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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Seneca Studio at the front end of

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Speaker 1: the End Pro Sports Training Center. I'm John Murphy sitting

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Speaker 1: next to walla Famer's team tasker, and welcome to one

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Speaker 1: day's live next three hours. Good afternoon, See good weekend, Murph. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a good weekend. Had a good weeks. Have been

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Speaker 1: really has a good weekend. Two is uh? And believe

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Speaker 1: believe that Thursday was a great game for the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that everybody in the nation got to

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Speaker 1: see that. I do have a couple of questions. One,

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Speaker 1: do you think we have any chance at all in

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Speaker 1: winning the AFC East? And two the only thing I

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Speaker 1: didn't like about Thursday's game was did you what did

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Speaker 1: you think of Tony Romo and Emit Smith laughing in

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Speaker 1: the booth when Houshka missed it. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: very unprofessional and you being both in media, I don't

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Speaker 1: see you guys ever doing something like that. But those

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Speaker 1: are the questions I have for you today. Okay, thanks,

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Speaker 1: I get you. And as for the AFC East, there's

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Speaker 1: a mathematical chance, but there's four games remaining. A lot

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Speaker 1: can happen. The Bills are the only team in the

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Speaker 1: AFC East other than the Patriots it can win it.

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Speaker 1: The other two teams have no shot the Bill. If

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Speaker 1: the Bills went out, they'll win it for sure, I think.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean and if the Bills are the

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Speaker 1: only team that the Patriots lose to, they'll win it

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Speaker 1: because if they if we end up tied with the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: they win the tiebreaker. As it stands right now, So

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Speaker 1: that's just the way. That's the way it's gonna be. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's a very remote chance that the Bills will win

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Speaker 1: the division, but there is a chance. And the Bills

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Speaker 1: are playing better than they played and they're getting better,

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Speaker 1: and I don't I mean, given what the Patriots I

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Speaker 1: saw yesterday in Houston, Murphy, this team's not gonna flinch

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Speaker 1: going into in New England. Patriots. Yeah, Buffalo, Yeah, Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna go in there and thinking they're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I think a lot of people would

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Speaker 1: agree with us. I think this is a team that

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Speaker 1: feels like they can go in there and beat that

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Speaker 1: team this year. As far as the guys in the booth,

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo and and Emmett, you can make a case

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Speaker 1: for Tony, uh, you know, being a little bit too

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Speaker 1: you know, yucking it up a little too much with Emmett.

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Speaker 1: But let's face it, Tony was a former cowboy and

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Speaker 1: he's working for the network. Emmett was a guest. And

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly has come into the booth in Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: done the exact same thing for the Bills, and he's,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the national broadcast. He's come in and

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Speaker 1: yucked it up and said hooray for the Bills and

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Speaker 1: boot to the other team. Kind of too. So it

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Speaker 1: happens when you get old guys, old legendary guys in

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Speaker 1: the booth. They all invariably cheer for their team. And

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Speaker 1: now if the analyst, like a Tony Romo, does it, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a little bit off the page. But I think

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Speaker 1: it's all in good fun. Don't take it too seriously.

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Speaker 1: Those guys are having fun up there, and just understand

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Speaker 1: that's where they're at. Those two guys are friends, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes that does. I've I've I've yucked it up with

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly in the booth here in Buffalo for a game,

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Speaker 1: get for the Bills and whoever it might have been.

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Speaker 1: So I understand it. You got to have take it

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Speaker 1: for what it's worth. It's just two guys in the

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Speaker 1: booth having fun. It's not a it's not a an

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Speaker 1: egregious error. But I get it. Some fans are put

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Speaker 1: off by it, and that's but that's what you sign

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Speaker 1: up for when you're a broadcaster. Let's go to Tom

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Speaker 1: and Cheek the Wager. Hello Tom, Hey, Jan Steve, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Good? Greatest thing that happened was the

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Speaker 1: Bills beating Dallas. I've been waiting fifty one years for

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Speaker 1: a meaningful game. I was at Ford Hood and sixty

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Speaker 1: eight won one game that year. Every Monday, these two

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Speaker 1: guys from Dallas would harass me. They'd say, the Bills

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Speaker 1: can't beat these college team. The high school team would

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Speaker 1: give him a good fight. I loved Dallas before that.

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Speaker 1: After that, sixty eight, I've been waiting to beat him

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Speaker 1: in a meaningful going. It was like winning the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl to meet I'll tell you we were so half.

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Speaker 1: We were jumping up and down like crazy people for

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner. And I rarely see him beat there. I

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Speaker 1: love to see him beat in New England, but Dallas

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Speaker 1: did my heart so good. There heard a lot of

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Speaker 1: that seve a lot of people, and I think it

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Speaker 1: was understand Tom's motivation in the history there. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking had something to do with where people were taking

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Speaker 1: in that game, right many people I've talked to him.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a lot people over the weekend. We're

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Speaker 1: home with family with friends celebrating Thanksgiving. Many of them

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Speaker 1: had adjusted their thanksgaming plans to make sure they were

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Speaker 1: in front of the TV for that game, and we're rewarded, right,

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Speaker 1: they were rewarded with a good a good game, well

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Speaker 1: played game, and and a close game for three quarters anyway,

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Speaker 1: and they were rewarded with a good Buffalo victory. I

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Speaker 1: think that's why there's such a good feeling about that game.

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Speaker 1: Made it into a really nice evening. Didn't get that weekend.

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Speaker 1: That game gets over about seven fifteen or seven thirty

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Speaker 1: quarter of eight, and uh, it really turned into a

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Speaker 1: nice weekend after that game turned off like it did.

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Speaker 1: You're right, and even we were laughing on Friday about

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Speaker 1: you know, the five President's text loop. Those guys, we

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Speaker 1: still got a lot of scar tissue from the two

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls and losing to Dallas both times. Love the

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Speaker 1: you know Emmett Troy, you know, Michael Irvin and those

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Speaker 1: guys Dale hell Astray some of the guys we knew, nice,

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Speaker 1: great guys, fun guys, but you know, you want to

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Speaker 1: see your team win. Yeah, and it was fun for us.

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Speaker 1: We were laughing because the you know, the tech loop

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Speaker 1: got a little bit incoherent that late in the fourth quarter. Right,

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Speaker 1: it was great, It was fun. So it was I'm

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Speaker 1: with you and I'm kind of leaning on that way

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Speaker 1: towards this on this Twitter poll as well. I think

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Speaker 1: that's one of the best things that happened. That game

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Speaker 1: was a coming out party for Josh Allen, was a

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Speaker 1: big win for the franchise as a whole, and it

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Speaker 1: was a nice stress relief for Bills fans everywhere. I

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Speaker 1: think it hit on a lot of checked a lot

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Speaker 1: of boxes for a lot of people. Go talk more

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Speaker 1: about that game, the Thanksgiving Day game, about yesterday's games,

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Speaker 1: and about Bills Ravens with our next guest coming up.

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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger played in the league for twelve years, including

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Speaker 1: the season here the Buffalo Bills Brian Baldinger, NFL on

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Speaker 1: Fox Analysts, and we'll talk with him when we return.

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Speaker 1: Come on back. We'll take more phone calls too. Is

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Speaker 1: the Day Wears Along. It is One Bill Slide presented

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Speaker 1: by Collat of Health Live from the Seneca Studio in

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Speaker 1: Archard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close the

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Speaker 1: back one Live Jime Murphy Steve Tasker coming here from

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Speaker 1: our one Buffalo studio on a cold, snowy December day. Boy,

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Speaker 1: it's weird. It's December already, Steven it December second. It

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Speaker 1: was great to have meaningful December football, you know. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Bills made the playoffs two years ago, but we

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Speaker 1: didn't know until the very last play of the very

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Speaker 1: last game that they were going to the playoffs that year.

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Speaker 1: But they have games that matter, including this one Sunday,

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Speaker 1: games that matter in December, and one of them at

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Speaker 1: least here in Orchard Park. That's huge. Yeah, but we

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Speaker 1: miss that. We're not at the point where we're taking

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Speaker 1: that for granted yet. No. I mean, it's good. It's

558
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: been a good football team all season, and we knew

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Speaker 1: that they were going to be in the mix from

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Speaker 1: the first month of the season on. We knew it

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Speaker 1: was going to take a huge downfall for them to

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Speaker 1: go away. But man oh man. Still, we're not over

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's fun to be relevant around the holidays. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to go on the line with

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Speaker 1: us right now is NFL Network, Fox Sports NFL analysts

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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger, former offensive lineman, played eleven seasons in the league.

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Speaker 1: Brian is also the host to Prevent Deef and Says,

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Speaker 1: an NFL podcast that is out now on Radio dot

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Speaker 1: Com on the Radio dot Com app insider Calls brought

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Speaker 1: to you by the Midsize Metris from Mercedes Benz vans Hey,

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Speaker 1: Brian Ballmanger, thanks for joining us John Murphy's team task

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Speaker 1: Repper in Buffalo. We appreciate it, sure, John, Steve's gonna

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Speaker 1: be with you, guys, man. Thanks for having me follow

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter and we follow you obviously on the network.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like you're impressed by what you saw

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Speaker 1: last Thursday, the Bills win in uh in Dallas. H Well,

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Speaker 1: I've been impressed by in period. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was. It was a great

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Speaker 1: day on Thanksgiving for all Bills fans in the way

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Speaker 1: that they played the game. But you know, I saw

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Speaker 1: him a week before against Denver and they were impressive there. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean even I mean just about the

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Speaker 1: whole season. I mean, I'm impressed by the quarterback in

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Speaker 1: his development and the way that they have put this

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Speaker 1: team together, in the way that they play as a team,

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Speaker 1: and the way the young guys have stepped up, whether

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Speaker 1: it's you know, Devin Singletary or Dawson Knox or Cody Ford.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a really good rookie class. The quarterback

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Speaker 1: just keeps getting better. They rebuilt the offense line and

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Speaker 1: they were outstanding on Thursday, and so, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: like a lot of things about this team, but it

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Speaker 1: was it was impressive against the Cowboys, for sure. Have

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Speaker 1: you seen anything, Mark, I know you kind of parash

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Speaker 1: you don't watch every game they play or whatever. You parash,

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Speaker 1: you didn't catch him from time to time. Have you

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Speaker 1: seen a steady progression? Because it seems Murph and I

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Speaker 1: sit here and watch him and when you look at

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Speaker 1: this team now late in the season, it's obvious they're

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Speaker 1: starting to grow and come together and kind of crescendo

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Speaker 1: at just the right time of the season. Do you

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Speaker 1: see any evidence of that? Well, I think it's been

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Speaker 1: an evolution, Steve, you know, I mean they rebuilt the

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Speaker 1: wide receiving corps. They had to kind of weed some

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Speaker 1: guys out, you know, now they've got the right guys

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Speaker 1: in there. You know, they've they've gone with single Terry

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Speaker 1: as a starter in front of Frank Gore, and I

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Speaker 1: think that was the right move. I was kind of

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Speaker 1: pushing for that from the beginning, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at the development of at Oliver here into

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Speaker 1: you know, a bona fide player right now. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: have said that maybe two months ago, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he certainly is making his share of plays right now.

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Speaker 1: I think we all understand and just how good Tradevious

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Speaker 1: is and what he means to that defense and how

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Speaker 1: they use him. I mean, I just think, you know,

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Speaker 1: the steady evolution of the team and the development of

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Speaker 1: the team is there for everybody to see. I'm I've

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Speaker 1: watched every game and you can see, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that this team is a lot different and better right

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Speaker 1: now than they were. With Brian Baldinger from NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports NFL analysts Brian. Going into this year, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people said, we said it too. The story

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Speaker 1: of the Bills twenty nineteen season would be the progress

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Speaker 1: that Josh Allen might make, the development Josh Allen might have.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty obvious now, isn't it. As the Bills are

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Speaker 1: twelve games into this year, this this guy is a

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Speaker 1: better quarterback now, not just more than he was last year,

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Speaker 1: but then he was even a couple of months ago.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me. I agree, I agree, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I like everything about Josh, you know, And the thing

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Speaker 1: that I think jumps out at you is just the

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Speaker 1: level of poise that he plays with. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: just he's in control, and he's very calm, and you know,

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Speaker 1: he rarely, you know, he rarely makes a mistake and

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Speaker 1: then you know, compounds it with another mistake rarely. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you can go back to even his rookie

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Speaker 1: year last year and some of the plays that he

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Speaker 1: would try to make and extend and you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't try to do a lot of that nonsense

641
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Speaker 1: right now, and he's taking those plays out of his system.

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Speaker 1: And so I like the way that he works with

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Speaker 1: the offensive line and the way, you know, he doesn't

644
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Speaker 1: play in some kind of like there's a nine alarmed

645
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Speaker 1: fire going on out there. I mean, he's just he's

646
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Speaker 1: just calm. His feet are calm. I knows where he's

647
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Speaker 1: going with the ball. He really really likes John Brown

648
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Speaker 1: and Cole Beasley a lot. He likes their intelligence, the

649
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Speaker 1: way they prepare, the way they study, and it shows.

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Speaker 1: It shows on Sunday right now. But I mean he's

651
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Speaker 1: certainly developed. I mean the sixteen touchdowns now that he's

652
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Speaker 1: run for, I mean that's real, and you better try

653
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Speaker 1: to figure out some way to account for it, just

654
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Speaker 1: the way you do with Lamar right now. I mean,

655
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Speaker 1: you've got to account for it some way because if

656
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Speaker 1: you don't, he's gonna make you pay. And he did

657
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Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. One of the things that the reasons

658
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Speaker 1: that he's been able to take a step forward because

659
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: all the pieces they put around him. This offense was

660
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: bereft of talent outside of Josh Allen a year ago,

661
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Speaker 1: and now with the rebuild of the offensive line with

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, John Brown, Devin Singletary, Frank Gore as a

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Speaker 1: mentor for him, I mean, there's just a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of help out there, a lot more help.

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Speaker 1: What did you think of the offensive line that there

666
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Speaker 1: was some questions going into this game that uh Tie

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Speaker 1: and Secky being out of the game at right tackle

668
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Speaker 1: might give them a little bit of a hamstring. But

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Speaker 1: how did Cody Ford to hold up at rookie as

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Speaker 1: a rookie right tackle against the Dallas defensive front that's

671
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Speaker 1: pretty talented. Well, I thought Cody Ford played great. I mean,

672
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Speaker 1: you know that DeMarcus Lawrence. They pay him a hundred

673
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Speaker 1: million dollars you know, outside of the first player where

674
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: they blitched and he got to like a little half

675
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Speaker 1: a sack there. I mean, he was outstanding. And Josh

676
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: knows how to you know, if he's beating him around

677
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Speaker 1: the corner, he knows how to step up. But Cody

678
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Speaker 1: Ford stays on his feet. He's a big guy. It's

679
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Speaker 1: hard to run him over. I think he's a smart player,

680
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, Dean and other side people. I mean I

681
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: heard everybody saying when he came out of Temple, he's

682
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Speaker 1: a guard. He can only play guard. All I do

683
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: is watch a guy laying up and play elite players

684
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Speaker 1: and go toe to toe with them. And whether it's

685
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Speaker 1: Von Miller or last week against Robert Quinny, looks like

686
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Speaker 1: he holds his own. To me, Mitch Morris has been outstanding,

687
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: you know. I mean John Feliciano, the whole group. I

688
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: mean Quentin Spain. I was I was playing. I was

689
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Speaker 1: doing Indianapolis and Tennessee yesterday, and all the guys at

690
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: Tennessee were asking me about Quentin Spain, especially Taylor. Lauwaani

691
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: played next to Taylor for four straight years. Didn't want

692
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Speaker 1: to go, but you know, the free agency came and

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Speaker 1: he's taking that sort of veteran leadership that he has

694
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Speaker 1: over at left guard and started all these games. And

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Speaker 1: I mean they've changed the coaches. Bobby Johnson came in

696
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Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, and he's done a great job molding those guys,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's I think it's a very good

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Speaker 1: group that's getting better with Brian Baldanger, he played offensive

699
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Speaker 1: line in the league. He broadcasts games every week, including

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Speaker 1: the Bill's home win against Denver a week ago yesterday,

701
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Speaker 1: And you came out of that game raving about why

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Speaker 1: do you think he is in the elite class now

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Speaker 1: of NFL cornerbacks? Is that right, Bryan Well, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I mean Amary got a couple of catches,

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Speaker 1: but I mean I think you can basically say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know here's Courtlett Sutton, he shut him out. You know,

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Speaker 1: here's Amari Cooper. There was no touchdown passes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he takes the challenge on and he's got the skill set,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he's just got He's got a

710
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: unique blend of if he doesn't guess, he gets physical

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Speaker 1: when he has to. I think he's a really smart player,

712
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Speaker 1: knows how to play the ball in the air. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think all phases of cornerback position right now, and

714
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Speaker 1: you get ready and you get you know, these games

715
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: started getting bigger and bigger, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he'll get John Brown this week. I'm not sure how

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Speaker 1: they're gonna match up against the Ravens because they don't

718
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Speaker 1: really have you know, they're tight ends are probably their

719
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Speaker 1: number one and number two receivers. But I mean, however

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Speaker 1: they want to match up when they played Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 1: probably take on James Washington right now. You go right

722
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: down the lineup of games that they have and where

723
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: he could really line up, and it really helps it.

724
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Speaker 1: I think it helps Leave Wallace. I think it helps

725
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: the safety, so I think it helps everybody. I mean,

726
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: he took out Odell Beckham this year and shut him down.

727
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: It's hard not to be impressed by how he plays

728
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: the game. Well. With Tredavious as the anchor of the secondary,

729
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,720
Speaker 1: you've also got a hide and poorer play in safety.

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Speaker 1: How good is the Bill's secondary at this point? Well,

731
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Speaker 1: I know when Sean was in Carolina, he had Jordan Poyer,

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Speaker 1: he had him in Philadelphia. I mean everywhere Sean McDermot goes.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer sort seems to go. You know, they said

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00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: he was too slow, he couldn't play corner, and you know,

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00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: drafted at Organ State to play corner, and maybe that

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00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: was true. But you know, Sean liked his the way

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00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: he tackled, He liked his intelligence. You know, he liked

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Speaker 1: the fact that he could do a lot of things

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00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: with them, and so he came from Carolina to Buffalo

740
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: with them and he's him and Micah back there have

741
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: been awesome. They tackled really well. The ball doesn't go

742
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: over their head very much. You know, you look up there.

743
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: At this point right now, they've given up the fewest

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes in the league, you know, I mean, they've

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00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: given up seven touchdown passes at twelve games. It doesn't

746
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: get any better than that right now. Okay, Brian, the

747
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: Bills course will be challenged a great deal. Maybe the

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00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: best team they'll play all year coming here Sunday when

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00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens come here. I don't know how many

750
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: times you've seen the Ravens this year, but give us

751
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: some thoughts on what you do about Lamar Jackson. If

752
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: you're the Buffalo Bills, defense is talented as this defense

753
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: has been this year, this will be maybe the siffest

754
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: challenge they face all year. Huh, Well, I've seen all

755
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: their games and you know, the forty nine ers held

756
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: Lamar to you know, one hundred and six yards throwing.

757
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: They held to the lowest point total all year. I'm

758
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: sure they were studying that game hard and how they

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00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: matched up Lamar did hurt him in the run game.

