker 1: They're not married to any one way of doing things,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna they're gonna talk. I will not be

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Speaker 1: surprised if they've talked about this, even at even as

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Speaker 1: great length. But hard for me to imagine the Bills

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Speaker 1: letting him go right now because he is such an

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Speaker 1: integral part of what they do and they definitely need

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Speaker 1: a strong running game to have any sort of chance,

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Speaker 1: at least right now while Joe Shallen gets his NFL

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01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: legs under him. Peter, what did you think of the

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01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: bills one point win over Tennessee and in particular how

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Speaker 1: they won without a real viable passing game last Sunday?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it just shows you exactly what

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Speaker 1: it showed you in the Minnesota game. The Bills are

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Speaker 1: going to be a tough opponent for everybody. Now. They

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Speaker 1: might get blown out a few games this year because

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Speaker 1: they don't have the ability to play, you know, to

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Speaker 1: go head to head, toe to toe, you know, in

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Speaker 1: a really big offensive game. You know, they're not going

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Speaker 1: to score in the thirties much, if at all. But

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Speaker 1: I will say this, I really admire a team that

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Speaker 1: knows going into a game that the defense is going

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Speaker 1: to have to hold teams in the teams and in

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Speaker 1: this case twelve. And I just think I've got great,

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Speaker 1: great respect for the job that Sean McDermott does in

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Speaker 1: making a team competitive when offensively they're not really ready

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Speaker 1: to be competitive right now, at least consistently. So, I

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01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: mean it just goes to show you that you can

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Speaker 1: win in a lot of ways in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: I think the way that you know, the Bills are

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Speaker 1: going to have to win some games to have I

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01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: don't think anybody expects them to have a playoff year

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Speaker 1: this year, but in order for them to have a good, say, seven,

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Speaker 1: eight win season, I think it's really really important for

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Speaker 1: that defense to stay relatively healthy and to play the

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Speaker 1: type of football they're playing right now, which is rely

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Speaker 1: on your defense. Let your defense be what is for

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01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: some teams the offense, you know, let them hold sway

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Speaker 1: in the game. And I think that's what happened against Tennessee. Yeah.

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01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: Another another team around the league that's also become kind

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01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: of a compelling story the Cleveland Browns. They found a

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01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 1: way to beat Baltimore. I don't know if you saw

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01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: that game, but they won on the ugliest of field

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Speaker 1: goals ever that actually went through the upp right and

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01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: it was an ugly slugfest all the way down to

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01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: the last two seconds of overtime. How compelling are the

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Speaker 1: Browns and are they ever going to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to win one of these games going away, because it

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Speaker 1: seems to me they've got the talent to do that

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01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 1: once in a while. Yeah, here's the thing, Steve, They

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Speaker 1: you know, to me, if you look at this team,

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01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: there aren't many teams that can kind of be invented

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01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 1: over let's say, an eighteen month span, because you know,

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01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: there's so much new on this team, you know, in

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01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 1: the last two years, the last two drafts, and it's

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01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: very very hard, especially when you do things like change

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01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: your coordinator and you know, which they obviously did coming

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01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: into this year. On offense, it's so hard when you've

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01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: got so many new players, you're doing things a different way.

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01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: It's so hard to hit the ground running. This is

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01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: a team that is still guring out, especially on offense,

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01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: how to play with any consistency. The quarterback is still

1326
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: getting used to every receiver on the team. So I

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01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 1: think it's pretty natural to see the stops and starts

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01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: and see how much they struggle, especially because they still

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Speaker 1: have a lot of holes on that offensive line and

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01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has got to do a lot of these

1331
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: things on his own. But I think right now, I

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01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: think they're one of the most They're one of the

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01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: five most fun teams to watch in football every week

1334
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:36,919
Speaker 1: because you know, either for the ridiculously bad job they've

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01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: done kicking this year, which really has cost him two games,

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01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: and just because you know, you almost say, okay, what

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01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: are the Browns going to screw up this week? How

1338
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: are they gonna lose this week? Only twice they haven't lost,

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01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: and I surely think that a third time against Oakland's

1340
01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: absolutely no way that the first down they got overturned

1341
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: on replay should have been overturned. The Carlos hide run

1342
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: late in that game, and if it doesn't get overturned,

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01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: the Browns just run out the clock and they win.

1344
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: And but look, you can't cry over spilled losses, but

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01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: that was an unjust loss. As far as I'm concerned,

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01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: they're just they're really interesting teams. And I think Baker

1347
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: Mayfield every week as long as he's healthy, it's just

1348
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: going to be worth the price of admission. He's such

1349
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: a fun player to watch. Just a minute a true

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01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: left with Peter King from Football Morning in America. The

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01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: Bills haven't plunged into the afcast yet, Peter. They will

1352
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: get there in a couple of weeks, and I can't wait.

1353
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: Till they get to the Dolphins. The Dolphins have kind

1354
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: of come back down to earth a couple of losses

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01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: in a row. And Ryan Tannehill, do you describe his

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01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 1: game this past week and utterly pathetic displayed by Tannehill

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01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: following a worse one last week? I love that. I'm

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01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 1: not a Tannehill fan, and I'm glad to see that.

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01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: You Well, here's the point, John, this is sort of

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01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: the way I look at it. Okay. So Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: before that New England game, had had won nine out

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01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: of ten previous games. Okay, And you look at that

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01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: and you say, Okay, this is a guy who is

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01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:18,280
Speaker 1: h He's really starting to turn it around now this year,

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01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 1: won his first three games, and before he got hurt

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01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 1: nineteen games prior to that, before he got hurt and

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01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 1: miss nineteen games, I should say, you know, he had

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01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: started to play well. So you know, I'm thinking, Okay,

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01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, Adam Gaze and Mike Tannehill, Mike Tannenbaum have

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01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: made the right decision on Tannehill and in sticking with

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01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: him instead of drafting another quarterback this year. But what

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Speaker 1: I've seen the last two weeks has been Ryan Tannehill

1373
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 1: at his worst, and and you just you can't spit

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01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 1: the bit against the Patriots the way he did and

1375
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: have anybody think that you're the answer. And again you

1376
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 1: can say it's a flukey thing, but it's like, would

1377
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: you put David Price out there arrogant the Yankees in

1378
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: another starting role in this playoff series? Well, he's not

1379
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: going to anyway, because there's only two games left, if

1380
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: that many. But you know, you only have to see

1381
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: so much. And again, I'm not saying that they ought

1382
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: to give up on Tannehill right now. They're certainly not

1383
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 1: going to do that until at least the end of

1384
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 1: the year. But these last two games have been extremely telling,

1385
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: just when the Miami Dolphins are on the verge of

1386
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: being really competitive and maybe taking the AFCs from the Patriots,

1387
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,600
Speaker 1: look at what's happened. And what's happened basically is that

1388
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: he's fallen down to earth. And again again it looks

1389
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: like this would be, now I get I want to

1390
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: get my math right, this would be I think the

1391
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: seventeenth year in a row where it really looks like,

1392
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: if Tom Brady stays healthy for the whole way, that

1393
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:01,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots sort of CLA to the division. It's amazing.

1394
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 1: This is if you're if you're a twenty four year

1395
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: old Buffalo Bills fan, or if you're liking college right now,

1396
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: you don't know anything other than the Patriots being a

1397
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: great team. You've never seen it. You have no idea

1398
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: what that is like. And I think what's happening right

1399
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: what's happening right now, is that is that Ryan Tannehill

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01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: I think, had a chance. While these other teams are

1401
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: playing rookie quarterbacks, the Jets and the Bills and trying

1402
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: to build up for that next generation. The Dolphins were

1403
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 1: the team that was supposed to be that big challenger

1404
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: to New England this year, and obviously they're not going

1405
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: to be. I think the run of that has to

1406
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: fall on Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, and the Miami Dolphins didn't

1407
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,280
Speaker 1: get into the rookie quarterback business. The Jets and the

1408
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,719
Speaker 1: Bills did. And all four of those rookie quarterbacks, Josh Rosen,

1409
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, they all won this

1410
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: last weekend. I don't I don't think. Hey, maybe it's

1411
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: a trend. I don't know, but that's kind of history.

1412
01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: It is historic. In the National foot fole League. And

1413
01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: do you think it says anything about the four guys.

1414
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean, the statistics say it's going to be a

1415
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,560
Speaker 1: coin flip is to who's going to be successful and

1416
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: who's not. What do you think about the four rookie

1417
01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: quarterbacks all winning on this weekend? Well, I think it's

1418
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: it's a little bit coincidental, Steve, because you can't look

1419
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 1: at the Bills game and say, boy, Josh Allen was

1420
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:28,719
Speaker 1: great this weekend. He wasn't. Um And I mean Josh

1421
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 1: Rosen had some moments against the forty nine ers, but

1422
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: and he threw a great, great deep ball for a

1423
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: touchdown bomb, but he I don't think you'd look at

1424
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: that tape say he was great. Um. Now, Baker Mayfield

1425
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:46,960
Speaker 1: was pretty good in his game, and Sam Darnold probably

1426
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: played the best of all of them this weekend. He

1427
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 1: made some great throws. But I just think it's a

1428
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,919
Speaker 1: it's a you know, I It's just it's a process,

1429
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I hate to borrow the seventy

1430
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: six ers term, but this whole thing has to be

1431
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: a process. And I will be surprised if there are

1432
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: many more days, if any where four of these guys

1433
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: win on the same week because they really all have

1434
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: a long way to go. But I think it has

1435
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 1: to be encouraging to their teams that we're in week

1436
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 1: five of the NFL season and all of them are

1437
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: playing at least sea level football in their first year

1438
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: starting in the NFL. Hey, Peter, great to talk to you.

1439
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: Thanks for this. We'll talk next week. All the best guys.

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01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: Thank you. Peter King from NBC Sports. He right to

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01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: the Football Morning in America Economy every Monday for Pro

1442
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 1: Football Talk dot NBC Sports dot Com. Definitely worth the

1443
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: read if you get into the habit of it as

1444
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 1: I am on Monday mornings. To check out Peter King's

1445
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: Football Morning in America Economy. Joined us on the Subway

1446
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:50,639
Speaker 1: Fresh Stake Hotline, presented by Subway Restaurants, probably be locally

1447
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: owned and operated. Steve and I back with more in

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01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: a moment. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. This

1449
01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:15,680
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Mean it started this time. I'll

1450
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: do it all right? What he got food in your

1451
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: settling where we're settling in. We're kind of wolfling a

1452
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:23,759
Speaker 1: little food between segments, but Peter King made me hungry.

1453
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,200
Speaker 1: Peter was good today. I love talking about he was

1454
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: really good. You act like you're talking about your ninety

1455
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: eight year old grandmother. I know. I love Peter I too,

1456
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: He's a great I love his takes on Drew Brees

1457
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: and what he means to that. I thought that was fantastic.

1458
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,680
Speaker 1: And I think he's right down about the Buffalo Bills too,

1459
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,720
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And what I especially like

1460
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: what he said. I made a note here what he

1461
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,600
Speaker 1: said about Derek Anderson and one he can do for

1462
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 1: the Bills, right, Yeah, it's a presence that they've needed.

1463
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: Here's a question I have, and if we get Derek

1464
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: Anderson on the show, which you don't think we will,

1465
01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 1: but if you do, what's he been doing for a

1466
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 1: five weeks? So how come he hasn't played? Was he?

1467
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 1: Was he waiting for money? Was he? Why did he

1468
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,600
Speaker 1: wait until now to sign with somebody? You must have

1469
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: had some offers? No, I don't know. Yes, he's Derek Anderson.

1470
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's not like you know, twenty eight year

1471
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: old Tom Brady sitting out there. I know somebody guy

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01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: was a backup and somebody might have wanted him anyway. Hey,

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01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today Steve and I. By the way,

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01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: coming up at two o'clock, we're going to talk with

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01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: Andy Benoy, who wrote an outstanding piece on Sports Illustrated

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01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,640
Speaker 1: dot com about the Bills and their upsets. You know,

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01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: did the Bills have anymore upsets left in him? He thinks?

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01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: How did the Bills keep pulling off upsets? Yeah, he

1479
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: said a lot of stuff, and it was mostly about

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01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, their ability to run the football, but also

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01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:46,719
Speaker 1: the defense, Uh, their play calling offensively, run first control

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01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: in the passing game, playing and he described their offense,

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01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: the Bills offense as you know, playing not to lose,

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01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: which you know, you gotta you gotta meet, you gotta say.

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01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: You shrug your shoulder and say, yeah, it kind of

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01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: looks that way and for good reason. And then of course,

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01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 1: you know, it all centers around the defense and their

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: ability to go get the football and rally to it

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01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: and get turnovers. Hey, we're talking about the Buffalo defense

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01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: today on our Twitter poll. Let's take a look at that.

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,960
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about it for a minute. Bill's defense

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 1: really playing much better. Right There were twenty six in

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01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: the NFL at the end of last season. Right now

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: they are sixth in the NFL, sixth overall defense in

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01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: the NFL going into they'll put them in a top ten.

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01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: I think it does. Steve going into the ear thought

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01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: they were gonna be top ten. I knew they were

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01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:27,519
Speaker 1: gonna be better, but I thought top ten was a

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01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: bit of a reachual see how it ends. We cannot

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01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: get to exactly what was wagered on that disagreement between

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01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: Steve and I, which leads me to believe there was

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01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: nothing at stake, and that Steve just was mouthing off

1503
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 1: and didn't do anything to back up, didn't really have

1504
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: leave it. Maybe, but there they are right, doesn't matter

1505
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 1: if I believe it or not. I said it and

1506
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm standing by it. So what do you think? On Twitter?

