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Speaker 1: dot time. Happy Friday. Everybody, welcome to the show. We're

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Speaker 1: here until three one builds live from one. Bill's driving

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Speaker 1: A nice sunny day in Orchard Park. It's warm too,

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Speaker 1: It's like thirty nine degrees. Not a bad day for

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Speaker 1: January fourth. Happy to Happy with us in the audience

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Speaker 1: here today, John Murphy in our one Buffalo studio alongside

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Speaker 1: my partner, Steve Tasker. Happy Friday, Steve, Welcome to Happy,

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Speaker 1: Frey Murf's been a good week. It's been a really

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Speaker 1: good first week of the off season. Unfortunately. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it's been good. We've had some pretty lively discussions and

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Speaker 1: oh oh I didn't we got little We got trophies

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Speaker 1: got the one Bills Live Awards Day hand out today

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Speaker 1: for the Bills in twenty eighteen. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: as the show goes along. You just noticed, though, I

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Speaker 1: Steve's been in the other room, Rachel's is in here,

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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm gonna eat every commercial break. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: eat all day. Rachel's Mediterranean Grill and Joe Corey, the

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Speaker 1: owner of Rachel's Mediterranean Grill, brought over a great spread

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Speaker 1: for us and for the hockey guys, for the instigators.

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Speaker 1: They got everything out there. They got incredible Greek salad,

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Speaker 1: they got raps, they got um what else is out there? Chips, chips, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Greek fries. Amazing. We thank the guys from Rachel's Mediterranean

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Speaker 1: fresh and that's that's what makes it so good. Tastes

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Speaker 1: And that's where Steve was. That's where I was. Had

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Speaker 1: And Steve mentioned to me this morning about how packed

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Speaker 1: not today? Good guests line up today. Coming up at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock Thurman Thomas Hall of Famer, perhaps you've heard

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Speaker 1: of him. He'll be joining us in studio one thirty.

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Speaker 1: Will be in the line with Great co Sell from

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, the analyst and co host executive producer of

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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN, and our buddy Joe b Joebascallia

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Speaker 1: Live Awards for twenty eighteen. That's what these trophies are here,

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Speaker 1: Danny Crossman is has been let go as the Bill

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Speaker 1: Who goes first? You were me? It doesn't matter. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna say the same guy. Yeah, this is a no brainer, right,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen destructions of MPP. Look, they didn't have much

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Speaker 1: of any offense for the first half of the season, right,

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Speaker 1: Things got kind of lit in the Jets game with

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Speaker 1: Matthew Barkley, and then Josh Allen returned to the lineup

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Speaker 1: started the final six games and they had a viable

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Speaker 1: passing offense. Josh Allen, clearly he's the offensive MVP. He's

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Speaker 1: not perfect, he's got a long way to go, but

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Speaker 1: he really Uh, I thought a little fire on the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo passing game and the run game. All those rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: It was a very flawed offense. Right. They could not

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Speaker 1: way the running backs, and so Josh Allen sort of

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Speaker 1: took control. Josh Allen is clearly the offensive MVP. Anybody

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Speaker 1: have any questions about that, I don't think I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. When he stepped on the field as they're

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback, particularly after the injury came back after a

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Speaker 1: month off, When he stepped back on the field after

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Speaker 1: that injury break, they were immediately competitive, immediately competitive, and

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Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big step for a team

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Speaker 1: that was in the state they were in early in

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Speaker 1: real and they were competitive with a chance when it

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Speaker 1: went four and three in his last seven starts. He

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Speaker 1: is the guy going forward, no question about it, and

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Speaker 1: I think that says a lot. There was a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys in the in the drafting around the league

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Speaker 1: that you could point to, Lamar Jackson being one of

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Speaker 1: them who's winning games with the Baltimore Ravens being a

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Speaker 1: running quarterback, Baker Mayfield, same thing. The moment those guys

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Speaker 1: stepped on the field, whatever their personality said and certainly

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Speaker 1: what their skills said had to offer, their teams were

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Speaker 1: immediately competitive and more competitive, and that something we haven't

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Speaker 1: seen much of from rookie rookies in the NFL. You

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. I mean, you see these guys

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Speaker 1: come in and they're you know, they're throwing more picks

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Speaker 1: than than touchdowns, which most of these guys did too,

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Speaker 1: But there's something else about them that lifts their team,

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen certainly fits into that. And for that

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Speaker 1: I agree either the MVP. It's hard to come up

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Speaker 1: with any other candidate, right Josh Allen led the team

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Speaker 1: in rushing and in passing, led the team in touchdown score.

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Speaker 1: He finished with eight of them, matching A Bill's record

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Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. I mean, who else could you look at?

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones finished strong, had some numbers, at least at

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Speaker 1: the end, not all meaningful catches, especially in the paid game.

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Speaker 1: Finished with fifty six catches and seven touchdowns. Robert Camos

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Speaker 1: provided some moments he might qualify for one of the

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Speaker 1: other awards, but I don't know, there's no other choice.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't think if you got a better one. Let

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Speaker 1: us know. Offensive MVP, we're going with Josh Allen. Let

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Speaker 1: us know, though, give us a call. Eight H three

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty Defensive Most Valuable Player, the second

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Speaker 1: ranked defense in terms of yards allowed in the NFL

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Speaker 1: Are one Buffalo Awards for the Defensive Most Valuable Player. Now,

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Speaker 1: you got some candidates, right, and you you go first

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Speaker 1: on this one. Excuse me, I'm gonna I stuck with

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Speaker 1: the favorite. Um, you could have gone with a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys maybe, like were saying, But I went with

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes the favorite. Yeah. Well, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: reliable veterans that you knew it was going to be

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Speaker 1: have a good year. I went with him. He played

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Speaker 1: all sixteen games, he had three forced fumbles, seven sacks,

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Speaker 1: He led the team in sacks, and the thing that

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Speaker 1: I got, he had eighteen core back hits. And more

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Speaker 1: importantly than that, he led the team in tackles for

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Speaker 1: loss with thirteen. So he was in their backfield a lot.

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Speaker 1: And I think in the league the way it is now,

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Speaker 1: it's about two things. It's about turnovers and getting after

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Speaker 1: the quarterback on defense, and I think Jerry Hughes was

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Speaker 1: the best guy at that. This year. He was most consistent,

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Speaker 1: played in all sixteen games and I'm sticking with him

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Speaker 1: as MVP. Defensive MVP. I don't know about that one.

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Speaker 1: He had seven sacks led the team. They're not a

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Speaker 1: great pass thro team team, middle of the pack in

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Speaker 1: terms of number of sex. Seven sacks is not a

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Speaker 1: great number. Jerry Hughes has had better years. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to downgrade Jerry Hughes. I think he was a consistent,

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Speaker 1: solid performer for a pretty good Buffalo defense. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I got for my defensive MVP, safety Jordan Poyer, who

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Speaker 1: really I think belongs in the Pro Bowl. Jordan Poyer

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Speaker 1: has had two good years for the Buffalo Bills. He

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Speaker 1: has led the team in interceptions with the four forced

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Speaker 1: to fumble, came up with a couple of sacks one

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Speaker 1: hundred combined tackles, none of them for losses. I think

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer has had two outstanding years. And his partner

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Speaker 1: back there's pretty good too, Micah Hyde. But Poyer seems

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Speaker 1: to be around the ball more player, seems to have

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Speaker 1: been making plays more than anybody else in that defense,

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Speaker 1: both of us ignoring the Turdevious White as the defensive MVP,

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Speaker 1: which I think is significant. I think Tardevious had an

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Speaker 1: outstanding Pro Bowl caliber year for the most part through

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Speaker 1: the entire year. But I'm going with Payer. Jordan Poyer

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Speaker 1: is my defensive MVP. Yeah, and you're right. He has

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Speaker 1: put together a couple of years here and when he

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Speaker 1: got signed by the Bills about his new coaching staff

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Speaker 1: and free agency two years ago, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of people were like raising their eyebrows, right. I mean

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, okay, he's with Cleveland, and how

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Speaker 1: good is this guy? You know? And he came in

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Speaker 1: and last year, of course, put his stamp on it

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Speaker 1: right away. They were getting all kinds of turnovers. And

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Speaker 1: this year the solid play of their entire defense and

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Speaker 1: Poyer's role in it in the way they used him

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Speaker 1: and his ability to stay around the football wherever it

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Speaker 1: was it was. You're right, he had a really really

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Speaker 1: nice season back there. I think it's the second one

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Speaker 1: in a row. Yeah. He's smart, you know, he plays smart.

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Speaker 1: He can talk about the game well and love when

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Speaker 1: he comes on the show. He's great in the postgame

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Speaker 1: locker room. Not that this matters as far as who

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Speaker 1: the MVP is, but I just think he on a

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Speaker 1: defense it's full of some pretty good players Micah Hyde,

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Speaker 1: Tradeabous White, Jerry Hughes, Kyle Williams, Lorenzo Alexander. I mean

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Speaker 1: they have some talent, both the elderly talent or at

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Speaker 1: least veteran talent, and young talent. Matt Milano, some might argue,

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Speaker 1: was the defensive MVP. I put Jordan Poyer at the

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Speaker 1: head of the class. You may disagree. If so, give

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Speaker 1: us a call. We got time for your thoughts too.

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Speaker 1: tweet him in at one Bills Live. As we hand

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Speaker 1: out our one Bills Live season awards for twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. We got more to come, including

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Speaker 1: Rookie the Year on offense, Rookie of the Year on defense.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Comeback Player of the Year. All of

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Speaker 1: that to be discussed. Get in on the discussion. Join us,

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Speaker 1: won't you. We're here until three. One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back. One goes live from one Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: We are well fed today from the folks. From Rachel's

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean Grill. Steve and I welfing down some Rachel's stuff.

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Speaker 1: Joe Correy and his crew from Rachel's Mediterranean Grill. We're

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Speaker 1: going through the One Bill's Live Awards for the Bills

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. You are welcome to join us phone lines

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Speaker 1: to your input on this in a minute. We've gone

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Speaker 1: through the Offensive MVP, the Defensive MVP. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: Rookies of the Year, one on offense, one on defense.

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Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live Season Awards. That's what these trophies are.

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Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year. Um my journey to go

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Speaker 1: first two years doesn't matter. Offensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Who do you got ye, Josh Allen? Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 1: Do we need to talk about him? No? No, just

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Speaker 1: as there was no other candidate for Offensive MVP, now

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Speaker 1: there is some other guys we want to mention. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: down further down, but yeah, and this award Offensive Rookies

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, offensive rookies. But who else you want to mention?

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster had a good year. Why Teller was started

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Speaker 1: by the end of the year and you know, things

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Speaker 1: got a little better. So yeah, but Bob Foster, but

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Speaker 1: I think was a surprise player of the year. Yeah

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Speaker 1: nobody knew him, right, Yeah, nobody knew who he was.

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Speaker 1: So so that's a rookie of the year on offense,

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Speaker 1: pretty basic. Defensive rookie of the year not so much.

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Speaker 1: Our one Builds Live Award the defensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the guy who did not finish

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Speaker 1: the season, Tarn Johnson, who started this season and started

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Speaker 1: out really strong. I mean, think about it. He had

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Speaker 1: a kind of a rough road to get to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Had a kind of an ugly backwards moment at the

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Speaker 1: combine caught on video, and the build drafted him in

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Speaker 1: the fourth round, went to camp, realized that he was

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Speaker 1: their best option. Terren Johnson was their best option for

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Speaker 1: difficult for a rookie. Terren Johnson jumped in and did

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Speaker 1: a really good job. I thought, played eleven games started one,

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Speaker 1: was inactive the last one two or three four weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season. But yeah, I thought he was good.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was a really good performer and a

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Speaker 1: guy who made plays on the ball. And he played

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Speaker 1: through you know, his shoulder injury bothered him Week one,

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Speaker 1: Steve week one, Week one, he was dealing with the

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury, fought through it, got himself ready to play

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Speaker 1: every week through three quarters of the season, and then

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Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. A reliable tackler, a pretty good

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Speaker 1: cover man, covering some of the best, you know, interior

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Speaker 1: receivers in the game, some of the best slot receivers.

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Speaker 1: And I think he was my defensive rookie of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had. And I think the thing that we heard

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Speaker 1: so much about with him was his toughness. I mean,

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Speaker 1: painful and cumbersome in the fact that he kept happened

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Speaker 1: to his shoulder, put back in and he kept playing.

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Speaker 1: And that earned a lot of respect to the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff and his teammates. And yeah, you can't there is

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Speaker 1: an argument to be made for him, And I see

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Speaker 1: why you're your favorite guy. My guy is the incumbent

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds for what he did. He was the middle linebacker,

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Speaker 1: the lynchpin of the front seven. He called all the defenses,

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Speaker 1: he made all the checks, he communicated the front to

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Speaker 1: twenty years of an age. And he was did it

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Speaker 1: on the number two defense in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: He had one hundred and twenty one tackles, a couple

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Speaker 1: of sacks, a couple of forced fumbles, twelve passes defenced,

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Speaker 1: eighty solo tackles, five tackles for lost, five quarterback hits.

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Speaker 1: He was everywhere, and he was And the best part

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Speaker 1: about it is, although he had had one game where

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Speaker 1: he sat out because of a concussion, he was available.

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Speaker 1: He's there six fifteen of the sixteen weeks. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be there for a long time. You can bet that

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Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna make do their best to you know,

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Speaker 1: get him to his second contract and he'll be here

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Speaker 1: for double digits. Yeah, I think it's I think he

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Speaker 1: had a phenomenal year as a young rookie. There are

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Speaker 1: other rookie linebackers in the league that may have had

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Speaker 1: better numbers, but I think He was as important a

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Speaker 1: player on this defense as anybody out there, and he

637
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Speaker 1: was a rookie. I can't poke holes in that. I

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Speaker 1: thought Tremine Edmonds had a really good year, and the

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Speaker 1: best thing about it might be he got better. He

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Speaker 1: got better as the season went along, Right, he had

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Speaker 1: a rough time even I think it was Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: on our show a couple of days ago mentioned what

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Speaker 1: a difficult day Tremaine had against the Chargers home open

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Speaker 1: or week two of the season, right, I mean they

645
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Speaker 1: were exploiting him in coverage, looking one way, throwing the other.

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Speaker 1: Really did the Chargers did a great job of kind

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Speaker 1: of exposing Tremaine Edmonds. That wasn't happening. By the final

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Speaker 1: quarter of the season. He was exposing offense. He was,

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Speaker 1: he was outstanding against the Dolphins the other day. He

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Speaker 1: played more freely. I think as the season went along,

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Speaker 1: he he you know, kind of forgot about it. He

652
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: didn't forget about it, but he kind of put aside

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Speaker 1: the fact that he was calling the defensive signals and

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Speaker 1: relaying the defensive singles and just went out and played

655
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Speaker 1: ran all over the field. There's a lot to like

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Speaker 1: about Tremaine Edmonds and as I said, and made. The

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Speaker 1: best thing for me is how just like Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: his trajectory went upward, his arrow went up for most

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Speaker 1: of the season, and he was really good by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. And I think also it speaks

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Speaker 1: well that there are choices to be made on that

662
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Speaker 1: side of the ball. You've got. I mean, you forget

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Speaker 1: if everybody kind of whitewash is the fact that Tradevious

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Speaker 1: White is this his second year, just finished his second year.

665
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's still young. I mean he's been right

666
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Speaker 1: moving into the prime of his career. This next year,

667
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Speaker 1: You've got a guy like tarn Johnson that you found

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Speaker 1: out about who's gonna really play He can really play it.

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Speaker 1: He was he played really well and he was really hurt.

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Speaker 1: And then Tremaine Edmonds comes in as a rookie. So

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Speaker 1: and they'd all did this on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Where as a team, yeah, they were as good as

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Speaker 1: anybody in the league, you know. So I think all

674
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Speaker 1: of those things together you got to make you think

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Speaker 1: like they're sitting right in the right spot defensively, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to take an enormous step backwards last year.

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Speaker 1: You can't really think, hey, they're gonna have the number

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Speaker 1: one defense in the league next year. But there you know,

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Speaker 1: there's never every reason to believe they are going to

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Speaker 1: continue to be very productive. And having such a young

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Speaker 1: group of guys playing such an important role and playing

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Speaker 1: so well as really speaks well for the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: and their ability to get guys ready. We're moving through

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Speaker 1: our twenty eighteen one Bills Live Awards for the Bills

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season, John Murphy, Steve Tasker here in

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Speaker 1: our one Buffalo studio. You're welcome to join us on

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Speaker 1: the phone line eighth three h five fifty or from

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Speaker 1: outside Buffalo toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Oh, you can weigh in on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to your tweets at a moment. Our last

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Speaker 1: award one Buffalo one Bills Live Award come Back Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year. And we have a little debate this

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Speaker 1: morning in the office about what does this mean. Does

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Speaker 1: it mean a player injured last year doesn't mean a

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Speaker 1: player who did not play well last year. I mean

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Speaker 1: a player who took a you know, a downturn this

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Speaker 1: year and then came back strong within the course of

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season, no rules. Whoever you like for

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Speaker 1: comeback player of the year, let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I have talked it over, Steve, who was

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Speaker 1: your comeback player of the Year for the Bills this year. Well,

702
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Speaker 1: it was coming down to a couple of guys, and

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00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: it was like Shack Lawson was certainly in the conversation

704
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Speaker 1: for the way he came in this year and end

705
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: upped his game. Robert Foster was a guy who was

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Speaker 1: cut off the team early, came back and played extremely well.

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Speaker 1: And then somebody just reminded me, you know, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: was out for a month with injury, came back and

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Speaker 1: played way better after the injury. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that you can choose from for a lot of

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00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: different reasons. Trent Murphy was a guy who didn't have

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Speaker 1: a stellar year, but he had a devastating knee injury.

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Speaker 1: He was coming back from from another team and the

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Speaker 1: change teams, changed venues, changed environment, So it was a

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Speaker 1: question markus to how he was going to play. But

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Speaker 1: I think for me, given the way Zay Jones as well,

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Speaker 1: you know, he had a big he upped his contribution

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Speaker 1: a bit, so I think for me, though, the guy

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Speaker 1: that I want to look to, I'm gonna say Robert Foster,

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Speaker 1: rookie free agent, was cut from the team practice squad,

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Speaker 1: came back and then when they when they got him

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Speaker 1: on the field, and he after he was released and

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Speaker 1: brought back and got a talking to from Lashawn McCoy

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Speaker 1: some of the other veterans about how to be a professional,

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Speaker 1: the mindset they expected from him, what it was going

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Speaker 1: to take to be successful in the league. He did it,

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Speaker 1: and you could tell the results were evident. And I

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Speaker 1: thought his emergence in the second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: along with Josh Allen being able to throw him the

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Speaker 1: football in his deep threat, changed everything for that offense.

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Speaker 1: And I saw I'd say Robert Foster, even within one year,

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Speaker 1: would be the comeback player. All right, I can't argue

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Speaker 1: with it too much, but my pick, and you've went

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Speaker 1: through a bunch of him, there would be Shack Lawson,

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Speaker 1: former first round pick whose career got off to a

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Speaker 1: very slow start here, right, rookie year, didn't even play

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Speaker 1: that much, certainly didn't make any contributions. Second year more

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Speaker 1: of the same, right, And it almost was as if

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson appeared disinterested at times as his first and

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Speaker 1: second year went along, and then the new coaching regime

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Speaker 1: gets here and they lock into Shack Lawson, take a

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Speaker 1: look at I think his potential and say we can

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Speaker 1: do something with this guy. Finished up his third year,

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00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: his second under McDermott's crew here, finished up with fourteen games,

745
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: plays fours two fumbles, had four sacks, five tackles for losses,

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Speaker 1: twelve quarterback hits, nine passes defended. Shack Lawson was swatting

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00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: down passes the entire season, even this past week, an

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Speaker 1: amazing uncharacteristic knack for swatting down passes. It's really good.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Shack Lawson. I think he

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Speaker 1: rescued his career this year quite frankly, and certainly rescued

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Speaker 1: his career with the Buffalo Bills with his performance this year.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going with Shack Lawson. I think he resurrected

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Speaker 1: what looked like a you know, a busted first round

754
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: pick this past year, became an important part of the

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Speaker 1: defense and a regular part of the defensive line rotation.

