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Speaker 6: Give it up for my guest today, the great Sal Capaccio.
Speaker 3: And joining me today on the Opponent Sideline edition of
Speaker 3: the Draft Time Podcast is Sal Capaccio. You can find
Speaker 3: him on the Bills sideline during games, also on the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bill's Beat. He's also the host of the Extra
Speaker 3: Point show on WGR five fifty up there in Buffalo South,
Speaker 3: Welcome back in. I was telling the kind of the
Speaker 3: guy that I go through the podcast plans with every
Speaker 3: week here on our staff. I was thinking about getting
Speaker 3: Salbuck on the show. I had him on once upon
Speaker 3: a time, and I couldn't think of when that was.
Speaker 6: When did we last do this? Do you remember?
Speaker 4: But it's been a while, because it's funny to me,
Speaker 4: I remember when you took your role.
Speaker 2: Are you from Seattle? Is it you came from Seattle?
Speaker 4: I remember that right, and it was awesome because I
Speaker 4: know that I think you, like were a Dolphins fan.
Speaker 2: You got this job. It's like me, I grew up
Speaker 2: in Buffalo right as a Bills.
Speaker 4: Fan, and here I am in the sidelines every week,
Speaker 4: covering the team every day, and it's super cool. It's
Speaker 4: been years, it's been years, but I appreciate you and
Speaker 4: you know, just really cool to see you grow into
Speaker 4: your role. I wanted to say that too, and to
Speaker 4: be where you are right now, but it's been several years.
Speaker 2: But it's good to talk to you again, Buddy, Well.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate that, man. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: And I watch obviously a lot of Buffalo Bills games,
Speaker 3: and every time I see you on the side, like, hey,
Speaker 3: there's Sal I know him.
Speaker 6: Good to see him doing his thing over there.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and talk about a I guess a
Speaker 3: somewhat important football game. It's going to take place here
Speaker 3: across the street on Sunday night, A little important game.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe these two teams have played so many important games
Speaker 3: over their storied rivalry, but this one man right up
Speaker 3: there are some of those nineties playoff games with Kelly
Speaker 3: and ma Reno, if you ask me. But I want
Speaker 3: to go ahead and just start with that, Like, what's
Speaker 3: the vibe around the Bills this week?
Speaker 6: I know it's only Wednesday taping this podcast.
Speaker 3: But what's kind of the vibe for these guys heading
Speaker 3: into a game where you know, they're used to playing
Speaker 3: big games last few years, but this one's a big
Speaker 3: one against the division rival.
Speaker 6: What's the vibe there in Buffalo?
Speaker 2: Well, let me just go from a fans standpoint.
Speaker 4: You know, growing up here in Buffalo, we used to
Speaker 4: have what's called Miami Week, and still is. This is
Speaker 4: week Miami Week. It's like a high school rivalry game
Speaker 4: for fans. I grew up in the eighties and nineties
Speaker 4: and in the seventies, the Dolphins beat the Bills twenty
Speaker 4: straight times, so much so, so much hatred was built up.
Speaker 4: When the Bills beat the Dolphins in the opening game
Speaker 4: regular season in nineteen eighty, the goalposts came down after
Speaker 4: the game, right, and then you know, there was the
Speaker 4: whole Brian Pax stuff going on, and then the Bills
Speaker 4: got better, and Levy and you know, Shula and Marino
Speaker 4: and Kelly's you reference, it's been amazing and here we
Speaker 4: are for all of this on the line.
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: And I think that you know, more so than that
Speaker 4: particular rivalry, which means a lot to Bills fans. Of course,
Speaker 4: it's just about survival now because the Dolphins are in
Speaker 4: the Bills are not.
Speaker 2: So the vibe is basically, hey, we got to get
Speaker 2: this done.
Speaker 4: And it's a nervous anticipation I think for this game
Speaker 4: because I think Bills fans are confident with how they've
Speaker 4: played against Miami over the last you know, a few
Speaker 4: years and this year, but also knowing things don't break
Speaker 4: their way and things go wrong in this game. They're
Speaker 4: sitting at home and can't even have another game now
Speaker 4: as far as the team is concerned, and you know,
Speaker 4: I think the team feels good about where they are
Speaker 4: right now. It hasn't been the cleanest on offense the
Speaker 4: last few weeks, but it has been wins and really
Speaker 4: under Sean McDermott, Travis, you go back very very good
Speaker 4: record in December and January, like late in the season
Speaker 4: after you know, bye weeks, and then they've never lost
Speaker 4: after a bye and they very rarely lost in late
Speaker 4: November and mostly through December basically under Sean McDermott, and
Speaker 4: they seem to be playing their best football.
Speaker 2: They're healthy, so I think the vibe is good on
Speaker 2: that front.
Speaker 4: The team seems very confident fans I think are really
Speaker 4: really you know, confident as far as their team and
Speaker 4: playing the Dolphins, but at the same time, no anything
Speaker 4: can happen to these kinds of games, and they just
Speaker 4: want to get into the playoffs at this point.
Speaker 3: I have like three follow ups off of that, so
Speaker 3: I'll just go ahead and go down my list, because
Speaker 3: you touched on really a lot of the things that
Speaker 3: intrigued me about this game. Num On One is you
Speaker 3: talk about there could be a scenario going into the
Speaker 3: game Sunday Night Game two seventy two where Buffalo has
Speaker 3: to win to make it in, but there's also scenarios
Speaker 3: where they get in before they play that game. How
Speaker 3: do you think that could possibly change the emotion of
Speaker 3: the game or I guess that the mentality going in
Speaker 3: I think the easy answer is not at all.
Speaker 6: Right, you hope that's the case.
Speaker 3: But what do you think about that potential mental aspect
Speaker 3: of this game?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't.
Speaker 4: I think it'd beat the naive to think that there
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a cigh of relief if the Steelers were
Speaker 4: to lose or the Jaguars were to lose. Right, of course,
Speaker 4: I think everybody would say Okay, they're in. But the
Speaker 4: Bills want to win the division here. They're the three
Speaker 4: time defending champion. I mean, they want to keep their crown.
Speaker 4: They want to be the number two seed. You know
Speaker 4: as well as anybody what it would mean to have
Speaker 4: home games in Buffalo in the playoffs, right, And that's
Speaker 4: what's on the line here. It's not just the two seed.
Speaker 4: Think about what the two seed is. It's not just
Speaker 4: the division. Yes, that's a nice t shirt, it's a
Speaker 4: nice crown, it's a trophy, it's a band or whatever
Speaker 4: you want to call it.
Speaker 2: Travis, do you get home? You get the two seed.
