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Speaker 1: because he always feel like, and I know this too

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Speaker 1: when we saw it in some of the in the

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Speaker 1: games this year, that early success. For instance, even in

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota game, they came out, they were going to

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Speaker 1: go one, two, three and out, got a penalty, stayed

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Speaker 1: on the field with bang bang bang bang bang down

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Speaker 1: the rest of the field and got the touchdown that

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Speaker 1: play right there. You always feel like, and I know

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Speaker 1: it's just a feeling, there's nothing kind creed about it,

433
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Speaker 1: but you always feel like that ripple effect goes a

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Speaker 1: long way. That early success makes the entire team, or

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Speaker 1: at least you know, in a fans sense and people observing,

436
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Speaker 1: seems to go a long way. And it's you can

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Speaker 1: always go back, or usually you can go back and say, wow,

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Speaker 1: if that would have happened different early in the game,

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Speaker 1: if you would have caught that pass instead of dropping it,

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Speaker 1: or if they would have got that first down instead

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Speaker 1: of you know, having it marked just short, or if

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Speaker 1: they would have gone for it or not punted all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. You know, there's one you can always go

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Speaker 1: back to one place, say, man, that would have been

445
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 1: a much better start and it would have really changed

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Speaker 1: the flow of that game. And I know this too.

447
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,680
Speaker 1: It's just a feeling, but those you know, you're dealing

448
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Speaker 1: with human beings and players, and those feelings count for

449
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Speaker 1: how they perform on the field. And I think I

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Speaker 1: think those early successes on the field, I think they

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Speaker 1: do mean more. I think they do have a ripple

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Speaker 1: effect for later in the game. So and like Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott just said, I think there's He says there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of power and confidence, and that's that's a big statement,

455
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,720
Speaker 1: but it's true. It really is. Bills five and three

456
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: at home last year, oh and one at home so

457
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Speaker 1: far this year. They need to kind of re establish

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Speaker 1: what they were doing at home last year with early success.

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Speaker 1: I believe as they get into this game. Forecast for Sunday,

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00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 1: the weather is going to be cloudy with showers, possible thunder.

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Speaker 1: The high sixty four, the winds light out of the

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Speaker 1: northeast had found to ten miles per hour, forty percent

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Speaker 1: chance of rain. So yeah, we'll be all right with that, right,

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Speaker 1: it'll be all right. Supposed to be eighty seven and

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Speaker 1: Sonny in Cincinnati. I'm gonna need a floppy hat. Steve's

466
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Speaker 1: doing the Miami and Cincinnati on the NFL on CBS.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about that later this hour. Steve

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00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: was a hockey fan. Last night, he's a Sabers season

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Speaker 1: ticket holder. Showed up excited about the start of the

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen twenty nineteen season. Rasmus Daleen and Jack Hichael's

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Speaker 1: a new captain and a whole new cast of characters

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Speaker 1: in Phil Housley's second year and a jam pack Keybank Arena,

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Speaker 1: Keybank Center, and Steve shows up with his son sits

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Speaker 1: down in his seats and then where my instigators? Where

475
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: did his instigators pull over? And then it just kind

476
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,680
Speaker 1: of fell apart, right was it? Was? It over early

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00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: last night down with the arena? I mean, did you

478
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: felt like it? Yeah? He kind of felt like it.

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00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: Didn't you know, it didn't didn't generate enough offensive chances

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Speaker 1: for our team. And listen, yeah, you can put everything

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Speaker 1: I know about hockey into a thimble and you can

482
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: still have room for a shot of whiskey. So all

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00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying is how it felt. And we just didn't

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Speaker 1: create enough chances. And you know, we like the way

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Speaker 1: you say we Yeah, and uh, it was a bummer.

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Speaker 1: You know. I got the free T shirt on the

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Speaker 1: seat and that was okay, But where is it? What

488
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 1: was it? I should have warn it? What did I say?

489
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, Saber's home opener. Okay, it's kind

490
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Speaker 1: of it is nice. It's nice and I appreciate it.

491
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Speaker 1: And I thought it was a really good idea. I

492
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Speaker 1: always think that's toughs a good idea. And I was,

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Speaker 1: um what colored ours was dark blue? In our section? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right up behind the bench were twelve rows up behind

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Speaker 1: the bench. There's it's good seats. But um man, just

496
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: a and I'll tell you what. The team is better

497
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: than it was last year in every way except the

498
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: win loss, you know, except the win loss right now,

499
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Speaker 1: so it seems like they're a better group. I like

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Speaker 1: hunting and goal. He did some nice things. He got

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00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: the first goal. Oh my gosh, you know you got

502
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Speaker 1: Chara is you play till you're like sixty three years

503
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: old for a reason, right. He showed great patience on

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00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: his goal. He walked it right in and uh, you know,

505
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: nobody could get over there to get him fast enough,

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Speaker 1: and he just took his time, walked right in and

507
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: just waited and man just snapped it right to the top.

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Speaker 1: A lot of Bruins fans in the build, not too many, okay,

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00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: not too many. They scored and there's you know, there's

510
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Speaker 1: a little handful over in one corner of the thing

511
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Speaker 1: that stood up and I was like, okay, and then

512
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: there was a scattered much but there was never really

513
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: never really chunks of people. It wasn't you know, it

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00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: wasn't like a Toronto game where you know, they make

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Speaker 1: make make it their life's mission to get in. You know.

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Speaker 1: How was the energy level both on the ice and

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Speaker 1: up in the stands? I mean early it was good.

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Speaker 1: I you know, I enjoyed, you know. I we're kind

519
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: of in tune with the game day experience, we know,

520
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: because a lot of thought goes into the what they

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Speaker 1: do here at the at the new Era stadium. Um,

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00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: it's all right, yeah, it's all right. Did you feel

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Speaker 1: like did the crowd was deflating like when they're down?

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Speaker 1: What was the score? Oh? Yeah, period? Right, Yeah, it

525
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 1: was the energy drained out pretty ya particularly when nothing

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Speaker 1: at the end of the first and I don't know

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Speaker 1: that we had had, you know, not even like five

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Speaker 1: shots on goal or something, and I was like, ah,

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Speaker 1: you know right, so it was it's dunk, but it

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Speaker 1: But you know, I still, um, I still feel like

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Speaker 1: they're a much much better hockey team than they were

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Speaker 1: a year ago. And I think that unlike unlike a

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Speaker 1: year ago, I think they it bummed them out to

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Speaker 1: lose the team. Those guys we're not happy. I mean

535
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: they were, they were putting forth an effort and they

536
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: were frustrated out there at times, and I thought that

537
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: was that in and of itself, was an improvement because

538
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Speaker 1: I remember times last year I was like, am I

539
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: the only one who cares here? I mean, I have

540
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: a question for you if if that continues, and if

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Speaker 1: that comes back, glad, if that comes back this year,

542
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: and then some of you heard I bought a couple

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00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: of games from Steve's season ticket package. If if that's

544
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Speaker 1: the way it turns out to be in January February,

545
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: kind I get a refund? No, I don't want it now,

546
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: but I mean, if it gets like it was, yeah,

547
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: oh yeah, sure sure, But let me tell you something

548
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: if they start to turn around, they're going to the playoffs.

549
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: You can sit at home. I'll be going to the

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00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: playoff games by myself. All right. So the Savers lost

551
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Speaker 1: the season opener. Steve was there despite his best efforts,

552
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: so that he got shut out by the Bruins for

553
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: to nothing. All right, we got a big show. Then

554
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Speaker 1: I tell you the lineup I did, Mark Kelseo coming

555
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: up in a moment from now. We've got the Josh Stamer,

556
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: Robert Royal, a couple of mainstays from the Bills teams

557
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: of the last fifteen years or so. They're going to

558
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: be in studio at one Great Cosal from NFL matchup

559
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: on ESPN. Joins US one thirty, Lorenzo Alexander The Lowdown

560
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: at two o'clock. David Flewellen from Lockport, Tennessee Titans backup

561
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: running back joins US two thirty. Stick around, A lot

562
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: to come, a lot to discuss. We're gonna talk a

563
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: lot about the Sabers and who could be the or

564
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: the Bills rather and Coo could be the MVP if

565
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: they should win on Sunday against Tennessee. Come on back

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Speaker 1: for all of that. It is John Murphy's Team Tasker.

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00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: It is One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, just

568
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: getting started on Buffalo Bill's Radio. New are A Field,

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Speaker 1: Archard Park, New York, home of the Bills, the home

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00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: of Sunday's one o'clock check off the Bills and the

571
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. John Murphy's Steave Tasker. Here here until three o'clock.

572
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: He Steve, I was doing a little research this morning.

573
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: These two teams don't have any extent. Actually they do

574
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: have a long history. He goes back to the first

575
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 1: year of the AFL, but three notable playoff games between

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00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Titans franchise over the years. First

577
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: ever playoff game played in Orchard Park and then rich Stadiums.

578
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: You made a huge but what do you do do

579
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: you recover a fumbled punt or something forced two minutes

580
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: ago we won seventeen ten. Warren Moon took the Oilers down.

581
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: They scored a touchdown to make a seventeen ten. They

582
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: got a one, two, three and out on us and

583
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: it was like two minutes to go, so he was

584
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: going to get the ball back. We punted it away

585
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: and I knocked the ball out and we got it

586
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: played over. He was going to Cincinnati next week playing

587
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game, and then of course the

588
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: great comeback game that you played in, and then you

589
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: did not play in the home run Throwbackracle, the Miracle

590
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: home Run Throwback. Yeah. So I was watching the game

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00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: at home. It's the first year I was retired, and

592
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: that was the only time in my life where I

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Speaker 1: thought I would have a difference on oh, of all

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Speaker 1: the games, right, I thought, wow, I would have made

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Speaker 1: a difference on that play. Wow, because I was kind

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00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: of think you would have tuned and I was watching

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00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: it on TV. I was kind of ahead of it mentally,

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00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: and I was like because I had a big bird's

599
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: eye viewed from the team, and I was like, yeah,

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00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: like they're gonna kick it. I said, you know, they

601
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: kicked it. They kicked it to a fat guy. Yeah,

602
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: he handed it off to an even fatter guy. I go,

603
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: that guy's not going the distance. You gotta fun. They

604
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: kicked it to Neil. Then he canted off to Wycheck

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00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: He's not they're not going it. They're not going the distance.

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Speaker 1: And then Dion Yeah, and then but it's just notable.

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00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: I think three you know, significant playoff games, important playoff

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Speaker 1: games between these two franchises. Steve played in two of them.

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Speaker 1: Our next guests played in two of them. Happy to

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Speaker 1: have Mark Kelso color analysts on the Bills radio network

611
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: and former Bills safety on the line. Right, Mark, you

612
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: played in the home playoff game here when the Bills won,

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Speaker 1: and then you you uh you, and and the other

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Speaker 1: home playoff game, the big comeback game. You played in

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Speaker 1: both those games, didn't you? Yeah? Yeah, I did. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that's correct. I remember Asteves played

617
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: vividly big a bunch of Bill's highlight reels with dropping

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00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: the shoulder on that guy and popping the ball out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: big games, high stakes games. Not exactly the same high

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00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: stakes coming up this weekend, Mark, but a very important

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Speaker 1: game for the Buffalo Bills. I would think this Sunday, huh. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think the Titans have a lot on the

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Speaker 1: line as well, because they're going on the road. They

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00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: think they're a better team this year. They're coming in

625
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: three and one and they want to come out with

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Speaker 1: the road pick three. And the Bills have not played

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Speaker 1: with any consistency yet this year. And you know, the

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00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: game in Minnesota was a kind of an anomaly a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and people didn't think they'd win, and they

630
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: came out and played well and created some turnovers, gave

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Speaker 1: their offensive good opportunities. So they Yeah, they were able

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Speaker 1: to take that game on the road, which is a

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00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: difficult place to win. And then last week unfortunately did

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00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: not go as well, but another opportunity to go out

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Speaker 1: and learn and grow and hopefully put together a fine

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Speaker 1: performance in front of the hometown fans. I've made the

637
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: assertion during the week that the Titans probably we have

638
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: as two of us impressive wins back to back in

639
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: these last two weeks. Is anybody in the league beating

640
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's nine to six and then beating the defending world

641
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: champion Philadelphia Eagles. I thought those are two pretty impressive wins. Yeah,

642
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: with that question, Steve, it was. And there they look

643
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: to me like they're very well coached. They do some

644
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: things very well, and there's a lot of New England

645
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: and I make no mistakes about it. Rabel learned well

646
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: when he was in New England playing in New England

647
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: for all those years, and the great teams that he

648
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: was on, and and they they're gonna make you just

649
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: like New England does. I mean they want to make

650
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: you think from the out for an offensive perspective, it's

651
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: if it's Mariota and an offensive unit, they're going to

652
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: make you think defensively. And then you know, if they're

653
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, they're going to

654
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: do a lot of things and try to confuse you

655
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: a little bit. And they're going to play a bunch

656
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: of cover two packages where they have the corners on

657
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: the outside and those safeties between the hash and the numbers,

658
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're going to drop those safeties. Sometimes they're

659
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: gonna lead them in the hole and expect their past

660
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: rush to force the ball out quickly so they don't

661
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: have to move at all, and it presents some opportunities,

662
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: but it'll it'll create a little bit of confusion for

663
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: the Phill's offensive unit as well, and they'll have to

664
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: deal with that if they want to come out victoriously.

665
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: I was trying to see when I were talking a

666
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: little bit, and I said, I mean, I am impressed

667
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: with the front seven of Tennessee and the experience they

668
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: have there. Darrell Casey and Derek Morgan and Brian A.

669
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: Rackpo Um. These are guys who played in the league

670
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: a little bit and kind of know what they want

671
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: to do on defense, led by a more than capable

672
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: coordinator in Dean P's, the former Ravens coordinator. Yeah, with

673
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: that question, they know what they want to do. I

674
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: mean the one thing they line up in that wide

675
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: nine a lot and the rack bo is coming off

676
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,479
Speaker 1: the edge and uh and sometimes it's Morgan, sometimes Wesley

677
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: woodyards up there. If it's if it's a situation where

678
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: it's a third down situation and maybe they're replacing some

679
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: guys on the inside, but they can they can rush

680
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: the passer. They they really are stout inside as well.

681
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: Those guys as inside guys with Kwan Jones and and

682
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: Johnson and Benny Logan. I mean, those guys really use

683
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: their arms well extend and so there's not a whole

684
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: lot of room up in there. But I think there's

685
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: the Bills can find some running room and that because

686
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: they line up on that wide nine so often that

687
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: there's some room on the outside of minute. They're coming

688
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: off that outside edge and they're trying to disrupt the

689
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,239
Speaker 1: quarterback and disrupt that timing. So I think there may

690
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: be some opportunities to run and that that part of

691
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: that defensive unit to linebackers. I think, you know, you

692
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: know how I complain all the time about linebackers playing

693
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: too tight and getting caught up in traffic. These linebackers

694
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: played about five or five and a half, which is

695
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: where I like linebackers. So they have a really good

696
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to attack the correct shoulder of the blocker that's

697
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: intended to create some space for the running back. And

698
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: consequently they have good angles of entry and limit some gains.

699
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: And and they've done some good things. I mean, there's

700
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: no question they there are some vulnerabilities I think that

701
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: the Bills can take advantage of, but put on the

702
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, they've done some pretty good things.

703
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: They have twelve sacks already in the year, a few interceptions,

704
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: and they tackle pretty well from the secondary position. To

705
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: talk about their secondary Mark Logan Ryan, Malcolm Butler, and

706
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: then a Door Jackson they like. Do they like to

707
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: go three corners a lot? Or is that just a

708
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: function of the league and the offenses they face. Yeah,

709
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: I mean I think they're gonna play it most of

710
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, if there's twelve personnel with the

711
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: two side ends, they may go regular personnel on first down,

712
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: but if you're you know, if it's second down and

713
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: you got twelve personnel in there and it's second and

714
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: anywhere from five plus, they're gonna put their nickel package in.

715
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: There's no question. And on first down there's a lot

716
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: of times that if they feel like the Bills, particularly,

717
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: I mean if they feel like there's opponents that they're playing,

718
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: is just gonna run, run with the play action game

719
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: and throw a large percentage of the time on first down,

720
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: and they may just play their nickel package with that

721
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: with that big personnel in addition, so they're in nickel

722
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: package an awful lot and uh and they play it well.

723
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they got guys that can come down and

724
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: make some plays. And again, their cornerbacks tackle well. Malcolm

725
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Butler and Logan Ryan both have over twenty tackles on

726
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: the year already. So you know when that happens that

727
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: a couple things. They're playing some man and they're getting

728
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: thrown too. So they're making plays and in the run game,

729
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,760
Speaker 1: they're they're on the edge and they're responsible for setting

730
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: the edge if they're playing that that cover due to

731
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: defense with the corners up near the line of scrimmages

732
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: and they're going to be responsible for containing that running back.

733
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 1: And now there's good evidence of it right there because

734
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: they're so involved in tackling and mark. We know the

735
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: Bills have injury issues at safety, with neither Micah Hyde

736
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: nor Raphael Bush being able to practice this week. Titans

737
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: have some issues as well, however, right with the Kenny

738
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: mccar al most likely out with the elbow injury he

739
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,280
Speaker 1: suffered last week, and he was a backup for Jonathan

740
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: Cyprian who got injured during training camp, they might find

741
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: themselves lining up a rookie back there. Dane Krukshank, what

742
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: do you think are they gonna be okay in the

743
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: back end of their defense? Plus then you get thinking,

744
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: what what weapons of the Bills have you know, emerging

745
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: to expose anybody back there? Well, yeah, Robert Foster obviously

746
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: has been a guy that's been been able to create

747
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: some some separation and get some vertical stretch from opposing defenses.

748
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, if the Carl is unable to play, I

749
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,479
Speaker 1: mean that creates an issue. You see, there's a couple

750
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: of things that they do a little bit differently guys.

751
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: So when they're playing, and that cover two looks, so

752
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: just get the mental pictures. So the corners are up

753
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: near the line of scrimmage. It could be on the

754
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, could be back three or four yards,

755
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: but they generally have the distance from ten yards from

756
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage downfield up to the line of scrimmage.

757
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: And then the safeties between the hash and the numbers,

758
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: and those safeties they'll play. They'll do a couple of

759
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: different things. Number one is they like their pass rush,

760
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: so they're going to line up at about twelve to

761
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: fourteen yards, they're gonna back to two or three yards.

762
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna stop right there. So there's some opportunity to

763
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: get some plays in behind those guys, and particularly if

764
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: these young guys are playing and guys that don't have

765
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: as much experience, there may be some opportunity. Philadelphia find

766
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: an opportunity in that situation. And then sometimes they'll invert

767
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: it as well, which I really like. I mean, I'll

768
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 1: like pelling that kind of defense. So the safeties will stay,

769
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: we'll stay right there and come down a little bit tighter.

770
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: The cornerbacks will go back and play between the hash

771
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: and the numb and the linebackers fly out to the

772
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: flat for anybody that's going in that area, and that

773
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: creates some confusion, but it also creates some opportunity. If

774
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: you put more than one opportunity, more than one receiver

775
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: in that area, that presents an opportunity for the Bill's offense.