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Speaker 1: You said it, Trent Murphy again, a comeback candidate, was

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00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: not healthy at the start of this year and wasn't

758
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Speaker 1: able to stay on the field and show. Shack Lawson

759
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: got early snaps and I think did a really good

760
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: job of making himself an important part of the defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm going with Shack Lawson as my comeback player the Year,

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00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: and that's a good call too, because he was a

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Speaker 1: guy that you know, came into the season knowing he

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Speaker 1: had to step it up. And I think one of

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Speaker 1: the things that you can give Shack a lot of

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Speaker 1: credit because it was obviously came from inside him, right,

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Speaker 1: But I also know that there there were conversations that

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Speaker 1: were had by people around Shock, even the coaching staff

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00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: and his players, who who planted that seat and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is a year you need it. It's time, and

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00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: they convinced him somehow. So whatever buttons needed to be pushed,

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Speaker 1: they did it, and Shack Lawson responded in a much

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Speaker 1: bigger way than he has before. Yep. All right, So

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Speaker 1: we've gone through our list of awards, the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live Awards for the Buffalo Bill season. Now

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Speaker 1: we want to hear from you. We're going to take

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00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: a break here, come back, open up phone lines. Read

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Speaker 1: some of the tweets of them and send and let

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00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Who is the Bill's offensive

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00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: MVP this year, their defensive MVP, their Offensive Rookie of

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00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: the year, their defensive Rookie of the year. Who's the

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00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: Bill's comeback player of the year. All of that, we'd

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Speaker 1: like to hear from you your vote. Give us a

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

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or maybe you

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00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: can tweet it in. We'll read the tweet you got.

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Speaker 1: Time for you to weigh in now the One Goes

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Speaker 1: Live twenty eighteen season Awards. We continue with that when

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Speaker 1: we come back One Bills Live from One Bills Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back one Bills Live for

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Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. I'm John Murphy, was Steve Tasker. The

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Speaker 1: sun is shining in Northshire Park. Just had lunch delivered

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Speaker 1: by the guys that Rachel's Mediterranean grill. We thank them

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Speaker 1: for that. Everything's good in One Goales Live Land today, Steven,

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Speaker 1: it is today's sunny day. Given out award, given out awards,

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Speaker 1: just One Bills Live Awards for twenty eighteen. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear from you Defensive MVP Defensive MVP, Offensive Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year, Defensive Rookie of the Year, and who

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Speaker 1: do you think is the comeback Player of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three five fifty or

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Speaker 1: twelve three one eight eight by fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Start with the phones. David RK. Dave gave any candidates

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Speaker 1: for these awards? Oh yeah, I do, Murp. I would

804
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Speaker 1: like to point out the turning point of the season,

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Speaker 1: okay for me was watching Matt Barkley in at forty

806
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: one to ten wins, and I believe because of him

807
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: is when is where Josh Allen learned that he could

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00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: win with the weapons that we currently had. I'll tell

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00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: you what I loved. That was a great game and

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Speaker 1: I think it was the most surprising game of the season,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. The win over the Jets, the

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00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: way it happened, the way with Matt Barkley taking snaps

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00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: and having been here for like twelve or thirteen days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty cool to see. And I

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00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: think it. I think it it said a lot about

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Speaker 1: where the Bills were headed to a kind of culture

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00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: they were trying to build. And and I think this too,

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Speaker 1: I think that maybe the bulk of the reason Matt

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Speaker 1: Barkley is still here today. Despite the fact that they

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Speaker 1: say he's the right kind of guy, the guy they

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Speaker 1: want to come in. You know that he turned out

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Speaker 1: to be. The chemistry was good with him and Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: But if he's gonna be the backup, which it appears

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Speaker 1: he will be, they needed a guy that could play,

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00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: and in that one game he proved he had what

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Speaker 1: it took, and I think they were lucky to get him.

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Speaker 1: Bill's the best they did this year was a two

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Speaker 1: game win streak, and that's that was the game one

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Speaker 1: of the two game win streak. Believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: a two game win streak. No one's gonna erect the

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Speaker 1: statue about a two game win streak. But they went

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Speaker 1: to New York with a quarterback who was just as

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Speaker 1: Steve said, added to the roster a week and a

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Speaker 1: half before, and not only did they win the way

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Speaker 1: they started that game and the caller Dave was talking

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Speaker 1: about how that was a turning point if you need

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Speaker 1: a turning point for a season, and went six and ten. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But first play on offense, the deep pass to Foster.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Foster just coming back into the lineup

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Speaker 1: is Steve talked about a minute ago, catches the deep pass,

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Speaker 1: second play touchdown, boom, just like that, after up seven

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00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: to nothing. They went up early in that game and

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00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: kind of never looked back and then won the next

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Speaker 1: week against the Jacksonville Jaguars here at home. And it

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Speaker 1: came after what we've talked about the absolute low point

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Speaker 1: of the season, you know, the Chicago game. To come

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Speaker 1: to New York with a quarterback who has just added

848
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Speaker 1: to the roster. To have that quarterback hit a undrafted

849
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: rookie free agent who just came off the practice squad

850
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: after being cut, hit him deep downfield. Shitty scores on

851
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: a twenty eight yard run after that, and then to

852
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: score again go up fourteen to nothing. That qualifies as

853
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: a turning point. It was, It was It was totally

854
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: unexpected that the way that game started. It was really

855
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: fun that day. It's almost the point where the Jets

856
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: team who ended up they were they in at four

857
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: and eleven or four and twelve the Jets and overall,

858
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: I can't even remember what their overall record is, but

859
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: so you got the Jets. They ended up Yeah, four

860
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: and twelve. That was a team that it had all

861
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: the field. If they were looking the Bills were. It

862
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: was so bad for the Bills at that point. The

863
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Jets were looking past them, right, Yeah, they showed up

864
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 1: flat and I they looked so bad in the game

865
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: against the Bills. And the Bills had looked so bad

866
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: up to that point because you know, they had two

867
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: eight quarterbacks injured. They you know, they couldn't get anybody

868
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: to take snaps. They were two twice in the in

869
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: the same season in a month. They had to start

870
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: a guy off the street at quarterback. So it was

871
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: dark in Buffalo, and the Jets came in looking past them,

872
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: and they looked so bad. I believe that Todd Bulls

873
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: was not going to survive that weekend, let alone the season.

874
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna fire Todd Bulls the next day.

875
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: That's how bad the Jets look and that's how good

876
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: the Bills looked with a guy off the street. I

877
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: thought a head coach doesn't survive that, but he did.

878
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: He just survived till the end of the season. Now

879
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: he's gone. But that's how unexpected that win was. With

880
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley at under center at a quarterback for the Bills.

881
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: I was, I was. It was almost beyond words how

882
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: unlikely that win was, and yet they did. They pulled

883
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: it off in a big fashion. All End of the

884
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: Season Awards, the one Bills Live Awards for twenty eighteen.

885
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: Who do you like? John on a cell? Go ahead, John,

886
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey, guys, thanks for

887
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: the call. I just make this real quick, so I

888
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: want to run through them all and I'll wait to

889
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: hear your response. Josh Josh Allen for Offensive Player of

890
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: the Year fostered for the Rookie of the Year only

891
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: because he was told that the duom is wrong, and

892
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: he came back after they brought him back, and he

893
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: got it right. The Defensive Player of the Year, my guy,

894
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: My favorite player of ball in this team the Renzo Alexander.

895
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: He's thirty five places like he's twenty five. Okay, you

896
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: got your defensive pumpback Player of the Year would be

897
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: Check Lawson, of course, in the Rookie of the Year, Admunds. Right.

898
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: That's a good list. And I like the fact, John,

899
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: that you did not ignore and I guess we did.

900
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander, who got better as the season went along.

901
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: Two at age thirty five and played a variety of roles.

902
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: That was the amazing part about Alexander's season, the roles

903
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: he was playing, the jobs he was asked to do.

904
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: September ninth, in the season opener, totally different list of

905
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: tasks assigned to him. By the end of the season

906
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: the last month of the season, finished with a couple

907
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: of interceptions, six and a half sacks, a couple of

908
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: forced fumbles, eleven tackles for losses, sixteen games played, which

909
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: is not you know, you don't take that for granted

910
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: when you're thirty five years old. That's a really good

911
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: vote for Lorenzo Alexander for what did you vote for him?

912
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: The defensive MBP? I could that because I'll tell you

913
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: this too. There were times when he was playing maybe

914
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: sixteen snaps a game and that was it. And then

915
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: there were other times we played ninety eight percent of them, yeah,

916
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: and played, and he was he was a special teams guy,

917
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: a core guy on defense. They asked him. The defense

918
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: took a big st forward a couple of weeks in

919
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: a row when they started putting him on the front four,

920
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: on the other side of Jerry Hughes. It was it

921
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: was Hughes. The four guys up there. I can't even

922
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: remember who it was, but they put Lorenzo in like

923
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: at the tackle, in a stand up spot, and they

924
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: rushed him with the four. They took a big step

925
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: forward and a couple of weeks when they put him

926
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: in doing that, so he was up front rushing the passer.

927
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: Then they put him into coverage. When Milana went down,

928
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: he took Milano's place, and he was dropping into coverage

929
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,919
Speaker 1: and covering guys. He just did everything. And you can't

930
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: say enough about the contributions he made, the leadership, he provided,

931
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: the example he is, and and you throw all into

932
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: the cherry. On top of that, the fact the guys

933
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: he's thirty five, and you kind of wish, now guts,

934
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: you wish Lonzo was twenty five, you know, I mean, right,

935
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: you don't want him to go anywhere. But even he said,

936
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: you know, he yeah, he'd like to play another year,

937
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: and we'll see if if the numbers right, I'm sure

938
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: he's going to be a Buffalo Bill this next year.

939
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: After the contributions he made this year. All right, we're

940
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: talking about our end of season awards, the one Bills

941
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: Live Awards and Steve and I have gone through our picks.

942
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: Time to hear yours. You can do it on the

943
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: phone lines at eight oh three oh five fifty or

944
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

945
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: or you can do it on Twitter and we'll read

946
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: some of the tweets on the air when we come back.

947
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: Play along with us, won't you please? One Bills Live

948
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello,

949
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network. Sports up Dates update from One Bill's Drive.

950
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman is out as the Bills special team's coordinator.

951
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: No official announcement yet, but Crossman was let go yesterday

952
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: by Bill's head coach Sean McDermott. Buffalo finished the year

953
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: last in rankings compiled by Football Outsiders. Crossman came to

954
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: the Bills in the Doug Morone ten You're Back in

955
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and stayed on through Rex Ryan's two year

956
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: tenure and the two first two years of Sean McDermott.

957
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: Denny Crossman is no longer the Bills special teams coordinator.

958
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: He gets let go, the Bills, confirming earlier in the

959
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: week that Wan Castile was let go. As often some

960
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: line coach and running game coordinator, and word came out

961
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: yesterday that the Bill's wide receivers coach Terry Robiski has

962
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: been let go as well. Wild Card Weekend is here

963
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow four thirty five pm tomorrow on ESPN and ABC.

964
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: It's the AFC Wildcard matchup the Indianapolis Colts and the

965
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Then later tomorrow night eight fifteen pm kickoff,

966
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: Seattle and Dallas play that game on Fox. Sunday a

967
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: couple of Wildcard games. The Chargers play at Baltimore at

968
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday, followed by the Eagles and the

969
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. Pro Football Hall of Fame has unveiled its

970
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: fifteen Modern era finalists for the Class of twenty nineteen,

971
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: a class that includes Titan and Tony Gonzalez safety Ed

972
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: Reids safety Steve Atwater. The field of fifteen will be

973
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: winnowed down to ten, and then from ten to five.

974
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 1: They'll vote on him individually when the electors get together

975
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: the day before the Super Bowl Saturday, February second, in Atlanta.

976
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: Falcons in late July revised Julio Jones contract to get

977
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: him to training camp and appease him without overhauling the

978
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: deal three years left. Thomas de Meetrop at the time

979
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: said they would readdress everything in twenty nineteen. Yesterday, Demetrov

980
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: said the Falcons would take care of that business and

981
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: then will be done. GM says he's not sure when

982
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: Julio Jones might get a new deal, but says he's

983
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 1: not concerned about the timetable Lions GM Bob Quinn says

984
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: he is not open to trading. Matthew Stafford, the thirty

985
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: year old quarterback, still is going to stay with Detroit

986
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: and the Sabers. One last night, they're practicing today. They

987
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: had to Emboston then and play the Bruins at t

988
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: D Garden tomorrow night in Boston. That's the update from

989
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker ready to go

990
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: with our number two Derman. Thomas had not a prior commitment.

991
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: He had a something come up and not able to

992
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: join us on the show today. That's too bad. I

993
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: had a lot to talk with Derman about Steve. Yeah,

994
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: it's been since before the holidays, says we've had him on,

995
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: so we're gonna catch up with him. But he may

996
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: be with us next week. Today so you're stuck with us.

997
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: There you go, But we got a lot to talk about,

998
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: including our twenty eighteen Bills Awards. We went through him

999
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: at the top of the show. You're welcome to weighing

1000
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: on that on the phone line or on Twitter. As

1001
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: far as the awards, Steve and I were talking this way.

1002
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: For the Offensive MVP, who else johsh Allen? Defensive MVP?

1003
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: I had Jordan Poyer. Steve had Jerry Hughes Rookie of

1004
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: the Year on offense. Again, who else Josh Allen Rookie

1005
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: of the Year on defense? I had tarn Johnson. Steve

1006
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: had Tremaine Edmonds. Comeback Players of the Year. I had

1007
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, Steve Han, Robert Foster. What do you think?

1008
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: Bone lines open eight oh three oh five fifty and

1009
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1010
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts for they won Bills Live Season Awards.

1011
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: And we can also do it on Twitter at one

1012
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: Bills line. A couple of tweets from the tweet cheat Steve,

1013
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: all right, let's go, let's do it, and everybody's got

1014
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: a's kind of neat. This is a tweet sheets everbody's

1015
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: got their laundry list here from B and Z. Allen's

1016
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: the offensive MVP, Matt Milano's defensive MVP MVP, Robert Foster's

1017
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year, Edmonds is Defensive Rookie of

1018
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: the Year, and Zay Joe is his comeback Player of

1019
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: the Year. We can all we've talked about all of

1020
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: those guys and they all kind of fit those categories.

1021
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 1: At Eric Rantala, offensive MVP's Allen Defensive is hard to choose,

1022
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: he says, Hughes, Alexander or White, so he kind of

1023
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: bails on that one. Offensive Rookie of the Year is

1024
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: out at Josh Allen, defensive rookies Edmonds and comeback player.

1025
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: He's taking the stance that he thinks Josh Allen's returned

1026
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: from his elbow injury his comeback player of the year.

1027
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: That's worth thinking about. Yeah, I know, I'm glad that

1028
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: Eric Rantala included Tardevious White in the cast of three

1029
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: for his defensive Most Valuable Player. Um, I don't think

1030
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: Tardivious White's getting enough respect or Steve. He had a

1031
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 1: really good year, really solid year, to the point where

1032
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: teams would not throw his way that's critical, that's important.

1033
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: I didn't vote for him either, right, I gave the

1034
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: award Defensive MVP to Jordan Poyer. But man, Tardevious White

1035
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: had a really good, solid year. I guess if you're

1036
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: poking holes in his game, he doesn't come up with

1037
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: a ton of interceptions. But you know that's that's always

1038
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 1: nice when you get picks from a from a cornerback,

1039
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: but it's not essential, right, I don't know. I don't

1040
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: think we're giving enough respect to uh Tredevious White for

1041
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: the really good year that he had. He didn't have

1042
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: two interceptions, Yeah he did, and I think one of

1043
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: the things is, unfortunately for him, he'll give up. He

1044
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: gave up, like what, two long plays, and they all happened,

1045
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, they happened within a shorter span. Had a

1046
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: couple of games where UH teams got him for some receptions,

1047
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of games when he wasn't

1048
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: giving up anything. And he's still right now one of

1049
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: the pillars of that defense, no question about it. Every

1050
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: team would love to have a shutdown corner and I

1051
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: think the Bills feel that way about Tredevious. He didn't

1052
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: he didn't decline in this play this year. Oh, I

1053
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: mean you got better. I think too. I think he

1054
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: got better and he was. He had a big splash

1055
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 1: season as a rookie corner last year and yet played

1056
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: better this year. And you and I both think that.

1057
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm glad he's a Buffalo Bill and I

1058
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be one for a long long time hopefully.

1059
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: And you're right, he does deserve a lot of credit.

1060
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: Hard to be defensive MVP as a corner unless you

1061
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: got like ten intercept you know, he leading the league

1062
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: interception maybe here too. Um More from the tweet sheet

1063
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: from Shan Siaki going through his list of one Bill's

1064
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 1: Live Award winners. Offensive MVP. He's got Josh Allen almost

1065
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: consensus opinion there. Defensive MVP. He's got Matt Milano and

1066
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: an outstanding second year Offensive Rookie of the Year. He's

1067
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: got m Robert Foster Defensive Rookie of the Year. He's

1068
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: got Tarn Johnson and Comeback Player of the Year. He's

1069
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: got check losson. I like some of those two with him,

1070
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: and I agree with yea in my picks Darren Johnson

1071
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: and check loss You know, like, there's so many stories

1072
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: about that, and we you know, you and I spend

1073
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: all day talking about this, you know, this team, and

1074
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: you know we kind of rode the roller coaster to

1075
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: six and ten with him. There's a lot of things

1076
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: to be upset about and disappointed him, but there's a

1077
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: lot of positive stuff, particularly going forward. And Brian Cook

1078
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: tweets in some good stuff. He said, comeback player, it's

1079
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: got to be Robert Foster. The kid was cut, he

1080
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: was off the team. He survived, waivers, got placed on

1081
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Some people said he was finished. Comes

1082
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: back as three straight one hundred yard games and was

1083
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: a vital part of the offensive resurgence late in the year.

1084
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: And he says honorable mention comeback player could go to

1085
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, but Robert Foster. I mean, there's some of

1086
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: these kids on this team and young players. They did

1087
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: ride the roller coaster, and it was a roller coaster

1088
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: of the season, and the team started right where every

1089
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: roller coaster does. They're sitting there at the very bottom.

1090
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: I mean, that game, that week one loss, looked like

1091
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: it was going to be the longest and darkest of

1092
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: all football seasons. It would be hard pressed to convince

1093
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: anybody that there's going to be any optimism at the

1094
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,959
Speaker 1: end of it. And yet they did. The entire team

1095
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: climbed out of the dark spot. They started out in

1096
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: a rainstorm in Baltimore, getting thumped and climbing back out

1097
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 1: of it and making something of some of their players,

1098
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: making themselves a niche in the NFL, and giving a

1099
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: lot of people, particularly the fans, a lot of hope

1100
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: about where they could be and what a climb that was,

1101
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: because even just getting to six and ten, it looked

1102
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: like it was going to be oh and thirty two

1103
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: over the next two years after that first week in Baltimore.