Speaker 4: You're talking home in the first round, win home in
Speaker 4: the second round for the right to go to the
Speaker 4: AFC Championship. That is a huge, huge deal in Buffalo
Speaker 4: as opposed to going either back to Miami or to
Speaker 4: Kansas City where they've lost in the playoffs. You don't
Speaker 4: want to do that. So I think from that standpoint,
Speaker 4: it doesn't doesn't matter. I mean, this team is ready
Speaker 4: to go out there and try and win a championship
Speaker 4: either way.
Speaker 3: It's funny because you mentioned the potential for a rematch
Speaker 3: in wild card weekend. I think probably both fan bases
Speaker 3: just don't want to see that for the the kind
Speaker 3: of chaotic nature that it would it would ensue from
Speaker 3: that because like you just put a game plan out
Speaker 3: for that team, it just makes the whole thing, like
Speaker 3: I guess, a mystery almost in a way, because like
Speaker 3: you're going to this game where.
Speaker 6: It's like, well, we know we have to get this done.
Speaker 3: We know we have to slow Stafon Diggs, you know, Josh,
Speaker 3: like we need to create turnovers, but in the rematch,
Speaker 3: it's like, who knows, it all goes out the window.
Speaker 3: So it's just an interesting and very fascinating aspect of
Speaker 3: this game. You also touched on the offense the last
Speaker 3: month or so, and that's where I really wanted to
Speaker 3: focus this this I Guess episode was talking about the
Speaker 3: change from from Ken Dorsey to Joe Brady, and you know,
Speaker 3: I'll never forget the Bills were struggling. JJ Watt tweeted
Speaker 3: about the team meeting. Once you have one of the
Speaker 3: players only meetings, it's over for the year. But that
Speaker 3: is not at all what happened to this Buffalo team.
Speaker 3: They've rattled off several wins in a row. But I'm
Speaker 3: curious because it hasn't been pretty right, like the last
Speaker 3: two wins over inferior teams that are not gonna that
Speaker 3: are playing U haul games right now with you know,
Speaker 3: backup quarterbacks had chances to win games in the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter against the Bills ins because the offense was not
Speaker 3: able to consistently put the ball on the end zone.
Speaker 6: What's going on with the offense?
Speaker 3: What has been the biggest change as far as going
Speaker 3: from Dorsey to Brady? Just kind of give us the
Speaker 3: ten thousand foot view on the offense post OC change.
Speaker 2: First of all, I like that term ul game. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna steal that from you.
Speaker 3: I stole it from like Steve Merriucci back on my
Speaker 3: last game they final for my two thousand and seven.
Speaker 6: So yeah, feel free.
Speaker 4: I always say run for the bus, but that's even
Speaker 4: a better one right now. All right, So look, I
Speaker 4: mean this has actually kind of been the Bills MO
Speaker 4: this year, which is they play to their level of competition.
Speaker 4: They played down to inferior opponents all year. Think about
Speaker 4: their losses Jets opening weekend, Bengals at their place, I
Speaker 4: shouldn't say Begs, the Patriots at their place. When Mac
Speaker 4: Jones drove down to the field at the end, Denver
Speaker 4: Broncos at home, and then even the games where they've won,
Speaker 4: they've struggled with some of these teams, the Giants, the Buccaneers,
Speaker 4: but then they play the Dolphins forty eight to twenty.
Speaker 4: They wound up playing the Cowboys thirty one to ten,
Speaker 4: right it seems like, and then they beat the Chiefs
Speaker 4: at Kansas City.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of been the m of the Bills
Speaker 2: all year.
Speaker 4: But the common theme of the last couple of weeks
Speaker 4: is that they really had to rely more on the defense.
Speaker 2: Than the offense.
Speaker 4: And that's because the passing game just has not clicked.
Speaker 4: I think there's a few reasons for that. I would
Speaker 4: tell you that the last two weeks, I think Josh
Speaker 4: Allen's been off. Now an off Josh Allen is still
Speaker 4: a good Josh Allen, but he has not been firing
Speaker 4: and hitting targets. I think we're accustomed to. You go
Speaker 4: back to the Chargers game. First play of the game,
Speaker 4: he's off to step on Diggs. Next, that series is
Speaker 4: off again, but when it came time, money time, he
Speaker 4: made two big time throws the stuff on at the
Speaker 4: end of the game. You go back to this game
Speaker 4: this week against the Patriots, same thing, but I it
Speaker 4: truded that more to the entire offense being out of sync.
Speaker 4: I think there was a lot of pressure. Josh mentioned
Speaker 4: people at his feet look good. Bill Belichick credit. Of course,
Speaker 4: the you know they're having the season they're having. He's
Speaker 4: still Bill Belichick. He can still scheme, and they were
Speaker 4: down players, but he's figured out a way this year
Speaker 4: to get after Josh a little bit, and I think
Speaker 4: that really kind of impacted them. And the other thing,
Speaker 4: Travis is the Bills don't have big separators at wide receiver,
Speaker 4: not like Miamis Tyreek Hill and Jalen and Wado. It's
Speaker 4: a different kind of receiver group. They're good in their
Speaker 4: own right. They could do some things, but there hasn't
Speaker 4: been a lot of separation. And when Josh has had guys,
Speaker 4: he's missfired. He missed Stefan last week would have been
Speaker 4: an eighty something yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: He just overthrew them.
Speaker 4: That happens, But there's other times where he just he's
Speaker 4: got to fit the ball into a tight window.
Speaker 2: There's no separation. So I think all of.
Speaker 4: That has kind of happened. At the same time, there's
Speaker 4: still one of the best offenses overall in the league.
Speaker 4: It's funny we talk about in this context of what's
Speaker 4: wrong with the offense. It's because we're so used to
Speaker 4: seeing them put up such bigger numbers overall, and Josh
Speaker 4: Allen leads the NFL in touchdowns overall.
Speaker 6: Spoiled fans man.
Speaker 3: We're experiencing that as well right now with what the
Speaker 3: way the offense has really changed the last two years
Speaker 3: compared to the previous twenty five years. And all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you have one or two games where you
Speaker 3: don't score more than twenty five points, and it's.
Speaker 6: Like, what's go going on with the offense.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, there's still number one in EPA, like
Speaker 3: all these important sets.
Speaker 6: It's number one. So like, chill out a little bit.
Speaker 4: And you did ask me about Brady real quick. The difference,
Speaker 4: the difference from Dorsey to Brady really Joe Brady.
Speaker 2: Since he's come in, Hey more Josh Allen runs.