776
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: And there's some there's some places to run against this team.

777
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked a bunch about like remember, you

778
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: know how they play the overfront. So they're playing a

779
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: forty defense typically four guys on the line of scrimmage

780
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: unless they're bringing pressure and uh, and they're going to

781
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: play with the shaded to one side, whatever side they

782
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 1: feel like there's the strength of the running side. Sometimes

783
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: it's to the to the open field side. And and

784
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: so there's opportunities to run back to that other side.

785
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: You can seal, you can you can you can fold

786
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: block and do some things in some misdirection plays that

787
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: will create some opportunities hopefully for Lusha McCoy in the run. Again,

788
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: what about what about Marcus Murphy? Is he available this week?

789
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: He's been practicing on a full time basis this week. Yes,

790
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: I think he'll be ready. Yeah, nice, that's a good

791
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: thing too. I mean, because they play I mean, their

792
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: their package pressure package voices a fifty one backer, so

793
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: meaning that there's five pass rushers, one of them as

794
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: a linebacker, and they're playing man coverage with the free

795
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: safety on the other side of that. And there'll be

796
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: some opportunities there, particularly in the passing game, to be

797
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: able to get Marcus out or Leashan or again whoever's

798
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: playing in that spot on a third down situation. There's

799
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: going to be some opportunities, but you're gonna have to

800
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: get rid of it quick and unless you want to

801
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: be on the run or under siege. What about the

802
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: opportunities for the Bills defense. They've been playing way better

803
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks. What do you expect from

804
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: the Bills defense against a Titan offense? Yeah, I mean,

805
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, they do some interesting things. So this is

806
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: the only team I've seen so far this year that

807
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: they run the quarterback read, the true quarterback read, and

808
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: they run it from from like a you know what

809
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: I would call a crossbo action. So Mariode is in

810
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: the shotgun, He's got he's got Henry on one side,

811
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: he's got Bean Lewis on the other side. And those

812
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: guys are going to cross in front of him and

813
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: he may fake to both of them, he may pull

814
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: it out. So if you don't have great discipline, the

815
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: defensive ends don't have great discipline, he's going to have

816
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get the ball down the field. And

817
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: they like to run up inside. So if they like

818
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: to run up inside and take them out of their

819
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: game and force them to the edge. And that's that's

820
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: why I think that that package with the two safeties

821
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: would be really good because when you do that, everybody,

822
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: everybody forces the running back to the outside and then

823
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: you force them to hopefully the cornerback who's out there,

824
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: or if if he tries to step up inside around

825
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: the numbers and the safeties there in that situation. So,

826
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's some some good opportunities bills. Defensively,

827
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: they don't they don't handle some twist stunts very well.

828
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: So I think there's some opportunities there. And when you

829
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: cross those guys the tackles and defensive ends again, there's

830
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: an opportunity to push those guys to the outside. But

831
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: will make no mistake. I mean, they're going to try

832
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: to create confusion. They may run. They'll motion guys, shift guys,

833
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: they'll do three or four different things and then fake

834
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: a screen one way and running back the other way.

835
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: And so they're going to make you think, and you've

836
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: got to be in position. You got to know where

837
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: your first steps are so that you give yourself a

838
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: good opportunity as the down begins. I like Mariot a lot.

839
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: He's he's a guy that I think he throws a

840
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: really catchable ball. He throws an accurate ball, doesn't have

841
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: great great velocity on it, solid velocity, but when he

842
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: plants his feet and he steps into the throw, it's

843
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: pretty good velocity. But when you force him prevent him

844
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 1: from stepping into the throw, then he has some issues.

845
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: So getting you know, pressure in that middle so he

846
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: can't step up in that pocket and step into the

847
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: throw would be really helpful to the guys in the

848
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: back end. With Mark Kelso, color analysts on the Bills

849
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Speaker 1: Radio Network Marked as extensive video review of the Bill's

850
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: opponents each week, and Mark, during the course of your

851
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: review of the Titans this week, you know so much

852
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: controversy in the NFL this year about the proper tackling

853
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 1: technique and lowering the helmet to initiate contact. You found

854
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: some instances from Tennessee of both the right way and

855
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: the wrong way to do it. Huh yeah, and not

856
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: not necessarily, I mean the wrong way from the way

857
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: we're teaching it now and ways that it was done

858
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: in the past, and ways that that quite frankly make

859
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: both the person who has the ball and the tackling

860
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: player vulnerable to injury, whether it's putting your head across

861
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: the front, because it's all about keeping your head kind

862
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: of behind the player now in a rap and role technique.

863
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: There were some really good plays in this game, and

864
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: you are we talking about in the in the Philadelphia

865
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Speaker 1: Titans in Tennessee Philadelphia games, So some really good plays.

866
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean a couple of plays that were I think

867
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Speaker 1: the technique was demonstrated beautifully by a couple of the safeties.

868
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: And then a couple of plays when when those those

869
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: guys in the back end kind of crossed over and

870
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: put their head right in the middle of the ball

871
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: carrier who was who was coming down field and either

872
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: doves their legs or just put their head right in

873
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: their mid section, and which is again when you want

874
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: to play the game safely. And successfully. There were a

875
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Speaker 1: number of plays that I thought were really really well done,

876
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Speaker 1: and one of them was by by Malcolm Butler. So

877
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: they ran a speed outcut. Malcolm Butlers on the right

878
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: side of the defense, so he's looked at the Philadelphia

879
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: offense I think it was agiler and and he came

880
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: down and ran about a ten yard outcut and here

881
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 1: comes Malcolm Butler and he started to progress up field

882
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: just a little bit, and Malcolm Butler was approaching from

883
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: the right side, put his right shoulder right on the

884
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: kind of the chess plate of Agilare and popped the

885
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: ball out at the same time, wrapped and rolled, and

886
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful example of the way that you'd

887
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: like players to tackle now, to keep their head out

888
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: of contact and to make it safer for the other

889
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: player as well, because he didn't get down to his knees.

890
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: He kept himself up above the waist of the receiver.

891
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of examples there. I think that

892
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: you might be shown. There's a couple of examples when

893
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: guys come up and they cross over, so they take

894
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: their left shoulder and they try to they try to

895
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: put their their they go across the body of the player,

896
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: which again exposes yourself to injury, and and the other

897
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: player that the players got the football, it's the injury

898
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I think one of the things that

899
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: we're seeing Mark, and I mentioned this to some of

900
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: the Bills players that we had on. You're getting more

901
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: shoulder injuries now for defenders than you have in the past,

902
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: I think, And a lot of it is the fact

903
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: that they're taking their head out of the way and

904
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: it puts their shoulder at the point where the shoulders

905
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: now taking the brunt of the of the force and

906
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: the speed that you come on in there with. Have

907
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: you noticed that or is that just me? Well? Yeah,

908
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: I mean I hadn't really thought about it too much

909
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: until you mentioned it. But obviously Tron Johnson has had

910
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: an issue. And although he's a he's a bit of

911
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: a smaller player, tremendously athletic and really like what he

912
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: brings to the table, but he's he's given up a

913
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: lot of weight to the running backs that are coming

914
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: out there because he probably lets you go a buck

915
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: eighty five or something, right, and he's trying to attack

916
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: lenning beasts or two ten two twenty a time. So

917
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I got a solution for that as well.

918
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: Just put a soft pad on the outside of a

919
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: hard shoulder pad and then that would manage that energy better.

920
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: But hey, i'd rather hurt my shoulder or or you know,

921
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: I'd rather you've got to lead with your shoulder. And

922
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: it may, in fact that maybe the case. I don't know.

923
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd have to see the statistics on that,

924
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: but but it's a It's a much better way to tackle,

925
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: there's no question. And I and in my mind too,

926
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: it's it's a running back, is not. I mean, they

927
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: may disagree between but they're not looking to run over

928
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: a defender per se. They're looking to avoid a defender

929
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: and find the open space less. Shan McCoy does that

930
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,959
Speaker 1: as as well or better than anybody, and sometimes because

931
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: of his stature and and the fact that he isn't,

932
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred and twenty five pounds, he doesn't

933
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: like to take the brunt of some of those hits.

934
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: But he makes people miss all the time. And that's

935
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: what I think of running backs mentality should be. And

936
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: if that's the case, and then then I think both

937
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: players would would enjoy a better safety when they're making

938
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: a tackle at the same time. Hey, Mark, thanks for this.

939
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,439
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you Sunday. Thank you very much. Look

940
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: forward to guys. Have a good afternoon. Mark Kelseo, a

941
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: long time Buffalo Bill safety a longtime color analyst on

942
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: the Bills Radio Network, with his take on tackling, how

943
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: it's changed in the NFL and on the Tennessee Titans,

944
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo's opponents. On Sunday, Steve and I back with more

945
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: coming up One Wheals Live from One Wheels Drive on

946
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One

947
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. Got a big show

948
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: coming up here. We've already started it with Mark kelsel

949
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: coming up after the top of the hour, a couple

950
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: of guests from for Alumni Week. It is Alumni Week

951
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: here on the show as well, including Steve Tasker, our

952
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: co host. Steve's on his way to go to Cincinnati

953
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals. What

954
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: kind of a game are you looking at there, buddy?

955
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: What do you expect? I think it's gonna be a

956
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: good game. Two three and one teams, Although the Miami

957
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: Dolphins are coming off a thumping at the hands of

958
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. I think they got a little

959
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: bit exposed, exposed, no question about it. And minute and

960
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: Cincinnati coming off a really nice w in down in

961
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: Atlanta where they went down and in the last ten

962
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: seconds of the game scored a touchdown with a great

963
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: throw by Andy Dalton. And it seems to me two

964
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: teams for as good as a record as both of

965
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: them have. I think they're kind of headed in opposite directions.

966
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: Miami moving into a more difficult part of their schedule. Yeah,

967
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: that's tough little road stretch for the Dolphins at New

968
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: England at Yeah, and I think I think it's gonna show.

969
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: I don't think that Miami is as good as their record,

970
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: and I think, quite frankly, Cincinnati's better than theirs three

971
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: and one. I think they're really good. I think they

972
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: really are. And they're at home as well, so I

973
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: think Miami's gonna I don't think Miami's gonna get embarrassed

974
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: like they did in New England, but I think Cincinnati's

975
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: is the is the better team. You saw the Dolphins

976
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: at Foxboro last week. Somebody asked me to whatever happened

977
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: to Keiko Alonso. How does Keko look for the Dolphins.

978
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: He's playing very well for them, playing very well for them.

979
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: He's a He's been a big part of what they do.

980
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: He's making them plays all over the field, runs sideline

981
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: to sideline for them. He's in past as coverage. He

982
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: is on the field all the time for their defense,

983
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: and I think he's the focal point of their their

984
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: secondary in linebacking corps. Steve's game this week, He's headed

985
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati for the NFL on CBS sideline reporter for

986
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Bengals, And this happens to be

987
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: a bit of a milestone game for you. I didn't

988
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: know until we saw somebody tweeted some website weird or pointless,

989
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: um what is it called sports research or something, and

990
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: they said, this is my three hundredth game for CBS.

991
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: Not necessarily on the sidelines, but no, yeah, covering it

992
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: for them in Sunway shape or fashions. Yeah, over how

993
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: many years? Fifteen, twenty two, twenty two years. I think

994
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: it's my twenty second season. What was the stat It's

995
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: like you are among what thirty thirty? I'm like one

996
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: of thirty people who have done three hundred games. Wow,

997
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: that's big. How big it is? But it's pretty big.

998
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: That's like, you know, that's like saying the people who

999
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: that's like saying the people who cover politics are more

1000
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: important than the politicians. And it's yeah, it's kind of,

1001
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of I've been doing it for a while,

1002
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I did it from from the

1003
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Speaker 1: first season. I was retired after ninety seven. Ninety eight

1004
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: is my first year in the booth, and I've been

1005
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: there with CBS the entire time. Now I haven't done

1006
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: I haven't done sixteen games a year or seventeen games

1007
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: a year. Only I did that maybe you know half

1008
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: of that, But for the rest of it, I've been

1009
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: doing seven, eight, twelve, fifteen games. And now this year

1010
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: we'll be working seventeen weeks, a little Saturday night, the

1011
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: pregame celebration. Yeah, why not, right, Harlan? And uh, how

1012
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: many games do you think, Kevin Harlan's probably yeah, right?

1013
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: And how many NBA games? Is those played by play guys?

1014
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: You know how that is? I mean, you cross over,

1015
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: you cross over into basketball, baseball, football, it is it seems,

1016
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: it seems, it seems impossible to think about it. It

1017
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: seems impossible. It's possible. Three game coming up Sunday for

1018
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: Steve all right. When we return, we're gonna talk to

1019
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: a couple of Bills alumni here for Alumni weekend. Former

1020
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: linebacker Josh Stamer, who played for both the Bills and

1021
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, and former Bills tight end Robert Royal.

1022
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: They are here. They're gonna be on in the set

1023
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: with us when we come back. Come on back for that.

1024
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: Plus Gregg co Sal from NFL. There, they are there.

1025
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: You can see him and Marty Baron. Marty's not going

1026
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: on the show. Party's still hanging around. Uh yeah, we

1027
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: got Gregg co Sal from Edge NFL matchup on ESPN.

1028
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: He's coming up next hour as well, So come on back.

1029
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: John Murphy, steep Tasker One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

1030
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radiollo Hills Radio Network. Sports Update

1031
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills wrapping up their practice

1032
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: week with a session today outdoors on the grass practice

1033
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: field here in Orchard Partner, York. No practice today for

1034
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: tight end Charles Clay, still dealing with a number of injury.

1035
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: Safety's Micah Hyde and Raphael Bush both missing practice today.

1036
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: They have not practiced all week. Both of the Bush

1037
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: has rib injuries. Micah Hyde has the groin. The Bills

1038
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: may have to make a move to add a safety

1039
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: to the roster before Sunday's game. Veteran Dean Marlow on

1040
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: the practice squad maybe signed for the game Bills in

1041
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee coming up Sunday one o'clock kickoff. The weather forecast

1042
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: looks pretty good here in Orchard Park for Sunday, with

1043
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: Cloudy's guys, slight chance of rain in the temperature in

1044
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: the sixties. Last night, the NFL schedule got started with

1045
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the New England Patriots holding off a

1046
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback to tempt by the Indianapolis Colts. They

1047
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: beat the Colts thirty eight to twenty four. Colts dropped

1048
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: to one and four. The Patriots go to three and

1049
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: two with the victory last night. Packers wide receiver Randall

1050
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: Cobb has been ruled out for this week's game again.

1051
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: He's got the injury. He missed the Bills game last

1052
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: week with a hamstring injury he's sustained in practice on

1053
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: September thirtieth, and he is out for Green Base game

1054
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 1: this week against Detroit. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees

1055
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: getting set to play, and he's a chance to get

1056
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: a big NFL record again this week. He's two hundred

1057
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: one yards away from becoming the NFL's all time passing

1058
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Speaker 1: yardage leader, poised to pass both Peyton Manning and Brett

1059
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Speaker 1: Barr on Monday Night football when the Saints hosts the

1060
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. Savers lost their season opener to the Bruins

1061
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: last night for to nothing. Carter Hutton twenty two saves

1062
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: on twenty two shots for the Savers in his first

1063
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: start in goal. Buffalo practicing today at Key Banks Center.

1064
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: Maybe a mix up of some line combinations for Buffalo

1065
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: tonight next game tomorrow night against the New York Rangers.

1066
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: Opening weekend festivities continue with the Party in the Alumni

1067
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: Plaza and baseball playoffs. Four games all over Major League

1068
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: Baseball Today, Game one of the American League Division Series

1069
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: Cleveland at Houston. That game coming up tonight Colorado and

1070
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: Minnesota game two of their series. The Yankees play at

1071
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: Boston and Atlanta plays at Los Angeles. That's the update

1072
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our

1073
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio. A couple of special guests joining us

1074
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: in studio right now here for alumni weekend, here to

1075
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: watch the Bills in the Tennessee Titans. We are very

1076
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: happy to have former Bills Titan end Robert Royal back

1077
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: with us today. Welcome Robert. I thank you guys for

1078
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: have miss Happy to have former linebacker and special team

1079
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: or Josh Steamer on the other side. Hi, Josh, how

1080
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: are you well? Welcome back, Robert. Let's start with you.

1081
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: What brought you back this weekend? What got you here

1082
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: back here to Buffalo? Well, you know, Buffalo has always

1083
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: been been kind to me. Man. I love this community

1084
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: in city until some of our friends here having a

1085
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: sixty at so we happened to come up and uh,

1086
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: not only gonna joy the sixty at birthday, but we're

1087
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: also gonna come out to the game this weekend. Would

1088
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: you play here three years for ye? Yeah, three years

1089
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: from six though nine. And I'm always not amazed, but

1090
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: I think it's great to know that you're here three

1091
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: years and you made lifelong friends in that short time.

1092
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: You know what, You just never know the people that

1093
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet. That's gonna impact your life. And so

1094
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: we travel the world with him for the last i

1095
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: want to say, eight years, and so it's one of

1096
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: those things that we've always done and is beautiful to

1097
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: come back to a city where you love. You know,

1098
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: somebody's having a big sixtieth birthday. So he came back

1099
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: and did you know did you know it was alumni

1100
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: week this week? Did you come back for that too? Well,

1101
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm actually coming back for the alumni week on the

1102
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty night here weeks. Yeah, yeah, for the

1103
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: for the Monday night game, for the Monday night games Patriots.

1104
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: But my wife's gonna be mad when we beat the

1105
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 1: Patriots that that Monday Night still says we you play. Yeah,

1106
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, Josh, what brings you back here? My

1107
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: kids are at that age where where there they can

1108
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: actually remember these experiences. Max seven and Eva's three. So

1109
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: bringing my wife and my family back to show them where,

1110
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: uh you know, to the city that means so much

1111
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: to me. You were here, oh three do two thousand

1112
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: and seven? They were either not around or too young, right,

1113
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 1: but even they weren't here, were even here? Ye here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

1114
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: You played a lot around the league, why does Buffalo

1115
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: mean that much too? Uh Well, Buffalo as a special

1116
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: place in my heart because they took henriy for so

1117
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: many years. Um, and it was great to retire a

1118
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill as well. I went off and got a

1119
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: second contract with Tennessee Titans, and uh um got hurt

1120
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: through my second season, and Buffalo was kind of bringing

1121
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: me back for the last four games of in December.

1122
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: Uh that last year I played and uh um, so

1123
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: I retired a Buffalo Bill. So you've got this game

1124
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: this week though, for both teams that you played for,

1125
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Bills. And you still have any

1126
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: ties or is there anybody left from the tip because

1127
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: I know things change real fast and NFL. Do you

1128
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: have any ties to the Titans at all? Anyboddies or

1129
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 1: anybody in like coaches or stuff. I know, I know

1130
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: coach Rabel right, I played against him, Yeah, against when

1131
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: I was playing, uh when we played the Patriots all

1132
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: those years. So I can't wait to get and give

1133
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: Rabel a bunch of crap on from the sideline. But yeah,

1134
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: you know there's coaches and players all around the league,

1135
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 1: and and you know they still have upper management people

1136
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: that I got to know really well, Uh, there in Tennessee. So,

1137
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: Josh Stamer, Robert Royal joining Steve and I in studio.