1104
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,479
Speaker 1: But the players wouldn't let it happen, and it turned

1105
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,479
Speaker 1: out we found out a lot of good things about

1106
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: a yet a lot of young players take a call

1107
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: here on these issues. We'll go to David in Florida. Hello, David,

1108
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Doing today good? All right, all right,

1109
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: let's go to the roster here. Defensive Player of the Year.

1110
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Lorenzo, and that's because Matt Milano

1111
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: got hurt. I suppose I gotta vote to Lorenzo. And

1112
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: my pick for Rookie of the Year is going to

1113
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: be Edvans, Terrill Edmonds and defense Jermaine Edmonds. Yeah, okay, yeah,

1114
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: Jermaine Edmonds and Ray Foster Comeback Player of the Year.

1115
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: What else you got, Robert Foster? You got as your

1116
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: comeback player, the your offensive MVP, Offensive Rookie the Year. Okay,

1117
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: on offense, I guess I gotta go with Josh Allen

1118
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: and uh, I like I like whether he's out a

1119
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: rookie though he's not a rookie. Yeah, Robert Foster is

1120
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: a rookie. Well, then he's a comeback player and a

1121
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: Rookie the Year. All right, I'll tell you what. Robert

1122
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: Foster's sneaky won a lot of fans, hearts many they

1123
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: loved the story. I guess they do. They love the

1124
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: fact that he goes deep and catches it. I think

1125
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: more than anything, Robert Foster's on the minds of a

1126
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans after the season he put together.

1127
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,919
Speaker 1: After and like I just read from the tweeter Brian Cook,

1128
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: he was cut, he survived, Waivers came back to the

1129
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: practice squad. A lot of people said he was finished

1130
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: and didn't you know, didn't expect anything from him. And

1131
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden. You know, we were looking

1132
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: forward to seeing him play every week, three hundred yard

1133
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: games and the last four or five weeks of the

1134
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: Sea season, and it really was a difference maker for

1135
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: an offense that over virtually in one or two weeks time.

1136
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: When Josh Allen got back, they were altered. They were

1137
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: competitive again when they hadn't been early in the season. Yep, hey, um,

1138
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: let us know what you think. We're trying to give

1139
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: out these awards, these beautiful trophies here, and we're gonna

1140
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: hand not giving those outs. Stop it, all right, We're

1141
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,760
Speaker 1: trying to give out figure a kid awards to the Bills,

1142
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: various offensive, defensive rookies of the year, players of the year.

1143
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: I'll let us know what you think. Phone nine is

1144
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: open eight O three five fifty and toll free one

1145
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Playoffs start tomorrow, Steve,

1146
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: you got the weekend mapped out. You're gonna watch all

1147
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: four kind of do? Yeah? And there's a lot of

1148
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: stuff going around about the playoffs, and will you watch

1149
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: all four games? Not in their entirety neither. I can't.

1150
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: I can't, just I know I can. It's like a

1151
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: seven hour day in front of the TV. And as

1152
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 1: fun as fun as that sounds, you know, I can't

1153
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: do it. I just can't do it. I would not

1154
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: feel good about myself. Yeah, and they're all standalone games.

1155
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: Saturday starts at four thirty five, and then three hours

1156
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: and forty five minutes later the next game, and then

1157
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: the next day at one oh five, and then at

1158
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: four forty on Sunday. I mean, that's just that is

1159
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: a long day. There are seven new teams in the

1160
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: playoffs this year that we're not there last year. That's

1161
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: a little bit more than average. I think the average

1162
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: is about five new playoff contenders every year. The Bills

1163
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: were one of those last year obviously, right, Well, you

1164
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: gonna say, no, I think it's like four, isn't It's

1165
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: like the average of four. Nothing would kind of hang

1166
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: around better than that. But seven new teams this year.

1167
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: And we want to go through these teams and get

1168
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: a sense from you and let us let you know

1169
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: what we think about. Which teams are the new playoff combatants,

1170
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: are real contenders? Which team not so much. Let's go

1171
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: through them all. Colts, Texans, Bears, Chargers, Cowboys, Seahawks, Ravens,

1172
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: those seven did not make the playoffs last year. So

1173
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: who's got a chance. Who doesn't have a chance at all?

1174
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: Who are the contenders? Who are the pretenders to a

1175
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship among this group? Let's go through them

1176
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. The Indianapolis Colts. We've talked a lot

1177
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: about them yesterday back. I feel like we've ignored them

1178
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: today because yesterday show. Yeah, are the Indianapolis Colts legitimate

1179
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: championship contenders? Steve? I Look, I like them, like the

1180
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: way they bounced back one nine of the last ten.

1181
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: But I gotta say no, I don't think so. Um,

1182
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: some holes in their roster, uh ten win season just

1183
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, barely qualified for the postseason. Um. Look, I'm

1184
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: glad they're there. I like Frank Reich, like Andrew Luck,

1185
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're real super Bowl contenders? Are they? This?

1186
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: When you say it like that, you open up a

1187
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: whole nother conversation about how big the playoffs are. There's

1188
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: twelve teams in, and there's no way twelve teams can

1189
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: win this. Any one of those twelve teams could win

1190
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I just don't see it. But they

1191
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: are in, and I think, you know, they earn it

1192
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: the hard way they did. They put they won nine

1193
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: out of their last ten games. They started out one

1194
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: in five and fought their way back. And they're one

1195
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: of those teams with they've got a legit quarterback, they've

1196
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: got a legitimate defense. Um, yeah, they could. They would

1197
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: have to, no question. I think you're right. They have

1198
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: to get some breaks in one of these games to

1199
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: win it. They got to get a flukey turnover or

1200
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: two when they get into these ones. But they're they're

1201
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: the team that's gonna go into and play a division

1202
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: rival for the third time during the season. Houston Texans

1203
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: have won eleven games this year. That is a good

1204
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: season in the NFL, a really good season. And they're

1205
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: gonna play at home, so you know, Indianapolis, Yeah, they

1206
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: do deserve to be in the playoffs. They're anytime you

1207
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: win double digit games in the NFL, that's a big deal.

1208
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: And doing it the way they did gives them a

1209
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: lot of momentum headed into the postseason. So I could

1210
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: see it happening, particularly early. Certainly they can beat a

1211
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: division opponent. Uh, those are the ones that you kind

1212
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: of like, wow, that's a that's a toss up. And

1213
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: there's Yeah, so I would say, yeah, I can see them,

1214
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: but no, they're you know, they're they're like I wouldn't

1215
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: say they're the twelfth team, but they're certainly ten to

1216
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: eleventh or twelveth. Yeah, they're at the bottom. Yeah. So

1217
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: they go in tomorrow four thirty five pm kickoff NRG

1218
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: Stadium in Houston and play the champions of the AFC South,

1219
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, who finished with eleven wins, one more

1220
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: than Indy. Third time they played this year, the Colts won.

1221
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: The last time back about three or four weeks ago.

1222
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: The Colts won it at Houston twenty four to twenty one.

1223
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: Are they Houston Texans legitimate playoff contenders? Are they contenders

1224
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: or pretenders? You can go first on this now, let

1225
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: me go first. I think they got a shot. I

1226
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: think I got a much better shot than Indianapolis. I

1227
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: think with that defense that they have, I think with

1228
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: the dynamic potential with the quarterback Watson and DeAndre Hopkins

1229
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: that they have, I think they can run the ball

1230
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: well enough. They're not great running the football. Yeah, I

1231
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: think they got an outside shot at getting to the

1232
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl being the AFC champions. I agree I think

1233
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: they do have a shot. They won. They won eleven

1234
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: and five in the AFC South in a division with

1235
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and Jacksonville, who Jacksonville has an elite defense. They

1236
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: are definitely a team that can do it because of

1237
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: their defense and their pass rush on the other side,

1238
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: with with JJ Watt and Jadevian Clowney. If one of

1239
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: those those guys can take over the game and then

1240
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson can get out of the way, they have

1241
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: that in their team. I'm not saying they have to

1242
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: do that to win, but they can do that. And

1243
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: if they show up, if they get a team that

1244
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: has a bad day up front, the Houston Texans pass

1245
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: rush can overtake a game. Deshaun Watson gives them enough

1246
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: offensively with his legs and his arm, and DeAndre Hopkins,

1247
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: in my opinion, may be the best wide receiver right

1248
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: now in the game. Uh certainly. I believe he's probably

1249
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: is good at a good a receiver. I think he's

1250
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: the best receiver in the playoffs right now. So I

1251
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: M yeah, Houston's definitely got a shot to go very

1252
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: deep in these we talk about the Colts win and

1253
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: nine of the last ten that you don't forget the

1254
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: Texans at a nine game win streak going on that

1255
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: was ended by Indianapolis. As matter of fact, the Colts

1256
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: have won three of the last four times they played.

1257
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: This year is different, obviously because the Cults are a

1258
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: different team than they have been based on coming back

1259
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck. You mentioned Clowney and J. J. Watt.

1260
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: They had bernardrac McKinney also playing really strong defensively a

1261
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: linebacker for him, he's a Pro Bowl performer. I think

1262
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans have a chance to win a couple

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Speaker 1: of games here in the playoffs. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: they're going to win the championship, but I do think

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Speaker 1: they're legitimate playoff contenders. Pretenders contenders were going through these

1266
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: seven new playoff teams in the playoffs this year from

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Speaker 1: last year. Let's go to the other AFC game. This

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Speaker 1: one is one o'clock tomorrow. Really looking forward to watching

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01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: this one. The Chargers go cross country to play the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens lead the all time series seven

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Speaker 1: to five over Los Angeles. These two teams just played

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and the Ravens won at

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles twenty two to ten. But it's a wild

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Speaker 1: card game. Now. The Chargers, are they playoff contenders? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they are. They won twelve games. They you know,

1276
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: don't belong in this game, quite frankly. And this is

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: a kind of a fluke in the playoff format where

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01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: a twelve win team goes to play at a ten

1279
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: win team in the first round of the playoffs, a

1280
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: wild card game that I know why it happens, and

1281
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: I understand you want to reward the division winners, but

1282
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: that's a lot to ask Los Angeles to go cross

1283
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: country play at ten am their time against the Baltimore

1284
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: Ravens when they just lost to Baltimore in Los Angeles.

1285
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers were hitting on all cylinders earlier

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01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: this year. I think they've dropped off a little bit

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01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: since then. But I think you're looking at Philip Rivers,

1288
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: maybe his last shot at it. You're looking at a

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Speaker 1: pretty good group of offensive playmakers for the Chargers, including

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Speaker 1: the running back Melvin Gordon and Keenan Allen, who was

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Speaker 1: an outstanding receiver and under the radio receiver. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that the Chargers are legitimate playoff contenders,

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Speaker 1: maybe win a couple of games to go deep into

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01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: this thing. They've gotten one of those poised and proficient

1295
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league in league history. He's a surefire

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01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: Hall of fame who's still playing. He rarely gets sacked

1297
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: because he has his protection set right. He releases the

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01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: ball quickly. He gives them a chance and their defense

1299
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: playing as well as it has. You're right, they strung

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01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: together a lot of games this year. They won twelve games,

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01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: and the only reason they're not the number one seed

1302
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: in the AFC is because Kansas City won the tiebreakers.

1303
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: They have the exact same record as the Kansas City Chiefs,

1304
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: that team that everybody's so enamored with, with Patrick Mahomes

1305
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: and all that stuff going on. The Chargers matched him

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01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: except when they got down to the to the tiebreakers.

1307
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: For that, I think that, Yeah, you've got to give

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01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: the Chargers a real chance to get to the Super

1309
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: Bowl this year. I think I think they're contenders now.

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01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: Their opponents their problem is they didn't win the division

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Speaker 1: with a twelve and four record. Now they got to

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Speaker 1: go on the road. Yeah, but you know what, they

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01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: were really good on the road. They were really good

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01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: on the road, and plus their home games were no

1315
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: cup of you know, no cupcake either. They were kind

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01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: of road games as well, but the Chargers were very

1317
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: good on the road this year. Postseason debut for head

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01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Lynn. Seven players in the Pro Bowl, indicative

1319
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: of how much talent there is on that Chargers roster.

1320
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 1: Their first playoff appearance in what four or five years?

1321
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: Twelve win season, most since two thousand and nine. There's

1322
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: a lot to like about the Chargers. Their opponents in

1323
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at one o'clock their home M

1324
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: ANDT Bank Stadium. Ravens have this brand new offense featuring

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01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, kind of an unconventional offense. Playoffs are regardless

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Speaker 1: of playoffs. Are they playoff contenders or pretenders? I'm gonna

1327
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: label the Ravens the fourth seed in the AFC playoff picture.

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01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: I think they're pretenders. They might win on Sunday because

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01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: mostly because they're home, and because they played good defense,

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01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: and I know they beat the Chargers a couple of

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01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but they're not Super Bowl quality, even though

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01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: they hammered the Bills back in Week one. They're not

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01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl contenders. I don't think I agree. I think

1334
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: they just squeaked in. They needed help to get there.

1335
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: They're running of an extremely unconventional offense for an NFL team.

1336
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: I don't think they plan on running this offense going forward.

1337
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: They're hoping that Lamar Jackson gets to the point where

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01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: he will evolve into more of a pocket passer, the

1339
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: ability to throw the football from the pocket and give

1340
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: them a more of a passing game. Right now, they

1341
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: run the football sixty five percent of the time. That's

1342
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: by far the highest in the National Football League. And

1343
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,439
Speaker 1: while it sounds great if you can get it done,

1344
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: they're not. You know, they're not playing the Buffalo Bills

1345
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: in Week one this week, and they're they're in the playoffs,

1346
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: and they're gonna meet good teams who are playing well,

1347
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: who will have a plan to stop their run game,

1348
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to beat him left hand. And

1349
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:49,919
Speaker 1: I don't think the Baltimore Ravens have an off hand

1350
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: to go to. I don't think they have anything else

1351
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: to go to other than that run game. Number one defense.

1352
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, it does. I give it a lot of

1353
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: They are but and there. This is going to be

1354
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: a very hard team to score on, but in the

1355
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: playoffs in the NFL, teams are going to find a

1356
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: way to get points on the board on you. And

1357
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't think the Baltimore Ravens can match him. We're

1358
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: moving through the teams who returned to the playoffs this year,

1359
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: seven of them, and let's get to the NFC now

1360
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: determining whether these teams are legitimate Super Bowl contenders or

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01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: just pretenders. Dallas Cowboys are home tomorrow night, eight fifteen

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01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: at a T and D Stadium against the Seattle Seahawks. Cowboys,

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01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: champions of the NFC East with their ten win record.

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01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: They're pretenders, folks, they really are. I don't think they're

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01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: that good. They sort of muddled their way through most

1366
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: of the season, wound up winning a little bit at

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01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: the end when they had to. I don't I'm not

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01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: a Dak Prescott fan. Ezekiel Elliott is outstanding. They're gonna

1369
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: lean on him, obviously, but the champions of the NFC East,

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01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: their second division title in the last three years, I'm

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01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: not a I'm not a fan, that's for sure, And

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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're that good. Steve, I've seen

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01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: them play some really bad games this year, and I

1374
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: don't don't think there. I don't think they're Super Bowl

1375
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 1: contenders at all. They give up too many points. They

1376
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is good when everything's working well. He's a

1377
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: good athlete, gets out of the pocket and can throw

1378
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 1: on the run. But they're going to force him to

1379
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: do what he can't do, stand in the pocket and

1380
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: pick a defense apart. He's not going to be able

1381
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: to do it. They will do their best, will the

1382
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: Seahawks to take Ezekiel Elliott out of the mix and

1383
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: force Dak Prescott to beat them while from staying in

1384
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: the pocket. I don't think they're gonna be able to

1385
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: do it. The Cowboys. Dak Prescott does a lot of

1386
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: things well, no question, he's a great leader, great guy,

1387
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: great teammate. He's a great athlete, he's got a great arm.

1388
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:45,759
Speaker 1: But he's not I don't think he's a great quarterback.

1389
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: And that's what it's going to take to win in

1390
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:51,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, particularly gainst a team as veteran as the

1391
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Right, you're gonna see two quarterbacks on the field.

1392
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: You're gonna see Russell Wilson be clearly the better quarterback.

1393
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,560
Speaker 1: On Sunday, Let's talk about the Seattle Seahawks as we

1394
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: moved through each team in the wildcard playoffs. The Seahawks

1395
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:09,959
Speaker 1: back in the playoffs. Are they super Bowl contenders or pretenders? Seattle?

1396
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:11,800
Speaker 1: You can go first of this. Let me start with

1397
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: a little trivia question this year twenty eighteen trivia question,

1398
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: who you know who led the league in touchdown passes?

1399
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 1: Which quarterback Mahomes? You know who finished second? Andrew Luck?

1400
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 1: Who do you think finish third? Probably Russell Will Wilson.

1401
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 1: That surprised me. Yeah, so I don't know. Are they legit?

1402
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: Are they a super Bowl contender? The Seattle Seahawks. I

1403
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: think they can be. Yeah, It's it's difficult because they're

1404
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 1: in a much more difficult conference in my opinion than

1405
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: the AFC. You get up there to the New Orleans

1406
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: Saints and the LA Rams in Chicago. Those are two

1407
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: really three, really salty teams that are really putting it together.

1408
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: And we'll get to Chicago in a minute. But I

1409
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 1: think Seattle can do it. They've got a veteran coaching staff,

1410
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: an experienced coaching staff who's been to the playoffs. The

1411
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: leaders on that team in Russell Wilson, most notably, have

1412
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs and won a Super Bowl and

1413
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: lost a Super Bowl. They've been to the playoffs before

1414
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 1: they know what this is all about. I think that

1415
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 1: gives them an edge over Dallas. And you can say

1416
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: what you want. Dallas has been to the playoffs with

1417
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Remember his rookie year when they were twelve

1418
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 1: and four, and they did some things. This game does

1419
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: give Dallas a break by being in Dallas in AT

1420
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: and T Stadium, but the Seahawks are going to come in.

1421
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: I think this does have all the makings of a

1422
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 1: really good game, but I think the Seahawks are too

1423
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: much for Dallas. And I think the Seahawks could be

1424
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: one of those teams that sneaks up and wins a

1425
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: Divisional Round two as well as the wildcard round. I

1426
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: got them Seahawks as pretenders. I think they will win

1427
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. I think they're better than the Dallas Cowboys,

1428
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: even in Dallas, and I've always been a fan of

1429
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, but there's not a whole lot Well. They

1430
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 1: led the league in rushing actually, so they can run

1431
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: the ball when they need to. But I'm just I

1432
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think a whole lot of Seattle Seahawks.

1433
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: I would label them as playoff pretenders. Now, the final

1434
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: game of the weekend Sunday four forty pm, the Eagles

1435
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: at Chicago. We'll talk about the Eagles in a minute.

1436
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: They of course, return to the playoffs. The Chicago Bears

1437
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: are back in the playoffs. Number one team in the league.

1438
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 1: The Bears in the scoring defense giving up a little

1439
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: bit less than eighteen points per game, let the league

1440
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 1: in takeaways and interceptions, third and turnover differential plus twelve.

1441
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: The Bears playoff contenders or pretenders. The Bears won twelve games.

1442
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: I got him as contenders, to be honest with you.

1443
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna play home at Soldier Field in this game

1444
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: on a Sunday afternoon, and I think they play well.

1445
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 1: I know they play well at home, and I know

1446
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: they played good defense. I'm not a huge Mitchell Trubisky fan,

1447
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 1: but I think they can kind of nurse him through.