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01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: You know how you do that? You say stop them? No,

1508
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't do it as bad as you do. You

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: say stuff and then it comes back like I say

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01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: stuff like good Twitter poll today, Yeah, I think today.

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01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: This is not my poll, but it's a decent Twitter poll.

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01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: Wanting from you on our Twitter poll today, and you

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01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: can do it on the telephone nine eight three five

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01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: fifty twelve three one eight eight eight five fifty two

1515
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 1: five fifty or on Twitter at one Bill side. The

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01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:16,759
Speaker 1: Bills defense ranked sixth overall, ninth against the run, fourth

1517
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: against the pass. What's been the biggest factor in their

1518
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: defensive improvement? Ring us up, Let us know what you

1519
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: think on Twitter. On the Twitter poll, half of you

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01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: forty nine percent say it's improved pass rush, twenty nine

1521
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 1: percent of you say it's solid linebacker play, fifteen percent

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: of you say it is the unsung heroes in the secondary,

1523
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: seven percent say it is something else. Give us a call,

1524
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 1: let us know what to think. Eight to three oh

1525
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,679
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: two five fifty On the tweet sheet, Sip and the

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01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: kool Aid says, I voted for linebacker play. Alexander Edmonds

1528
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: Melano playing very physical, forcing a lot of fumbles. It

1529
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:53,759
Speaker 1: seems like they are all over the field. But Jerry

1530
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: Hughes is my MVP so far this year. Yes, seventeen

1531
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: solo tackles already through five games. Only had twenty last year.

1532
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 1: He is a beast at age thirty, Jerry Hughes. You

1533
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: can make a strong argument that Hughes is among the

1534
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: candidates for most valuable players on the Buffalo defense. Right now,

1535
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:10,759
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what too, you know who I noticed

1536
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: had a really good game last week's Hughes did, no

1537
01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 1: question about it. He did. He forced that fumble that

1538
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 1: it got kicked out of bounce against the Titans, and

1539
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: he had the sack that he actually let him go

1540
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:24,799
Speaker 1: because he thought he's gonna get a penalty. He thought, Uh, Lorenzo,

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01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: our guy, Lorenzo had a really good game, a really

1542
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: good game last week. He had some some plays where

1543
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: the misdirection like on screen passes and stuff that he

1544
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 1: was his responsibility to, you know, not to lose and

1545
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: get caught up in the missdirection and he was right

1546
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: where he was supposed to be made the tackle. Uh

1547
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: not had a pass defense in the game. I thought,

1548
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: I thought Lorenzo had a really solid game. So i'm

1549
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 1: I'm I kind of get where you know, the tweet

1550
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,000
Speaker 1: sheet comes from and sipping the kool aid about the

1551
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: linebackers and these young guys and these and the old

1552
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: guys kind of stepping up. The linebackers have really played well.

1553
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: We have some more from the tweet sheet as well

1554
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: from Nathaniel. I think there's something to be said for

1555
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: a team taking time to Jael, so to speak. I

1556
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: wonder if it just took a game or two for

1557
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: the defense to build those on field relationships that allows

1558
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 1: them to work together effectively as a unit. We've said

1559
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: that for a long time. A lot of teams around

1560
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: the NFL consider this first month of the season is

1561
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: still kind of the preseason. They're still installing stuff offensively,

1562
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: they're still finding out who and what their players can do,

1563
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 1: particularly when it's real and not a preseason game, when

1564
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: they're not auditioning, when they're actually having to win the game,

1565
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: when the chips are down, whatever you want to call that.

1566
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 1: Let's face it, the Bills fans know that better than anybody.

1567
01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: They know that guys played differently when it's a real

1568
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: game and they do in the preseason. Take Nathan Peterman

1569
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: for example, and his preseason as compared to the game

1570
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: he had in the regilar that half he had in

1571
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: the regular season when it started. We've seen that before

1572
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: from him, a guy who practices extremely well, played in

1573
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 1: the preseason extremely well, did not play well, and has

1574
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: not played well in the regular season in any of

1575
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: his appearances. So I think there is something to be

1576
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: said for these teams kind of finding out what their

1577
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: guys can really do against some NFL quality competition, and

1578
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:14,599
Speaker 1: then when they find that out, they can exploit their

1579
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:18,839
Speaker 1: own strengths and also take advantage of their opponent's weaknesses.

1580
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's some of that going on for sure.

1581
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: What's been the biggest factor in Buffalo's defensive defensive improvement

1582
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 1: this year? We got Steve on the line from Mount Morris,

1583
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: New York to talk about that. Hello, Steve, go ahead,

1584
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Hey guys, I just

1585
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 1: caught I enjoyed your conversation now with Peter King. Thank you.

1586
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: Just another stat to go along with what Steve was

1587
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: saying about the four Lukie quarterbacks winning. I believe all

1588
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: three of the flow of winning quarterbacks. And we had

1589
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: ten passing attempt also, they had more than ten. They

1590
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:50,360
Speaker 1: only completed ten I'm sorry, yes, completed time. Yeah, yeah,

1591
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen completed ten to twenty five and Josh Allen

1592
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 1: was ten of nineteen, right, something like that. Just another

1593
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: little that's right, and that's we saw that Ben Roethlisberger

1594
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: did that. He went he was going fourteen of seventeen

1595
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: when the Steelers went to the Super Bowl. He was

1596
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: a rookie and he was a rookie. He had a

1597
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 1: great and he had a great defense, a world class

1598
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 1: defense around him, and a great running game with Jerome

1599
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: Bettis as well. But they got there and won a

1600
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: super Bowl with him doing that. So that's that's the recipe,

1601
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: and you see other teams doing it. Steve, thanks for

1602
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: your call. Leslie Fraser knows how well this defense is playing.

1603
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 1: He talked about it yesterday when he met the media

1604
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of questions about Turndevius White, who has

1605
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: been outstanding through the first third of the season. Fraser

1606
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: was asked yesterday about the qualities that allow him that

1607
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 1: the qualities White has that allow him to be placed

1608
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: on the other team's top receiver and what he has,

1609
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: what Turdevius White has to be the shadowed receiver following

1610
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: the other team's best receiver around the field. Here's what

1611
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:53,679
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser said. I think beyond just the physical attributes,

1612
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: the afflectability, the mental toughness to match up against the

1613
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,759
Speaker 1: best receivers. We can't a week out and your second

1614
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: year in the NFL. I mean, that's asking a lot

1615
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 1: of any player, less on a guy who is as

1616
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: young as he is in his career. But that mental

1617
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 1: toughness to be able to block out negative things not

1618
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 1: let him carry over to the next play, and his

1619
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: work ethic is kind of what separates him from a

1620
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: guy who has just the talent to get by on

1621
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 1: and a guy who has the mental toughness to be

1622
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: able to handle the ups and downs or playing corner

1623
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: and then matching up on the premiere guys in our league,

1624
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 1: which is tough, tough task, but he's been able to

1625
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:35,600
Speaker 1: stand up to it. This week was well, Deandres, you know,

1626
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: one of the premiere guys in our league, and you

1627
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: know he's been to a number of Pro Bowls, and

1628
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: it'll be a big challenge. I mean, he's a guy

1629
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: who finds a mirror the ways to get open, runs

1630
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: great routes, great hands, understands leverage, and plays the ball

1631
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: as well as anybody when it's a contested throw. So

1632
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: it'll be a big challenge. But you know, if we

1633
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 1: decide to go in that direction, you'll feel very confident

1634
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: that Trdavios will be able to get it done. Decide

1635
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 1: to go in that direction, way, come on, let's see.

1636
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 1: Of course you are right, who was getting lane up

1637
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: against the Andre hopin Well, the thought is either put

1638
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: Turdavius on him by himself, or you can put your

1639
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: you can put your number two corner on or number

1640
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: three corner on him, and then always double team him

1641
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:21,719
Speaker 1: either over the top or inside or bracket the guys

1642
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: side to side or top to bottom, whatever you want

1643
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,679
Speaker 1: to do it, you just double team him every single play.

1644
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: The problem with that is if you're gonna double team

1645
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: him every play, after about three plays of that, the

1646
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: offense is gonna say, Okay, if you're gonna do that,

1647
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 1: then we're gonna move him. We're gonna line up and

1648
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:40,560
Speaker 1: then he's gonna move, so you're double team's gonna be

1649
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: two guys. You don't want double team in him, right,

1650
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 1: that becomes an issue. Now I'll probably do a lot

1651
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: of all of that. They can't do the same thing

1652
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: over and over. Unless you put Tardavious White on and

1653
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:54,560
Speaker 1: he keeps winning, then you can do that. But for

1654
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 1: the most part you have to switch it up on

1655
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:58,479
Speaker 1: those guys. But the other thing is, if Turdavious White's

1656
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 1: on him one to one, then you know, maybe shade

1657
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: of safety that side or not. But other than that,

1658
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna double team him everywhere he goes and you've

1659
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,719
Speaker 1: got to do it with the right type of athlete.

1660
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he can't. You know, you can't do a

1661
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: zone blitz and drop a defensive end out there and

1662
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 1: ask him to double with a safety on DeAndre Hopkins.

1663
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: Do you do the segment or Bill's All Access Show?

1664
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: We go on the A eleven thirty Sunday Mornings TV

1665
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: show Chris Brown and I and Steve Chipson. You do

1666
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,360
Speaker 1: matchup to watch on that? Yes? I do? I do?

1667
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: Is that gonna be your matchup to watch? I don't

1668
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: know what else you find J J. Watt against somebody,

1669
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: or it could be JJ Water, Davian Clowney, could be

1670
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: our tackles against their defensive ends, or it could be uh,

1671
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: it could be DeAndre Hopkins. You gotta be DeAndre Hopkins

1672
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: versus Trey White. It's gotta be. I'm looking now you've

1673
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: just now I want to watch. I'm gonna watch the game.

1674
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 1: I gotta do the game. But now I'm really excited

1675
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: about that game. You're looking at me like, don't tell

1676
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 1: me mat it is? It is a matchup to watch.

1677
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is compelling to watch either, even when he's

1678
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: playing a different team. That you don't care about. He's

1679
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 1: a really unbelievable athlete. Yeah, yeah, he is is he

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01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: is in my mind if you had, um, i'd almost

1681
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: take him over guy like Antonio Brown, I just absolutely

1682
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: would take him over. Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, I'd take

1683
01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 1: him over. He's a better route runner. He's he makes

1684
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: impot and you can say Odell Beckham had the one

1685
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 1: hand and get listen, DeAndre Hopkins makes catches like that. Um,

1686
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. I think he's a better route runner. He's

1687
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,679
Speaker 1: got just as much physical ability. He is uh more

1688
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 1: difficult to cover. Uh in the intermediate routes. Of course,

1689
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: if you can send a guy deep, if he's open,

1690
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: he's open. But DeAndre Hopkins is is uh in a

1691
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 1: class almost by himself to me because of his ability

1692
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 1: to hand, you know, catch, to pluck the ball with

1693
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: his hands, um, his run after catch, everything. Uh, he

1694
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 1: is as good as there is in the league. And um,

1695
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: you know you see remember everybody's seen that the catch

1696
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: he put on against Dallas the other night where he

1697
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: caught that last pass and made did double spin moves.

1698
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: He looked like a looked like a video game. Yeah,

1699
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: he's all of that, and I so yeah, he's he's

1700
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 1: gonna be really really the focal point of the Houston

1701
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: offense this week. And Davis White, if he does get

1702
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: matched up with him one on one, he still might

1703
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: need some help. So I don't know, I would take

1704
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 1: I would take DeAndre Hopkins over anybody. We had a

1705
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: call earlier from Jeanie in Houston just listening in from

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01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: Texans who said there's concern about Deshaun Watson, and that's

1707
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:41,879
Speaker 1: Aaron Wilson covers the Texans for the Houston Chronicle. Watson

1708
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:44,759
Speaker 1: is day to day a chest injury during the overtime

1709
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: win Sunday night against Dallas. He's regarded his day to day.

1710
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:51,839
Speaker 1: The official injury report the first one anyone comes out tomorrow.

1711
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: He took a lot of hits in their win at

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01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 1: NARG Stadium, hit ten times and died some big hits

1713
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 1: when he was running with the football as well. Got

1714
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,080
Speaker 1: checked out in the medical tent during that Sunday game,

1715
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:03,560
Speaker 1: but it's cleared went back in. After the game. He

1716
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: was asked about his health, Deshaun Watson said I was fine.

1717
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:09,559
Speaker 1: I was gonna finish the game regardless. Watson had been

1718
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: sacked eighteen times this year hit fifty three times. Um,

1719
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: you can begin to think who's their backup. Brandon Weedon

1720
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: is their backup? You know who backs them up? Joe

1721
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,880
Speaker 1: Webb who played here last year, last year, two years ago.

1722
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 1: Last year teams played the snow game. Yes, that's right,

1723
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: finished the snow game and won it. Something to watch though.