Speaker 4: Now, we all thought maybe McDermott was dialing back the runs,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's something they've talked about as an organization,
Speaker 4: you know, Josh not taking big hits in that.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it was Dorsey thinking, Hey, this is
Speaker 2: my guy.
Speaker 4: I can't get him hurt because once Brady come in,
Speaker 4: they're running the ball with Josh Allen Moore and we
Speaker 4: they need that. He needs to run a little bit
Speaker 4: more now he is dealing a little soreness with a
Speaker 4: shot he took last week. The other thing is they've
Speaker 4: run the ball and used the ball I should say,
Speaker 4: use James Cook out of the backfield more. That's really
Speaker 4: helped them. And then there's just been this distribution at
Speaker 4: wide receiver. The talking point this week is why is
Speaker 4: Stephan Diggs not producing? How can we not going to them?
Speaker 4: And I think that goes back to a lot of
Speaker 4: things I said earlier about with the offense and what's
Speaker 4: going on. But that's what you've seen from Joe Brady
Speaker 4: is more Josh Allen runs, more James Cook out of
Speaker 4: the backfield, the dispersed passing game not as much focused
Speaker 4: on steph on Diggs.
Speaker 3: Was the shot that Josh took, the play where he
Speaker 3: fumbled against the Patriots.
Speaker 4: No, it was the last play of the game to
Speaker 4: get the first down. He got it and then Kyle
Speaker 4: Allen came in for the two kneel downs. It was
Speaker 4: a third excuse me. Third and three, he runs for
Speaker 4: four yards and as he's diving down he gets a
Speaker 4: shot right here. After the game, he says, and I
Speaker 4: point to my shoulder by the way, left shoulder, he says.
Speaker 4: After the game, he got a stinger, and he never
Speaker 4: had a stinger before. It felt funky. I'm thinking, you
Speaker 4: never had a stinger. That's wild for Josh Albert to
Speaker 4: play and never had a stinger. That's amazing to me.
Speaker 3: Is the The other interesting part about that is Toua
Speaker 3: had the same kind of the same thing happened.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's a stinger.
Speaker 3: I know the actual diagnosis, but he got hit on
Speaker 3: his last play of the game against the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 3: as well. So interesting dichotomy there. And it's you know,
Speaker 3: you touched on this as well, And this is kind
Speaker 3: of what I talked about with the idea of the
Speaker 3: rematch and how you just like you can't really predict
Speaker 3: or kind of I guess forecast what you think you
Speaker 3: might get. Because of that fact of the rematch and
Speaker 3: just playing a team six days prior its it's also
Speaker 3: wonky to me. Sal It's like I'm seeing these things
Speaker 3: You're talking about with Alan and the and maybe just
Speaker 3: being a hair off sometimes and the production not being
Speaker 3: where it usually is the last four years. But like
Speaker 3: I've wrote my script for the preview podcast, like, none
Speaker 3: of that matters because Josh accesses this other worldly element
Speaker 3: against the Dolphins every damn time, and it's so frustrating.
Speaker 3: So it's I just I'm so confused this week about
Speaker 3: my you know, my my pregame content because I don't
Speaker 3: know how to like unfold what I expect to see
Speaker 3: from the Bills quarterback who's been so good. But you
Speaker 3: touched on some really good stuff there with James Cook
Speaker 3: and Stefan Diggs. I'm curious to kind of get the
Speaker 3: the you know, the four to one one here to
Speaker 3: go back quick to an old nineties man.
Speaker 6: I just aged myself by saying that.
Speaker 3: But uh, Stefan Diggs looking forward to potentially seeing Jalen
Speaker 3: Ramsey because we don't expect to see Xavi and Howard
Speaker 3: in this game. I imagine those two guys matchup quite a lot.
Speaker 3: What is a what's the mood around the potential Digs
Speaker 3: versus Ramsey matchup?
Speaker 4: Well, I think they're expecting that here, right, Fans are
Speaker 4: at least I don't know about them in the building,
Speaker 4: but I would imagine they would as well that you know,
Speaker 4: Ramsey would be on Digs. And that's somebody obviously with
Speaker 4: a lot of respect from Stephan and from the Bills offense.
Speaker 4: And if that happens, well, I mean, remember what happened
Speaker 4: last time these two teams played. Gab Davis showed up, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the that's the matchup you look at.
Speaker 4: And Josh has been clear about this Travis where he says, look,
Speaker 4: of course I want to get Stepan involved. He's the
Speaker 4: number one receiver, he's elite. But I gotta throw it
Speaker 4: whoever's open. I got to throw it to where the
Speaker 4: ball dictates me to throw it. So if that's the case,
Speaker 4: then I would expect a healthy dose of number two
Speaker 4: and three wide receivers and targets to go to against
Speaker 4: other people. Was a cohu last time to play it
Speaker 4: against you know, Digs. Maybe that's the guy. I don't
Speaker 4: know you in a situation if he's playing as much, you
Speaker 4: could tell me. But that would be the case, Eli Apple,
Speaker 4: whoever it is that's playing, I'm guessing that's where they
Speaker 4: would go with that. But The other thing I would
Speaker 4: expect is maybe to try and move Stephan around, which
Speaker 4: they do sometimes to get him in situations where maybe
Speaker 4: he's Jalen Ramsey can't shadow him and be on him.
Speaker 2: But you know, look, for all the I do.
Speaker 4: I do things like this, I go on these podcasts,
Speaker 4: I go on other markets, I go in national shows,
Speaker 4: and they always ask me about Stefan's attitude and how
Speaker 4: is he handling everything. Yeah, that's not been an issue
Speaker 4: at all. Actually, Stephan has been a great teammate and
Speaker 4: he he just.
Speaker 2: Wants to win. There's a great clip of him.
Speaker 4: Josh is miked up at the Chargers a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago Christmas weekend, and Stefan and Josh didn't connect
Speaker 4: very well that game.
Speaker 2: He didn't have big production.
Speaker 4: But at the end they're standing in the sidelines and
Speaker 4: Josh is nervous and Stefan looks right at him.
Speaker 2: He standing next to me. He goes, don't worry, We're
Speaker 2: about to win. Man. Like that's who Stefan Diggs is,
Speaker 2: That's what he cares about.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: It's funny because, like, you know, we talked about the
Speaker 3: perception coming into this game, and you know, you have
Speaker 3: one bad game and things are all your previous guy
Speaker 3: that you crowned a franchise quarterback six days prior now
Speaker 3: can't play in the lead or whatever whatever the discourse
Speaker 3: might be. And that's that's one that always got under
Speaker 3: my skin as well as a person that wants Buffalo
Speaker 3: to lose every damn game they play, right, I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs is a great player, Josh, Like, They're gonna
Speaker 3: be fine. Like it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 3: outside the noise usually is louder than what actually happens inside.