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00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: They are a powerful running team. They can run power

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00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: at you, they can run read option at you, they

762
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: can run misdirection at you. They're really good. And the

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Speaker 1: one thing I would if I had to tell Sean

764
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: McDermott or you know, anybody on the defense, you know,

765
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: one thing that you gotta do is you cannot be

766
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 1: discouraged because Lamar is going to make plays. He's gonna

767
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: wow you. He did against the forty nine ers. There's

768
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: just things he's gonna do no matter what you do

769
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: and how you draw the defenses up on the chalkboard,

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00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: and you could do everything right and he can still

771
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: beat you. But you just cannot get the more lies.

772
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: You can't hang your head after a big play or

773
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: anything like that. I mean, you just got to play

774
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: the next play. The one thing that the forty nine

775
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Speaker 1: Ers did last week or yesterday that no other team

776
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Speaker 1: had done is they got the ball out of Lamar

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00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: Jackson's hands for a fumble recovery. Nobody else had done

778
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: that eleven weeks and so he's he can be careless

779
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: with the ball because he's an elite athlete. It's hard

780
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: to get to him. But you know, Marcell Harris got

781
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: the ball out and it really it really saved the

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00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers at a key spot in the game.

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Speaker 1: And if I was to the Buffalo Bills, I'd say, well,

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00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: if the forty nine Ers could do it, we could

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Speaker 1: do it, because it's all about stops and taking the

786
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: ball away and forcing field goals. And when you could

787
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: do that, you keep the score down and you can

788
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: stay in the game. I gotta ask you one thing

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Speaker 1: about yesterday's game. So last night we saw the New

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00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: England Patriots get beat by Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans.

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00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: Certainly going into Houston's a different animal than playing him

792
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Speaker 1: in Foxborough. But how good is DeShawn Watson And what's

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00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: it gonna take for the Patriots to find something offensively

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00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: well it's kind of a headscratcher, Steve. I mean, they

795
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: just they don't even scheme guys open right now, you know.

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00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: I Mean it's just the offense just really looks lost.

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00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: They had looked like that last year too, and they

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00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: found their way. So I'm not going to count him out.

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Speaker 1: But Deshaun Watson, the one thing about him and when

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00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: you talk to him, you get to know him like

801
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: he's not only is he smart and a good leader

802
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: and all that, he really knows what he's looking at.

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00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 1: And the Patriots played man last night, they played zone,

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00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: they changed things up, and he wasn't fooled. It wasn't

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00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: fooled at all. And when they double team DeAndre Hopkins,

806
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: he knew where, you know, to go after, you know,

807
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: other players, to go after Will Fuller, go after Darren

808
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: Walls and whoever it was, Darren Fells. I mean, he

809
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: found other options. And so he's just he's just an

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00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: elite player and you're you're gonna have a hard time

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00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: trying to fool him or trick him. And the Patriots

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00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: tried that last night and he didn't go for it.

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Speaker 1: And so he's he's very very good. And he played

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Speaker 1: at a high level last night, right, last thing I

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Speaker 1: have for you the Bills again, do they have the

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00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: look of a team that could win a playoff game?

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Speaker 1: I mean, should we start thinking that way here in

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00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo after all these years? I think if you get

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00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: in the I mean I always believe that if you

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00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: get in the postseason, you you're You're there. You're one

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Speaker 1: of the six best teams for a reason, and you

822
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 1: should expect to win games, you know. I mean, they've

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00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: got a nice record, but you know, it's still a

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00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: really important stretch of the games left with against teams

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Speaker 1: that are trying to get to the playoffs and get

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Speaker 1: better seatings. So they're going to see really talented teams

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Speaker 1: that are playing well. Pittsburgh's playing great, Baltimore's playing great.

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Speaker 1: They're going to see the best of the best of

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Speaker 1: the AFC. And if you win those games like they

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Speaker 1: went on Thanksgiving, you got ten days to get ready

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Speaker 1: for this game. If you find a way to win

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00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: this game, play him close like they did the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: All that does is pretty confidence in that locker room

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Speaker 1: and amongst those players. I think the players believe that

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Speaker 1: not only their playoff team, but they're capable of winning

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: playoff games, and that's really all that matters, the belief

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00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: inside that locker room, and I believe it just continues

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: to grow. Thanks body, Yeah, my pleasure. See Thanks, take

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Speaker 1: care of okay. Brian Baldinger, Fox Sports, NFL Analysts, NFL

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Speaker 1: Network Analysts, Radio dot Com, NFL Insider. Hey, make sure

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Speaker 1: We thank them for that. Stephen, I coming back with

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Speaker 1: more and more of your phone calls. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: What's the best thing that happened? There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: good things. What's the best thing that happened to the

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Speaker 1: Bills over the last couple of days? Week thirteen, Give

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health Life from the Seneca Studio in

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Speaker 1: Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. Bills have their Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night game December fifteenth, flexed to UH well, Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: it was one pm. Now it's eight twenty pm. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk with Mike North about that. He is the

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Speaker 1: leagu's vice president of broadcast Planning. We have time to

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Speaker 1: talk with you. Best thing that happened to the Bills

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Speaker 1: in week thirteen, that's our Twitter poll. Was it the

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Speaker 1: win at Dallas? I think it was. Was it the

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Speaker 1: flexing of the game at Pittsburgh to Sunday night? No,

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Speaker 1: you can feel that way if you want. Was it

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Speaker 1: the Patriots losing again? What do you think? Eight h

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Back to the phones we go.

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Speaker 1: Mark in Buffalo, Hello, Mark, go ahead, Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. Hello,

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Speaker 1: mister tasker. I've said it twenty times on the air.

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Speaker 1: You belong in the Hall of Fame. Anyone who's seen

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Speaker 1: you play back then you were a great special teamer.

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Speaker 1: You belong in the Hall of Fame. Appreciate it. Thanks, Mark.

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Speaker 1: What else you got, hey? Let me tell you. I

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Speaker 1: think that the rest of the country got to see

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Speaker 1: what Brandon or McDermott and Bean have done to the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. They handle themselves with class and dignancy. They're

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Speaker 1: a great defensive team with an evolving offense. They're right

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Speaker 1: where they want to be. And I think great things

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Speaker 1: are common. Gentlemen, have a great day. Okay, I agree.

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Speaker 1: It's a great spot to be in. You feel like

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Speaker 1: your offense is getting better and they have. They've been

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Speaker 1: they even statistically, they're climbing and climbing and climb. They're

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Speaker 1: scoring more points every week. They're they're average, They're average

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Speaker 1: per points per game is rising. Josh has eliminated the

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Speaker 1: bad turnovers that he had. He's got a big run

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Speaker 1: here of what he's been responsible for. Sixteen touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: what one interception or two interceptions at some point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's turned into a really, really top quality quarterback who's

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Speaker 1: getting better and he's got that playmaking ability. I you know,

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Speaker 1: you always see this stuff with Josh is one of

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Speaker 1: the fun things about it. And see if you agree

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Speaker 1: with me, Murph, that last touchdown what you were calling

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Speaker 1: in the game, so you probably didn't think of it

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Speaker 1: a different way than I do. But when he ran

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Speaker 1: in for that twenty yard touchdown at the end to

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Speaker 1: put it to twenty three to seven, that caught me

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Speaker 1: off guard. I was like, why, oh, I can't believe

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Speaker 1: he made it in because he didn't do it like

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Speaker 1: he did. You know, it was like it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: one more of twenty five runs that he did during

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Speaker 1: the game. You know it was he pulled it out,

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Speaker 1: he was gonna throw it, little pump, fake little help downfield,

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Speaker 1: and he squeezes in, walking it. He walks in, um

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Speaker 1: picking that spot to go in for a decisive touchdown

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Speaker 1: in a big game like that. That's exactly what you

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Speaker 1: want him to do, exactly what you want him to do. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: if there was an open guy could hit him. But

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Speaker 1: making a play that's there to be made. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if that you know, call run plays or or

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Speaker 1: called quarterback runs. I guess that's just what I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to say. When the guy makes a play. And we

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Speaker 1: said it on Friday and we came back in Josh

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Speaker 1: has got that little bit of h I like the

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Speaker 1: spotlight guy, right, he doesn't. He doesn't kind of spreads

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Speaker 1: his wings in the in the spotlight right, which is

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Speaker 1: kind of like, well, let's see we'll get another dose

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Speaker 1: of it maybe in this uh Sunday night football game

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh into a couple of weeks we get another

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Speaker 1: chance to see it. I'd like to see it too,

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Speaker 1: you know, but I think it's nice place to be

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Speaker 1: for Bills fans. The caller said, you know, as Mark

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Speaker 1: just said, you know, this is a defense that is

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Speaker 1: for real. I mean, they're tough and they're getting better.

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Speaker 1: Ed Oliver has spread his wings. He's starting to be

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Speaker 1: a force. And there was four weeks ago, five weeks

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, it's it might not

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Speaker 1: be getting it. Well, he's getting it and so are

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Speaker 1: a lot of other guys, and it's pretty fun spot

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Speaker 1: to be in for the Bill for Bills fans, And

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Speaker 1: this last month of the season is I think a

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Speaker 1: nice reward for people who've suffered a while with this franchise.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Ben and Grimsby. Hello, Ben, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Hey guys, how are you today? Good? First

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Speaker 1: of all, I just want to say congrats to see

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Speaker 1: if that's well deserved, and I think everybody in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and anybody who's seen Steve play believes that he should

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Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame, appreciate it. Thanks. I

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Speaker 1: just want to say I'm only twenty years old, boarn

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Speaker 1: in ninety eight. Been a Bills fan my whole life.

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Speaker 1: I've always had my buddies making fun of me, either

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Speaker 1: Patriots fans, Cowboys fans, whatever. Now it's it's it's the

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Speaker 1: most exciting time of my life for sure, to be

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Speaker 1: a Bills fan. It really feels like I was watching

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Speaker 1: the show earlier this week and you guys said about

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Speaker 1: how if we beat Ravens, the roof's really gonna blow

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Speaker 1: off wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly, and I cannot wait for the game

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Speaker 1: this weekend. It's gonna be a tough matchup, but I

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Speaker 1: think if we call smart defensive game, I think we

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Speaker 1: can at least make it close. And boy, would it

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Speaker 1: ever be exciting to win the SC be the Patriots

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Speaker 1: all that. Anyways, I'm gonna leave to see you guys

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Speaker 1: have a good day. The roof will be blown off

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Speaker 1: if the Bills now, well, I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: there yet. There's no hiding from him, right, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. It's a great spot to be

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Speaker 1: in for Bills fans this time because you can't wait

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Speaker 1: for the next game. It's it's the best place to

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Speaker 1: be in. You love your team, you love where they're

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Speaker 1: on and you want to see them against the really

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Speaker 1: good football teams. You're We're not going it's not This

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Speaker 1: isn't one of those years where it's like maybe early

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Speaker 1: in the seat you and I've ear in the season

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Speaker 1: like I don't know if you know Patriots are too

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Speaker 1: tough to be well, you know what, now, I'd like

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Speaker 1: kind of like to see that game. I think our

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Speaker 1: guys can beat them even in their building. I want

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Speaker 1: to see this Chief's game against the Patriots this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And if you know, if the Bills are gonna win

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Speaker 1: the division, here's what has to happen. The Patriots have

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Speaker 1: to lose two and the Bills can only have to

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Speaker 1: have to lose only one. You know, So if the

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Speaker 1: Patriots go three and one, the Bills can't beat them,

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Speaker 1: or four and oh, the Bills can't beat them in

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Speaker 1: the division. But if they go two and two and

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Speaker 1: the Bills go four and oh, the Bills can win.

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Speaker 1: If one of those wins is the Patriots, So you

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Speaker 1: gotta beat them almost by two games. You have to

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Speaker 1: have a better record than the Patriots to finish this season,

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Speaker 1: and right now, the Patriots have a better record than

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Speaker 1: the Bills. They're ten and two, the Bills are nine

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Speaker 1: and three. You gotta get them to where they are

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Speaker 1: twelve and four and you're thirteen and three, or you're

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Speaker 1: twelve and four and eleven and five. That's where you

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Speaker 1: got to get to. And so that's the only chance

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Speaker 1: you've got of winning the division. That scenario has to

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Speaker 1: play out. We got a break when we come back

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Speaker 1: at the top of the Bills wind up with a

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Speaker 1: Sunday night game all of a sudden. We'll talk with

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Speaker 1: the guy who engineered the Daddy is the league's vice

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Speaker 1: president of broadcast Planning. Michael North's going to join us

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Speaker 1: when we come back. I'm on back with us. One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalata Health from the Seneca Studio

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hills

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Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Date. The update from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker here doing the show. The Bills

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Speaker 1: and Steelers game a couple of weeks away is now

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Speaker 1: a Sunday night game. Flexed the Bills get more primetime exposure.

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Speaker 1: The Bills were there win over the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day,

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Speaker 1: now getting another opportunity to be on national TV. Sunday,

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Speaker 1: December fifteenth. It's now at a twenty kick off the

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Speaker 1: Bills at Pittsburgh. We're gonna talk to at Michael North,

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Speaker 1: the NFL's vice president of broadcast, planning about that decision

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Speaker 1: just moments from now. Last night, the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: offense continued to slump. They lost to Houston twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and a Knox New England out of the number

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Speaker 1: one scening in the AFC, the Baltimore Ravens at ten

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Speaker 1: to two, Buffalo's opponents coming up this Sunday, Baltimore was

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Speaker 1: into the top spot on the conference. Patriots dropped at

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Speaker 1: ten and two, but because they lost to the Ravens

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Speaker 1: last month, they slide to number two with four weeks

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Speaker 1: left in the regular season. A day after his Eagles

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Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins, missing a chance to tie the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys on top of the nfcas Eagles coach Doug Peterson

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Speaker 1: says that he was disgusted and angry, mostly himself. The

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Speaker 1: Eagles lost thirty seven thirty one to Miami. Peterson said

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Speaker 1: his team self destructed and say they're a long shot

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. The Eagles now at five and seven.

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Speaker 1: The team the Bills beat on Thursday. The Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are gonna stick with their cricker, their kicker, Breton Maher.

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Speaker 1: Last night, Jason Garrett said that they will stick with

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Speaker 1: him for now. He said Brett's gonna be our kicker

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Speaker 1: moving forward. They did work out some kickers over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: but Brent Maher, in his second season, strug with accuracy,

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Speaker 1: miss two field goals and the loss of the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and has said free misses in his last two games.

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Speaker 1: He remains on the job. Pittsburgh Steelers players blasting Browns

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Speaker 1: coach Freddie Kitchens for wearing the T shirt that said

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh did It. He was photographed wearing that t shirt

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Speaker 1: a couple of days before the Steelers beat Cleveland twenty

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Speaker 1: to thirteen. Steelers players blasted the Cleveland coach for putting

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Speaker 1: his team in a bad position and the Buffalo Sabers

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Speaker 1: in position. Tonight to host a team New Jersey Devil's

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Speaker 1: coming to town seven o'clock faceoff at key Bank Center.

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Speaker 1: It is Founder's Night, the fiftieth anniversary of the NHL

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Speaker 1: awarding the franchise to Buffalo. And that's the update from

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Speaker 1: one John Murphy, Steve Tasker on the line with us

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Speaker 1: right now, the NFL's vice president of Broadcast Planet. He's

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Speaker 1: been with the league for more than twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: We've had him on the show before. Always interesting. Happy

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Speaker 1: to have Michael North with us. Hello, Michael, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on. Pleasure guys,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Good afternoon. You know, when you flex Dallas

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Speaker 1: game or a Philadelphia game probably doesn't make news. When

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Speaker 1: you flex the Buffalo Bills into Sunday, that's a big

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Speaker 1: story in Buffalo. It's kind of cool. People here like that. Here.

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Speaker 1: I would tell you, guys that this is exactly what

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Speaker 1: flexible scheduling was intended for. Yes, you make a valid

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Speaker 1: point that if the sole goal was maximized television ratings

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Speaker 1: every Sunday night, Ben, Yeah, you'd expect a lot of Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: a lot of Steelers, a lot of Patriots, a lot

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Speaker 1: of Packers. But the idea here wasn't always maximizing ratings.

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Speaker 1: It was rewarding the teams that had played their way

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Speaker 1: in the prime time. And hard to argue that the

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Speaker 1: Bills don't fit that bill this yere, who has a

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Speaker 1: voice in that room when you guys sit down to

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Speaker 1: do it. I obviously there's network guys there. There's probably

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Speaker 1: as always, the thirty two owners have a say, whoever's

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Speaker 1: involved in it. Do you ever get pushed back from

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Speaker 1: the teams that are flexed out? Look, the truth of

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Speaker 1: the matter is, when we're flexing a game out of

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00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, we're probably not telling the teams or

1060
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: their fan bases anything that they don't already know. I'm

1061
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: sure they're disappointed with their record. It's really more about

1062
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: the positive aspect of it. It's rewarding the teams that

1063
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: have earned the additional national exposure. A bit of a

1064
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: misnomer there, just in terms of who gets to say

1065
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: in this. The truth of the matter is it's the

1066
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: league's decision. So at the end of the day, it's

1067
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, it's Howard Katz, Hans Schroeder, the guys that

1068
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: run the broadcasting department. This is a league decision. Certainly

1069
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: NBC weighs in with some opinions, as you can imagine

1070
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: CBS and Fox way in as well. If you think

1071
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: of CBS right here, they've had this Bill Steelers game

1072
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: on their schedule since April, and it's become a pretty

1073
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: big game obviously with playoff implications in the AFC, and

1074
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: now twelve days prior, you know, CBS finds out there

1075
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: quote losing the game. So there's a lot of amounts

1076
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: to feed. We're trying to balance what's right for all

1077
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: of our network partners, all of our clubs, but more

1078
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: importantly for all of our fans. And like we said,

1079
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: a team like the Bills that weren't necessarily slated for

1080
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: a lot of national television back in April when we

1081
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: had this conversation, when the schedule can am out, you know,

1082
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: this is exactly what flexible scheduling is for. They've earned it,

1083
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: they've played their way on more fans you get a

1084
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: chance to say them. Michael I wondered too, from the

1085
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: NBC standpoint, how much of it is NBC looking at

1086
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: the game they've got the originally scheduled game in this

1087
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: case Minnesota and the Chargers and saying hey, we'd like

1088
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: to do better than this. Does that play into it

1089
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: as well? Yeah, Again, there's a lot of moving pieces

1090
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: to this. There are impacts on the teams that had

1091
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: previously been scheduled for Sunday night having to move back

1092
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: to the afternoon. There's obviously fans who have made plans,

1093
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: bought tickets, airlines, hotels. There's operational issues for all of

1094
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: our clubs when you are traveling in for a night

1095
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 1: game versus traveling in for a day game. Your charter plane,

1096
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: your hotels, your meeting space, your meals. There's a lot

1097
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: of people that are impacted by this. So about the

1098
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: best we could do is start warning people a week

1099
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: or two ago. Hey, this is something that we're thinking about.

1100
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,479
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens he's the next couple of weeks

1101
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: and be prepared for this possibility. So we reached out

1102
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: to the Bills and the Steelers a couple of weeks ago,

1103
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: let them know. Depending on results of the next couple

1104
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: of weeks, this was on the table, and sure enough,

1105
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: based on what happened this weekend, this felt like the

1106
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: right thing to do. I know that there are certain teams,

1107
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: like those NFC East teams that you mentioned off the top,

1108
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: that you know they're always going to pull good numbers.

1109
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: But this last Thanksgiving game, it was a really highly

1110
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 1: watched matchup. Does do you guys really get too far

1111
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: down into which teams will because obviously if it's a

1112
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: good game again with a good team, no matter where

1113
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: they're from, whether it's Buffalo or Jacksonville or New Orleans, whoever.

1114
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: Good teams pull in good ratings, and this the number

1115
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: that the Bills Dallas game pulled in were monster ratings.