1448
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: I love what their coach Naggi has done with Trubisky

1449
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,040
Speaker 1: this year. I love to read Cohen. I think he's

1450
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: an outstanding, kind of multidimensional running back. I'm not rooting

1451
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: for the Bears. But I think they can contend for

1452
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: a spot in the Super Bowl. I think they can

1453
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 1: win a couple of playoff games. Yeah, I think the

1454
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 1: Bears may be there in the ANFC championship game they're

1455
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: playing them at in Chicago. Is a tough task right now,

1456
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 1: at this time of year, and that defense gives him

1457
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: a chance. So I and with Trubisky and Naggy and

1458
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: the vibe they've got going, I give the edge and

1459
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: this weekend for sure, and going forward, we'll have to

1460
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: see how the Chips followed. Who they match up against. Yeah,

1461
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: seven and one of home this year, the Chicago Bears,

1462
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 1: And in their home to start this playoff run, they're

1463
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,680
Speaker 1: home against Philadelphia, the Super Bowl defending champions. I think

1464
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 1: they're legitimate playoff pretenders, right, I mean, just barely squeaked

1465
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,640
Speaker 1: into the postseason. They're a different team than they were

1466
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: a year ago. And the coaching staff and the playing ranks,

1467
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: and you give the Eagles any chance, well, do you

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Speaker 1: give any chance to win Sunday? And you give them

1469
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 1: a chance at all to go deep in the playoffs.

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01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: I give them a chance Sunday, But in the playoffs, no,

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01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: I mean this is it's a Super Bowl hangover, and

1472
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 1: certainly they overcame it and got back to the playoffs,

1473
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 1: which says something about their grit. But I don't think

1474
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: they've got the horses of the five they had last year.

1475
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 1: I think they struggled to get in and I think

1476
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna meet a team in Chicago that is gonna

1477
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: throw some haymakers at them, and I don't think they're

1478
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: up to it. Should be a good weekend. I hope

1479
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: you enjoy the games. We're gonna come back and talk

1480
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: more about these games and more about the Bills. Great

1481
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 1: Costal is going to join us executive producer analysts from

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01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:01,679
Speaker 1: NFL Network on ESPN. He's coming up next One Bills

1483
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, John

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01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio on

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01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:25,640
Speaker 1: this Friday afternoon. The season. The postseason begins tomorrow with

1487
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Joining us right now on the line. He's

1488
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: executive producer analyst for an NFL matchup on ESPN. Greg Cosell, Hi, Greg,

1489
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Here in Buffalo. How you doing,

1490
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,719
Speaker 1: Murf Steve, how are you guys doing today? Doing great?

1491
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: Really good? We're doing well. I just had a pang

1492
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: of regret, believe me, And I'm used to this, but

1493
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,679
Speaker 1: it kind of stinks when your team's not in the playoffs.

1494
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: Just let me say it like that. You know, everybody's

1495
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: excited all over the country. Here in Buffalo. We should

1496
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: be used to it by now because we had last year.

1497
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: But I miss having a playoff team to think about

1498
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: right now. Well, it was a year ago, right, wasn't

1499
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: that the Jacksonville Buffalo Barney barn Burner, the great great man. Yeah,

1500
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: that was just offensive football at its finest, as I

1501
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 1: recall was, Well, it was rough, but we do have

1502
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 1: playoff football to talk about. But we want to ask you, though,

1503
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: just to wrap things up on the Bills, Greg, I

1504
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: know you look at video from a lot of teams.

1505
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: Did you spend much time on Josh Allen and the

1506
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 1: Bills performance against the Dolphins last Sunday? And did you

1507
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 1: see anything there? Oh? Yeah, yeah, tell me what you

1508
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: guys know. I've been watching Josh every week and I mean,

1509
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I think they should be pretty

1510
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: optimistic about the player their first of their first round picks.

1511
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: As we go forward, I think there was clear improvement

1512
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. You know, I think he's made incremental

1513
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:44,640
Speaker 1: improvement throwing with pace and touch, starting to show some

1514
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,879
Speaker 1: modulation in his throws, which I thought was a critical

1515
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 1: area he needed to work on because he has a tendency,

1516
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,560
Speaker 1: even going back to college, to throw everything at the

1517
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: same speed and too hard when it shorter throws. I

1518
01:14:57,040 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: think there's a little bit of an improvement there, and

1519
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:01,720
Speaker 1: that's something to work on in the off season. But

1520
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 1: I thought there was clear improvement in Josh. I mean,

1521
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week, and you guys, when

1522
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: we were finished, I still heard you're talking and you're saying, hey,

1523
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 1: I'm pretty optimistic, and I remained. So I think there

1524
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: was definitely it was positive going forward. There was a

1525
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: clear sense that he got better. And I kind of

1526
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 1: feel the same way about Tremaine Edmonds as well. It

1527
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: talks let's what do you see in Tremaine Edmonds, because

1528
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 1: we've been having this conversation about how important and how

1529
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: good a year he actually had. Certainly he played enough

1530
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: games and he should have pretty good numbers playing metal

1531
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: linebacker in a number two defense in the league. But

1532
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:39,560
Speaker 1: what did you see aside from just the fact that

1533
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: he played every almost every snap that gives you reason

1534
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: to say, hey, he's going to be pretty good. I

1535
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: think the first thing I would notice in the run

1536
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: game is played recognition. I thought as the year progressed,

1537
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: he started to play more with his eyes. And when

1538
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 1: you start playing with your eyes, Steve, as you know

1539
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: at that position, and see things quicker, you're able to

1540
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 1: react quicker. And there's no question about his athleticism. So

1541
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: I think that as the year progressed, he got better

1542
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 1: at that and he was able to show his tremendous

1543
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: athleticism more often. You know. I think two plays from

1544
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: this past week really stood out to me, and one

1545
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:16,680
Speaker 1: was the interception. But it didn't stand out to me

1546
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: just because he made a great one handed interception. It

1547
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: stood out to me because he understood the defense. It

1548
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: was his own concept. He was an underneath defender and

1549
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: he was initially attacked by the inside slot, but then

1550
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: when he broke outside, he recognized that, hey, I can

1551
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 1: pass that on and I can look for work now

1552
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 1: back inside. And I thought that was a really good

1553
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: understanding of the coverage. The other play that got me

1554
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: excited because I thought this when I watched him at

1555
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:47,680
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech was the sack in the fourth quarter when

1556
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: he ran through Kenyan Drake. Because an athlete who's that big,

1557
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: that explosive, I always wondered why at Virginia Tech he

1558
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: was not used more as a blitzer, because I think

1559
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: he has great blitz potential. So I was really happy

1560
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 1: to see that. Greg. I have one more Josh Allen

1561
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: question for you, if I may, and it maybe is

1562
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: more of a question on the concept of the of

1563
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: the concepts of the Buffalo offense. You know, they they

1564
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 1: finally worked some short passes into their offensive mix last

1565
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: week against Miami. You guys, your your Pro football, your

1566
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 1: your NFL matchup. Twitter site put out a stat that

1567
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: showed the Bills second in the NFL to only to

1568
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers in terms of depth of passes

1569
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: the Bills ranked second and attempted passes completed passes of

1570
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: twenty or more yards. Is that where the Bills forced

1571
01:17:35,120 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: into that style of offense or is that something you

1572
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: think they will continue to do moving forward, having a

1573
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: kind of a deep passing component that maybe doesn't allow

1574
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: them to have a good short passing game. What do

1575
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 1: you think, Well, I think you can do both. But

1576
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: if you're you're asking me why, I think with Josh Allen,

1577
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 1: I think the style of quarterback that he is is

1578
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: such that he's he's an intermediate and downfield thrower. Like

1579
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: I'll give you a perfect example of a play which

1580
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: to me, he just stands out as being representative of

1581
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: I think what you'll see going forward. And that's when

1582
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: he hit Jones for twenty one yards in the fourth quarter,

1583
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: not to touchdown, but he had a twenty one yard

1584
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: or to Jones on a deep dig and that actually

1585
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 1: came out of two I think it was two backs

1586
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,560
Speaker 1: on the field at the times, and they had a

1587
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: closed formation and they had the slot too. I believe

1588
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: it was the slot was opposite the closed formation and

1589
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 1: it was play action and he's and he had the

1590
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 1: inside receiver sort of run vertically and then he had

1591
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: Jones run the deep dig. Those are the kinds of

1592
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: things you can do with Josh Allen. It's the play

1593
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: action pass game. It's throwing the ball at the intermediate levels.

1594
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: That's his strength. You can still throw it short, but

1595
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: I think with you know, with Josh Allen, you're not

1596
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: doing a dinking and dunking kind of passing game. Yeah, absolutely,

1597
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: he's and he said multiple times he loves to push

1598
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. And he actually had a

1599
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: higher percent completion percentage this week. It was a sixty

1600
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: percent completion And asked him what the difference was, he says,

1601
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, laughingly, it sounds simple, and he says, I

1602
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: wanted to take the completions, you know, And I think

1603
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 1: he fights against his nature when he does anything. He

1604
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:11,240
Speaker 1: pushed the ball down the field. Greg Gosal joins us.

1605
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:14,639
Speaker 1: He is the executive producer analyst for NFL Matchups, senior

1606
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: producer NFL Films. You can catch him on ESPN this weekend.

1607
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,799
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some of these playoff matchups

1608
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: and the first game of the day. The Colts and

1609
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: the Texans just played about a month ago. The Colts

1610
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: won at Houston by three points in that game. A

1611
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 1: couple of teams that enjoyed long win streaks during the

1612
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:34,679
Speaker 1: course of the season. The Colts lead the all time series.

1613
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: They've won three of the last four times they played.

1614
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: But it seems to me the Texans should be favored.

1615
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if they are, but the Texans seemed

1616
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: like a more complete roster and more complete team than

1617
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 1: what Indianapolis has. What do you think, Greg, Well, I

1618
01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: think they have better players, but I think the Cults

1619
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: are a very interesting team. Keep a couple of things

1620
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 1: in mind. First of all, the Colts in these two

1621
01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 1: games that they played during the regular season sack to

1622
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson twelve times. And Watson has some shoes when

1623
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: it comes to what he sees, how quickly he sees it.

1624
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: His ability to recognize pressure. Now, his offensive line is

1625
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 1: not very good, so that's a factor as well. But

1626
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this game because also the other part

1627
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: of this is Andrew Luck in those two games through

1628
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty three yards, and the Texans

1629
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: played a ton of zone coverage. That's sort of their foundation.

1630
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if they continue to do that.

1631
01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: They're a team that's built more on pressure and zone

1632
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: behind it, but they really had a hard time playing

1633
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: zone against the Colts. Yeah, I agree, and to me

1634
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: that the Colts are a problem because of Andrew Luck

1635
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: and t Y Hilton, and they've got enough in the

1636
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: passing game, and Luck is he's just a good enough

1637
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: quarterback to run around a little bit and extent plays,

1638
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,680
Speaker 1: but he can beat you from the pocket as well.

1639
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: But I think for the Texans, I think the thing

1640
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: that makes them so difficult is that the fact that

1641
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:58,600
Speaker 1: any point Jadevian Clowning and JJ Watt can take the

1642
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: game over, and that changes things on both sides of

1643
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, I mean, I think that that's what

1644
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: they count on. They count on their front seven, which

1645
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:12,719
Speaker 1: from a personnel standpoint is very very good. You know, Clowney,

1646
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 1: I think you'll see him work mostly from the inside,

1647
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: that's where he's best. They do need to create pressure,

1648
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 1: they do need to stop the run because then you

1649
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: put them in long yardage and I think that's I mean,

1650
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:26,839
Speaker 1: you can say that about any team, but Frank Reich's

1651
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,960
Speaker 1: offense this year has been very timing based and very rhythmic,

1652
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: and Luck has gotten the ball out of his hands,

1653
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: so obviously if it's third nine or third and eleven,

1654
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: that all changes. So I think that that's something people

1655
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: will look at in this game. I think there's one

1656
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: player on the Colts offense who I'm intrigued by in

1657
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: this matchup, and that's nahem Hinz he's become an important

1658
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: receiver as a back for them, particularly over the last

1659
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 1: four or five weeks of the season. Yeah, Hines is

1660
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: a guy that can run like a four to three

1661
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: something forty. I mean, he's really fast, and they're starting

1662
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: to put him positions to try and get them into

1663
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: space and use that speed a little bit. That's really

1664
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 1: helped them in their nine game or nine out of

1665
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: ten game winning streak. What about the late game tomorrow

1666
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: se Evil and Dallas and what about Dak Prescott in

1667
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: the postseason? What do you expect What do you think

1668
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: the Cowboys expect to get from him tomorrow night? Well,

1669
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: I think when all said and done, the Cowboys are

1670
01:22:20,439 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: still a run first team. They'll give the Bolt his zeke.

1671
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 1: They'll work off that. Prescott has been a quarterback that's

1672
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: been a little bit up and down depending on the week,

1673
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't think there's any mystery is

1674
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: how they're going to try to play, you know, Prescott

1675
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson for that matter. I think both teams

1676
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,600
Speaker 1: in some ways depend on their quarterback being able to

1677
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: make plays outside of structure, you know, extend plays, make throws,

1678
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 1: break down the discipline of the defense. I think that's

1679
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: sort of built into the way they play. You can't

1680
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,560
Speaker 1: count on it, and it's not like you draw it

1681
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: up and say, hey, let's run around today. But I

1682
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: think that's the way those guys play to some extent,

1683
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: and I think that they sort of count on that

1684
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,439
Speaker 1: to happen. Certainly, Prescott did that last week against the Giants.

1685
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:11,799
Speaker 1: It's one reason he threw for so many yards. Russell

1686
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 1: Wilson's who was murph reminded me a few minutes. Agoes

1687
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:17,360
Speaker 1: number three in the league and touchdown passes this year,

1688
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: they've I really got to tip my hat to Pete

1689
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: Carroll and the Seahawks. You know, four years ago, five

1690
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: years ago, whatever it was, they were winning the Super

1691
01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: Bowl with nothing but their defense and a young quarterback

1692
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 1: on his first contract. And now they have evolved into

1693
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: a team that is more like a stereotypical NFL team.

1694
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: They got a franchise quarterback and they try and build

1695
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: it around him. Talk what are your what's your opinion

1696
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,680
Speaker 1: about Russell Wilson in the year he's having They do

1697
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: when they don't steve because actually they leave the NFL

1698
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: and rushing and Wilson's thrown far and away the fewest

1699
01:23:51,040 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 1: passes of any year in his career. So they are

1700
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 1: a run first team that then works off the run

1701
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 1: to push the ball down the field, and they've had great,

1702
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 1: great success doing that, which is why Wilson's touchdown numbers

1703
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: are so good. But they are not a throwing team,

1704
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: you know. I think what allows them to be so

1705
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: good on offense is the fact that Wilson can make

1706
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: those kinds of plays, because when you run the ball

1707
01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: the way they do, you're asking your quarterback to convert

1708
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: a lot on third down, and Wilson can make those

1709
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:25,639
Speaker 1: kinds of plays. But they are a running team. Until

1710
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,920
Speaker 1: recent weeks, if I'm not mistaken, they led the NFL

1711
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,839
Speaker 1: and rushing attempts as well as rushing yards. The attempts.

1712
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: They might be second now because of what Baltimore has done,

1713
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 1: but they still lead the NFL and rushing and they

1714
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: are clearly a run first team. You take your trading

1715
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: into Baltimore. Gregor with Greg Cosal, executive producer analysts for

1716
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN Baltimore, Lamar Jackson and that offense.

1717
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 1: Are they suitable for playoffs? What do you think? Well,

1718
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna ride that there's no question. You know, the

1719
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: question of whether it's sustainable is not important. Now they're

1720
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: trying to get to a super Bowl and this is

1721
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: the way they're playing, and they become you know, I've

1722
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: been studying their tape and Lamaris started seven games, and

1723
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: they're averaging a ridiculous two hundred and thirty yards rushing

1724
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: per game in those seven games. There's certain things that

1725
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: are a little predictable when you watch their tape as

1726
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: to how they go about running the ball. And if

1727
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 1: I notice that the Chargers will Now whether you stop it,

1728
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: that's a different question. But he's still going to have

1729
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: to make enough throws for them to win. Now, the

1730
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: advantage they have is their defense is really good. Just

1731
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: remember two weeks ago they went into the Chargers home

1732
01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: stadium if you want to call it a home stadium,

1733
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: and they held them to ten points and one hundred

1734
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,720
Speaker 1: ninety eight yards of total offense, far and away the

1735
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: worst performance by the Chargers offense all year. So they

1736
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: have a defense that can do that and that allows

1737
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: them to play offense the way they do. Yeah, and

1738
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:55,919
Speaker 1: you mentioned that the Seahawks will run first, you know, offense,

1739
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens are run first, run second, and run

1740
01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: third offense. I mean they if they cart, if they

1741
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 1: can't run it, the Baltimore Ravens may as well stay home.

1742
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: I mean that's they really have changed the dynamic and

1743
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: the paradigm for what an NFL offense is supposed to

1744
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: look like, or even has to look like. Well, I

1745
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: think they're doing that now. You know again that Gray's

1746
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 1: is Steve. The question of whether that's sustainable over time,

1747
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I don't think you can

1748
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 1: have your quarterback have seventeen carries per game over time.

1749
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: But right now they're not concerned about that. They're trying

1750
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: to ride the wave and go as far as they

1751
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: can with Lamar Jackson. Now, he's made a couple of

1752
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,200
Speaker 1: throws here and there, even go back to that game

1753
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: against the Chargers two weeks ago, he hit the sixty

1754
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown to Mark Andrews. It happened to have

1755
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,759
Speaker 1: been a great throw. Yeah, he will make the occasional

1756
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: great throw. But I think you're right. The question comes

1757
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: down to is how fast can Lamar Jackson evolve away

1758
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:54,120
Speaker 1: from what he is into something that looks more like

1759
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback and they're gonna looks like they're gonna.

1760
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: Are they gonna stick with him? You think, I mean

1761
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: going forward after this season? I'm obviously Oh, I think

1762
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: they've made My sense is from what I've heard, they've

1763
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: made that decision. I think it pretty much understood that

1764
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:10,720
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco will be playing somewhere else next year. What

1765
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: about the other quarterback, Philip Rivers? Is this his last

1766
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: best chance to win a championship? Do you think this year?

1767
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's his last best. I think

1768
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: that they're a good team. I think they have one

1769
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: issue that could be a factor in this game, as

1770
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,600
Speaker 1: it was when they played Week sixteen, and that's I

1771
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: think their old line is not a great pass protecting

1772
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,719
Speaker 1: old line, and I think Philip Rivers is a master

1773
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: at being able to compensate for that in camouflage it.

1774
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 1: But sometimes you can, so you know. One of the

1775
01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:40,719
Speaker 1: things I would say, and I don't know if they'll

1776
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 1: do this, but I would look for more empty sets

1777
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,560
Speaker 1: because it forces the defense to declare. I might go

1778
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: with some no huddle tempo because it prevents the defense,

1779
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: the Ravens defense from doing all their pre snap movement

1780
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 1: which they're so good at you know, I would do

1781
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 1: those kinds of things to try to minimize the limitation

1782
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,719
Speaker 1: or the weakness that you have in past protection against

1783
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: a defense like the Ravens and Greg the late game

1784
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 1: Sunday Eagles and Bears. Look, we know the Bears are

1785
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:09,920
Speaker 1: good at home. We know they're a really good defensive team.

1786
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 1: But as Mitchell Trubisky up to this task, you think,

1787
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, they're an interesting offense, an interesting mix because

1788
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:24,480
Speaker 1: they have Matt Naggie, who certainly likes the ski schematics

1789
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: of offense. But they're also a team that can be

1790
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: very very basic, because Mitchell Trubisky at this point in

1791
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: his career, needs some very basic things to help him out. Now.

