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Speaker 1: in the progression. They'll take that away. They don't It

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Speaker 1: could not. It might be Devin Singletary in certain down

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Speaker 1: to distance in certain personnel package, certain look. They may say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if they'd come out in this take Singletary away, we'll

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Speaker 1: single up Digs with Charlie bag of donuts, because there

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Speaker 1: that's not the guy they're going to in this look.

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Speaker 1: You know that they'll try and educate a guests and

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Speaker 1: they'll take away. You know, I'll play the percentages Beasley

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Speaker 1: in this look, Beasley and Singletary the only guys were

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Speaker 1: worried about. Double those two guys and get the pressure

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Speaker 1: and we'll see what they can do. That kind of

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Speaker 1: educated guests is what they're very good at on crucial downs,

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Speaker 1: third downs, fourth downs. Patriots have always been really good situationally,

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Speaker 1: and that's what you gotta pare four pressure and the

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Speaker 1: educated guess about where you're going to go with the football.

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Speaker 1: So on today's show, second hour, as we mentioned Greg

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Speaker 1: co Sell from NFL Films, we'll talk some x's nose

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Speaker 1: with him about this game, which is going to be

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Speaker 1: featured prominently in the ESPN NFL Matchup show that Greg

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Speaker 1: co Sell is a part of. And then final half

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Speaker 1: hour of the show, we'll have the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate. This is also one Bills Live Friday Fan

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Speaker 1: mail Bag day, So submit any and all questions you

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Speaker 1: might have on the tweet sheet or give us a

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Speaker 1: call at eight oh three oh five fifty. And if

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Speaker 1: you haven't yet, let us know what your tailgate plans

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Speaker 1: are for Monday night. And because it's a night game,

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Speaker 1: do they differ. I'd be curious to know that. So

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Speaker 1: let us know what your tailgate plans are. We'll read

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Speaker 1: them later on this hour in Tailgate Friday. So plenty

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Speaker 1: for you to do while you listen to us. But

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Speaker 1: we lead off on the phone lines today with Rick

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. Rick, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one bills live, Hey, guys, thank you. One how

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Speaker 1: what's Mac Jones track record in the cold and snow?

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Speaker 1: And then the second question. The Titans played the Patriots

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Speaker 1: last week and they were talking about the weirdest pass

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Speaker 1: patterns they would run. Their tight ends would run like

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Speaker 1: a one yard pattern, turnaround. The guy would come out

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Speaker 1: of the slot two yards and turn around. They had

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Speaker 1: like no intention of catching the football. I'd never really

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Speaker 1: seen anything like it. Of course, one other tight ends

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Speaker 1: of them were tight, so they were kind of focusing

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Speaker 1: on him. What were just what were they doing. Were

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Speaker 1: they trying to like stream guys or pick guys or

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Speaker 1: it was bizarre. Yeah, sometimes they'll run those shallow routes

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Speaker 1: and make it look like a real route to pick

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Speaker 1: somebody off a dB or somebody for you know, a

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Speaker 1: teammate that's going on a crossing pattern or a rub route.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll just run this short little route in an

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Speaker 1: effort to draw defensive attention, to create space behind that player.

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Speaker 1: If they're that close to the line of scrimmage. It's

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Speaker 1: all about creating space and voids in the defense. So

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Speaker 1: mark my words, they're not doing it for no reason. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're they're probably doing a little bit of as well.

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Speaker 1: Like if here's the thing. If you line a guy

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Speaker 1: up there, and if a guy's rushing the quarterback, you

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Speaker 1: got to block him. And if a guy is eligible,

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Speaker 1: you got to guard him. So whether he's whether he's

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Speaker 1: just soaking up a defender close to the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage so to create more space down the field, or

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Speaker 1: if indeed he's setting a pick for a crossing route,

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Speaker 1: you know, they do that for a reason, or whether

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Speaker 1: it's just an outlet. In case mac Jones thinks there's

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Speaker 1: a blitz and they need a quick outlet. They needed

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Speaker 1: that's the guy. So it could be any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot of reasons why you do that,

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Speaker 1: but it's never for no reason. All right, thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call, Rick, we appreciate it. As far as cold

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Speaker 1: and snow for mac Jones, there's still a long track record.

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Speaker 1: There's some people have said this will be the coldest

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Speaker 1: game he's ever played in the way it looks and

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Speaker 1: who I don't know who goes back and looks at

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Speaker 1: his high school and his college or whatever, but they're

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Speaker 1: saying this would be the coldest, nastiest weather he's ever

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Speaker 1: played in, so which is not surprising. And conceivably the

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Speaker 1: furthest north he game and his college career was Kentucky. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like that's SEC football, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think he's seen whether that

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Speaker 1: he's going to experience on Monday night. So yeah, we

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Speaker 1: shall see. Let's go to Herman and Ken Moore next. Herman,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Here's the story. Okay, why do you guys keep promoting

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Speaker 1: the Pleatriots? We have a better football team and we

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Speaker 1: got a better quarterback that it's played in bad weather.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just don't understand why are you promoting this, teach,

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you. Herman, Herman, Herman, Herman, Herman.

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Speaker 1: There the team we're playing. That's why we're talking about him.

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Speaker 1: And they're they're on a six game winning streak. They

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Speaker 1: played really good, they're doing really good. We're just we're

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Speaker 1: talking about him because they're this week's opponent. Feel like

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Speaker 1: you guys are football team. Uh No, I don't. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell and I'll tell you why. And I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why. They've won six games in a row. They

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Speaker 1: haven't given up a single point in the second half

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Speaker 1: of their last four games. Not a single point in

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Speaker 1: the last four games in the second half, third quarter,

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Speaker 1: third quarter, fourth quarter, no points allowed. They lead the

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Speaker 1: league with nineteen interceptions this season. Okay, okay, I mean

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Speaker 1: they're a good team. They're a good team. See, can

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Speaker 1: I ask you one more question? Listen, ad quarterback? Who

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacksion have they face? Have they faced a guy

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Speaker 1: like our quarterback Josh Allen, who could run with the ball,

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Speaker 1: throw the ball and has played in bad weather? They

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Speaker 1: have not. They have not You are right. That's all

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Speaker 1: that They're going to kick their ass and say them

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Speaker 1: back the ball. Slets just a big day. I got gold,

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Speaker 1: got you all right, Herranks Man, And you're right. They

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Speaker 1: have not faced this guy this year, No, they have,

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Speaker 1: no question they have, and they've faced a little bit.

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Speaker 1: They faced Brady. They faced Brady and he beat them. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: you are right, herman. They are facing as good a

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Speaker 1: team as they have faced yet, in my opinion, they

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Speaker 1: faced They faced Dak Prescott lost in overtime, right soul put.

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Speaker 1: I would put Prescott by Brady and Justin Herbert on

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Speaker 1: a similar level in terms of caliber of quarterback. Herbert's

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Speaker 1: having a down year. But yes, well Herbert, you get it,

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Speaker 1: hit the kids the last couple of weeks. That's yeah.

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Speaker 1: So that's yeah, herm you're right. And I know you're

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Speaker 1: sick to death of hearing about the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 1: but you can't hear about it all the way up

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Speaker 1: until the game. That's and then next week we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start talking about the defending world champions. Look, I don't

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Speaker 1: take any pleasure in admitting that they're a good team,

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Speaker 1: but I can't be blind to the fact that they're

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Speaker 1: playing the most consistent football in the league right now.

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Speaker 1: We can't be blind to that. Yeah, I mean we

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Speaker 1: can be happy about You don't have to listen, we're

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Speaker 1: not Patriot Nation. Well we give these guys the respects

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Speaker 1: about it, though. Yeah, don't walk in there like thinking

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a cake walk. But I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: Patriots aren't thinking it's gonna be a cake walk either.