1116
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: You know how much of that goes into the mix.

1117
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: A lot of it goes in in April, right when

1118
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: we had this conversation, back when the schedule came out

1119
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: and the question was, you know, where are the Bills

1120
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: on national television? We knew there were some levers we

1121
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: could pull later in the season if they were in

1122
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: this thing. But Thanksgiving Day in Dallas is early hour,

1123
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: most watched game every season, So putting the Bills into

1124
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: that slot, we knew full well with any playoff implications,

1125
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: with decent records for one or both of those teams,

1126
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 1: this game had a chance to do something really special.

1127
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: Did we think it was going to do thirty three

1128
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: million viewers? Probably not. You know, the truth is, Buffalo's

1129
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: been really one of our best stories here record wise,

1130
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: and to your point earlier, you know, not a lot

1131
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 1: of people have gotten to see them yet. So here

1132
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: come the Bills now and Thanksgiving Day sort of introducing

1133
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: themselves to the nation, playing a really good game, delivering

1134
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: really good ratings and getting to win. And now, of

1135
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: course we're looking at a Sunday night game in week

1136
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: fifteen where they go to Pittsburgh on NBC. We had

1137
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 1: previously already moved the Bills Patriots game in Week sixteen

1138
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: to a national window on Saturday for NFL Network, So

1139
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: we always had the ability the flexibility to be able

1140
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: to move those games around once the season started. But

1141
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: back in April, you know, some of these games have

1142
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get moved to a bigger audience, and

1143
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: some of them do not. Right you think about this

1144
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: San fran Baltimore game that we just played on Sunday.

1145
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: You know, everybody talking about a possible Super Bowl preview.

1146
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: You know that game only ended up in about fifty

1147
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the country because it was in a

1148
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: one o'clock window with a bunch of other games. So

1149
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: some of these games we have the ability to move

1150
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: to bigger windows. Others are kind of landlocked, and so

1151
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: it's always good for us to be able to move

1152
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: the games that more fans want to see in the

1153
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: national windows. On the Line with Michael Northy is National

1154
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,720
Speaker 1: Football League Vice president of broadcast Planning. I wonder, Michael

1155
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: and I know the painstaking detail that goes into putting

1156
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: the schedule together, the one that comes out on the

1157
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: spring back in late March early April. Do you kind of, now,

1158
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: with what thirteen years of flexible scheduling availability, do you

1159
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: look for opportunities to put the schedule together that hey,

1160
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: maybe if we get there, we'll flex this game out.

1161
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: It's almost like a backup plan. Even as you put

1162
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: together that pretty detailed schedule back in April, I would think, huh, yeah,

1163
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. I mean, to your point, When the

1164
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 1: schedule comes out in April, most of our network partners

1165
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: are looking for the Dallas, the Pittsburgh, the Green Bay,

1166
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: the Chicago's, the big market teams that are traditional ratings draws.

1167
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: What we're looking for is the scheduling team is what

1168
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: happens if what if Buffalo's in this thing? What if

1169
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's in this thing? What if Jacksonville's in this thing?

1170
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,800
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay the teams that we don't necessarily expect in

1171
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: April to be top of everybody's network request list, but

1172
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,320
Speaker 1: we know might be good football teams. I'll give you

1173
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: a great example. You know, we just talked about San Francisco.

1174
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: This was a team two years ago that everybody was

1175
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: pretty high on. Right, they signed Garoppolo, they won their

1176
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: last five, We put them all over the national television

1177
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: schedule two eighteen, Garoppolo gets hurt. The record was what

1178
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: it was. They were not necessarily everywhere on national television

1179
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: for the twenty nineteen season, at least when the schedule

1180
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 1: came out in April. But once the season got started,

1181
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: we realized there's a story there. So we were able

1182
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: to put our hands on a game like green Bay

1183
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, and that Week

1184
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: twelve was almost the perfect example of what flexible scheduling

1185
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: should be. We had green Bay San Francisco sitting there

1186
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: in a window where Dallas, New England already was, so

1187
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 1: we could move green Bay and Ferrando Prime. We moved

1188
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: to Seattle Philly game, which was perfectly good enough for

1189
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: Sunday night football, but we moved it back to one

1190
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: o'clock on Fox, and in doing so, we're able to

1191
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: take the Carolina New Orleans game from Fox move it

1192
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: over to CBS. So we had four really good games,

1193
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: and each of the network windows had a really good

1194
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: game in it. That's best case scenario for us. That's

1195
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,760
Speaker 1: hard to predict in April. So knowing as the season progresses,

1196
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: when we get into mid to late November, early December,

1197
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: can we move some of these bigger games into bigger windows. Again,

1198
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 1: Maximizing ratings is one thing, but letting our fans see

1199
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: the big games, because these teams are gonna be playing

1200
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: in January, our fans should see them before then. No,

1201
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 1: no strikes me is we talk Michael about the It's

1202
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: kind of a scheduling change that took place, I want

1203
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: to say four or five years ago. Now the focus

1204
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: on inter divisional games. You play your division opponents late

1205
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: in the season. That's been a big success teams right,

1206
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: not that it plays in the Buffalo at Pittsburgh, but

1207
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to know that you're going to

1208
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: get your divisional opponents in the last month of the

1209
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: season when things might be on the line. That's been

1210
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: a nice twist of the schedule. It's a it's been

1211
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: a really good idea and all credits to Howard Katz

1212
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: and Roger Goodell for that one. As one of the

1213
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: members of the scheduling team that has to call through

1214
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: the millions of possible options every year. I for one,

1215
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily thrilled with the idea of knowing that we

1216
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: had to save a division game or two for every

1217
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: team in the league for the last week or two

1218
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: of the season. It really limits the possibilities of what

1219
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: you can do, whether it's getting the right game on

1220
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: the Monday Night football in week seven or avoiding a

1221
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: three game road trip for a team in week thirteen.

1222
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: Knowing that we were limiting ourselves concerned me at the time.

1223
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: It has proven to be the right thing. It keeps

1224
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: all these division races tight, and as you get down

1225
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: into the end of the season, sometimes you got one

1226
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: team playing for something and the other team not necessarily

1227
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: playing for a playoff spot, but they know that if

1228
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: they're playing ruin the division opponents season, that's just as good.

1229
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: So keeping those division games late when there's playoffs spots

1230
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: on the line, if not for both teams, and just

1231
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: for one, you know those games are gonna matter when

1232
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: you start. You know, everybody kind of takes the scheduling

1233
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: for granted, and except for when it pops out onto

1234
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: the Schy. Everybody says, well, I don't know if if

1235
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: I like it or not. But when you start thinking

1236
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: about what goes into it, there's a number of elements

1237
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: that nobody thinks about. One of the new elements that

1238
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: has been dropped in on you guys, that's a real curveball.

1239
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: Or the international games. How much of a factor and

1240
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,479
Speaker 1: how do you go about deciding which matchup and which

1241
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: city and how much does the city effect which team?

1242
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: Does are certainly San Diego and London's not really a

1243
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: great idea, but it's got to happen sooner or later

1244
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: when these teams, you know, come up on the list

1245
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: it's time for an international game. How much of that

1246
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: and what kind of degree of difficulty does that add

1247
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: to the process. There's a very high degree of difficulty, right,

1248
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: There's a lot of moving pieces, you know. Like we've

1249
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: said before, you know, anything that's good for one television

1250
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: partner probably means is not good for another television partner.

1251
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: So anything that's good for our international friends may not

1252
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: be great for you know, CBS and Fox on a

1253
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon at one o'clock Eastern. As a fan, personally,

1254
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: I love waking up nine thirty am Eastern time, seeing

1255
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: that early London game starting what amounts to really four

1256
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: games back to back to back for the fan bases

1257
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: giving up a home game, Yeah, you could certainly imagine

1258
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: the impact there. The truth is, our international folks works

1259
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: hand in glove with all of our clubs. Everybody's in

1260
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: the conversation every year for who'd be willing to go?

1261
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: Who just went? Whose turn is it? Frankly, who owes

1262
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: us one? You know, if you're playing in a temporary building,

1263
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: or if you've got a Super Bowl awarded to you recently,

1264
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: then you're kicking into the international pool. And then you

1265
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: get to figure out, well, which of my home opponents

1266
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: this year do I want to give up and take

1267
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: to London. Our international folks are looking at it the

1268
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: same way, which these games make the most sense. The

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Speaker 1: scheduling team is trying to figure out which week CBS

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Speaker 1: or Fox earlier afternoon. There's a lot of moving pieces,

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Speaker 1: but when you see the passion of those games in London,

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Speaker 1: it's it's worth it. It really is. I mean you

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01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: talk about a super Bowl or a draft sort of

1274
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: feel to it, where you see jerseys from all thirty

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01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: two teams, and sometimes there's jerseys from ten or twenty

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01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: or thirty years ago. I think I saw Steve task

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01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: or jersey over the year. There would be thirty years.

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Speaker 1: It's a really great scene, it really is. And I

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01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: don't think it's anything that's going to be diminished. If anything,

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Speaker 1: I think we're looking for more ways to give the

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Speaker 1: product to more of our international fans. So all these

1282
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Speaker 1: things have happened, the International Games, the flex scheduling. Now,

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01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: the one I got to ask you about is the

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Speaker 1: one on the horizon that's coming, is a seventeen game schedule.

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Speaker 1: How does how have you guys started maybe to ramp

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01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: up in anticipation of that. Have you even given it

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Speaker 1: a second thought? Or is it something that you've been

1288
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: said to like run simulations. What's your stance on that?

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Speaker 1: And can you talk about it? Even I don't even

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01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: know if you can. Yeah, I mean look that you

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01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: guys know the same thing I do. You see what's

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Speaker 1: out there in the press, there's been talk about going

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01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: to an eighteen game regular season, a seventeen game regular season,

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01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: staying with a sixteen game regular season, anything's possible, but

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01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: we certainly have in this room started running some models

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01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out the impact. You know, the

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Speaker 1: biggest question for frankly is if we do go to

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Speaker 1: seventeen games, you know, how's that going to work, just

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01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: in terms of home in a way, right, I'm not

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01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: sure it's right for some teams in the AFC to

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Speaker 1: play eight home in nine road and other teams in

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01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: the AFC to play nine home and eight road. If

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01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: we're fighting for a wild card spot, I'd sure want

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01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: to be the guy with the extra home game. So

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01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: one school of thought has been, you know, if we

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01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: are going to add this extra game, it's probably got

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01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: to be all NFC at home one year and all

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01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: AFC at home the next. That means you're adding an

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01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: intern conference game. You know, whether we had that by

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01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: standings based or rotation based or rivalry base, there's all

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01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: kinds of plans on the table, but certainly you know

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01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: the idea that the solution space or possible schedules. As

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01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: we look behind me here at the Val Pinchbeck pegboard,

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01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: you know, the solution space is infinite already as we

1315
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: try to fit sixteen games over seventeen weeks. If we

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01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: expand that at all, it's not just two or three

1317
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: times the size of the solution space. It exponentially increases

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01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: the number of options. And again we're looking for the

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01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: magic one, that mythical, magical, perfect schedule that satisfies all

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01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: thirty two teams and all five network partners. I'm not

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01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: sure it exists, going to be even harder to find.

1322
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: Now if the season expands, how likely is it that

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Speaker 1: you would move to regular neutral site games? Well, it's

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01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: definitely one school thought. Instead of nine home and eight

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01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: road with a couple international sprinkled in. How about if

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01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: every team in the league played eight home, eight road

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01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: and one neutral. Doesn't necessarily have to be international, but

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01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: I imagine our fans in London would be thrilled for more.

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01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: There's still some really solid NFL level stadiums in Germany

1330
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: left over from when we had World League games there.

1331
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: They're stadiums in Canada, obviously, there's a stadium in Mexico

1332
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: where we just putting eighty thousand people in it. Again, Um,

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01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: could we play neutral sights here in the States? You know,

1334
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be cool to play a Lions game at

1335
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: the Big House at Michigan. Wouldn't it be cool to

1336
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: play an Eagles game at Happy Valley. You know, there's

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01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: all kinds of things that are on the table. Um,

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01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: what about your where we're gonna land? What about like

1339
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: what about like a neutral sight game? Because this has

1340
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: already happened for the Buffalo Bills, say the Jets Bills

1341
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: in Detroit or you know Green Bay, Seattle in Miami,

1342
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: put it in and Vegas is now a destination city

1343
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: as well. Maybe pick destination cities for neutral sights in

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01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: NFL sin and NFL cities like that. Um, that way,

1345
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: it would kind of right, Yeah, why don't I do that?

1346
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: Why don't it's a Steve Tasker plan. B There you go, Michael,

1347
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: thanks for your time today. You guys keep busy. Man,

1348
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: it's amazing everything you got to consider. We thank you

1349
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: for spending a few minutes with us here today to discuss.

1350
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Good luck the rest of the way.

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: Thank you. Michael North is the NFL Vice President of

1352
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: Broadcast Planning. He's been with the league for him more

1353
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: than a quarter of a century doing that kind of work.

1354
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny we talked to Michael around schedule time.

1355
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: I think, right, that's the pass break we always have

1356
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: him on. Yeah, yeah, and after the schedule comes out,

1357
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: so we like thumbs up or thumbs down. And at

1358
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: the time, I'm always thinking, well, that's it. That guy's

1359
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: work is done for the year. Not really right when

1360
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: you look at what the stuff under consideration now. And

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01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: as he said, they're already kind of running models for

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01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: a seventeen game regular season schedule if that comes to

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01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: comes to fruition in the next year or two. But

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01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: the flex games and the opportunity to flex games, and

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01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: the fact that they have built in opportunities the flex games,

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01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: I guess, including Buffalo at Pittsburgh, keeps them on their

1367
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: toes I'm sure all season long. Yeah. And then and

1368
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: then the uncertainty of it is the CBA is being

1369
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: hashed out, the seventeen game schedule may not come to fruition,

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01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: and if it does, what are the parameters they Because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you know, that are

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Speaker 1: considered in that schedule process that they don't have any

1373
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: control over and they won't know until it's signed on

1374
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: the dotted line. They can't get started. I mean, they've

1375
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: certainly the Bills know that they're playing I think the

1376
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: NFC East next, NFC West next, year and the AFC West, Right,

1377
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, what do you do? And that's uh, you

1378
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: can lay it out, but you know who's playing who

1379
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: maybe already, but you don't know exactly what standings are

1380
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: going to be, who's got the first place schedule, who's

1381
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: got the last place schedule, and who those teams are

1382
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: even first place last place. Wow, it's a lot of

1383
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 1: layers to that, onion. It's a lot of fun to

1384
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: talk about. But yeah, I just let them do it.

1385
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell me late April, tell me with time to

1386
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: be there, right, Bill Steelers coming up, as you know

1387
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 1: by now in week fifteen on Sunday, December fifteenth, at Pittsburgh.

1388
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: It's a nighttime game now eight twenty pm on NBC.

1389
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Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll today, it's been a good week for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. No one can disfute that, right, the win

1391
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: at Dallas, the flexion of that game at Pittsburgh for

1392
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: Sunday night football, the Patriots losing. What's the best thing

1393
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: that happened to the Bills over the last week? Week thirteen,

1394
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll, We've got more than a thousand votes

1395
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: in and most of you eighty four percent say the

1396
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: Bills win at Dallas. Is the best thing that happened

1397
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: to the Bills in week thirteen. I agree with you.

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01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: Ten percent say the Patriots losing to the Texans is

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Speaker 1: an ex best thing. Four percent say the fact that

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01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo's game at Pittsburgh was flexed is the best thing,

1401
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: two percent of something else in mind. Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight h three h five fifty toll free one

1403
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or send

1404
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Speaker 1: in a tweet. Let's go to the tweet sheet brought

1405
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Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of

1406
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Andrew tweets this in I truly believe

1407
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: losing to the Cleveland Browns helped motivate them to play better.

1408
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: Josh Shannon is looking more comfortable in the pocket, defense

1409
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: is attacking, and I think day Ball being upstairs is

1410
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Speaker 1: actually helping as well. This is not just a team,

1411
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: this is family. Did the Cleveland loss helped motivate them?

1412
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know. I certainly

1413
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: think it was a little bit of a setback form emotionally.

1414
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody liked it, and it's a game

1415
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: they feel like they should have won, So yeah, maybe

1416
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: a little bit. They found some, But like everything, I

1417
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: think even in that loss, I think the team offensively

1418
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: at least improved some and they started getting better. So

1419
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: I think it was a They've all been good wins

1420
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: and they've all been tough losses, so it's I'm glad

1421
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: we only have three of them to talk three of

1422
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: the losses to talk about. Yeah, we're three and one

1423
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: through three quarters of the season. That's great. It's pretty nice.

1424
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah from Nick on the tweet sheet, the best thing

1425
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: to happen to the Bills in Week thirteen. The Bills

1426
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: victory has to be the best thing from this week

1427
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: because it was the best game of the year. But

1428
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: second to that, the other AFC games were the best thing.

1429
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: The Colts, Raiders, and Pats lost, And I'm even glad

1430
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: the Browns lost because they had the head to head

1431
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: tiebreaker on us. That's There's a lot there and hard

1432
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: to think of a better scenario. How did this weekend

1433
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: went in all of those phases than the Bills. They

1434
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: came out of the game relatively healthy, they weren't all

1435
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: as healthy as they wanted to be going in. I

1436
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: think Robert Foster was a question mark with his hamstring.

1437
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris had been sidelined with a hand injury from

1438
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: the week before. He got into the game played well.

1439
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: Odie Ford taken over full time from Tie and Secki

1440
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: was a huge boost for the team. I think the

1441
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: fact that he and we had Brian Boldinger on. Earlier

1442
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: in the show, he said how he was really impressed

1443
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: with Ford his ability to handle to Marcus ware who

1444
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: is you know, he's one hundred million dollars pass rusher

1445
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: and he had like a half sack early on and

1446
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: that was it. Good day. It's been a good weekend

1447
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: for the Bills franchise, and it's gonna be fun. I think,

1448
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: like we've said, a game all morning or all afternoon, Murph,

1449
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: this is a great place to be for Bills fans

1450
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 1: because you cannot wait to see him play a fun

1451
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,759
Speaker 1: Nick mentioned his last fine I'm even glad the Brown's

1452
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: lost because they had to head to head tiebreaker on us.

1453
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: I'm glad the Brown's lost too, and it's not because

1454
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, I get that acknowledge at the

1455
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: browns now five and seven, you would I mean, they've

1456
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,560
Speaker 1: got to be dead right in the playoff race. But

1457
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad they lost for this reason. I think there

1458
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: was so much preseason hype about the Browns. They had

1459
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: people picking him to be a Super Bowl contender. They

1460
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: have a talented roster, a very talented roster, and yes,

1461
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: they beat the Buffalo Bills, but they've been they've been

1462
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: kind of a mess since the preseason. Steven again this week.

1463
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: They have these T shirts a couple of weeks removed

1464
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: from the Monday night in the Battle in the Hell, Yeah,

1465
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 1: Thursday night and the Miles Garrett and he's serving his

1466
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: suspension and all of that, and they print up T

1467
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,719
Speaker 1: shirts that say Pittsburgh started it, and the head coach

1468
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: is spotted wearing the T shirt, and the Steelers talk

1469
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: about that, use that to motivate themselves. Look, the Steelers,

1470
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: I think, I'd like to think anyway, are a little

1471
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: bit like the Buffalo Bills, a team that doesn't get

1472
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: caught up in Bologny like that. I don't think the

1473
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: Steelers did, and I don't think the Bills would either.