1792
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 1: Last week against Minnesota in the second half, he really

1793
01:28:36,400 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: converted some third downs with throws, well defined throws. Naggie

1794
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:42,640
Speaker 1: did a good job. But if he's able to do that,

1795
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:46,519
Speaker 1: then I think they have a really good chance. You know,

1796
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:49,599
Speaker 1: I think their defense is really good and will likely

1797
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 1: cause problems for the Eagles offense. All Right, gonna be

1798
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:54,640
Speaker 1: a fun weekend. Greg, thank you very much for being

1799
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: with us here today. We appreciate it. Appreciate it, guys,

1800
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: Thank you so much great co sell executive producer and

1801
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: list of NFL matchup. You can catch that tomorrow three

1802
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 1: times on ESPN four am and six thirty am on

1803
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: ESPN eight thirty am on ESPN two. Steve, I'm guessing

1804
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 1: out get a chance to watch the eight thirty showing.

1805
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get up at four to watch it.

1806
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Oh yeah, listen, Yeah, I

1807
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: can't believe it because you watch that show. It's it's

1808
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 1: it's great. I mean they I'll tell you what, it

1809
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,160
Speaker 1: would be better than any pregame show on any of

1810
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: the networks, No offense CBS. CBS got a pretty good

1811
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:35,759
Speaker 1: pream show, said great co selling that the show NFL

1812
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 1: and NFL Yeah, because they go deep, and they go

1813
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 1: deep deep, and they and they have some real logic.

1814
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 1: It's not just yeah, you know. They don't get into

1815
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: all the fluff and the all of that and the

1816
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: yeah they talk about xs and os, and they don't

1817
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 1: have six guys standing around in suits pushing each other

1818
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,439
Speaker 1: and throwing the ball around. And also they get into

1819
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:57,880
Speaker 1: the mindset of a coaching staff and how they're gonna think,

1820
01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 1: and that I think is one step further than pregame shows,

1821
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:03,040
Speaker 1: going Greg to tell you're right about that. Executive producer

1822
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: of NFL Matchup on ESPN, Senior producer NFL Films. You

1823
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: can catch NFL Matchup tomorrow three times four am, six

1824
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: thirty am on ESPN, eight thirty am on ESPN two.

1825
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 1: So you gotta be an early riser, but it'll be

1826
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:18,360
Speaker 1: worth it at least for eight thirty DVR. There you go.

1827
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:20,519
Speaker 1: Why didn't I think of that? Steve and I coming

1828
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:22,639
Speaker 1: back with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive

1829
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:37,120
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. What do you call it? One

1830
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: Bills Live? And we come from One Bill's Drive. Little

1831
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: poetry there to start to set this second. Yeah, welcome

1832
01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 1: back to the show. Joe Pascalia standingbody to join us

1833
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 1: in the next hour of the show, sports director at

1834
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:50,639
Speaker 1: w KBW TV Channel seven and Buffalo and a stute

1835
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:52,840
Speaker 1: follower of the Buffalo Bills, and we'll get him to

1836
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 1: weigh in on our One Bill's Live. See he said,

1837
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: we got to go to the top of the hour

1838
01:30:56,479 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: with this segment before we can bring Joe in. And

1839
01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 1: I thought Joe's coming in right now. It's like it's

1840
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:02,760
Speaker 1: like we're gonna have five minutes with Joe. No, we're

1841
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:05,839
Speaker 1: gonna have a long time. That's my that's my novice

1842
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: radio host self speaking out there. I didn't know what

1843
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: the heck was going on. We're talking about our awards

1844
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 1: and we'll get into more of it and when we

1845
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: come back for the next hour, and we're trying to

1846
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:18,439
Speaker 1: name most valuable players on offense and defense, Rookies of

1847
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:21,639
Speaker 1: the Year, offense and defense, comeback players. On the tweet sheets,

1848
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 1: Tiffany Estelle her most valuable player on offense. Kind of

1849
01:31:25,880 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: the consensus. Josh Allen on defense, Lorenzo Alexander was her

1850
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:34,240
Speaker 1: most valuable player. Okay, I gotta argue with that. Love.

1851
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:38,639
Speaker 1: I love Lorenzo. Rookie of the Year on defense, She's

1852
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: got Tremaine Edmonds. She didn't have a Rookie of the

1853
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: Year on offense. Gotta be Josh Allen, come back person,

1854
01:31:44,720 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 1: check Lawson. And she's also says and I would like

1855
01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:50,360
Speaker 1: I would have to mention Wyatt Teller. I liked his

1856
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:52,479
Speaker 1: play this year. Yeah, I mean he got inserted in

1857
01:31:52,640 --> 01:31:55,559
Speaker 1: after a gay last nine games, eight or nine games,

1858
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 1: and um seemed to hold his own. I mean it's

1859
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 1: hard for me to if yway guard play. You can'd

1860
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 1: only notice them if they lets they jump off size

1861
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 1: on third and or get a third and five, or

1862
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 1: get a holding penalty. But white Teller seemed to play okay,

1863
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: seemed to do well, but he didn't get pulled out.

1864
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody else was getting sat down and put in.

1865
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: But White Teller's an interesting guy coming back next year

1866
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:20,559
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be some new faces up front. We'll

1867
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: see if he's actually one of them. Yeah, coming back.

1868
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: Also got a tweet from Jesse Hamilton. Offensive MVP was

1869
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Defensive MVP is Matt Milano. People have been

1870
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: chiming in about Milano a little bit today as well.

1871
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Years Robert Foster. Defensive Rookie of

1872
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: the Years Tremaine Edmonds. But Levi Wallace is close, he says.

1873
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: And of course, comeback player of the Year Shack Loss

1874
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,439
Speaker 1: and those stats say was slightly better than last year.

1875
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: This is the year where he's been the scariest he's

1876
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 1: ever been to go up against love what we're finally

1877
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: able to get from him, Shack Loss, And there's no

1878
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 1: question did take a step forward this year. I think

1879
01:32:53,240 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: people saw it he made it. And I think, you

1880
01:32:56,479 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: know the thing I'd admire most about his season. He

1881
01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:02,560
Speaker 1: came in saying and fully acknowledging that that's what he

1882
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:05,599
Speaker 1: needed to do. And he said I and he committed,

1883
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 1: and he self proclaimed committed himself to doing that. He

1884
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:11,400
Speaker 1: came back in better shape, came back with a new attitude.

1885
01:33:11,439 --> 01:33:13,040
Speaker 1: It was noticed by a lot of people, by us

1886
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,599
Speaker 1: in particular, And I love it when a player takes

1887
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:17,800
Speaker 1: responsibility like that, and Shack did it this year, and

1888
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:19,760
Speaker 1: it showed, Yeah, you know what I like. And he

1889
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 1: kind of threw it in the face of everybody, even

1890
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: going back to camp, who said, well, Lawson, you know

1891
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 1: he's he's on thin ice. He's dead man walking. Shack

1892
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:32,360
Speaker 1: Lawson drafted by the old regime. They're certainly not gonna

1893
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: He didn't do much to help himself in his second year,

1894
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,040
Speaker 1: in his first year under this group, and so I

1895
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:39,080
Speaker 1: would look for him to be gone. No, he went

1896
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:40,920
Speaker 1: the other way. He turned it up a notch or

1897
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:43,560
Speaker 1: two and became, I think, a pretty important part of

1898
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:45,880
Speaker 1: what they were doing defensively by the end of the year. Yeah.

1899
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he kind of defied the

1900
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 1: expectations and the critics and the people who wrote him

1901
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 1: off as you know, a guy who was going to

1902
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:54,880
Speaker 1: be sent packing, and it says something about see the

1903
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: decision makers here, the coaches and personnel people who yes,

1904
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:02,639
Speaker 1: Jack Lawson was under the previous regime, and yes, those

1905
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: guys sometimes look at the previous regime guys with question marks.

1906
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:08,720
Speaker 1: But when you got talent like Shack Lawson and you

1907
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 1: put it together with effort and hard work, they're they're

1908
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: not going to just send you packing because somebody else

1909
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: drafted you here. That's important, that's really true. Kyle Williams

1910
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: is a great example. If you, if you, if you

1911
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 1: perform a role in a function that even outside the

1912
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: lines like um, like Kyle did, like some of the

1913
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 1: other guys did. Shack Lawson is a perfect example of

1914
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 1: a guy who they gave an opportunity to uh. And

1915
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 1: I think also they also pushed the right buttons and

1916
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: you can say, well, it's a pretty expensive button to push. Hey,

1917
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,120
Speaker 1: bringing in Trent Murphy's said, probably said something to Shack

1918
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:44,439
Speaker 1: Lawson too. I mean, huh, listen, it's it's put up

1919
01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: or shut up. We got a guy here we're gonna

1920
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 1: put in. And now certainly Trent Murphy still was still

1921
01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: dealing with the injury and he didn't have the kind

1922
01:34:51,160 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 1: of year you would hope he had. But certainly Shack

1923
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 1: Lawson performed every bit as well and in certain cases

1924
01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:00,920
Speaker 1: was put ahead of him. So m the fact that

1925
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:05,759
Speaker 1: Lawson was healthy all year and available helps. Coaching staffs

1926
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 1: love that and they put a high premium on a

1927
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:09,759
Speaker 1: guy who's available. Look at the hardware going out, because

1928
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: this awards not really the trophies off the shelves. And

1929
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 1: then for the offensive and defensive players, Rookies of the Year,

1930
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: Comeback Player the Year. We're gonna talk more about this

1931
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:21,559
Speaker 1: in the third and final hour of the show. Job

1932
01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:24,439
Speaker 1: Bascalia Joe b from w KBW TV Channel seven and

1933
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:27,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo their sports director. We'll get his thoughts on all

1934
01:35:27,040 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 1: of these awards, his thoughts on who are the potential

1935
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:32,479
Speaker 1: free agents. He wrote about this at WKW dot com.

1936
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,000
Speaker 1: Potential free agents to keep an eye on in the

1937
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:37,680
Speaker 1: wildcard games this weekend. All of that coming up when

1938
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 1: we return. John Murphy Steam Tasker One Bills Live from

1939
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:49,360
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio Blow

1940
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:53,920
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Game Update from One Bill's drive.

1941
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:57,080
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman is gone as the Bill special teams coordinator,

1942
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:00,640
Speaker 1: fired yesterday by head coach Sean McDermott. Usmon joined the

1943
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:03,479
Speaker 1: Bills in twenty thirteen, came in under Doug Moron. It's

1944
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 1: been a couple of years with Moron, a couple of

1945
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 1: years with Rect Ryan, and then the last two years

1946
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:10,919
Speaker 1: with Sean McDermott. He has gone now. No official announcement

1947
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: yet from the Bills. The Wildcard playoff weekend approaches a

1948
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:17,640
Speaker 1: couple of games Tomorrow four thirty five pm Indianapolis at

1949
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,479
Speaker 1: Houston in the AFC Wild Card Game, followed by Seattle

1950
01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 1: and Dallas tomorrow night, and then on Sunday one o'clock

1951
01:36:23,960 --> 01:36:26,640
Speaker 1: Chargers in Baltimore in Baltimore and the Eagles and the

1952
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,759
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears following that. The end of the Pro Football

1953
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 1: of Fame has revealed its fifteen finalists for the class

1954
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. The finalists among a group of ninety

1955
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:39,400
Speaker 1: two players and eleven coaches that were initially named nominees.

1956
01:36:39,439 --> 01:36:43,360
Speaker 1: Among the fifteen finalists, former chief said Antoni Gonzalez, former

1957
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: Colts and Cardinals running back Edgar and James, and former

1958
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:50,360
Speaker 1: Ravens and Jets safety Ed Reid. They'll all be introduced.

1959
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:52,759
Speaker 1: The Pro Football Hall of Fame will introduce the five

1960
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,599
Speaker 1: new and shrines on Saturday, February second, the day before

1961
01:36:57,160 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Atlanta. Else Around the National Football League,

1962
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: Lions general manager Bob Quinn says the team can win

1963
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:06,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with Matthew Stafford. He is not open

1964
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: to trading the thirty year old quarterback. He believes they

1965
01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: can still win a Super Bowl with Matthew Stafford. Elsewhere

1966
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: around sports world, the Buffalo Sabers came up with a

1967
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:17,759
Speaker 1: win last night. Jeff Skinner with two goals is twenty

1968
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:20,600
Speaker 1: seventh and twenty eighth of the season. Sabers beat the

1969
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:23,640
Speaker 1: Florida Panthers four to three. Buffalo practicing today, they head

1970
01:37:23,640 --> 01:37:26,360
Speaker 1: out to Boston tomorrow night. They played the Bruins in Boston.

1971
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: The Sabers and Bruin each with fifty points this season.

1972
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:32,000
Speaker 1: Boston coming off a win over Calgary. You Be Basketball

1973
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: back on the court tonight, the twentieth ranked Bulls play

1974
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: at Eastern Michigan, their first game in Mid American Conference play.

1975
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:40,759
Speaker 1: The third straight years of the Bulls have opened against

1976
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 1: the MAC West. You Be Number twenty in both the

1977
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:45,920
Speaker 1: AP and coaches polls. This week they had twelve wins

1978
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:48,760
Speaker 1: and one loss. That's the update from One Bill Strive,

1979
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:51,880
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Casker in our One Buffalo Studio special

1980
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,360
Speaker 1: guest in studio with us for a couple of segments here,

1981
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:57,360
Speaker 1: happy to have a sports director from WKBWTB Channel seven

1982
01:37:57,400 --> 01:37:59,600
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Joe Bascallion with us. Hi, Joe, thank you

1983
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:02,160
Speaker 1: coming about gentlemen. Thanks for having me. I've spent a

1984
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:03,680
Speaker 1: long time since we had you in here, and we

1985
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,040
Speaker 1: were just talking about it. It was it was training

1986
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:10,240
Speaker 1: camp when I know, time flies, especially with the season.

1987
01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:12,720
Speaker 1: You get into the nitty gritty and then it's done

1988
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:15,559
Speaker 1: with and then it's you're like, okay, now now it's

1989
01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:20,080
Speaker 1: all downhill. Yeah. It goes so fast, and we're talking

1990
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 1: this is my tomorrow beginning or like in an hour,

1991
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: my my first weekend off September, because we're going, you know,

1992
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks. We're hitting it hard and we're busy. I mean,

1993
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: it's our busy time of the week in the media,

1994
01:38:34,040 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 1: a year in the media, and it's when it stops.

1995
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 1: The separation is palpable. Yeah right, I mean, wow, I

1996
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: want them to do. What do you I know you're

1997
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 1: working at Channel seven, but right, what do you do

1998
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 1: with all your free weekend time? Now? Joe? Well, um,

1999
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: I get to be able to like plan some excursions

2000
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:55,080
Speaker 1: fend time to time. That that'll be nice, But really

2001
01:38:55,120 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: it's trying to figure out more ideas for because this

2002
01:38:58,200 --> 01:39:00,519
Speaker 1: is a crucial off season for the Bills coming, and

2003
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 1: I mean just in free agency, how much cap room

2004
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:05,479
Speaker 1: they have with all the draft picks that they have.

2005
01:39:05,640 --> 01:39:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like one of the most crucial

2006
01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:10,600
Speaker 1: off seasons probably for the being a McDermott regime. So

2007
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: it's even though the season just ended, it's like, all right,

2008
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 1: how do I get this thing going again? Because Bills fans,

2009
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 1: I think, are still really hungry for information, especially because

2010
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: of the way that things just ended for the team.

2011
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,719
Speaker 1: So it's it's going to be a fun off season,

2012
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 1: no doubt. Certainly they've got some foundational pieces in place.

2013
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:31,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen obviously trained ends. We've been talking about some

2014
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:33,600
Speaker 1: of the postseason awards that have gone on. They've got

2015
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:36,240
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys that really liked said okay,

2016
01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:38,439
Speaker 1: all right, we got a guy, right, So there's a

2017
01:39:38,479 --> 01:39:40,639
Speaker 1: couple of guys like that, but there's also some things

2018
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 1: they desperately need and they desperately need to change. They've

2019
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:47,960
Speaker 1: got ninety million plus dollars in cap space and the

2020
01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 1: in the off season, they've got ten draft picks, and

2021
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:54,960
Speaker 1: you've started with some research on what maybe free agents

2022
01:39:55,560 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 1: may surface for the Buffalo Bills coming out. Yeah, it's

2023
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:03,760
Speaker 1: just really because I feel like the hunger for just

2024
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 1: trying to see what the Bills could do in free

2025
01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 1: agency is just so huge out there with Bills fans

2026
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: right now that they actually still have opportunities to, you know,

2027
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:16,400
Speaker 1: finger quotes scout these guys on Saturday and Sunday during

2028
01:40:16,400 --> 01:40:18,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I trotted out a name or two

2029
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: from each one of the teams. I just posted the

2030
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,439
Speaker 1: Sunday games today and it ranges from wide receivers to

2031
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:27,599
Speaker 1: tight ends, to running backs to offensive line. No Chiefs

2032
01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:29,160
Speaker 1: are there. And these are the free ages that are

2033
01:40:29,200 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 1: playing this week. Yeah, this isn't just like all around

2034
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 1: the league. These are just the guys you might be

2035
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: able to catch a glimpse of. Like friends of the

2036
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:36,720
Speaker 1: guy that's pictured on the front is Cole Beasley from

2037
01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,400
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. The slot receiver. Yeah, the Cowboys were one

2038
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:43,080
Speaker 1: of the tough teams because the Bills really don't need

2039
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,800
Speaker 1: a slot receiver. But if out of the crop that

2040
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:49,040
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have, Cole Beasley would make the most sense

2041
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 1: of them. But I mean, then you have other guys

2042
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 1: like Mark Lowinski from the Colts who just has become

2043
01:40:54,520 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 1: an upstart starter for them in the last half of

2044
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:57,880
Speaker 1: the season when they went on their eight and one

2045
01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 1: stretch and he's there starting right guard and he's now

2046
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:03,640
Speaker 1: in his fourth season out of West Virginia. And get this,

2047
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: an hour and a half away from where Sean McDermott

2048
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 1: went to school high school. That's so there's kind of

2049
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:12,960
Speaker 1: that bond there. And then you've of the ones I

2050
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 1: posted today, like the tight end from Baltimore, Max Williams,

2051
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:17,680
Speaker 1: who is a former second round pick. He's going to

2052
01:41:17,680 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 1: be an unrestricted free agent, a super athletic guy, hasn't

2053
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 1: really lived up to his potential just yet and might

2054
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 1: be that lower tier guy. And then you've got your

2055
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,639
Speaker 1: Bobby Masses of the world, the right tackle from Chicago

2056
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 1: Tyrrell Williams, which is a very popular one amongst Bills fans.

2057
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 1: The Chargers receivers so there's a lot of guys to

2058
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 1: keep your eye on, and even some special teams guys

2059
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 1: as well, because we all know that the Bills need

2060
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,480
Speaker 1: some upgrades. There. W KBW TV sports director Joe Bascouia

2061
01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 1: in studio with us. He's posted is a list on

2062
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 1: wkww dot com potential Bills free agency targets to watch.

2063
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:51,680
Speaker 1: And you started with Saturday. You started with the guy

2064
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 1: who I just kind of got on my radar screen.

2065
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: The Bills played the Colts way back in October twenty first,

2066
01:41:57,280 --> 01:41:59,960
Speaker 1: I think it was. But they have the rookie guard,

2067
01:42:00,160 --> 01:42:03,040
Speaker 1: but Mark Glowinski getting a lot of ray reviews. He'll

2068
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:05,519
Speaker 1: be a free agent, right. Tell me about Glowinski, the

2069
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 1: right guard for the Colts and why he might be

2070
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 1: a potential fit here. Well, he was. He wasn't supposed

2071
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:11,920
Speaker 1: to start this year. It was supposed to be Matt

2072
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 1: Slawson's job, and then Slawson had vertebrate issues and you know,

2073
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: was almost on the verge of paralysis according to reports.