1724
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, the quarterback for the Houston Texans, gonna be

1725
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: day to day all week with the chest injury. Maybe

1726
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:35,280
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be your matchup to watch it. Maybe it? Maybe? Maybe,

1727
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about it. I'm not gonna give

1728
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 1: it up. He's not gonna tell me to watch. He's

1729
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: not gonna say. I'm not gonna say until and until

1730
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: I do it. I think we tape that tomorrow, by

1731
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: the way, Okay, by then, no Thursday. Hey, time now

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01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,560
Speaker 1: for New York State Lottery. Inside the numbers, take a

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01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: break from the expected play scratch off games from the

1734
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:57,799
Speaker 1: New York Lottery. We've been talking about the Bill's defense

1735
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: all day. Their rankings are way up. The twenty eighteen

1736
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills defense ranked sixth overall, ninth against the run,

1737
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 1: fourth against the pass. That's pretty good. A year ago,

1738
01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:10,839
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, the Buffalo Bills defense ranked twenty sixth overall,

1739
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 1: twenty ninth against the run, twentieth against the pass. Drummatic

1740
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,840
Speaker 1: improvement for the Buffalo Bills defense. That's what we've been

1741
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:18,920
Speaker 1: talking about all day. We can talk more about that

1742
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: when we return eight three fifty and toll free one

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1745
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,080
Speaker 1: a break from the expected play scratch off games from

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01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 1: the New York Lottery, we're back with mort a Moment

1747
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 1: one Bills Live on Buffalo Bills Radio. It is a

1748
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 1: beautiful day here in Orchard Park. Today's sunny skies, blue skies,

1749
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: eighty degree temperatures. Who I hope that's not the end

1750
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 1: of summer, Steve, It might be right. It might be

1751
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,479
Speaker 1: Nah summer one. You get a few more warm days,

1752
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: and I mean I might have going my mo my law. Yeah,

1753
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: I got it. I've been talking about it for weeks

1754
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:11,719
Speaker 1: and himn't done it. I got weeks. I've got mon

1755
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 1: at least once a week. No, no, no, not now,

1756
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: though it's usually in the height of summer. I did,

1757
01:28:15,920 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 1: but now it's not good. Every ten days or fourteen.

1758
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,560
Speaker 1: We're here until three today talking Bill's football with you.

1759
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: We want to know from you about lun care about

1760
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: and lawn care. Let's know what you think about the

1761
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and their defense and now they've how they've

1762
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 1: improved so dramatically. We gotta call here from John and Vegas.

1763
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 1: Go ahead, John, you're on the air with us. Hey guys,

1764
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:41,040
Speaker 1: how you doing. Good morning, Good afternoon, afternoon, Hey guys.

1765
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: I just wanted to bring up the fact that we're

1766
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: not talking about wife Fuller enough and and how it's

1767
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 1: gonna they may exploit the fact that we are missing

1768
01:28:49,439 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 1: a Micah Hide this weekend and the fact that we

1769
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 1: don't really have anybody that's really been tested enough to

1770
01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: go against Wolfe Fuller. Um, he's a really good deep

1771
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 1: threat receive who's been putting up big numbers this year.

1772
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: I know he's got the hamstring, but he's really been

1773
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:09,400
Speaker 1: playing well. On my second note, you know, can we

1774
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: stop because that's probably the best defensive line in football

1775
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: and we are struggling. We all been looking better, but

1776
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:19,639
Speaker 1: the guys just gonna be by far the biggest test

1777
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:22,400
Speaker 1: this year because this can end up looking really ugly

1778
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 1: if we don't get our act together. I appreciate you, guys,

1779
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: Steed faster. I wish you nothing but the Hall of Fame. Man,

1780
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: you are a class act. I appreciate it, but I

1781
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:34,080
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and you're right. The Texans are a handful,

1782
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:37,360
Speaker 1: particularly on their defensive line. Jadeveon Clowney and JJ Watt,

1783
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: of course, two of the best pass rushers in the league,

1784
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 1: and they play on the same team. This is still

1785
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where I think the Bills would

1786
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 1: love it to be. You know, the over under being

1787
01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:54,679
Speaker 1: under forty points, neither team having twenty points. It's gonna

1788
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: be a game just like the one they played in

1789
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: last week. They're gonna have to eke out some points

1790
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: by hook or by crook. They're gonna have to get

1791
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 1: some some possessions that go down get them some points,

1792
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: get a couple of touchdowns. But I think this game

1793
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:11,320
Speaker 1: is gonna be one one of the teams is gonna

1794
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: have to squiff first. One to twenty points is gonna

1795
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: win the game. I think, um that's the idea. Now,

1796
01:30:16,479 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: certainly Will Fuller adds an extra level of degree of

1797
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:22,400
Speaker 1: difficulty because we already know but DeAndre Hopkins can do.

1798
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:26,680
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I mean that's that's the way it's

1799
01:30:26,720 --> 01:30:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna go. They they've got to keep Houston off the

1800
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 1: scoreboard if they want to win this game, because this

1801
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: is an offense up against an even better defense than

1802
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: they've played in the last couple of weeks. I don't think, um,

1803
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: this is the toughest offensive Bills that played so far

1804
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:44,760
Speaker 1: this year. Green Bay was better. I think, going in

1805
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: Minnesota had more to offer than the Houston offense did,

1806
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: didn't they Houston? Well, I think I think. I think

1807
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 1: at that point we played the Minnesota Vikings, everybody's kind

1808
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: of still thinking about them as last year's offense and

1809
01:30:57,160 --> 01:30:59,120
Speaker 1: they haven't been up to that. But where they were

1810
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: a year I guess. But yeah, certainly green Bay holding

1811
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: green Bay to twenty two, but if you know, if

1812
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: Houston scores twenty two, I don't know how to you know,

1813
01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: the Bills, Yeah, but I think you can hold them

1814
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 1: down a little bit. I really do. I think the

1815
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 1: Bills defense, we talked about it all day, but we

1816
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,080
Speaker 1: both agree that's that's the plan. I mean, that's got

1817
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: to be the recipe for victory, right and the caller

1818
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,800
Speaker 1: John's right. I mean, you've got to find a way

1819
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:25,080
Speaker 1: to handle all their weapons, and our offensive line has

1820
01:31:25,120 --> 01:31:27,280
Speaker 1: got to be looking at that film going, we can't

1821
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 1: leave either one of those guys singled up. So we're

1822
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:31,639
Speaker 1: just getting used. We're just getting into the Houston Texans.

1823
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:34,600
Speaker 1: This week, Texans lost their first three, all right, or

1824
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Houston lost their first three. Lost at New England,

1825
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 1: scored twenty points there, lost at Tennessee, scored seventeen points there,

1826
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:47,040
Speaker 1: and lost to the Giants at home, scored twenty two there.

1827
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 1: They've beaten Indie, They've beaten Dallas. They're two wins. Look,

1828
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 1: the Bills have beaten two better teams in Indie and

1829
01:31:53,880 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: Dallas so far this year, right, haven't they Minnesota in Tennessee.

1830
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,240
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a mismatch, honestly, couple of

1831
01:32:00,280 --> 01:32:02,960
Speaker 1: two and three teams. One of them's got some offensive weapons,

1832
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:04,760
Speaker 1: the other doesn't. One of them's got a defense playing

1833
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: very well. Right now. I don't think this is a

1834
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:08,760
Speaker 1: winnable game, folks. We'll get deep into it as a

1835
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:11,840
Speaker 1: week goes along. You agree, yeah, well I agree that

1836
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 1: about that more than you do. I think every game

1837
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:17,479
Speaker 1: is a winnable game sometimes I sometimes this was a

1838
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 1: very winnable game. Sometimes I wonder about you believe this

1839
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:25,280
Speaker 1: one is. I mean, they've got a second year quarterback

1840
01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:28,880
Speaker 1: who hasn't matched the output that they've had a year

1841
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:31,639
Speaker 1: ago when he got injured. They were scoring thirty plus

1842
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 1: points a game with Deshaun Watson at quarterback last year,

1843
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 1: and their defense was playing lights out at that time

1844
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:41,599
Speaker 1: as well. They were a handful and then Deshaun Watson

1845
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: got hurt in a non contact practice injury and was

1846
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 1: out for the year, and then they never recovered. They

1847
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,639
Speaker 1: ended up I went in four games five games last year,

1848
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,720
Speaker 1: and it was because Deshaun Watson wasn't in there. He's back.

1849
01:32:56,160 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 1: He took a lot of shots on Sunday Night against

1850
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: the cow Boys or yeah, against the Cowboys, and a

1851
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying, wow, he's you know, he's

1852
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:06,479
Speaker 1: got to change the way he plays. I don't think

1853
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,600
Speaker 1: he does. I think Bill O'Brien is fine with the

1854
01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: way he plays. And I certainly you'd like to dodge

1855
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: some of those big hits, but that's the kind of

1856
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 1: athlete Deshaun Watson is. Let him play. Now, he might

1857
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:18,639
Speaker 1: have a rough week of practice because of that game

1858
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:22,920
Speaker 1: against Dallas. But you know, hey, that's what he signed

1859
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:24,720
Speaker 1: up for. That's the way he plays, that's the way

1860
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. Give him a give him. They might

1861
01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 1: give him a Tuesday Wednesday off where he doesn't take

1862
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:32,640
Speaker 1: the field, but Deshaun Watson's gonna play and he's gonna be.

1863
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta plan on him playing his best.

1864
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 1: So the Bills are while it is a winnable game,

1865
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: I'll agree with him. It's this is no pushover squad,

1866
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 1: and they're on the road. The Bills are in no

1867
01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: position to be have anybody be a pushover. But I

1868
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 1: don't think this's a mismatch, and I don't think the

1869
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: Bills should tremble about covering Uh, you know, DeAndre Hopkins

1870
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: or dealing with Deshaun Watson. He's pretty good. Yeah, it's

1871
01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:58,439
Speaker 1: the NFL. All right. We're gonna talk more about the Bills.

1872
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:00,479
Speaker 1: Can they keep pulling off upsets? Did they do it?

1873
01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:02,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Andy Benoid, our friend from SI

1874
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 1: dot com elrode a post about this. How do the

1875
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:07,080
Speaker 1: Bills keep pulling off upsets? He's coming up after the

1876
01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: top of the hour break. One Bill's Live presented by

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01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:11,880
Speaker 1: Kalada Health. We're a company from One Bill's Drive. This

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01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Bills Radio Network story day every

1879
01:34:28,120 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 1: day comes from one Bill's Drive, and a roster move

1880
01:34:30,160 --> 01:34:32,519
Speaker 1: comes from One Bill's Drive. Today, the Bill signed quarterback

1881
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,000
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson to the roster. It signed to the fifty three.

1882
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 1: They make room. They release safety Dean Marlowe, who was

1883
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: just signed off the practice squad last Saturday and started

1884
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:44,040
Speaker 1: last week against the Tennessee Titans. Derek Anderson now with

1885
01:34:44,200 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills in his fourteenth year. He is thirty

1886
01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 1: five years old six six, two hundred and thirty five

1887
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,639
Speaker 1: pound quarterback. Anderson named to the Pro Bowl in two

1888
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:54,280
Speaker 1: thousand and seven after leading the Cleveland Browns to a

1889
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 1: ten and six record. Started nine games with the Arizona

1890
01:34:57,160 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals in two ten. He spent the last seven year

1891
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,760
Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers, where he worked with Brandon Bean

1892
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:05,760
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott. He appeared in twenty five games with

1893
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Speaker 1: the Panther Panthers four starts. A mentor to Cam Newton

1894
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: down there in Carolina, expected to fill the same role

1895
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:15,280
Speaker 1: here with the Buffalo Bills. Derek Anderson signs a contract

1896
01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills to be the third quarterback on

1897
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Speaker 1: the roster. The Bills also made a practice squad transaction

1898
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:23,519
Speaker 1: tightand Keith Towbridge was signed to the practice squad. He

1899
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: spent training camp with the Bills. They released cornerback Michael

1900
01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:29,640
Speaker 1: Hunter from their practice squad. Bills and Texans coming up

1901
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,599
Speaker 1: this Sunday one o'clock kickoff, and there's concerned in Houston

1902
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:35,880
Speaker 1: about quarterback Deshaun Watson. He sustained a chest injury and

1903
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:38,559
Speaker 1: that overtime win over the Cowboys on Sunday. He has

1904
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:42,000
Speaker 1: regarded as day to day. The first official injury report

1905
01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:45,000
Speaker 1: of the week comes out tomorrow. Watson was hit several

1906
01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:48,080
Speaker 1: times both passing and running, hit ten times, and endured

1907
01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:50,479
Speaker 1: some big hits while running with the football against the

1908
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. His status is day to day. Washington running

1909
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,920
Speaker 1: back Adrian Peterson says he suffered a dislocated shoulder last

1910
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,839
Speaker 1: night in Washington's loss to the Saints on Monday Night Football,

1911
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Speaker 1: but Peterson is optimistic he will not miss anytime at all.

1912
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Speaker 1: Jamal Charles worked out with the Jacksonville Jaguars today. The

1913
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,160
Speaker 1: Jaguars looking for running back help with Leonard Fournette set

1914
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Speaker 1: to miss his fourth game of the season. Chargers longtime

1915
01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:16,720
Speaker 1: owner Alex Spanos passed away early this morning. He was

1916
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 1: ninety five years old. His son, Dean has served as

1917
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Speaker 1: president of the Chargers since early nineteen ninety four. Savers

1918
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Speaker 1: Hockey coming up Thursday night home against Colorado. And there's

1919
01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:28,240
Speaker 1: baseball playoffs tonight, Game four Red Sox Yankees. The Red

1920
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Speaker 1: Sox can send the Yankees home with a victory tonight.