1474
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: You know, it's like this is what Look. I know,

1475
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 1: it's been a rough go for Cleveland, right they've had

1476
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 1: a similar trail as the Bills have had as far

1477
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Speaker 1: as non playoff success. But they kind of put the cart.

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01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: They didn't kind of they did put the cart before

1479
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: the horse there. They thought they were better than they

1480
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: were five and seven. Now their season essentially over. They

1481
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: proved nothing with all of that talent, with that ineffectual

1482
01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: really coach who had nothing to offer them other than

1483
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 1: the he was a quarterback whisper. Really, I watched the

1484
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: end of that game yesterday, and whatever he was whispering

1485
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 1: to Baker Mayfield was not good. Mayfield looked awful trying

1486
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: to make a play to uh, you know, they only

1487
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 1: lost by seven, trying to make a play, get him

1488
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: down field, get a touchdown. Mayfield looked terrible down the

1489
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: stretch in that game. Um, I'm glad that the Browns

1490
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: lost because I think they were too much attention focused

1491
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: on that and I think they're a fraud. I don't

1492
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: think they had. They have good talent, but they don't

1493
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 1: have a good team. And I'm glad. That's why I'm

1494
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: glad they lost yesterday. And I'm glad they're five and seven. Yeah,

1495
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: you know, and I get it even you know the

1496
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: Houston Texans who won last night, that their guys showed

1497
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: up to the stadium with law enforcement swat team yare on. Yeah,

1498
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: and a couple of years ago when they played the Patriots,

1499
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: they showed up in a letter jacket. So I get

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: it when players want to kind of show a little

1501
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: camaraderie and where you know outfits. You know they're saying

1502
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,560
Speaker 1: matching outfit to the stadium. Your head coach should be

1503
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 1: above all that. And he's you know, it was a

1504
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: family it was his daughter's event at a school or whatever.

1505
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: He comes in shows up wearing a Pittsburgh started at

1506
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: T shirt. You can't if you're gonna wear that, don't

1507
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: get your picture taken in. I mean, you gotta be

1508
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:07,600
Speaker 1: the adult in the room. If you're a head coach, right,

1509
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: you gotta be above all that. And they just they

1510
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: you know, Cleveland has failed so miserably in so many

1511
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 1: areas this season. It's just it's really it's got to

1512
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: be frustrating for their fans. And so I'm I'm I'm

1513
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: kind of with you. I I don't have to change

1514
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: the coaches. I think it's worse they're gonna have to

1515
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: change coaches and stuff. Exactly. I think it's worse than

1516
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: hating the Browns for me, I'm completely indifferent to them.

1517
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: They're unfortunately for Browns fans, they're irrelevant. Again. I don't

1518
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 1: hate the Browns, but I hate the way this season

1519
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:40,639
Speaker 1: has gone. I hate the way they structured this season.

1520
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: I don't like the way they're General manager John Dorsey

1521
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: had no problem picking up every miscreant, every law breaker,

1522
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: putting them on their roster. There. Uh you you know,

1523
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: you reap what your soul and they are reaping a

1524
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 1: bad product now in Cleveland because of the type of

1525
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: team they put together and the coach they hired. Right

1526
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield had a great twenty eighteen. He had a

1527
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:04,599
Speaker 1: really good twenty eighteen, and he has taken major steps backward.

1528
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 1: He was awful down the stretch in yesterday's game. That's

1529
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 1: seven point lost. Yeah, and that's hard to That's hard

1530
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: to stomach if you're a team trying to get better

1531
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: and he got a young quarterback who showed such promise

1532
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: and to have everything collapse around him and him go

1533
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 1: down with it, that's got to be enormously frustrating for ownership,

1534
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: for John Dorsey, for Freddy Kitchens, for the players. They

1535
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: gotta look around, you know, you gotta look around. You

1536
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: got what what is going on? Because there's no evidence

1537
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 1: except the bad play on the field, inconsistent play for

1538
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: why they're not winning games and what causes it. Well,

1539
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: think about you talk about and we've heard it one

1540
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: hundred times, Murphy and I how everybody pooh poos what

1541
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 1: this culture thing. You gotta get the right guys, and

1542
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: the culture thing is what gets you ready during the week.

1543
01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: And if you got guys that are you know, justin

1544
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: Rex from Monday to Saturday, they're not going to show

1545
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: up and play well on Sunday. And there's certainly not

1546
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: going to be a benefit in their demeanor and their

1547
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: emotions to their teammates. You can't. I mean, look at

1548
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: the two franchises, the Bills, and I'm not saying the

1549
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win the Super Bowl, but I'll tell

1550
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 1: you what that culture means something to this team and

1551
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,800
Speaker 1: it has helped them when times get tough, and a

1552
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: tough loss to the Browns, it's kind of stuck and

1553
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: stuck with him and got them through to the next week.

1554
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,839
Speaker 1: It has led them to some very tough wins, particularly

1555
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: early in the season. I think about how different this

1556
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: season would have been if the Bills would have got

1557
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,920
Speaker 1: off to a stumbling, poor start. And I'm telling you this,

1558
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: the reason they didn't was because they weren't a very

1559
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 1: good football team. But they found ways to win against

1560
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,839
Speaker 1: teams that weren't very good. And now they're beating teams

1561
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: and beating them by double digits. Now they're bad teams

1562
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: or teams that are struggling, but they're thumping them. Yeah,

1563
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: you know what every Browns fan listening to us is

1564
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: saying to themselves right now, look at the scoreboard for

1565
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: a weekend nineteen sixty. Get it good for that? They're

1566
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: right that that happened. All break here, We're coming back.

1567
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca

1568
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 1: Studio in Archard Park, And this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1569
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back gets One Bill's Live. John Murphy, Steve Tancer.

1570
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,679
Speaker 1: It's a weird Monday, isn't it. Not having a game yesterday?

1571
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: A little weird. But we're gonna make it through the week.

1572
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: We got good shows playing for the week. Our buddy

1573
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt will join us tomorrow. He can take a

1574
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 1: victory lap about his not prediction, his guarantee last week,

1575
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: Last Tuesday, that the Bills would beat the Dallas Cowboys.

1576
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: Joe Ferguson's gonna be with us tomorrow. He was there

1577
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: in Dallas watch the Bills beat the Cowboys. That's right,

1578
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: Wall of Fame, Joe Ferguson, He's gonna be. He's now

1579
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: living in Dallas with family members. Daron, We're gonna talk

1580
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: with Joe Ferguson about that game and about his great career.

1581
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: Rest of the week, what do we got? Field Yates

1582
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Thurman Thomas on Thursday, Great Gosal on Friday.

1583
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: It's a good week. It's a good week, and it'll

1584
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: all be pointed towards Sunday one o'clock the Bills when

1585
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. That's gonna be really fun. Your thoughts

1586
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,240
Speaker 1: on the last weekend? The best thing to happen to

1587
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: the Bills in week thirteen? What do you think it was?

1588
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: Eighth three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight

1589
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,560
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Send in a tweet. We

1590
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: can read him on the tweet sheet. You can vote

1591
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: to the Twitter poll. What do you got, Steve? You

1592
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 1: gotta say something? Well, no, I was just saying and

1593
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 1: this is kind of that. You can tell by the

1594
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: percentages everybody saying this about the win. Max also says

1595
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: on Twitter, the best thing to happen in the Bills

1596
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: in week thirteen A All three of these are pretty cool.

1597
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: It was a good weekend, but come on, man, it's

1598
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 1: got to be the win on Thanksgiving that wins this, right.

1599
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun to watch. Thoroughly enjoyed

1600
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: watching that beat down on national media, Josh is progressing

1601
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: the dast stout. I love it, and that's I think

1602
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: those are the sentiments. I think that the you know,

1603
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: people in Bills fan base are reflecting. Eighty four percent

1604
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: say Bills win at Dallas has been the thing that

1605
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: gets it. Only eleven percent percent say the Pats Lows

1606
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: of the Texas and everybody else's you know, the Flex

1607
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: game Sunday night or something else, you know. So that's

1608
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Yeah, everybody's all about that win in Dallas.

1609
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 1: That was a real That was the feel good moment

1610
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: of the weekend. Yeah, long holiday, It felt like a

1611
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: long holiday, it was, didn't it. It felt good? Tom

1612
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 1: and Buffalo on the line of the solo time, go ahead,

1613
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 1: Hey guys, I agree with everything you're saying it's good,

1614
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Oh what no, no, no, For once,

1615
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: I totally agree. Started with the game in Dallas and

1616
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 1: that was that carried me through the whole weekend. But

1617
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: watching New England, are you there? Yeah, we're there. Let's

1618
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: move on to Kevin and Hamburg. Hello Kevin, you're on

1619
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:41,640
Speaker 1: the air. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. Um. The

1620
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,599
Speaker 1: two great things happened for the Bills was the Bills

1621
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 1: win obviously on primetime. I thanksgiving the Patriots losing last night,

1622
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: and even though we got to play Pittsburgh in a

1623
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:55,679
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The comedian thing was that the Browns

1624
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: are knocked out of the playoffs by a duck caller,

1625
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: And I think that should be run to the gamut.

1626
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: If I was a rob Rigal type person that a

1627
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 1: duck caller beating their Hyman Trophy winner and knocked them

1628
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: out of the heart, I gotta call that guy duck.

1629
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: His name is Devlin right in a couple of weeks,

1630
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,679
Speaker 1: but people call him duck. He's a bonified duck caller.

1631
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: I know some of those guys too. I mean, I

1632
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 1: know turkey callers, duck callers. Yeah, okay, there you go.

1633
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: That's does he go by Duck? I gotta do a

1634
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 1: little more week does now? Greg? And north Town? I

1635
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: want to welcome to the show. Greg, Hey, Marph, Steve.

1636
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing always Monday after a Bills win? Right? Yep?

1637
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: I do my I do my volunteer meals and wheels thing,

1638
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 1: but I hurry my fanny home to get time for

1639
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: you guys at noon. Great Bills win. The thing was,

1640
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: it was a team win. It wasn't just h It

1641
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: was we don't have superstars. We had a bunch of

1642
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: great players. I absolutely love it. It was like the

1643
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: Giants game where the steam rolled the style in the

1644
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: field with Sequan took a seven nothing lead. DALs do

1645
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 1: the same thing. We just help are held our ground.

1646
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 1: And one and what I like about Josh I watched

1647
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: him in the I Hadahole Potato Ball a couple of

1648
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: years ago. I said, this is our quarterback. This is

1649
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: our guy. We don't want Donald, we don't want Baker,

1650
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: we don't you know, Jackson's awesome too, don't get me wrong,

1651
01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: but Josh is our guy. We know how old p

1652
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 1: can be in the way of time. It's a little

1653
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 1: windy down there, right he's our guy. He's got there.

1654
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 1: You know. I watched they show the replays all the time,

1655
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: him running for a touchdown, him strolling out of the

1656
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 1: pocket and hidden Beasley at the ten for a walk in. No,

1657
01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: the play that impressed me the most was when we

1658
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: were backed up in our own end zone third and

1659
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:39,799
Speaker 1: long and he steps up in the pocket hits Beasley

1660
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: for twenty That's that's our guy. I'm sorry, I'll shut

1661
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: up and listen to it. You don't have to apologize.

1662
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: You're right. That was a huge play. You're standing in

1663
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: his own end zone, shuffled to his right a little

1664
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: bit and hit Beasley. That turned into a twenty yard game.

1665
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: When the Bills were backed up, and he does seem

1666
01:18:56,479 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: to I don't want to say rise up, rise of

1667
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: the occasion or like the bright lights or all that,

1668
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what. The guy almost seems to

1669
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 1: get calm or in the pocket in the big moments. Yeah,

1670
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: you gotta like everything about what you saw with the

1671
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills on Sunday, even that last touchdown that they

1672
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 1: kind of backed off and the and the the Dallas

1673
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys went down and scored their second touchdown of the day.

1674
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 1: It was all it all seemed, it all just has

1675
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: that air about being calculated by the Bills. They didn't

1676
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 1: really give it, didn't really care about the touchdown. They

1677
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: were still up by double digits, but they made sure

1678
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: that it took the Dallas Cowboys so long to do

1679
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: it that they had virtually no time left to even

1680
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: have a chance to win the game. And that that's

1681
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: analytics football, it's game strategy, and I I just you know,

1682
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: you gotta just say, wow, that was It was something.

1683
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 1: It was a really good win. I think that every

1684
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: aspect of the offense and defense contributed, as well as

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01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, and I was it was just fun

1686
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:53,839
Speaker 1: to watch it, and like we like this Twitter poll implies,

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01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: it sent everybody into a really nice weekend. Thanks for Colin.

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01:19:56,520 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 1: Here's Jimmy in Batavia. Hello Jimmy, Hey, going guys, Hope

1689
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,679
Speaker 1: he had a good holiday. Yeah great, I just wanted

1690
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 1: to get your guys opinion. Then some stuff. I love

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01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: where the teams hadn't. I love where it's going. I

1692
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: just the narrative about, you know, trying to win the

1693
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: division this year kind of scares me. I mean it

1694
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: just a couple weeks ago we were talking about whether

1695
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was a guy or if Dave Bills should

1696
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 1: be fired because we couldn't pass over three hundred yards.

1697
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:23,719
Speaker 1: Well you might have been talking that way, but I wasn't.

1698
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: I don't think Steve was nobody here. I mean, Steve

1699
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: talked about Dable being fired and three hundred game passing

1700
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: A three hundred yard passing game is I don't know.

1701
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of inconsequential, not important. The wins

1702
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: and losses are important. No, I totally agree with you,

1703
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, I'm a Josh Allen fan, you know,

1704
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 1: through and through, and I love him. He's our guy.

1705
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,760
Speaker 1: But you know, at this at the beginning of the year,

1706
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: if someone came to you and said, you know, hey,

1707
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 1: the builds are going to finish nine and seven, what

1708
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: would the expectations have been. I mean, would we have

1709
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: taken that at the beginning of the year. Well, at

1710
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, I said ten wins, Steve said,

1711
01:20:55,600 --> 01:21:00,600
Speaker 1: Steve waffled and said eleven plus, So we have a

1712
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: little bit of higher expectations. But I think I'm getting

1713
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: your point here, Jimmy um and I get it. It's

1714
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 1: it's been a. It's been a great ride so far.

1715
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: The season's only seventy hive percent over. But here's I'd

1716
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:12,280
Speaker 1: like to say this, and I think we had this

1717
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 1: discussion in the office today's Steve Um. The division title

1718
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: is as an extreme long shot, very long shot. What's

1719
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: four or five six percent chance depending how things play

1720
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,640
Speaker 1: out there. There's a mathematical chance, not likely. But you

1721
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: know what, based on the Dallas game, this team can

1722
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 1: beat anybody the way they play defense, they can beat

1723
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: anybody remaining down their schedule. They can win a playoff

1724
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: game number one, number two? Why not go for it?

1725
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? You know you? I think Jimmy,

1726
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: you said you're afraid to think to start talking about

1727
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: a division title. What are you afraid of? What are

1728
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: you afraid of? You gotta play these games anyway? Yeah,

1729
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Jimmy. Put the pressure on them,

1730
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: and I think that's the that's the key thing. You

1731
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 1: put the ball back in their court. Win your games

1732
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: and force them to keep winning against whoever it is

1733
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 1: they're playing. And I I'm totally with you, Jimmy, I

1734
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 1: get it. I mean, they're what are you with? You

1735
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,639
Speaker 1: be afraid of? What had that? No, No, no, I'm

1736
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 1: with it. The fact that we've kind of ridden this

1737
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: roller coaster. And you know, after a Cleveland loss, when

1738
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: everybody's like everybody's down and they think they we've ridden

1739
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: a roller coaster a little bit. Every loss this seasons

1740
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: has come with this dark cloud of gloom and doom

1741
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 1: that will maybe we're not everything we said we were.

1742
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 1: All three are bad, right, uh last I think that

1743
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: that's why this Thanksgiving game, and I think a lot

1744
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,640
Speaker 1: of people, and obviously around the country you're get in

1745
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:29,639
Speaker 1: games flex now, a lot of people said, wait a minute,

1746
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute, this team's pretty good.

1747
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people have to they're

1748
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 1: saying they're not just having a soft record. They're good.

1749
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: Their defense is good, their offense is a handful, they're

1750
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: tough to beat. They are good. And I think that's

1751
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: where we're at today. And certainly, you know, Bill's fancy

1752
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: every team does it. You know, they're six and three

1753
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:53,960
Speaker 1: or they get to six and three and a loss,

1754
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you want to start people

1755
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: want to start firing people. It's like whoa you know, uh,

1756
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: we deal with a lot of hard calls when the

1757
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 1: team stinks on a weekend. So I get it, but man,

1758
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: oh man, take a deep breath, and I think it's

1759
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: worth the point now, particularly after this last game, where

1760
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: people can get their heads up. Let's say, you know what,

1761
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna this is a lot of fun and I'm

1762
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy it for what it is. And let's let's

1763
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: hope we win this game and worry about it the

1764
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: rest of them later. I don't doubt Jimmy's you know,

1765
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:26,560
Speaker 1: allegiance to the Bills at all, but I hate to

1766
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: hear people say I'm I get scared when I start

1767
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:32,639
Speaker 1: thinking about people talking about when winning the division? Why

1768
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 1: why that's the goal? Right? When the division? And what

1769
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: as man as you can, I'll tell you what you're

1770
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: afraid of. You said it, right, Murph. This team could

1771
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: beat anybody. Yeah, I mean you're gonna You're gonna go

1772
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 1: in there thinking, okay, we we're gonna be tough to beat.

1773
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 1: Let's see, you're gonna. I want to see my team

1774
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: play those teams in the playoffs. I want to I

1775
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:53,160
Speaker 1: want to crack at those teams and it's gonna be

1776
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: fun to watch on it. So that's what you know where.

1777
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:56,880
Speaker 1: It's a fun spot to be and look forward to

1778
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: this stuff instead of we gotta go to the box

1779
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 1: for a well. New England beat you by six last

1780
01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: time you played him. Let's go to uh think about

1781
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: how long ago that was. We four and we are,

1782
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: how different our offense looks and even how much better

1783
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:13,879
Speaker 1: our defense looks. Guys, Kevin on the line in Buffalo,

1784
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: go ahead, Kevin, you're on the air herey, guys, how

1785
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 1: you doing good? Hey, I'll just my comment. Ain't you

1786
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: necessarily about the football game itself? It's about the same.

1787
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:28,320
Speaker 1: I drove down the Dallas this weekend game. Whoa yeah,

1788
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three hour drive. When we won that game,

1789
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: we started channing na na, na nah. How the song

1790
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: goes and the miokle knows Cowboys fans, but we were

1791
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: singing that it's just prices. One of them was said,

1792
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: go Patriots, that's pretty creative. Did you get weather on

1793
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: the way home? Did you encounter some weather? Yeah, we

1794
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: ran into some rain, you know, not no snow, but

1795
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: we ran into a lot of rain, a lot of

1796
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 1: heavy wind, and it was it was a little rough. Well,

1797
01:24:58,439 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: I know that I know the visiting you were down

1798
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: Dallas at the AT and T Stadium and it's it's

1799
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:05,560
Speaker 1: quite the place. What was the atmosphere like in it?

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01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 1: Particularly early in the game, it looked like it was

1801
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:09,280
Speaker 1: going to be a long day. When Dallas goes down

1802
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: scores that touchdown, what was the atmosphere like? And tell

1803
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: us about the day? Oh, when they scored that touchdown

1804
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 1: them Dallas fans was talking heavy trash, turned around, tried

1805
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: to high five me us and not to day. We

1806
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: started going off and there was chinned. But when the

1807
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 1: Bills started coming back with him, they were quiet. They

1808
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: were looking at each other and just like us, they

1809
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 1: were trying to say seven us need to be fired.