2074
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:24,200
Speaker 1: So they put Glowinski into the lineup and he has

2075
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 1: been outstanding for them and still I think he's twenty

2076
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 1: six going on twenty seven, three four years in the league. Yeah,

2077
01:42:31,040 --> 01:42:32,960
Speaker 1: this is his fourth year in the league and he's

2078
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: on his second team now, so it's some offensive lineman.

2079
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:37,880
Speaker 1: It takes a little bit longer to stick as as

2080
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:40,560
Speaker 1: we well know, and really just for younger players. But

2081
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: he has flourished with this Indianapolis offensive line and has

2082
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,760
Speaker 1: really helped complete it. And I'm not going to sit

2083
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: here and tell you that a guard was the reason

2084
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:51,120
Speaker 1: for a turnaround for the Indianapolis Colts, but their offensive

2085
01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 1: line play at the maybe two guards, yeah, on the

2086
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: whole has been a catalyst for them to really establish themselves.

2087
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:01,280
Speaker 1: Keep Andrew Luck upright, allow him to be the player

2088
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 1: that he we know he can be, and for them

2089
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:06,080
Speaker 1: to go on an eight and one run. I remember

2090
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 1: watching their film when they were one in five about

2091
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:10,400
Speaker 1: to play the Bills. I'm like, that looks like a

2092
01:43:10,439 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 1: playoff team to me. And even though they were one

2093
01:43:12,360 --> 01:43:14,920
Speaker 1: in five, just circumstances and well in the hold and

2094
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:16,880
Speaker 1: one goes along and and there they are in the

2095
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:19,040
Speaker 1: playoffs against the Never be a good matchup for them

2096
01:43:19,120 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: to go against the Texans defensive line to get a real, true,

2097
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:24,200
Speaker 1: accurate read on how good these guys are, how good

2098
01:43:24,240 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 1: Glowing in sky for sure. So keep your eye on

2099
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 1: the right guard. I even put his jersey number on

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01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 1: the article so you can see exactly what you're looking into.

2101
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,240
Speaker 1: Although I will say it's tough just because you want

2102
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:36,840
Speaker 1: to be able to see from the end zone angle

2103
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:39,960
Speaker 1: with the coaches film, but still you can get a

2104
01:43:40,000 --> 01:43:43,840
Speaker 1: pretty good gauge about who the guy is and how

2105
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,120
Speaker 1: he kind of goes about his business and if he

2106
01:43:46,200 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 1: could be a potential fit here as a starter. Make

2107
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 1: sure you're looking at the right guard, because the left

2108
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:52,120
Speaker 1: guard you'll wish you had two. When Nelson he was

2109
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,679
Speaker 1: the first overall, their fifth overall pick, and he is. Yeah,

2110
01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: he's a monster m and has played extremely. U was

2111
01:43:58,160 --> 01:43:59,960
Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl at after his rookie sees

2112
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,960
Speaker 1: and as a right guard, which I think how hard

2113
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 1: that is to do. That's how good he has been.

2114
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: So he's been a solidifying factor. But you're right, and

2115
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:09,559
Speaker 1: it goes further down the list. They also the bills.

2116
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: You got to think started thinking about tackles as well.

2117
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yea offensive line is offensive line, and you've

2118
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:18,759
Speaker 1: got Kendall Lamb number seventy four for the Texans also

2119
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 1: on your list. Yeah, an Appalachian State guide. So you

2120
01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 1: know Brandon Bean knows about him North being from North Carolina, right,

2121
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,120
Speaker 1: and he's right from the North Carolina area too, where

2122
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:29,640
Speaker 1: he went to high school. Lamb is sort of a

2123
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,880
Speaker 1: maybe a stop gap depth start if you need him

2124
01:44:33,880 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 1: to sort of guy. He wasn't slated to start, just

2125
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:39,160
Speaker 1: like Glowinski, but the Bills could really use anything along

2126
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:41,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line, whether it be starters, depth, what have you,

2127
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: and they just want competition. So if you strike out

2128
01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:47,080
Speaker 1: with a guy like that I profiled today from the Bears,

2129
01:44:47,120 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 1: Bobby Massey, who is going to be thirty years old

2130
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,320
Speaker 1: next year, has started six seasons in his career and

2131
01:44:52,360 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: it is probably going to get a pretty substantial sum

2132
01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: if you strike out there, then Lamb is someone that

2133
01:44:57,400 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 1: you can kind of go to say, all right, this

2134
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: guy started last year. Maybe he's in a competition with

2135
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,599
Speaker 1: Connor McDermott. Doesn't rule out the fact that they could

2136
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:07,320
Speaker 1: draft a tackle in the first, second or third round

2137
01:45:07,360 --> 01:45:09,519
Speaker 1: to compete. And so Lamb is another one of those

2138
01:45:09,560 --> 01:45:11,680
Speaker 1: guys where he did the job well enough to make

2139
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:13,680
Speaker 1: you think, all right, well, you can bring him on

2140
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: a mid tier contract and see if he sticks. If

2141
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 1: he does it, so be it. It's not a big ress.

2142
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:19,560
Speaker 1: And that's the big thing as well. You want to

2143
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 1: these second tier guys like this, like Kendall Lamb. You're

2144
01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:25,920
Speaker 1: not gonna pay him ten million bucks a year as

2145
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:28,640
Speaker 1: you might get him for three, four or five and

2146
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: that and sound. It's a lot of money, don't get

2147
01:45:30,479 --> 01:45:33,200
Speaker 1: me wrong. It's a ton of money. But in the

2148
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: big scheme of the NFL landscape, for a starting right tackle,

2149
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:38,840
Speaker 1: that is below average, and that's actually a bargain. If

2150
01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:40,280
Speaker 1: you can get a guy fined, a guy like that

2151
01:45:40,560 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: and the guys you're the other guys you're talking about,

2152
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:45,280
Speaker 1: the guy from Chicago, Massey whatever, you are going to

2153
01:45:45,360 --> 01:45:47,599
Speaker 1: pay those guys eight, ten, twelve million bucks a year.

2154
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 1: And that's that's not for a left tackle. That's for

2155
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:53,719
Speaker 1: you know, and that's hard to put together an offensive

2156
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:56,040
Speaker 1: line when you're overpaying for one or two spots. Now,

2157
01:45:56,080 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 1: there are a couple of variables here. I'm basing their

2158
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:03,720
Speaker 1: potential interest on Bobby Massey on a couple of different things. One,

2159
01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:06,840
Speaker 1: if they feel comfortable enough with Dion Dawkins starting at

2160
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:11,360
Speaker 1: left tackles for twenty nineteen. And secondly, because of the

2161
01:46:11,479 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 1: fact that they were in on the Rick Wagner sweepstakes

2162
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:17,439
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen before he eventually went to the Lions,

2163
01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:19,280
Speaker 1: So if the Bills were willing to give that type

2164
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:21,679
Speaker 1: of money, However, Brandon Bean wasn't there at that point

2165
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:23,160
Speaker 1: in time, so we don't know how he's going to

2166
01:46:23,240 --> 01:46:26,840
Speaker 1: operate in free agency and his potential thoughts on adding

2167
01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:30,120
Speaker 1: a right tackle. So I think if they were to

2168
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:33,240
Speaker 1: think of to themselves, all right, right tackle is a

2169
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:36,600
Speaker 1: massive need. You know, no pun intended. Bobby Massey is

2170
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:38,640
Speaker 1: right there, so you had You also had one on

2171
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 1: your list of Seattle running back Mike Davis number twenties

2172
01:46:41,040 --> 01:46:43,800
Speaker 1: and none to Seattle, and we just had Greg Cosell on.

2173
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:46,200
Speaker 1: Seattle runs the ball as much as anybody in the league.

2174
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:48,920
Speaker 1: Will not as much as Baltimore, but they are run first.

2175
01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:51,280
Speaker 1: They led the league in attempts that kind of thing.

2176
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:53,840
Speaker 1: And so this is a running back who knows what

2177
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: it is to be on a run first. You're gonna

2178
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:57,599
Speaker 1: get plenty of opportunities to see him run the football.

2179
01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you put him as high on the list

2180
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,200
Speaker 1: at all, right, murphyll Tell, I think running backs are

2181
01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 1: a diamond, doesn't yeah, I agree, and I don't think

2182
01:47:06,439 --> 01:47:08,840
Speaker 1: he'll be that much again. Seattle was one of those

2183
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 1: teams where it's like, all right, well, what do you

2184
01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:13,559
Speaker 1: choose here? Like you looked at their cornerback, Justin Coleman.

2185
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:15,599
Speaker 1: He's a nickel guy. They have Tarn Johnson, so there's

2186
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:17,560
Speaker 1: really no no reason to do any of that. But

2187
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,599
Speaker 1: running back they could stand to do two things. Get

2188
01:47:21,680 --> 01:47:23,880
Speaker 1: younger and get better. And Mike Davis doesn't have a

2189
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:27,240
Speaker 1: lot of miles on the tires. He has shown a

2190
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: really aggressive hit the whole style of running. And I

2191
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 1: think for them if if they were to do something

2192
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 1: like that, it would also free up the potential to

2193
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 1: release Chris Ivory, who would save them two point two

2194
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:44,360
Speaker 1: five million on the twenty nineteen count. You know, I

2195
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:46,720
Speaker 1: was thinking about running backs and this week again, Joe,

2196
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,000
Speaker 1: and I want to get your take on this. Regardless

2197
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 1: of the year that Lashan McCoy has had this year,

2198
01:47:51,680 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't good they'd be in the market for a

2199
01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:55,720
Speaker 1: running back. They have to be. Yeah, they do, And

2200
01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:58,840
Speaker 1: I want you to talk about Dan and part two.

2201
01:47:59,200 --> 01:48:02,240
Speaker 1: Are you surprised the renewed commitment they've had to Shady

2202
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: again this week? Slightly. Yeah, me too, I am slightly

2203
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 1: surprised by that, just because you would think he's kind

2204
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:12,240
Speaker 1: of on the wrong side. Yeah, I think they're pinning

2205
01:48:12,280 --> 01:48:14,600
Speaker 1: a lot of their frustration on the offensive line, the

2206
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:17,960
Speaker 1: lack of cohesiveness, and you know, rightfully so it was

2207
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: a house of horrors at time throughout the season. But

2208
01:48:21,479 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 1: I do think that there is part of Lashawn McCoy

2209
01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:27,920
Speaker 1: here that was his own worst enemy. I mean, I

2210
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times when I was watching

2211
01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 1: the coaches film, just sitting there going why aren't you

2212
01:48:33,320 --> 01:48:35,519
Speaker 1: taking the yardage? Why aren't you taking the yardage? Why

2213
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 1: are you being hesitant? Why are you trying to kick

2214
01:48:37,160 --> 01:48:39,400
Speaker 1: it outside when there's a clear hole for four yards there.

2215
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:43,160
Speaker 1: So this is Lashawn McCoy, I think, perhaps trying to

2216
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:45,759
Speaker 1: do too much when he has some room to operate.

2217
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:47,720
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, there are some plays where

2218
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:50,479
Speaker 1: the center gets pushed all the way back and he

2219
01:48:50,640 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 1: just has no shot whatsoever. And you did see in

2220
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: the final game of the week or final game of

2221
01:48:56,360 --> 01:48:58,439
Speaker 1: the season, it gets Miami him actually start to be

2222
01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:01,240
Speaker 1: able to move in space a little bit, but even

2223
01:49:01,360 --> 01:49:04,200
Speaker 1: that seemed just a tick slower than it used to be,

2224
01:49:04,560 --> 01:49:06,960
Speaker 1: so I am a little surprised, but I do go

2225
01:49:07,080 --> 01:49:10,559
Speaker 1: back to what Carolina did always in all of their decisions,

2226
01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:12,720
Speaker 1: because they've done a lot of the same thing so far,

2227
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:16,719
Speaker 1: and they always had an older running back on the roster,

2228
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 1: whether it be Jonathan Stewart, D'Angelo Williams, to kind of

2229
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 1: mentor and foster the growth of younger guys. And I

2230
01:49:23,439 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: do think it is a very big thing in this

2231
01:49:25,960 --> 01:49:29,160
Speaker 1: offseason for the Bills to add a running back of youth,

2232
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:31,800
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Davis. Notwithstanding, I think they need a

2233
01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:35,760
Speaker 1: draft one bar none, somewhere in the first four maybe

2234
01:49:35,800 --> 01:49:38,280
Speaker 1: five rounds. You need a draft running back. Joe Pascalia

2235
01:49:38,280 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 1: from WKBWTV Channel seven and Buffalo wrote on their website

2236
01:49:42,120 --> 01:49:46,080
Speaker 1: today and yesterday about potential Bills free agency targets playing

2237
01:49:46,160 --> 01:49:48,920
Speaker 1: this weekend in the wild card. You talked about Cole Beasley.

2238
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:51,839
Speaker 1: We're all interested in receivers, any other receivers either tomorrow

2239
01:49:51,920 --> 01:49:53,679
Speaker 1: or Sunday, we should keep an eye on. Yeah. Tyrell

2240
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 1: Williams is the one of the weekend for Bills fans,

2241
01:49:57,520 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 1: and he's a very popular one amongst fans out there

2242
01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:04,120
Speaker 1: because if you say the word Devin Funcius or the

2243
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:07,320
Speaker 1: name Devin Funchius. To Bills fans, it's essentially akin to

2244
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:09,960
Speaker 1: a four letter word because of what happened with Calvin Benjamin.

2245
01:50:10,120 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Even though Devin Funcius and Tyrell Williams, I mean, their

2246
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: stats really aren't that much different here. But Williams, big

2247
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:20,080
Speaker 1: guy six to four two oh five, has really good

2248
01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: speed for that size, go up and get it type,

2249
01:50:22,360 --> 01:50:24,000
Speaker 1: and it seems like it would be a good fit

2250
01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:26,519
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen and how he likes to push the

2251
01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:28,360
Speaker 1: ball down the field, because that's kind of what Williams

2252
01:50:28,400 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 1: does now. Williams is not a true to form number

2253
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:34,559
Speaker 1: one receiver. He's a complimentary option. And this is kind

2254
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:37,320
Speaker 1: of something I've been thinking about, and I'm interested to

2255
01:50:37,400 --> 01:50:40,120
Speaker 1: hear your guys thoughts as well. With wide receivers as

2256
01:50:40,160 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 1: a whole, I mean, what is it to be a

2257
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:45,559
Speaker 1: number one receiver anymore? I mean, is it absolutely necessary

2258
01:50:45,640 --> 01:50:49,719
Speaker 1: for teams to have this bona fide number one Julio Jones,

2259
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:52,519
Speaker 1: AJ Green, Odell Beckham type or can you get along

2260
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:56,400
Speaker 1: with a stable of number two's? I mean, that's that

2261
01:50:57,120 --> 01:50:59,080
Speaker 1: might just have to be the way that the Bills

2262
01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:02,920
Speaker 1: operate things because that number one guy. He is not

2263
01:51:03,240 --> 01:51:07,360
Speaker 1: as prevalent in today's draft society as he once was,

2264
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:10,160
Speaker 1: so I wonder if I wonder if that might be

2265
01:51:10,240 --> 01:51:11,600
Speaker 1: the way they kind of go. I think it's the

2266
01:51:11,680 --> 01:51:14,160
Speaker 1: total sum of the package. If you've got two twos,

2267
01:51:14,840 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: a lot of times that's well, two twos and a three,

2268
01:51:17,479 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 1: you know, equal one to two and a three. You

2269
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. If you've got two really good twos,

2270
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:26,920
Speaker 1: it amounts to how thin the defense is spread. If

2271
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:29,200
Speaker 1: they've got one guy that draws a lot of attention,

2272
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:31,439
Speaker 1: you've got to have a guy good enough on the

2273
01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:33,639
Speaker 1: other side to take advantage of single coverage or whatever.

2274
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:37,240
Speaker 1: And and if you've got two guys and they've got

2275
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:39,640
Speaker 1: a single one of them, one of them, they got

2276
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:41,320
Speaker 1: to be able to both win one on one. It

2277
01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:43,000
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they have to do it every play, but

2278
01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:45,519
Speaker 1: they certainly have to have a threat. And if you

2279
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:48,320
Speaker 1: go three deep, if you've got three twos, yeah, yea,

2280
01:51:48,600 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, right, So you don't need to be two.

2281
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:55,400
Speaker 1: But you got to have a matchup. You got to

2282
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:57,680
Speaker 1: have a matchup problem. So if you go deep enough

2283
01:51:57,760 --> 01:52:00,639
Speaker 1: and quality enough in your receiver and corps, you don't

2284
01:52:00,640 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 1: have a guy that everybody's afraid of. But if you've

2285
01:52:02,479 --> 01:52:04,240
Speaker 1: got three guys that they don't know how to handle,

2286
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:07,439
Speaker 1: it's the same thing, which is why a slot receiver

2287
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:09,120
Speaker 1: is so critical. If you've got a guy in there

2288
01:52:09,200 --> 01:52:11,639
Speaker 1: that you know, he's like, it's like me, he looks

2289
01:52:11,680 --> 01:52:13,479
Speaker 1: like a hood ornament. It mean, he's a little whatever.

2290
01:52:13,600 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 1: But they you know, they got a match up with him.

2291
01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody can go mat one on one

2292
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:19,560
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're they're doubling team and

2293
01:52:19,760 --> 01:52:21,800
Speaker 1: a guy that looks like a travel gnome like me.

2294
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:26,960
Speaker 1: That's a huge plus for your offense. The defense has

2295
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: to It doesn't matter if you're a number one, but

2296
01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:29,920
Speaker 1: you're this little guy who can get open in the

2297
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,920
Speaker 1: slot that causes big problems on the outside, and all

2298
01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:34,839
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the guy like Josh takes big advantage

2299
01:52:34,880 --> 01:52:36,720
Speaker 1: of it with his arm. So it's not so much

2300
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:38,360
Speaker 1: that they have it. You want a great player, no

2301
01:52:38,479 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 1: question about it, because they'll win fifty fifty balls. They

2302
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:44,320
Speaker 1: won't ever get single covered or if you move him around,

2303
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:47,280
Speaker 1: the defense sometimes missus communication and they get open that way.

2304
01:52:47,920 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 1: But you do need enough out there going down five

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01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:54,479
Speaker 1: deep right that the defense can't match up somewhere, and

2306
01:52:54,479 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: one of those five could be a tight end tail right,

2307
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:58,519
Speaker 1: I mean, or running back whatever, a move tight end

2308
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: that can that can get out some space and actually

2309
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:03,599
Speaker 1: threatened the defense as opposed to maybe what the Bills

2310
01:53:03,680 --> 01:53:06,200
Speaker 1: had this year. I mean, there were so many lack

2311
01:53:06,240 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 1: of weapons. For Josh Allen. It all comes down to

2312
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:10,719
Speaker 1: excess nose, because yeah, if you got a big number one, Okay,

2313
01:53:10,720 --> 01:53:12,880
Speaker 1: you got all that that gives you, then all of

2314
01:53:12,920 --> 01:53:15,920
Speaker 1: a sudden, you can spend your roster in other spots.

2315
01:53:15,960 --> 01:53:17,960
Speaker 1: You can get another extra running back. You don't need

2316
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 1: to take two more wide receivers to cover up, you know,

2317
01:53:20,479 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: to go deep, you can and you throw your money

2318
01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 1: someplace else too. I got a defensive back or something.