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Speaker 1: That's the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve

1922
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Speaker 1: Tasker here for one more hour talking Bill's Football. We'll

1923
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: get back to our discussion about the Buffalo defense at

1924
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Speaker 1: about the Bills game coming up against the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: But joining us right now on the subway fresh Take

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Speaker 1: Hotline a frequent guest of the show for two reasons.

1927
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Speaker 1: He's a really good guy. That's number one. Number two.

1928
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Speaker 1: He is among the most astute observers of the NFL

1929
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 1: game that you'll ever find. He writes his stuff for

1930
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Speaker 1: SI dot com. He is the writer for Sports Illustrated

1931
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:00,799
Speaker 1: dot com. He wrote a great post went up yesterday.

1932
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:03,800
Speaker 1: How did the Bills keep pulling off upsets. Happy to

1933
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:05,800
Speaker 1: have Andy Benoy on the land. Andy's John Murphy and

1934
01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 1: Steve Task are here in Buffalo. Thank you very much

1935
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Speaker 1: for being with us. That's a very kind introduction. Thank you, John.

1936
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I mean it. I check your stuff

1937
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: all week. And when you get get into the Bills,

1938
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:16,880
Speaker 1: deep into the Bills, as you did this week, I

1939
01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: always say to our producer Jay Harris, Jay, gotta get

1940
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: Andy Benoy down because it's all video work, right, Andy,

1941
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:24,720
Speaker 1: You're up there in boys id ho crunching video. That's

1942
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:27,400
Speaker 1: how you get all this stuff right. Yeah, Doggie, I'm

1943
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: on the NFL's film system and you get addicted to

1944
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:33,679
Speaker 1: that stuff pretty quickly when you can pause and slow

1945
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 1: down and rewind and it's just you're in controller control

1946
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 1: and you see everything. Yeah. It's interesting, and it's because

1947
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 1: when you do that, you start to learn some things

1948
01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:46,560
Speaker 1: about You can almost see guys minds working when you

1949
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:48,240
Speaker 1: see them on film, and you can slow it down

1950
01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:49,759
Speaker 1: and you want to and you can get an idea

1951
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:52,200
Speaker 1: of what their responsibilities really are. And it was interesting

1952
01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 1: to hear you talk about the Bills game this last

1953
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:58,040
Speaker 1: weekend against the Titans that recipe that they put together,

1954
01:37:58,240 --> 01:38:00,759
Speaker 1: you know, running forty three out of sixty four snaps

1955
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: and running twenty seven out of their first thirty six snaps.

1956
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a recipe that's pretty hard to beat.

1957
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 1: If you can keep the game close and run the ball. Well, yeah,

1958
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 1: it is, and they were committed to it. I don't

1959
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,439
Speaker 1: I don't think a single one of those runs went

1960
01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:19,120
Speaker 1: longer than sixteen yards, and yet they stayed committed to

1961
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:21,320
Speaker 1: it in there. That's the way you got to play,

1962
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:25,120
Speaker 1: especially against Tennessee. Tennessee, there's so many different defensive fronts

1963
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:28,280
Speaker 1: on third and long, and they get to cover two

1964
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: zone in so many different ways. It's a lot for

1965
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:34,480
Speaker 1: a q B to process. So if you're running the ball, theoretically,

1966
01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 1: well what's interesting is you've got to be willing to

1967
01:38:37,080 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: play on second and long if you're going to run

1968
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: the ball. But theoretically you don't encounter as much third

1969
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 1: and long because the chances of two runs being stuffed

1970
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:49,240
Speaker 1: are pretty small versus and incompletions is a much greater chance.

1971
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 1: So I think the Bills their aim was, Hey, when

1972
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:55,439
Speaker 1: we get in third down against this defense, let's make

1973
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 1: it third and medium or third and short where they're

1974
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:01,759
Speaker 1: more likely to play man bridge, which is harder to disguise,

1975
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 1: and we can control that a little bit and make

1976
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 1: things a little bit easier on Josh Allen, Andy Benoit's

1977
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:09,719
Speaker 1: with us from SI dot Com wrote about the Bills

1978
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:13,400
Speaker 1: victor over Tennessee, and you talk about the recipe for

1979
01:39:13,520 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: that victory. You say, Sean mcdermot's making chicken salad out

1980
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:18,639
Speaker 1: of what he has to work with here in Buffalo.

1981
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 1: I don't know if many Bills fans would disagree with that, Andy.

1982
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:24,679
Speaker 1: Some Bills fans worry if this is a sustainable model.

1983
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: I don't know that it is. What do you think,

1984
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:30,800
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think you need talent in the NFL ultimately,

1985
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:34,200
Speaker 1: So it's now we can discuss what success means and

1986
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: what a sustainable model would mean. The team. That team

1987
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: when nine and seven last year and overachieved, and now

1988
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: there's a culture in place, and we're seeing them overachieve

1989
01:39:43,200 --> 01:39:45,120
Speaker 1: at times this year. They're not on pace for nine

1990
01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:48,560
Speaker 1: and seven. But the Buffalo Bills have an identity and

1991
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:50,640
Speaker 1: now they've got to go find talent to that can

1992
01:39:50,760 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 1: enact the identity. But for a lot of teams it's

1993
01:39:53,120 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 1: the other way around. They might have talent, but they

1994
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:58,960
Speaker 1: don't have the identity, They don't have the definite, definitive

1995
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: culture and play. So I think all things consider, there

1996
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: should be a lot of optimism in Buffalo because I

1997
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 1: think Saw McDermot is really doing a great, great job there.

1998
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: If you are looking at the Buffalo Bills offense and

1999
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: you're saying, you know a lot of teams they put

2000
01:40:13,160 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 1: the system in place, and then they'll fill it with talent,

2001
01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 1: where would you start if you're the Bill's front office

2002
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff, where do you start? Where are the biggest

2003
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,560
Speaker 1: holes on their offense? Well, the two obvious ones, and

2004
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:28,360
Speaker 1: they both pertain to the passing game is the offensive line,

2005
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:31,560
Speaker 1: which is it's actually competing very well, but it's just

2006
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 1: not athletic. And then at wide receiver, where they're in

2007
01:40:35,200 --> 01:40:38,760
Speaker 1: my opinion, very deficient spots one, two, three, and four,

2008
01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:42,000
Speaker 1: especially when you don't I don't think Benjamin has been

2009
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:44,479
Speaker 1: a true number one receiver and that's caused problems at

2010
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,360
Speaker 1: other positions at wide receiver. So it gets into the

2011
01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:51,600
Speaker 1: discussion do you build an offense to protect your to

2012
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:54,240
Speaker 1: be via blocking or do you build an offense to

2013
01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:57,439
Speaker 1: protect him by giving him receivers who can get open

2014
01:40:57,479 --> 01:41:00,560
Speaker 1: in somewhere to throw before his blocking breaks down. For

2015
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I think the solution that you protect them

2016
01:41:04,040 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 1: be a blocking because you've got a big arm, which

2017
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,560
Speaker 1: means you're gonna want to do deeper dropbacks, so you

2018
01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 1: have time to run deeper routes to take advantage of

2019
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:14,160
Speaker 1: that arm. I think they need to incorporate him more

2020
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: in the running game and have a little bit more

2021
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 1: of a diverse run scheme, kind of like what the

2022
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:21,040
Speaker 1: Panthers do with Cam Newton. We've talked about that. And

2023
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:23,919
Speaker 1: the better you are an offensive line, the more athletic

2024
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:26,679
Speaker 1: you are, especially a guard and that kind of approach,

2025
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: the more options you'll have there. What does what do

2026
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 1: you see from the Bills offense that maybe fans could

2027
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: be encouraged about. You know, as you said, it might

2028
01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:38,519
Speaker 1: not be sustainable not to throat as much as they

2029
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:41,080
Speaker 1: have not this year, But what do you think the

2030
01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: future might look like for this Buffalo offense? Well, I

2031
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: think back to the old line they are competing. I mean,

2032
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 1: after watching them in Week one against Baltimore, I thought

2033
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: the Bills aren't going to be able to play against

2034
01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:53,640
Speaker 1: half the teams in the league, they're just not good

2035
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:57,000
Speaker 1: enough upfront, and I haven't really felt that way since

2036
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:59,879
Speaker 1: they've they've been competitive. You know, they do have limitation,

2037
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:03,160
Speaker 1: but a lot of I've a great co seller. Our

2038
01:42:03,240 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: friend has reminded me of this over the years, and

2039
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:08,040
Speaker 1: he said it took him several years to learn. Is that,

2040
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:12,080
Speaker 1: at least with interior offensive line play, you've got to

2041
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:15,400
Speaker 1: ignore how pretty or ugly it might be. The end result,

2042
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:18,559
Speaker 1: and even an ugly process with an adequate end result,

2043
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: that's what it's about. And I think you're getting that

2044
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 1: a little bit from the old line. So it's an

2045
01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: overachieving group and the immediate future. I don't think Lashaw

2046
01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 1: McCoy shows any signs of decline, and I know he's

2047
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:33,520
Speaker 1: thirty years old, but when you start to decline athletically,

2048
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 1: and Steve would probably be better to speak about this

2049
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: than meet, he was a professional athlete. But from what

2050
01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:41,719
Speaker 1: I've learned, as especially as the running back, the first

2051
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: trait that goes is your physical balance, your ability to

2052
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,280
Speaker 1: balance your body, which in that case would imply that

2053
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:50,720
Speaker 1: you'd start to lose your change of direction, your lateral agility,

2054
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:54,680
Speaker 1: your shiftiness, and all of those have been McCoy's defining

2055
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,560
Speaker 1: traits in his career. So I think McCoy when he

2056
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: does start to decline, he's going to decline and very

2057
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:03,759
Speaker 1: quickly because the balance will go after his main treat

2058
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:06,000
Speaker 1: We're not seeing any of that right now, though, and

2059
01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: I don't see it on the horizon with him. Steven

2060
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: started to laugh here, Andy, would you fall on the

2061
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:14,120
Speaker 1: front steps this morning with your balanced Yeah, that's what

2062
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 1: happened to That's happened to me yesterday. But I was

2063
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 1: gonna ask you one. They did lean on their running

2064
01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: game and they're going to continue to do that with

2065
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:25,160
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy and Chris Ivory are both ran extremely well

2066
01:43:25,160 --> 01:43:27,200
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. But one of the things they also did

2067
01:43:27,280 --> 01:43:29,639
Speaker 1: to help Josh Allen was to move him around early

2068
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: in the game. They were doing a lot of play

2069
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:34,439
Speaker 1: action also with him bootlegging out of there. That's how

2070
01:43:34,479 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 1: he scored his touchdown. But my question you, Andy, is

2071
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:41,640
Speaker 1: how much can you move your quarterback around when it

2072
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: gets out that that's kind of your thing. You do

2073
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 1: it all the time, so teams are gonna make it

2074
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 1: so you can't. Yeah, that's a great question. I think

2075
01:43:50,880 --> 01:43:54,559
Speaker 1: you can get away with overdoing design pocket movement more

2076
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:58,120
Speaker 1: than you can get away with overdoing other staple tactics

2077
01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:01,120
Speaker 1: that you might do offensively. And the reason why is

2078
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:05,080
Speaker 1: the moving structures. For one, pass rushers are not designed

2079
01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:07,519
Speaker 1: to take away a moving pocket because it's just too

2080
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 1: much guesswork on the defenses part. You can't build a

2081
01:44:11,560 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 1: blizz scheme to attack a moving target. So all blizzes

2082
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:17,880
Speaker 1: are almost all blitzes, and even just pass rushing lanes.

2083
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 1: And how individuals go about it, they're working under the

2084
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:22,400
Speaker 1: assumption that the QB is going to be stationary in

2085
01:44:22,439 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: the pocket. That's the land of art. So moving the

2086
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: pocket that's a really good way to help an unathletic

2087
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:31,679
Speaker 1: offensive line, and defenses don't have a pass rush answer

2088
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: for it necessarily. Edge blizzing would be one solution, but

2089
01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: now we're talking about the defense having to change its

2090
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:42,160
Speaker 1: approach a little bit. The other thing is zone coverages

2091
01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:46,519
Speaker 1: are not always accounted for with moving pockets. Zones tend

2092
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:49,599
Speaker 1: to have different answers when you start to unbalance the field,

2093
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:52,600
Speaker 1: and you can manipulate those a little bit more so

2094
01:44:53,160 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 1: I think they can get away. I think they need

2095
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:57,839
Speaker 1: to continue to do that. It's where Alan's most comfortable.

2096
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Speaker 1: It also slices the field in half, and right now,

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01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 1: he clearly has trouble reading the field, So let's make

2098
01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 1: it easier on him and let him develop. I would

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01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: imagine they'll keep doing that. He's pretty mobile too. Again,

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Speaker 1: that gets overlooked with him a lot. Andy Benoid is

2101
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:15,360
Speaker 1: our guest. He is NFL analyst writer for Sports Illustrator.