1810
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 1: Fired and the coach and yea, oh it was mad.

1811
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: It was arguing with each other after that, Kevin, Thanks,

1812
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: sounds like a great trip. You had a good time, right, yes, sir,

1813
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: that sounds great. Thanks in nice. Yeah. When I spend

1814
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: a little time talking about the Patriots and people scratching

1815
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:52,640
Speaker 1: their heads and I'm not saying, look, I know a

1816
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 1: division title is a remote, remote possibility, But more on

1817
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots and maybe why they're in the spot they

1818
01:25:57,760 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 1: were in. Can we talk about that when we come

1819
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: back you're good with that. Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna get

1820
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: to that too. I mean, there's a lot on the

1821
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 1: table here with these two AFC North teams coming up

1822
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:07,600
Speaker 1: on the Patriots. A little out far out from me,

1823
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: but I'll talk about it. I watched the matchup, but

1824
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 1: just about I watched them last night and yeah they

1825
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: got there's something missing there and thanks talent on offense

1826
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 1: quite Frankie. We'll get to that when we come back.

1827
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: One Bill's Life presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca

1828
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Canstor

1829
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: and our Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. Happy to have

1830
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: you with us here today. Uh, just a brief thing

1831
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 1: on the Patriots. We only have a couple of minutes.

1832
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 1: Here's team and the Patriots now a game ahead of

1833
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: the Bills, right ten and two, one game ahead. They'll

1834
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:51,560
Speaker 1: play each other again on December twenty, first Saturday. A

1835
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 1: remote chance of Bills could win the division. Still things

1836
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:55,640
Speaker 1: they have to break their way in. They got to

1837
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:59,680
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots, obviously, and Patriots struggling right and you

1838
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 1: met it. Brady looks around. There's nobody to throw to.

1839
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:06,639
Speaker 1: Brady looked frustrated that it's now you know, an image

1840
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: of him on the sidelines complaining too some of his

1841
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 1: what receivers. I guess, Look, they have not used their

1842
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 1: assets in the draft. This is my contention. They have

1843
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:18,479
Speaker 1: not used their assets in the draft to get qualified, good,

1844
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: skilled players. They just don't have them. Go back five years?

1845
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 1: Can I did this today because I was thinking about

1846
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: it five years ago. The twenty fifteen Right start with

1847
01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: that draft. They drafted no skill position players on offense.

1848
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,479
Speaker 1: They drafted and you know you can get away with

1849
01:27:32,560 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 1: that one year. Next year twenty sixteen, they drafted Jacobe

1850
01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 1: Brissett in the third round. He plays quarterbacks somewhere else now.

1851
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: They drafted wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell in the fourth round.

1852
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: They drafted wide receiver Devin Lucian in the seventh round.

1853
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 1: Anybody here are those guys? No no skill position draft

1854
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 1: players in the seventeen draft eighteen twenty eighteen, Sonny Michelle

1855
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: pretty good pick. I wouldn't say he's an elite running back,

1856
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 1: but he's pretty good. They drafted Braxton Burials and Danny

1857
01:27:57,080 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 1: Etline at quarterback. Those two are forgettable. This past year

1858
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 1: to kill Harry wide receiver first round pick. He looks okay,

1859
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: but you know, we'll give him the juries out. They

1860
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: drafted Jared Stidham in the fourth round. They drafted a

1861
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: running back Damian Harrison the third round. My point is

1862
01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: there's nobody for there's nobody for Brady to go to

1863
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: because they have not invested in that position. They've been

1864
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: getting by with Brady covering up their deficiencies for so long,

1865
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 1: and it's worked. It's worked. They have the six Super

1866
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: Bowl titles. But I think that era is ending, partly,

1867
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,680
Speaker 1: not always, but partly because of the fact they have

1868
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: not drafted well and they have not selected good skill

1869
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 1: position players. I don't even go over the rest of

1870
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:39,080
Speaker 1: their drafts. They don't have a ton of contributors out

1871
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: of the draft. They're not a good drafting team. They

1872
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 1: haven't been in the last five years. They have failed

1873
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 1: drafting skill position players, and they're paying for it now.

1874
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 1: And Brady, as good as he is, especially as good

1875
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: as he was, can't cover up those deficiencies. That's my point.

1876
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 1: Steve Oh, I agree. I know, and I see the

1877
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: frustration on Brady too. There's and it's obvious he expects

1878
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: a lot of himself but he also has high expectations

1879
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:04,599
Speaker 1: for the people around him. You take away Julian Edelman,

1880
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 1: and he's throwing the guys that he doesn't know all

1881
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: that well. And there were times last night where he

1882
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:11,680
Speaker 1: was throwing it to spots in the field or there

1883
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:15,480
Speaker 1: was nobody there, and that's pretty frustrating. And that's a miscommunication.

1884
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 1: That's a quarterback and receiving corps that doesn't know what

1885
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: they're doing. Either receivers don't know where the doing or

1886
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback doesn't take your Who do you think is

1887
01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: not knowing what you know? Who do you think is miscommunicating?

1888
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: You think Tom Brady is the one who doesn't know

1889
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 1: that offense that he's been in for twenty years. They

1890
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:32,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't. He's got guys he's trying to work with

1891
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: it just don't know what they're doing yet and don't

1892
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: understand what he wants them to do. And that's pretty

1893
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 1: frustrating for a quarterback. And Tom can still throw it.

1894
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 1: Brady can still throw it, he still runs that offense,

1895
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,720
Speaker 1: but he's gotta have guys who know what they're doing

1896
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: out there. I don't see the guy. I don't see

1897
01:29:51,520 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 1: the guy Tom Brady back there who you know. He's

1898
01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: not Joe Namath at the end of his career. He's

1899
01:29:56,439 --> 01:29:58,240
Speaker 1: not one of these guys that's decret The guy can

1900
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:00,280
Speaker 1: still get it done. I see he throws it well,

1901
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 1: he throws it accurately, but he's still on it. The

1902
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: guys that just aren't where they're supposed to be and

1903
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 1: aren't getting separation. His offensive lines playing pretty well. He

1904
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 1: had some time last night he got sacked three times,

1905
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 1: but only three on a night where their passing game

1906
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 1: was stymied. And so I think they've got some real

1907
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 1: issues out on the outside and they're gonna try and

1908
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 1: figure out what they got to do next. But I

1909
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 1: agree with you, Murphy. They don't have anybody. And I

1910
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: made the joke earlier on Twitter. They say it's like

1911
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: they got that offense has three ex wives. Gronkowski's not there,

1912
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,240
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon's not there, and Antonio Brown aren't there. They're

1913
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 1: all gone. They've been and they've washed through these guys

1914
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:44,799
Speaker 1: trying to find somebody, and there's just nobody there. Sanu,

1915
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:47,639
Speaker 1: it's second round draft pick for it, Mohammed Sanu, who's

1916
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 1: it seems to be washed up. They're trying everything they

1917
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: can to find somebody at this time here, there's nobody

1918
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 1: out there, right, I mean, who are you gonna get?

1919
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:58,960
Speaker 1: Feel good about this show? I've managed to trash in

1920
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:01,800
Speaker 1: the last forty minutes and Browns. I managed to trust

1921
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Patriots in the last thirty five

1922
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: forty minutes, both of whom have beaten the Bills already

1923
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:10,559
Speaker 1: this year. Who else, who's missing? Who else are gonna

1924
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: get some cracks? And on? The Eagles be perfect? Done today?

1925
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:17,760
Speaker 1: How come on back? We got Eric Woods standing by

1926
01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: to join us for the third and final hour of

1927
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 1: the show, and that's coming up in just a moment.

1928
01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:23,800
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health live from the

1929
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: Seneca Studio Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes quotes Hello

1930
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Day Stuff date comes from One

1931
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills get back to work this week,

1932
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: getting set for their next game after playing on Thanksgiving Day.

1933
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: Next game is the Baltimore Ravens coming up on Sunday,

1934
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:50,800
Speaker 1: the week after December fifteenth, is now a primetime game.

1935
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:54,240
Speaker 1: NFL announcing yesterday that they have flexed the Bills game

1936
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:57,240
Speaker 1: at the Pittsburgh Steelers Hinesfield. It was going to be

1937
01:31:57,280 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 1: a one o'clock kickoff. Now it is eight twenty on

1938
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:03,879
Speaker 1: National TV Sunday Night Football on NBC. The game originally

1939
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: scheduled for that slot, Bikeids and Chargers moves to four

1940
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 1: o'clock that Sunday afternoon, so the Bills at the Steelers

1941
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:13,839
Speaker 1: now Sunday Night Football on Sunday, December fifteenth. The Patriots

1942
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 1: have lost their hold on the top seed in the

1943
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 1: AFC East, the result of their loss to the Texans

1944
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,799
Speaker 1: yesterday twenty twenty two. In the final score the Baltimore

1945
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: Ravens at ten and two, Buffalo's opponents is coming week,

1946
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:26,879
Speaker 1: they move into the top spot on the conference. Patriots

1947
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: also ten and two, but they lost to the Ravens

1948
01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:31,840
Speaker 1: back on November third, so they are now number two.

1949
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:35,679
Speaker 1: Tom Brady went twenty four or forty seven three hundred

1950
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:38,799
Speaker 1: twenty six are three touchdowns one hundred sceptions against the Texans,

1951
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 1: but it was a struggle for him throughout most of

1952
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Brady seven of nineteen in the first half

1953
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 1: of that game. So the Patriots lost it. On Sunday

1954
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: Night Football twenty twenty two, and then the Baltimore Ravens

1955
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: coming to town as we said, they move into the

1956
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 1: top seed now in the AFC with their victory yesterday

1957
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,479
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, and the Baltimore Ravens are coming here

1958
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: Sunday to play the Bills. Eagles coach Doug Peterson said

1959
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: it's on him the fact that the Eagles lost to

1960
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins thirty seven to thirty one yesterday. Peterson

1961
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: admits his team self destructing and is now a long

1962
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 1: shot to make the playoffs. The Eagles now five wins

1963
01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:15,640
Speaker 1: seven loss it down as Cowboys are gonna stay with

1964
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: their kicker. They worked out a few after they're lost

1965
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills, but the Cowboys coach Jason Garrett

1966
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,960
Speaker 1: said this morning that they will stick with Brett Maher.

1967
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 1: Maher struggled with accuracy, mis two field goals and the

1968
01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: loss of the Bills, and has had three missfield goals

1969
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,599
Speaker 1: in his last two games. They work out three kickers

1970
01:33:32,640 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 1: over the weekend, They're not going to sign him right now.

1971
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:37,360
Speaker 1: And the Savers home against New Jersey tonight at seven o'clock.

1972
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:39,640
Speaker 1: That's the update from One Bill's Line. John Murphy and

1973
01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo Studio on the Line

1974
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:44,799
Speaker 1: with us right now. Happy to have our color analysts

1975
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 1: on the Buffalo Bills Radio network. He's also a color

1976
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:50,719
Speaker 1: analyst on the ACC Network. Had a busy Thanksgiving weekend.

1977
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:52,400
Speaker 1: We thank you for spending a few minutes with us

1978
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:54,920
Speaker 1: here today. Longtime Bill center Eric Wood on the line

1979
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:57,920
Speaker 1: from his home in Louisville. Eric, again, Happy Thanksgiving. I'm

1980
01:33:57,920 --> 01:33:59,040
Speaker 1: glad you got a chance to get home for a

1981
01:33:59,080 --> 01:34:02,400
Speaker 1: little bit of a holiday celebration yesterday. Huh. Yeah, we

1982
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,600
Speaker 1: finally celebrated yesterday. And our kids are young enough that

1983
01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 1: when I got home and said Happy Thanksgiving, I think

1984
01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 1: they just accepted it as maybe it was Thursday. But

1985
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 1: don't start doing that to them. You know, you're pretty

1986
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 1: sure to be celebrating Christmas in July and stuff because

1987
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: the kids won't know any better. Is that what you say? Yeah?

1988
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:24,599
Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, now we are going to have Christmas

1989
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 1: at home this year based upon the way that's shaking out.

1990
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 1: But it looks like my Bowl game is on December

1991
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 1: twenty six with my wife, which my wife isn't super

1992
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:37,280
Speaker 1: thrilled about me leaving Christmas night, but it's part of

1993
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 1: the gig. What both last week doing three games in

1994
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 1: six days, It was a lot of travel, a lot

1995
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 1: of prep. But then I got to enjoy yesterday off,

1996
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:49,360
Speaker 1: enjoy some good football and family and friends over and

1997
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 1: then lighter week this week, just having the Bills game. Well,

1998
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:55,840
Speaker 1: the people are still chattering about the Bills win in Dallas.

1999
01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 1: What sticks with you about the Bills win over the Cowboys?

2000
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 1: And I was just so fired up to see them

2001
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: play like that in prime time. You know, Josh Allen

2002
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:07,320
Speaker 1: I was I'm not gonna say I was worried before

2003
01:35:07,360 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 1: the game. I just wanted him to go put his

2004
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: best foot forward because for him, for all of us

2005
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 1: who have to do medium Buffalo, I mean, the national

2006
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:18,839
Speaker 1: media's perspective on Josh Allen was going to be formed

2007
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: on Thursday. And he went out and competed like he

2008
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 1: always does. But he made some incredible throws, made some

2009
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: great decisions, and I was just so happy for him.

2010
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 1: I saw his girlfriend and his parents there at the game.

2011
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:35,720
Speaker 1: I saw them afterwards. I know they were excited as well.

2012
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:38,439
Speaker 1: Other things I took away from the game. I loved

2013
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 1: again how the Buffalo Bills made adjustments in game on defense.

2014
01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 1: You know, they get gashed coming out of the gate,

2015
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: they get down seven nothing. He reminded me a lot

2016
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:49,000
Speaker 1: of the Giants game earlier in the year. Or he's

2017
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: just a quick score and you thought, oh, can we

2018
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:55,200
Speaker 1: really stop this team and then really hold the Cowboys

2019
01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:58,639
Speaker 1: to eight points? Eight more points that were fairly meaningless

2020
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:00,799
Speaker 1: at the time. They were playing. Very concern about defense,

2021
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 1: and I love the ability of this defense to make

2022
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:07,679
Speaker 1: adjustments in game. And that comes with having bright guys

2023
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:11,680
Speaker 1: and guys that have been plumbing long enough. But it

2024
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: also shows a lack of arrogance in Leslie Fraser and

2025
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:17,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott week the week that hey, we got to

2026
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 1: do something a little bit different as far as our

2027
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 1: game plan goes, or we got to tell the player

2028
01:36:21,200 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: something different that maybe we told them during the week.

2029
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: Sometimes an arrogant coordinator can almost stick with a game

2030
01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:30,719
Speaker 1: plan a little too long, and they don't wait until

2031
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 1: halftime for it's so called halftime adjustment. Terrek, right, They

2032
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: do it on the fly, which is which is critical

2033
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 1: many times. Yeah, absolutely, it's it's it's a great sign.

2034
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: But you know, the Bills have a bad drive, they

2035
01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:44,639
Speaker 1: come to the sideline. It's not super emotional. Guys aren't

2036
01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:47,800
Speaker 1: throwing their helmets and whatnot. They're so confident I think

2037
01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 1: in their ability on defense right now where it's hey, okay,

2038
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: they scored seven points. Let's get back to the drawing board.

2039
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: Let's figure it out on the sideline right now, put

2040
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:58,679
Speaker 1: an end to it, which just is I mean, further

2041
01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:01,600
Speaker 1: display is all of McDermott's you know we have we

2042
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:03,800
Speaker 1: want the guys with the right DNA. Well, guys with

2043
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:06,759
Speaker 1: the right DNA can do that. And it's a reflection

2044
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:10,040
Speaker 1: of the leadership from the coaching staff and the players

2045
01:37:10,080 --> 01:37:11,599
Speaker 1: to be able to get all that done. And Eric

2046
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 1: on the topic of coaching, and you had a post

2047
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: up on Buffalo bills dot com the other day that

2048
01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: addresses but on the offensive side of the ball. I

2049
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:21,600
Speaker 1: was thinking about it today. We're seventy five percent the

2050
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,160
Speaker 1: way through the season now, but just about the midway

2051
01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 1: point of the season, maybe going into the Miami game,

2052
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:29,120
Speaker 1: the offense sort of adjusted and you could almost make

2053
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 1: the argument Sean and his crew would probably never say

2054
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 1: it that they waited. They didn't wait deliberately, but they

2055
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:36,679
Speaker 1: saw what was happening in first half of the season,

2056
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: the struggles on offense, and they kind of adopted one

2057
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:41,519
Speaker 1: way to do it. Yes, it's a little no huddle. Yes,

2058
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:44,240
Speaker 1: it's a lot of eleven personnel. Yes it's it's it's

2059
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:47,479
Speaker 1: Devin singletary. But it almost is like they found their

2060
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:49,680
Speaker 1: way after struggling through the first eight nine games of

2061
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 1: the year and then decided on which way to go

2062
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: forward offensively. Yeah, when you look at the last three

2063
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:56,400
Speaker 1: games in the NFL, the Bills are around fifth or

2064
01:37:56,439 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 1: six and scoring in the NFL. That's a great, great sign,

2065
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, shows that they've been improving steadily since that

2066
01:38:04,240 --> 01:38:09,160
Speaker 1: rough Cleveland performance. But yes, the Bills have simplified and

2067
01:38:09,200 --> 01:38:11,600
Speaker 1: they're in a lot of eleven personnel with three receivers.

2068
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 1: A lot of it's no huddle, but it's not extremely

2069
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 1: fast no huddle pace. It's getting the defense lined up

2070
01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 1: and some of them we used to call it a

2071
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: muddle huddle, So it's not necessarily you're not on the

2072
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:26,320
Speaker 1: ball right after the play. Maybe the linemen have their

2073
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:28,719
Speaker 1: backturn so Josh can relet them to play. The receivers

2074
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: are kind of hanging out around the outside. All those

2075
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 1: different looks puts a lot of pressure on the defense.

2076
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 1: But when you're as multiple as the Bills were early

2077
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:38,799
Speaker 1: in the season, and I think that's one of their strengths,

2078
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:41,880
Speaker 1: is how multiple they can be on offense. But when

2079
01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:44,040
Speaker 1: you're that multiple throughout the week, you only have so

2080
01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 1: much time to practice that stuff, and when you have

2081
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 1: nine news starters we often talked about on air, John,

2082
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 1: I think of some of its continuity that they're not

2083
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: able to put up the points that we expected them

2084
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:58,800
Speaker 1: to be able to. Well, when you simplify the game

2085
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: plan and you get to eleven personnel and they're using

2086
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: eleven personnel and getting multiple in when you have Robert

2087
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 1: Foster and there sometimes or who the running back is

2088
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 1: or who the tight end is, so it's not like

2089
01:39:09,120 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 1: they just had the same five skill position players on

2090
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:15,479
Speaker 1: the field at all times. But by simplifying and running

2091
01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:18,280
Speaker 1: more common plays over and over, you're seeing what the

2092
01:39:18,360 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 1: defense has given you that allows you to practice those

2093
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 1: more throughout the week, and maybe that's creating some more

2094
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: coninuity on this offense. What do you think about you

2095
01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 1: mentioned a minute ago you wondered how Josh was gonna

2096
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 1: play while he actually had maybe his best game as

2097
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,280
Speaker 1: a professional, And it does seem to me and you

2098
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:37,720
Speaker 1: think back like last year's a Minnesota game when they

2099
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:40,080
Speaker 1: showed up. He was kind of his coming out party

2100
01:39:40,120 --> 01:39:44,040
Speaker 1: where he hurtled a guy. And we've had very rare

2101
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 1: moments where this team's been on primetime, but they get

2102
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Speaker 1: on this big stage and Josh kind of spreads his wings.