Speaker 3: Really good stuff so far, I want to go ahead
Speaker 3: and take our first break right here. Come back on
Speaker 3: the other side, discuss the other side of the football,
Speaker 3: the Bills defense versus the Dolphins offense. That's next here,
Speaker 3: Salaka Pacho my guest today Draft Time Podcast, your host
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here
Speaker 3: for segment two on our Thursday edition of the Draft
Speaker 3: Time Podcast, talking to Sal Capaccio of WGR five point
Speaker 3: fifty up in Buffalo. And I want to start with this, Sal,
Speaker 3: because you know again I told you on the other side,
Speaker 3: we want the Bills to lose every game they play,
Speaker 3: and I know you guys feel the exact same way
Speaker 3: about us. So when the Bills were I think it
Speaker 3: was six and six, maybe maybe five and six, I
Speaker 3: forget the record, and a bombshell article came out with
Speaker 3: twenty five sources linking back to the disbelief in Sean
Speaker 3: McDermott and YadA YadA, YadA yah, all of that stuff,
Speaker 3: And since then the team has come together and almost galvanized,
Speaker 3: it seems like, over that article and played their best
Speaker 3: football of the year. Is that what you think happened
Speaker 3: when that came out, and the support for Sean McDermott
Speaker 3: was overwhelming in terms of, like, yeah, this guy's one
Speaker 3: of the best coaches in the National Football League.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, Travis, But I don't think it was,
Speaker 4: you know, a, let's have this meeting and get behind
Speaker 4: our coach and we're going to play for him and
Speaker 4: outwardly talkalked about right.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was the case.
Speaker 4: I think from my perception was there were players in there,
Speaker 4: even like I remember right now, I don't want to
Speaker 4: get this wrong. If I remember Micah Hyde might have
Speaker 4: sex because Michael was here when some of the references
Speaker 4: came out of some of the things that were said
Speaker 4: by Sean and that became national news, and even he's like,
Speaker 4: I don't even remember that, like this a while ago,
Speaker 4: Like Shawn's my coach and he's great and we trust him, right,
Speaker 4: Like I think there was a lot of that, which
Speaker 4: is why does this matter? Like who cares about that?
Speaker 4: But there was also I would tell you when they
Speaker 4: went in Kansas City that weekend, every single person that
Speaker 4: had a microphone in his face from my mic at
Speaker 4: least said we wanted to win.
Speaker 2: For our coach.
Speaker 4: Like they they had that thought in their mind, even
Speaker 4: it might not have been spoken amongst each other and
Speaker 4: the group. And I'll go back to this team plays
Speaker 4: well in December anyway, they seem to rally around, you know,
Speaker 4: certain circumstances and situations where they need to towards the
Speaker 4: end of the year. And they've done that, and Shawn's
Speaker 4: a very good coach at making sure that they're playing
Speaker 4: their best football when it comes time. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: do think there's an element of that. I think more
Speaker 4: than anything though, it was more of a bigger picture
Speaker 4: of people letting you know, hey, whoever wrote this, whatever
Speaker 4: he wrote, whatever he said, we don't care in here
Speaker 4: because we trust our coach and we're not going to
Speaker 4: worry about that now. Saran Neil told me it was
Speaker 4: a distraction that week, like, hey, just another thing we
Speaker 4: had to overcome. But Jordan Poyer said, I didn't care.
Speaker 4: I just went out and played football. And I love
Speaker 4: Sean mcturmott. So I guess doesn't matter who you talked to,
Speaker 4: but there is there is a a something to be said.
Speaker 4: I guess for the fact that they have played in
Speaker 4: one four Street game since that happened.
Speaker 3: Right, And that's one of the benefits of having that
Speaker 3: continuity of those leaders and the guys that have produced
Speaker 3: for a long time in that building is that they
Speaker 3: tend to be those galvanizing forces that can really grather
Speaker 3: the troops. And I've explained this to my show a
Speaker 3: few times, and going back to the Baltimore game, I
Speaker 3: had Charles Davis in the podcast last week and he
Speaker 3: talked about I was like, what's the moon going into
Speaker 3: a game where both teams are coming off big wins
Speaker 3: over Dallas and San Francisco, respectively, how do you match
Speaker 3: that emotional level? And he was like, Travis, the Ravens
Speaker 3: have been here for the last five six years bringing
Speaker 3: these big time games, and for the Dolphins it's not
Speaker 3: entirely new, but it's newer. And that's the same case
Speaker 3: here against this Buffalo bil Ty and like you mentioned,
Speaker 3: going for their fourth straight division championship, Miami trying to
Speaker 3: buck them off that for their first and fifteen years.
Speaker 3: But going back to the McDermott idea and the more
Speaker 3: I suppose tangible and actually, you know thing that you
Speaker 3: should discuss here is the change in the defense of
Speaker 3: schematics and just the production overall because they went from
Speaker 3: Leslie Fraser to now Sean McDermott back in charge calling
Speaker 3: the defense on his own. What's been the biggest shift
Speaker 3: there going from Fraser to McDermott, especially down the stretch
Speaker 3: here in December, Like you talked about, with all the
Speaker 3: good games they've played.
Speaker 4: Well, I would say aggressiveness is number one, and that
Speaker 4: can manifest itself in a lot of forms. Right, Aggressiveness
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be blitzing. Everybody thinks about blitzing a
Speaker 4: little more Manda man defense. Those are traditionally very heavy's
Speaker 4: own defense, but they mixed up some maandom Man. They've
Speaker 4: done that just the way they attack, the way they
Speaker 4: use and they've always been a penetrating defense with the
Speaker 4: defensive line, but even this year more so, I think
Speaker 4: they're relying on more penetration up front.
Speaker 2: Ed Oliver's having an incredible year.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: You see Dakwon Jones having a great first few games
Speaker 4: and he gets heard, he comes back, you know, and
Speaker 4: that's why they're lining and t Robernarder he has these
Speaker 4: gouty stats because he's he's got to make plays. He
Speaker 4: has to make plays because they're penetrating on the defensive line.
Speaker 4: I think that's a big one. But more than anything,
Speaker 4: to me, it's not even the difference from Leslie Fraser
Speaker 4: to Sean McDermott. It's what this defense has had to
Speaker 4: morph into with all the injuries. You go back and
Speaker 4: I know Miami Primate River, Miami has incredible injuries.
Speaker 5: We get it.