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Speaker 1: In the MMQB a post up yesterday, how do the

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01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 1: Bills keep pulling off upsets? All of this that you

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01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 1: describe about the Buffalo offense, Andy, and you write about

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01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 1: this too, None of it really is viable unless you

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01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,479
Speaker 1: have a what you call a playmaking defense. The Bills

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01:45:27,520 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: certainly have that right now, don't they. Yeah, they've got

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01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:32,599
Speaker 1: to be a ball hawking defense. They've got a split

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01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 1: field position at times, like they did in the Minnesota game.

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Speaker 1: They can't give up big places. They're asking a lot

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01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: of their defense. It's a zone They're doing the right approach.

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01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: It's a zone based defense. They do simple schemes, but

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01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:48,479
Speaker 1: they change it up just enough that you can't call

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Speaker 1: him a vanilla defense. And when you're simple and zone

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01:45:52,080 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 1: based and you do one maybe three or four different things.

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01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:58,519
Speaker 1: Guys start to place fast, they get more comfortable, and

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01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:00,479
Speaker 1: we saw that last year and we're still to see

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01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: it a little bit this year. You mentioned now the

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01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo defense you say is simple after the snap, but

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01:46:06,240 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: complex before it. What do you see there? Well, they're

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01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:13,679
Speaker 1: safeties will not stay put. Sometimes there's safeties move around

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01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:16,960
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh, some of the cornerbacks leverages and

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01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 1: how they line up. There's just they're not They're not

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01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, who are as gray and blurry of

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01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:26,160
Speaker 1: a defense as you'll find as own defense that is.

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01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: But they're in that kind of that Bears category where

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01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: you quarterbacks have to verify after the snap, maybe even

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01:46:34,200 --> 01:46:36,559
Speaker 1: a bit more with the Bills than they did they

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01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 1: than they do with normal teams at normal coverages. Go ahead,

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01:46:42,040 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you one last thing. You know

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01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:45,960
Speaker 1: you inswer and it has been um. You have to

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01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 1: consider the Vikings win an upset the Tennessee Titans game

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01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 1: maybe not so much of an upset being at home,

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01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 1: but how long and how far away do you see

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01:46:55,600 --> 01:46:58,439
Speaker 1: the Bills as being in a position where every win

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01:46:58,560 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 1: they get is not considered an upset. Yeah, that's good,

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01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 1: that's a good question because did they even get there?

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01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:08,800
Speaker 1: Last year? They win nine to seven. I looked up

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01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:10,920
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Buffalo made the playoffs on

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01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:15,680
Speaker 1: a really complex mathematical tiebreaker, and I saw they've got

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01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, they've got no chance in the playoffs, so

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01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 1: it would have it, and they almost they gave a

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01:47:19,520 --> 01:47:23,000
Speaker 1: Jacksonville competitive game. So even when they've made the playoffs,

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01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: as they've been an upset underdogs type of team, I

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01:47:25,880 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 1: don't know the answer that. My guess is it'll be

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01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 1: commensurate with how Josh Allen is perceived. And if people

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01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,439
Speaker 1: think he's coming along, they're going to expect the Bills

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01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:37,760
Speaker 1: to come along. And if Josh Allen continues to look

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01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:41,040
Speaker 1: young and raw, then they're gonna think, well, the Bills

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01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 1: don't have any help around them. Andy, we should get

2151
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:45,920
Speaker 1: you to answer in if you would on our Twitter

2152
01:47:46,040 --> 01:47:48,600
Speaker 1: poll question today, we're asking Bills fans, how do they

2153
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:52,680
Speaker 1: account for Buffalo's defensive improvement twenty six defense in the

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01:47:52,720 --> 01:47:55,160
Speaker 1: league last year, right now they're six. They've improved a

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01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:57,360
Speaker 1: lot even since Week two this season. What do you

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01:47:57,439 --> 01:47:59,360
Speaker 1: think are they what are the factors in that? What

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01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:04,200
Speaker 1: has helped the Buffalo defense improved improved. Yeah, that's a

2158
01:48:04,240 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 1: good question. I think being just year two in McDermott's

2159
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:10,200
Speaker 1: scheme has helped they do so many Again, when you

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01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:12,599
Speaker 1: disguise a little bit and they disguise with their front

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01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:16,439
Speaker 1: guys then have to get to their coverages from different locations.

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01:48:16,439 --> 01:48:19,880
Speaker 1: They're taking different paths to where they're going after the snap,

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01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 1: and that probably takes some time to learn. In some

2164
01:48:22,479 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: chemistry too, you've got to have your spatial awareness relative

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01:48:26,240 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: to the defender next to you. So having a lot

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01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:31,640
Speaker 1: of guys or I know they've got some changes a

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01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:34,639
Speaker 1: linebacker at least of Tremaine Edmonds, but having a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys back in year two in that defense, I

2169
01:48:38,200 --> 01:48:40,040
Speaker 1: think that's been a big deal for them. And one

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Speaker 1: more question for you, Andy before we let you go,

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01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:44,800
Speaker 1: and this I think should serve your comment here should

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01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 1: serve as encouragement for Bills fans. You're right at the

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01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:50,360
Speaker 1: end of your post on the Bills. Just like last year,

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Speaker 1: the Bills, you say are a cautionary tale against dismissing

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01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:56,880
Speaker 1: an untalented roster. You write that with the right coaching

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01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:00,840
Speaker 1: and in the right system, untalented players especially so the professionals,

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01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,439
Speaker 1: they're capable of overachieving. That's kind of like what we

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01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: saw last year. I think happening again here this year,

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Speaker 1: don't you agree? Yeah, Absol, It's why people like me

2180
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:10,640
Speaker 1: will never really be able to quit their jobs and

2181
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:12,559
Speaker 1: just go to Vegas and bet on this stock. Because

2182
01:49:13,200 --> 01:49:15,680
Speaker 1: what we can't know from the film is what's going

2183
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:18,840
Speaker 1: on in meetings, how this stuff being taught, the kind

2184
01:49:18,880 --> 01:49:21,479
Speaker 1: of heart a team has a kind of chemistry, although

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01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 1: you know, I don't analyze those X factors because it's

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01:49:24,320 --> 01:49:26,720
Speaker 1: just guesswork, and so I guess I feel like I'm

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01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:29,240
Speaker 1: forced to dismiss them almost And just you know, we

2188
01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 1: talked about by preview old bills, they're released talented team.

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01:49:32,240 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna go four and twelve. That's a little bit

2190
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:37,479
Speaker 1: my job, and that's the inherent limitations of my job.

2191
01:49:37,560 --> 01:49:40,120
Speaker 1: And I think we need to respect the human part

2192
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:42,840
Speaker 1: of professional sports like that. Love to hear you say that.

2193
01:49:42,880 --> 01:49:44,560
Speaker 1: Don't quit your job, man, You're too good at it.

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01:49:44,640 --> 01:49:47,400
Speaker 1: Don't quit. Thanks for joining us today. We appreciate it.

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01:49:47,520 --> 01:49:50,879
Speaker 1: Thank you, yep, thanks guys. Andy Benoit is NFL analysts

2196
01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: for SI dot com and he writes for the MMQB

2197
01:49:53,439 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 1: his post up on si dot com yesterday, how do

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01:49:56,560 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 1: they do it? How do the Bills keep pulling off upsets?

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Speaker 1: I think he he has some good points there, Steve.

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01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 1: We want to thank Andy for joining us. He joined

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Speaker 1: us on the Subway Fresh Take hotline presented by Subway

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01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 1: Restaurants Proud to be locally owned and operated. I think

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01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:12,559
Speaker 1: he basically found the essence of what goes on around here. Steve.

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01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:15,559
Speaker 1: It's it's professionals. It's a culture which people I hate

2205
01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:17,719
Speaker 1: to hear that. I think some people. It's a culture

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01:50:17,720 --> 01:50:20,840
Speaker 1: of professionals who respond to the coaching. They may not

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01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,759
Speaker 1: be the most talented. Andy thinks, so the least talented

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01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:25,760
Speaker 1: team in the league. He could be right, but they

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01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: responded the coaching and they're they're hard enough workers to

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01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: get things done here. They win more than they should.

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01:50:30,040 --> 01:50:33,160
Speaker 1: They overachieve. And that's I said this last year at

2212
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:35,960
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, before the playoffs, all of

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01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:38,200
Speaker 1: that stuff that I thought, by the end of the year,

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01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:40,360
Speaker 1: at least, this would be a team that would be

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01:50:40,479 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: easy to cheer for, and they are that. Given the

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01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:45,479
Speaker 1: fact that they have stumbled out of the blocks going

2217
01:50:45,520 --> 01:50:49,120
Speaker 1: oh and too quick and looking really horrific. This is

2218
01:50:49,160 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 1: a team that in the last couple of weeks have

2219
01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:52,720
Speaker 1: won a lot of people back and said, Okay, there

2220
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:54,760
Speaker 1: they are. There's that team we saw last year that

2221
01:50:54,840 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs even though they had the little

2222
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:01,759
Speaker 1: the backup horn going, they backed completely up into the playoffs.

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01:51:01,960 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 1: They're there, and it was because they completely overachieved. It's

2224
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,519
Speaker 1: a fun team to cheer for for that reason. But

2225
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: he's right. When you get more talented players, as the

2226
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:18,160
Speaker 1: Bills are perceiving themselves doing, and they're slowly getting there,

2227
01:51:18,160 --> 01:51:19,920
Speaker 1: when they get all the cap space out of the way,

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01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:24,400
Speaker 1: they got unwheeldy contracts off the roster, they they're still

2229
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:28,320
Speaker 1: that team all through last year and thus far this

2230
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:33,760
Speaker 1: year that overachieves. And that's it's not all that bad

2231
01:51:33,800 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: place to be if you can win enough games, you know,

2232
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:40,800
Speaker 1: I mean, who wants to be a team that underachieves

2233
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:42,519
Speaker 1: and goes nine and seven or would you rather be

2234
01:51:42,560 --> 01:51:44,760
Speaker 1: a team that overachieves and goes nine and seven. We've

2235
01:51:44,800 --> 01:51:47,320
Speaker 1: had those underachievers here know what? That We just sat

2236
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:50,880
Speaker 1: through that for a decade and a half in this town. Hey,

2237
01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,679
Speaker 1: m Sean McDermot talked a little bit about something similar

2238
01:51:53,720 --> 01:51:55,800
Speaker 1: to this. U. You know, the Bills won by a

2239
01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:59,400
Speaker 1: point against Tennessee Sunday. It wasn't a great, great offensive

2240
01:51:59,760 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 1: vic by any standpoint, but they won by a point.

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01:52:02,680 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: And McDermott was asked when he met the media yesterday,

2242
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:08,360
Speaker 1: is that sustainable? You know? Can you keep winning like that?

2243
01:52:09,400 --> 01:52:11,320
Speaker 1: How can you keep how can you keep playing like that?

2244
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:13,959
Speaker 1: It's a current model of winning the Bills have established

2245
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:16,840
Speaker 1: this year sustainable over the long term. Here's what John

2246
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:20,920
Speaker 1: McDermot said. Listen, I'm not going to sit here and

2247
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,560
Speaker 1: say we're a finished product and you can do that

2248
01:52:23,680 --> 01:52:26,679
Speaker 1: every week. I'm not trying to suggest that whatsoever. It's

2249
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 1: it's got to continue to develop and evolve in all

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01:52:30,479 --> 01:52:34,840
Speaker 1: three phases. I thought defensively, we played well most of

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01:52:34,880 --> 01:52:36,840
Speaker 1: the day yesterday. To your point with the takeaways in

2252
01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:40,320
Speaker 1: the field position, there's some things there we have to

2253
01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:42,720
Speaker 1: improve on as well. Then offensively, we played a game

2254
01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:47,000
Speaker 1: you know that we had put together a game plan

2255
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 1: that we had put together to control the line of scrimmage,

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01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:51,040
Speaker 1: and I thought we did that at times in particularly

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01:52:51,040 --> 01:52:52,760
Speaker 1: in the first drive and the last drive. But they're

2258
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,640
Speaker 1: in between those two drives there there was a lot

2259
01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:57,760
Speaker 1: of things that we have to work on yet, and

2260
01:52:57,800 --> 01:53:00,080
Speaker 1: then the same could be said for special teams and

2261
01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: our best dawn special teams either. You know, some some

2262
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:05,920
Speaker 1: miscues there and we've got to continue to grow in

2263
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 1: that department as well. Speaking of special teams, you and

2264
01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:11,679
Speaker 1: I took a look at the video, the All twenty

2265
01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:14,599
Speaker 1: two video today of the thirty eight yard punt returned

2266
01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 1: by Nick Williams. The Titans punt return, her first punt

2267
01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:19,040
Speaker 1: of the game, comes back thirty eight yards, sets him

2268
01:53:19,120 --> 01:53:23,040
Speaker 1: up for a field goal try. Some people thought my

2269
01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:25,400
Speaker 1: partner Mark Kelso, but people I talked to her last

2270
01:53:25,479 --> 01:53:28,640
Speaker 1: night at the Speakers series thought that for sure they

2271
01:53:28,680 --> 01:53:31,240
Speaker 1: saw Nick Williams signal fair catch. We looked at it

2272
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:32,880
Speaker 1: and looked at it and looked at it again today.