1138
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: You guys got here today and did you go and

1139
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 1: watch a little practice lay around? I haven't had the

1140
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: chance to watch a little practice to day yet. We're

1141
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: just flowing this morning, so I can't wait to check

1142
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 1: out the new facilities. Things look really, really, really great

1143
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: around here, and I love it, man. I thought I

1144
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: was in the farm world at first. When I came

1145
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: in here. I thought I was seeing a lot of stuff,

1146
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: and not only just the stadium. You look at the

1147
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: set in general, you see everything from the development going

1148
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: on with all the new restaurants and hotels popping up

1149
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: all over the place. So, and I haven't had a

1150
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: chance to go downtown where heard the pugulas made a

1151
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: huge impact, So I want to go down there and

1152
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: check that stuff out as well. Yeah, did you what

1153
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: did you notice? Have you been through the stadium yet?

1154
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: I haven't, you think, Josh. Uh, It's just I'm amazed

1155
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: at some of the where where it used to be

1156
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: parking lots and now it's buildings right and uh um,

1157
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: It's just everything has changed since I was here. In

1158
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. Um, whether it be from the

1159
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: practice field outside um to the indoor facility and and

1160
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: uh locker rooms right uh, just everything has changed and

1161
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: it's all for the head. It's amazing about the unbelievable. Unbelievable. Definitely,

1162
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: definitely will do that. Yeah, definitely. Um talking about restaurants, Uh,

1163
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: Josh you I know you're a restaurant guy. Oh yeah,

1164
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: I love I love the Buffalo restaurants. Yeah. It's better

1165
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: than it was when you were here in the two

1166
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: thousand and three day. Oh yeah, yes, oh yeah, well

1167
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: that's great. You know, I'll be down at Hutches. I

1168
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go down to Hush. Yeah. It's a

1169
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: food town, it is. They really really and they make

1170
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: great food around here, great food. Yeah. Yeah, Josh, I

1171
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: want to talk to you a little bit about the

1172
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: way you made your bones in the NFL, the way

1173
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,479
Speaker 1: you made living similar to the mister, you know, seven

1174
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: time pro bowler here is Steve Tasker. You came in

1175
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:06,439
Speaker 1: and you really had to hustle to make the team

1176
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: on special teams, right, that's its definitely, you know I

1177
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: was I was one of the last people to always

1178
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: make the team right. I was always waiting for that call,

1179
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: whether I was going to be on the team or

1180
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: or I was going to be looking for a job.

1181
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, so I was. I was that guy

1182
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: that the hustler, you know, on special teams and made

1183
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: a living that way. So yeah, you were. And I

1184
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: you talk about how difficult it is and how hard

1185
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: is this stick in the league. I mean we've all

1186
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: been kind of all been through that. You were with

1187
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: the Giants, got cut twice, like two different training camps.

1188
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: You were out of football for you. Then they sent

1189
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: you to the Ams, to Amsterdam. He played for the Admirables,

1190
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: Admirals in NFL Europe. Finally made your way back. I

1191
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: cut by the Sea. I mean it was a it

1192
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: was a bumpy road to get to the Buffalo Bills,

1193
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: where you spent two or three four years on the field, Right,

1194
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: And they talk a little bit about what that taught

1195
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: you and can you what do you? I mean, you

1196
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: tell your kids later and they're gonna say, why do

1197
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: you playing in NFL? Yeah, wasn't that easy? Right? I

1198
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,919
Speaker 1: mean did you learn something from the year you bounced around?

1199
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: I mean, there's I know what it is you kind

1200
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: of feel hopeless something right. Right. There's so many lessons

1201
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: that I learned and in trying to make the NFL

1202
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: team before. I mean the biggest one is rather, you know,

1203
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: never give up on your dreams, right, you know. I

1204
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: tell my son that all the time. I mean, if

1205
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: you have a dream and a goal, there's a way

1206
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: to get there. Um. And just because you hear no,

1207
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how many times you hear no. There's

1208
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: always somebody out there that I'll say yes, so um.

1209
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: But there's always kind of all kinds of lessons that

1210
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: go into that, right um. Uh. Yeah. I was at

1211
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: a pretty low point after I got cut by the Seahawks,

1212
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: right because I thought this was my dream uh um.

1213
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 1: And I really thought. I never had anybody tell me

1214
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: that I wasn't good enough. It was just, um, you know,

1215
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: this is not not the right place at the right time. Um.

1216
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: And so I came to the the Bills open tryout. Right,

1217
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 1: anybody can come open tryout. I mean you can have

1218
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: a fifty year old that shows up trying to get

1219
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: on the team, you know, long snapping. Um. Me and

1220
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Neufeld Uh we came to that open tryout and

1221
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: we stuck on the Bills, you know, for five to

1222
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: six seven years. I remember that. Yeah, Josh, Gamer Robert

1223
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: and Robert. You came in a different way, right, you

1224
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: were a draft pick of Washington and the big free

1225
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: agent move up here. Tell me about it was six right,

1226
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Tell me about that decision to

1227
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: leave Washington where you had been drafted and playing, and

1228
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: to come up here to Buffalo. What was that like?

1229
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 1: It was just one of those things, like Josh said,

1230
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: you know, whenever you're in a situation where you fail

1231
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: wanted and needed, uh, it's always a good feeling. And

1232
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: I was there in Washington for four years, and uh,

1233
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: I think during that time there was doing some different

1234
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: transitional stuff. When Joe Gibbs came and I played with him,

1235
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: and so at the time I came on a visit here,

1236
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: h and it just so happened. Everything was perfect. You know.

1237
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: They offered a great opportunity, told me I can expand

1238
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: my role in the offense, and uh, I felt wanting,

1239
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,479
Speaker 1: and so as a player, you always want to feel wanting,

1240
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's like coming out of college again. And

1241
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: so it was just a great feeling here you played

1242
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: for and tell me about him and his staff. Who

1243
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: did you find yourself getting a lot from him? That Bill,

1244
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: you know what it was? It was really really cool.

1245
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: You know. After being able to play in the league

1246
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: for a few years after Dick, I realized the importance

1247
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 1: of being a veteran player. Of the things that Dick

1248
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: did really well for us. He really took care of

1249
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: veteran guys, you know. And I think the more you

1250
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: look back at it, during those times when training camp,

1251
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: you can go to a days, you know, multiple days

1252
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: in a row. You didn't have this time where you

1253
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: had to take these days off. He really allowed you

1254
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: as a player to take care of your body. And

1255
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: that's some of the things that I think now that

1256
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: you look back on that you respect about him as

1257
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: a coaching staff. In addition, I like the fact he

1258
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: allowed you to be with your family during training I

1259
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: guess I ask one question of both of you. Robert,

1260
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: you can go first. You guys have only been out

1261
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: of the league a handful of years. Yeah, I've been

1262
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: out two decades, and I see a big change in

1263
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: what has happened in the league. Do you guys see

1264
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: subtle changes from when you retired. Of course, when I

1265
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: first got in. You know, prior to that, you can

1266
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: you can blind slide, you know, craike back on on bootlegs,

1267
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Speaker 1: you know, and then the high Swart rule came in,

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Speaker 1: you know, so it was a lot of things that

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00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: you talked about. We was able to play under those

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00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: some old rules that they had prior to the new regime.

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00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: So we definitely can see the difference in the game,

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00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: some good, some bad. You know, hopefully they can find

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00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: that that that that that middle ground. That way, the

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00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: fans and everyone continue respect the game, and the players

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00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: respect the game, and we continue. You're progressing a fall away, right,

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00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: just the physicality overall the game and the physicality of

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00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: the game as has uh um has changed for me. Um,

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00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, I made I made a living on kickoff,

1279
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: getting getting a full head of speed, right, running into

1280
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: a wedge what's the wedge? Three or four offensive lineman,

1281
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: just running into them as hard as I can, right,

1282
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: and um obviously that's not allowed any yeah right, yeah, right,

1283
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: trying trying to avoid them, but not always, not always

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00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: the case. But um yeah, it's just the physicality overall.

1285
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: And again, like like Robert said, um uh, I think

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00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: nfl uh was always became America's sport because of the

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00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: physicality and the and the glad eater type. Um uh

1288
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: style that football. Um, you know what do you allowed?

1289
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: I mean you think that like for guys like the

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00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: three of us, would you be averse to have them

1291
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: go back to a little bit more contact that kind

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00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: of thing. If, for instance, the league said, Okay, if

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01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: you're vested in the NFL, we're gonna give you lifetime healthcare,

1294
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: no matter what pops up later in your life, We'll

1295
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: take care of you. Then we're gonna stop protecting the quarterback.

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01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna let your crack back on blocks, We're gonna

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01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: let you use your hand, all that stuff. I think

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01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: that again, like Robert said, there's a happy medium. But um,

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Speaker 1: I'd be totally in on that. Absolutely, I'd be totally

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01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: in on that. Um. Again, some of these crackbacks and stuff, Um,

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01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: I don't think they need to be in the game. Um,

1302
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: you don't absolutely need to kill somebody. You can just

1303
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: box about. We just used to send a message using

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01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: that right, Um. But uh, um, other things I definitely

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01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: would love to see back. Yeah, And like Josh said,

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01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: I think, um, regardless, you just want to be you

1307
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: want to have consistency, you know, right now, I think, uh,

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01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're seeing some calls being made for some

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01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: players and some calls made for not being made for others.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's where we having so much to

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Speaker 1: this what's going on, because you know, the quarterbacks getting

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01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: all the calls. So if you're gonna do that, just

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01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: keep it consistent throughout the rest of the positions, and

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01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: I think will start to when the game evolves like

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01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: it has. That's the old problem because it's always changing

1316
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: and always evolving. They you know, we're the only major

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01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: sport that the rules change every year. They evolve every year,

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Speaker 1: so in that evolution, there's always some inconsistencies. Now, I

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01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: think that's for the players, am I right? That's the

1320
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: frustrating fall. I mean, I mean you grow up learning

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01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: a certain way to tackle. Now all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you need to change when you're a professional, you've been

1323
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: playing for twenty years. I think that's really tough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really do think that's tough. And just like alignment,

1325
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: if you can get cut, you know, as a offensive

1326
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: alignment could cut a defensive alignment and vice versa, and

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Speaker 1: do certain things to put those guys in position to

1328
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Speaker 1: be jeopardized and hurt their career. It should go the

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Speaker 1: same way. When you're going the rest of the quarterback

1330
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: and a guy gets slapped on the top of his helmet,

1331
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: doesn't even affect to play whatsoever, but he's gonna call

1332
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Speaker 1: the flag because you're trying to protect that guy. Those

1333
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: rules came in, right, Tom Brady getting hitting lower, every

1334
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers being getting driven in the ground. So when you

1335
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: start to do that, players look at that as a whole,

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01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: and we just want to make sure that the game

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01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 1: is fair all the you know, you know, it's really

1338
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: tough though right now. Some of these rule changes are

1339
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: are really putting the refs in a peculiar situation because

1340
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: it's not black and white how to call these to

1341
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: make these calls, it's it's purely a judgment call. And

1342
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: when when you leave it up to a ref and

1343
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: a judgment call, um, you're not going to get consistent

1344
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: calls at in the heat of a game because there's emotion,

1345
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of things that go into a call,

1346
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: right and and um, yeah, so it's tough on the

1347
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: refs too. Hey, you guys have been out for a

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01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: little while. Josh What do you do now? What do

1349
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: you do for living? How do you keep busy these days?

1350
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: I actually work for Lenovo PC company headquartered in urtp Um. Well,

1351
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: we compete with Dell. I see you guys are on Dell.

1352
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: We gotta get those deals out of it. Yeah, yeah,

1353
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah yeah, Okay, you can take this with you. Yeah,

1354
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: I can replace them for you might like them. Robert,

1355
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: what about you? How do you keep busy? I've been

1356
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: very fortunate. Uh, you know, in two thousand and three

1357
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 1: I started the Robber Royal Foundation or we talk with

1358
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: Childhood Obe then you can check that out at Robert

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01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: Royal dot Oregon. And from there doing some private equity

1360
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: stuff in real estate. So I've been very fortunate. Man.

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01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: Looking to do some endeavors down in my home state

1362
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, and got some stuff going in Virginia. Okay,

1363
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Speaker 1: and what's the weekend look like for you? What are

1364
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: you gonna do the rest of the weekend? Well, I'll

1365
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: go meet with some friends, talk to go to the

1366
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: sixty at birthday party tomorrow at the restaurant, have some fun,

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01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: take the wife up the Niagara Falls, you know, go

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01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 1: to some restaurants. Man, come watch some football on Sunday,

1369
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, see the boys, and you know, yeah, that's

1370
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: great with me. I'm trying to show my family everything

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Speaker 1: that everything that is Buffalo, that is uh near and

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Speaker 1: dear to my heart, it's the States the world. Yeah,

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01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: thanks for all right, thank good luck with that chick

1374
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: and coming up a lot of people thinking when's that

1375
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Robert Royal, Josh staverd joining the Steve and

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Speaker 1: I back. We're gonna talk about great cosal of NFL

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01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: matchup when we return. It is One Bill's Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bills Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back, One

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01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

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01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 1: A great visit with Josh Steamer and Robert Royal. Um,

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01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: you live here, Steve, obviously, you know what's I always

1382
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: like when guys who don't live here come back to

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01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: visit Buffalo and visit the Buffalo Bills. It's it's a

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01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: special weekend for him. You know you don't have that sensation, right,

1385
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Speaker 1: I like, No, you know what makes me better? I

1386
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: know I do. And we stayed here, I say with

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Speaker 1: my family, we stayed here because you know, we like

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01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: it here. We we love Buffalo. We've been very happy

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Speaker 1: here and we continue to be. It's nice to me

1390
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Speaker 1: these guys come back with Robert Royal and Josh Tamer,

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01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: they come back and say, man, it's a great town.

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Speaker 1: You know, they really you know, um, they've made friends here.

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Speaker 1: And that's not just these two guys that you have.

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01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: Invariably guys who come back and say, man, I had

1395
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: some great times in this town. Yeah it was. It

1396
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: was fun and uh so I think a lot of

1397
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: guys feel that in the way they remember the good

1398
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: times that here and those guys. Listen, those guys were

1399
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: during the drought too, and it's not like they come

1400
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Speaker 1: in here and went to playoff games and Super Bowls

1401
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 1: and stuff. It was just about the team in the

1402
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: town and that they still have fun memories of It's

1403
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: fun to see. Yep, good to have him in here.

1404
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Speaker 1: We thank Josh Stamer and Robert Royal for joining us.

1405
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: Let's look ahead a little bit to the Bills in

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01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans one o'clock on Sunday, right here in

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Speaker 1: New Airfield, joining us right now for his regular Friday visit.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have the analysts. Executive producer of NFL matchup

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Speaker 1: on ESPN. Senior producer in NFL Films, Greg cosells with

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01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: us on the line, I Greg, John Murphy and Steve

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Speaker 1: here and Buffalo. How are you today, mur Steve, how

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01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: you guys doing today? We're doing great. Looking forward to

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01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: a home game, and I'm looking forward to getting to

1414
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: look at Marcus Mariota, who the Bills haven't playing about

1415
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: three years. The AFC Offensive Player of the Week last

1416
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Speaker 1: week for his performance against the Eagles. What kind of

1417
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Speaker 1: a quarterback is he? Greg? Well, I think he's a

1418
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: little bit of a work in progress now because he's

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01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: been injured and they have a brand new offense, and

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Speaker 1: I thought last week against Philadelphia, you saw this offense

1421
01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: sort of come together the way I think they'd like

1422
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 1: get to come together. And I think that was a

1423
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 1: function of Mario to being healthy for a full week

1424
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 1: of practice and just the normal progression of learning a

1425
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: new offense. Malafleur is their new offensive coordinator this year,

1426
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: and his background, guys, as you may know, is Sean

1427
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: McVay and Kyle Shanahan, and those are high level offensive

1428
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: minds who do a lot of good things, and they're

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Speaker 1: very aggressive and I think that you'll see the Titans

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Speaker 1: continue to be that way. Yeah. One of the things

1431
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Speaker 1: about that Sean McVay offense is that it's quarterback friendly.

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Speaker 1: Explain what that means well, ideally, what that means, Steve,

1433
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Speaker 1: and you can't do it all the time, but they

1434
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: do it well, is that you design concepts. And when

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01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: you say design concepts, there's so many elements as you

1436
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: know that goes into that. But that presents the primary

1437
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 1: read available to the quarterback within the timing and structure

1438
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Speaker 1: of the offense. So when the quarterback hits his back foot,

1439
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: he sees that primary available for the throw and then

1440
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: he can deliver the football. He doesn't have to wait

1441
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: in the pocket and then start progression reading and searching

1442
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: for a receiver. It all happens within timing and rhythm

1443
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: and structure. Greg The Bills, as they said, have not

1444
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,919
Speaker 1: played against Mariota in three years. He's in his fourth

1445
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: year now. How has he developed in his time in

1446
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: the NFL? Yes, a couple of different coaches, I'm sure,

1447
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: in coordinators, But what do you see from Mariota? Has

1448
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: he kind of progressed along the path that a first

1449
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: round draft pick quarterback should progress? I would say, Murph,

1450
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: there's been probably some bumps in the road. I think

1451
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: that there was a sense after his second year, and

1452
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: of course that was when Mike Mularkey, who you're familiar with,

1453
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: was there. There was a sense that he was developing

1454
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: within that offense and would be looking for a great

1455
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: third season. And it didn't work out that way for

1456
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: any number of reasons, including injury, and he had some

1457
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: bad moments and some of the throws that he missed

1458
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: were bad misses, and so he was starting from scratch

1459
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: really in his fourth season because he had a new

1460
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: offense coordinator and he needed to get healthy. So he's really,

1461
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: even though it's his fourth year, he's almost starting over

1462
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: learning a new offense that's very nuanced in very detail,

1463
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 1: and my guess is it will take a little time.