2319
01:53:26,200 --> 01:53:29,720
Speaker 1: So the better the more elite players you get, the

2320
01:53:29,800 --> 01:53:32,280
Speaker 1: more economical you can work your rosters. Joe, we know

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01:53:32,439 --> 01:53:34,640
Speaker 1: free agency comes first before the draft. We know the

2322
01:53:34,680 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna have money to spend, but we also

2323
01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:39,960
Speaker 1: have heard you heard it too from Brandon Bean. He

2324
01:53:40,200 --> 01:53:44,280
Speaker 1: is definitely trying to dampen expectations for a big splash

2325
01:53:44,320 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: free agent, which I think is smart. They don't need

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01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 1: to make a big splash. They have a lot of play,

2327
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:51,760
Speaker 1: a position to address, and need to spread that money

2328
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 1: around a little bit. I think, yeah, you're totally right.

2329
01:53:53,920 --> 01:53:56,360
Speaker 1: And that's the reason why when I wrote about the

2330
01:53:56,400 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, someone tweeted back to me and go, well,

2331
01:53:59,720 --> 01:54:01,479
Speaker 1: isn't Clowney a free agent. I'm like, if you think

2332
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,439
Speaker 1: the Bills are seriously gonna go over after jadeveon Clowny,

2333
01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:07,240
Speaker 1: you weren't listening on Monday. They're just not going to

2334
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:10,640
Speaker 1: make that huge splash, although I think they can make

2335
01:54:10,680 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: a somewhat substantial splash, like a mini splash, which is

2336
01:54:13,560 --> 01:54:16,000
Speaker 1: what Bobby Massey would be, like a right tackle to

2337
01:54:16,040 --> 01:54:18,360
Speaker 1: come in and help fill one of the three to

2338
01:54:18,479 --> 01:54:20,880
Speaker 1: four spots on the starting lineup that you have on

2339
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:26,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So the Clowney range is just the

2340
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 1: Mario Williams range. Just keep dreaming. And he's also yeah,

2341
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,840
Speaker 1: he's also said too, and I think for good reasons. Listen,

2342
01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:34,640
Speaker 1: they may not spend all the ninety million. There may

2343
01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:37,320
Speaker 1: not be guys out. They're gonna make sure that he

2344
01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: sat here earlier this week and said, listen it it's

2345
01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 1: all about the value. I mean, they'll trade down. They'll

2346
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:45,440
Speaker 1: trade sideways. They'll get value for whatever. If they've got

2347
01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:46,840
Speaker 1: a guy. If they got the number nine pick and

2348
01:54:46,880 --> 01:54:50,000
Speaker 1: there's nobody there that's worth a first round, they'll get

2349
01:54:50,040 --> 01:54:51,960
Speaker 1: out of it. They don't want to waste a number.

2350
01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 1: At least they'll try to. They'll try to they if

2351
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:56,680
Speaker 1: there's not value there. So I think they'll probably approach

2352
01:54:56,760 --> 01:54:59,720
Speaker 1: free agency the same way. There's a good chance, depending

2353
01:54:59,760 --> 01:55:01,440
Speaker 1: on what what the market is and who's out there

2354
01:55:01,480 --> 01:55:04,360
Speaker 1: and what's happened, that they may have twenty five or

2355
01:55:04,440 --> 01:55:07,760
Speaker 1: thirty million left of that cap space at the end

2356
01:55:07,800 --> 01:55:10,080
Speaker 1: of free agency because they just couldn't get somebody to

2357
01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:13,880
Speaker 1: sign for that value. And to your point, no one

2358
01:55:13,920 --> 01:55:16,360
Speaker 1: says you have to spend it all this offseason because

2359
01:55:16,400 --> 01:55:19,200
Speaker 1: you can roll it over and you also have other

2360
01:55:19,320 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 1: contracts coming off the books. I Lashawn McCoy, even though

2361
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:26,280
Speaker 1: they have committed to him in twenty nineteen or so,

2362
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:29,160
Speaker 1: we are led to believe at this point then his

2363
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:32,600
Speaker 1: eight and a half million cap hit is gone next year.

2364
01:55:32,640 --> 01:55:35,560
Speaker 1: And there's so many other examples, like Russell Bodine is

2365
01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 1: accounting for like two and a half two point seventy

2366
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:40,200
Speaker 1: five million, vlad Dukas is accounting for two and a

2367
01:55:40,240 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: half million, Chris Ivory's accounting for three million. These things

2368
01:55:43,120 --> 01:55:45,840
Speaker 1: that up. So where if they only spend say forty

2369
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:48,280
Speaker 1: to fifty million, they're gonna have forty to fifty million

2370
01:55:48,280 --> 01:55:50,960
Speaker 1: again next year. Yeah? Yeah, at least job scouting you

2371
01:55:51,040 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: from Channel seven US with us. We're coming back for more.

2372
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:54,760
Speaker 1: We want to get Joe's thoughts on our one Bills

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01:55:54,800 --> 01:55:57,520
Speaker 1: Live twenty eighteen Buffalo Bills Awards, and a couple of

2374
01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,720
Speaker 1: other issues. So come on back. It is one Bills

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01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:02,280
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalaida Health from One Wheels Drive. This

2376
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:13,600
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio one Goals Live from one Wheels Drive.

2377
01:56:13,640 --> 01:56:16,200
Speaker 1: Jam Murphy steep Tasker were joined by Jova Scalia, sports

2378
01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:18,839
Speaker 1: director at w KBW TV Channel seven here in Buffalo.

2379
01:56:18,920 --> 01:56:20,560
Speaker 1: You leave here and you're gonna go ahead right down

2380
01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:24,600
Speaker 1: to seven broadcast Plaza. Right, that's right? What the platforce

2381
01:56:24,640 --> 01:56:31,080
Speaker 1: do you? I'm into it? Yeah? Yes, I started. My

2382
01:56:31,480 --> 01:56:33,760
Speaker 1: My first internship was at Channel seven? Was it really?

2383
01:56:34,000 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: How did I not know this? Oh? Oh he was

2384
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:39,720
Speaker 1: big time man, big of a big time intern. I

2385
01:56:39,800 --> 01:56:42,360
Speaker 1: went to my stuff, I went to my no, not

2386
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:45,520
Speaker 1: in my internship years. I went to my first Pro Bowl,

2387
01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:49,240
Speaker 1: and that offseason started an intern unpaid internship at Channel seven.

2388
01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:52,000
Speaker 1: I was there for a couple of years. Wow, and uh,

2389
01:56:52,200 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 1: I can't I went. I did a full first offseason,

2390
01:56:55,200 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: and then I came back the second year and asked

2391
01:56:57,280 --> 01:56:58,600
Speaker 1: if I could do it again, and they go, oh,

2392
01:56:58,680 --> 01:57:01,320
Speaker 1: you're serious, like they just thought I was, you know,

2393
01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:04,560
Speaker 1: checking it out. Oh yeah, I'm serious. So then then

2394
01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:06,400
Speaker 1: they started give me some stuff to do. That's going

2395
01:57:06,440 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 1: to the Steve Tasker Show. Remember that, Well that kind

2396
01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 1: of grew into the steam task Actually I was a guest,

2397
01:57:13,880 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: a regular guest on AM Buffalo, and the first year

2398
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:19,600
Speaker 1: I did that, we went to the super Bowl. Then

2399
01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:22,840
Speaker 1: I had my so I actually oh that you know, actually,

2400
01:57:23,160 --> 01:57:26,320
Speaker 1: Jim Bruce Thurman andre more than anything else when they

2401
01:57:26,360 --> 01:57:27,920
Speaker 1: took us to the super Bowl and I got my

2402
01:57:27,960 --> 01:57:31,040
Speaker 1: own show. Springboarder to your career exactly. Ask Redford about this.

2403
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:35,240
Speaker 1: He's full of wives tales. Oh yeah, he's got he's

2404
01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 1: got stories. All right, here's what we've been doing today, Joe.

2405
01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:40,720
Speaker 1: Since noon today, we brought out the trophies to award

2406
01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:44,680
Speaker 1: the two eighteen Buffalo Bills one Bills Live Award. I

2407
01:57:44,760 --> 01:57:46,480
Speaker 1: want to get your take on these some of these

2408
01:57:46,520 --> 01:57:49,920
Speaker 1: awards Offensive Most Valuable Player. We think this is a gimme.

2409
01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:53,200
Speaker 1: I had Josh Allen, Steve had Josh Allen. Your thoughts, Yeah,

2410
01:57:53,240 --> 01:57:55,120
Speaker 1: it's gotta have to agree with this. Please, No, it

2411
01:57:55,280 --> 01:57:58,000
Speaker 1: has to be Josh Allen because there's no other player

2412
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: that came in and reshaped the entire I guess storyline

2413
01:58:04,200 --> 01:58:08,160
Speaker 1: about the offense than the rookie quarterback. And I mean,

2414
01:58:08,280 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: I suppose you could make an argument for another player

2415
01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:14,560
Speaker 1: that played the entirety of the season, but it was

2416
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:17,440
Speaker 1: night and day after he came back from from his

2417
01:58:17,560 --> 01:58:19,760
Speaker 1: injury and from the bye week. I mean, he was

2418
01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:22,800
Speaker 1: the best player on the field almost every single week

2419
01:58:23,200 --> 01:58:26,080
Speaker 1: for them. And that I mean, there's there's no other

2420
01:58:26,480 --> 01:58:29,520
Speaker 1: logical candidate that it could be on offense. And it

2421
01:58:29,640 --> 01:58:31,880
Speaker 1: almost makes me feel like it should disqualify him from

2422
01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:34,440
Speaker 1: offensive Rookie of the Year, which just because if he

2423
01:58:34,600 --> 01:58:36,640
Speaker 1: was the MVP. That I mean the same kind of

2424
01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:39,920
Speaker 1: way as like Darius Leonard was named the defensive rookie

2425
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:42,920
Speaker 1: or player of the month, right, that made Tremaine Edmonds

2426
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:46,040
Speaker 1: the rookie of the month. We'll talk about the rookie

2427
01:58:46,040 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 1: offensive Rookie of the Year. But one thing, and you

2428
01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:51,360
Speaker 1: mentioned that his return from the elbow injury, is there

2429
01:58:51,360 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: anything that changed you think in his approach. I'm talking

2430
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:56,800
Speaker 1: about Josh here. His approach is the way he played

2431
01:58:56,840 --> 01:59:00,200
Speaker 1: the position. How did it get so dramatically different? Don't

2432
01:59:00,200 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 1: even when he returned for the Jacksonville game. Well, he

2433
01:59:02,440 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: saw the little things that of where he made progress

2434
01:59:05,640 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: from week to week. I think the area that he

2435
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 1: took the biggest stride based on what I saw from

2436
01:59:12,960 --> 01:59:15,160
Speaker 1: him watching his games all the way back to Wyoming,

2437
01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: was a player that was more willing to stand in

2438
01:59:18,960 --> 01:59:22,280
Speaker 1: the pocket than what he had done previously. And that's

2439
01:59:22,280 --> 01:59:24,960
Speaker 1: a tough thing to coach, especially when you have that

2440
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:27,520
Speaker 1: type of offensive line in front of you. Now, granted

2441
01:59:27,560 --> 01:59:28,920
Speaker 1: he had a lot of rushing yards, A lot of

2442
01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:32,760
Speaker 1: that was basically survival because he had to get out

2443
01:59:32,840 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 1: from the pocket because I don't know, something happened to

2444
01:59:34,720 --> 01:59:36,040
Speaker 1: the right side of the line or something happened to

2445
01:59:36,080 --> 01:59:40,320
Speaker 1: the center. But for him, the pocket presence, going through

2446
01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:44,360
Speaker 1: his progressions, like reading the field pre snap, these are

2447
01:59:44,440 --> 01:59:47,040
Speaker 1: all things that he has vastly improved upon it and

2448
01:59:47,240 --> 01:59:50,240
Speaker 1: even some of his footwork too. I mean there was

2449
01:59:50,280 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: something I made mention of. I don't know if you

2450
01:59:51,880 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 1: recall in the build up to the training camp where

2451
01:59:56,520 --> 01:59:58,080
Speaker 1: when he would throw a left he would open up

2452
01:59:58,120 --> 02:00:00,480
Speaker 1: his hip a lot and it would cause the ball

2453
02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: to you know, kind of go all over the place

2454
02:00:03,320 --> 02:00:05,920
Speaker 1: and it took off velocity a lot in the same

2455
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:08,200
Speaker 1: way that say a shortstopper or a second base would

2456
02:00:08,200 --> 02:00:11,040
Speaker 1: open up there to try and turn two. He has

2457
02:00:11,320 --> 02:00:15,480
Speaker 1: almost completely rid himself of that, and that's a great

2458
02:00:15,560 --> 02:00:18,040
Speaker 1: job by Brian Dable because he really hammered on him

2459
02:00:18,080 --> 02:00:20,440
Speaker 1: with that, and so he has made strides and had

2460
02:00:20,640 --> 02:00:22,480
Speaker 1: had the thirst to get better. Now it's just a

2461
02:00:22,520 --> 02:00:25,480
Speaker 1: matter of if that continues along once they bring some

2462
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:28,640
Speaker 1: talent around him. All right, defensive mvpiece, Steve and I

2463
02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:30,800
Speaker 1: I want to get your take because there are a

2464
02:00:30,840 --> 02:00:33,480
Speaker 1: lot of different ideas coming in on Twitter. And yeah,

2465
02:00:33,480 --> 02:00:35,560
Speaker 1: what'd you too say? Well, you wanted to school first?

2466
02:00:35,760 --> 02:00:38,080
Speaker 1: Yeah I want to already said it, but yeah, I

2467
02:00:39,080 --> 02:00:41,040
Speaker 1: said it was Jerry Hughes. He led the team in sacks,

2468
02:00:41,120 --> 02:00:43,080
Speaker 1: led the teams and it led the team in tackles

2469
02:00:43,080 --> 02:00:46,160
Speaker 1: for losses, quarterback hits and for me, the defense in

2470
02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:47,960
Speaker 1: the N there's number two defense in the league and

2471
02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:51,160
Speaker 1: then and the league is about getting after the quarterback

2472
02:00:51,200 --> 02:00:53,480
Speaker 1: and getting turnovers. And I think Jerry did a better

2473
02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 1: job than that of anybody. I said Jordan Poyer, and

2474
02:00:55,800 --> 02:00:58,440
Speaker 1: I think maybe for two straight years he's been at

2475
02:00:58,520 --> 02:01:00,440
Speaker 1: least among the best defensive players. They have a lot

2476
02:01:00,480 --> 02:01:02,240
Speaker 1: of big plays this year, you know, came up with

2477
02:01:02,280 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions, and I just I like the

2478
02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:07,080
Speaker 1: way he plays. I think he's an important, almost an

2479
02:01:07,160 --> 02:01:10,400
Speaker 1: indispensable part of that defense. I don't disagree. And his

2480
02:01:10,680 --> 02:01:12,920
Speaker 1: final four games of the season were awesome. I mean

2481
02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:15,760
Speaker 1: he really stepped to finished with the flurry. Yeah, he

2482
02:01:15,840 --> 02:01:18,840
Speaker 1: sure did. But I agree with Steve here because Jerry

2483
02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: hughes to me the way and this is all based

2484
02:01:21,920 --> 02:01:25,120
Speaker 1: on the film work that I do, because he was

2485
02:01:25,200 --> 02:01:27,440
Speaker 1: the highest graded player of any Bills player this year

2486
02:01:27,480 --> 02:01:30,200
Speaker 1: for me, And you know, last year, even when he

2487
02:01:30,280 --> 02:01:32,600
Speaker 1: didn't have a great statistical season, he was still up

2488
02:01:32,640 --> 02:01:35,440
Speaker 1: there because of how he impacts the game. And he

2489
02:01:35,600 --> 02:01:37,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have to get in the backfield to impact the game.

2490
02:01:37,840 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: I mean, he's taking on double teams, he's taking on

2491
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:42,880
Speaker 1: a blocker and a chip almost every single snap, and

2492
02:01:43,040 --> 02:01:44,680
Speaker 1: for him to still be able to get back there

2493
02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:47,480
Speaker 1: and to work in unison with Kyle Williams on stunts

2494
02:01:47,480 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 1: and twists to get into the backfield. And then when

2495
02:01:49,960 --> 02:01:54,160
Speaker 1: you have Hughes actually just ripping right by blockers to

2496
02:01:54,280 --> 02:01:56,920
Speaker 1: get to the backfield and even hurrying a throw, let

2497
02:01:57,000 --> 02:01:59,040
Speaker 1: alone bringing him down for a sack or a force

2498
02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:02,920
Speaker 1: fumble or something along those lines. Almost well, not almost everything,

2499
02:02:03,760 --> 02:02:07,120
Speaker 1: A big, solid number of things that went right for

2500
02:02:07,200 --> 02:02:11,120
Speaker 1: the Bills defensively this year was because of Jerry Hughes

2501
02:02:11,160 --> 02:02:12,800
Speaker 1: and the impact that he had on the game. And

2502
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:16,200
Speaker 1: for me that that is a knockout out of the

2503
02:02:16,280 --> 02:02:20,080
Speaker 1: park defensive MVP of two thousand people calling insane who

2504
02:02:20,160 --> 02:02:23,680
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander Lorenzo was great? He played, he played, He

2505
02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:28,600
Speaker 1: had more. I think Lorenzo had more impact plays percentage

2506
02:02:28,600 --> 02:02:30,680
Speaker 1: of his snaps than any player on the defense. He

2507
02:02:30,720 --> 02:02:32,600
Speaker 1: didn't there were games when he didn't play very much

2508
02:02:32,640 --> 02:02:34,880
Speaker 1: defense at all during the course of the year when

2509
02:02:34,920 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 1: Milano was healthy and they started to evolve into this

2510
02:02:37,240 --> 02:02:39,800
Speaker 1: younger roster. But then when Milano's injury came and he

2511
02:02:39,880 --> 02:02:42,720
Speaker 1: stepped back in, he continued to make plays in the

2512
02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:46,720
Speaker 1: other team's backfield and get sidelined to sideline intercepting passes,

2513
02:02:46,760 --> 02:02:48,320
Speaker 1: and he helped out in the pass rush in mid

2514
02:02:48,400 --> 02:02:50,120
Speaker 1: season two when they needed to boost there, they put

2515
02:02:50,240 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: him inside as a stand up. So he Lorenzo had

2516
02:02:53,080 --> 02:02:57,400
Speaker 1: a really nice year, really good years. Deserves. Yeah, we talked.

2517
02:02:57,560 --> 02:02:59,880
Speaker 1: We talked about him as well. You're right, yeah, Tredevius.

2518
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:03,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he locked down one side for the majority

2519
02:03:03,240 --> 02:03:05,280
Speaker 1: of the year, and even though he had those two

2520
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:08,400
Speaker 1: bad games, I mean, the Jets game was his worst

2521
02:03:08,440 --> 02:03:11,920
Speaker 1: one just because of the time of when the reception

2522
02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 1: happened from Robbie Anderson, and he was down on himself

2523
02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:17,040
Speaker 1: over that. But you look at his season in totality.