2273
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:35,280
Speaker 1: He had a little motion with his arm. I don't

2274
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,000
Speaker 1: know what it would Did you think it was a

2275
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:39,840
Speaker 1: fair catch? You made a living I did not. He

2276
01:53:40,160 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: What happened was right before they got there, they meaning

2277
01:53:43,600 --> 01:53:46,120
Speaker 1: the coverage guys got down there. Now we couldn't see

2278
01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:48,439
Speaker 1: it until the pump was in the air and he

2279
01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:51,000
Speaker 1: was running across. But there was nothing early in the

2280
01:53:51,120 --> 01:53:54,439
Speaker 1: kick that said this when he got there and what happened.

2281
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:56,920
Speaker 1: He looked, he was looking at the coverage, got kind

2282
01:53:56,960 --> 01:53:59,920
Speaker 1: of camped under the ball and then waved his own

2283
01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 1: waved his right arm hard, but it was below his

2284
01:54:03,520 --> 01:54:06,920
Speaker 1: shoulder in order like to get his balance. Fatches up here, right,

2285
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:08,600
Speaker 1: his fair catch got to be above his head. But

2286
01:54:08,760 --> 01:54:10,800
Speaker 1: from from the top of the stadium, from where you

2287
01:54:11,240 --> 01:54:13,160
Speaker 1: see that, you know, if you're not looking right at

2288
01:54:13,240 --> 01:54:15,160
Speaker 1: him and you see it, you see that arm move

2289
01:54:15,360 --> 01:54:18,600
Speaker 1: in that motion, It kind of gives you the the

2290
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 1: idea that, yeah, he didn't call for a fair catch,

2291
01:54:20,400 --> 01:54:23,320
Speaker 1: but he did not in my opinion. He had his

2292
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,840
Speaker 1: arm below his waist and his arm did move in

2293
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:27,479
Speaker 1: the in the motion of a fair catch, but it

2294
01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:31,200
Speaker 1: was his side below his shoulder, and that doesn't count.

2295
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: He was kind of catching his balance, you know, so

2296
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: he had will wave and kind of wave it real quick,

2297
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 1: and uh that yeah, I think that's where the misunderstanding

2298
01:54:39,360 --> 01:54:42,600
Speaker 1: have him. Earlier video or something that we don't have.

2299
01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:44,720
Speaker 1: Did it right off the punt, right off the foot,

2300
01:54:44,880 --> 01:54:47,360
Speaker 1: right when the ball came right off orchis his foot,

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01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:49,960
Speaker 1: he might have done it, but no, he's not gonna

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01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:51,880
Speaker 1: do that. And then run with it either. Yea, So

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01:54:52,040 --> 01:54:54,320
Speaker 1: he didn't mean to, even if it looked like he did.

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01:54:54,920 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 1: So you hurt Sean mcdermoty and and I do want

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01:54:57,280 --> 01:54:59,240
Speaker 1: to reference this to Steve McDermot said it. We're not

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01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:01,920
Speaker 1: a finished product. I think you know, Bills fans sometimes

2307
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:04,240
Speaker 1: have to remind themselves this is not a finished product.

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01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:06,040
Speaker 1: There's a lot of work to be done here, and

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01:55:07,040 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 1: most of it right now on the offensive side of

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01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:12,120
Speaker 1: the ball. Right. Absolutely, there's no there's no question about it.

2311
01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 1: And I had I put it out there to Andy Benoit,

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01:55:14,200 --> 01:55:16,320
Speaker 1: I said, okay, where the whole's offensive, and he went

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01:55:16,400 --> 01:55:18,520
Speaker 1: right to what Bills fans know is the offensive line

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01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:21,840
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Thanks to Andy for joining us today. Our

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01:55:21,840 --> 01:55:24,880
Speaker 1: Twitter poll deals with the defense today. Bill's defense currently

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01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:28,040
Speaker 1: sixth ranked defense in the NFL. Yards against pretty good.

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01:55:28,280 --> 01:55:30,160
Speaker 1: Last year they were twenty six. Right now, they are

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01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:33,480
Speaker 1: ninth against the run, fourth against the pass. Last year

2319
01:55:33,560 --> 01:55:35,960
Speaker 1: they were twenty ninth against the run and twentieth against

2320
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:38,280
Speaker 1: the past. So what's been the biggest factor in the

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01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,920
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive improvement? On Twitter, we asked that question, and

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01:55:41,240 --> 01:55:43,280
Speaker 1: about half of you say it's a better pass rush.

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01:55:43,560 --> 01:55:47,040
Speaker 1: Fifty percent say improved pass rush twenty twenty eight percent

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01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:50,160
Speaker 1: say solid linebacker play, fifteen percent say some of the

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01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 1: unsung heroes in the secondary. Seven percent have something else

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01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:54,920
Speaker 1: in mind. Give us a call, let us know what

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01:55:55,000 --> 01:55:57,280
Speaker 1: you think. Eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two fifty. We'll talk about

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01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:02,960
Speaker 1: that after the break. As we go to break, time

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01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 1: to name our Blue Rock Energy Player of the Week.

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01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:07,320
Speaker 1: The votes are in powered by Blue Rock Energy, the

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01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: official electricity supplier the bills, the volts are in, and

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01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:13,080
Speaker 1: this week Blue Rock Energy Player of the Week guy

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01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 1: who hit the game winning field goal, Stephen Houshka. Forty

2335
01:56:15,440 --> 01:56:17,960
Speaker 1: nine percent of you voted for Houshka, twenty four percent

2336
01:56:18,080 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 1: voted for a Tremon Edmonds, eighteen percent for Shady McCoy,

2337
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:24,360
Speaker 1: twelve percent for Taran Johnson. But Stephen Houshka is the

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01:56:24,400 --> 01:56:26,560
Speaker 1: Blue Rock Energy Player of the Week. Don't forget you

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01:56:26,680 --> 01:56:28,560
Speaker 1: vote the morning after each game. Go to Blue Rock

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01:56:28,680 --> 01:56:31,560
Speaker 1: Energy dot com or Blue Rock Energy's Facebook page to

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01:56:31,640 --> 01:56:33,400
Speaker 1: learn more. Steve and I back with more in a

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01:56:33,480 --> 01:56:35,839
Speaker 1: moment One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo

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01:56:35,920 --> 01:56:51,080
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We're back John Murphy. Steve Tasker coming to

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01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 1: you from one Bills Drive on a beautiful day and

2345
01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:57,080
Speaker 1: newer Field and Orchard Park. It's got to be eighty

2346
01:56:57,360 --> 01:56:59,440
Speaker 1: three degrees out there, Steve, it's beautiful. We just took

2347
01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:03,640
Speaker 1: a look outside eighty eighty one eighty one. Steve says,

2348
01:57:04,760 --> 01:57:07,440
Speaker 1: check your little weather thing. Have you got one of

2349
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:09,760
Speaker 1: those on your I do. I don't feel like check

2350
01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 1: night because we're here. It doesn't matter why you tech,

2351
01:57:12,600 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: you you talk, I'll check. It's not gonna work. Forget it.

2352
01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:19,720
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful day in Orchard Park. I haven't The

2353
01:57:19,760 --> 01:57:21,880
Speaker 1: weather doesn't matter in Houston, right because it's a dome.

2354
01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:26,080
Speaker 1: Do you like Check Stadium? It's pretty nice. It's an

2355
01:57:26,200 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: end Ron, No, it's reliant. No. And RG it's end Rod,

2356
01:57:31,680 --> 01:57:34,000
Speaker 1: not en Ron. End Round doesn't have a money just

2357
01:57:34,280 --> 01:57:37,680
Speaker 1: to spouts the buildings anymore. And RG Stadium, I don't

2358
01:57:37,680 --> 01:57:40,920
Speaker 1: like it. Not too big, The broadcast booth is too high.

2359
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:44,600
Speaker 1: It's just massive. It's just all it is is big

2360
01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 1: and everyone when you get there. I don't know when

2361
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:49,160
Speaker 1: the rodeo is, but when you're there around the rodeo,

2362
01:57:49,200 --> 01:57:51,440
Speaker 1: it smells like a rodeo too. They have a huge

2363
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:53,600
Speaker 1: rodeo in that building. Did you know that. Yeah, well listen,

2364
01:57:54,080 --> 01:57:56,200
Speaker 1: they used to have it next door, and I played

2365
01:57:56,240 --> 01:57:59,360
Speaker 1: in the Astrodome which is next door standing home. Yeah,

2366
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:04,040
Speaker 1: the the Astronome was like the eighth wonder of the world, remember, yeah,

2367
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:05,960
Speaker 1: when it was built. When it was built, the thing

2368
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:09,720
Speaker 1: was a speed bump next to Energy Stadium. I mean literally,

2369
01:58:09,800 --> 01:58:12,720
Speaker 1: it's like a it's it's like a quanset hut. And

2370
01:58:12,840 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 1: it was the eighth wonder of the world when they

2371
01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 1: built it. You have to get bitter about it, but

2372
01:58:17,880 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 1: it was and it was I remember, yeah, playing in

2373
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:22,920
Speaker 1: that thing. It was like that's where the word term

2374
01:58:22,960 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 1: AstroTurf came from. Everything. Now it's FieldTurf now it's whatever

2375
01:58:26,080 --> 01:58:28,560
Speaker 1: they call it that, but it used to be. It

2376
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:32,040
Speaker 1: was the first place where that artificial grass, and it

2377
01:58:32,200 --> 01:58:37,080
Speaker 1: was it was a very lame attempt to make artificial

2378
01:58:37,160 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 1: and artificial service worth it. Well, the team wasn't very

2379
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:44,520
Speaker 1: good when I was there, and it wasn't very good

2380
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:47,280
Speaker 1: home field, it wasn't very good. They laid the turf

2381
01:58:47,440 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 1: was over dirt. It wasn't and that was you know,

2382
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: if you you know, shoot a light across it and

2383
01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:54,760
Speaker 1: then it was like wavy, you know, it wasn't even

2384
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:58,080
Speaker 1: you know, it was like it was like a yard

2385
01:58:58,720 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 1: you know, and it was, you know, not it wasn't.

2386
01:59:00,520 --> 01:59:02,400
Speaker 1: They didn't even level it for crying out loud. I mean,

2387
01:59:02,440 --> 01:59:05,200
Speaker 1: what were they doing. Then it had a street curb

2388
01:59:05,320 --> 01:59:07,680
Speaker 1: going through the forty five yard line right down the stripe.

2389
01:59:07,720 --> 01:59:09,240
Speaker 1: The stripe would come out. It was like a two

2390
01:59:09,320 --> 01:59:12,160
Speaker 1: by four with turf wrapped around it, painted white, and

2391
01:59:12,200 --> 01:59:15,120
Speaker 1: they'd they'd stuff it back down and it was horrible, man,

2392
01:59:15,320 --> 01:59:18,600
Speaker 1: tell me the truth. And they had the baseball configurations

2393
01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:20,200
Speaker 1: out there through the first half of the season. It

2394
01:59:20,320 --> 01:59:21,880
Speaker 1: was dirt out there. Tell me the truth. You were

2395
01:59:21,880 --> 01:59:25,440
Speaker 1: a twenty two year old kid off the farm in Kansas. Uh,

2396
01:59:25,760 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: go to college, play your college football, and wind up

2397
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:31,440
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. This is nineteen eighty five, thirty three

2398
01:59:31,480 --> 01:59:34,440
Speaker 1: years ago. You probably thought you'd died and went to heaven. Right, Houston,

2399
01:59:34,560 --> 01:59:36,720
Speaker 1: Texas the big city. You know, Houston right now is

2400
01:59:36,720 --> 01:59:38,600
Speaker 1: the fourth largest city in America, by the way, Yeah,

2401
01:59:38,600 --> 01:59:40,320
Speaker 1: it was big then it was then did you love

2402
01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:43,560
Speaker 1: it in Houston? I didn't know what I was doing.

2403
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:46,640
Speaker 1: I was just trying to get I was just trying

2404
01:59:46,680 --> 01:59:50,440
Speaker 1: to get myself fed and clothed. And Kevin, were you married? No?

2405
01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:53,320
Speaker 1: I was. No, I got married my second year. I did.

2406
01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:55,920
Speaker 1: We were married my second year, thirty two years ago.

2407
01:59:56,000 --> 02:00:02,040
Speaker 1: Didn't love it, No, I didn't. No, I was. I was.

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02:00:02,400 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 1: I was chemical bulls you and Houston was of a

2409
02:00:06,840 --> 02:00:09,000
Speaker 1: kind of an la want to be back then. Yeah,

2410
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:13,120
Speaker 1: it was very superficial, very glitzy, very hollywood ish. And

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02:00:13,160 --> 02:00:15,560
Speaker 1: it was in the eighties too, so that stuff going,

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02:00:15,760 --> 02:00:17,880
Speaker 1: it's worse there now. Yeah, well, you know, you know

2413
02:00:17,960 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 1: what changed it too, was Hurricane Katrina. They had over

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02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:25,720
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people moved from New Orleans to Houston

2415
02:00:25,800 --> 02:00:30,080
Speaker 1: as refugees and stayed. Yeah, you know, I don't say refugees,

2416
02:00:30,160 --> 02:00:31,520
Speaker 1: but we call it. I don't know what that would be,

2417
02:00:31,720 --> 02:00:36,480
Speaker 1: but kind of yeah, And they stayed. So they had

2418
02:00:36,480 --> 02:00:38,720
Speaker 1: a big influx of people. They were like not in

2419
02:00:38,800 --> 02:00:41,480
Speaker 1: the government was subsidizing, and they knocked down and not

2420
02:00:41,600 --> 02:00:44,000
Speaker 1: knocked down, but they emptied out hotels and had people

2421
02:00:44,600 --> 02:00:47,680
Speaker 1: taken up residence in the hotels as for shelter because

2422
02:00:47,680 --> 02:00:50,440
Speaker 1: they had all these people coming over from from New

2423
02:00:50,560 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: Orleans and they and a lot of them had stayed

2424
02:00:52,720 --> 02:00:55,560
Speaker 1: so it you know it, it changed the city somewhat.