1464
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: What can we look for in this game? And why

1465
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: were they so successful against the team the perceived quality

1466
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: of the defending world champions. Yeah, and obviously the Eagles

1467
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 1: are struggling in the secondary, so that that was an

1468
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: issue in that game. But I think they were more

1469
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,640
Speaker 1: aggressive with the pass game. They were more misdirection concepts,

1470
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Speaker 1: things that are sort of part of the lafleur approach

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Speaker 1: coming from McVeigh and Kyle Shanahan. But they were more

1472
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Speaker 1: aggressive throwing the football coming out that way with play

1473
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: action boot action misdirection than I've seen them, And I

1474
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: think that fits Marcus Mariota. He certainly can get out

1475
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: on the perimeter and the play action. It gives you rhythm,

1476
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:58,640
Speaker 1: it gives your old line better pass protection concepts, so

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01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: I would expect to continue to do that. They don't

1478
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: really run the ball very well, they seemed. I'd looked

1479
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: at numbers. They run it often, but they don't get

1480
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: much production out of it on the ground. Huh, No,

1481
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 1: they don't. But I will say this, and I've been

1482
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:15,839
Speaker 1: watching tape coaching tape since nineteen ninety two, and there's

1483
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 1: not as big a correlation between running really well and

1484
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: being successful with play action as people might think, because

1485
01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: defensive players are not sitting around in the huddle saying, gee,

1486
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,720
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry has eight rushes for fifteen yards, so we

1487
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the run. If you run

1488
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: the football and your offense looks like it's run with

1489
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line and all the actions, the defense reacts

1490
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: to what looks like run. So you can be very

1491
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: successful with play action. It's not a function of how

1492
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:48,600
Speaker 1: many yards the back gets like that. Yeah. One of

1493
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: the guys that's benefiting from this newfound success that Mariota

1494
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 1: has is Corey Davis. I mean he had, Yeah, he

1495
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: really bust out with nine receptions a touchdown one hundred

1496
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 1: and sixty one yards last week. I mean he's He's

1497
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: going to be the primary beneficiary of Mariota's success. Yes,

1498
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 1: because first of all, he's six two about two fifteen.

1499
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: He runs very well, and I think if they their

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01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: pass game continues to develop. He's the guy who was

1501
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: the fifth pick in the draft. He's got a lot

1502
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: of talent. I remember talking to one person I really

1503
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 1: respect in the scouting business who thought that he actually

1504
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 1: had similarities to Jerry Rice when Jerry Rice came out

1505
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: of college. Now keep in mind, Jerry Rice was what

1506
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 1: maybe the seventeenth pick in the draft. It's easy now

1507
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: to say, oh, you're crazy, just because of what Rice

1508
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:38,480
Speaker 1: did in his career. But we're just talking about physical similarities,

1509
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: So I don't I'm not suggesting Davis will be that,

1510
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 1: but just physically he's big, he can run, and I

1511
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: think he will be the beneficiary. Hey, we're with great

1512
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 1: Cosell analysts and the producer executive producer of NFL matchup

1513
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 1: on ESPN with his weekly visit. The Bills have been

1514
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: matching up to Davious White with the opponent's best wide receiver.

1515
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: Disease automatic go to Corey Davis. You think this Sunday.

1516
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 1: I think when Davis aligns outside as the number one receiver,

1517
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: he will. As you guys know, the Bills are not

1518
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,639
Speaker 1: a high percentage man to man defense. So even though

1519
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: Whites lining up over number one receivers as he did

1520
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: last week with Davante Adams, it doesn't automatically mean they're

1521
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 1: playing man coverage. Although a Steve knows even if its zone,

1522
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,879
Speaker 1: if the receiver stays outside the numbers, it essentially becomes

1523
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 1: man because he has to match up to him. But

1524
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: I would bet that Tredavious Right will continue to do that.

1525
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: I'm assuming is Ryan Lewis going to get the start

1526
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: again at the other corner. I you know, I actually

1527
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,799
Speaker 1: think I don't know how they've have him graded. I'm

1528
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: certainly not the dB coach who's grading every snap, but

1529
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: I think he's held his own murph. I think he's

1530
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: played fine. Yeah, we agree, and it's he's been a

1531
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise. Although you know he's not Tredavious White. He's

1532
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 1: not a shutdown corner. I think given the fact that

1533
01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: he was an enormous question mark when they had to

1534
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: line him up. Yeah, I think there's a sigh of

1535
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: relief as to how he's played in the last couple

1536
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: of weeks. The issue for them now is the safeties,

1537
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: because are they gonna have to start Siron Neil? Is

1538
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: he gonna have to be the starter this week? You know?

1539
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: The thinking is they may go with Dean Marlowe bringing

1540
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: them up off the practice squad. They have not made

1541
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: that decision. Really. Yes, I remember why. I think he's

1542
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: a James Madison guy or an old Dominion guy if

1543
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. I remember watching him in college. Yes,

1544
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: he played with McDermott down in Carolina, so there's some

1545
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: familiarity in some familiar Yeah, talk about the other side

1546
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: of the football. I mean, I wanted to ask you

1547
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: about the Titans defense. Their ranked seventh in the NFL,

1548
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: They've got twelve sacks. Are they are talented up front?

1549
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: Are they putting it together the way Mike Vrabel wants

1550
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: them to well, here's what they're really good at, Steve,

1551
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:45,680
Speaker 1: and this is going to post some issues. It's going

1552
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: to post some issues for the old line and for

1553
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is they're very multiple with their front looks,

1554
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: they're multiple with their stunts, and they have some really

1555
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 1: detailed blitz and pressure packages. And that's going to be

1556
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: difficult because I think this old line, I'll have one thing. Hey,

1557
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: let's put it this way. One thing that's been a

1558
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: problem through Josh Allen starts is there's been way too

1559
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: many free rushers. Now I don't know, and none of

1560
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 1: us know exactly on every play who's at fault. I

1561
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,600
Speaker 1: can sit and I'll watch these plays fifteen times to

1562
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: try to figure it out. And obviously there are some

1563
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 1: where I feel confident it's the old line's fault and

1564
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: others where I feel confident that Josh Allen pre snap

1565
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 1: does not have a real good understanding of where the

1566
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,560
Speaker 1: pressure points are, and I think that's something that he

1567
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: needs a good amount of work with Greg co Seller,

1568
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 1: guest from ESPN NFL Matchup. Hey, Greg, we had a

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Speaker 1: great conversation on our show yesterday with Kurt Warner Hall

1570
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:43,720
Speaker 1: of Famer from Yeah, Yeah, he said something that just

1571
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:46,400
Speaker 1: struck struck a note with me. I thought it was

1572
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: the most accurate assessment of where Josh Allen is to date.

1573
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: And let me fired every our second, just a quick quote.

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01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,559
Speaker 1: This is Kurt Warner. Same when I watched Josh player.

1575
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: I see that when he knows where to go with

1576
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: the football, he throws it, he rips it. His biggest

1577
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,760
Speaker 1: is understanding where to go and to understand what he's

1578
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: seeing suit and get through progressions. Do you agree with that?

1579
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: What do you think of Josh's development so far just

1580
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: a quarter into the season. Yes, I do agree with

1581
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: that because I think right now he's way too deliberate

1582
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: with his eyes. He doesn't see what he needs to

1583
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: see at the needed speed. So when that happens, that's

1584
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: a problem. So yes, when he does see it, he'll

1585
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 1: rip it and that's he was the same way in college.

1586
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:28,720
Speaker 1: But I think he's not seeing things the way I

1587
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 1: describe it. And I think I'm saying the same thing

1588
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: as Kurt is he's not seeing things with the needed

1589
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: elimination and isolation quickness, meaning he's not eliminating what's not

1590
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: there and isolating what is there quickly enough. He's too

1591
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,719
Speaker 1: deliberate with his eyes at least now that ideally comes

1592
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: mirth with experience. Ideally, I'm just gonna say, is this

1593
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: something you can develop? He can get better at that

1594
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: moving forward? Well, theoretically, yes, there are some quarterbacks that

1595
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen with. I mean, I remember talking with

1596
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: the Ravens coaching staff when they drafted Kyle Bowler, and

1597
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: Kyle Bowler was a very talented thrower of the football.

1598
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys remember him, and they felt that, hey,

1599
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: with more experience, it would all happen, and it didn't.

1600
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 1: He never to use the cliche term, but it's true

1601
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: in this context, the game never slowed down for Kyle Bowler.

1602
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: He could never really see things the way you needed to. Now,

1603
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's going to happen with Josh. Obviously

1604
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: we hope it doesn't. But it doesn't always happen just

1605
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: because you play more. One of the things that the

1606
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: guys that it does happen for the game has slowed

1607
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 1: down for was Tom Brady threw his five hundred touchdown pass. Yeah,

1608
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,680
Speaker 1: and he's got a chance. Yeah he might he might

1609
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 1: be successful, but how surprising, is it if you two

1610
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: years ago you just said he was going to throw

1611
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: his five hundredth touchdown pass to Josh Gordon. Well, that's

1612
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: a great question. I mean, that's unbelievable. You're right about that. Um, well,

1613
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: it's funny because they in an odd Hey, they're now

1614
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:03,680
Speaker 1: developing an offense that has a boatload of weapons, which

1615
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have thought of even three weeks ago or

1616
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: four weeks ago. Because now Edelman's back, Josh Gordon is

1617
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: super talented. If he can stay on the straight and narrow,

1618
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 1: he's going to only become more involved. They still have Gronk,

1619
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: James White is arguably one of the best receiving backs

1620
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: in the league. Sony Michelle now is giving them a

1621
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: run game two weeks in a row, twenty five rushes,

1622
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:28,719
Speaker 1: eighteen rushes. That doesn't happen very often with one back

1623
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,679
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. So all of a sudden, this offense

1624
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: is really multidimensional. Um as you might expect with the

1625
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: news of Brady's five hundred NFL touchdown passes, champagne corks

1626
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: popping all over Western New York. There was people took

1627
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: off work to the sure they were real excited about it.

1628
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: Holiday here, Yeah, and the rest of the NFC East

1629
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: is still celebrating that. Hey, Greg, tell us about some

1630
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: of the other games going on around the NFL. Carson

1631
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: Wentz and goes up against the Vikings. Vikes have sort

1632
01:16:57,960 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: of stubbed their toe after the Buffalo loss. What do

1633
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: you see that matchup looking like this week? That's a

1634
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: big game. The Eagles have had a couple of issues

1635
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: that have been problematic. They've lost Rodney McLeod their free

1636
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: safety for the season, and people I don't think know

1637
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: his name that well. That's a huge loss for them

1638
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: because last week they played Avante Maddox at free safety

1639
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,919
Speaker 1: and he was a college corner at pit and basically

1640
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: worked all through training camp with the Eagles and this

1641
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: is rookie year at slot corner and now all of

1642
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: a sudden you're asking him to play free safety and

1643
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 1: they're having some issues. The other issue they've had, which

1644
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: was a total strength a year ago, is patch protection,

1645
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 1: individual breakdowns in one on one matchups. They're really having

1646
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: a hard time with stunts and pressures. So things that

1647
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,759
Speaker 1: were considered strengths and we talked about this with the Bills,

1648
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: but things that were considered strength when they become weaknesses.

1649
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: It's tough. Yeah, you know, it's funny you watching the

1650
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: Eagles Titans game this week, and I saw our old

1651
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: buddy Jason Peters even struggle sometimes in past protection. Right,

1652
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,839
Speaker 1: it was interesting. I thought I'd really had a newfound

1653
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: respect for the Tennessee pass rush when I saw Jason

1654
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 1: Peters get beat a couple of times. No, and he did,

1655
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:07,600
Speaker 1: and even Lane Johnson got beat a few times on

1656
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: the other side. So now they have struggled. Like I said,

1657
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,720
Speaker 1: even the guys you think that shouldn't struggle or don't

1658
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: normally struggle, are getting beat at times one on one.

1659
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: One of the one of the games that I wanted

1660
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: to talk to you, but I think it's maybe thus

1661
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,439
Speaker 1: far in the season, one of the most marquee games

1662
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: on the schedule, that's Jacksonville at Kansas City. That defense

1663
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 1: going in to take that offense on. We've seen a

1664
01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,520
Speaker 1: lot of things and even yes, yea, even Jalen Ramsey's

1665
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: had to say a few words about about what this

1666
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: is gonna do, and he's normally so quiet, right, exactly,

1667
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: it's a shotgun. Uh well, I'll say this. Obviously, that

1668
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:45,560
Speaker 1: side of the ball is the marquee matchup in this

1669
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: game for most people. And I think you're dealing with

1670
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: speed versus speed because the Chiefs offense is really fast

1671
01:18:55,439 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: and so is the Jaguars defense. The jack where's that good? Greg,

1672
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:04,760
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble trying to take them for well, what

1673
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: do you think defensively they are? And I think one

1674
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: of the things they do really well, they're really good

1675
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,759
Speaker 1: in the stunt game. That's going to post some problems

1676
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: in the secondary. You know, a lot of people, because

1677
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:17,639
Speaker 1: of Ramsey, think they play a ton of man coverage.

1678
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: They do play man, but they're more foundationally a zone

1679
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 1: based team. They're not necessarily a matchup based team. I

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Speaker 1: think where the concern Murph, when you're expressing that most

1681
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: people have, is with their offense, because it's hard for people,

1682
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: I think, to still get their arms around Blake Bortles,

1683
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 1: who's actually thrown for a lot of yards this year.

1684
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: But I don't think people look at their pass game

1685
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: as a truly viable pass game in the context of

1686
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: great NFL pass games. I'm headed to Cincinnati this week

1687
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins taken on the Bengals two three

1688
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: and one. Teams and very different teams with the same

1689
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: record of three and one. Yes, And I think I'm

1690
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: sure you've probably enjoyed looking at the Bengals to you

1691
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: because offensively, I know they lost Tyler Eifer and that's

1692
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: a real shame for that kid. And I think John

1693
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: Ross might be out this week as well, but they've

1694
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: got weapons and Mixon's coming back. I know Bernard's out,

1695
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: but they've got weapons. I think Bill Laser, their offensive coordinator,

1696
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:17,680
Speaker 1: is doing a really really good job and designing round concepts.

1697
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: We've seen aj Green in the slot more this year

1698
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,200
Speaker 1: than I think we have in recent years. They've designed

1699
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 1: some really nice shot play type concepts for him. I

1700
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: think they're really doing a good They're doing a good

1701
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: job in pass Pro. When they need a six and

1702
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 1: seven man protection, they use it and they keep Andy

1703
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: Dalton secure and clean. I really like what Bill A.

1704
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 1: Laser's been doing with that offense. Last thing we have

1705
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: for you, Greg, and back to the Bills to wrap

1706
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: things up. Is there a path to victory for Buffalo

1707
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: against Tennessee on Sunday? And if so, what do you

1708
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: think it looks like. Well, in all honesty, I think

1709
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 1: if you're being realistic, it has to be a close,

1710
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,600
Speaker 1: fairly low scoring game. So the path to victory to

1711
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: me starts with their defense, the Bills defense. If they

1712
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: can keep this game in the teams they can, they

1713
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: have a chance to win. If any team that sort

1714
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: of runs and hides a little bit. And Green Bay

1715
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 1: didn't run and hide, but they got up and the

1716
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:12,519
Speaker 1: games sort of snowballed, It's going to be hard at

1717
01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 1: this point for this offense to really come back. They

1718
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 1: have to be within the game and not have to

1719
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: step away from ideally the way they would like to play.

1720
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,439
Speaker 1: Great stuff. Thanks Greig. Thank you, Greg. We appreciate it.

1721
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys. Thanks Greg Cosell. He is senior producer

1722
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: in NFL Films Analysts executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN.

1723
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 1: You can catch that show eight thirty am tomorrow on

1724
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: ESPN two six thirty am on Sunday on ESPN. We

1725
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 1: thank Greg for joining us. Steve and I coming back.

1726
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: One goes live from one Bill's Drive and this is

1727
01:21:43,320 --> 01:22:00,839
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio to Steve and I during the breaks

1728
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 1: we usually do still true, we're at it. We're still

1729
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 1: talking about yesterday's topic about that culture thing, and you know,

1730
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:10,560
Speaker 1: you get it's amazing because when you have something that

1731
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:12,720
Speaker 1: you believe in, like like I believe in this culture thing,

1732
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,640
Speaker 1: and some other people do and other people don't. And

1733
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 1: it's amazing that people disagree to the extent of something

1734
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: that you believe so deeply in, don't believe it's true,

1735
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: like and I, I mean, how big a difference does

1736
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: your work environment make? I think a lot? Yes, you think.

1737
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 1: I don't think cultures And we went through this yester.

1738
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: I don't think culture supersedes talent, but I do agree

1739
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 1: with coach McDermott that it supersedes strategy and scheme. I talked,

1740
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: We've been dermoting about it a little bit more today.

1741
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: It was yesterday's show. We don't want to, you know,

1742
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: redo yesterday's show, although if you want to put the

1743
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: table it was a take off. It was a great yeah,

1744
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 1: yeah by you. But the what extent this culture important?

1745
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: I asked Sean McDermot about it today. His quote from Wednesday, right,

1746
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: it was Wednesday now said, in his view, culture team

1747
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 1: culture Trump's strategy, and I asked him to explain. Here's

1748
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: what he explained to me today when we discussed for

1749
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: those of us that have played sports and been on

1750
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: teams um that you know, you've got to have a

1751
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: strong foundation because that's what really guides you both in

1752
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: really good times and challenging times. It's what keeps you

1753
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:31,719
Speaker 1: in balance as an overall team and headed towards the goal,

1754
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: the ultimate goal. And that's where I feel it. And

1755
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: if you've and I've been on teams before where their

1756
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: strategy has been great, the talent has been great, but

1757
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:43,719
Speaker 1: there's no culture, there's no foundation, that's that's an empty box.

1758
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 1: So I just believe in forming the culture and the

1759
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: foundation first, developing a strong foundation, because that's really what

1760
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: becomes the beacon as you move forward as a football team.

1761
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,799
Speaker 1: Interesting answer, and I think he, you know, he truly

1762
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 1: believes in it. I liked how he describes it as

1763
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: sort of the balance that you get from the ups

1764
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: and downs from an NFL season. I want. I had

1765
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: to ask coach McDermot today about this culture issue and

1766
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 1: how much he's leaning on it right now with a

1767
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: team losing three of the first four with some difficult defeats.

1768
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 1: Is he leaning on culture team culture right now? Is

1769
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: he gets his team ready to play? Here's what he said,

1770
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: we can try and continue to build it with all

1771
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: of our first and second year players as well as

1772
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: some of the veterans that we do have, because it's

1773
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: something that if you're not tending to it or better set,

1774
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 1: we're always trying to grow it in the way that

1775
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: we want it. And then you know, when you get

1776
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: around the place and you're there for a number of years,

1777
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: that usually then handles itself once you've built it with

1778
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: growing your own guys through the draft, and so we

1779
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: have to continue to develop that, in particular with our

1780
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: first and second year players that have been drafted just

1781
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: these last two years. Yeah, you know, I think see

1782
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 1: if it's an interesting uh, I guess it's a debate.

1783
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,599
Speaker 1: Some people don't believe the culture is a factor at all.

1784
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: I believe it is. It's hard to put a lot

1785
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: of faith in a lot of stock in a thing

1786
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,560
Speaker 1: called culture when you can't quantify it. And you know,

1787
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:05,679
Speaker 1: like that, particularly in this day and age when everybody's

1788
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:09,759
Speaker 1: about fantasy football and being numbers and analytics and breaking

1789
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: things down into statistics and raw data. Culture really doesn't

1790
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: have any data. There's no way to reach out and say,

1791
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: all right, you can point to this number and that number,

1792
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: and this and that and the other and say, hey,

1793
01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: this makes a difference when it's talking about his statistics

1794
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: and data and and hard numbers. Culture is something that

1795
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 1: you can't put your finger on, you know, and it's

1796
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:34,560
Speaker 1: it's hard to make a case for it being so

1797
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,800
Speaker 1: important when you can't quantify it. And I get it,

1798
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: I get it, but can let me just Yeah, it's

1799
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: hard to make the case too when you're losing, as

1800
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: the bills of lots three of the first four. Yeah,

1801
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: it's hard for anyone to say, what are you talking

1802
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: about culture? You can't win, you can't you got shut out.