Speaker 2: So Miami fans understand this.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 4: Week four, they lose Shreavius White against the Dolphins for
Speaker 4: the year. Week five, they lose Matt Mlano. To me,
Speaker 4: I mean, he's an All Pro last year, he's playing
Speaker 4: at all Pro level through the first four games. Same
Speaker 4: game they lose Akwon Jones. That's that's an elite player
Speaker 4: at every level. Basically that they lost and for the
Speaker 4: next few weeks it was kind of uneven and the
Speaker 4: Bills and they were trying to figure out and what
Speaker 4: we've seen here is and I think this has been
Speaker 4: a very impressive job by Sean McDermott on the defensive side.
Speaker 4: They had to learn kind of where each part fits
Speaker 4: and go through this a little bit. The coaching staff
Speaker 4: had to learn, the players had to learn, and now
Speaker 4: we're seeing the fruits of that.
Speaker 2: And honestly, Travis.
Speaker 4: Maybe the biggest thing was the addition of Rosuell Douglas
Speaker 4: at the trade deadlineup. This guy's unbelievable. I mean, I
Speaker 4: can't believe the Green Bay Packers traded him away for
Speaker 4: a third round pick is what they did. Basically, it's
Speaker 4: and they gave up a third and they got a
Speaker 4: fifth back. Actually the Bills. He was just named DFC
Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Week this week. This guy breaks
Speaker 4: on the ball, gets his hands on balls, mix plays.
Speaker 4: It's incredible and that has mitigated the loss of Trevius Wape.
Speaker 4: But it's a loud Sean McDermott also, I think to
Speaker 4: play a little bit differently than he'd had to go
Speaker 4: with Dane Jackson, who's a fine player, but he doesn't
Speaker 4: give you the options a guy like Russell Douglas does.
Speaker 4: Who's long, He can play man to man, he could
Speaker 4: play a little safety, he can do a lot of
Speaker 4: different things, and I think that's been a difference too.
Speaker 3: I think my reaction when I saw that trade announced was, man,
Speaker 3: you let the Bills off the hook. They were just
Speaker 3: gonna have to get into their depth and they were
Speaker 3: gonna have to, you know, try to overcome some losses
Speaker 3: that they probably weren't equipped to do so, and you
Speaker 3: go out and give him a player he's probably playing
Speaker 3: at a Pro Bowl level. So that's what great teams
Speaker 3: do that I find ways to replace their losses and
Speaker 3: their injuries and all that stuff. And we've seen Miami
Speaker 3: do that as well. So fun matchup coming here on
Speaker 3: Sunday night. I always end these podcasts now the same way.
Speaker 3: I give you the option to fill in the blank
Speaker 3: after the question.
Speaker 6: It's two full.
Speaker 3: The Bills win this game if, then you take over
Speaker 3: and the Dolphins win this game. If and that's yours
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: I think the Bills win this game if they just
Speaker 4: don't turn the ball over to Miami and give them
Speaker 4: extra opportunities.
Speaker 2: And we know that Josh Allen can throw interceptions.
Speaker 4: We've seen that and people talk about him turnover machine
Speaker 4: whatever I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Josh can throw an interception every game.
Speaker 4: You take that because he leads the NFL in touchdown
Speaker 4: passes and touchdowns, and that's what you get from Josh Allen. Right,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get the wild plays. He has not thrown
Speaker 4: multiple interceptions though, since before Joe Brady took over, and
Speaker 4: I think that's important to note, even though he usually
Speaker 4: has won a game. But don't turn the ball over.
Speaker 4: That's fumbles too. James Cook has had problems holding out
Speaker 4: of the ball at times. He's fumbled the ball away
Speaker 4: a few times. So I think, don't turn the ball over.
Speaker 4: Maybe one turnover you can withstand. Don't give Miami extra opportunities.
Speaker 4: For Miami, I think they got to hit some plays
Speaker 4: down the field if they have to, if the Bills
Speaker 4: keep them in front of them and force them to
Speaker 4: kind of go eight ten play drives, I don't think
Speaker 4: that's a good recipe for Miami in this game.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to be a little risky.
Speaker 4: I know they probably won't have geal and waddle, but
Speaker 4: the Bills don't typically give up long passes. But Miami
Speaker 4: might have to hit a couple in this game to
Speaker 4: get over the top of them and force the issue
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 3: It'd be a lot of fun on Sunday night on
Speaker 3: NBC A twenty kickoff fifteen kickoff rather Dolphins hosting the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills at Sal Sports on Social Sal, I appreciate
Speaker 3: your time, man, five fifty wgr up there in Buffalo,
Speaker 3: and you have a new podcast that just dropped recently, too, right,
Speaker 3: Can you tell us about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's called Sal's House actually, and actually I invite
Speaker 4: people in my house and I talked to them and
Speaker 4: it doesn't have to be about sports.
Speaker 5: I had.
Speaker 4: We have a guy here, a couple of guys. Actually
Speaker 4: they call the Buffalo Singing Cops. And there are two
Speaker 4: police officers who've actually been on Ellen and they've been
Speaker 4: on different shows and they're singers and they do national
Speaker 4: anthem and one of them is good friend of my mo.
Speaker 4: Badgery came over. We talked about his life and career.
Speaker 4: Those are the kinds of things we like to do,
Speaker 4: but of course lots of football stuff. Eric Wood was on,
Speaker 4: so I appreciate you saying that, and of course it's
Speaker 4: always game day in Buffalo as well myself Matt Bove.
Speaker 4: That's part of the Odyssey Network that I'm on on
Speaker 4: WGR Sports Radio five fifty as well.
Speaker 6: Well, keep killing it, man.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you come on here and doing our show,
Speaker 3: and I would say best of luck Sunday, but that
Speaker 3: would be a lie.
Speaker 6: So hopefully we see you guys maybe again down the
Speaker 6: road in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Ah, you got it, man, I'll see on Sunday.
Speaker 3: It's so funny doing those podcasts with the opposing beat
Speaker 3: guys who I just think the world of, but the
Speaker 3: team that they cover I don't think the world of.
Speaker 3: So it's like this funny balance on those shows. But yeah,
Speaker 3: how good is he? I mean, Syal's the best.
Speaker 6: Gives us good information. Also a very nice guy, which
Speaker 6: goes a long way with your boy.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Before we get to the assistant coach audio on the
Speaker 3: third segment of the podcast, a couple of the daily
Speaker 3: listeners really want my attention, So I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 3: and give it to him here because I have a
Speaker 3: couple of reviews from people that have left reviews in
Speaker 3: the past, and I remember your names because of this,
Speaker 3: and you just keep updating those reviews with one star.