2524
02:03:17,080 --> 02:03:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, man, he was. He was the best graded

2525
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:22,880
Speaker 1: player for me for a long time until Jerry he

2526
02:03:22,960 --> 02:03:24,920
Speaker 1: was kind of overtook him in the last four games

2527
02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:26,880
Speaker 1: of the season. Offensive Rookie of the Year, Joe, we

2528
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:29,720
Speaker 1: both went with Josh Allen. You said, it's a logical choice,

2529
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:31,720
Speaker 1: but do you have somebody else off? Yeah, I'm gonna

2530
02:03:31,760 --> 02:03:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cancel Josh Allen out of the equation because

2531
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:36,920
Speaker 1: it has to be Josh Allen. Robert Foster. Okay, he

2532
02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:40,000
Speaker 1: he is the answer. I mean Wyatt Teller struggled, and

2533
02:03:40,160 --> 02:03:42,640
Speaker 1: Robert Foster certainly struggled when he was first with the

2534
02:03:42,720 --> 02:03:45,240
Speaker 1: active roster, But once they shifted him down to the

2535
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:48,640
Speaker 1: practice squad and woke him up, something happened. Because he

2536
02:03:48,800 --> 02:03:51,160
Speaker 1: was winning on his routes. He was paying more attention

2537
02:03:51,240 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 1: to the intricacies of his routes. I mean, he's setting

2538
02:03:54,520 --> 02:03:58,600
Speaker 1: defenders up. Their defenders are forced to play seven eight

2539
02:03:58,680 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: yards off of him, and if he shows his long stride,

2540
02:04:04,040 --> 02:04:07,080
Speaker 1: defenders are odds are they're gonna keep going, turn their

2541
02:04:07,160 --> 02:04:09,920
Speaker 1: hips and that's when he sticks his foot in the

2542
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 1: ground cuts over, which is why. You know, the one

2543
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:15,320
Speaker 1: play that they had that was so successful all season

2544
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: long was the deep over and there were countless times

2545
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:21,480
Speaker 1: that Robert Foster was open on that play because he

2546
02:04:21,600 --> 02:04:23,840
Speaker 1: set his man up. And then they even used that

2547
02:04:24,080 --> 02:04:26,640
Speaker 1: play as a decoy because it was so well scouted

2548
02:04:26,680 --> 02:04:28,800
Speaker 1: by the Dolphins that had opened up Zay Jones for

2549
02:04:28,920 --> 02:04:31,240
Speaker 1: his touchdown where he was wide open. So these are

2550
02:04:31,840 --> 02:04:35,440
Speaker 1: Foster's effect on the game more than just receptions was great. Now,

2551
02:04:35,600 --> 02:04:37,600
Speaker 1: my big question on him is what does he do

2552
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:40,240
Speaker 1: for an encore? Is he still going to have the

2553
02:04:40,320 --> 02:04:43,120
Speaker 1: same motivation after he's had the success once it was

2554
02:04:43,160 --> 02:04:45,560
Speaker 1: ripped out from Underneathan. That's something we don't know the

2555
02:04:45,600 --> 02:04:47,480
Speaker 1: answer to until they get him get their hands back

2556
02:04:47,520 --> 02:04:49,320
Speaker 1: on him in the spring and summer. Defensive Rookie of

2557
02:04:49,320 --> 02:04:50,840
Speaker 1: the Year, we had a couple of different choices, but

2558
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 1: let's hear your years first. Well, a couple of guys

2559
02:04:52,840 --> 02:04:56,760
Speaker 1: to choose from. Yeah, I think I think Tremaine is

2560
02:04:56,800 --> 02:04:58,960
Speaker 1: the obvious one just because the stats he puts up.

2561
02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:02,800
Speaker 1: But I think the best rookie this season for the

2562
02:05:02,880 --> 02:05:05,160
Speaker 1: time that he played was Taron Johnson, I really do.

2563
02:05:05,360 --> 02:05:09,600
Speaker 1: And his ability to cover in the short area, quickness

2564
02:05:09,680 --> 02:05:13,680
Speaker 1: guys in the slot, and his tackling ability. I mean,

2565
02:05:14,040 --> 02:05:17,160
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott just raved about him, and so I think

2566
02:05:17,440 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 1: Taron Johnson he kind of sneaks to the side here

2567
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,960
Speaker 1: just because he's been injured and he's been out of

2568
02:05:24,040 --> 02:05:26,240
Speaker 1: you for the past month or so. But the job

2569
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:30,040
Speaker 1: that he's done this season, and really after coming in

2570
02:05:30,240 --> 02:05:33,720
Speaker 1: as a competitor for as a fourth round pick with

2571
02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:36,280
Speaker 1: with Philip Gaines, to try and win the job outright

2572
02:05:36,720 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 1: and to do what he did, I mean, he was

2573
02:05:38,920 --> 02:05:40,960
Speaker 1: he was outstanding this year and they definitely have a

2574
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:44,160
Speaker 1: lot to work with, and you know, tertiary note here,

2575
02:05:44,360 --> 02:05:46,600
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace deserves a lot of credit for what he did,

2576
02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:48,720
Speaker 1: and he might have locked up a starting spot next year.

2577
02:05:49,280 --> 02:05:52,160
Speaker 1: All right, so finally comeback player of the year. You

2578
02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 1: can interpret comeback anyway you want, whether it's injury or

2579
02:05:55,280 --> 02:05:57,760
Speaker 1: bad play from a year ago, maybe a couple of mean,

2580
02:05:57,920 --> 02:06:00,640
Speaker 1: we're talking about guys who came back second half staff, right.

2581
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:02,840
Speaker 1: We had people say Josh Allen because of that come

2582
02:06:02,880 --> 02:06:05,320
Speaker 1: back from his elbow win jury, and I mentioned I

2583
02:06:05,400 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 1: think I said Robert Foster was my comeback guy because

2584
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: he was bench cut clurd Waivers practice squad and then

2585
02:06:11,640 --> 02:06:13,800
Speaker 1: came back as well as he did. So there's a

2586
02:06:13,840 --> 02:06:16,440
Speaker 1: lot of choices to be had. Yeah. The obvious one though,

2587
02:06:16,520 --> 02:06:20,920
Speaker 1: is Shack Lawson's. I mean, Shack is I don't know

2588
02:06:21,080 --> 02:06:23,360
Speaker 1: that I could even consider anyone else because this guy

2589
02:06:24,000 --> 02:06:27,200
Speaker 1: was on the precipice of being a bust and traded.

2590
02:06:27,320 --> 02:06:30,000
Speaker 1: He was written off, he was by this organization. They

2591
02:06:30,040 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: went and signed Trent Murphy to a pretty substantial contract,

2592
02:06:33,480 --> 02:06:38,800
Speaker 1: a judicial judicious contract, i should say, um and Lawson

2593
02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:40,920
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a rotational guy and he even

2594
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:42,640
Speaker 1: said when I asked him on Monday, you know that

2595
02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:45,240
Speaker 1: woke me up. I mean, I knew I had to

2596
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 1: put a chip on my shoulder and go and get it.

2597
02:06:48,560 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: And he did. He improved himself in so many different

2598
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,120
Speaker 1: ways as a pass rusher coming off the left side

2599
02:06:53,160 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 1: of the line, as as someone who bats down passes

2600
02:06:56,600 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 1: if he can't get back there, because that was that

2601
02:06:59,320 --> 02:07:00,880
Speaker 1: was something that kind have happened to him in his

2602
02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:02,800
Speaker 1: first couple of seasons where he would get stood up

2603
02:07:02,840 --> 02:07:05,000
Speaker 1: right and then that would be the end of it.

2604
02:07:05,480 --> 02:07:08,200
Speaker 1: Whereas he was always a good run defender, but since

2605
02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:10,960
Speaker 1: he added the ability to time the pass and bat

2606
02:07:11,000 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: it down, that was an asset to the defense. And

2607
02:07:13,840 --> 02:07:16,520
Speaker 1: he's just been an all around really good player. And he,

2608
02:07:17,280 --> 02:07:20,280
Speaker 1: in my opinion, massively outperformed Trent Murphy, the guy that

2609
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:22,280
Speaker 1: they signed to place him. Although I do look for

2610
02:07:22,400 --> 02:07:25,080
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy he could be next year's comeback. Clay Sure,

2611
02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:27,320
Speaker 1: I think he's still recovering from the knee surgery. Yet

2612
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:30,960
Speaker 1: Leshan McCoy probably wants to be the comeback. Yeah it's right, hey, Joe.

2613
02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:32,960
Speaker 1: We did. And this is along the lines of recapping

2614
02:07:33,000 --> 02:07:35,720
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Two days ago, our Twitter poll was this,

2615
02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:39,040
Speaker 1: what was the best moment of the twenty eighteen Bill season?

2616
02:07:39,440 --> 02:07:41,560
Speaker 1: To get your take on this, we offered folks some

2617
02:07:41,680 --> 02:07:44,560
Speaker 1: choices in a Twitter poll. Sixty nine percent more than

2618
02:07:44,600 --> 02:07:47,680
Speaker 1: two thirds, said it was Kyle William's final game. Thirteen

2619
02:07:47,760 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 1: percent responded and say it was the brawl in the

2620
02:07:49,720 --> 02:07:53,320
Speaker 1: Jaguars game, eleven percent say it was halftime of the

2621
02:07:53,600 --> 02:07:56,760
Speaker 1: Patriots game, Thurman's retirement, seven percent of something else in mind.

2622
02:07:57,080 --> 02:07:59,360
Speaker 1: Do you have a best moment of the twenty eighteen

2623
02:07:59,400 --> 02:08:03,720
Speaker 1: Bill season? Well, from a memory perspective, the whole Kyle

2624
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:07,800
Speaker 1: Williams thing was great, But in the scope of football,

2625
02:08:09,080 --> 02:08:12,440
Speaker 1: this is gonna be out there. But when Josh Allen

2626
02:08:12,480 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 1: got injured, the most memorable moment, because that was his chance,

2627
02:08:16,280 --> 02:08:19,240
Speaker 1: without having a serious injury, to take a step back

2628
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 1: and to view everything and what he was once he

2629
02:08:23,960 --> 02:08:27,800
Speaker 1: came back from that injury was massively different. You almost,

2630
02:08:27,880 --> 02:08:29,640
Speaker 1: And that was right when they brought on Derek Anderson

2631
02:08:29,720 --> 02:08:32,600
Speaker 1: Mett Barkley, and the whole scope of things changed so

2632
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:34,680
Speaker 1: much so that they resigned both of those guys to

2633
02:08:34,800 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 1: continue to foster and cultivate his development. So I'm going

2634
02:08:38,560 --> 02:08:40,920
Speaker 1: with that as the most memorable moment because I remember

2635
02:08:40,960 --> 02:08:43,920
Speaker 1: just sitting there going, oh, what do they do now?

2636
02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:45,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Derek Anderson has a start next week, and

2637
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: they were horrid, horrid on offense the next three weeks,

2638
02:08:49,000 --> 02:08:51,960
Speaker 1: but once he got back, it was night and day.

2639
02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:55,680
Speaker 1: So to me, that one really sticks in my mind

2640
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:58,280
Speaker 1: as kind of a turning point for this Bill's offense.

2641
02:08:58,320 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: Even though it was delayed, they got to see growth

2642
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:03,880
Speaker 1: from Josh Ellen, from him being able to step on

2643
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:06,000
Speaker 1: the sidelines for it. But it's gonna be really interesting

2644
02:09:06,040 --> 02:09:07,920
Speaker 1: to see because I agree with you. I thought, wow,

2645
02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:09,840
Speaker 1: they took care of it as soon as they saw it.

2646
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:12,120
Speaker 1: Whether Josh had a big voice in it, and I

2647
02:09:12,200 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 1: suspect he had at least a voice Brian Dable, Cullye,

2648
02:09:16,120 --> 02:09:18,800
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. Certainly, when they got that quarterback room together

2649
02:09:18,880 --> 02:09:20,880
Speaker 1: and Josh started to take and he took those leaps

2650
02:09:20,880 --> 02:09:24,640
Speaker 1: and bounds, somebody in that room, either Sean McDermot or

2651
02:09:24,760 --> 02:09:28,720
Speaker 1: Brian Dable had to say, Wow, this is really perfect

2652
02:09:28,760 --> 02:09:31,760
Speaker 1: for he's really acclimated this get these guys tied up,

2653
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:34,040
Speaker 1: and they did so. In the future, if Josh does

2654
02:09:34,200 --> 02:09:37,000
Speaker 1: continue this arc of improvement and keeps going till he

2655
02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:41,320
Speaker 1: becomes this top two or three quarterback, elite quarterback. This

2656
02:09:41,480 --> 02:09:43,800
Speaker 1: may be the moment when they made an early decision

2657
02:09:43,920 --> 02:09:45,840
Speaker 1: to get that quarterback room just the way they wanted it,

2658
02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:47,400
Speaker 1: to set him off on the right trajectory, and there

2659
02:09:47,480 --> 02:09:49,520
Speaker 1: was if it works out, man, it was smart to

2660
02:09:49,560 --> 02:09:53,680
Speaker 1: get it done. It's hard to find players, especially that position,

2661
02:09:54,320 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: who are both selfless and invested in the growth of

2662
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:01,320
Speaker 1: a young player, because most guys are going to sit

2663
02:10:01,360 --> 02:10:03,960
Speaker 1: there and go, what about me, Where's where's my chance coming?

2664
02:10:04,200 --> 02:10:06,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably a reason why a j.

2665
02:10:06,280 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 1: McCarron got dealt when he was because I think he

2666
02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:11,480
Speaker 1: was not invested in Josh Allen's development. He thought he

2667
02:10:11,640 --> 02:10:14,800
Speaker 1: had games to play. And you know, they probably could

2668
02:10:14,840 --> 02:10:16,200
Speaker 1: have kept him what have you. They would have been

2669
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:18,720
Speaker 1: in a better situation once Josh Allen went down with

2670
02:10:18,720 --> 02:10:20,720
Speaker 1: an injury what have you. But it worked out well

2671
02:10:20,800 --> 02:10:23,400
Speaker 1: for them because Derek Anderson is a de facto quarterback coach.

2672
02:10:23,680 --> 02:10:27,600
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're looking on Sundays and Josh Allen's

2673
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:29,000
Speaker 1: going to the side, look at the tablet. The guy

2674
02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 1: who's right next to him, Derek Anderson, every time. And

2675
02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:34,040
Speaker 1: who's next to him, Matt Barkley every time. And so

2676
02:10:34,200 --> 02:10:37,360
Speaker 1: those two guys, even though I mean Barkley more so

2677
02:10:37,480 --> 02:10:39,560
Speaker 1: than Anderson because at this point in Anderson's career he

2678
02:10:39,640 --> 02:10:43,080
Speaker 1: knows what he is, but Barkley is still could say,

2679
02:10:43,280 --> 02:10:45,920
Speaker 1: all right, I played really well against the Jets, maybe

2680
02:10:45,960 --> 02:10:47,960
Speaker 1: I could start somewhere. No, he doesn't want to do that.

2681
02:10:48,080 --> 02:10:51,440
Speaker 1: He's he's invested in Josh Allen's growth. He's he's proved,

2682
02:10:51,480 --> 02:10:53,200
Speaker 1: he's ready, he can be ready, and he's a guy

2683
02:10:53,240 --> 02:10:54,880
Speaker 1: you have a lot of confidence in going forward if

2684
02:10:54,920 --> 02:10:58,840
Speaker 1: he if he does play, But to have him, you're right,

2685
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:01,360
Speaker 1: to have these guys be invested in what this team

2686
02:11:01,480 --> 02:11:03,640
Speaker 1: is becoming is a huge step, and I think the

2687
02:11:03,680 --> 02:11:05,800
Speaker 1: Bills are right to get it set up like they have. Yeah,

2688
02:11:05,840 --> 02:11:07,440
Speaker 1: for sure, they have Barkley for the next two and

2689
02:11:07,600 --> 02:11:09,800
Speaker 1: Anderson the next one and see if Anderson wants to

2690
02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:12,360
Speaker 1: do it again year after that. Joe, we got less

2691
02:11:12,360 --> 02:11:14,880
Speaker 1: than a minute, but just your thoughts on the news

2692
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:19,360
Speaker 1: on the coaches, Crossman, Robiski, Cassio, all of them cut loose.

2693
02:11:19,680 --> 02:11:21,480
Speaker 1: What do you think the only minor surprise I had

2694
02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:24,600
Speaker 1: was Jancstio just because his relationship with Sean McDermott goes

2695
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:27,560
Speaker 1: runs back a lot of years. But that's just part

2696
02:11:27,600 --> 02:11:30,440
Speaker 1: of the game, right, I mean, if there's not production there,

2697
02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:32,240
Speaker 1: then you have to move on. And you know, the

2698
02:11:32,720 --> 02:11:36,120
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman move was a long time coming. Sean McDermott

2699
02:11:36,160 --> 02:11:38,520
Speaker 1: is not critical of anything in press conferences, but he

2700
02:11:38,720 --> 02:11:41,920
Speaker 1: was very critical of special teams all year without question

2701
02:11:42,320 --> 02:11:45,200
Speaker 1: and there and for good reason. I mean, on Football

2702
02:11:45,200 --> 02:11:48,880
Speaker 1: Outsiders dot Com on their special teams DVOA ranking dead

2703
02:11:48,960 --> 02:11:51,920
Speaker 1: last thirty second out of thirty two, their bottom twelve

2704
02:11:52,000 --> 02:11:55,120
Speaker 1: and each of the five major special teams units. And

2705
02:11:55,280 --> 02:11:57,960
Speaker 1: that's something. And you know a lot of this has

2706
02:11:57,960 --> 02:12:00,320
Speaker 1: to do with the new special teams rules. But Rosman

2707
02:12:00,360 --> 02:12:03,080
Speaker 1: never acclimated himself. They gave him players to try and

2708
02:12:03,160 --> 02:12:06,000
Speaker 1: do it. They tried different combinations of players, nothing took.

2709
02:12:06,240 --> 02:12:08,280
Speaker 1: So they're going with new direction there. And so I

2710
02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:12,480
Speaker 1: was not surprised at all when when Danny Crossman was like, hey, Joe,

2711
02:12:12,520 --> 02:12:14,400
Speaker 1: thanks for this, Thank you, of course, I've seeing you.

2712
02:12:14,480 --> 02:12:18,520
Speaker 1: Thanks yeah, job sat you from season thanks seven, joining

2713
02:12:18,600 --> 02:12:20,520
Speaker 1: us in studio, Steve and I coming back One Bill's

2714
02:12:20,560 --> 02:12:32,760
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio Joe

2715
02:12:32,800 --> 02:12:35,560
Speaker 1: watch down on this Friday afternoon. I'm off on Monday.

2716
02:12:35,680 --> 02:12:38,000
Speaker 1: Chris Brown will be in working with Steve. You got

2717
02:12:38,080 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 1: a weekend, you got a weekend off we go. You

2718
02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:42,520
Speaker 1: got a weekend of four wild card playoff game? Which

2719
02:12:42,520 --> 02:12:44,440
Speaker 1: you the four are you most looking forward to? Seas?

2720
02:12:45,120 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 1: Probably the early one on Saturday, the Indianapolis of Houston game.

2721
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Speaker 1: I want to see the it's a division arrival. I've

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Speaker 1: covered both those teams and UM and I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing Frank Reich and the and the Colts get

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Speaker 1: after it. So we'll see. I'm looking forward to the

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Speaker 1: Chargers Ravens the other AFC game, just because i like

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Speaker 1: the Chargers a lot and I'm intrigued by what the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have done. That's the one o'clock game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting though, It's gonna be fun to watch all

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Speaker 1: those games. I'm gonna Yeah, I can't wait. The AFC

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Speaker 1: games I think are more interesting to me than the NFC,

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Speaker 1: and not just because we're in that conference. I think

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Speaker 1: those teams are interesting. I agree. I have a great

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Speaker 1: weekend too. You got a three day weekend coming up. Yeah, awesome, awesome,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you on Tuesday. Yeah all right. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. Hey, thanks for the folks at Rachel's Mediterranean

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean Grilled Joe Corey and his crew. They brought over lunch.

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Speaker 1: It was great. Rachel's with five locations in Buffalo. We

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Speaker 1: will see you, Steve, will see you Monday. One Bill's

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