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Speaker 1: They're walking into high Mark Stadium full of people on

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Speaker 1: a nasty weather night with a rookie quarterback who really

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Speaker 1: didn't have a strong arm to throw in the elements

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Speaker 1: like like the guy they're playing does, like Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: So they Yeah, it's gonna be an uphill battle for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots too. This this game is gonna come down

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Speaker 1: to turnovers. To me, both defenses are really good, really

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Speaker 1: tough to go on. They both have a reason like

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Speaker 1: if this, if Dugger is not playing, it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit akin to Tradavious White not playing. Although it's safety

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Speaker 1: for a corner, I get it. But you know, if

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Speaker 1: both these teams have you know, I've got a chink

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Speaker 1: in their armor on a really good defense. But let's

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Speaker 1: not fool ourselves this is gonna be a good game.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, and I've said this too, if the Bills

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Speaker 1: play their best, the Patriots can't beat them. But the

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Speaker 1: Bills have been up and down over the last six weeks,

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Speaker 1: and they've got to play better than they did last

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Speaker 1: week against the Saints to beat this team. They can't

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Speaker 1: turn it over twice in the first half and be

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Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. So that's worth thing. And

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Speaker 1: what Brownie said is unbelievable. Last four games of Patriots

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Speaker 1: have not allowed a point in the second half. That's

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Speaker 1: not easy to do. It's really not. That's impressive as

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, if they make it to five

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Speaker 1: straight games and shut the Bills out in the second half,

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Speaker 1: which I think is highly unlikely. But the longest streak

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Speaker 1: in a single season in the history of the league

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Speaker 1: is eight games. It was by the nineteen thirty four

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions when scoring wasn't exactly what it is now.

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Speaker 1: Since the merger in nineteen seventy, the NFL record is

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Speaker 1: four straight games, and it's been done by only seven

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Speaker 1: teams since nineteen seventy. Four games in a row, no

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Speaker 1: points in the second half. The Patriots have matched it.

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Speaker 1: If they do it. You know, I don't have the

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Speaker 1: other team seven other teams. I would the Ravens, probably

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Speaker 1: the eighty five Bears. You know who's somebody else. That's

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Speaker 1: who you're talking about, the Killer Bees in Miami. It's

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Speaker 1: really rare. Suffice to say, all right, we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but Connor, Jerry, Stave, and Judy

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Speaker 1: hang on. We'll get to you in the next segment.

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Speaker 1: OBL Fan Friday mail Bag Day and Connor and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: leads us off here, Conna, what do you have for

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Speaker 1: us your on one Bills Live, Chris Steve, how are

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Speaker 1: you guys doing today? Go ahead? Awesome. So I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna circle back around to what you guys are talking

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Speaker 1: about earlier in terms of how how bad this weather

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Speaker 1: is gonna be on Monday, right and how that's going

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Speaker 1: to affect the Patriots and Mac Jones. This is more

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Speaker 1: just on the topic of whether the new stadium should

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Speaker 1: be an open air kind of like ralpholes and Stadium

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Speaker 1: is right now or Primark Stadium right now, or if

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Speaker 1: it should be a dome. It's come up this past

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Speaker 1: week a lot on Twitter. What do you guys think? Firstly,

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Speaker 1: I think us being an open air stadium. Its definitely

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Speaker 1: helps us in some games like that snowball game against

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Speaker 1: the Colts in twenty seventeen, or in the Divisional round

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Speaker 1: last year against the Ravens and drew off Justin Tucker

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. But also I've been working at the

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Speaker 1: stadium and I absolutely hate dealing with that kind of

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Speaker 1: weather that we've been dealing with this past month. I

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Speaker 1: think it does help us competitively, but it's it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a really tough decision, all right, Yeah, I get it,

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Speaker 1: And let's face it, I mean, we can all say

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Speaker 1: it'd be better to have a if you had a

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Speaker 1: really good team. A dome's better if you got a

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Speaker 1: team that needs to have the field a little bit

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Speaker 1: tilted or flat and leveled a little bit. You want

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Speaker 1: an unroof, you want the weather to dictate what each

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Speaker 1: team can do, because everybody will be cut off at

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Speaker 1: the knees a little bit. If you have a really

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Speaker 1: good football team that you think is going to perennially contend,

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Speaker 1: put a roof on it because you don't want weather

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Speaker 1: to enter into the equation. Right, you want perfect dos.

639
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: If it's just us and that other team, we win

640
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: seven times out of ten, we're winning the football. Right. Now,

641
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: here's another thing too. Let's let's not be naive. I mean,

642
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: they they did unbelievable amount of research, not just with

643
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: the fans that go, but also cost analysis, cost benefit,

644
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: where the land, how to do it, how hard it

645
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: would be to put it somewhere else, how easy it

646
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: would be to put it somewhere else, what we would

647
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: have to go through all of you know that. You

648
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: can imagine there's six million obstacles towards getting a thing done.

649
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: It comes down it's a business decision, right, It's not

650
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: a football decision that this just in it's a business decision.

651
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones didn't build that thing down in Dallas because

652
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: of football. He built it as a business decision. Yeah,

653
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: because he's hosting SOFI stadiums. Sofi stages. Yea Sofi stadium

654
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: was a business decision. It's not a football decision. I mean,

655
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. I mean, so yeah,

656
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 1: I mean, and let's face it, every fan would love

657
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: to be to have one or two games like a

658
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: like the Indianapolis game in twenty seventeen where it was

659
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: snow and yeah, but that's enough. Just give me an indors.

660
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: You know, they want to sit. You want to sit

661
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: inside and relax and have a good time, you know,

662
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: sitting in the arena basically. And I don't know if

663
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: the players would tell you, it tilted the game in

664
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: the favor of the Bills. The Bill is just happen

665
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: to have one of the best snow players in the

666
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: history of football right in Lashawn McCoy. That's the only

667
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: reason they won there. And I'll tell you this too.

668
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: If the Bills don't get a lucky pass interference call

669
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 1: on a two point conversion, they lose that game, so

670
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: they don't get to overtime. The Colts win. So I

671
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: get it. It's it's more comfortable to go to a

672
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: game and go inside and you can see your guys play,

673
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: and for players, it's fun to play in the Snow game,

674
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: like in the Indianapolis game. It's fun, it's nice to

675
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: do once in a while, but man, oh man, it's

676
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: okay when you win, but if you lose, it's like, man,

677
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: give me, you know, let me play. You know, you

678
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: can't even it's not even the same game when you're

679
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: doing what the Bills and Colts had to go through

680
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: in that snow game. I mean, it's not even like

681
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: you're playing. You're just doing something else for a win

682
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: or a loss. So everybody knows. I mean, Dome Stadium

683
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: is easier, more comfortable to watch, and it gives your

684
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: team a chance to compete at its best or in

685
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: the in the best possible conditions. But that ain't that's

686
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: never what it is and never what it has been.

687
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: It's never about football, folks. It's a business decision. Think

688
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: about it. That's how we got this place. I meant,

689
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: the product on the field is you know, how the

690
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: stadium impacts. The product on the field is down the list.

691
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: That's how. That's on the list. But it's not at

692
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: the top business decisions. How they got this stadium here.

693
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: They wanted it eighty thousand people. Ralph wanted eighty thousand people,

694
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: not sixty five thousand people. He wanted a big stadium

695
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: they could sell enough tickets and have the revenue when

696
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: they did, and it was too and he couldn't do

697
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: that back then in a dome. It would be too expensive.

698
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: And the reason it's in Orchard Park is because they

699
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: didn't have enough parking downtown or whatever the reasons were.

700
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: We all, we've all, you know, we've all hashed that out.

701
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: It was all business and it's always gonna be business.

702
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: So it's not a football decision, whether it's funner or better,

703
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: or more wins or more losses. It's all about cost effect,

704
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis, that's all it is. So I get,

705
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: you know, the weather thing and how and it's gonna

706
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: affect you know, this game. It's gonna be there. It's

707
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Man, We're all gonna be out in it.

708
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: So it's it's gonna be one of those games where

709
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: this question is always going to a rise for teams

710
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: that live in the Northeast like New England and Buffalo

711
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: and who play in an outdoor stadium like Baltimore. Yeah,

712
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: and you know New York and you know, you go

713
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: down the list, all right, let's go back to the

714
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: phones and we go to Jerry and Lavonia. Jerry, what

715
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hi, guys, Um,

716
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: I was watching the NFL today the week after Cleveland

717
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: played New England, and they were talking and that one

718
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: episode about how they were neutralizing Miles Garrett. Now, I

719
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: know we're going up against a great pass rusher and

720
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: jud and I think it is his name, yeah, yes, Um,

721
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: while they're showing how they were putting a wide receiver

722
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: lined up next to the tackle and then at times

723
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: the wide receiver would break off and catch a pass.