Speaker 3: And what's actually really funny about this one is there's
Speaker 3: two stars. So I'm gonna go ahead and read two
Speaker 3: of these reviews for you guys, amid other reviews that
Speaker 3: are much nicer than these ones. So I do appreciate
Speaker 3: you guys doing that. If you haven't had a chance
Speaker 3: to do so yet, whether it's Apple, Spotify, wherever you
Speaker 3: get your podcasts from, go find review section, leave five
Speaker 3: stars or one star if you want, whatever you want
Speaker 3: to do, and just leave a comment in there, because
Speaker 3: those are the algorithms that help the podcast get populated
Speaker 3: out to more Dolphins fans.
Speaker 6: And so I always say it's a free podcast.
Speaker 3: I've never once charged in the seven years I've been
Speaker 3: doing daily podcasts on the Miami Dolphins, never once charged
Speaker 3: a cent for anything. I don't really read your ads
Speaker 3: anymore with Locked on Dolphins, but not on here. We
Speaker 3: have the mid roles, but I don't read live liners.
Speaker 3: So the one thing I ask is for reviews because
Speaker 3: it helps the podcast get out to more Dolphins fans.
Speaker 3: And also I heard this take on the Around the
Speaker 3: NFL podcast Once upon Time from Greg Rosenthal, and I
Speaker 3: agree with him that if you leave a one star
Speaker 3: review on a podcast, you're a bad person because it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Do you any good.
Speaker 3: It's not going to change anything, and ill it does
Speaker 3: is potentially affect the livelihood of the person you're rating.
Speaker 3: That's the only outcome from that that you can get.
Speaker 3: Which if you want that from someone, I think it
Speaker 3: means you're a bad person. So yah, yeah, Just I
Speaker 3: want to read these two negative reviews because they made
Speaker 3: me laugh, and I want to give you your attention
Speaker 3: that you're looking for because the first one from Dolphin Ray,
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 5: Ray?
Speaker 6: You do this all the time, Buddy.
Speaker 3: We talk about how bad the podcast is, but you
Speaker 3: always update your review, which is interesting. I mean, I
Speaker 3: hate watch some stuff, but I wouldn't listen to a
Speaker 3: podcast every day that I hate. But basically, I got
Speaker 3: a one star review here because I said that Connor
Speaker 3: Williams is a good center and he disagreed. So the
Speaker 3: bad snap in the Kansas City game because this post
Speaker 3: was on November the seventh, because Connor Williams had a
Speaker 3: bad snap in the Kansas City game. The podcast gets
Speaker 3: one star, So Dolphin Ray, I see you. I'll look
Speaker 3: forward to your update here shortly when you hear this.
Speaker 3: The other one that prompted this segment was the one
Speaker 3: from l TS five six to two. Is that the
Speaker 3: Suns guy I don't know, the guy that comments on
Speaker 3: both me and Kyle's podcasts and hates on us, which
Speaker 3: is pretty funny, But this one was funny. And here's
Speaker 3: why it's so funny because I got two stars. But
Speaker 3: listen to the review that gave me two stars. That
Speaker 3: sounds like a one star review.
Speaker 6: Horrible.
Speaker 2: It's the title.
Speaker 3: He talks too fast, he is too wordy, and he
Speaker 3: sounds stupid. Get rid of this guy and get somebody else.
Speaker 3: Plus it's a one word sentence. Plus he just talks
Speaker 3: guys up, talks up guys.
Speaker 6: Like a Homer two of this and that. How's to
Speaker 6: now Travis still elite? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He is, man, He's the fucking He's the freaking starting
Speaker 3: quarterback in the AFC for the Pro Bowl, voted by
Speaker 3: the GMS and the coaches and the players.
Speaker 6: You dufuss.
Speaker 3: Because he threw two interceptions against the best defense in
Speaker 3: the NFL. He's not a good player anymore.
Speaker 6: Got it here?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: These people the hell out of here. All right, let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and take our last break right there. I've
Speaker 3: got to say there are a lot of really nice
Speaker 3: comments in here as well. Jay Joffy five four seven
Speaker 3: a five star review best in depth Analysis, and I
Speaker 3: appreciate that you talk about the great guest, real analytical,
Speaker 3: tons of tape breakdowns.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate that what we're going for here. Thank
Speaker 6: you for that. Fins up ten to ten.
Speaker 3: You basically nailed the podcast missions that I produced this
Speaker 3: year for my bosses, talking about in depth analysis but
Speaker 3: not getting too far in the weeds and being loose
Speaker 3: with it. That's kind of my entire approach here, Hence
Speaker 3: all the references and the jokes, because you know, I've
Speaker 3: been doing podcasts for a long time now and I'm
Speaker 3: a big podcast consumer, and I would venture to guess
Speaker 3: that most of you guys out there agree with this.
Speaker 3: The you usen to a podcast for the content. The
Speaker 3: content the material brings you in, but what keeps you
Speaker 3: is the personality of the podcast host. That's why so
Speaker 3: many podcasters fail, because even if they have good material,
Speaker 3: you have to entertain Like, you can't do this and
Speaker 3: not be entertaining. So that's what we're going for here. Shoot,
Speaker 3: I don't know how to pronounce this. Amerzel fins up.
Speaker 3: Great pod, Love Travis's attitude and thoughts every week, love it,
Speaker 3: wanting more, RBSKI love and drive time. Somebody asked about
Speaker 3: a Raykwon Davis replacement next year. I don't want to
Speaker 3: go into that because that's an as season podcast. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of really a positive positives in here.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's eight hundred five reviews and it's a
Speaker 3: four point eight stars out of five. But I just
Speaker 3: thought those negative ones were really funny and I wanted
Speaker 3: to share them with you guys.
Speaker 6: So oh yes, one.
Speaker 3: More before I forget anybody out that listens to the
Speaker 3: podcast close to the Sarasota Springs area in New York State.
Speaker 6: If you are, hit me up on Twitter. I have
Speaker 6: a question for you. I need some help with something
Speaker 6: regarding that area of the world.
Speaker 5: Hit me up.
Speaker 6: That's that.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our last break right here.
Speaker 3: Move on to the third segment, Pick the week eighteen games.
Speaker 3: It's over, guys, No TNF tonight, It's over. Season's over,
Speaker 3: like damn comes and goes faster every single year. Pick
Speaker 3: the week eighteen games and here from the assistant coaches
Speaker 3: all of that. Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. Final segment here for
Speaker 3: the NFL picks of the twenty twenty three season. We'll
Speaker 3: do the playoffs as well. Ten and three in the
Speaker 3: playoffs last year. Did not pick the playoff games in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty and one apparently, But just looking at my
Speaker 3: overall record here the last three years on the show,
Speaker 3: I need nine wins to match my career high in
Speaker 3: pick wins.