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01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 1: You think that maybe part of his deal he plays

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01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:56,759
Speaker 1: better in big moments. Certainly you'd hope that's the case. Well,

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01:39:57,040 --> 01:39:59,640
Speaker 1: I mean that stacks perfectly up to the fact that

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01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: he's really good in comeback situations, especially at the end

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01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: of the fourth In the fourth quarter, he plays his

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01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:07,120
Speaker 1: best ball. You get down to the red zone and

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01:40:07,160 --> 01:40:10,720
Speaker 1: there's points on the line, and his quarterback rating improves dramatically.

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01:40:10,800 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 1: When most of the time quarterbacks numbers will go the

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01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 1: opposite way when it's easier to put up points, when

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01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:19,840
Speaker 1: it's easier to move the football and non crunch time situations,

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01:40:20,200 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: they'll have a higher passer rating, while Josh's goes up

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01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:26,240
Speaker 1: in big situations. So it does not surprise me when

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01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:28,839
Speaker 1: you put him in primetime. He rises to the occasion.

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01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: And you know, we've we've seen Josh compete and you

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01:40:33,880 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: mentioned this is their first primetime game this year. Last year,

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01:40:37,760 --> 01:40:39,680
Speaker 1: in the Monday night game, he was not able to

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01:40:39,720 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 1: start because of injury. Well, this is this is the

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01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 1: country's first shot at seeing Josh Allen, and now it's

2121
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:51,599
Speaker 1: going to be hard for him to flip that script.

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01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 1: I always say, especially to young guys in the NFL,

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01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 1: I always say it takes four seconds to make an

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01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:58,800
Speaker 1: impression in four years to change it. Well, Josh Allen

2125
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 1: just made his impression on the NFL um into a

2126
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:05,479
Speaker 1: lot of um NFL spectators that don't watch the Bills

2127
01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis on linehen theyre quod

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01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,960
Speaker 1: Bills radio network color analyst, former Bills center, offensive lineman,

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01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:12,800
Speaker 1: former first round draft pick. I want to talk about

2130
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 1: another guy making his initial impressions anyway, and it's another

2131
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:19,519
Speaker 1: first rounder, this year's first rounder and Oliver Um. Now

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01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:22,679
Speaker 1: ed Oliver has sex and what the three straight games?

2133
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 1: What what got into him? I have a theory, but

2134
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 1: I like eight years, what do you think change for

2135
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:30,120
Speaker 1: ed Oliver? Eric Well, I almost I wish I got

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01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 1: to hear yours first, But all right, let me go

2137
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: first first, I think and look, and I will go first.

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01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: Steve knows this. We don't have to encourage me. Let

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01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: me your arm. Look. I think there's a lot going

2140
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:44,519
Speaker 1: on with the with Eric Oliver and Oliver rather, But

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01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: I do think he is benefiting from the internal player driven,

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01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:51,679
Speaker 1: as McDermott calls it, leadership on this team. And look,

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01:41:51,720 --> 01:41:53,360
Speaker 1: he was kind of I don't know if he was lost,

2144
01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 1: but he certainly wasn't a major contributor in the first

2145
01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:58,240
Speaker 1: six weeks of the season, seven weeks, almost eight weeks

2146
01:41:58,280 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 1: of the season, lost his spot in the starting line.

2147
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:02,479
Speaker 1: That's still a part of the regular part of the rotation.

2148
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: But the leadership behind this team is so strong and

2149
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,360
Speaker 1: so good and so forward thinking that I think the

2150
01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:11,960
Speaker 1: message got to Ed Albliver like, hey, get on board.

2151
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:14,080
Speaker 1: The train is leaving the station. You better got on board.

2152
01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 1: What do you think of that theory? You know, I

2153
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,720
Speaker 1: think there could be some truth to that, And you're right.

2154
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: I think it's such a healthy sign for this team

2155
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:24,800
Speaker 1: that a guy like Ed Oliver, who started every game

2156
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 1: he started as a true freshman at Houston, this guy

2157
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 1: is not used to not being on the field at

2158
01:42:28,520 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 1: all times when he wants to be. When he went

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01:42:31,640 --> 01:42:35,160
Speaker 1: to a backup role, I honestly did not see a

2160
01:42:35,280 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: difference in his effort, and to me that it's a

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01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 1: sign of you know that they drafted the right type

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01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:41,960
Speaker 1: of player to fit their scheme. But it also is

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01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,080
Speaker 1: a sign of the leadership in the respect that he

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01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 1: has for the other guys in the room, because he

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01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:49,000
Speaker 1: could have got really upset about the Jordan Phillips thing,

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01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips starting over him, and he could have sulked,

2167
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:55,200
Speaker 1: and no one would have blamed him. He's a young guy,

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01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:57,519
Speaker 1: you know, he's always started. He's a top ten pig.

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01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,160
Speaker 1: Of course he should be in the starting lineup. No

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01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 1: one would have blamed him. But what he did was

2171
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: he got to work. He seems more comfortable in his

2172
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:06,400
Speaker 1: role in the defense, so he's obviously putting in the

2173
01:43:06,479 --> 01:43:08,719
Speaker 1: time in the film room, and his effort has always

2174
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: been high all season. And it surprised me early in

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01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: the season when I would go back and watch coaches

2176
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 1: copies that Ed wasn't getting more numbers in the pass

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01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: rush game. But you know, he would beat a guy

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01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,280
Speaker 1: when the quarterback would be able to get rid of

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01:43:21,280 --> 01:43:24,400
Speaker 1: the ball really fast or would avoid him, and there

2180
01:43:24,400 --> 01:43:26,679
Speaker 1: wouldn't be anyone else getting pressure well off And say,

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01:43:27,840 --> 01:43:29,559
Speaker 1: as an offensive line, it takes two guys to get

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01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:32,479
Speaker 1: a sack against you. If someone beats an offensive lineman,

2183
01:43:32,520 --> 01:43:35,360
Speaker 1: Generally the quarterback avoids one and we'll get rid of

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01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 1: the ball. If there's two guys there, there's way better

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01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:41,600
Speaker 1: likelihood of a sack. Well, I was seeing pressures that

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01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: Ed was creating. He just wasn't getting the numbers. Was

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01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:46,960
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman or a defensive player in general. You

2188
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 1: always have to be going hard because you don't know

2189
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: when your opportunity to make that big play will be.

2190
01:43:51,920 --> 01:43:54,599
Speaker 1: In these last three weeks, those opportunities are coming to him,

2191
01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 1: and he's being rewarded for all that effort. I agree

2192
01:43:56,840 --> 01:44:01,120
Speaker 1: with both of us, but yeah, we go and I

2193
01:44:01,160 --> 01:44:03,519
Speaker 1: think those can coins aside. I think you know, it

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01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 1: goes to Ed having great given great effort all year

2195
01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: and the opportunities are coming more now. But it also

2196
01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 1: speaks to the fact that that effort stayed high because

2197
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:14,679
Speaker 1: of the player driven leadership and guys that can speak

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01:44:14,720 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 1: into a net. Oliver. So they win this game in Dallas,

2199
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Speaker 1: their Sunday night game in Pittsburgh in two weeks gets

2200
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:23,439
Speaker 1: flex to prime time. We asked you a little bit

2201
01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:27,080
Speaker 1: of the top. What does that say about what the Bills,

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01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: the team, the players, how they feel about the fans

2203
01:44:30,080 --> 01:44:32,360
Speaker 1: and the national media and the just give us a

2204
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:35,160
Speaker 1: synopsis of what do you think that means? Yeah, I

2205
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:38,200
Speaker 1: think I think it's unbelievable for the franchise, and it's

2206
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 1: it's right where they wanted to be at this point.

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01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: You know, you're in year three with this coaching staff

2208
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:46,439
Speaker 1: and you're building this roster. Okay, well, now now the

2209
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 1: primetime games are starting to come. You have the nine

2210
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:52,400
Speaker 1: and three record, and you know what you go to

2211
01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:56,679
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving and your top ten draft pick quarterback plays

2212
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 1: his best game as a pro. All those things are

2213
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:01,519
Speaker 1: so exciting. And you know what, when you have that

2214
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: much exciting stuff going on, then you get flexed and

2215
01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:05,840
Speaker 1: you get to play in these games and you get

2216
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:09,080
Speaker 1: to keep the excitement going. And we were talking a

2217
01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:12,200
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Much less convenient for some of us

2218
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:14,680
Speaker 1: traveling to call the game and whatnot, but that is

2219
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:18,439
Speaker 1: a small sacrifice to be That's a small sacrifice for

2220
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 1: me to say. You know, I'm thrilled that the Bills

2221
01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: are in prime time and I'm excited to call it.

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01:45:25,520 --> 01:45:28,640
Speaker 1: The energy in that stadium at Huntspiel will be incredible.

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01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 1: And I'll use that as a segue to I cannot wait,

2224
01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:36,640
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine what the atmosphere is gonna be

2225
01:45:36,640 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: like this Sunday in Buffalo. Yeah, it gets this right

2226
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:40,160
Speaker 1: to this week's game, Eric, and let's talk to you

2227
01:45:40,200 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 1: about Dan Eric Wood, our guest Bills Radio Network color analysts. Look,

2228
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 1: I know you root for the Louisville guys, but Lamar

2229
01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:49,680
Speaker 1: Jackson doesn't need your help. He is sensational, right and

2230
01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: it's a well, what a challenge for the Bills defensive

2231
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:55,120
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the players to come up with answers

2232
01:45:55,160 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: for this guys, for this guy for sure. Yeah, Lamar

2233
01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,760
Speaker 1: Jackson is an absolute talent. He's like no one in

2234
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: the NFL has ever seen because he is likely the

2235
01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:08,560
Speaker 1: most athletic player on the field at all times. He

2236
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:11,920
Speaker 1: is in an offense that perfectly suits his skill set.

2237
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:15,160
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is physical and all that, but you

2238
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:17,760
Speaker 1: go when you look at Lamar, He's able to make

2239
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:20,840
Speaker 1: great reads down the field now and man, he's just

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01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 1: the total package of what he's doing right now. It's

2241
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:25,519
Speaker 1: no doubt that he's the front runner for the MVP.

2242
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Bills fans will be rooting highly against him

2243
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:33,800
Speaker 1: this week, and so a lot just based upon affiliation

2244
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,120
Speaker 1: with the Bills. But this kid is so refreshing to

2245
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 1: be around. And I think some of the national media

2246
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:44,439
Speaker 1: is seeing that now the way he interacts through interviews

2247
01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:47,800
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But he is just he's humble. He's a

2248
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:50,720
Speaker 1: great kid, and he's been a lot of fun to

2249
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: know over the years and follow with his affiliation to Louisville,

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01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited he's having the success he is

2251
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I just hope it's not my Bill's

2252
01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 1: expense this weekend. Well, one of the guys that's coaching

2253
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,320
Speaker 1: him is Greg Roman, former Buffalo Bill's offensive coordinator. You

2254
01:47:04,439 --> 01:47:06,600
Speaker 1: played for Greg, give us a little insight as to

2255
01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:10,439
Speaker 1: what his thought processes and you know how unique this

2256
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:15,120
Speaker 1: offense he's running is with Lamar Jackson. Yeah, so Greg

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01:47:15,240 --> 01:47:17,439
Speaker 1: Roman is one of my favorite coaches I've ever played for.

2258
01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:20,479
Speaker 1: Thought he was extremely smart. I have a ton of

2259
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: respect for him. He's the type of offensive coordinator. He

2260
01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:26,600
Speaker 1: started as an offensive line guy, so he truly understands

2261
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:31,120
Speaker 1: offensive line play, and not all offensive coordinators do. And

2262
01:47:31,200 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: that's not a knock on them, it's just if you

2263
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:36,560
Speaker 1: haven't coached the offensive line specifically, it's stuff so I

2264
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 1: say that his run schemes have always been phenomenal. He

2265
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:42,600
Speaker 1: puts guys in great positions up front, make sure you

2266
01:47:42,680 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: have great angles. He teaches you one way to do it.

2267
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:49,120
Speaker 1: It's crystal clear, and you're seeing them just really move

2268
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:52,320
Speaker 1: people up front. In Baltimore right now, their offensive line

2269
01:47:52,360 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: coach I also played for as well in Buffalo, Joe

2270
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:58,959
Speaker 1: Dallas Andras. They were on separate staffs, but actually connected

2271
01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:02,240
Speaker 1: themselves in Baltimore, and I knew that would be a

2272
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:04,599
Speaker 1: good match just based upon knowing both of those guys.

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01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 1: But what Greg Roman was able to do is he

2274
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 1: he has Colin Kaepernick and he takes him to the

2275
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls as his offensive coordinator. He comes to Buffalo,

2276
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:15,599
Speaker 1: takes t Taylor to the Pro Bowl and now he's

2277
01:48:15,640 --> 01:48:18,640
Speaker 1: got Lamar Jackson on an MVP pace. He may go

2278
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 1: down as the best offensive coordinator for mobile quarterbacks in

2279
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. And the reason because he is willing to

2280
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:29,719
Speaker 1: adjust what his traditional concepts are. You know, he's he's

2281
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: a power run game, quick game in the passing game,

2282
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: rub routes. That's all as bread and butter. He didn't

2283
01:48:36,479 --> 01:48:39,680
Speaker 1: start as a read option guy. But what he's done is.

2284
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:45,400
Speaker 1: He takes concepts from any era, any age. She We

2285
01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:49,120
Speaker 1: would watch old school it was it. It was like

2286
01:48:49,200 --> 01:48:52,800
Speaker 1: old school Dallas Cowboys offensive line. They called it the

2287
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:55,800
Speaker 1: Landry shift. When Greg was in Buffalo, he would show

2288
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 1: us these videos of the old Dallas Cowboys doing it,

2289
01:48:59,560 --> 01:49:01,799
Speaker 1: and then we would do it out of a pistol

2290
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: set and everyone say, this is new age football. It's

2291
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 1: you know, the college read option. I'm like, no, we

2292
01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:13,320
Speaker 1: were watching nineteen seventy six Dallas Cowboy film watching that

2293
01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 1: play goes. So I say all that. Greg is a

2294
01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 1: fascinating guy. He is very very multiple. He gets very

2295
01:49:21,439 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: game planned specific, so you see a lot of things

2296
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,719
Speaker 1: from Baltimore's offense each week that you have never seen before.

2297
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:32,519
Speaker 1: And he's also as an offensive coordinator, he'll make it

2298
01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: very simple, so they will be running power. Well, there

2299
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:39,640
Speaker 1: was a jet sweep motion, a fake option after the

2300
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:45,479
Speaker 1: power run, and it's all smoking mirrors and all everyone

2301
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: on offense has to do is focus on blocking power.

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01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 1: But now he just got the linebackers looking all over

2303
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 1: the place. So Greg does a phenomenal job. If people

2304
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 1: have been able to catch Baltimore these last few weeks,

2305
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: they've been fascinating on offense, so'll be a tough challenge

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01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,160
Speaker 1: the Bills. It is based on their ability to run

2307
01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:04,920
Speaker 1: right and their willingness to run. I'm just looking it up.

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01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 1: They've run at four hundred and fifty five times this

2309
01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:09,880
Speaker 1: year and pass it like three hundred thirty times this year,

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01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:12,240
Speaker 1: the average two hundred eight yards per game on the ground.

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Speaker 1: They are gonna want to run here in Buffalo this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: aren't they? Yes? Absolutely, And I think I saw a

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01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:22,200
Speaker 1: team hasn't averaged over two hundred yards a game on

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Speaker 1: the ground since was it Jim Brown time? Or yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So this is an insane pace they're on.

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01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:36,200
Speaker 1: When Greg was in Buffalo, we had the number one

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Speaker 1: rushing attack in the league. It's not surprising that they

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01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:40,680
Speaker 1: have the number one rushing attack in the league. Just

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01:50:40,840 --> 01:50:44,880
Speaker 1: the production they have is phenomenal. But yes, they are

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01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:47,719
Speaker 1: willing to run the ball a lot more than other teams.

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Speaker 1: What will be interesting to me, though, with four games

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01:50:50,520 --> 01:50:53,920
Speaker 1: left in the regular season, and is them likely getting

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01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:57,680
Speaker 1: a buy in the first round, how will they are

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01:50:57,760 --> 01:51:00,439
Speaker 1: they gonna keep running Lamar with the current pace they

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01:51:00,479 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 1: are right now, and you know he's still it's such

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01:51:03,479 --> 01:51:05,439
Speaker 1: a young player, you don't want to switch up his game.

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01:51:05,479 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: You want to let him develop and keep doing what

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01:51:07,240 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 1: he does best. But if you have Super Bowl aspirations,

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01:51:10,880 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: they go out the window if you're starting RG three

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01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 1: as opposed to Lamar Jackson. So it'll be interesting to

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01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:20,600
Speaker 1: see how many designed Lamar Jackson runs we see this

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01:51:20,720 --> 01:51:24,200
Speaker 1: week because in Buffalo we talked about it all the time.

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01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:27,280
Speaker 1: You know, those design runs that Josh Allen, they're great

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01:51:27,360 --> 01:51:30,320
Speaker 1: and Cruiser's crucial situations. But man, we don't need to

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01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:32,600
Speaker 1: see a lot of them, because you know you've got

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01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:35,160
Speaker 1: to have your starting quarterback weekend a week out. Well,

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01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:39,280
Speaker 1: if we think and if Bill spans thing Brian dave

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01:51:39,320 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 1: Ball calls him for Josh Allen a lot, wait till

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01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:43,280
Speaker 1: you see how many of Lamar gets this weekend. If

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01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:46,640
Speaker 1: it's third and two and the running back is not

2341
01:51:46,880 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 1: in the pistol, I'll bet it's a QB sweep because

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01:51:50,240 --> 01:51:52,360
Speaker 1: they're getting the running back in the position of block two.

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01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:54,479
Speaker 1: And because when you have ten blockers and you're saying

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01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave Lamar Jackson against somebody one on one

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01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 1: for a two yard game, they're to like in their

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01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:01,920
Speaker 1: chances all day. Yeah, let them worry about Yeah. Lamar

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01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 1: Jackson's got nine hundred and fifty five yards on the

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01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:07,360
Speaker 1: season rushing, So let them worry about that. Eric, I

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01:52:07,400 --> 01:52:08,840
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm let's say run them. I'm not gonna

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01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:11,800
Speaker 1: worry about that. Yeah, seriously, Yeah, exactly. I gotta tell

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01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:13,479
Speaker 1: you we got this Twitter poll. Eric, I'm gonna ask you,

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01:52:13,600 --> 01:52:15,719
Speaker 1: and I'll give you the I'll give you the choices

2353
01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 1: as well when I ask you the question. But here

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01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,280
Speaker 1: it is right here. What's the best thing that happened

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01:52:19,320 --> 01:52:21,680
Speaker 1: to the Bills this last week? In Week thirteen? Was

2356
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:24,479
Speaker 1: it the Bills win at Dallas? Was it getting flexed

2357
01:52:24,479 --> 01:52:26,519
Speaker 1: to Sunday night football in two weeks? Or was it

2358
01:52:26,600 --> 01:52:29,479
Speaker 1: the Patriots losing to the Texans last night? What do

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01:52:29,520 --> 01:52:32,360
Speaker 1: you think the best thing is? I'll say the best

2360
01:52:32,400 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: thing was the win on Thanksgiving because that made everything

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01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:39,519
Speaker 1: else happen. I'm not saying, well, that created the excitement

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01:52:39,560 --> 01:52:41,880
Speaker 1: for the Patriots losing. You know, the Patriots are gonna

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01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:43,360
Speaker 1: lose whether we want or not. Maybe we put a

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01:52:43,400 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 1: little pressure on them, but I don't think it bothered

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01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:48,680
Speaker 1: them up there that we want on Thursday. But the

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01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: Thursday game. The Thursday win sets the tone and gets

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01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:55,560
Speaker 1: you the primetime game, and then that adds to the

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01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:58,960
Speaker 1: excitement because now the Bills control their own destiny in

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01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 1: the AFCAS finally, because if they went out and win

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01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:06,120
Speaker 1: at Foxboro, then they can win the AFC East and

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01:53:06,280 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 1: then that's your chance to host a home playoff game.