724
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, I noticed that we don't I don't

725
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: notice we do that very often with some of these

726
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: great pass rushers. And my other point is I'm starting

727
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: to see or New Engo's offense like Ghosts of grond

728
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: you know that big rundown the middle, the big the

729
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: big tight end, you know the high pass, you know,

730
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: the guy rumbling down the middle. And I'm starting to

731
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: see that coming to life. To that kind of concerns

732
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: me besides the running game. So i'd like to hear

733
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: you guys comments. Okay, thanks, yeah, okay, yeah, you're right.

734
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways, a lot of philosophies about

735
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 1: taking on an elite edge rusher like a Miles Garrett.

736
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: Um Bills haven't. I don't know have they faced one. Yeah.

737
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: T J. Watt in the opening day, he gave the

738
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: Bills fits. You got to be able to do that.

739
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: And having a wide receiver blocked stationed right there by

740
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: the tackle to give the guy a little chip before

741
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: he goes out. It just bump into him so that

742
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: he kind of break his momentum before you go out

743
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: for a pass. That's you know, that's one philosophy. You

744
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: can have a running back do the same thing or

745
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: a tight end do the same thing. But yeah, that's

746
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: that's a typical way that you can give your tackle

747
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of a head start on a defensive

748
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: end who's a nice speed rusher or even a power

749
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: rushers that you get a smaller guy, an eligible receiver

750
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: to bang into him before they release on their route.

751
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: That's common. Yeah, as far as your concerns with the

752
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: tight end, the Bills have been better against tight ends

753
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: this season, which hasn't been their history the last couple

754
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: of years. They are twelfth in the league defensively, in

755
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: terms of defending tight ends and the yardage they allow

756
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: receptions and yarders that they allow. Think about to opposing

757
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: tight ends. That's pretty good for them. They used to

758
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: languish near the bottom of the league. Tight ends used

759
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,959
Speaker 1: to kill this team with alarming regularity. They've done better

760
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: in that area. Think about it too. The Bills use

761
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: Matt Milano on their tight end coverage a lot, and

762
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: then if they do go zone, they've got like Tremaine

763
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: Edmonds that's like nine feet tall, dropping back in the

764
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: middle with a lot of lengths, So it's it's a

765
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: little more it's a little more intimidating for a quarterback

766
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: to try and loop it in over the top of

767
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: that guy and still fitted into the tight end. Who's

768
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: going down the seam when you've got you know, this,

769
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: this guy that of that size and that stature going

770
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, backing off down the middle carrying the tight end.

771
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: So that's another strategy of the Bills used as well.

772
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Patriots, you gotta think too, the way

773
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: the Bills were built a year ago defensively, and the

774
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: Patriots without you know, Gronk. It's interesting to know, how

775
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 1: I wonder how much Bill Belichick and the Patriots thought

776
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: about building their offense and their defense specifically to beat

777
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: their division rival. That is the is the greatest rival

778
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: at the moment. Josh Allen, the Bills. Yeah, those two

779
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: tight And don't think they didn't grab those two tight

780
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: ends by happenstance. You know, maybe that was always good

781
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: reasons behind the decisions that they make up there, and

782
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: more often than not they pan out. They haven't at

783
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: the receiver position, but they certainly have at the tight

784
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: end position over the years. We have to take a

785
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,359
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00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,640
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789
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00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,920
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00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,839
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Speaker 1: mix brushed hard rolls for your beef on. That's a

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Speaker 1: new one. You learned something every day, Steve. You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. You gotta try new things. Let's get

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Speaker 1: back to the phones though. At eight O three oh

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00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: five fifty and we go to Judy and Buffalo. Judy,

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00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? I expect them. Beasley

814
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: to be an important player offensively for the Bills. I

815
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: think he's probably healthier now than he has been on

816
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: a long time, and I'd like to see him have

817
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: a hundred yard game as he did against Dallas and

818
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving past. I think that he's going to be a

819
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: key player. He fits the mold as to what we

820
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: have to do against New England, and I think he

821
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: will just set it up for the other receivers as well. Yeah,

822
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: I like that point, Judy, and I think if we

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Speaker 1: want to take it a step further, you know, with

824
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: this Kyle Dugger situation, if he cannot play, the expectation

825
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: is the guy that is currently playing the slot corner position,

826
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: Miles Bryant, would move to Dugger's position at safety, and

827
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: now you'd be bringing in your third best slot corner. Now,

828
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: if it's J. C. Jackson, that's a different story. But

829
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can see them moving him

830
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: inside at the expense of not having him as an

831
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: option to cover Digs or Gabriel David. I imagine they're

832
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: going to try a variety of things depending on what

833
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: the Bills throw out there. Um yeah, I'm it's interesting.

834
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm and she's rights. They need him to convert

835
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: third downs. They they've got to stay on the field offensively,

836
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: and I think Beasley's a crucial component to that. Um,

837
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to me to see if the Bills

838
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: decide that they want to go four wide in this game.

839
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: It might be a little bit counterintuitive given the conditions. Yeah,

840
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: but to get the ball, give more options out there,

841
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: spread the defense out and and make them declare what

842
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna run defensively. If you spread them out much

843
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: and give them a little motion, it would tell Josh

844
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: some things about what they're doing defensively, and also open

845
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: it up and give them some space and give Josh

846
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: some options quick because I, like I said, I think

847
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: pressure is coming. But I think she's right. Judy's right, Beasley.

848
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: They need a big game from him, And I don't

849
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: know how many targets that translates into, but certainly his

850
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: efficiency when when they throw it to him he catches it.

851
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: And that's and if he does that, it'd be like

852
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: us Wes Welkering or Julian Edelman ng the Patriots a

853
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: little taste of their own medicine. That's quick answers to uh,

854
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, neutralize the pressure that could be coming at him.

855
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: Back to the phones, let's go to Mike and the Bronx.

856
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: What are you doing, Mike, Well, I'm up in the

857
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: Bronx over here. I'm a big Bills fan, also a

858
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: Giant fan, but I'm so happy that the builds are

859
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: getting it together over there. I just want to give

860
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: a big shout out to one town, one team, all

861
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: the Builds fans out there. You know, one of these days,

862
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a ticket and I'm gonna go up there,

863
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, and i just want to give a big

864
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: shout out. And you know, Patriots, no problem. We just

865
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: gotta focus and get this game going the way we

866
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: needed to go, and it's gonna be a guarantee win,

867
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: all right, hope, A tough game, all right, you know,

868
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's the Patriots. Like you said,

869
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: these guys having give it a point in in four

870
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 1: games in the second half. It's amazing. Yeah, it's crazy.

871
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: But other than that, we got to focus on what

872
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: we got to do to win the game, and that's

873
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: what counts, all right. Mike, listen, thanks for the Hopefully

874
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: you get up here for a game sometime forget about it,

875
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, give us a call if you make

876
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: it up. Um. Yeah, I mean, look, they play mistake

877
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: free football, so you got to match that. You gotta

878
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: match that. You can't give him anything extra. They'll capitalize.

879
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: So the Bills have to eliminate the inconsistencies that have

880
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: that have plagued their play from one week to the

881
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: next and play sound football. Josh said it after the

882
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: Thursday night game. We got this win. We're glad we

883
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: got it, but we're on notice. It's time to start

884
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: stacking wins here, something they haven't done in seven weeks. Yep,

885
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: that's right. They got to play well two weeks in

886
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: a row and then three weeks in a row. You know,

887
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: you gotta play well this week. The turnovers they got

888
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: away with against a bad offense in New Orleans, Okay,

889
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 1: they bounced back and crushed the Jets who were struggling. No, no, no,

890
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: and then you know they turned it over in Jacksonville

891
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: as well. That's the reason you lose games, is turning

892
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: it over. If the Bills, like I said, I agree

893
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: with a lot of the Bills fans. You know we've

894
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: heard from today, Bills are a better team if they

895
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: play their best, if both teams play their best, I

896
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: think the Bills are better, but their inability to do

897
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: that consistently enough has been their downfall here in this

898
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: little stretchy games we've seen in the last month. Great

899
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: time here for us because when we come back, the

900
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films, Greg Cosell, will be making

901
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: his weekly appearance. We'll talk xs and ows with him

902
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: about this Bills Patriots matchup next on One Bill's Live,

903
00:48:53,960 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio at

904
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: a Steve taster who has been all over the fields.