2425
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,040
Speaker 1: I spent about a week in Houston a couple of

2426
02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 1: years ago for the Super Bowl, and spent two weeks

2427
02:01:00,240 --> 02:01:02,720
Speaker 1: in Texas and had a great trip and a great visit.

2428
02:01:02,800 --> 02:01:04,240
Speaker 1: But I don't need to go back to Texas, you

2429
02:01:04,280 --> 02:01:05,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I went back to San Listen.

2430
02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:09,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's such a big state. Yeah, Dallas

2431
02:01:09,520 --> 02:01:14,160
Speaker 1: is completely different than Houston, San Antonio, Austin, San Antonio.

2432
02:01:14,200 --> 02:01:16,600
Speaker 1: They're all completely different cities. I mean, they each have

2433
02:01:16,720 --> 02:01:20,160
Speaker 1: their own flavor, each have their own geographical nuances that

2434
02:01:20,240 --> 02:01:23,440
Speaker 1: make them a little bit unique. They're all completely different,

2435
02:01:23,520 --> 02:01:26,000
Speaker 1: yeah cities, And I think that makes it a unique

2436
02:01:26,000 --> 02:01:28,120
Speaker 1: state for that. Not only it's so big, but their

2437
02:01:28,160 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: cities are so separate in their personalities. Hey, I say

2438
02:01:31,760 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 1: a few phone calls as we talk about the Buffalo

2439
02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:36,200
Speaker 1: defense and the Buffalo Bills in general. Tom from the

2440
02:01:36,280 --> 02:01:39,320
Speaker 1: West Side, Hello, Tom, Welcome, you're on the air with us. Hey, guys,

2441
02:01:39,360 --> 02:01:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote for others because I think it's Sean McDermott.

2442
02:01:42,200 --> 02:01:44,680
Speaker 1: Ever since he took all the defense at halftime in

2443
02:01:44,760 --> 02:01:49,040
Speaker 1: that game, they've been playing above or at the level

2444
02:01:49,120 --> 02:01:51,000
Speaker 1: that they should be at a time. You know that

2445
02:01:51,440 --> 02:01:55,840
Speaker 1: Leslie's calling plays now on defense, Leslie Frasier. Right. Yeah, Well,

2446
02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:58,680
Speaker 1: even though even though that is the case, I believe

2447
02:01:58,800 --> 02:02:02,720
Speaker 1: that McDermott is a voluing himself more with the defense. Yeah,

2448
02:02:02,840 --> 02:02:04,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's his area of expertise. He mentioned that

2449
02:02:04,960 --> 02:02:07,920
Speaker 1: as well. He was his area. Uh, he's in, he's

2450
02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:10,800
Speaker 1: you know, he's up for everything, in on everything, offense

2451
02:02:10,880 --> 02:02:13,720
Speaker 1: and defense. But he did step in, and you're right,

2452
02:02:14,240 --> 02:02:17,000
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't deny it. He did step in

2453
02:02:17,080 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 1: at halftime of that San Diego game and things changed

2454
02:02:20,520 --> 02:02:23,080
Speaker 1: and they've stayed changed. Even when he gave the play

2455
02:02:23,120 --> 02:02:26,320
Speaker 1: calling sheet back to Leslie Frasier, things have been different

2456
02:02:26,360 --> 02:02:28,200
Speaker 1: on that defense. I don't know what happened or what

2457
02:02:28,280 --> 02:02:32,000
Speaker 1: the conversations were, but something has been different about that defense.

2458
02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:34,000
Speaker 1: And if you want to give it, if you want

2459
02:02:34,040 --> 02:02:37,520
Speaker 1: to give it to Sean McDermott, Okay, I agree. Now,

2460
02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:40,720
Speaker 1: I got a question I noticed Sunday there are a

2461
02:02:40,760 --> 02:02:43,960
Speaker 1: half dozen or more teams that were thrown for forty

2462
02:02:44,120 --> 02:02:48,000
Speaker 1: fifty even one guy I think through sixty attempts. Is

2463
02:02:48,080 --> 02:02:49,960
Speaker 1: this going to be a trend now that you can't

2464
02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:53,120
Speaker 1: hit the quarterback, but back is more comfortable in the pocket,

2465
02:02:53,440 --> 02:02:55,680
Speaker 1: and we're going to see more pass attimpts and less

2466
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:58,200
Speaker 1: running because there were only a couple of runners that

2467
02:02:58,320 --> 02:03:01,000
Speaker 1: had over one hundred yards. That's a great question, and

2468
02:03:01,040 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: you're right, and we had this conversation to some extent

2469
02:03:04,480 --> 02:03:06,920
Speaker 1: in the first hour of the show. It is gonna

2470
02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:10,040
Speaker 1: get easier for guys to throw for big yardage like

2471
02:03:10,160 --> 02:03:12,360
Speaker 1: Drew Brees showed us last night. I mean, he's had

2472
02:03:12,440 --> 02:03:16,080
Speaker 1: five seasons of over five thousand yards passing. Nobody else

2473
02:03:16,120 --> 02:03:19,520
Speaker 1: has done that. But it is gonna get to the

2474
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:22,440
Speaker 1: point where you're gonna have guys being able to hang

2475
02:03:22,520 --> 02:03:25,560
Speaker 1: in there and be available for their team because they're

2476
02:03:25,600 --> 02:03:28,080
Speaker 1: not getting hurt, they're not getting whacked in the pocket,

2477
02:03:28,160 --> 02:03:30,560
Speaker 1: and they're gonna stand in there and knowing it's not

2478
02:03:30,640 --> 02:03:33,960
Speaker 1: gonna hurt that bad to take that hit, and they're

2479
02:03:33,960 --> 02:03:35,440
Speaker 1: gonna be able to deliver the ball more. Now. I

2480
02:03:35,480 --> 02:03:37,960
Speaker 1: don't know that that's gonna lead to more passing, because

2481
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:40,000
Speaker 1: you still have to be successful when you attempt it,

2482
02:03:41,760 --> 02:03:44,960
Speaker 1: and more and more teams are gonna find better and

2483
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:47,960
Speaker 1: better guys and more effective ways to rush those passers.

2484
02:03:48,760 --> 02:03:50,640
Speaker 1: If you can get to them before they throw it.

2485
02:03:50,800 --> 02:03:53,240
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be a sack, whether whether you have

2486
02:03:53,360 --> 02:03:56,440
Speaker 1: to be gentle or not. So teams are gonna teams

2487
02:03:56,440 --> 02:03:58,160
Speaker 1: are gonna find a way to get to the quarterback.

2488
02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: But that's a great question. I do think it's gonna

2489
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:05,800
Speaker 1: lead to bigger passing numbers, and I think by association

2490
02:04:06,280 --> 02:04:10,000
Speaker 1: you will see teams routinely thrown at forty times forty

2491
02:04:10,040 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: five times, and it's going to change the game. Thanks

2492
02:04:12,080 --> 02:04:14,440
Speaker 1: for your call. Here is Bob and Rochester. Hello, Bob,

2493
02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:17,960
Speaker 1: go ahead, welcome to the show. Hey you guys, how

2494
02:04:17,960 --> 02:04:22,160
Speaker 1: are you doing? Thanks for thanking my call. Sure, we

2495
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:25,480
Speaker 1: just heard on the wire. That wire? What wire? What

2496
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:31,960
Speaker 1: do you mean? Oh, I'm Buffalo Bills update, I'm mine. Okay, okay, okay.

2497
02:04:32,120 --> 02:04:36,000
Speaker 1: We heard that the Eagles may be interested in getting

2498
02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:39,360
Speaker 1: Lashawan McCoy bay. I'm wondering if you guys have heard anything,

2499
02:04:39,440 --> 02:04:41,480
Speaker 1: and what are your thoughts. Yeah, we talked about that

2500
02:04:41,720 --> 02:04:43,640
Speaker 1: in the last hour. Murph and I are kind of

2501
02:04:43,680 --> 02:04:47,480
Speaker 1: both against it because you know, if you start, he's

2502
02:04:47,520 --> 02:04:49,480
Speaker 1: the best player in your offense. I don't like getting

2503
02:04:49,600 --> 02:04:51,920
Speaker 1: rid of him, but I also and having said that,

2504
02:04:52,240 --> 02:04:54,760
Speaker 1: listen if the price is right, sometimes you can't pass

2505
02:04:54,880 --> 02:04:56,920
Speaker 1: it up. I don't think the price is there yet.

2506
02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:59,720
Speaker 1: I don't. And when you start saying, hey, i'd take

2507
02:04:59,800 --> 02:05:02,200
Speaker 1: this side, take that, well, that's a you know, there's

2508
02:05:02,920 --> 02:05:06,920
Speaker 1: obviously there's a price that will get Leshaun McCoy out

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02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:10,480
Speaker 1: of Buffalo and head him to Philadelphia that Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: fans would say, yes, that's a great deal. I don't

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02:05:13,240 --> 02:05:17,040
Speaker 1: think that's on the table. I don't think the Philadelphia

2512
02:05:17,040 --> 02:05:18,680
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna give him a number one draft pick.

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02:05:18,720 --> 02:05:20,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to give him a number

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Speaker 1: two draft pick. I don't think they'll even give him

2515
02:05:22,480 --> 02:05:25,120
Speaker 1: a number three draft pick plus a player and a

2516
02:05:25,240 --> 02:05:27,920
Speaker 1: plane number three draft pick and a draft coming up

2517
02:05:27,960 --> 02:05:31,520
Speaker 1: there where you've already got ten picks for your best

2518
02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:35,200
Speaker 1: offensive player. I don't know if I make that deal. So, yeah,

2519
02:05:35,240 --> 02:05:38,440
Speaker 1: we've all heard that. But and also I think you

2520
02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:41,520
Speaker 1: don't do it until the deadline. You want to Leshaun McCoy.

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02:05:42,000 --> 02:05:43,680
Speaker 1: You need him for the next couple of weeks, and

2522
02:05:43,760 --> 02:05:46,840
Speaker 1: then if if your season becomes something that doesn't seem

2523
02:05:46,920 --> 02:05:49,800
Speaker 1: like it is now, or something better or worse or whatever,

2524
02:05:49,880 --> 02:05:52,400
Speaker 1: then you can make a decision based on more games

2525
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:56,560
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen at quarterback. So that's where I'm at

2526
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Speaker 1: on that trade trade issue with Leshaun McCoy going to

2527
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia goals. Now, Philly's talking to a lot more

2528
02:06:03,320 --> 02:06:05,320
Speaker 1: teams than just the Buffalo Bills as well. They're talking

2529
02:06:05,360 --> 02:06:08,800
Speaker 1: to Arizona, they're talking to us, you know, obviously the

2530
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:11,800
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, although they've said that Levon Bella is not

2531
02:06:11,920 --> 02:06:14,800
Speaker 1: in the mix for them. They've just cleared some cap

2532
02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:18,360
Speaker 1: space in Philadelphia by reworking the deal of Fletcher Cox.

2533
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: Now they have about ten million bucks in cap space,

2534
02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:24,000
Speaker 1: so they can handle a contract like Leshaun's. So there's

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02:06:24,040 --> 02:06:26,760
Speaker 1: all that in play. But I think Murph agrees with

2536
02:06:26,920 --> 02:06:29,680
Speaker 1: me Lea, Shawn's too important to this team to give

2537
02:06:29,760 --> 02:06:34,240
Speaker 1: him away for anything other than an absolutely can't refuse deal.

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02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: Here's a call from Mark and West on the West

2539
02:06:36,240 --> 02:06:40,360
Speaker 1: side of Buffalo. Marco ahead, Hey, guys, just to follow up,

2540
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:42,560
Speaker 1: I guess with the Lesha McCoy. Apologize it didn't here

2541
02:06:42,600 --> 02:06:46,240
Speaker 1: earlier with the conversation, but Steve, as a former player

2542
02:06:46,320 --> 02:06:49,440
Speaker 1: at a Hall of Fame type level that you are

2543
02:06:49,600 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 1: or were Leshaw McCoy obviously in that same kind of

2544
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:55,880
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame conversation. Do you think that the Bills

2545
02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:59,320
Speaker 1: organization should be speaking to him out of respect for

2546
02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:03,240
Speaker 1: what he's done, to say, hey, here are some options.

2547
02:07:03,560 --> 02:07:06,520
Speaker 1: You know what do you prefer that kind of a conversation?

2548
02:07:06,680 --> 02:07:08,640
Speaker 1: Should not will it? But should that be happen? I

2549
02:07:08,640 --> 02:07:10,360
Speaker 1: want to hear Steve's answer, but Mark, to what end?

2550
02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:14,880
Speaker 1: Why to get his feedback? Just out of respect for

2551
02:07:15,680 --> 02:07:18,200
Speaker 1: where he is in his career. Yeah, here's the thing

2552
02:07:18,640 --> 02:07:21,640
Speaker 1: he'll know. He'll find out from everybody and probably from

2553
02:07:21,720 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: his agent and some representation about the fact that the

2554
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:28,400
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles are already interested or interested in having him there.