Speaker 6: Tend to beat it.
Speaker 3: And how fitting is it that we're going into a
Speaker 3: week where we have like literally fourteen backup quarterbacks playing
Speaker 3: in the games on Sunday.
Speaker 6: Tough week.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and cue the music and pick these games.
Speaker 3: And you guys know, we have certain preferences with regards
Speaker 3: to what happens on both the first game on Saturday
Speaker 3: and then what happens on Sunday. But just going over
Speaker 3: the games and making these picks, I think it's gonna
Speaker 3: be either at Kansas City or home for Buffalo in
Speaker 3: the wild card round.
Speaker 6: So that's the so bringing truth that let's go ahead
Speaker 6: and play the music and pick these games.
Speaker 3: So Saturday, you probably want Pittsburgh to beat Baltimore, even
Speaker 3: though there is the best route possible is for Baltimore
Speaker 3: to beat Pittsburgh, which is what I think will happen
Speaker 3: in that game. Now, I don't think you get the
Speaker 3: results in the back end and make that kind of
Speaker 3: worth it for Dolphins fans. But I'm picking Baltimore with
Speaker 3: Tyler Huntley to beat Mason Rudolph and knock out the
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers, even though I think they'd be motivated to
Speaker 3: have the Steelers in the playoffs, so maybe they give
Speaker 3: us that grace. But we'll find out come Saturday at
Speaker 3: four thirty.
Speaker 6: The night game a fun one win.
Speaker 3: It in loser goes home, Houston Tech and the Colts.
Speaker 3: I'm taking the Texans because even though I love Gardner Minshew,
Speaker 3: I love C. J. Stroud much much more. Jacksonville over Tennessee.
Speaker 3: I just may find a way to get that win
Speaker 3: and win the division. Of course, if they do not
Speaker 3: and Baltimore also wins, now you're talking about a really
Speaker 3: good scenario here for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 6: But We'll see what happens there. Give me Jacksonville to
Speaker 6: win that one. If you get one of these games wrong.
Speaker 3: If Traps gets one of those two games wrong, we're
Speaker 3: gonna be in good shake. Detroit over the Vikings. I
Speaker 3: think that Dan Campbell wants to play for the win
Speaker 3: no matter what. Give me the Saints over the Falcons
Speaker 3: and the Who Cares Bowl in the NFC South Division race,
Speaker 3: the Patriots over the Jets because the Jets never score
Speaker 3: any points on Bill Belichick. The Bucks over the Panthers.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Bengals to beat Jeff Driscoll and the Browns.
Speaker 6: Man, if the Bengals had just beaten.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs last week, we also have that game as
Speaker 3: a potential knockout Buffalo situation, but it didn't happen that way.
Speaker 6: Green Bay over Chicago, although I'd.
Speaker 3: Really like the way Justin Field and that Bears team
Speaker 3: is playing right now. Dallas over Washington to win the
Speaker 3: NFC East.
Speaker 6: Want to collapse with the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Man, Give me the Broncos over the Raiders and another
Speaker 3: Who Cares game. Give me the Eagles over the Giants,
Speaker 3: although they might be resting guys as well, but they
Speaker 3: haven't really announced whether they not are or not yet.
Speaker 3: Give me the Seahawks over the Cardinals in the game
Speaker 3: they have to have also have to have the Packers
Speaker 3: lose for them to get in not looking good for Seattle.
Speaker 3: The Niners over the Rams because I like Sam Donald
Speaker 3: more than I like Carson Wentz. Give me the Chargers
Speaker 3: over the Chiefs, who are playing Blaine Gabbert in that game.
Speaker 6: And I'm picking Buffalo over Miami.
Speaker 5: I know, I know him, I know I know.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and stop music and get to some
Speaker 3: sound bites here from the assistant coaches on Thursday, and
Speaker 3: start with Vic Fangio, who was asked about the Bills
Speaker 3: offensive line and the continuity in the fact that they
Speaker 3: have only basically missed four percent of a starter on
Speaker 3: offensive snaps.
Speaker 6: That was said terribly.
Speaker 3: They have five players on their offensive line who have
Speaker 3: exceeded a thousand snaps year and they have the fewest
Speaker 3: percentage of missnaps by their offensive line. What does that
Speaker 3: continuity do for an offense coach?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's unusual for that to happen, as witness Tire
Speaker 7: locally with our offensive line. And they're good players too,
Speaker 7: So when you put continuity with good players, good things happen,
Speaker 7: and they pull a lot of their linemen. They do
Speaker 7: a good job scheme in their run game, and I
Speaker 7: think that's attributed to continuity.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm gonna go ahead and play a common thread
Speaker 3: idea here with both coach Frank Smith and Vic Fangio,
Speaker 3: because the two games that you probably as a Dolphins fan,
Speaker 3: want to flush out of your memory bank forever are
Speaker 3: the Buffalo and Baltimore games and the Titans game as well.
Speaker 3: But just in terms of the overall score differential and
Speaker 3: the I guess embarrassing fashion of those games, those two
Speaker 3: to me stand out above the rest. Here's coach on
Speaker 3: the difference and the common threads in those two games.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't play well early, you know, and things snowballed,
Speaker 7: and it wasn't one area that was letting us down.
Speaker 5: It was basically all phases, both run and pass.
Speaker 7: And I think when that happens, you know, you get
Speaker 7: not back on your heels playing wise, but it makes
Speaker 7: you feel that way a little bit.
Speaker 3: Think tomorrow I'm going to ask coach McDaniel about the
Speaker 3: idea of big games and big moments and how you
Speaker 3: train for those, because I keep thinking about how the
Speaker 3: Charles Davis comment last week in Baltimore. This is business
Speaker 3: as usual for them, right, They're used to big games,
Speaker 3: and for the Buffalo Bills the last four years, they're
Speaker 3: used to big games as well. This is a young
Speaker 3: Dolphins team, and there are players Ron Armsted and Tyreek
Speaker 3: Hill and Jalen Ramsey that have played in those big moments,
Speaker 3: but for the most part, the core of your roster
Speaker 3: just hasn't had those big games experience, especially at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position. That's why I always say that the idea
Speaker 3: of a legacy game for a twenty four to twenty
Speaker 3: five year old quarterback is kind of silly because how
Speaker 3: often do I have to look back at Peyton Manning's
Speaker 3: career and realize how tough it was for him to
Speaker 3: find deep postseason success, and the same questions were asked
Speaker 3: about him shrinked too much in big games. It actually
Speaker 3: went back to Tennessee for him, and then he won
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl and he was carried by a defense
Speaker 3: that yearly because the offense and Ozer six for the
Speaker 3: Colts wasn't that good, but the defense got hot when
Speaker 3: Bob Sanders came back for the playoff run.