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01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:10,559
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get too far ahead. We've

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01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:13,200
Speaker 1: got such a big game this week. But New England's

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01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:16,559
Speaker 1: also at Kansas City and or they're playing against the Chiefs.

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01:53:16,600 --> 01:53:20,479
Speaker 1: I'm not sure at home or what ye what to say? Again,

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01:53:20,520 --> 01:53:23,840
Speaker 1: it's in Foxborough. Okay, so they're in Foxborough, but they

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01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: play against Kansas City. That's that's not that easy of

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01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:31,120
Speaker 1: a game there. But in December in Foxborough they are

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01:53:31,240 --> 01:53:34,280
Speaker 1: extremely tough to beat in their record over time says that.

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01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:39,559
Speaker 1: But and yes, is it likely that they beat Cincinnati Amiami? Yeah,

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01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 1: so it's likely that the Bills need to win out

2382
01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 1: and beat New England. But for the first time since

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01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:48,479
Speaker 1: I can remember, definitely, since the first time since they

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01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: beat us in Orchard Park earlier this season, we haven't

2385
01:53:50,720 --> 01:53:53,560
Speaker 1: controlled our own destiny. And it's fun. It's fun to

2386
01:53:53,640 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 1: kind of look at the scenarios and get excited about it. Eric,

2387
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:57,639
Speaker 1: what you got for a college game this week before

2388
01:53:57,680 --> 01:54:00,920
Speaker 1: you get to the Bills. I am off for college

2389
01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:04,120
Speaker 1: until the bowl game. Oh wow. Right now I'm only

2390
01:54:04,200 --> 01:54:07,880
Speaker 1: scheduled on the Independence Bawlum, but I could potentially get

2391
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:09,200
Speaker 1: some other work. I was supposed to be at the

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01:54:09,240 --> 01:54:13,439
Speaker 1: ACC Championship game this week doing um, some pregame stuff

2393
01:54:13,520 --> 01:54:16,600
Speaker 1: and flights to Orchard Park. Could not be get me

2394
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:21,240
Speaker 1: in in time, and so all the stuff as it

2395
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:23,200
Speaker 1: is to fly to the Buffalo, New York. It's actually

2396
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:24,720
Speaker 1: got me out of a bunch of work this year,

2397
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:28,960
Speaker 1: which is nice. Thank Terek. We'll see you this weekend.

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01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:32,000
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Yeah, looking forward to it. Thanks guys.

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01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:34,480
Speaker 1: All right, Eric, would my partner on Sundays the Bills

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01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 1: Radio Network color analysts Farmer Bills guard center. Why do

2401
01:54:37,600 --> 01:54:39,280
Speaker 1: we put him down as a card. He's a center.

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01:54:39,520 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 1: I know he played some guarder, right, former first round

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01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:45,040
Speaker 1: pick of the Bills in two thousand and nine out

2404
01:54:45,080 --> 01:54:50,480
Speaker 1: of Louisville, out of Lamar Jackson School. Yeah, that's he presents.

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01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:53,400
Speaker 1: I gotta I'll dive into the video tonight at Jackson

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01:54:53,440 --> 01:54:55,880
Speaker 1: and I've seen him and I watched yesterday, but man,

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01:54:56,200 --> 01:54:58,520
Speaker 1: he's eric. He made the point. It's third and two.

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01:54:58,800 --> 01:55:00,480
Speaker 1: Who do you think is getting the ball right? Right?

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01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:03,920
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a thing too because they're gonna

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01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:06,640
Speaker 1: run the ball. They're averaging two hundred yards rushing a game,

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01:55:06,720 --> 01:55:08,440
Speaker 1: so you gotta think, Okay, we gotta stop the run

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01:55:08,520 --> 01:55:10,560
Speaker 1: for us. And the problem is they guy. And this

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01:55:10,760 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 1: is why Lamar Jackson's going to be the MVP. If

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01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:15,160
Speaker 1: you force him to throw it, he'll throw it and

2415
01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:19,839
Speaker 1: he'll beat you. This isn't this isn't you know somebody,

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01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:23,320
Speaker 1: This isn't Tyrod Taylor. You know, it's not RG three.

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01:55:23,720 --> 01:55:25,760
Speaker 1: This is a quarterback who's got a big arm, an

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01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:28,400
Speaker 1: accurate arm, and he can move around him by all

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01:55:28,440 --> 01:55:31,600
Speaker 1: the time he wants. But I think there's no question

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01:55:32,080 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 1: this is an old time football team that you have

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01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:38,560
Speaker 1: to start with, you know, the run game. You've got

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01:55:38,680 --> 01:55:41,440
Speaker 1: to stop the run game. And it's really hard to

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01:55:41,520 --> 01:55:43,280
Speaker 1: do because, like you said, they got a lot of motion,

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01:55:43,320 --> 01:55:45,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things going on, and they've got you know,

2425
01:55:46,200 --> 01:55:48,800
Speaker 1: mark Ingram who's playing extremely well for them, and who's

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01:55:48,840 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: a who's a big time running back, and Lamar Jackson

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01:55:51,600 --> 01:55:54,440
Speaker 1: who's also running the football for him and all these

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01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:57,120
Speaker 1: other guys doing sweep jet motions. And they got a little, big,

2429
01:55:57,280 --> 01:56:00,720
Speaker 1: physical offensive line, so they're tough. They're tough to contain

2430
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:04,560
Speaker 1: in the run game. And it's the first time in

2431
01:56:04,720 --> 01:56:07,000
Speaker 1: decades where team's got a shot at finishing the year

2432
01:56:07,040 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: at averaging over two hundred yards a game rushing. That's

2433
01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: where you start, But don't think that's the only thing

2434
01:56:12,240 --> 01:56:13,760
Speaker 1: you have to do. We'll talk a lot about this

2435
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:15,200
Speaker 1: game as the week moves on. We want to know

2436
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:17,320
Speaker 1: on our Twitter poll, and you can weigh in on

2437
01:56:17,440 --> 01:56:20,440
Speaker 1: telephone as well. Eight o three five fifty toll free

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01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:23,480
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. You

2439
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:25,080
Speaker 1: can send in a tweet. We might get back to

2440
01:56:25,120 --> 01:56:26,600
Speaker 1: the tweet get You can vote in the Twitter poll.

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01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:29,080
Speaker 1: We got thirteen hundred votes in already. What's the Week

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01:56:29,160 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: thirteen is complete now in the NFL? Well tonight it'll

2443
01:56:31,320 --> 01:56:33,200
Speaker 1: be the last game. But what's the best thing that

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01:56:33,280 --> 01:56:36,040
Speaker 1: happened to the Buffalo Bills in Week thirteen? Was it

2445
01:56:36,400 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 1: the win at Dallas? Right now? Eighty four percent of

2446
01:56:38,840 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 1: you say that's it, and I agree. Was it the

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01:56:41,440 --> 01:56:44,440
Speaker 1: Patriots losing to Houston. Eleven percent of you say that's

2448
01:56:44,480 --> 01:56:46,320
Speaker 1: the best thing that happened to the Bills, or was

2449
01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:48,520
Speaker 1: it the flex of the Sunday night game. It's now

2450
01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:52,120
Speaker 1: Bills at Pittsburgh, December fifteenth, on Sunday night in Pittsburgh.

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01:56:52,200 --> 01:56:54,320
Speaker 1: Four percent of you say that's the one two percent

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01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:56,080
Speaker 1: of something else in mind, give us a column. We'll

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01:56:56,120 --> 01:56:58,960
Speaker 1: talk it over. Eight three fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two fifty one. Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: in Casino. Nothing comes close. Welcome back, it's one Bill's Libe.

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Speaker 1: We're here for another half hour or so. Steve Tasker,

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01:57:21,800 --> 01:57:24,000
Speaker 1: John Murphy and our one Buffalo Studio. It's nice and

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01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: warm and cozy in here, isn't it? Steve? It is

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01:57:26,160 --> 01:57:28,000
Speaker 1: very nice. It's good to be in here because it's

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01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:31,880
Speaker 1: snow and bad outside or is it still? I'm sad?

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01:57:31,960 --> 01:57:35,760
Speaker 1: Don't alarm? What do you mean bad? Can we take

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01:57:35,800 --> 01:57:41,920
Speaker 1: the outside shop for the MST viewers? That's nothing? What

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01:57:42,040 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: are you laughing at? Look? That's bad. Snow is not

2465
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:50,600
Speaker 1: chamber of commerce weather right there? Bro, don't go soft

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01:57:50,640 --> 01:57:55,320
Speaker 1: on me here that's there was you could see the

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01:57:55,440 --> 01:57:58,840
Speaker 1: turf when there's snow out there. You're you're you're one

2468
01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:00,520
Speaker 1: of those weather alarm guys. Now, don't you get a

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01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:03,640
Speaker 1: job as a weather man? Look at it's wet snow.

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01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:06,360
Speaker 1: It's not even staying on the ground. Come on, I

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01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:09,760
Speaker 1: could get a shot as a weather man. They probably

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01:58:11,240 --> 01:58:13,680
Speaker 1: welcome back. Steve's done talking about the weather. Week. We

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01:58:13,880 --> 01:58:15,400
Speaker 1: like to get that out of the way in the

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01:58:15,440 --> 01:58:17,240
Speaker 1: first half hour. We didn't do it. We got a

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01:58:17,280 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 1: good topic coming up today as we kind of celebrate

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01:58:19,400 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 1: what went on the last week here, Week thirteen in

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01:58:21,160 --> 01:58:23,280
Speaker 1: the NFL. What's the best thing that happened to the

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01:58:23,360 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: bills in or around the bills in the last week.

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01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:27,320
Speaker 1: What do you think. Let's get in a few uh,

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01:58:27,680 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 1: let's work in a few phone calls here, Steve. Let's

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01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 1: go to a Kurt. Who's at ECMC? Are you working?

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01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:38,520
Speaker 1: Are you in treatment? Kurt? What's the deal? Kurt? Yeah, Kurt?

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01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:41,920
Speaker 1: Hang on a minute. Oh oh, it must be it

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01:58:42,040 --> 01:58:44,800
Speaker 1: was miss nurse or something. Hi, Hi, Kurt, how are

2485
01:58:44,800 --> 01:58:47,120
Speaker 1: you doing it? Okay? You and you being treated at ECMC.

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01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:50,480
Speaker 1: Will take us for fifty seven years and the first

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01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 1: today game was the best game I ever seen. Really,

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01:58:54,600 --> 01:58:59,720
Speaker 1: I'm at ECMC now watching you guys, Kurt, you see better.

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01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:03,120
Speaker 1: I hope you're feeling better. Thanks, Kurt. Hey, I got

2490
01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:04,880
Speaker 1: a question. And that's the second guy like that, the

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01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:07,200
Speaker 1: last best game of fifty Well, the other guy we

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01:59:07,240 --> 01:59:09,600
Speaker 1: had an earlier car was talking about fifty some years. Yeah.

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01:59:10,320 --> 01:59:13,520
Speaker 1: Do they not remember the early nineties? There were a

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01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:17,000
Speaker 1: lot of big games, good games back then. Right, comeback game,

2495
01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:19,400
Speaker 1: the fifty one to three AVC Champion, It was a

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01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:23,920
Speaker 1: great I think let's have a little historical perspective. Tell

2497
01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:25,760
Speaker 1: you what though this is. This is a phenomenon and

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01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:27,400
Speaker 1: we should name I don't know what it is, but

2499
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:31,080
Speaker 1: when the team has been down for a while and

2500
01:59:31,280 --> 01:59:34,320
Speaker 1: then you get back to or get into the conversation

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01:59:34,440 --> 01:59:36,000
Speaker 1: and he kind of looks and it looks like it

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01:59:36,080 --> 01:59:37,680
Speaker 1: does here where it's going to be sustainable. You got

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01:59:37,800 --> 01:59:39,600
Speaker 1: ninety million bucks to spin. You're getting better, You got

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01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 1: a guy, you got you know, the stars are aligning,

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01:59:42,360 --> 01:59:43,880
Speaker 1: all the things that are coming down like they are

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01:59:43,920 --> 01:59:46,160
Speaker 1: for the bills. It's got to be a nice drink

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01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:47,680
Speaker 1: of water for a lot of fans who have hung

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01:59:47,720 --> 01:59:49,800
Speaker 1: out for a couple of decades and haven't done it

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01:59:50,040 --> 01:59:52,840
Speaker 1: now for these guys to say fifty years, that's what

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01:59:52,920 --> 01:59:56,080
Speaker 1: it's like. Well, that's my reaction. And I think it's

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01:59:56,160 --> 02:00:01,240
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. You just filled your microphone,

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02:00:02,320 --> 02:00:04,960
Speaker 1: because we get dropping the mic, right, we get we

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02:00:05,160 --> 02:00:07,839
Speaker 1: get a lot of young kids say, listen, in my lifetime,

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02:00:07,880 --> 02:00:10,640
Speaker 1: we didn't even been to the playoffs, right, or never

2515
02:00:10,720 --> 02:00:12,520
Speaker 1: gotten deep into the place and everyone a playoff game,

2516
02:00:12,560 --> 02:00:14,160
Speaker 1: never had a home playoff game, all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I get that from young people. But now you're

2518
02:00:16,360 --> 02:00:20,240
Speaker 1: getting the old timers chiming in. They forget about your teams.

2519
02:00:20,720 --> 02:00:23,440
Speaker 1: That's all right, they can do that, but I'm surprised

2520
02:00:23,480 --> 02:00:26,240
Speaker 1: that they don't. They you know, didn't leave a bigger

2521
02:00:26,280 --> 02:00:29,080
Speaker 1: impression on them. Let's go to you know, yeah, I

2522
02:00:29,160 --> 02:00:30,520
Speaker 1: thought it was a big deal. It was basically what

2523
02:00:30,560 --> 02:00:33,560
Speaker 1: you just said, what it was to me. I'll tell

2524
02:00:33,560 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: you what though, this was a lot of fun this weekend.

2525
02:00:36,840 --> 02:00:39,400
Speaker 1: There's no question Lance in Buffalo. Hello, Lance, welcome to

2526
02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:42,840
Speaker 1: the show. Good after, and gentlemen, Hi, just a little

2527
02:00:43,040 --> 02:00:46,040
Speaker 1: just a little historical perspective. I've been a season ticket

2528
02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:48,960
Speaker 1: over for twenty nine years, and I agree that those

2529
02:00:49,040 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: games in the nineties. Comeback game was probably the best

2530
02:00:52,400 --> 02:00:55,200
Speaker 1: game I was ever at. Right, that's not why I called.

2531
02:00:55,240 --> 02:00:57,440
Speaker 1: What I called was two things. One, I want to

2532
02:00:57,480 --> 02:01:00,200
Speaker 1: take a little bit of an exception with what Steve

2533
02:01:00,240 --> 02:01:04,000
Speaker 1: said earlier about Tony Romo. Steve, I have immense regard

2534
02:01:04,480 --> 02:01:07,400
Speaker 1: for what you say, but I think it was more

2535
02:01:07,480 --> 02:01:10,920
Speaker 1: than just that one incident. There were numerous times I

2536
02:01:11,200 --> 02:01:15,120
Speaker 1: heard mister Romo sneering at our team, and I've seen

2537
02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:16,960
Speaker 1: it over the years that there are a couple of

2538
02:01:16,960 --> 02:01:19,720
Speaker 1: announcers who have an inherent bias, at least to me,

2539
02:01:20,640 --> 02:01:25,160
Speaker 1: against the Bills, specifically Chris Collinsworth. He has never left

2540
02:01:25,200 --> 02:01:26,880
Speaker 1: the Bills. He's never had a nice thing to say

2541
02:01:26,880 --> 02:01:29,840
Speaker 1: about the Bill. But I'll leave that one alone. Second,

2542
02:01:31,280 --> 02:01:32,960
Speaker 1: you just dropped a bomb and said, but I'm gonna

2543
02:01:33,000 --> 02:01:36,440
Speaker 1: leave that alone, all right. Well, I'll comment afterwards, and

2544
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:41,600
Speaker 1: that's fine. So I've noticed a significant drop off in

2545
02:01:41,960 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 1: the fan noise this season. I mean, it's been loud

2546
02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:49,160
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but this coming week, I really

2547
02:01:49,240 --> 02:01:51,600
Speaker 1: would like to call out all the fans to do

2548
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:54,600
Speaker 1: their best to make noise. Fantasist is a real thing,

2549
02:01:55,200 --> 02:01:57,920
Speaker 1: and it really could be a benefit this coming week.

2550
02:01:58,720 --> 02:02:01,200
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Lance? Not noticed that, Lance. I'm there

2551
02:02:01,360 --> 02:02:04,040
Speaker 1: obviously every game. I have headphones on. There are times

2552
02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:07,080
Speaker 1: when I will take headphones off for a second during

2553
02:02:07,080 --> 02:02:10,040
Speaker 1: the game when like Eric Woods talking or Sal has

2554
02:02:10,080 --> 02:02:11,920
Speaker 1: been known to talk once a yeah, and I will

2555
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:14,040
Speaker 1: see for myself what's it sound without the headphones. And

2556
02:02:14,240 --> 02:02:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm always blown away by how loud it is. But

2557
02:02:16,960 --> 02:02:18,760
Speaker 1: you're telling me it's it's not as loud, Lance, And

2558
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:20,960
Speaker 1: he's still there, is that right? Yeah, I'm still here.

2559
02:02:21,000 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 1: I don't believe so. I'm on the Bill sidelines tunnel

2560
02:02:24,440 --> 02:02:26,840
Speaker 1: end at the goal line, fifteen rows off the field,

2561
02:02:27,080 --> 02:02:29,680
Speaker 1: and I've been there my whole career with the Bill,

2562
02:02:29,800 --> 02:02:33,840
Speaker 1: but the Bills, and it's definitely not as loud. On

2563
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:37,240
Speaker 1: the other hand, refused and not bellow to the point

2564
02:02:37,320 --> 02:02:39,960
Speaker 1: of passing out. You know, my wife worries and I'm

2565
02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:45,160
Speaker 1: gonna stroke out it. I get that's funny, funny, that's

2566
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:47,800
Speaker 1: kind of funny. And I get a Lance, And can

2567
02:02:47,840 --> 02:02:50,960
Speaker 1: you if Lance is still there, do you have any

2568
02:02:51,120 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 1: like specific recollection recollections of when guys have said stuff

2569
02:02:55,440 --> 02:02:57,600
Speaker 1: about the team or he said Romo was sneering at

2570
02:02:57,640 --> 02:03:00,640
Speaker 1: the Bills that seems really strong, like wrong language. I

2571
02:03:00,640 --> 02:03:02,360
Speaker 1: don't know if that's exactly what you meant, or if

2572
02:03:02,400 --> 02:03:04,120
Speaker 1: you can remember what time of the game was so

2573
02:03:04,200 --> 02:03:06,080
Speaker 1: I can go back and listen to it and kind

2574
02:03:06,120 --> 02:03:08,680
Speaker 1: of figure out what you're talking about, because I mean,

2575
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: I did that job for a while, and I know

2576
02:03:10,480 --> 02:03:13,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people take it very are very sensitive

2577
02:03:13,560 --> 02:03:16,440
Speaker 1: about what the announcer says. I and I know that

2578
02:03:17,280 --> 02:03:20,080
Speaker 1: none of it's intentional. Do you have any specific examples.