1803
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 1: We don't want to hear about your culture. I would

1804
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: submit that culture is more important now than it is

1805
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: when things are going well for you. Well, listen, for

1806
01:25:55,680 --> 01:26:01,680
Speaker 1: every football team, it goes bad during games, during practices,

1807
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: during seasons. You go through bad stretches, you go through

1808
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: bad games, you go through bad series whatever. You're always

1809
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,680
Speaker 1: going to run into problems, and you're always going to

1810
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: run into conflict, both inside your own walls and of

1811
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: course when you take the field. It's all about conflict.

1812
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: So you've got to learn how to handle it, only

1813
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: not only individually, but as a group, and if you

1814
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,799
Speaker 1: can handle it as a group and you can be united,

1815
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:28,719
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's basic human dynamics. A group

1816
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,759
Speaker 1: of people working together accomplished more than one person by himself.

1817
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:36,560
Speaker 1: And when you're united like that, your efforts are multiplied.

1818
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: And that's h and I get it. Some people think

1819
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 1: it's we. We meaning people like me, put far too

1820
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,920
Speaker 1: much emphasis on liking the guys in the room, you know,

1821
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: liking the guys on your team and being invested in emotionally.

1822
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: And for me, I've seen it be too important not

1823
01:26:56,520 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 1: to make a difference. We can discuss that with you.

1824
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: We can us our Twitter poll which has been up

1825
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. We got about fifteen hundred

1826
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: responses so far. The Twitter poll deals with Sunday's matchup

1827
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,639
Speaker 1: with the Titans. Here's the question, if the Bills beat

1828
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 1: the Titans on Sunday, who will be the MVP. We

1829
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: don't really care in the MVPs, but who are the

1830
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: critical players there? Who's the key if the Bills beat

1831
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: the Titans, who will be the MVP? On Twitter? More

1832
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 1: than half fifty one percent of respond and say it'll

1833
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: be the quarterback John Shallen thirty percent say it'll be

1834
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:27,400
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy, ten percent say Jerry Hughes, nine percent have

1835
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: somebody else in mind, give us a call eight oh

1836
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and toll free one eight eight

1837
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty to discuss. I thought

1838
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: it was interesting, Steve that Greg Cosell and I asked

1839
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: him about what a path to a Buffalo victory looks

1840
01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:41,599
Speaker 1: like this week. He put it on the defense, thinking

1841
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: it's going to be a low scoring game and the

1842
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo defense is going to have to really hold Old

1843
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee in check in order to give the Bills a chance.

1844
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:49,880
Speaker 1: I found that interested. You got to think that the

1845
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:51,760
Speaker 1: best part of your team is going to show up,

1846
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: and that's then the Bills defense. And we knew that

1847
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:55,760
Speaker 1: coming into the season that the Bills defense was going

1848
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: to be responsible for holding the Bills in games, keeping

1849
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: the other team from scoring a lot of points. And

1850
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: they've done that the last two games, and the Bills

1851
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: were able to win one of them, and the twenty

1852
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 1: two points they gave up to the Packers, you know

1853
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: that gives the Bills offense a chance. That twenty point

1854
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: threshold is where you want to be at and the Bills.

1855
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 1: You know, in order to win this game against the

1856
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: Titan's going to be the same story. They've got to

1857
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: keep this game within one or two scores all the time.

1858
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: And if they can do that, then you got to

1859
01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 1: think the Bills offense at some point is going to

1860
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: be able to put together a few plays to get

1861
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: some points on the board and stay in it and

1862
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:36,759
Speaker 1: maybe even win it. For a couple from the tweets

1863
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: sheet in answer to this question Team Any twenty two,

1864
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: when we ask who would be the MVP if the

1865
01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: Bills win, he says, it has to be McCoy. You

1866
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:45,640
Speaker 1: need to establish around, get him in space. You need

1867
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,720
Speaker 1: your best player on to performed and be involved. We

1868
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 1: should not be relying on a rookie quarterback in his

1869
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:53,320
Speaker 1: fourth career start to be our best player. That's fair enough,

1870
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: Evan deets tweets and I don't think Josh would be

1871
01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 1: the actual MVP, but I voted for him because every

1872
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:01,919
Speaker 1: win the team gets, it's not a defensive battle. Quarterback

1873
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: always gets the credit and blame when they lose. Of

1874
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:07,719
Speaker 1: course they are exceptions, but he says that's the general rule. Okay,

1875
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: and our friend Tiffany Daniels chimes in, I'm voting for

1876
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 1: the for a position group. Like we've seen so far

1877
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:16,599
Speaker 1: this morning, a lot of people have offensive line needs

1878
01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: to step up their performance. They are the key to

1879
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 1: the turnaround on offense. They've played poorly for the most

1880
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: for most of the season. Miller needs to turn it

1881
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: around in fast Titans can get to the quarterback. We

1882
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:28,880
Speaker 1: need to protect Josh. All of that stuff is true,

1883
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: although I don't know why John Miller being the only

1884
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 1: guy there that needs to turn it around. Um, you can.

1885
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 1: You can pass that around if you want to. But

1886
01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 1: the offensive line, I mean, we're talking about eleven guys

1887
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 1: on the field, five of them are offensive line. If

1888
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: all those guys are playing well, they're the other six

1889
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Speaker 1: jobs are made much easier. So that that is always

1890
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: the case. But I I still think if you're talking

1891
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:52,600
Speaker 1: about a team win and I and I see it,

1892
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised somebody on Twitter hasn't said if the Bills win,

1893
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,560
Speaker 1: who's the MVP. And I'm surprised somebody hasn't chimed in

1894
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 1: with the typical Twitter response of it's got to be

1895
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota throwing the football to the wrong jerseys. But

1896
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: I think turnovers is going to be a factor. If

1897
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:09,599
Speaker 1: the Bills win the turnover battle, that's a huge boost

1898
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 1: for this team. It always has been under this regime.

1899
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,559
Speaker 1: They've always counted on. It drove their season last year,

1900
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: it drove the win in Minnesota early on and got

1901
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: him some early success, and I think early success is

1902
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: going to be key again this week. We spoke about

1903
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 1: it earlier in the show. For a young quarterback like

1904
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, when and it doesn't matter if it's a

1905
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: young quarterback or if somebody like Lashawn McCoy, you get

1906
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 1: early success, you feel like everything else you're gonna do

1907
01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: is gonna work as well throughout the game. So that's

1908
01:30:37,400 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a key to this as well. I

1909
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 1: would love to see this team on either side of

1910
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:43,320
Speaker 1: the ball get off to a fast start. For defense,

1911
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: maybe a three and out or a turnover early, and

1912
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 1: of course for the offense, get a significant first drive

1913
01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:53,519
Speaker 1: under their belt, even ending in whatever points you can

1914
01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 1: get either a touchdown or a field goal or just

1915
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 1: switching fuel position getting past midfield, even if he does

1916
01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:00,080
Speaker 1: end up in a punt, If you can put a

1917
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:02,639
Speaker 1: seven or eight play drive together with some first downs,

1918
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: even that is going to feel really good. One more

1919
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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet. In answer to our question if

1920
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Titans, who will be the MVP?

1921
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:13,479
Speaker 1: Patrick Stein tweets in a short one and he said,

1922
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:18,680
Speaker 1: other the offensive coordinator. I get that. Don't look for

1923
01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,639
Speaker 1: trick plays, don't look for gadgets to win this game

1924
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:23,559
Speaker 1: or any game for that matter. For the Buffalo Bills,

1925
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:26,240
Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator. If they have a good week

1926
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,599
Speaker 1: of practice and a lot of good solid meeting time

1927
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen shows progress and the offensive game plan

1928
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:35,839
Speaker 1: is solid, I mean, yeah, then I go the offensive

1929
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:38,680
Speaker 1: coordinator could be the MVP. But you know, don't look

1930
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: for you know all they called this on second instead

1931
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 1: of this on second down. Yeah, that's stuff. I think

1932
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:46,640
Speaker 1: that's overrated. It's the week worth of practice, it's the

1933
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: meeting time room, it's the video work that goes on

1934
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:52,559
Speaker 1: all week long starting Mondays that could make a difference here.

1935
01:31:52,560 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: That's what yeah, I think. And I think the thing

1936
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: that people forget about when these talk about offensive corners

1937
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:00,920
Speaker 1: like Brian day Ball or Sean mcvayh or Kyle Shanahan,

1938
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: Adam Gase, you name it, anywhere in the league. You

1939
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 1: want to go with an offensive coordinator. They know who

1940
01:32:08,880 --> 01:32:10,679
Speaker 1: they've got on their team, they know what their team

1941
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 1: is capable of doing, and I think as a rule,

1942
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:17,880
Speaker 1: coaches are very very hesitant. In fact, I don't even

1943
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: think they'll get to that a minute. They're very hesitant

1944
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:24,800
Speaker 1: to call plays. They know their team can't run, they

1945
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: know their player can't beat the other guys player, they

1946
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:32,639
Speaker 1: know their offense can't get up to the second level

1947
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 1: on this type of play. They know they're you know,

1948
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: they know what they can do, and they also know

1949
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: the defense that they're facing and know where they are opportunities.

1950
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:42,560
Speaker 1: We spoke to Mark Kelso earlier in the show, and

1951
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 1: he talked about all kinds of opportunities that are there

1952
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: with the defense of the Titans under certain circumstances. But

1953
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: as a coordinator, all you do is look at what

1954
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: they've got and what you have and find ways to

1955
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 1: attack it. And you've got to make those play calls.

1956
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: That means sometimes complete sections of your playbook are off

1957
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,640
Speaker 1: limits for that reason. And what and his fans are

1958
01:33:07,640 --> 01:33:09,760
Speaker 1: sitting there, Ah, you should have thrown this, you should

1959
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 1: have done that. You listen, there's good reasons why they

1960
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:16,080
Speaker 1: exclude big sections of their playbook in any given game.

1961
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 1: It's because of matchups, because of the town of the

1962
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:19,720
Speaker 1: team they're playing in, the town that they have on

1963
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: their own team. All Right, we're gonna talk with some

1964
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 1: of the talent on the Bills team when we return.

1965
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:26,920
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander standing by for the lowdown. He'll be in

1966
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 1: studio with us to talk about the matchup this week,

1967
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:30,960
Speaker 1: the Bills in Tennessee. Coming up at the bottom of

1968
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: the next hour. David Luell, and Lockport native, plays running

1969
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 1: back with the Tennessee Titans, coming back off injury. He'll

1970
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 1: be joining us to talk about his homecoming game here

1971
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: to Western New York. All of that in the third

1972
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 1: and final hour of the show. One Bills Live from

1973
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hello Hills

1974
01:33:57,479 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports. The update comes from One Bill's Drive,

1975
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: where Bill's practice has been completed for the day. No

1976
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 1: practice today for tight end Charles Clay, for safety Micah

1977
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:10,880
Speaker 1: Hyde or safety Raphael Bush. The Bills without Hide and

1978
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:12,759
Speaker 1: Bush may have to make a move on a safety

1979
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:15,719
Speaker 1: before Sunday's game. Veteran Dean Marlow on the practice squad

1980
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:18,120
Speaker 1: maybe the guy, but no moving ounce yet. Bills and

1981
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:21,679
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans playing in the New Airfield on Sunday,

1982
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 1: one o'clock kickoff. The weather looks good, cloudy, a little

1983
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 1: chance of a rain shower, and the temperature in the

1984
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 1: low sixties. No wins at all Bills in Tennessee. Only

1985
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 1: the second home game for the Bills this season. One

1986
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:35,200
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff. You can hear it here on our flagship

1987
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 1: station in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty. Last night,

1988
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,400
Speaker 1: the NFL weekend began with the New England Patriots winning again.

1989
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:43,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the Patriots held off a fourth quarter

1990
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 1: comeback and beat the Indianapolis Colts thirty eight. The twenty

1991
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 1: four The victory moves to Patriots the three and two

1992
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: and the Indianapolis Colts dropped to one and four. Julian Edelman,

1993
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:58,760
Speaker 1: back on the field after his four game suspension, played

1994
01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 1: seventy two percent the Patriots offensive snaps. Tom Brady got

1995
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: his deep threat going in Josh Gordon and was able

1996
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 1: to move down the scenes with a passist to Rob Gronkowski.

1997
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb will miss a game for

1998
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 1: the second consecutive week. He did not play last week

1999
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:14,920
Speaker 1: against the Bills, and he has been ruled out for

2000
01:35:15,040 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: this Sunday's game at Detroit. It's kind a hamstring injury

2001
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 1: that he sustained in practice about a week and a

2002
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:24,000
Speaker 1: half ago. Hockey, the Buffalo Sabers lost their season opener

2003
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:26,320
Speaker 1: last night to the Boston Ruins Port and nothing, despite

2004
01:35:26,360 --> 01:35:29,560
Speaker 1: twenty two saves from Carter Hutton. He was making his

2005
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:32,160
Speaker 1: first start as the Sabers goaltender. Buffalo on the ice

2006
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:34,679
Speaker 1: for practice today at key Bank Center. Next up tomorrow

2007
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 1: night home against the New York Rangers. That's a seven

2008
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: o'clock face off with the party and Alumni Plaza starting

2009
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: at five PM. And four Major League Baseball playoff game

2010
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:46,040
Speaker 1: tonight American League Division Series. It is Game one Cleveland

2011
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:48,839
Speaker 1: at Houston Tonight. Later on it's the Yankees in Boston.

2012
01:35:49,200 --> 01:35:52,679
Speaker 1: National League Division Series, Colorado plays at Milwaukee, and Atlanta

2013
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: plays at Los Angeles. That's the update from One Bills Drive,

2014
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo studio

2015
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 1: as we get set for Sunday's game. It's the Tennessee Titans.

2016
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 1: The lowdown, it's coming Lorenzo Alexander Bills vendoran linebacker here

2017
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: in studio with us as he is every Friday, they

2018
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,240
Speaker 1: break it down for us the Bills and the Tennessee

2019
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 1: Titans the Lowdown. Hello, Lorenzo, good afternoon. How are you.

2020
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:24,519
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, you know, just watching myself blow somebody up.

2021
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:26,640
Speaker 1: And it's always a good week, you know when we

2022
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 1: do it like that way, Yeah, the stuff. Yeah, kind

2023
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: of a practice week? Has it been for this team?

2024
01:36:31,720 --> 01:36:33,680
Speaker 1: It's been a solid week, you know. I think this

2025
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 1: team has done a great job each week, you know,

2026
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:38,679
Speaker 1: getting back out there and getting back to the formula

2027
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 1: as far as practicing hard, being accountable, and putting ourselves

2028
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 1: at least in a position to feel confident going into

2029
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:49,479
Speaker 1: the game. We've been having this huge debate about culture

2030
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,120
Speaker 1: and how it had this big Twitter mobile. I'll tell

2031
01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 1: you what we've gotten some of everybody's chiming on this one.

2032
01:36:55,320 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 1: So it's like a culture strategy, talent something else. And

2033
01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,600
Speaker 1: you and I we both have kind of cleared it

2034
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: up for ourselves. Right, when you say culture, it means

2035
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean like rainbows and skittles out right, Yeah,

2036
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,080
Speaker 1: And I think that's where people naturally go to, especially

2037
01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:16,439
Speaker 1: the way I think some of the things that we

2038
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: do to help build chemistry and getting to know our teams,

2039
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, guys sharing their stories. So I think when

2040
01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 1: Sean share something like that, that's where their minds immediately

2041
01:37:25,520 --> 01:37:28,640
Speaker 1: goes to where it's really all about. That is just

2042
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: the foundation of us coming to showing up to work,

2043
01:37:31,200 --> 01:37:33,519
Speaker 1: to be accountable to each other, to work hard because

2044
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:36,559
Speaker 1: we know each other's stories and how much it means

2045
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:38,280
Speaker 1: for each guy to be in this room and the

2046
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 1: opportunity that we do have. Culture means hard workings, coming

2047
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 1: in and working hard to get better every week, no

2048
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:48,360
Speaker 1: matter what the situation on the win loss, or whether

2049
01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,120
Speaker 1: how you're doing personally, or whether you're coming in to

2050
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 1: work hard. Every that's culture exactly. It's not it's not

2051
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:57,840
Speaker 1: the feel good knowledge everybody loves you. It's working hard right,

2052
01:37:57,880 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 1: It's it's it's creating a winning coach. And those are

2053
01:37:59,880 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 1: all the characteristics of that. And if you look around

2054
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:05,120
Speaker 1: the league, I think each coach, you know, head coach,

2055
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:07,519
Speaker 1: does it a little bit different way. So Andy Reid

2056
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:10,160
Speaker 1: is different than Belichick, than different than what Sean mcvayh

2057
01:38:10,240 --> 01:38:13,000
Speaker 1: is doing in la UM, different than what we're trying

2058
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:14,840
Speaker 1: to create here. But at the end of the day,

2059
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:18,320
Speaker 1: it's all about winning. And then the strategy plays into

2060
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:21,439
Speaker 1: that after you create that that winning style of culture,

2061
01:38:21,479 --> 01:38:23,280
Speaker 1: because if you don't have guys that are working hard,

2062
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:27,519
Speaker 1: grinding it out, willing to play hurt and do certain things,

2063
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: I don't care what you're asking to do as far

2064
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:31,639
Speaker 1: as X and oh's none of that's going to matter.

2065
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 1: And then what you talked about earlier talent wise, I've

2066
01:38:34,280 --> 01:38:37,120
Speaker 1: seen a team with eleven Pro bowlers not go to

2067
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:38,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs and not win a playoff game, So it

2068
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,799
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter. That's just a baseline from living People's

2069
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:44,599
Speaker 1: don't realize there are teams out there are in the past.

2070
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:46,559
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not pointing fingers out there now

2071
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: and this, but you find out later they don't work hard,

2072
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:52,240
Speaker 1: they don't show up. There's stuff going on, like what

2073
01:38:52,360 --> 01:38:54,559
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Right that they're getting they're doing

2074
01:38:54,640 --> 01:39:02,760
Speaker 1: one and you're like, yeah, they even short for meetings, right, Yeah,

2075
01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean all that stuff. It happens in the league

2076
01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot. Yeah, guys just show they're they're

2077
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: in it for the money, they're in it for the fame. Uh,

2078
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 1: And once they get to the league, it's like their

2079
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:17,759
Speaker 1: life's goal is a chief, So they ain't working anymore.

2080
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:20,599
Speaker 1: They're done right. And that's the thing that we're trying

2081
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:22,640
Speaker 1: to change around here and try to create have more

2082
01:39:22,720 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: football players that really love the game and want to

2083
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:27,479
Speaker 1: be in there and do those little things, those things

2084
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:30,720
Speaker 1: that we categorize on the culture and we keep saying

2085
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: them being accountable, working hard, grind and watching film in

2086
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 1: your own being a professional, taking care of your body,

2087
01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 1: showing up And people think that's like a given, but

2088
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean even in your own jobs. I'm

2089
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:42,280
Speaker 1: pretty sure you can look around and some co workers

2090
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: and being like, and what are you doing? Are you

2091
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: gonna work today? Yeah? What are you? What are you

2092
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: guys doing? I see you looking at it? Yeah. So

2093
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: you have to develop that, especially with a young team.