Speaker 5: That year.
Speaker 3: That's a segment I want to do on tomorrow's podcast.
Speaker 3: But I just thought that was an interesting comparison there,
Speaker 3: and I'm fascinated by this, by this topic, and so
Speaker 3: that's why I wanted to play these sound bites for
Speaker 3: you guys and go ahead and pick it up here
Speaker 3: with coach Frank Smith, who was asked about the shootouts
Speaker 3: they've played in this year. The Chargers game in Week one,
Speaker 3: and the offense was more than up for the challenge,
Speaker 3: more so than the Chargers offense was. But in the
Speaker 3: Buffalo and Baltimore games, you matched points early and then
Speaker 3: things got away from you late. And the theme was
Speaker 3: kind of common there, right, pressing offense that turned the
Speaker 3: ball over and just no longer could execute in the
Speaker 3: same way the Buffalo offense with the Baltimore offense did.
Speaker 3: So here's coach Frank Smith two questions the shootout idea
Speaker 3: and the common thread between both Buffalo and Baltimore games.
Speaker 8: Well, it's a good question because I don't think really
Speaker 8: you go in with the you can never go in
Speaker 8: with mindset of this is going to be what's necessary.
Speaker 8: So it's more of you approach each moment like each
Speaker 8: moment is the most important, all right. If you look
Speaker 8: at the entirety of a situation, you'll your the natural
Speaker 8: human self will take you to too many conclusions and
Speaker 8: too many possibilities, and then that leads you to maybe
Speaker 8: think you need to do more. But in reality is
Speaker 8: you just stay in the moment. You realize you maximize
Speaker 8: this moment, you're so in tune to what is necessary now,
Speaker 8: and then stack them so the minute that you start thinking,
Speaker 8: you know, like I go back to college, like I'm
Speaker 8: getting to sing in a class, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 8: I need to get a on this exam to save
Speaker 8: myself because I don't hear all my dad give them
Speaker 8: me hell. And then all of a sudden you start pressing,
Speaker 8: you start thinking about things, and all of a sudden
Speaker 8: you come out and you get a B minus. You're like, damn, like,
Speaker 8: because all of a sudden, you've made a result for yourself.
Speaker 5: As opposed to it's like, no, what do you really
Speaker 5: need to do?
Speaker 8: If I want to get that result, I focus on
Speaker 8: making sure each moment is at my best and making
Speaker 8: sure that I stay now, because it's the result you
Speaker 8: seek will come through the process of you know, deliberately
Speaker 8: staying in the now. And I think that's the most
Speaker 8: important thing that we try and strive around here is
Speaker 8: just our intent to each day, each moment, and I
Speaker 8: think that allows you for in those you bank those
Speaker 8: reps for the future. If every moment you're playing is
Speaker 8: of that intent the highest level of competition. Do you
Speaker 8: take that to each day, each moment of what you're doing,
Speaker 8: because this run play might not seem like a whole lot,
Speaker 8: but then what if we call in a game and
Speaker 8: it got thirty yards?
Speaker 5: Did you all play together or something? You know what
Speaker 5: I mean? I think that that is how you approach
Speaker 5: those moments.
Speaker 8: And I think that's just something that I know Mike
Speaker 8: really strives with all of us and on us on
Speaker 8: offense stay in the moment.
Speaker 3: And has the moment at time gotten too big for
Speaker 3: your guys here's coach Smith.
Speaker 5: I think that got too big.
Speaker 8: It's just like you can't It's easy to sit back
Speaker 8: and like, what's the correlation between the two times and
Speaker 8: try and find the similarities where there's different variables at play,
Speaker 8: Like that was a different point in the season coming
Speaker 8: off of you know, a huge win versus Denver, you know,
Speaker 8: and then now this week at Baltimore was a different
Speaker 8: set of circumstances where it's like as we go through
Speaker 8: the different games and different moments, it's like, you know,
Speaker 8: learning form because you know now as we're getting into
Speaker 8: this game and hopefully the future is just going to
Speaker 8: be now right, staying with that, making sure that all
Speaker 8: the things we've learned throughout.
Speaker 5: The season we can maximize one at a time.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean that's the hard part. It's like
Speaker 8: you don't know what is going to be expected on
Speaker 8: so that you can't forecast it. All you can forecast
Speaker 8: is my individual job and being making sure I maximize
Speaker 8: it as we go forward in the game.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and finish up here with offensive line
Speaker 3: coach Butch Berry, who always just commands a great press
Speaker 3: conference when we get him. He was asked about the
Speaker 3: commonality between the pressure that Bills put on the Dolphins
Speaker 3: offensive line back in Week four with that four man
Speaker 3: rush and what can you do to make sure the
Speaker 3: result isn't the same.
Speaker 6: Here's coach Barry.
Speaker 1: I think that we're in a much better place overall communication.
Speaker 1: I think that when you do bring up that it's
Speaker 1: a guy's first time playing center, and I was his
Speaker 1: first time starting in a game at that position. There's
Speaker 1: naturally some cadence issues to work through with having to
Speaker 1: go silent on the road and just overall communication of
Speaker 1: everything and making the calls and being the centerpiece and
Speaker 1: the voice for the whole unit to work as one.
Speaker 1: And so I think that in that situation, based upon everything,
Speaker 1: for him, he battled and he utmost respect and how
Speaker 1: he performed, but he is in a much better place
Speaker 1: at this moment in time than then. I would say
Speaker 1: that that's one piece to it. Another piece, obviously, is
Speaker 1: when somebody does go down that factors. And I think
Speaker 1: that was a game that, you know, overall just kind
Speaker 1: of wasn't it. We felt like we were in a
Speaker 1: position where we was best suited to throw the ball
Speaker 1: more than normal. And so anytime that you're throwing the
Speaker 1: ball probably more than you typically anticipate, you increase your
Speaker 1: variables and opportunities for.
Speaker 5: Them to have what would be viewed as success.
Speaker 3: Right, really fun stuff on this edition of the Drive
Speaker 3: Time podcast, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of
Speaker 3: here tomorrow. Marcel Louis Jack from ESPN has covered both
Speaker 3: Buffalo and Miami, so I'll be a fun conversation with him.
Speaker 3: You don't want to miss that, But that's my time.
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