2579
02:03:21,000 --> 02:03:24,200
Speaker 1: I can't remember a specific example, and sneering is more

2580
02:03:24,320 --> 02:03:27,680
Speaker 1: of an intonation, you know, a twist of the voice

2581
02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:32,000
Speaker 1: of the boats, and necessarily specific wording. I believe there

2582
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:34,480
Speaker 1: was some wording. I was actually in Cincinnati with family

2583
02:03:34,800 --> 02:03:37,960
Speaker 1: watching the game on TV, and I remember the first quarter,

2584
02:03:38,120 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 1: quarter and a half of the game. I was I

2585
02:03:40,760 --> 02:03:44,600
Speaker 1: was getting pretty hot about Romo and the seeming bias

2586
02:03:44,680 --> 02:03:48,680
Speaker 1: against us, the seeming not taking us seriously until we

2587
02:03:48,760 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: started to actually do something against his team. And again,

2588
02:03:52,440 --> 02:03:55,520
Speaker 1: maybe I'm off base, maybe I'm overly sensitive, but the

2589
02:03:55,640 --> 02:03:59,120
Speaker 1: collins Worth thing I'm dead serious about. Yeah, you're not

2590
02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:03,040
Speaker 1: the only person I know. Somebody who who's who chimed

2591
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:04,920
Speaker 1: in maybe on the Twitter sheet I'm not sure. Yeah,

2592
02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:08,360
Speaker 1: this from Jeff and Twitter. He echoes your thoughts about

2593
02:04:08,440 --> 02:04:11,400
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth. He doesn't like him in the boother And

2594
02:04:12,160 --> 02:04:14,120
Speaker 1: that's the business that is. I mean a lot of

2595
02:04:14,160 --> 02:04:16,800
Speaker 1: people like guys and don't like guys. It's a subjective

2596
02:04:17,200 --> 02:04:21,360
Speaker 1: opinionated it's a subjective opinion business. When you talk about

2597
02:04:21,360 --> 02:04:23,720
Speaker 1: the guys who actually broadcast your games, and you know,

2598
02:04:23,840 --> 02:04:28,000
Speaker 1: theoretically you're going to start getting a lot more notable

2599
02:04:28,160 --> 02:04:30,280
Speaker 1: analysts when you start winning games. And that was the

2600
02:04:30,320 --> 02:04:32,800
Speaker 1: first time that Jim Nanson Tony Romo have done the

2601
02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:35,760
Speaker 1: Bills this year, and uh, you know, and it was

2602
02:04:35,840 --> 02:04:38,040
Speaker 1: in Dallas. I mean, that's Tony Romo's old team, so

2603
02:04:38,160 --> 02:04:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of kind of get a little

2604
02:04:39,480 --> 02:04:42,880
Speaker 1: bit of a skewed point of view about the way

2605
02:04:42,920 --> 02:04:45,160
Speaker 1: he feels about the Cowboys because they he owes so

2606
02:04:45,280 --> 02:04:47,520
Speaker 1: much to that franchise. And yeah, when you were on

2607
02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:50,720
Speaker 1: CBS and you did Bills games, I got called out

2608
02:04:50,720 --> 02:04:55,560
Speaker 1: the opposite. Yes, how did that happen? I think I overcompensated,

2609
02:04:55,600 --> 02:04:57,840
Speaker 1: probably a little bit. I wanted to because I knew

2610
02:04:57,880 --> 02:04:59,840
Speaker 1: that I'm doing that you're doing guy like Romo, he's

2611
02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:03,000
Speaker 1: do the game for the Dallas fans and the Buffalo games,

2612
02:05:03,400 --> 02:05:06,400
Speaker 1: not just the national fans. And you try, and you

2613
02:05:06,520 --> 02:05:08,840
Speaker 1: try and go down the middle, you try and be

2614
02:05:08,960 --> 02:05:12,440
Speaker 1: as for me, And when I always took the the

2615
02:05:12,600 --> 02:05:15,920
Speaker 1: tack that if there was a play that happened that

2616
02:05:16,080 --> 02:05:19,160
Speaker 1: was significant, it always was a positive for one team

2617
02:05:19,200 --> 02:05:20,840
Speaker 1: and a negative for the other. And I always talked

2618
02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:23,640
Speaker 1: about the positive. So if I was negative on one

2619
02:05:23,680 --> 02:05:25,000
Speaker 1: side or the other, it was because I was talking

2620
02:05:25,040 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 1: about the other team because they were making more positive plays.

2621
02:05:27,160 --> 02:05:28,920
Speaker 1: And at least that's the way I try to make it.

2622
02:05:29,280 --> 02:05:31,120
Speaker 1: Can I read that tweet you mentioned, Jeff and the

2623
02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:34,960
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Jeff tweets this and getting flex was the

2624
02:05:35,040 --> 02:05:40,880
Speaker 1: worst Collinsworth. Ugh, maybe radio will reasonably be in sync

2625
02:05:40,960 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 1: for good commentary from Murph and Wood. I just want

2626
02:05:43,760 --> 02:05:45,800
Speaker 1: to say this, Jeff, thank you for I would advise

2627
02:05:45,840 --> 02:05:48,080
Speaker 1: you to tune in. Eric is great on the broadcast

2628
02:05:48,160 --> 02:05:50,920
Speaker 1: and for Bills fans, it is the best source of

2629
02:05:51,080 --> 02:05:55,000
Speaker 1: broadcast of the Buffalo Bills games in game. As far

2630
02:05:55,080 --> 02:05:57,120
Speaker 1: as the sync, you got to work on that a

2631
02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:59,640
Speaker 1: little bit. Look, everybody gets their TV from a different

2632
02:05:59,640 --> 02:06:02,160
Speaker 1: source now right. People have satellite dishes, people that have

2633
02:06:02,320 --> 02:06:05,680
Speaker 1: Verizon FiOS, people have regular cable, people have over the

2634
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:10,000
Speaker 1: years TV. There's a countless ways to get a TV signal,

2635
02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:12,240
Speaker 1: so you can't sync it up to all those. The

2636
02:06:12,400 --> 02:06:15,480
Speaker 1: most success that I've heard people having, and I know

2637
02:06:15,560 --> 02:06:18,160
Speaker 1: people who do this. My nephew does it down in Charleston,

2638
02:06:18,200 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 1: South Carolina. You have a DVR on your TV hopefully

2639
02:06:22,120 --> 02:06:25,160
Speaker 1: maybe and you slow you you will sync it with

2640
02:06:25,240 --> 02:06:27,480
Speaker 1: that you work ther you might have to slow down

2641
02:06:27,520 --> 02:06:30,160
Speaker 1: your TV feed by two or three seconds. Yeah, And

2642
02:06:30,240 --> 02:06:31,800
Speaker 1: then and the tune in app that you have to

2643
02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:33,760
Speaker 1: use to listen to the game on radio when you're

2644
02:06:33,760 --> 02:06:36,480
Speaker 1: outside the listening area or when the game comes on,

2645
02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:44,240
Speaker 1: it's delayed by thirty seconds. And there's also if you

2646
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: use if you have Apple TV. I've noticed this in

2647
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: my own house where you'll see it on one screen

2648
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:52,480
Speaker 1: and it'll be thirty seconds before you see it on

2649
02:06:52,520 --> 02:06:55,960
Speaker 1: the other screen. So that you know, even within my

2650
02:06:56,040 --> 02:06:58,960
Speaker 1: own house, it hasn't been SYNCD up depending on which

2651
02:06:59,080 --> 02:07:01,920
Speaker 1: unit you're using and the internet connection, on how it works,

2652
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:04,760
Speaker 1: so it's really difficult to sink it up. I know

2653
02:07:04,880 --> 02:07:07,760
Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about. That heart he's worth it's

2654
02:07:07,840 --> 02:07:12,000
Speaker 1: worth worth the effort, though, to hear Murph and Eric,

2655
02:07:12,160 --> 02:07:16,160
Speaker 1: especially Eric. Let's take a call here from Kathy and Eastammer. Hello, Kathy,

2656
02:07:16,200 --> 02:07:20,000
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hi, guys, Hi, how you doing great?

2657
02:07:20,520 --> 02:07:22,640
Speaker 1: I just want to say I totally understand what you're

2658
02:07:22,640 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 1: saying about that Dallas game. It was amazing and Thanksgiving

2659
02:07:26,160 --> 02:07:28,080
Speaker 1: and family in town to watch it. It was great.

2660
02:07:28,160 --> 02:07:31,400
Speaker 1: But I gotta say the Patriots losing is a way

2661
02:07:31,560 --> 02:07:34,160
Speaker 1: up there for me. We just moved back from Boston.

2662
02:07:34,240 --> 02:07:36,480
Speaker 1: My husband got transferred. We were out there for almost

2663
02:07:36,480 --> 02:07:39,400
Speaker 1: six years and it was torture being out there with

2664
02:07:39,480 --> 02:07:42,800
Speaker 1: secret fand now it'd be great, right, we got a

2665
02:07:42,880 --> 02:07:44,960
Speaker 1: lot to brag about, but we were struggling a little bit,

2666
02:07:45,040 --> 02:07:47,040
Speaker 1: and so to be a Bills fan out in New

2667
02:07:47,120 --> 02:07:50,240
Speaker 1: England territory when we're not doing great, it was tough.

2668
02:07:50,800 --> 02:07:53,720
Speaker 1: So for them to lose the arrogant things that they are,

2669
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:56,400
Speaker 1: m I gotta love it, and I'm so glad to

2670
02:07:56,440 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 1: be back in Buffalo. Thank God to have you Kathy,

2671
02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:02,520
Speaker 1: welcome home. Right to have you call here from Nelson

2672
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:05,600
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Go ahead, Nelson, welcome to the show. Hey,

2673
02:08:05,680 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Good? Okay, First, of all

2674
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 1: us goin to pay give them definitely number one. But

2675
02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:13,840
Speaker 1: we're going at Baltimore. The booms and wing to loom

2676
02:08:14,080 --> 02:08:16,960
Speaker 1: so we control all destiny and cannot sing. The New

2677
02:08:17,440 --> 02:08:20,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Fights is a minute long. This is a year

2678
02:08:20,280 --> 02:08:22,200
Speaker 1: of boom boom. This is a year of boom boom.

2679
02:08:22,680 --> 02:08:25,680
Speaker 1: See it's a year bob. We hear the foom boom boom,

2680
02:08:25,720 --> 02:08:29,560
Speaker 1: back on boom boom. This year we're coming. So I

2681
02:08:29,640 --> 02:08:33,040
Speaker 1: have a long boom boom boom boom. They take off, Okay,

2682
02:08:33,080 --> 02:08:37,360
Speaker 1: Foalsy's bird up playoff, boom boom, Nelson, I love it.

2683
02:08:37,480 --> 02:08:42,680
Speaker 1: That's awesome man, that's Gregson boom boom. I like boom boom.

2684
02:08:42,720 --> 02:08:45,280
Speaker 1: He needs a little musical company. Do you want to do? Uh?

2685
02:08:45,600 --> 02:08:47,280
Speaker 1: I want to do a true false? Can I because

2686
02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:50,040
Speaker 1: a couple of these things I don't like? True or false?

2687
02:08:51,200 --> 02:08:53,000
Speaker 1: Is it brought to us by something? Yeah, Yankees, fancy

2688
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,160
Speaker 1: right right NFL true false brought to you by Yantes,

2689
02:08:55,200 --> 02:08:58,160
Speaker 1: fancy New York artists and cheese Number one. The Jaguars

2690
02:08:58,240 --> 02:09:01,320
Speaker 1: made a mistake with the Nick fall signing. That was

2691
02:09:01,400 --> 02:09:04,440
Speaker 1: a piece that was up on ESPN. Nick Foles Got

2692
02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:07,400
Speaker 1: Hurt was on injured reserve for a while Gardner Minshew

2693
02:09:07,520 --> 02:09:10,760
Speaker 1: came back. The Jaguars have gone owing through since Foles returned,

2694
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:13,640
Speaker 1: losing to the Colts, Titans, and Bucks falls bench for

2695
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,360
Speaker 1: Minshew at halftime a Sunday's home game. You found today,

2696
02:09:16,440 --> 02:09:18,040
Speaker 1: I guess the Jags announced they are going to stay

2697
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:21,280
Speaker 1: with Gardner Minshew. It just appeared on my timeline on

2698
02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:23,280
Speaker 1: the app. And I don't know if it's it's real

2699
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:25,560
Speaker 1: or not, but it seems to be so we'll see it,

2700
02:09:25,640 --> 02:09:30,200
Speaker 1: says Pro Football Rumors. Okay, so maybe it is true,

2701
02:09:30,240 --> 02:09:32,440
Speaker 1: maybe it's not. But did they make a mistake signing

2702
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:35,320
Speaker 1: Nick Foles? I say, true, that's not a guy you

2703
02:09:35,440 --> 02:09:37,360
Speaker 1: want it. You want to put your fortunes in there.

2704
02:09:37,360 --> 02:09:39,320
Speaker 1: And look, they wanted to win. Now I knew it.

2705
02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:41,560
Speaker 1: He was the best option they had, I guess. But

2706
02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:43,720
Speaker 1: to put a lot of faith in Nick Foles, even

2707
02:09:43,800 --> 02:09:46,680
Speaker 1: with his Super Bowl ring and everything, I think that's

2708
02:09:46,680 --> 02:09:48,920
Speaker 1: a mistake made by kind of a bad franchise at

2709
02:09:48,960 --> 02:09:52,440
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. There. That's three other franchises I've hammered so far. Yeah,

2710
02:09:52,440 --> 02:09:54,480
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with signing Nick Foles. I

2711
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:57,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's Nick Foles's fault that they you know,

2712
02:09:58,160 --> 02:10:01,720
Speaker 1: his and his alone. I think if got issues And

2713
02:10:01,800 --> 02:10:04,360
Speaker 1: I haven't watched the Jacksonville Jaguars close enough, but the

2714
02:10:04,360 --> 02:10:06,160
Speaker 1: guy won a super Bowl two or three years ago

2715
02:10:06,360 --> 02:10:09,200
Speaker 1: a much different roster. He was very good, and maybe

2716
02:10:09,240 --> 02:10:11,480
Speaker 1: they're asking him to do things that he's not very

2717
02:10:11,520 --> 02:10:14,440
Speaker 1: good at. And if they're doing that, that's on the coaching,

2718
02:10:14,480 --> 02:10:17,280
Speaker 1: it's not on Foles. But they had to do something.

2719
02:10:17,880 --> 02:10:21,920
Speaker 1: And who would have thought Gardner Minshew would have been

2720
02:10:21,960 --> 02:10:25,680
Speaker 1: a better option at any point than Nick Foles until

2721
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:28,400
Speaker 1: you get to this one. So no, I don't think

2722
02:10:28,440 --> 02:10:30,280
Speaker 1: it was a mistake. You go with what you got,

2723
02:10:30,560 --> 02:10:32,520
Speaker 1: You make the best decisions you can, and you make

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Speaker 1: them work. And the fact that Nick Foles has not

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Speaker 1: played the way Jacksonville envisioned he would, that doesn't preclude

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Speaker 1: the fact that it was the right decision at the time.

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Speaker 1: You can't tell the future. So to make the best

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Speaker 1: choice for your team, go with it, buy in, and

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Speaker 1: then live with it. You gotta make it work. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's the making it work part that they're

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Speaker 1: struggling with. So that's all you gotta They had to

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Speaker 1: sign somebody, Yeah, one more from NFL or false this

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous from Yahoo Sports Peter Schrager. Brian Flores has

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Speaker 1: been the most impressive coach in twenty nineteen. Dolphins coach

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Speaker 1: three and nine. Miami Dolphins and their head coach is

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Speaker 1: the most impressive coach this year. You say false to that,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm saying falls. If you're looking for

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Speaker 1: a Coach of the Year candidates, impressive coaches, look right

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Speaker 1: down the hall here, lady and gentlemen. The six wins

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Speaker 1: to nine and they're gonna get probably at least a

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Speaker 1: couple of more. Brian Flores three wins, Nice job, coach,

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Speaker 1: great job, three and nine, good job. But there's a

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Speaker 1: ton of guys in that conversation that are not Brian Flores,

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Speaker 1: the one you just mentioned. Sean McDermott, John Harbaugh deserves

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Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Kyle Shanahan deserves a lot of credit.

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Speaker 1: Good grief. Bill Belichick with an offense like they've got,

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Speaker 1: being ten and two, deserves a lot of credit. He does.

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Speaker 1: There's they've got I mean, yeah, but Brian Flores, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Brian Flores, but not Bill Belichick either. There you go,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, there's like, it's a long list

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Speaker 1: of guys to go down before you get to Brian

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Speaker 1: war Is in my opinion, so I gotta agree with

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Speaker 1: you on that. And taking a break, we're coming back

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radios. Okay,

2756
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Speaker 1: so what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We

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Speaker 1: had Brian Balding around the show today from NFL on Fox.

2759
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Speaker 1: Saw the Bills game against Denver and he likes what

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Speaker 1: he sees from Bill's quarterback Josh Hellen. Here's what he

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Speaker 1: said today. Now, I like everything about Josh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the thing that I think jumps out at you

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Speaker 1: is just the level of poise that he plays with.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's in control, and he's very calm,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he rarely, you know, he rarely makes

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Speaker 1: a mistake and then you know, compounds it with another

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Speaker 1: mistake rarely, and you know, you go back to even

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Speaker 1: his rookie year last year in some of the plays

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Speaker 1: that he would try to make and extend and you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't try to do a lot of

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Speaker 1: that nonsense right now, and he's taking those plays out

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Speaker 1: of his system. And so I like the way that

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Speaker 1: he works with the offensive line and the way you

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Speaker 1: know he doesn't he's just calm his feed or calm

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Speaker 1: I knows where he's going with the ball. He really

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Speaker 1: really likes John Brown and Cole Beasley a lot. He

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Speaker 1: likes their intelligence, the way they prepare, the way they study,

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Speaker 1: and it shows. It shows on Sunday right now, good dad,

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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger with a Steve Tomorrow show. We got our

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Speaker 1: buddy Kyle Brand, who will give take a victory lap.

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Speaker 1: Not only did he predict the Bills and beat the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys on the show. Guaranteed, We guaranteed it. We'll have

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brand with us tomorrow. Joe Ferguson going to join

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Speaker 1: us tomorrow as well. Today it was a good show,

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Speaker 1: really right getting stuffed, Oh yeah, after a good start.

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Speaker 1: It's good. It's kind of a long week because this

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Speaker 1: isn't like a football one day where we got the

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Speaker 1: game to recap and got to start looking forward pretty

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Speaker 1: early in the week. Yep, all right, thanks for our

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Speaker 1: production assistants, George Blast, Jeff Colton, Like Thomas, Honald Er,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, jj Urito, Kevin Card, Teams, Robo our producer

2792
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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We'll see it tomorrow, twelve noon, One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park on Buffalo Bills Radio