2094
01:39:59,800 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 1: You yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. Lorentzo is with us

2095
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 1: talking about this matchup and it was an interesting discussion

2096
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: and I kind of followed up today. Look, he mentioned

2097
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:13,320
Speaker 1: how important player driven culture is to this team, Like

2098
01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 1: it's one thing to have coaches lead and show by example,

2099
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: but he said, you really need almost one guy in

2100
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 1: each position group to be the leader to let ye

2101
01:40:22,439 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: know this is how we work again, and that's all

2102
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,080
Speaker 1: the veterans. You know. Obviously we have our leadership council,

2103
01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 1: and I think guys that are not even on it

2104
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,600
Speaker 1: when you show up to work and Micah Hyde or

2105
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams or star are doing things a certain way

2106
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 1: and they have success in this league. Young guys see that. Um,

2107
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:40,599
Speaker 1: what we have to continue to do is make sure

2108
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 1: that we see that in every single room. Because he

2109
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: can work the other way as well. You can have

2110
01:40:44,160 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 1: your star players show up and kind of going through

2111
01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:48,840
Speaker 1: the motions. As we mentioned earlier, I made it. Um.

2112
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really love the game, but my

2113
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: talent is good enough to kind of keep me around here,

2114
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 1: and that could be uh can work in an opposite direction.

2115
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:58,560
Speaker 1: So we're trying to create and where everybody sees in

2116
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:01,840
Speaker 1: every room a certain level of professionalism. Because your peer

2117
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:04,920
Speaker 1: group is way more influential than your coach or your

2118
01:41:04,960 --> 01:41:08,320
Speaker 1: superior telling you that, M how important is that sort

2119
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: of team culture right now for this team to you know,

2120
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: to get shut out last week, to lose three your

2121
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: first four, how important is it they have that toime

2122
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: of team culture at play right now? I think it's huge.

2123
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 1: I mean because you have to have a sense of

2124
01:41:20,640 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 1: consistency in this league and yeah, we haven't played well

2125
01:41:24,800 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 1: at all, but or do you have the mental stability

2126
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 1: and fortitude to move forward and each week show up

2127
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: is still because there's a certain way to work in

2128
01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:35,640
Speaker 1: this league and it's been proven you have to go

2129
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 1: to work, so you don't we don't want to change

2130
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,360
Speaker 1: our game play just because we haven't had success collectively,

2131
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: and I think you have to have leadership to show

2132
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 1: that like we're still working, grinding hard, We're not panicking,

2133
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 1: we're not trying to change anything. We just have to

2134
01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:50,080
Speaker 1: execute better on Sundays. And you have to be able

2135
01:41:50,120 --> 01:41:52,760
Speaker 1: to show that to some younger guys because some guys

2136
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:54,960
Speaker 1: come from college programs, you know, whether it's BAM or

2137
01:41:55,080 --> 01:41:57,000
Speaker 1: some of these big programs, and have never really lost

2138
01:41:57,040 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: and don't don't know how to quite how to respond

2139
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: and they start to panic a little bit. So having

2140
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:05,800
Speaker 1: that sense of calmness about you, even though we have

2141
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency, I'm not saying WHOA, you know,

2142
01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: we don't need to do anything, but having that calmness

2143
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:12,960
Speaker 1: and this is how we work, This is how you

2144
01:42:13,240 --> 01:42:16,760
Speaker 1: have stability and some longevity and eventually is going to

2145
01:42:16,840 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 1: turn out to it. But we have to have everybody

2146
01:42:18,439 --> 01:42:21,559
Speaker 1: buying in. That's one of the reasons. You always they

2147
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 1: always say veteran leadership. One of the reasons is just

2148
01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:27,720
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. You. The young guys need to

2149
01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 1: see a guy who has had success, who has been

2150
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 1: on winning teams or been in the league a long

2151
01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:36,560
Speaker 1: time or whatever, keep working like that, knowing that non, no, no,

2152
01:42:37,080 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter we didn't win this game. This is

2153
01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 1: how you win games. This is trust me, and they

2154
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: got to trust you, right yeah, yeah, And I mean

2155
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 1: I think the longer you've been the league, obviously there's

2156
01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 1: more trust. There's some natural trust, and then when they

2157
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: see you out there playing well, then they know, okay,

2158
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:55,120
Speaker 1: well something is adding up. Even though the team isn't winning.

2159
01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:59,080
Speaker 1: This guy is having production for whatever reasons, So let

2160
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: me try to memory what he's doing. And then the

2161
01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:03,639
Speaker 1: more guys we have collectively doing this, playing well, beating

2162
01:43:03,680 --> 01:43:06,360
Speaker 1: in one on one matchups, we end up winning these games.

2163
01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:10,240
Speaker 1: And that's really the key because right now, as a whole,

2164
01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:13,479
Speaker 1: we have a lot of individuals playing well, but we're

2165
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:17,920
Speaker 1: not collectively offense defensive special teams playing well all together

2166
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:20,479
Speaker 1: all at the same time with Lorneo Alex Gender. Gonna

2167
01:43:20,479 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: give us a lowdown in a minute, how the build

2168
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: is kiding that go about beating the Tennessee Titans defensively,

2169
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: Lorenzo two and a half games now since halftime of

2170
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: the Chargers game, Steve Fens has played pretty well, and

2171
01:43:29,880 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 1: you guys got to be aware of that, right, Yeah,

2172
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:33,680
Speaker 1: we're aware we've played a lot better, and but we're

2173
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 1: still leaving some plays out there. I mean even last week,

2174
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: I know we had a couple of hands on balls,

2175
01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 1: so we could have got some intercessions one way. I

2176
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: know we would have been a pick six score. And

2177
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:46,320
Speaker 1: then also our red zone defense trying to get teams

2178
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 1: to kicks and field goals. We still need to show

2179
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:50,760
Speaker 1: that up. Obviously the first half I think they were

2180
01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 1: they got two touchdowns down there. If we can get

2181
01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:54,880
Speaker 1: them to kickfield goals, we're able to do it. The

2182
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 1: second half, make them kickfield goals. The game is a

2183
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:00,479
Speaker 1: lot more and it's just a lot closer, and it's

2184
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:03,040
Speaker 1: and you feel like you're in it, even when it

2185
01:44:03,160 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 1: may not feel it. You can look at the school,

2186
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 1: but I say well, we just need one big play

2187
01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 1: and we're right back in this. Then two touchdounds allowed

2188
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: in the red zone last week. The first one shouldn't

2189
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:14,600
Speaker 1: have been allowed. It was a pick, and I get frustrated.

2190
01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 1: I just you know, the pick that they said, and

2191
01:44:16,439 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 1: I said that, I think Mark Kelson Radio broadcast. I've

2192
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion the only way to get around

2193
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:23,640
Speaker 1: that is to set your own picks, you know what

2194
01:44:23,680 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: I mean. Just if they're gonna do it, then we're

2195
01:44:25,080 --> 01:44:27,559
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Yeah, because I mean pretty much pretty much,

2196
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 1: or they're not gonna. They're not gonna I mean, he's

2197
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 1: within the yard. I mean they're gonna say it's within

2198
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:34,120
Speaker 1: the yard of lit of scrimmage, which it doesn't look

2199
01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:35,880
Speaker 1: like on that angle right here at all. Looks like

2200
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,600
Speaker 1: he's about three yards. I mean, as a defense is

2201
01:44:38,640 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: hard to stop, you have to the best thing you

2202
01:44:40,880 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: can do is combo that and know what's coming and

2203
01:44:42,920 --> 01:44:46,200
Speaker 1: almost play the play and react to anything else they

2204
01:44:46,280 --> 01:44:49,240
Speaker 1: may do. Um. So that's another learning experience. And you know,

2205
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:52,080
Speaker 1: obviously next time we get that look, we'll be playing

2206
01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 1: something told maybe something different. Yeah, and never and every

2207
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:56,960
Speaker 1: other team that plays the Packers will be looking for that, right, Yeah,

2208
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:00,080
Speaker 1: not do it. Yeah, So they'll try to get this

2209
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: week probably, but they'll probably combo went and there and

2210
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 1: the team will stop. I don't know who they're playing

2211
01:45:03,479 --> 01:45:05,439
Speaker 1: this week, but they'll probably end up being all over it. Right.

2212
01:45:05,920 --> 01:45:08,840
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little bit about the Bills

2213
01:45:08,880 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 1: and how you go about going up against I don't

2214
01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:13,720
Speaker 1: want to get to the specific lowdown point yet, but

2215
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:17,040
Speaker 1: this is an interesting uh Tennessee offense and only putting

2216
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 1: nine on the board a couple of weeks ago against

2217
01:45:19,240 --> 01:45:21,640
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and then got to overtime and seemed to you know,

2218
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: they scored towards the end of the game. They couldn't

2219
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 1: be stopped. What sort of offense is this? How good they? Um,

2220
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a little deceiving that time. But

2221
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:32,040
Speaker 1: I mean, this team obviously the head coach of the

2222
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:34,120
Speaker 1: defensive head coach, so they want to run the ball,

2223
01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:37,040
Speaker 1: to be physical with you, you know, with Henry, I

2224
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: think even Lewis, he's a he's a he's a smaller guy,

2225
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:41,720
Speaker 1: but he runs hard. It's hard to see him back

2226
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: there has great yak after yards after contact, um, and

2227
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:49,040
Speaker 1: that's that's where their Their bread and butter is winning

2228
01:45:49,080 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: on first and second down and getting themselves in an

2229
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 1: advantageous third down where they can maybe run it again

2230
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:58,360
Speaker 1: and get the first down. Boot, do some zone read

2231
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:00,479
Speaker 1: with Mariota, get him out in some spec move the

2232
01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:02,840
Speaker 1: pocket um. Those are the type of things that they

2233
01:46:02,920 --> 01:46:04,439
Speaker 1: want to do, and then they have some play action

2234
01:46:04,520 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 1: passed after you, you know, going down, hitting the run,

2235
01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:08,639
Speaker 1: hitting the run, hitting the run. Then they'll play action

2236
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:10,679
Speaker 1: and then try to take the top off the defense

2237
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:13,240
Speaker 1: and they'll get some big plays on you. And that's

2238
01:46:13,280 --> 01:46:15,960
Speaker 1: kind of their formula I think right now, because Marioda,

2239
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: I think it is still developing into a true pocket

2240
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:20,720
Speaker 1: passer um. So that's where we have to We have

2241
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 1: to be able to cut the rundown, make them playing

2242
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:25,840
Speaker 1: some third and long situations and I think that would

2243
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:27,439
Speaker 1: be advantageous to us. And maybe you can get a

2244
01:46:27,479 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 1: couple of hands on some balls this week. And they've

2245
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:30,720
Speaker 1: run the ball one hundred and twenty times in four

2246
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:33,320
Speaker 1: and thirty times a game. Yeah, yeah, they run the

2247
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:37,880
Speaker 1: rock right, Yeah, they're not getting there, like just barely

2248
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: three yards three and a half yards of rush, which

2249
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:42,040
Speaker 1: is not that great, right, So they're sticking with it

2250
01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:44,200
Speaker 1: because they're in close. Yeah, if you're in close games, right,

2251
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 1: you can do that. It's more like a defensive mind

2252
01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:48,439
Speaker 1: head coaches like, Okay, I don't want to mess this up,

2253
01:46:48,520 --> 01:46:50,600
Speaker 1: so we have points on the board, let's just run it.

2254
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to take a chance of maybe throwing

2255
01:46:52,320 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: an interception or getting sacked and being out of field

2256
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,040
Speaker 1: goal range. But I'm gonna run this ball. And if

2257
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,679
Speaker 1: we get a big yard to get a first down, great,

2258
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 1: But if we don't, I know, I have these three

2259
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:04,000
Speaker 1: points in the way my defense is playing allows me

2260
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: to do that because they're going to keep this game

2261
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:07,479
Speaker 1: tight for me. You know, our guests last hour, Great

2262
01:47:07,520 --> 01:47:10,880
Speaker 1: Cosell had an interesting thought about play action pass right,

2263
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:13,439
Speaker 1: and he said he thinks, and I'd be curious about

2264
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:16,080
Speaker 1: your opinion, it doesn't really matter if you're getting yards

2265
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 1: in the running game. If you're doing a play action fake,

2266
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:20,680
Speaker 1: defenders will react to it. They don't know, oh they're

2267
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 1: not running a Well, we don't have to handle this

2268
01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 1: play action fake. What do you see either? I think

2269
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:28,800
Speaker 1: that's I mean true in a sense. But if I

2270
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:30,760
Speaker 1: have a good feel after I've played it and gotten

2271
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:32,240
Speaker 1: a game a little bit you can get a feel

2272
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:35,160
Speaker 1: for high half from offensive linement is certain keys, and

2273
01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 1: that's why you'll have some linebackers be able to get

2274
01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: back and get some picks because the quarterback is not

2275
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,439
Speaker 1: ready for it in this league. So some more of

2276
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:44,360
Speaker 1: a field thing. I think if you have young guys,

2277
01:47:44,479 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: they're always gonna be flying up and then coming out

2278
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:49,720
Speaker 1: of there. But it's all about having an understanding of

2279
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:51,639
Speaker 1: the mess because a lot of times, you know, running

2280
01:47:51,640 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: backs won't be asked tight if his play actions. Little

2281
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: things like that where veteran guys can pick up and

2282
01:47:56,240 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: get back into coverage. But it's also too it's not

2283
01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:01,360
Speaker 1: so much the production, it's you know that team's gonna

2284
01:48:01,439 --> 01:48:03,320
Speaker 1: run it. You know they're willing to run it and

2285
01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:05,400
Speaker 1: down a distance like this. So a team like like

2286
01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee there can be effective in play action because you

2287
01:48:09,880 --> 01:48:11,720
Speaker 1: know they hand it off a bunch, right, So when

2288
01:48:11,720 --> 01:48:13,639
Speaker 1: they actually like they're gonna hand it off, you think, yeah,

2289
01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna hand it off. Yeah, And that's when play

2290
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:18,720
Speaker 1: action becomes effective. Yeah. And I think that's more so

2291
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 1: where they can get the big chunk plays. If you

2292
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:24,760
Speaker 1: haven't tackled well all game with your front seven your linebackers,

2293
01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:26,519
Speaker 1: and then safeties feel like they have to fly up

2294
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:28,840
Speaker 1: because they don't want another big explosion play. If we

2295
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:32,439
Speaker 1: can handle it with the front seven, then we're fine,

2296
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 1: because then the safeties can feel like, oh, I can

2297
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:35,360
Speaker 1: be a little late. Let me make sure that this

2298
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 1: is a run first before I fly up there, or

2299
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:40,519
Speaker 1: make sure it's a pass before I get up there,

2300
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:41,840
Speaker 1: so I don't get a big one behind me. I

2301
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:44,200
Speaker 1: can help my corners out. And that's the kid about tackling.

2302
01:48:44,320 --> 01:48:47,080
Speaker 1: That's kind of a complimentary football, just from the front

2303
01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:49,719
Speaker 1: line to back end, because when you got guys gashing

2304
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 1: you the safe you gotta get down here. You gotta

2305
01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: get down here. You gotta get down here. The coaches

2306
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 1: telling you, and then they play action. You're flying up

2307
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:57,599
Speaker 1: there and you get a big you gotta stay back.

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01:48:57,680 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What are you doing? But if

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01:48:59,560 --> 01:49:02,599
Speaker 1: the frost seven has been tackling well all game, safeties

2310
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, I'm comfortable, I got my guys got

2311
01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: me up front. I'm about to sit back here ball

2312
01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:08,960
Speaker 1: and if I have to come down, I'll come down late.

2313
01:49:09,720 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander comes in every Friday and gives us the lowdowns.

2314
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: So let's get into it. What do the Bills have

2315
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:16,800
Speaker 1: to do? Uh, well, let's start on third downs? What

2316
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:18,439
Speaker 1: do they have to do to when this came to

2317
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:21,240
Speaker 1: beat the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, and I've kind of alluded

2318
01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 1: to this, I think being an advantageous third down down

2319
01:49:24,520 --> 01:49:27,000
Speaker 1: and distance on defense both sides of the ball. I mean,

2320
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 1: you know, Sean shows stats of us each and every

2321
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:32,799
Speaker 1: single game, and this team, both on offense and defense

2322
01:49:33,560 --> 01:49:37,400
Speaker 1: are drastically different depending on the down and distance. So,

2323
01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 1: for example, on offense, if it's third and seven to

2324
01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:44,880
Speaker 1: ten for our team, their coach loves to dial up

2325
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:47,640
Speaker 1: blitzes and they rank I want to saying, like in

2326
01:49:47,720 --> 01:49:51,160
Speaker 1: the top five to eight because they're more aggressive, they

2327
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:53,639
Speaker 1: get after it versus third and two to six, where

2328
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:55,920
Speaker 1: they may play a little bit more man get picked.

2329
01:49:56,000 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 1: We can run the ball a little bit better on them.

2330
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:00,799
Speaker 1: And in the same thing goes when we're on defense.

2331
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:04,639
Speaker 1: Because Mariota hasn't quite developed into that pocket passer quite yet.

2332
01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:06,559
Speaker 1: If you can get him in some third and seven

2333
01:50:06,600 --> 01:50:08,720
Speaker 1: to tens where you put the ball when you make

2334
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 1: him have to be a traditional pocket passer. If his

2335
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:14,920
Speaker 1: first look isn't there, he turned to his athleticism, and

2336
01:50:14,920 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: if we're able to get him down to tackle him

2337
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 1: before we get the first down, and you can have

2338
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 1: more success versus winning that that three two to four window,

2339
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:24,240
Speaker 1: or they're gonna run it, or they gonna boot you,

2340
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:26,200
Speaker 1: or they're gonna screen you. I mean, you just don't know.

2341
01:50:26,400 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be zone read he get out of

2342
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 1: the pocket. It's just so much more that they do,

2343
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: and that I think that's the strength of their team,

2344
01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 1: which makes it harder. So we have to get them in.

2345
01:50:35,200 --> 01:50:36,639
Speaker 1: We have to win on first and second down, as

2346
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned, and stay ahead of the chains on offense

2347
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:40,640
Speaker 1: from our side on first and second down so we

2348
01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:42,320
Speaker 1: prevent their blitz and we can get after them a

2349
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,320
Speaker 1: little bit on third down. And your second thing is

2350
01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 1: something that I think a lot of Bills fans kind

2351
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 1: of feel the same way. You gotta play complimentary football.

2352
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:51,840
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a whole team at Yeah, it's definitely is,

2353
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 1: especially where their defense is playing. How strong they are.