905
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

906
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

907
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:30,919
Speaker 1: the strated beere of normalcy. Welcome to our number two

908
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: here on a Friday, Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you

909
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live and two o'clock on a Friday

910
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: can only mean one thing. It means senior producer from

911
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: NFL Films, Greg Cosel will be joining us, also co

912
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: host of the ESPN NFL Matchup Show, where we are

913
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: anticipating the Monday night affair between the Bills and Patriots

914
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: to figure prominently in the program. I think Greg tipped

915
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: us off to that, if I remember right, so I'm

916
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: not really telling anything that he didn't already talking out

917
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: of or No, how we doing Greg, I'm doing great, Chris,

918
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: And you're right, it's our big game in Part C.

919
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: That's are always our full segment section, and amazingly enough

920
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Patriots will be our full segment game. Well, what

921
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: are your overreaching thoughts about that matchup? Oh, that's a

922
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: very open ended question, your tasker. You want to narrow

923
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: that down a little. There's there's a lot of things

924
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: to say in this matchup. Well, I'm listen. Both defenses

925
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: are playing pretty good. Turnovers have driven their success of

926
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: the Bills on both sides of that coin. When they

927
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 1: turn it over, they lose. When they get turnovers, they win.

928
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: Patriots have not given up a second half point in

929
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: four games. And it's gonna be a nasty weather game.

930
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: This looks like it's gonna be like, you know, a

931
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: nine to six game kind of thing. Maybe with these

932
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: two defenses, but it's gonna be that bad. Is it

933
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: supposed to be snow or rain? They don't know yet,

934
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: don't know there is potential for lake effect precipitation, and

935
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: way it's gonna be supposed to be gus twenty to

936
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: thirty miles per hour. Well, that could be interesting for

937
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: mac Jones, but because he does not have a big arm,

938
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: he's not a high velocity thrower obviously, Josh is but

939
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: the weather could dictate whether you can throw it a

940
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 1: lot anyway. But the Patriots are really a run first offense.

941
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: They're a physical offense, and I think that's the key here.

942
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny we spoke. We've been speaking pretty

943
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: much every week about the Bill's defense and the fact

944
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: that they've evolved into a one nickel defense. It'll be

945
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: very interesting if that's the case again, guys, I mean,

946
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: I know that's what they've done. But the Patriots are

947
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: a run first team. They play with a fallback on

948
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: a meaningful number of snaps. Do you think there's any

949
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 1: chance at all we could see three linebackers. Maybe if

950
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 1: the weather is that bad. I think that's the only

951
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: thing that could prompt that. Otherwise, I think they stay

952
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: in nickel because they do think that much of Taryn

953
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: Johnson interesting because yeah, I mean, obviously the Patriots are

954
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,479
Speaker 1: I mean, they will try to get to the edge

955
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: on occasion with the pin pull concept. We saw that

956
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: with Harris, he scored a touchdown last week. I actually

957
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: did a piece on that the week prior where I

958
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: showed that concept. But for the most part, they will

959
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: attack downhill, and as I said, they will play with

960
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: a fullback. Here's the pin pull concept the touchdown from

961
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: a week ago that we're looking at right now. But

962
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: for the most part, with Harris who's a two hundred

963
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: and twenty five town back and Stevenson who's probably in

964
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: the two forty range, they're they're a physical, downhill running

965
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: football team. What do you think of the potential storyline

966
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: that the potential absence of Kyle Dugger presents for the

967
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: Patriots defense. As you know, that three safety Nickel package

968
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: is basically their base defense. If he's not part of

969
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: the equation, they're gonna have to do some shuffling back there,

970
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: because their next best safeties Miles Bryan, who's currently playing

971
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:10,439
Speaker 1: slot corner. Yeah, which he's played mostly this season. He's

972
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 1: been a corner for them. They obviously like him because

973
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: he started off as their seventh BB when they went

974
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: sevent dybs and now he's there Nickel, of course, they

975
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: lost Jones. Yeah, that'll be interesting, Chris, I don't know

976
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: what they'll do, because you're right, Big Nickel with three

977
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: safeties has essentially been their base defense, and Dugger and

978
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 1: Adrian Phillips to me are absolute critical components to this defense. Obviously,

979
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: Phillips will be out there number twenty one. Dugger is

980
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: he's on COVID, right, Yeah, went on there Wednesday and

981
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: we were looking. The fastest person to come off the

982
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: COVID designation list and playing a game this year has

983
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 1: been Ben Roethlisberger. Eight days. We're only six days away.

984
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: We're only six days away from the game. I mean,

985
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it can happen, but we're just going

986
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: on past you know knowledge. Well, I guess then you

987
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: get into the whole thing about vaccinated. Obviously he's not vaccinated.

988
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: There's no chance, so he must be vaccinated. If they're

989
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 1: saying there's a chance, yeah, well that's the end anyway

990
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: or something. But besides beside that, that's a critical piece

991
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: they would have to I think do some some interesting juggling. Um,

992
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to look. Obviously we know that

993
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: the bills, well, we don't know anything right now because

994
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: weather could play a big factor. If weather is a factor,

995
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: you could see the Bills line up with Gilliam and

996
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: play with in twenty one personnelity you, i'd see them

997
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 1: play with two tight ends. We don't know how that's

998
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: going to play out. Um, so yeah, I think that

999
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: is a factor. It's just because Bill Belichick's impossible to

1000
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: figure out. I don't have a brilliant answer as to

1001
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: what we might see if Thugger's not there. What if

1002
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: if it does come down where the conditions aren't as

1003
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: big a factor as we anticipate, or that it could

1004
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:57,240
Speaker 1: be at just a cold night instead of a cold, snowy, rainy,

1005
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: windy night, would the Bills would have benefit the Bills

1006
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: given what the Patriots are able to do up front

1007
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: to spread them out and go ten personnel and then

1008
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: you know, try and get them to declare who's coming,

1009
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: who's rushing, who's not. I would anticipate the Patriots bringing

1010
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: some pressure to try and get to Josh Allen quick

1011
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: particular with Dugger out, because they don't go that deep

1012
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: in their secondary with the ability to go man. Well,

1013
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: here's what I would think. And again it's all it's

1014
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, it's impossible to know what Bill Belichick's thinking.

1015
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: So all we can do is sort of speculate based

1016
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: on or what I can do based on just film

1017
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 1: and how I think it might play out. I think

1018
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: that if it's not a wet night in terms of rain, wind,

1019
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: I think I think they'll feel that Josh Allen can

1020
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: get the ball through the wind. I mean, unless you're

1021
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: talking fifty or sixty miles an hour and that's not

1022
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 1: the case. I think that makes sense to some degree,

1023
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: because the one thing that I feel is I don't

1024
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: think Sean McDermott will go into this game playing scared

1025
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: by any stretch to the imagination. I guarantee they believe

1026
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: they've got a really good team and that they want

1027
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: to be proactive and attack. And keep one thing in mind,

1028
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: since the Patriots lost Jonathan Jones maybe a month or

1029
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: so ago, they have played far more zone defense than

1030
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: they had prior. They'd been a high percentage man to

1031
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: man defense, which has really been Bill Belichick's mo over

1032
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: the last number of years. But they have really played

1033
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: a lot more zone coverage over the last what is it,

1034
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: three or four games now, And Steve, your point's a

1035
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: good one. If they go four wide, my guess is

1036
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: you would see them line up and play zone coverage,

1037
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: and that might be a way to give Josh Allen

1038
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: more pre snap information. And then we know Bill Belichick's

1039
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: history of getting exotic on third down defensively. But for

1040
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: us here in Buffalo, we haven't seen a lot of

1041
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: what they've done with all of the new personnel they

1042
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: have in their front seven. So maybe just spell it

1043
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: out for us, Greg what they do with Judon and

1044
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: Barmore when he comes on the field in some of

1045
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: those third down packages. Well, a couple of things. I

1046
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: would say. Judon is predominantly an edge player, not one

1047
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: hundred percent, but predominantly. Barmore is your classic Bill Belichick

1048
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: defensive lineman in that he has alignment versatility. I'm not

1049
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: going to sit here and say he's Richard Seymour for

1050
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: those who remember Richard Seymour, I know you guys do.

1051
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: But Bill Belichick likes defensive lineman that can play multiple

1052
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: positions along the defensive front. Barmore is that player. He's

1053
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: been playing well, Godshaw has been playing well. He's another

1054
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: player that can move along the defensive front. So that's

1055
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: a factor. The one thing I will say is this

1056
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: what we do know about Bill Belichick is in given

1057
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: situations down in distance, fuel location, how the game plays out,

1058
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: he will double and bracket receivers he feels in that

1059
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: situation will be targeted. So I think you will see

1060
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: at times in this game digs targeted or doubled, easily

1061
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: targeted or doubled, and believe it or not, Dawson Knox targeted, target,

1062
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: bracket or doubled. That's my sense. Yeah, that's and that's

1063
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: always been the Patriots go to take what you believe

1064
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: that they're gonna go to in certain situations and then

1065
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: do what you can with the rest of it. And

1066
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: how effective have they been up front? You know they

1067
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: have a you know they like to play physical. I

1068
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 1: know that about their run defense. How susceptible have they

1069
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: been to that? How how how much have teams been

1070
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: able to be you know, both fifty fifty run past

1071
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. How susceptible are they to play

1072
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: action that kind of thing. Here's the way I'd answer that, Steve.

1073
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: If you're playing the Bills, and we know from Bill

1074
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: Belichick's history that he's not necessarily worried about yards. You know,

1075
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: you look at last week the Titans had two one

1076
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: hundred yard rushers. I don't and I'm not saying that

1077
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: that's what he wanted, But you can go back and

1078
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: shoot to the Super Bowl against the Bills when Thurman

1079
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: Thomas had one hundred thirty five yards, and you know,

1080
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: you're obviously remember that and not that he wanted Thurman

1081
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: to get one hundred thirty five, but he made a

1082
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: decision when he was the Giants DC. You know what,

1083
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: the way they're going to score a lot of points

1084
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: and beat us is with Jim Kelly and the K gun.

1085
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 1: They're not going to beat us giving the ball to

1086
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas. And I would think playing the Bills this week,

1087
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: obviously he doesn't want Matt Brita and Singletary to rush

1088
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: for two hundred yards, but I would bet that he'd

1089
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: feel very comfortable if the Bills, just if Josh Allen

1090
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: turns and hands it off, I think he'd be okay

1091
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: with that because I think the bigger issue is what

1092
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: the Bills can do in the pass game. And then

1093
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: speaking of the pass game, you know Mac Jones has

1094
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: been a highly efficient quarterback, high completion percentage, high percentage throws.

1095
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: We know that, you know Myers has been his most

1096
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: frequent target. But yes, how do you see the delving

1097
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: out of targets? Is there any pattern to what they

1098
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: do or do they truly spread it out across the board?

1099
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: I think they do spread it out, And the way

1100
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: I would describe their passing game is this. They are

1101
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: as good a team in the league at finding specific weaknesses,

1102
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: whether it's individuals, and I'm not just talking about in

1103
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: man to man, it could be in zone. At finding

1104
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: individual weaknesses or attacking specific coverages. They're so good at

1105
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: that and that allows them to play Chris to mac

1106
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:40,439
Speaker 1: jones strength, which is getting the ball out quick with accuracy.

1107
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: That's his game. You want the ball to come out.

1108
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: So they are so good at defining it for him

1109
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: that he can do that, and I think that's what

1110
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: they are. So I'm very curious to see with Tredavious

1111
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: white out what Sean and Leslie Frasier decide to do

1112
01:00:55,840 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: from a coverage standpoint. You know they do have they

1113
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: play more man than people probably think, and will they

1114
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: play man because don't forget, you have to you have

1115
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: the run game to deal with two. So I'm very

1116
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: curious to see what Sean McDermott and Leslie Frasier do

1117
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. But but mac Jones. Look, I don't

1118
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: want to be cliched here and say, well, he's just

1119
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: a system quarterback, but they are a run first team

1120
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: and they really define things for him so so well.

1121
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: And by the way, I know the numbers were good

1122
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: last week. I don't think last week was anywhere near

1123
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: his best game of the season. Yeah, what do you

1124
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, what do teams attempt to get done versus

1125
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots when the ball comes out so quick? I know,

1126
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: what is the you know, what is the you know

1127
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: ying to that? Yang, If a team is gonna do that,

1128
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: what is the best way for a defense to overcome it. Well,

1129
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: that's where you've got a factor in the run game, Steve,

1130
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: because you know you need to stop the run here,

1131
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 1: particularly normal down. In distant situations, third down, it's always

1132
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: a different animals, you know. But you know, if you're

1133
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: gonna play man coverage, like let's say you say, hey,

1134
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: we want to disrupt their receivers off the ball, and

1135
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: first of all, they'll do it. They'll do motion then

1136
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: to counter that. But let's say that's the way you feel, well,

1137
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: that can hurt you in the run game because you

1138
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: know you can run off your tight end and you

1139
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: can you know, on an ARC release or you know,

1140
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: a free release, and um, you know, then the player

1141
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: covering him is at a run support. So you got

1142
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: to It's a tough deal because the number one thing

1143
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: you have to do is defend their run when you

1144
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: play there. If you can't defend their run, you're gonna

1145
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: be in a tough spot. Special Teams looks like a

1146
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: heavyweight battle and this one also both units are pretty accomplished.

1147
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: You got two of the top three scoring kickers in

1148
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: the league. They have a very good punt returner in Olshovski.

1149
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills have ranked high in return average,

1150
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: especially on kick return average. How do you maybe see

1151
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: that part of the game unfolding? Because these are two

1152
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: teams that do a good job of winning the hidden

1153
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: yardage in games, and I think that's critical. Look, I'm

1154
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I'm not a Special Teams guy in

1155
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: terms of film study, but I think this is a

1156
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: game where field position will be absolutely critical. My guess

1157
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: is with these two defenses that it's going to be

1158
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: hard to go on long drives consistently. So you know,

1159
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: if you're starting inside your twenty on a regular basis

1160
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: that that's a tough deal. And one thing about the Bills,

1161
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,919
Speaker 1: and you know, we've talked about this throughout the year.

1162
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: They're capable of big explosive plays in the past game, obviously,

1163
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: but they have not had as many this year as

1164
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: they had a year ago. This pass game has been

1165
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: much more condensed. I mean, obviously Josh has completed, it's

1166
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: still a pretty good percentage. I think he's you probably

1167
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: up to sixty five sixty six percent, which is certainly

1168
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: very good. But they have not really hit big plays

1169
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: the way they did a year ago. Chris, you know,

1170
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: you know that. So it's it's gonna be really hard.

1171
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: It's just hard to go twelve thirteen, fourteen plays in

1172
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: this league. So when this comes down to it, why

1173
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: are both these clubs when they when they get down

1174
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: to it and play good defensively, why are they both

1175
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: able to generate so many turnovers? Do you see a

1176
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: generality that you can just point to or is it

1177
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: just an unpredictable thing that you know, teams work on

1178
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: and some are better than others. Yeah, I've always struggled

1179
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: with with knowing why that happened, Steve, I mean, you played.

1180
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure coaches feel that they can coach so that

1181
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: you can create turnovers, you know. I think some do

1182
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: come from tactics. You know. Obviously, if you get pressure

1183
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: on a quarterback and speed them up, could that lead

1184
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: to a turnover? Sure? But you know, things like tip balls,

1185
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: which you know, do happen. I don't really know how

1186
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: to categorize those kinds of things as far as you know,

1187
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: as far as forecasting a game, you know, I mean, sure,

1188
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 1: can you maybe try to create some blitz pressure on

1189
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 1: third nine? Last week? The Titans had are really good

1190
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: blitz against mac Joes. Didn't lead to a turnover. It

1191
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: led to a sack. It was a triple a gap blitz.

1192
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: You don't see triple a gap blitz is very often

1193
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Fell and Kevin Bayard got a sack,

1194
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: you know. So can you try to create turnovers that way?

1195
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: Sure you can. But the flukey ones, I don't know

1196
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: what to make of those. Right. So here is the

1197
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: forecast greg at least as it stands right now. Morning rain,

1198
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: then windy, with a mix of rain and snow showers

1199
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Morning high of fifty two tempts falling

1200
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: to near thirty five winds southwest at twenty five to

1201
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: thirty five miles per hour. Chance of rain ninety percent,

1202
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: higher wind gusts possible. Well, if I can remember my

1203
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,439
Speaker 1: high school math, ninety percent, I think is a pretty

1204
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: high number. Yes it is, Yes, you are correct, sir, No,

1205
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean if it's if it's rain, you know, I

1206
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: think I think everybody would rather play with snow flurries

1207
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: that rain. When you agree, how important if it was

1208
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: if the game was played in perfect conditions, Um, if

1209
01:05:55,680 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 1: it was fifty eight clear and dry, how important with

1210
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: the Bill running game b that it would be more

1211
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: so this week with the conditions the way they are. Yeah,

1212
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I come back to my previous point. I

1213
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: think Bill Belichick would be perfectly happy for Josh Allen

1214
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: to turn around and hand it to Brita or Singletary.

1215
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: You know, I think that he would feel that the

1216
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: pass game is critical. Now, my sense is he would

1217
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,439
Speaker 1: be my sense of the way Bill Belichick sees Josh

1218
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 1: Allen right now, My guess is early in his career,

1219
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: he thought he could get him with a lot of

1220
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: post nap movement, because you know, Josh had to learn

1221
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: a lot of things. I thought last year Josh started

1222
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: to be better in that regard, and I think he's

1223
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 1: even better in that regard this year. My guess is

1224
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick would say that the improvement in Josh Allen

1225
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: has been pretty significant. That doesn't mean he's not going

1226
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: to try to do some disguise and late movement, because

1227
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 1: all it takes is a guy getting stuck in the pocket.

1228
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: You guys know this for half a bat and something

1229
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: bad could happen. And I will say this about jos

1230
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: and you know that I think he's the most physically

1231
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: gifted quarterback in the league. But this can't be a

1232
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: game where he tries to do too much When the

1233
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: play is not there, He's going to have to move

1234
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 1: on to the next play because that this is just

1235
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: not that kind of game where you know, you sort

1236
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: of have to let this game play out the way

1237
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: it plays out and not and be special within the structure,

1238
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: not try to be special doing something you know, crazy,

1239
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 1: because that's not going to work out in this game.

1240
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: Last one we have here. There are some other games

1241
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: on the schedule that are going to impact the AFC

1242
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:44,439
Speaker 1: playoff race. Chargers Bengals, Ravens, Steelers, and Broncos Chiefs. Any

1243
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,439
Speaker 1: one of those kind of pique your interest the most

1244
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: of those three, you know, I've been really fascinated by

1245
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: what the Bengals have done over the last number of weeks, Chris.

1246
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: They really run the ball effectively. Joe Mixon is at

1247
01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 1: thirty and twenty eight carries in each of the last

1248
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: two games. Joe Burrow has not had a high volume

1249
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: pass attempts, but yet, Joe Burrow is a very cocky quarterback.

1250
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: When he sees one on one on the outside, even

1251
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: if the corners are off, he will throw the ball vertically.

1252
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: So the Bengals offense has been very intriguing to me

1253
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. It's actually a high

1254
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: talented offense at the skilled position players they're They're a

1255
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: very intriguing team to me. The Bengals and the Chargers

1256
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: really can't stop anybody these days, so they might be

1257
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: they have the worst run defense in the NFL. You're right,

1258
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: Can you explain that? I mean, they have some high

1259
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: end players on that defense, and yet it doesn't it

1260
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: doesn't bear out in the numbers or their ability to

1261
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: stop people. Yeah, I haven't studied them enough as individual

1262
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: players to have a great answer for that. But they've

1263
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: basically been the worst run defense in the NFL from

1264
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 1: the get go, and I think you know, and I

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01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: think they give up about one hundred and forty yards

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Speaker 1: rushing far game the date, and with a defensive coordinators

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01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: their head coach, I know, which is very interesting. So

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01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: but they've been bad also, and so that's clearly a matchup.

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Speaker 1: I actually deal with that matchup in the Matchup Show.

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01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: I do a piece on Joe Mixon because I've always

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01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: liked Joe Mixon and he's never been talked about much

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01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 1: because Cincinnati, he's never been any good. And now they're

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01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: good and people are realizing Joe Mixon's a pretty darn

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01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: good back. Right, all right, Greg, as always, thanks for

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01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: the time. We appreciate it. We'll catch up with you

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01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: next week, all right, I look forward to you. Thanks. Yep,

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01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: we'll watch for great co sell on the ESPN NFL

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01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: Matchup Show, Big segment, full segment on Bill's Patriots, so

1279
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:34,839
Speaker 1: be sure to check that out on ESPN and ESPN

1280
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: two usually on Saturday and Sunday mornings early, so if

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01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: you're an early bird, be sure to check that out.

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01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:43,679
Speaker 1: It should be interesting because he and Matt Bowen really

1283
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 1: break down the xs and o's very very well, and

1284
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: they do it in Layman's terms, which is welcome. I

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01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: don't need to get into all the you know, the

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01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: football les language and such. They break it down very

1287
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: effectively and you know, kind of teach you a few

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01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: things along the way, So keep an eye out for that. Uh.

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01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: We want to get back to the phones here before

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01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 1: we have to take a break to some people that

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01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: have been waiting patiently, and we go to Jim in

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01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: Lockpoort first, Jim, what do you have for us here

1293
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: on one one bills Live? What do you got? Jim?

1294
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:20,840
Speaker 1: Are you there? Hy you guys? Can you hear me? Yeah?

1295
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Hey, Steve, congratulations on being selected is finalists

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01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame. Thank you. I had one

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01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: question and one comment. Yeah. My question is, uh, I

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01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: think it's Antonio Brown that had the fake ID card,

1299
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: fake vaccination card. Yes, you got suspended three games. Yeah,

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01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if what else is going to come because

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01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: I remember the Erie County District attorney from on TV

1302
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: said anybody that gets a fake COVID ID card just

1303
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: committing a felony and it carries a one year jail sentence. Yeah,

1304
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:05,560
Speaker 1: it's hard to know exactly what's going to come of

1305
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: that with Antonio Brown in the state of Florida. Yeah,

1306
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: this just in Florida is a different animal in New

1307
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 1: York if he didn't. Right. And the other thing too,

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01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:19,759
Speaker 1: is while he did admit to obtaining a fake vaccination card,

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: I think there's some language of the law there that

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01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:29,480
Speaker 1: may allow him to escape felony charges because it's uncertain

1311
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: as to whether he actually made use of the fakes

1312
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 1: vaccination card to impersonate or falsely give the impression that

1313
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: he was vaccinated at the time he got suspended. But

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01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,560
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think it goes without saying he

1315
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: did use it because he'd lied to the league about

1316
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: being vaccinated. He walked around the facility as a vaccinated

1317
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:58,600
Speaker 1: player because the league assumed thought that he was. He

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01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:04,879
Speaker 1: told him he was. So that that's gonna be a problem, Yeah,

1319
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: if if indeed Florida wants to pursue it, But we'll

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01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,480
Speaker 1: see if they do. And the Bucks have already essentially

1321
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: used his roster spot with a replacement wide receiver, Breshad

1322
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: Perriman is going to be signing with the Bucks. I

1323
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to be in the lineup

1324
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: next week when the Bills play him, but it might

1325
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: be a guy that they'll have to prepare for in

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01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:26,759
Speaker 1: the event that he is up and in the lineup.

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01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: We now go to Jack on a cell, Jack, what

1328
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: do you have for us here? On one Bills Live? Jack? Stop?

1329
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to put Jack on hold. All right,

1330
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: we'll have to move on. Jack. You gotta turn your

1331
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 1: radio down so you know when we're coming to you.

1332
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: We go to Jim in North Buffalo next. Jim, you're

1333
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. What do you have? All right?

1334
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: I think Jim gave up, so no problem there. Okay,

1335
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: we are going to get to some comments on the

1336
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: OBL Friday fan mail bag and tweet chet brought to

1337
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving System, the official equipment moving company

1338
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, and Rachel leads us off to

1339
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: the question. She says, since the Pats don't throw deep

1340
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:08,280
Speaker 1: much anyway, can we just put seven eight guys in

1341
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:13,320
Speaker 1: the box on almost every play if it was you could.

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite that simple though. No, Well,

1343
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to stop their run game. And we

1344
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: heard Greg greg Cosell say it if the worst the

1345
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: weather conditions are the less the less like it is,

1346
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots throw it more than they run it, or

1347
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,639
Speaker 1: at least, you know, play action. And I Greg Cosell

1348
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: came right out of the gate and said, Yeah, I

1349
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: wonder if this is a game where the Bills do

1350
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: put three linebackers on the field, that would put seven

1351
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: guys in the box instead of the usual six. But

1352
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:46,560
Speaker 1: that it you'd have to counter that if the Patriots

1353
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 1: come out and go three wide or four wide. But

1354
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: if they come out with two tight ends and a fullback,

1355
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 1: you can bet that the Bills might go heavy there

1356
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: and start throwing guys at the in the box and

1357
01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: maybe some different kind of guys. So, yeah, there is

1358
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: a possibility that the Bills will throw eight in the box.

1359
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:06,519
Speaker 1: Not on almost every play though, No, they will pick

1360
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: their spots. They're not going to do that on a

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01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: second and ten probably, or a third and ten, but

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01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: certainly on a second and two they may. They may. Yeah,

1363
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 1: And we saw them do a little bit of that

1364
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 1: in the Colts game. They were getting dashed by Jonathan Taylor,

1365
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: and they chose to go eight in the box on

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01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: a good number of the plays, not all of them,

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01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 1: but a healthy amount. Nick says, how windy is too

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01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: windy for Josh to throw effectively? Is there a certain

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01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: miles per hour where we essentially have to stop throwing

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01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: the ball down field. Well, when you're going into the wind,

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01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: which is usually in this stadium towards the scoreboard end,

1372
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't blow directly into their face, but it blows diagonally,

1373
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: typically from the visiting sideline to the home team sideline

1374
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: blows diagonally across the field. That's the prevailing wind current

1375
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: inside the stadium. And I don't know what would you say, Steve,

1376
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: thirty five forty once you get up there be too

1377
01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: much for even Josh to cut through. Well, it's it's

1378
01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: it's like anything else short passes or you can always

1379
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: get away with. The further down the fields you try

1380
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: and throw it, the more the wind's gonna affect it,

1381
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: the more you can't get it on the guy you're

1382
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: throwing it too. So yeah, it's unpredictable at best, and

1383
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 1: particularly if it's gusty where you throw it in the

1384
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: quarterbacks standing in two mile per hour winds and the

1385
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: guy's throwing it two is standing in a thirty five

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01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: mile hour gust. That's a problem. So it's it's incredibly

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01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: unpredictable and you won't know until now. And I don't

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01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: have a number for your yardage or a mile per

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01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: hour that the winds throwing um. Certainly Josh was drafted

1390
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: with the idea that his arm, we'll get the ball

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01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:43,639
Speaker 1: through some of that. But we've already seen it this year,

1392
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:46,520
Speaker 1: I think, particularly in the Washington game. Wasn't the windstorm?

1393
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: Or wasn't the Houston game that was the windstorm? One

1394
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 1: of the two where Josh miss Washington. Josh missed some

1395
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: passes down the field where he'd throw it, and it

1396
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: looked horrible because the ball was moving all over there.

1397
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: I mean it with the ball is like seven yards

1398
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: away from the dB and the receiver bouncing on the

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01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: ground because the wind just knocked it down or carried

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01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: it too far. So it is an issue. The longer

1401
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: the throw, the more it's going to get affected, and

1402
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: the harder and more difficult and sometimes impossible it is

1403
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 1: to be accurate. All right, break time for us here.

1404
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: When we return, it'll be the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate.

1405
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: Can Steve guests the former teammate of his that we

1406
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: are describing with a series of very vague and cryptic clues.

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01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: We'll see next here on One Bill's Live, presenter by

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01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: Colloid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome

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01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. It is that time in

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01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:52,720
Speaker 1: the show. So we are Tasker's Teammate, brought to you

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01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals Delivered. Download the

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01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: Wegman's app today. Steve, are you ready? I am so ready.

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01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: Clue number one. Born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: I gotta put on my best John Facenda voice here.

1415
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: I had a highly decorated high school career that enabled

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01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 1: me to play my college ball at one of the

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01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:22,879
Speaker 1: more notable college programs in the Keystone State. Shane Conlin,

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: it is not sane. I thought I was gonna bust

1419
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: you on the first guest. I thought I had alight.

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01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: Shane Colin is actually from Frewsburg, New York. Oh that's right,

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01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: not from Pittsburgh, man. I think they lived around there. Now.

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: Though I was part of a National championship team in

1423
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, where my most notable contributions came on turnovers.

1424
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: I had four interceptions in my junior season, two of

1425
01:17:46,160 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 1: which I returned for touchdowns. I will say, oh, baby,

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01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: come on Most notable Notable programs High School Pittsburgh. Mark

1427
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: not Mark Kelso. It is not Mark Kelso. James Madison

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01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 1: doesn't count as a most notable. William and Mary William

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01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: and Mary doesn't count. It doesn't not because it's in Virginia.

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01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: It's not in the Keystones day uh. In the nineteen

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01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: eighty four draft, I was a second round pick, but

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01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't selected by the Bills. I was picked by

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01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 1: an AFC West club. That's getting hard. Eighty four draft,

1434
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: second round pick of an AFC West team. He was

1435
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: a defensive guy because he had an internal version six natodams.

1436
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: It is not NAT. By my second year in the league,

1437
01:18:57,760 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: I was a full time starter, and I did have

1438
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: a nose for the ball, as four interceptions and two

1439
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 1: fumble recoveries were on my resume through my first three

1440
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: NFL seasons. Henry Jones, It is not Henry had Henry Jones.

1441
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: Um check my list. Hold on m Leonard Smith. It

1442
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 1: is not Leonard Smith. I'm trying to think of Pennsylvania guys.

1443
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that's right. It is a Pennsylvania guy,

1444
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: played at a Pennsylvania school, won a national title in

1445
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,759
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. Penn Stater. So he's a Penn Stater,

1446
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: you know that. Not Conlin, and it's not Shane Conslin.

1447
01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: That's the only guy I can think of. Okay, John Perella,

1448
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: it is not John Parrella, Nebraska guy. Okay, So here

1449
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: we go. I signed with the Bills as a free

1450
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: agent just before training camp in nineteen eighty seven and

1451
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: would be a teammate of Steve's for three seasons, filling

1452
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: a starting role in two of my three years with

1453
01:19:55,040 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 1: the club. So you know, it's three seasons that he

1454
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: was your teammate. So you're talking eighty seven, eighty eight,

1455
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: eighty nine. Wow, this is a hard one. I don't know.

1456
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: All right, We'll move on to the next clue. After

1457
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty nine season, I moved on to another

1458
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: AFCAST team, the Colts, where I would play for another

1459
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: six season. Scott Ratisi Scott Ratissick is correct, Penn Stater, yep.

1460
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: From linebacker. You we don't have Scott with us on

1461
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: the phone line. He's a little busy, as you might

1462
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:43,640
Speaker 1: imagine because his post playing career. He's an architect. He

1463
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: is an architectural engineer stadium projects. Yeah, he works for Populace,

1464
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: which actually took care of the renovation here in twenty fifteen,

1465
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: did the retro fit for the Kansas City Chiefs, which

1466
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,800
Speaker 1: was the team that drafted Scott Ratissick. So, using his

1467
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:03,639
Speaker 1: NFL connections to a t, I'm kidding now he's building

1468
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:07,799
Speaker 1: their Yeah, did the did Populace do the Lucas Oil Stadium?

1469
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: Did they do that building? They might have because I'll

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01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: say this, so he played for the colast time. Last

1471
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: time I bumped into him was while I was working

1472
01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: for CBS, like ten years after we finished playing with

1473
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: like in two thousand and ten or two thousand and

1474
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: eleven or maybe you know, and we were walking what

1475
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 1: were we there for? Might have been the might have

1476
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 1: been the combine Just the last a couple of years ago,

1477
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 1: bumped into him. He was walking down the street in Indiapolis. Kids,

1478
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 1: everything's walkable down. I was walking right behind. We just

1479
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 1: we're going to the restaurant, and I go, hey, God, Hey,

1480
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:45,840
Speaker 1: what's going So yeah, I said a load to him there,

1481
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,719
Speaker 1: inside linebacker with the Bills in a three four defense

1482
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 1: and big dude. Yeah it's a big dude. What what

1483
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: for those that are not old enough to remember him

1484
01:21:56,920 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 1: as a player, how would you describe him as a

1485
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: line backer for the Bills? A big, physical guy. Well

1486
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,599
Speaker 1: he's old little old fashioned. I think I say old

1487
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: fashioned because he was a run stuff or a big

1488
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:11,640
Speaker 1: bodied guy. Um, typical Penn State inside guy where you

1489
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: step up in, take the guard on, shed the block

1490
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:17,719
Speaker 1: and make the tackle. Okay, yeah, not not the Tremaine

1491
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 1: Edmonds more of a two down guy. Matt Milano guy. Yes, yes,

1492
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 1: he's a first and second down player. Well, I gotta

1493
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: tell you that's that's a heck of a career for

1494
01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: what amounts to a two down linebacker in the league.

1495
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: He played like eleven years. Well it was a yeah.

1496
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: He was a smart well obviously a smart guy, and

1497
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: he you know, had the ability to help out on

1498
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: special teams as well. So yeah, big big, he was

1499
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 1: a big dude. I forget those guys used Yeah you

1500
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: know what, I didn't look, let me see what he

1501
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: was going. What he was listed six three. I think

1502
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: he's more like sixty three two forty three. Yeah, just

1503
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 1: big raw bone dude. Yeah. Scott's good man Brentwood, PA,

1504
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:00,919
Speaker 1: Brentwood High School in Pittsburgh. So there is Scott Radissek,

1505
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: your latest taskers teammate. We move along, though, because we

1506
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: are I believe we do have some players addressing the

1507
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: media here after practice and where we're gonna go to

1508
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson. Guys. Ye all right, So Dane Jackson, who's

1509
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: got a very big role to play on Monday night.

1510
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: He probably knows he's gonna get targeted and tested a

1511
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: lot by the Patriots. Here is Dane Jackson addressing the

1512
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: media last week. I mean, what kind of impact did

1513
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: that have on you and this team? Just losing a

1514
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 1: guy like that, I mean always losing a guy like

1515
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 1: that is crucial because you know the amount of time

1516
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: that he puts into his craft, you know everything that

1517
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,560
Speaker 1: he does on a daily You know, he's one of

1518
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: the best corners in the league. So you know, losing

1519
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: a guy like that as crucial to our defense. Coach,

1520
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: your teammates keep telling us that you just need to

1521
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: be Dane Jackson. How do you keep that in mind?

1522
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: Knowing how big of the shoes that you're filling. I man,

1523
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 1: I just trying not to think about that, you know,

1524
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: Like I've just been just do the same thing I've

1525
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:06,719
Speaker 1: been doing all year, Like I'm a backup. So ultimately,

1526
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:08,400
Speaker 1: like I have to prepare like a starter because you

1527
01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen here there. So you know,

1528
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 1: there's nothing changing in my routine, you know, just keep

1529
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:16,639
Speaker 1: getting more confidence from the guys that's out there, that's

1530
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: been out there all season. You know, just roll with

1531
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: the punch. So going though from a backup too now

1532
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: and assumed starter, how big of an opportunity do you

1533
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: view this for yourself? That's a huge opportunity, you know,

1534
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I've been telling myself, you know, since

1535
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 1: it happened, you know, this opportunity of a lifetime, you know,

1536
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 1: like this is what I've been dreaming of, This is

1537
01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: what I've been working for. You know. Obviously I didn't

1538
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: want it to happen the way it happened, you know,

1539
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 1: but you know, this is once in a lifetime opportunity.

1540
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: So I'm ready to take advantage of it. You talked

1541
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: to this week for advice for you know, just being

1542
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: a sounding board for you. You know, who have you

1543
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:50,880
Speaker 1: kind of leaned down as you get ready for us?

1544
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean, of course Tray. You know, he's I've been

1545
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:56,759
Speaker 1: talking to him every single day. You know, He's been

1546
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: telling me tips and stuff like stuff I was seeing

1547
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:01,720
Speaker 1: on film. I would go to him and he would

1548
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: tell me the same thing, which would make me feel

1549
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 1: more comfortable, you know what I mean, Like all pro corner,

1550
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 1: He's watching film and I'm seeing the same thing. So

1551
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:11,799
Speaker 1: like it's like me, It's just me, you know, talking

1552
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,679
Speaker 1: to the older guys and this, like I said, getting

1553
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: more confidence from them things for you this season, battling

1554
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 1: in camp with Levi he ultimately wins the job, and

1555
01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: now getting inserted like this, how have you handled kind

1556
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: of the ups and flows of ups and down so

1557
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: far just here in your second year. I mean, you

1558
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 1: just have to be strong minded, you know. Growing up,

1559
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:34,879
Speaker 1: you know, I was felt faced a lot of adversity,

1560
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 1: so you know, like this is nothing different. You know,

1561
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: you just have to be strong minded and deal with

1562
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 1: anything that comes your way. You know, as a backup,

1563
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:43,439
Speaker 1: you you don't know if you'll play one play or

1564
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: ninety nine plays, so you just have to be ready

1565
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 1: at any moment, something of adversity growing up that you've

1566
01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:54,800
Speaker 1: dealt with that you draw up on the game confidence up,

1567
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: Uh this this this getting here to to where I'm at,

1568
01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:02,920
Speaker 1: like uh my first four years or um college, yeah,

1569
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: or starting my senior year of high school. I lost

1570
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 1: four of my closest friends, you know, back to back

1571
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:11,200
Speaker 1: to back to back, and like, you know, at some point,

1572
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: like some people may want to give up, you know

1573
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:15,920
Speaker 1: what I mean, But that just made me push harder

1574
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: and made me want us to see see myself succeed more. So,

1575
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, I just used that as as fuel to

1576
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: the fire, thinking about every day, like these aren't just

1577
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: like random friends that I just Man, I'm talking like

1578
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: I get dropped off of my grandma's house and I

1579
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: go outside six in the morning. I'm knocking on the

1580
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 1: door trying to find my friends, you know what I mean,

1581
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 1: dudes are I'm like six seven years old, So like

1582
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: it was like a whole group of friends. It was

1583
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: only like three of us left. So I just used

1584
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:46,360
Speaker 1: that as fuel every single day. All right. That's Jane

1585
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 1: Jackson addressing the media, And you know, we actually had

1586
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: a story about that on Buffalo Bills. Dot Com. Um

1587
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 1: grew up in a in a tough neighborhood, uh in

1588
01:26:55,920 --> 01:27:00,280
Speaker 1: the in the Pittsburgh area. Um and Damar Hamlin, who

1589
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: he was a college teammate of at pitt He basically

1590
01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: grew up with him in that neighborhood and at a

1591
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 1: young age they lost like three or four of their

1592
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 1: friends to gun violence there unfortunately. And as you heard

1593
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 1: Dane said, he uses it as fuel to push him

1594
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 1: forward every day as a professional athlete. Now makes it

1595
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: makes it a a little easier to flush a bad play.

1596
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, when when he've got a pass like that

1597
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: doesn't seem quite so good. Stating gives you a rare

1598
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 1: perspective that most people fortunately don't have to him, and

1599
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 1: it gives you an insight as to how professionally he's become.

1600
01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: And you know, the the environment he's in to this

1601
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: support him and made him ready for this. It's gonna

1602
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:43,000
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. You know. You just got to

1603
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 1: be excited for the kid to get a chance like this. Um.

1604
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: For Dane, we we saw him last year. There were

1605
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,160
Speaker 1: moments last year last season when he flashed and was

1606
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 1: like wow, I awesome, you know, and in fact, we

1607
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: thought he might be the heir apparent to the replacement

1608
01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: to leave Wallace, and he was in that mix and

1609
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: couldn't make couldn't get that to happen. He plays to

1610
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:11,400
Speaker 1: me with an aggression and a confidence that is rare

1611
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: for a kid that young, for a guy that young. Yeah,

1612
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: Steve and I will wrap it up next here on

1613
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. All right, welcome back to the

1614
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:31,639
Speaker 1: the One Bills Live. Steve, We're gonna take our last mail.

1615
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: Bad question, which is based on the wind, which team

1616
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:39,839
Speaker 1: has the advantage New England or Buffalo. That's from Katie

1617
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: Good question, Bills throw up more than the Patriots due

1618
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: home field advantage. I don't know. I think it's a

1619
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: toss up. I don't think it helps or hurts either team.

1620
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: I think people would think it helps the Patriots because

1621
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:59,040
Speaker 1: they run the ball effectively and the wind doesn't affect that.

1622
01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: People would think the Bills have an advantage because Josh

1623
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:04,680
Speaker 1: can cut through the wind. Yeah, and Bills throw it

1624
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: more than they run it, no question. Yeah, I don't

1625
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:08,840
Speaker 1: know if the Patriots do that or no. They probably do,

1626
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: as like any other NFL team, a little bit more

1627
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: than they run it. So yeah, I mean it's I

1628
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:15,719
Speaker 1: think it's a coin flip. I think it's a coin flip.

1629
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: There's your answer, fifty fifty, so win the coin flip. Yeah,

1630
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta run. Check out our Bills by

1631
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1632
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:27,320
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1633
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:29,840
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