2555
02:07:29,040 --> 02:07:31,680
Speaker 1: I think if they gets to the point where the

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02:07:31,760 --> 02:07:34,800
Speaker 1: Bills would actually maybe consider it, then they may say, hey, Lashawan,

2557
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,520
Speaker 1: here's the deal we're being offered. We may or may

2558
02:07:37,600 --> 02:07:39,320
Speaker 1: not do it, or we may do it, or we're

2559
02:07:39,360 --> 02:07:40,800
Speaker 1: not going to do it, or all of that stuff.

2560
02:07:41,040 --> 02:07:43,320
Speaker 1: They'll keep him apprized of it. Yeah, I would say,

2561
02:07:43,360 --> 02:07:45,040
Speaker 1: as a veteran and the fact that he's a leader,

2562
02:07:46,120 --> 02:07:49,160
Speaker 1: they'll keep him up to date on anything that's worthy.

2563
02:07:49,400 --> 02:07:52,200
Speaker 1: But they'll also get out ahead of it and they'll say, LaShaun,

2564
02:07:52,280 --> 02:07:54,360
Speaker 1: we don't want to trade you. We're not going to

2565
02:07:54,640 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 1: and unless they come back with something that knocks our

2566
02:07:56,640 --> 02:08:00,040
Speaker 1: socks off, we're not even going to consider it. I

2567
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:01,800
Speaker 1: don't even know if Leshaun would come back at them

2568
02:08:01,840 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 1: and say, well, what's the lowest thing that would knock

2569
02:08:04,040 --> 02:08:06,680
Speaker 1: your socks off? So I know, you know, so if

2570
02:08:06,720 --> 02:08:11,120
Speaker 1: it comes up, I'll know that kind of conversation might happen.

2571
02:08:11,960 --> 02:08:16,040
Speaker 1: No doubt that Leshaun is aware of the rumor. But

2572
02:08:16,360 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: how far it gets down the road, you can bet

2573
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:21,440
Speaker 1: that the Bills in this organization and with Sean McDermott

2574
02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:23,960
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, they'll be as honest as Leshaun wants them

2575
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:26,600
Speaker 1: to be. All Right, thanks you for your calling on now,

2576
02:08:26,680 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: and just for the record, there's nothing concrete here at

2577
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:34,280
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive that we know of. There are speculative

2578
02:08:34,880 --> 02:08:37,480
Speaker 1: issues out there reports. I guess that the Eagles have

2579
02:08:37,600 --> 02:08:39,080
Speaker 1: reached out, but we don't know if that's the case.

2580
02:08:39,240 --> 02:08:41,320
Speaker 1: We'll see. Hey, time now to name our AD Pro

2581
02:08:41,480 --> 02:08:43,960
Speaker 1: Sports High School Coaches of the Week for the week

2582
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Speaker 1: that just the weekend that just completed in Section six

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02:08:47,040 --> 02:08:50,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo area. The AD Pro Sport AD Pro Sports

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Speaker 1: High School Coach of the Week is Craig Dania from

2585
02:08:52,560 --> 02:08:55,280
Speaker 1: Archard Park led the Quakers to a big twenty three

2586
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Speaker 1: twenty two winever Benett. This past weekend. Bennett entered the

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Speaker 1: game in first place in CLASSLEA. They came back from

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02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:05,400
Speaker 1: a fifteen point episode against Bennett to win and in

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Speaker 1: Section five Rochester Area, the ad Pro Sports High School

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Speaker 1: Coach of the Week is Jeff Welch of Kennon Dagua

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02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:13,920
Speaker 1: led the Braves to a twelve tone to win over

2592
02:09:13,960 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: their arch rival Victor. Kennon Dagua remains unbeaten after six games.

2593
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Speaker 1: Steph and I back with more One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. It's what

2595
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Speaker 1: do we learned from today's show. It's presented by Advanced

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Speaker 1: Home Theater Pride or the Buffalo Bills. What do we

2599
02:09:48,320 --> 02:09:51,960
Speaker 1: learned from Peter King from Pro Football Talk dot NBC

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02:09:52,160 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 1: Sports in his Football Morning in America column. We asked

2601
02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:57,720
Speaker 1: Peter King about the Bills edition of Derek Anderson the

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02:09:57,840 --> 02:09:59,600
Speaker 1: quarterback and what he might be able to provide the

2603
02:09:59,640 --> 02:10:04,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Here's what he said. He's an excellent mentor type.

2604
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 1: He's an unselfish guy. You know, I think he's got

2605
02:10:08,400 --> 02:10:10,240
Speaker 1: a lot of Josh McCown in him, got a lot

2606
02:10:10,280 --> 02:10:13,240
Speaker 1: of Alex Smith and him the way that he's going

2607
02:10:13,280 --> 02:10:16,000
Speaker 1: to come in there and basically, you know, he's gonna

2608
02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:20,000
Speaker 1: say to Brian Dable, he's gonna say to to Sean mcderbott,

2609
02:10:20,040 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, he's gonna say it all of them. Hey, listen,

2610
02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:24,680
Speaker 1: tell me what I can do to help make this

2611
02:10:24,800 --> 02:10:28,040
Speaker 1: guy better. And he's gonna work with Josh Allen. He's

2612
02:10:28,080 --> 02:10:30,280
Speaker 1: gonna be there. He's gonna he's gonna help him every

2613
02:10:30,320 --> 02:10:34,720
Speaker 1: week in Derk Anderson as a mentor for Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how that works out. He is now officially

2615
02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:39,320
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill. Also on the show today, Andy Benoit

2616
02:10:39,680 --> 02:10:43,600
Speaker 1: from MMQB and SI dot com rode an excellent post

2617
02:10:43,640 --> 02:10:46,440
Speaker 1: about the Bills and they're upset win. Can they continue

2618
02:10:46,480 --> 02:10:48,680
Speaker 1: to upset teams down the rest of the season. We

2619
02:10:48,760 --> 02:10:50,640
Speaker 1: asked Andy Benoit about that, and we asked him about

2620
02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:53,360
Speaker 1: the Bills playmaking defense and how much of a factor

2621
02:10:53,480 --> 02:10:57,560
Speaker 1: that is in their recent success they've got to be

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02:10:57,600 --> 02:11:00,280
Speaker 1: a ballhawking defense. They've got to split field to edition

2623
02:11:00,480 --> 02:11:03,480
Speaker 1: at times like they did in the Minnesota game. They

2624
02:11:03,520 --> 02:11:05,600
Speaker 1: can't give up big places. They're asking a lot of

2625
02:11:05,720 --> 02:11:10,000
Speaker 1: their defense. It's a zone They're doing the right approach.

2626
02:11:10,040 --> 02:11:13,040
Speaker 1: It's a zone based defense. They do simple schemes, but

2627
02:11:13,160 --> 02:11:15,360
Speaker 1: they change it up just enough that you can't call

2628
02:11:15,440 --> 02:11:18,920
Speaker 1: them a vanilla defense. And when you're simple and zone

2629
02:11:18,960 --> 02:11:21,240
Speaker 1: based and you do one of maybe three or four

2630
02:11:21,400 --> 02:11:24,840
Speaker 1: different things, guys start to play fast. They get more comfortable.

2631
02:11:25,360 --> 02:11:27,040
Speaker 1: And we saw that last year and we're starting to

2632
02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:29,080
Speaker 1: see it a little bit this year. I'm not going

2633
02:11:30,240 --> 02:11:33,200
Speaker 1: we're Andy annoying. Hey. Our Twitter fall today dealt with

2634
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense. We took your thoughts on what it

2635
02:11:36,200 --> 02:11:38,640
Speaker 1: was that accounted for the Bills defense being so much

2636
02:11:38,680 --> 02:11:41,360
Speaker 1: improved this year from twenty six last year to six.

2637
02:11:41,560 --> 02:11:43,920
Speaker 1: Right now overall defense, we're only a third of the

2638
02:11:43,960 --> 02:11:46,520
Speaker 1: way through the season. The Bills defense ranked sixth overall.

2639
02:11:46,520 --> 02:11:48,880
Speaker 1: Once I've been the biggest factor in their improvement. Fifty

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02:11:48,920 --> 02:11:50,640
Speaker 1: percent of you. Half of you say it's the improved

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02:11:50,640 --> 02:11:53,080
Speaker 1: pass rush, twenty eight percent of you say it's solid

2642
02:11:53,120 --> 02:11:56,400
Speaker 1: playing from the linebackers. Fifteen percent say unsung here is

2643
02:11:56,400 --> 02:11:58,600
Speaker 1: in the secondary seven percent it's something else in mine.

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02:11:58,680 --> 02:12:01,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for your dissipation. We will come up with another

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02:12:01,600 --> 02:12:04,640
Speaker 1: stellar Twitter poll for the show tomorrow, A good one.

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Speaker 1: I think it's your turnom article up with something, Steve.

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Speaker 1: It's top twenty seven, probably the Bill's defensive rank last year,

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02:12:11,520 --> 02:12:14,400
Speaker 1: twenty six. That's top twenty six Twitter poll right there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, in the top twenty six. Yeah. Hey. So

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02:12:17,200 --> 02:12:20,400
Speaker 1: they signed Derek Anderson, which was kind of reported for

2651
02:12:20,440 --> 02:12:24,840
Speaker 1: the last few days, and there is speculation about Swan

2652
02:12:24,960 --> 02:12:26,840
Speaker 1: mccoi trade. I don't think much of it. I don't

2653
02:12:26,840 --> 02:12:29,280
Speaker 1: think I would make that move today, and I would

2654
02:12:29,320 --> 02:12:31,120
Speaker 1: wait to see at least a week or two until

2655
02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:33,560
Speaker 1: the deadline, where the Bills are at and what they're

2656
02:12:33,600 --> 02:12:36,120
Speaker 1: getting out of Sean McCoy, and because I know he's

2657
02:12:36,160 --> 02:12:40,880
Speaker 1: critical to their offensive plan today and you know, there's

2658
02:12:40,880 --> 02:12:42,520
Speaker 1: nobody else riding over the hill that's going to save

2659
02:12:42,600 --> 02:12:46,320
Speaker 1: him offensively if you get McCoy. Guys out of Philadelphia

2660
02:12:46,760 --> 02:12:50,240
Speaker 1: radio host Out of Philadelphia has reported that they started

2661
02:12:50,280 --> 02:12:52,320
Speaker 1: the conversation the Bills were asking for a second and

2662
02:12:52,480 --> 02:12:56,600
Speaker 1: a third report. The Anthony Gorgano never heard of them. Nope,

2663
02:12:56,720 --> 02:13:02,200
Speaker 1: neither radio host in Philly. And if the Philadelphia Eagles

2664
02:13:02,240 --> 02:13:04,400
Speaker 1: are asking, the Bills are asking for a second or third,

2665
02:13:04,480 --> 02:13:06,200
Speaker 1: that's what he says. I don't know if there's anything

2666
02:13:06,240 --> 02:13:08,080
Speaker 1: to it. I don't know if that conversation took place,

2667
02:13:08,160 --> 02:13:12,000
Speaker 1: but he's it's been reported by a radio personality in Philly.

2668
02:13:12,760 --> 02:13:14,720
Speaker 1: And what do you think of that? A second and

2669
02:13:14,800 --> 02:13:18,520
Speaker 1: a third? I still hesitate with the current state of

2670
02:13:18,560 --> 02:13:21,080
Speaker 1: the offense and where they are in the season. Maybe

2671
02:13:21,120 --> 02:13:23,960
Speaker 1: in late October all Field differently, in another two games,

2672
02:13:24,040 --> 02:13:26,960
Speaker 1: three games. I've got it there yet, but I don't.

2673
02:13:27,360 --> 02:13:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm not going to consider anything until then than what

2674
02:13:31,320 --> 02:13:34,080
Speaker 1: I think. What do you agree, right? I mean, yeah,

2675
02:13:34,280 --> 02:13:35,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to trade him yet. I don't want

2676
02:13:36,000 --> 02:13:38,880
Speaker 1: to trade him. Yes, if you're gonna be a viable

2677
02:13:38,920 --> 02:13:41,920
Speaker 1: offense at all, which they have are barely right one

2678
02:13:42,080 --> 02:13:44,600
Speaker 1: right now, you need him. You need him. He is

2679
02:13:44,640 --> 02:13:47,240
Speaker 1: your best player on the team, not just the offense.

2680
02:13:47,360 --> 02:13:53,920
Speaker 1: A second third we already got ten picks. Well, I

2681
02:13:53,960 --> 02:13:57,040
Speaker 1: ain't doing it neither. All right, thanks for tuning in today.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow at at noon to three. You want

2683
02:13:59,640 --> 02:14:03,360
Speaker 1: to thank production assistants George Blast, Jeff Colteneck Thomas, Honader,

2684
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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Territo, Kevin Cart, James Robold, our producer

2685
02:14:07,320 --> 02:14:10,760
Speaker 1: Jay Harris, and we're back with you tomorrow at twelve noon.

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Speaker 1: We got Thurman Thomas on the show tomorrow, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: we do. We'll have Chris Brown reporting live from practice,

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Speaker 1: and a lot more as well. Join us tomorrow at

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