2354
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:55,559
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, we need to put up points

2355
01:50:55,600 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 1: on offense. Well, we have to have we have to

2356
01:50:57,479 --> 01:51:00,040
Speaker 1: be able to flip the field obviously in the in

2357
01:51:00,320 --> 01:51:03,519
Speaker 1: the special teams, whether we're on punt or punt return, UM,

2358
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 1: obviously keep them backed up with defensively, so then when

2359
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:08,600
Speaker 1: they when they're punting and the punt return, maybe we

2360
01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:11,679
Speaker 1: get the ball at you know, close to midfield versus

2361
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:14,360
Speaker 1: backed up inside the fifteenth. We've given up a couple

2362
01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:16,760
Speaker 1: of first downs. And so that's where you always have

2363
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 1: to look at, you know, what happened the series before, UM,

2364
01:51:19,520 --> 01:51:22,400
Speaker 1: and not just judge the office or the defense based

2365
01:51:22,479 --> 01:51:24,479
Speaker 1: on the yards or the points may be giving up.

2366
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:27,320
Speaker 1: There's there's a big picture that's being played here and

2367
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,920
Speaker 1: a lot of that ties in to one another. How

2368
01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 1: many special teams are you involved in these days? And

2369
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:33,880
Speaker 1: are you get a lot of defensives? Now? Yeah, I

2370
01:51:33,920 --> 01:51:37,200
Speaker 1: just play on punt right now, UM, and then depending

2371
01:51:37,280 --> 01:51:40,240
Speaker 1: on when I'm needed or week to week, how Danny

2372
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:41,920
Speaker 1: wants to use me, or if I'm not gonna play

2373
01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:43,960
Speaker 1: as much on defense, and I may add one or

2374
01:51:44,240 --> 01:51:46,439
Speaker 1: one here or there, but right now, just punt, which

2375
01:51:46,520 --> 01:51:48,040
Speaker 1: is great for me because the kick off this day

2376
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:50,640
Speaker 1: is just like a forty yard dash, which I'm not

2377
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:54,040
Speaker 1: into doing right there. If if I'm gonna run, I

2378
01:51:54,120 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: want to hit somebody at the end of the play.

2379
01:51:56,880 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: And low down number three. Um when the physical battle,

2380
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:02,960
Speaker 1: I don't detect that that's been a problem for the Bills. Yeah, no,

2381
01:52:03,160 --> 01:52:05,919
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. But this team, especially on offense,

2382
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:10,479
Speaker 1: they are a physical team. Tennessee is a physical team.

2383
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:12,680
Speaker 1: They kind of I don't want to say dirty, but

2384
01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:14,880
Speaker 1: they're really aggressive. They go all the way up to

2385
01:52:14,920 --> 01:52:17,639
Speaker 1: the whistle. You look at l Wayne the way he plays,

2386
01:52:18,040 --> 01:52:20,639
Speaker 1: you know, trying to throw guys over the pile, taunting guys,

2387
01:52:20,760 --> 01:52:23,360
Speaker 1: getting guy's face. So if you take it to him though,

2388
01:52:23,400 --> 01:52:24,760
Speaker 1: I mean in my mind that they try to be

2389
01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:26,080
Speaker 1: the bullets. So if you take it to him, hit

2390
01:52:26,160 --> 01:52:28,040
Speaker 1: him in the mouth, be consistent with that, really set

2391
01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:30,560
Speaker 1: that standard early. Then you won't have an issue with it.

2392
01:52:30,680 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 1: But you can kind of get law to sleep and

2393
01:52:32,040 --> 01:52:33,640
Speaker 1: let the team coming in and now they bullying you

2394
01:52:33,720 --> 01:52:35,760
Speaker 1: and your home turf and the game. You got out

2395
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 1: a hand quickly. So I think that's why it's such

2396
01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:39,840
Speaker 1: an infantis this weekend, because this is their mentality. They

2397
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:42,760
Speaker 1: want to be the big, tough, physical guys and throw

2398
01:52:42,840 --> 01:52:45,680
Speaker 1: people around. I Like I mentioned the Titans, like what

2399
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:48,720
Speaker 1: they've seen from Derrick Henry the former heis and Trophy winner, right,

2400
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:51,160
Speaker 1: big physical back we can move pretty well. Yeah, moves well.

2401
01:52:51,200 --> 01:52:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean, big physical back. One cut downhill, you know,

2402
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:55,439
Speaker 1: obviously we want to have our d line attack and

2403
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:57,679
Speaker 1: getting up the field and making him make his cut

2404
01:52:57,760 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 1: before he wants to. I think obviously it's going to

2405
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:02,439
Speaker 1: help us at getting him going to lateral. But I'll

2406
01:53:02,479 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: tell you what you know, people sleep on Dean Lewis.

2407
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 1: He was with the Patriots for a long time, very

2408
01:53:07,320 --> 01:53:10,920
Speaker 1: productive in the running passing game. He runs hard too.

2409
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:14,680
Speaker 1: I mean, so they have a great, I guess, complimentary

2410
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:18,440
Speaker 1: game with those two guys. Obviously want big massive specimen

2411
01:53:18,800 --> 01:53:20,560
Speaker 1: like oh who is that when he runs out? And

2412
01:53:20,600 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 1: then Dean Lewis, who can be a little unassuming but

2413
01:53:23,120 --> 01:53:26,280
Speaker 1: it's great in the passing game. Screen game runs whale

2414
01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:28,559
Speaker 1: yards after contact. So we're gonna have our hands full

2415
01:53:28,600 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: with both of those guys. But unlike, maybe more so

2416
01:53:31,120 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: than the first four teams you played, Tennessee's offense to me,

2417
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,160
Speaker 1: the tone for them is set by their offensive line.

2418
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:40,519
Speaker 1: Those guys are big and athletic in the front, and

2419
01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:42,200
Speaker 1: like you say, they go to the whistle and that

2420
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 1: kind of right, and that's why they want to say, Yeah,

2421
01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:46,360
Speaker 1: I mean, because they're a run first team, they want

2422
01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:48,280
Speaker 1: to be to set that physically. They want to dominate

2423
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:51,519
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and that's why, you know, that's

2424
01:53:51,560 --> 01:53:53,799
Speaker 1: why it's so important this weekend that we come downhill

2425
01:53:53,920 --> 01:53:56,800
Speaker 1: linebackers flying downhill. It's almost in a sense similar to

2426
01:53:56,880 --> 01:53:59,640
Speaker 1: our Jacksonville game last year as far as how they

2427
01:53:59,840 --> 01:54:01,600
Speaker 1: want to run the ball. So it's going to be

2428
01:54:01,680 --> 01:54:03,840
Speaker 1: one at the line of scrimmage and whoever dominates that

2429
01:54:03,960 --> 01:54:05,720
Speaker 1: area of the field is going to win this game.

2430
01:54:06,120 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: It's just the second home game this year. What does

2431
01:54:08,640 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 1: we saw how well you guys played at home last year?

2432
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:12,720
Speaker 1: What you won your first five games? I think at

2433
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:14,519
Speaker 1: home or four games? Yeah? What does home field mean

2434
01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 1: to the twenty eight team build so far? What do

2435
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:17,680
Speaker 1: you think you get out of playing at home? I mean,

2436
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:19,759
Speaker 1: obviously our fans are second, and I mean there's nobody

2437
01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,320
Speaker 1: around the league, and I played on several teams that

2438
01:54:22,439 --> 01:54:24,680
Speaker 1: compares to what builds Mafia and the energy they bring.

2439
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the RV line is already starting to fill up.

2440
01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm always a problement man. They're here earlier and earlier.

2441
01:54:30,200 --> 01:54:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they kind of gets me, right, hey, right,

2442
01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: So just running out of that tunnel. The energy they

2443
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:39,160
Speaker 1: bring third downs, obviously, the noise, the louder, especially with

2444
01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:41,440
Speaker 1: a young quarterback if he can't communicate the way he

2445
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:43,920
Speaker 1: wants to, and gave Philip Rivers a hard time when

2446
01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:45,640
Speaker 1: when he's here taking it all the way down. So

2447
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:47,920
Speaker 1: if we can have that same type of energy, and

2448
01:54:47,960 --> 01:54:49,440
Speaker 1: obviously we have to back it up by the way

2449
01:54:49,480 --> 01:54:54,120
Speaker 1: we're playing to keep them engaged in the game. This stadium,

2450
01:54:54,360 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 1: I mean, is a huge benefit to us as far

2451
01:54:57,760 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: as having our fans behind our back. And I know

2452
01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:02,440
Speaker 1: teams coming in, especially offenses, have a hard time when

2453
01:55:02,440 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 1: they're really engaged and we're playing well. Good luck. Yeah,

2454
01:55:05,080 --> 01:55:07,440
Speaker 1: thanks for coming by. Appreciate it, Lauren too. Alexander with

2455
01:55:07,480 --> 01:55:09,400
Speaker 1: the lowdown. He joins us every Friday at two. When

2456
01:55:09,440 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna hear from David Flewellen, running

2457
01:55:12,240 --> 01:55:14,960
Speaker 1: back Tennessee Titans, Lockport native, local kid coming home to

2458
01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: play in New Ara Field. We'll talk with David and

2459
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:20,200
Speaker 1: talk with you more. And when we return One Bills

2460
01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive, and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2461
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:41,240
Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. Right

2462
01:55:41,280 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: next door to New ara of field where the weather's

2463
01:55:42,840 --> 01:55:45,000
Speaker 1: pretty good today, chance of rain coming up on Sunday

2464
01:55:45,040 --> 01:55:48,400
Speaker 1: for kickoff and considerable cloudiness too for the Bills and

2465
01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:51,280
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. One o'clock kickoff. When the Titans take

2466
01:55:51,320 --> 01:55:54,000
Speaker 1: the field, they bring with them on Sunday West a

2467
01:55:54,080 --> 01:55:56,080
Speaker 1: couple of Western New York nat There's punder. Brett Kern

2468
01:55:56,360 --> 01:55:58,720
Speaker 1: comes back. He's played here before. But our guest right

2469
01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:00,680
Speaker 1: now is I don't believe it's played here. Is a

2470
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 1: member of the Tennessee Titans. Happen to have him on

2471
01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:05,560
Speaker 1: the subway? Fresh take hotline running back special teamer David

2472
01:56:05,640 --> 01:56:08,960
Speaker 1: flew Ellen from the Tennessee Titans, David, John Murphy and

2473
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here in Buffalo. Thanks for being with us

2474
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:14,400
Speaker 1: here today. There's no problem. Hey, if you ever played

2475
01:56:14,440 --> 01:56:16,480
Speaker 1: in this stadium even in high high school at Lockhart

2476
01:56:16,520 --> 01:56:19,840
Speaker 1: High School, No, this will be the first time for me. Um.

2477
01:56:20,120 --> 01:56:22,440
Speaker 1: You know, I went down to the stadium a couple

2478
01:56:22,440 --> 01:56:26,120
Speaker 1: of times for the Sex and Six Championship games to watch,

2479
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:28,360
Speaker 1: but never played. Okay, how about Bills games? You ever

2480
01:56:28,400 --> 01:56:30,800
Speaker 1: been to Bills games here in Orchard Park? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

2481
01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:32,920
Speaker 1: I've been to a couple of Bills games. Well, you're

2482
01:56:32,920 --> 01:56:35,760
Speaker 1: gonna go to another one, I guess this weekend. I

2483
01:56:35,800 --> 01:56:37,360
Speaker 1: gotta ask you. Did you have to get a bunch

2484
01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:40,480
Speaker 1: of tickets? Yeah? I did have to get a bunch

2485
01:56:40,520 --> 01:56:43,320
Speaker 1: of tickets. But you know my family gonna be there,

2486
01:56:43,440 --> 01:56:46,040
Speaker 1: you know it going to come out support and hopefully

2487
01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:48,000
Speaker 1: it's here for the Titans for a little bit. Yeah,

2488
01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:51,560
Speaker 1: well at least for you anyway, how you think? Yeah, right,

2489
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:53,000
Speaker 1: don't they have to cheer for you if you got

2490
01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 1: the tickets? Yeah, but you know how faithful to Bill's mommy,

2491
01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:01,400
Speaker 1: So I can't I can't guarantee that. Hey, how are

2492
01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:03,040
Speaker 1: you feeling? You were you were injured, you missed the

2493
01:57:03,080 --> 01:57:05,200
Speaker 1: game last week. You are you back to full speed,

2494
01:57:05,240 --> 01:57:07,760
Speaker 1: it says the injury report. You practice full go. Are

2495
01:57:07,800 --> 01:57:11,040
Speaker 1: you feeling good? Yeah? Yeah, I'm doing much better. I

2496
01:57:11,160 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: had repair injury the last couple of weeks, but I'm

2497
01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: back on the even Tell us about your path to

2498
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: the NFL and start if you would in Lockport playing

2499
01:57:21,040 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 1: that for the Lockboart Lions, and and maybe when you

2500
01:57:24,360 --> 01:57:26,640
Speaker 1: started to think about the NFL as a possibility for

2501
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:28,560
Speaker 1: a career for you, did it occur way back in

2502
01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:32,440
Speaker 1: high school. Um, it might happen a little earlier in

2503
01:57:32,560 --> 01:57:35,440
Speaker 1: high school. The NFL was always a dream of mine

2504
01:57:35,560 --> 01:57:37,960
Speaker 1: of being there, and I knew the hard work that

2505
01:57:38,040 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: it would take. Um. You know, I trained in high

2506
01:57:41,280 --> 01:57:45,720
Speaker 1: school a performance sports UH locally in Western New York

2507
01:57:45,920 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: with John Offer, and he was and he was familiar

2508
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:54,440
Speaker 1: to training professional athletes. Did I did well in high

2509
01:57:54,480 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 1: school and UH got recruited by Toledo, went there, and

2510
01:57:59,640 --> 01:58:02,400
Speaker 1: there was actually a sales pitch for me that Bratt

2511
01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:05,480
Speaker 1: Kern who was a Western New York native went there

2512
01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:09,120
Speaker 1: and ended up in the NFL. So you know, that

2513
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 1: was good for me, and they had great tradition. So

2514
01:58:12,560 --> 01:58:16,600
Speaker 1: went to Toledo. Didn't start my freshman or sophomore year.

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01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:19,600
Speaker 1: We had hupper classman who was there put time in

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01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 1: and I obviously deserved that role. And my junior and

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01:58:24,200 --> 01:58:27,520
Speaker 1: senior years is when I really took off. I had

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01:58:27,560 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 1: a couple of injuries during my college career and then

2519
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 1: when undrafted free agent to the Eagles, then was traded

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01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:43,200
Speaker 1: to the coach released there, went to the Titans, spent

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01:58:43,400 --> 01:58:47,200
Speaker 1: a year and a half on the practice squad and

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01:58:47,400 --> 01:58:50,120
Speaker 1: earned my way up to the act of roster by

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01:58:50,320 --> 01:58:54,960
Speaker 1: special Teams and we're here today. Yeah, and you actually

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01:58:55,320 --> 01:59:00,600
Speaker 1: probably a new head coach Mike Vrabel probably likes you

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01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:02,800
Speaker 1: as your role, I mean playing special teams. Tell me

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01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:04,520
Speaker 1: a little bit about what your role is. You've got

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01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: a couple of really good running backs ahead of it,

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01:59:06,400 --> 01:59:10,840
Speaker 1: a lot like your younger days at Toledo exactly. And um,

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01:59:10,960 --> 01:59:13,320
Speaker 1: you know, with those guys, I learned a lot from

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01:59:13,360 --> 01:59:16,200
Speaker 1: them if we actually push each other in that room

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01:59:16,280 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 1: to get better each and every day preparing for the week.

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01:59:19,880 --> 01:59:22,880
Speaker 1: But my primary goal as a right now, there's a

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01:59:22,920 --> 01:59:26,680
Speaker 1: special teams guy, and you know Steve Tasker, you know,

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01:59:26,800 --> 01:59:29,920
Speaker 1: he made a living, made a killing doing that, you know,

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01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:32,840
Speaker 1: And that's what I see myself doing. And I see

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01:59:32,920 --> 01:59:34,880
Speaker 1: that's my role and try to be a factor on

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01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:36,640
Speaker 1: the special team. All right. Steve won't ask you, so

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01:59:36,760 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: I will. Were you a Steve Tasker fan growing up

2539
01:59:38,800 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 1: in Lockport, David? Yeah, every young man, he's too young.

2540
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:46,120
Speaker 1: But growing up, you know, my dad showed me the

2541
01:59:46,240 --> 01:59:49,400
Speaker 1: importance of hard work. And the guys that don't get

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01:59:49,480 --> 01:59:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot of recognition at like the Thermon Thomas's or

2543
01:59:52,520 --> 01:59:55,640
Speaker 1: the Jim Kelley, like Steve Tasker, those two guys that's

2544
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:58,560
Speaker 1: really out there giving it. They all at half fleete

2545
01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:01,040
Speaker 1: that can do everything. I just played one position and

2546
02:00:01,160 --> 02:00:03,240
Speaker 1: received it. Hey, let me back up a little bit, David.

2547
02:00:03,320 --> 02:00:06,600
Speaker 1: Did you are you saying that because Titans founder Brett

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02:00:06,640 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 1: Kern played at Toledo that that sort of opened the

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02:00:08,680 --> 02:00:12,160
Speaker 1: door as far as recognition for you with the Tennessee Titans. Yeah,

2550
02:00:12,240 --> 02:00:14,120
Speaker 1: it's like it was. It was a self pitch. You know.

2551
02:00:14,360 --> 02:00:17,160
Speaker 1: First it was you know, just the history that they

2552
02:00:17,240 --> 02:00:20,440
Speaker 1: had at the running backs at Toledo, which was pretty good. Ye.

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02:00:20,680 --> 02:00:23,840
Speaker 1: And then you know they're saying as a self pitch.

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02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:27,440
Speaker 1: You know, Brett Kern from Granton Ally, he came through here,

2555
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 1: he did well for us, ended up getting his opportunity

2556
02:00:30,920 --> 02:00:33,920
Speaker 1: to play NFL, you know, And I looked at that

2557
02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:36,200
Speaker 1: as you know, one of my own went through the

2558
02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:38,000
Speaker 1: same route. You know, I feel like I can do

2559
02:00:38,120 --> 02:00:39,760
Speaker 1: the same thing. And one more thing to ask you

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02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:41,560
Speaker 1: about your path to the NFL. The last time you

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02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:45,280
Speaker 1: and I talk you probably don't remember, but Senior Bowl. Yeah,

2562
02:00:45,320 --> 02:00:47,680
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowling Mobile. You were invited there, but you

2563
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:49,840
Speaker 1: were coming off the injury, right, and I remember talking

2564
02:00:49,840 --> 02:00:52,160
Speaker 1: to you about you felt like you couldn't really put

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02:00:52,240 --> 02:00:54,000
Speaker 1: your best self forward there because you still were a

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02:00:54,040 --> 02:00:56,680
Speaker 1: little banged up down at the Senior Bowl. Huh, yeah,

2567
02:00:56,760 --> 02:01:00,920
Speaker 1: I was, And I was a late to that Senior Bowl,

2568
02:01:01,800 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 1: and I thought, I've seen it as an opportunity to

2569
02:01:04,760 --> 02:01:08,360
Speaker 1: get out in front of some NFL coaches and gems

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02:01:08,400 --> 02:01:10,920
Speaker 1: who were there, and that I could do a little

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02:01:11,000 --> 02:01:15,280
Speaker 1: something out there. Now, my senior year, I was coming

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02:01:15,360 --> 02:01:18,760
Speaker 1: off a fracture ankle and I missed how in that

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02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:22,400
Speaker 1: last quarter of the season, So that whole time when

2574
02:01:22,440 --> 02:01:25,000
Speaker 1: I was training, I was really rehabbing, trying to get

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02:01:25,040 --> 02:01:28,080
Speaker 1: the ankle right to go. You know, we've been talking

2576
02:01:28,200 --> 02:01:29,960
Speaker 1: up here about the last couple of weeks. You guys

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02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:32,800
Speaker 1: have put together some pretty impressive wins over Jacksonville, over

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02:01:33,120 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. You guys also, you think all the

2579
02:01:36,200 --> 02:01:39,400
Speaker 1: way back to Week one, you had that seven and

2580
02:01:39,480 --> 02:01:43,200
Speaker 1: a half hour marathon game against the Miami Dolphins with

2581
02:01:43,320 --> 02:01:48,200
Speaker 1: two big rain delays on Opening Day? How was that?

2582
02:01:48,440 --> 02:01:52,280
Speaker 1: How difficult was that game? And then does that add

2583
02:01:52,640 --> 02:01:54,920
Speaker 1: fuel to how good you feel about the three game

2584
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:59,760
Speaker 1: winning streak you've put together since then? Just about that delay?

2585
02:02:00,440 --> 02:02:03,320
Speaker 1: It was it was hard, you know, and Being an athlete,

2586
02:02:03,840 --> 02:02:08,280
Speaker 1: everything is about rhythm, and with those three delays being

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02:02:08,440 --> 02:02:10,800
Speaker 1: hours long, there was there was no way you could

2588
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,480
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm. We changed. We were in there

2589
02:02:13,960 --> 02:02:16,000
Speaker 1: trying to change the game plans, and I'm sure the

2590
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:18,280
Speaker 1: Dolphins who are doing the same thing, so we could

2591
02:02:18,320 --> 02:02:20,440
Speaker 1: really never get a good hit on them on what

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02:02:20,520 --> 02:02:22,600
Speaker 1: they were trying to do, and even if we did,

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02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:25,000
Speaker 1: they changed it during the next delay or the next

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02:02:25,040 --> 02:02:28,680
Speaker 1: delay after that. So we just really try to try

2595
02:02:28,720 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 1: to do a good job of just staying loose, just

2596
02:02:32,120 --> 02:02:36,000
Speaker 1: trying to be prepared for what may happen and and

2597
02:02:36,400 --> 02:02:39,720
Speaker 1: just try to be prepared to finish that game out.

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02:02:40,160 --> 02:02:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm as far as the rest of them, the games,

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02:02:44,440 --> 02:02:47,520
Speaker 1: you know, we just really just focus on week the week,

2600
02:02:47,600 --> 02:02:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, not try to look too far down the

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02:02:49,280 --> 02:02:52,640
Speaker 1: road and handle our next opponent. And you know, in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, everybody's good. You know, there's no such thing

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02:02:57,280 --> 02:02:59,680
Speaker 1: as a week off. So it was more about just

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02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,360
Speaker 1: adding from week to week the things we did well

2605
02:03:02,680 --> 02:03:05,160
Speaker 1: and the things we can fix round the line with

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02:03:05,200 --> 02:03:08,000
Speaker 1: Lockboard native David Flewellen coming back home this weekend with

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02:03:08,080 --> 02:03:10,000
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans to play against the Bills, and David,

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02:03:10,040 --> 02:03:12,680
Speaker 1: you mentioned now you've been to games at newer Field.

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02:03:12,720 --> 02:03:14,600
Speaker 1: You get to play there this week. But what about

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02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:16,360
Speaker 1: in the short time that you get off the field,

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02:03:16,560 --> 02:03:18,720
Speaker 1: you headed back up to Lockport. You're going to any

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Speaker 1: lockbart restaurants. You're going to lock City Pizza or Danny

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Speaker 1: she In Steakhouse. What's the plan? Um? I really don't

2614
02:03:26,120 --> 02:03:28,400
Speaker 1: have a plan yet, you know. Um, as soon as

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02:03:28,440 --> 02:03:31,080
Speaker 1: we land, I'm gonna figure something out. But getting some

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02:03:31,200 --> 02:03:34,080
Speaker 1: good Western New York food that is priority number one.

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02:03:34,320 --> 02:03:37,360
Speaker 1: We got good food in Lockport? Right, was that there's

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02:03:37,400 --> 02:03:41,560
Speaker 1: good food in Lockport? Oh? Yeah, for sure, you know, pizza, chicken,

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02:03:42,480 --> 02:03:47,000
Speaker 1: sub the whole, the whole thing. Now I might have

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02:03:47,120 --> 02:03:49,400
Speaker 1: to make a stop at all three places the fundamentals

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Speaker 1: of a good diet. Ings and say, David, thanks for this,

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02:03:52,440 --> 02:03:54,640
Speaker 1: have a great us the season. We'll see you here Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being on with us today. All right, thanks,

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02:03:56,720 --> 02:04:00,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate David Flewellen Lockport Native Titans running backs teamer

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Speaker 1: joined to sound the Subway Fresh Take hidline presented by

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Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned and operated. I

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Speaker 1: tried to get him to throw a plug at somebody

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02:04:08,040 --> 02:04:09,720
Speaker 1: in you know, somebody's plays. He wouldn't do it. He

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02:04:09,720 --> 02:04:12,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. I'll have to take care of that myself. Yeah,

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02:04:13,160 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: what's it like when a guy like that playing in

2631
02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: the NFL talks. I mean, clearly he was excited about

2632
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:21,160
Speaker 1: giving you credit for his career in the NFL at least.

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02:04:21,160 --> 02:04:22,960
Speaker 1: What do you watch him, you playing special team giving

2634
02:04:23,000 --> 02:04:25,720
Speaker 1: me credit? Well, you know, his dad's teaching him right

2635
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:28,960
Speaker 1: for wrong. But yeah, and growing up here, he was

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02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:30,920
Speaker 1: probably rubbed up against a lot of people who were

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02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:32,960
Speaker 1: fans of the team that I was in the early nineties.

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02:04:33,000 --> 02:04:35,960
Speaker 1: And he knows, he knows well, has seen it firsthand,

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02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:39,120
Speaker 1: have been a part of Bill's crowds here in this stadium,

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Speaker 1: So he knows what he's walking into and his team

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02:04:41,720 --> 02:04:43,640
Speaker 1: what they're gonna face when they come in here for

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Speaker 1: a road game with the Titans, particularly, I wonder if

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02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:49,160
Speaker 1: what I'd like to know is I wonder how much

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Speaker 1: history with a new head coach and kind of a

2645
02:04:50,920 --> 02:04:53,480
Speaker 1: new thing going on down in Tennessee. I wonder't they

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02:04:53,640 --> 02:04:57,040
Speaker 1: actually get a sense of the home run throwback, the

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02:04:57,160 --> 02:05:00,760
Speaker 1: comeback game. The first home game ever in this stadium

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02:05:00,840 --> 02:05:03,400
Speaker 1: was against that team, you know, against Warren Moon and

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02:05:03,520 --> 02:05:07,040
Speaker 1: all those guys and Steve McNair and oh, I wonder

2650
02:05:07,080 --> 02:05:08,960
Speaker 1: if there's any of that sense of history with that

2651
02:05:09,120 --> 02:05:12,240
Speaker 1: club that there is here You've played Probably not right

2652
02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:14,760
Speaker 1: among those young guys that I mean, you and I

2653
02:05:14,840 --> 02:05:17,600
Speaker 1: can think of, because there's a much reason for them

2654
02:05:17,680 --> 02:05:19,800
Speaker 1: to remember all that stuff there is for the Bills fans.

2655
02:05:19,880 --> 02:05:22,280
Speaker 1: I mean, but a home run throwback there, the Music

2656
02:05:22,320 --> 02:05:25,080
Speaker 1: City Miracle that's nineteen years ago. Now, it was a

2657
02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:28,440
Speaker 1: while ago. And well, how long was a comeback team?

2658
02:05:28,520 --> 02:05:31,320
Speaker 1: Thirty five twenty five years ago? Yeah, the comeback game

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02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:35,440
Speaker 1: January of ninety three. Yeah, so yeah, that's so long

2660
02:05:35,760 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 1: long time ago some of those Yeah, I mean that's

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02:05:39,560 --> 02:05:42,120
Speaker 1: ancient history. Yeah, it should be a good one, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Let's revisit our Twitter poll for a second here, as

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Speaker 1: we ask folks, if the Bills should win on Sunday

2664
02:05:48,160 --> 02:05:49,840
Speaker 1: against the Tennessee Titans, who do you think it'd be

2665
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:52,440
Speaker 1: the MVP? Who would be the key player? In other words,

2666
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Speaker 1: for the Bills in a victory. Um, And we've had

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll up for a couple of hours now,

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Speaker 1: got a lot of good responses. Half of the respondents

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Speaker 1: at least fifty percent. Fifty two percent say Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: thirty percent say Lashawn McCoy, ten percent say Jerry Hughes,

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Speaker 1: eight percent of somebody else in mind, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with Jerry Huesteve And I, you know what, great cosl

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02:06:12,560 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: sort of got me thinking about it. Look, even if

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02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:17,520
Speaker 1: the Bills get better on offense, they got a long

2675
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:19,720
Speaker 1: way to go. So maybe you kind of rely on

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02:06:19,760 --> 02:06:22,200
Speaker 1: the defense to hold Tennessee to some you know what,

2677
02:06:22,400 --> 02:06:25,360
Speaker 1: ten points, thirteen points, seventeen points, to give the offense

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Speaker 1: a chance to put something on the board and maybe

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Speaker 1: give himself a chance. So I'd go with Jerry Hughes,

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Speaker 1: I guess on our poll, maybe the other, but i'd

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Speaker 1: due to Hughes has a notable matchup against Taylor Lawant,

2682
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:38,640
Speaker 1: former first round pick over there at left tackle. Yeah,

2683
02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:40,240
Speaker 1: I think Jerry's, you know, going to have his hands full.

2684
02:06:40,360 --> 02:06:42,720
Speaker 1: Tennessee's got a great offensive line. They're really playing well.

2685
02:06:42,760 --> 02:06:45,320
Speaker 1: They set the tone. We talked to Lorenzo Alexander. He said,

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02:06:45,360 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 1: they play through the whistle. They're chippy bunch. They have

2687
02:06:48,840 --> 02:06:51,080
Speaker 1: that attitude about them. And I and when I was

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02:06:51,200 --> 02:06:53,920
Speaker 1: looking at the Twitter poll and I said this early

2689
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Speaker 1: in the show. I think I would have gone with

2690
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Speaker 1: somebody like Tredavious White, somebody who's gonna get some turn over,

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Speaker 1: somebody who is gonna be maybe be tested by this

2692
02:07:05,400 --> 02:07:07,800
Speaker 1: Titan offense. I think, you know, I could see Tredavious

2693
02:07:07,880 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: White moving around with Davis, their wide receiver, who's you know,

2694
02:07:12,200 --> 02:07:14,320
Speaker 1: the number one draft pick, maybe moving around with him,

2695
02:07:14,360 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: maybe getting some opportunities. Not too many people have thrown

2696
02:07:17,720 --> 02:07:21,520
Speaker 1: at Tredavious White this year, and maybe this could be

2697
02:07:21,560 --> 02:07:24,280
Speaker 1: the time when that changes. Hey, um, there's this game

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock on Sunday, the Bills and the Titans.

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Speaker 1: And there's this game tonight here at New Airfield High School.

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Speaker 1: Football is back week two of them on Signor Martin

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Speaker 1: Association scheduled tonight's game seven o'clock to night time and

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Speaker 1: sing Jude against O'Hara right here in New Aerofield, part

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Speaker 1: of the New Airfield matchup of Monsignor Martin Schools. If

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Speaker 1: you can't if you can get here, you can buy

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Speaker 1: tickets the day of the game here at the Bills

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Speaker 1: ticket office. They had a big crowd here last week

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Speaker 1: for Saint Joe's and Knishes If you cannot get here, though,

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Speaker 1: you can watch the game. The game is gonna be

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Speaker 1: streamed live across New Aerrafield's Facebook and Twitter channels, as

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Speaker 1: well as on one Buffalo dot Com psc Producing the game.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Everybody, Chris Gonna All the play by play,

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Speaker 1: joined by longtime Lancaster High School coach Lenjako. It's time

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Speaker 1: in Saint Jude against O'Hara tonight, seven o'clock right here

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Speaker 1: in newer Field. If you can't come out to the game,

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Speaker 1: you can watch it. I'm one of those social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back with more in a moment. One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Great go Sell was good today. He's always good and

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Speaker 1: he and Steve know what they're talking about. Greg, I

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Speaker 1: have no clue. Gret go Sell joined us today as

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Speaker 1: he does on every Friday, and I asked him about

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Speaker 1: what a path to victory for the Bills this Sunday

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Speaker 1: might look like. Here's what he had to say. Well,

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Speaker 1: in all honesty, I think when if you're being realistic,

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Speaker 1: it has to be a close, fairly low scoring game.

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Speaker 1: So the path to victory to me starts with their defense,

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Speaker 1: to builds defense. If they can keep this game in

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Speaker 1: the teams they can, they have a chance to win.

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Speaker 1: If any team that sort of runs and hides a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and Green Bay didn't run and hide, but

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Speaker 1: they got up and the games sort of snowballed, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be hard at this point for this offense

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Speaker 1: to really come back. They have to be within the

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Speaker 1: game and not have to step away from ideally the

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Speaker 1: way they would like to play. Great Cosell. You can

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Speaker 1: catch him on ESPN's NFL Matchup this week. Also on

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Speaker 1: the show Today, what have we learned from Lorenzo Alexander?

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Speaker 1: He was in earlier this hour for the Lowdown, went

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Speaker 1: through his keys to the game. We also got him

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Speaker 1: talking about what's been a big issue on our show

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days. Culture right Sean McDermott says

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Speaker 1: trade he'd rather have culture than strategy when it comes

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Speaker 1: to building his team. We asked Lorenzo Alexander about what

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Speaker 1: it takes to build a winning culture in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's creating a winning coach and those are all the

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Speaker 1: characteristics of that. And if you look around the league,

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Speaker 1: I think each coach, you know, head coach does it

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Speaker 1: a little bit different way. So Andy Reid is different

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Speaker 1: than Belichick, than different than what Sean McVay is doing

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Speaker 1: in LA, different than what we're trying to create here.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's all about winning.

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Speaker 1: And then the strategy plays into that after you create

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Speaker 1: that that winning style of culture, because if you don't

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Speaker 1: have guys that are working hard, grinding it out, willing

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Speaker 1: to play hurt and do certain things, I don't care

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Speaker 1: what you ask them to do as far as exit

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Speaker 1: and ols, none of that's going to matter. Lawrenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: too much talk about culture. Let me think this week

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Speaker 1: the last few days, no never enough. On Twitter, we

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Speaker 1: ask you today, if the Bills shouldn't find a path

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Speaker 1: to victory, who would be the most valuable player, the

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Speaker 1: most critical element of a Buffalo victory, and the final

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Speaker 1: results in our Twitter poll today show that fifty fifty

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Speaker 1: two percent of you say Josh Allen would be the

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Speaker 1: MVP if the Bills beat the Titans. Thirty percent say

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Speaker 1: you would be running back Lashan McCoy, ten percent say

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Speaker 1: Jerry he was, eight percent say somebody else now. Injuries.

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Speaker 1: The injury report just out for Sunday's game. Three players

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Speaker 1: listed as questionable for the Bills. Nobody ruled out. No

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Speaker 1: practice at all this week for safety Raphael Bush with

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Speaker 1: his shoulder, and yet he is listed as questionable for

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game. No practice well, limited practice Wednesday, no practice Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and full practice today. For tight end Charles Clay, he

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Speaker 1: is listed as questionable. He will play. And Micah Hide

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Speaker 1: the safety, no practice at all this week right with

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Speaker 1: his hamstring, but there is growing rather but he is

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Speaker 1: listed as questionable. I thought he might be ruled out,

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Speaker 1: but he's questionable for the game. That'll be interesting to follow.

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Speaker 1: Mica was adamant in the locker room the other day

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Speaker 1: saying that he's good to go. Lorenzol ready to go,

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Speaker 1: got his Wednesday off, same with Kyl Williams. Good to go.

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Speaker 1: Full practice week for running back Marcus Murphy not on

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Speaker 1: the injury list now, and check Lawson limited done Wednesday

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Speaker 1: and Thursday, full practice today and he's not on the

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Speaker 1: injury report for Sunday either. It's gonna be an interesting game, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I think Tennessee, obviously he is playing considerably better than

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills through the first four games. And yet I

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Speaker 1: have a feeling the Bills can pull this off. I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna come alive with a good fast start,

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Speaker 1: get some offensive production, move the ball a little bit,

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Speaker 1: put some points on the board, and play most notably,

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Speaker 1: really good defense against this Tennessee offense. I look for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, they're going to close relatively low scoring gear.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the key to it. I think the

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Speaker 1: Bill's defense is gonna play like it has in the

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Speaker 1: last three weeks. And then also I think that a

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Speaker 1: fast start, a little success early on for the Bills

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Speaker 1: offense will set the tone and make this a much

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Speaker 1: different game. Do you think, what do you think the

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Speaker 1: atmosphere will be like here? You know, it's a very

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Speaker 1: tough to come off a shutout loss in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: The Bills you know, lost and lost badly when they

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Speaker 1: played here. A couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago

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Speaker 1: against Los Angeles. There's the win against Minnesota on the resume. Now,

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Speaker 1: I just I hope that fans give them the benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubt here Sunday and stay with them a

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Speaker 1: little bit. You know, maybe I might have to punt

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Speaker 1: on their first possession. That doesn't mean the game's over,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, they'll theyn't hang in

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Speaker 1: nott to hang in there. I'm sure they are going

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Speaker 1: to hang in there. I think when you get to

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Speaker 1: this point, it's supposed to be cloudy and rainy. That

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Speaker 1: always kind of puts a damper on everything. No, no

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Speaker 1: pun intended, but but Danny, Yeah, but yeah, there's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a great crowd. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of excitement, and I think it will be something that

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Speaker 1: you know, the Titans are gonna have to contend with.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a home crowd. You can count on

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Speaker 1: that and stay with it for a while on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have fun. If you're coming to the

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Speaker 1: game Sunday, We'll be back here on Monday at noon

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Speaker 1: to discuss. I want to thank our production assistance. George

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Speaker 1: Blast Jeff Coltneck, Thomas Honalder, Kelly Rude, j J. Turrito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cart, James robol Our producer Jay Harris. Steve is

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Speaker 1: off to Cincinnati for the Dolphins and the Bengals. I've

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Speaker 1: got coverage of the game here in Orchard Parker. We're

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Speaker 1: back to discuss at twelve noon on Monday, One Bill's Life,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Hell. Right here from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio