WEBVTT - Drive Time: Bills Perspective with Sal Capaccio 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.320 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.760 to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:17.079 The wide Dolphin touchdown Timerick col uncolievable, just blue. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.400 Fire for a second time. Don't know where he was 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.560 going right away? Want to hit that though, Man, I'm 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.560 gonna help you. 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Sal Capaccio from WGR five point fifty 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.320 in Buffalo and the Bill's sideline will join us to 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.200 give us the perspective from said sideline ahead of this 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.800 big matchup on Sunday. Plus, we'll hear from the assistant 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.479 coaches who met with the Media on Thursday and we'll 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.560 read a couple of your reviews on Apple Podcast from 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.759 the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.760 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.200 Maye Daffy. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.760 Give it up for my guest today, the great Sal Capaccio. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.240 And joining me today on the Opponent Sideline edition of 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.840 the Draft Time Podcast is Sal Capaccio. You can find 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.040 him on the Bills sideline during games, also on the 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.759 Buffalo Bill's Beat. He's also the host of the Extra 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.080 Point show on WGR five fifty up there in Buffalo South, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.800 Welcome back in. I was telling the kind of the 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.400 guy that I go through the podcast plans with every 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.200 week here on our staff. I was thinking about getting 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.360 Salbuck on the show. I had him on once upon 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.320 a time, and I couldn't think of when that was. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.160 When did we last do this? Do you remember? 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.720 But it's been a while, because it's funny to me, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.840 I remember when you took your role. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.880 Are you from Seattle? Is it you came from Seattle? 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.120 I remember that right, and it was awesome because I 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:09.840 know that I think you, like were a Dolphins fan. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.360 You got this job. It's like me, I grew up 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.880 in Buffalo right as a Bills. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.400 Fan, and here I am in the sidelines every week, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.000 covering the team every day, and it's super cool. It's 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.200 been years, it's been years, but I appreciate you and 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.160 you know, just really cool to see you grow into 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.440 your role. I wanted to say that too, and to 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.480 be where you are right now, but it's been several years. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.000 But it's good to talk to you again, Buddy, Well. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.320 I really appreciate that, man. Thanks a lot. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.959 And I watch obviously a lot of Buffalo Bills games, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.480 and every time I see you on the side, like, hey, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:34.680 there's Sal I know him. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.639 Good to see him doing his thing over there. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.400 Let's go ahead and talk about a I guess a 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.000 somewhat important football game. It's going to take place here 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.640 across the street on Sunday night, A little important game. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.000 I don't know. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.760 Maybe these two teams have played so many important games 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.920 over their storied rivalry, but this one man right up 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.960 there are some of those nineties playoff games with Kelly 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.600 and ma Reno, if you ask me. But I want 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.040 to go ahead and just start with that, Like, what's 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.720 the vibe around the Bills this week? 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.160 I know it's only Wednesday taping this podcast. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.320 But what's kind of the vibe for these guys heading 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.800 into a game where you know, they're used to playing 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.480 big games last few years, but this one's a big 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:09.480 one against the division rival. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:10.600 What's the vibe there in Buffalo? 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.600 Well, let me just go from a fans standpoint. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:13.919 You know, growing up here in Buffalo, we used to 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.880 have what's called Miami Week, and still is. This is 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.200 week Miami Week. It's like a high school rivalry game 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.959 for fans. I grew up in the eighties and nineties 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.040 and in the seventies, the Dolphins beat the Bills twenty 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.040 straight times, so much so, so much hatred was built up. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.239 When the Bills beat the Dolphins in the opening game 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.240 regular season in nineteen eighty, the goalposts came down after 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.120 the game, right, and then you know, there was the 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.280 whole Brian Pax stuff going on, and then the Bills 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.040 got better, and Levy and you know, Shula and Marino 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.240 and Kelly's you reference, it's been amazing and here we 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.560 are for all of this on the line. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:44.280 It's incredible. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.480 And I think that you know, more so than that 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.400 particular rivalry, which means a lot to Bills fans. Of course, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.160 it's just about survival now because the Dolphins are in 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:52.800 the Bills are not. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.720 So the vibe is basically, hey, we got to get 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:56.120 this done. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.960 And it's a nervous anticipation I think for this game 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.160 because I think Bills fans are confident with how they've 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.200 played against Miami over the last you know, a few 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.240 years and this year, but also knowing things don't break 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.400 their way and things go wrong in this game. They're 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.480 sitting at home and can't even have another game now 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.400 as far as the team is concerned, and you know, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.240 I think the team feels good about where they are 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.640 right now. It hasn't been the cleanest on offense the 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.200 last few weeks, but it has been wins and really 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.920 under Sean McDermott, Travis, you go back very very good 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.240 record in December and January, like late in the season 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.160 after you know, bye weeks, and then they've never lost 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.039 after a bye and they very rarely lost in late 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.560 November and mostly through December basically under Sean McDermott, and 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.080 they seem to be playing their best football. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.680 They're healthy, so I think the vibe is good on 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:40.120 that front. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.600 The team seems very confident fans I think are really 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.160 really you know, confident as far as their team and 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.600 playing the Dolphins, but at the same time, no anything 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.279 can happen to these kinds of games, and they just 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.640 want to get into the playoffs at this point. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.240 I have like three follow ups off of that, so 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.000 I'll just go ahead and go down my list, because 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.560 you touched on really a lot of the things that 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.200 intrigued me about this game. Num On One is you 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.600 talk about there could be a scenario going into the 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.680 game Sunday Night Game two seventy two where Buffalo has 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.560 to win to make it in, but there's also scenarios 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.240 where they get in before they play that game. How 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.560 do you think that could possibly change the emotion of 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.440 the game or I guess that the mentality going in 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.159 I think the easy answer is not at all. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.159 Right, you hope that's the case. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.839 But what do you think about that potential mental aspect 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:22.440 of this game? 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.479 Well, I don't. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.000 I think it'd beat the naive to think that there 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.960 wouldn't be a cigh of relief if the Steelers were 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.800 to lose or the Jaguars were to lose. Right, of course, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.640 I think everybody would say Okay, they're in. But the 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.240 Bills want to win the division here. They're the three 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.960 time defending champion. I mean, they want to keep their crown. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.000 They want to be the number two seed. You know 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.560 as well as anybody what it would mean to have 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.720 home games in Buffalo in the playoffs, right, And that's 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.680 what's on the line here. It's not just the two seed. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.000 Think about what the two seed is. It's not just 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.920 the division. Yes, that's a nice t shirt, it's a 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.839 nice crown, it's a trophy, it's a band or whatever 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:51.520 you want to call it. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.040 Travis, do you get home? You get the two seed. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.320 You're talking home in the first round, win home in 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.760 the second round for the right to go to the 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.760 AFC Championship. That is a huge, huge deal in Buffalo 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.400 as opposed to going either back to Miami or to 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.800 Kansas City where they've lost in the playoffs. You don't 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.159 want to do that. So I think from that standpoint, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.799 it doesn't doesn't matter. I mean, this team is ready 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.960 to go out there and try and win a championship 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:13.400 either way. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.200 It's funny because you mentioned the potential for a rematch 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.080 in wild card weekend. I think probably both fan bases 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.720 just don't want to see that for the the kind 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.520 of chaotic nature that it would it would ensue from 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.360 that because like you just put a game plan out 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.320 for that team, it just makes the whole thing, like 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.479 I guess, a mystery almost in a way, because like 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:31.919 you're going to this game where. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.240 It's like, well, we know we have to get this done. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.120 We know we have to slow Stafon Diggs, you know, Josh, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.239 like we need to create turnovers, but in the rematch, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.159 it's like, who knows, it all goes out the window. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.440 So it's just an interesting and very fascinating aspect of 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.280 this game. You also touched on the offense the last 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:45.919 month or so, and that's where I really wanted to 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.320 focus this this I Guess episode was talking about the 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.800 change from from Ken Dorsey to Joe Brady, and you know, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.880 I'll never forget the Bills were struggling. JJ Watt tweeted 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.520 about the team meeting. Once you have one of the 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.880 players only meetings, it's over for the year. But that 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.360 is not at all what happened to this Buffalo team. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.560 They've rattled off several wins in a row. But I'm 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.040 curious because it hasn't been pretty right, like the last 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.560 two wins over inferior teams that are not gonna that 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.800 are playing U haul games right now with you know, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.160 backup quarterbacks had chances to win games in the fourth 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.080 quarter against the Bills ins because the offense was not 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.960 able to consistently put the ball on the end zone. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.680 What's going on with the offense? 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.560 What has been the biggest change as far as going 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.760 from Dorsey to Brady? Just kind of give us the 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.320 ten thousand foot view on the offense post OC change. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.440 First of all, I like that term ul game. I'm 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.200 gonna steal that from you. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.080 I stole it from like Steve Merriucci back on my 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.080 last game they final for my two thousand and seven. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:37.960 So yeah, feel free. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.840 I always say run for the bus, but that's even 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.240 a better one right now. All right, So look, I 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.320 mean this has actually kind of been the Bills MO 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.040 this year, which is they play to their level of competition. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.360 They played down to inferior opponents all year. Think about 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.320 their losses Jets opening weekend, Bengals at their place, I 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.320 shouldn't say Begs, the Patriots at their place. When Mac 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.240 Jones drove down to the field at the end, Denver 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.960 Broncos at home, and then even the games where they've won, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.600 they've struggled with some of these teams, the Giants, the Buccaneers, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.200 but then they play the Dolphins forty eight to twenty. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.360 They wound up playing the Cowboys thirty one to ten, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:09.920 right it seems like, and then they beat the Chiefs 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:10.679 at Kansas City. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.840 So it's kind of been the m of the Bills 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:13.440 all year. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.840 But the common theme of the last couple of weeks 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.640 is that they really had to rely more on the defense. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:19.200 Than the offense. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.320 And that's because the passing game just has not clicked. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.480 I think there's a few reasons for that. I would 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.840 tell you that the last two weeks, I think Josh 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.280 Allen's been off. Now an off Josh Allen is still 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.080 a good Josh Allen, but he has not been firing 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.680 and hitting targets. I think we're accustomed to. You go 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.600 back to the Chargers game. First play of the game, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.760 he's off to step on Diggs. Next, that series is 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.520 off again, but when it came time, money time, he 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.480 made two big time throws the stuff on at the 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.160 end of the game. You go back to this game 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.600 this week against the Patriots, same thing, but I it 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.520 truded that more to the entire offense being out of sync. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.640 I think there was a lot of pressure. Josh mentioned 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.240 people at his feet look good. Bill Belichick credit. Of course, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:54.840 the you know they're having the season they're having. He's 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.960 still Bill Belichick. He can still scheme, and they were 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.800 down players, but he's figured out a way this year 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.439 to get after Josh a little bit, and I think 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.520 that really kind of impacted them. And the other thing, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.800 Travis is the Bills don't have big separators at wide receiver, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.480 not like Miamis Tyreek Hill and Jalen and Wado. It's 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.600 a different kind of receiver group. They're good in their 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.600 own right. They could do some things, but there hasn't 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.079 been a lot of separation. And when Josh has had guys, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.640 he's missfired. He missed Stefan last week would have been 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.079 an eighty something yard touchdown. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.320 He just overthrew them. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.839 That happens, But there's other times where he just he's 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.240 got to fit the ball into a tight window. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.439 There's no separation. So I think all of. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.280 That has kind of happened. At the same time, there's 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.400 still one of the best offenses overall in the league. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.800 It's funny we talk about in this context of what's 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.720 wrong with the offense. It's because we're so used to 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.280 seeing them put up such bigger numbers overall, and Josh 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.040 Allen leads the NFL in touchdowns overall. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.520 Spoiled fans man. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.480 We're experiencing that as well right now with what the 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.839 way the offense has really changed the last two years 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.000 compared to the previous twenty five years. And all of 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.520 a sudden, you have one or two games where you 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.200 don't score more than twenty five points, and it's. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.400 Like, what's go going on with the offense. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.800 It's like, well, there's still number one in EPA, like 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:57.559 all these important sets. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.400 It's number one. So like, chill out a little bit. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.120 And you did ask me about Brady real quick. The difference, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.319 the difference from Dorsey to Brady really Joe Brady. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.520 Since he's come in, Hey more Josh Allen runs. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.520 Now, we all thought maybe McDermott was dialing back the runs, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.120 because you know, that's something they've talked about as an organization, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.719 you know, Josh not taking big hits in that. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.079 I wonder if it was Dorsey thinking, Hey, this is 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:17.360 my guy. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.080 I can't get him hurt because once Brady come in, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.200 they're running the ball with Josh Allen Moore and we 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.280 they need that. He needs to run a little bit 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.240 more now he is dealing a little soreness with a 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.200 shot he took last week. The other thing is they've 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.120 run the ball and used the ball I should say, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.240 use James Cook out of the backfield more. That's really 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.920 helped them. And then there's just been this distribution at 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.319 wide receiver. The talking point this week is why is 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.920 Stephan Diggs not producing? How can we not going to them? 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:42.280 And I think that goes back to a lot of 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.079 things I said earlier about with the offense and what's 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.760 going on. But that's what you've seen from Joe Brady 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.160 is more Josh Allen runs, more James Cook out of 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.840 the backfield, the dispersed passing game not as much focused 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:52.680 on steph on Diggs. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.000 Was the shot that Josh took, the play where he 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.200 fumbled against the Patriots. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.160 No, it was the last play of the game to 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.160 get the first down. He got it and then Kyle 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.240 Allen came in for the two kneel downs. It was 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.680 a third excuse me. Third and three, he runs for 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.440 four yards and as he's diving down he gets a 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.920 shot right here. After the game, he says, and I 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.760 point to my shoulder by the way, left shoulder, he says. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.080 After the game, he got a stinger, and he never 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.560 had a stinger before. It felt funky. I'm thinking, you 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.800 never had a stinger. That's wild for Josh Albert to 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.280 play and never had a stinger. That's amazing to me. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.400 Is the The other interesting part about that is Toua 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:33.760 had the same kind of the same thing happened. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.520 I don't know if it's a stinger. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.439 I know the actual diagnosis, but he got hit on 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.120 his last play of the game against the Baltimore Ravens 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.760 as well. So interesting dichotomy there. And it's you know, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.640 you touched on this as well, And this is kind 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.480 of what I talked about with the idea of the 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.280 rematch and how you just like you can't really predict 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.800 or kind of I guess forecast what you think you 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.560 might get. Because of that fact of the rematch and 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.760 just playing a team six days prior its it's also 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.280 wonky to me. Sal It's like I'm seeing these things 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.760 You're talking about with Alan and the and maybe just 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.560 being a hair off sometimes and the production not being 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.200 where it usually is the last four years. But like 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.720 I've wrote my script for the preview podcast, like, none 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.040 of that matters because Josh accesses this other worldly element 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.800 against the Dolphins every damn time, and it's so frustrating. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.320 So it's I just I'm so confused this week about 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.040 my you know, my my pregame content because I don't 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.480 know how to like unfold what I expect to see 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.440 from the Bills quarterback who's been so good. But you 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.880 touched on some really good stuff there with James Cook 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.319 and Stefan Diggs. I'm curious to kind of get the 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.880 the you know, the four to one one here to 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.679 go back quick to an old nineties man. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.000 I just aged myself by saying that. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.880 But uh, Stefan Diggs looking forward to potentially seeing Jalen 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.959 Ramsey because we don't expect to see Xavi and Howard 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.600 in this game. I imagine those two guys matchup quite a lot. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.839 What is a what's the mood around the potential Digs 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.920 versus Ramsey matchup? 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.680 Well, I think they're expecting that here, right, Fans are 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.160 at least I don't know about them in the building, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.440 but I would imagine they would as well that you know, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.959 Ramsey would be on Digs. And that's somebody obviously with 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.800 a lot of respect from Stephan and from the Bills offense. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.320 And if that happens, well, I mean, remember what happened 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.320 last time these two teams played. Gab Davis showed up, right. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.280 I mean, that's the that's the matchup you look at. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.320 And Josh has been clear about this Travis where he says, look, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.400 of course I want to get Stepan involved. He's the 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.480 number one receiver, he's elite. But I gotta throw it 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.400 whoever's open. I got to throw it to where the 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.000 ball dictates me to throw it. So if that's the case, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.440 then I would expect a healthy dose of number two 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.000 and three wide receivers and targets to go to against 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.000 other people. Was a cohu last time to play it 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.959 against you know, Digs. Maybe that's the guy. I don't 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.480 know you in a situation if he's playing as much, you 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.400 could tell me. But that would be the case, Eli Apple, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.120 whoever it is that's playing, I'm guessing that's where they 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.000 would go with that. But The other thing I would 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.560 expect is maybe to try and move Stephan around, which 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.440 they do sometimes to get him in situations where maybe 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.080 he's Jalen Ramsey can't shadow him and be on him. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.679 But you know, look, for all the I do. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.280 I do things like this, I go on these podcasts, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.760 I go on other markets, I go in national shows, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.360 and they always ask me about Stefan's attitude and how 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.560 is he handling everything. Yeah, that's not been an issue 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.079 at all. Actually, Stephan has been a great teammate and 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.319 he he just. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.040 Wants to win. There's a great clip of him. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.400 Josh is miked up at the Chargers a couple of 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.920 weeks ago Christmas weekend, and Stefan and Josh didn't connect 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.520 very well that game. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:12.760 He didn't have big production. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.520 But at the end they're standing in the sidelines and 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.240 Josh is nervous and Stefan looks right at him. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.520 He standing next to me. He goes, don't worry, We're 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.240 about to win. Man. Like that's who Stefan Diggs is, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:21.120 That's what he cares about. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:21.960 It. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.960 It's funny because, like, you know, we talked about the 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.680 perception coming into this game, and you know, you have 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.640 one bad game and things are all your previous guy 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.200 that you crowned a franchise quarterback six days prior now 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.800 can't play in the lead or whatever whatever the discourse 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.080 might be. And that's that's one that always got under 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.240 my skin as well as a person that wants Buffalo 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.160 to lose every damn game they play, right, I'm like, no, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.520 Stefan Diggs is a great player, Josh, Like, They're gonna 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.280 be fine. Like it's one of those things where it's 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.120 outside the noise usually is louder than what actually happens inside. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.840 Really good stuff so far, I want to go ahead 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.600 and take our first break right here. Come back on 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.920 the other side, discuss the other side of the football, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.440 the Bills defense versus the Dolphins offense. That's next here, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.600 Salaka Pacho my guest today Draft Time Podcast, your host 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:07.800 Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.120 for segment two on our Thursday edition of the Draft 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.320 Time Podcast, talking to Sal Capaccio of WGR five point 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.360 fifty up in Buffalo. And I want to start with this, Sal, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.440 because you know again I told you on the other side, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.360 we want the Bills to lose every game they play, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.120 and I know you guys feel the exact same way 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.480 about us. So when the Bills were I think it 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.120 was six and six, maybe maybe five and six, I 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.240 forget the record, and a bombshell article came out with 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.000 twenty five sources linking back to the disbelief in Sean 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.480 McDermott and YadA YadA, YadA yah, all of that stuff, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.240 And since then the team has come together and almost galvanized, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.480 it seems like, over that article and played their best 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.720 football of the year. Is that what you think happened 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.840 when that came out, and the support for Sean McDermott 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.800 was overwhelming in terms of, like, yeah, this guy's one 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.720 of the best coaches in the National Football League. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.880 Yeah, I do, Travis, But I don't think it was, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.880 you know, a, let's have this meeting and get behind 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.000 our coach and we're going to play for him and 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.520 outwardly talkalked about right. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.480 I don't think that was the case. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.480 I think from my perception was there were players in there, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.600 even like I remember right now, I don't want to 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.680 get this wrong. If I remember Micah Hyde might have 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.840 sex because Michael was here when some of the references 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.000 came out of some of the things that were said 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.640 by Sean and that became national news, and even he's like, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.520 I don't even remember that, like this a while ago, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.760 Like Shawn's my coach and he's great and we trust him, right, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.360 Like I think there was a lot of that, which 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.600 is why does this matter? Like who cares about that? 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.880 But there was also I would tell you when they 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.760 went in Kansas City that weekend, every single person that 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.760 had a microphone in his face from my mic at 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.560 least said we wanted to win. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:36.920 For our coach. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.040 Like they they had that thought in their mind, even 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.720 it might not have been spoken amongst each other and 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.720 the group. And I'll go back to this team plays 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:49.080 well in December anyway, they seem to rally around, you know, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.760 certain circumstances and situations where they need to towards the 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.600 end of the year. And they've done that, and Shawn's 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.520 a very good coach at making sure that they're playing 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.040 their best football when it comes time. So yeah, I 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.320 do think there's an element of that. I think more 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.840 than anything though, it was more of a bigger picture 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.119 of people letting you know, hey, whoever wrote this, whatever 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.239 he wrote, whatever he said, we don't care in here 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.040 because we trust our coach and we're not going to 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.680 worry about that now. Saran Neil told me it was 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.000 a distraction that week, like, hey, just another thing we 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.199 had to overcome. But Jordan Poyer said, I didn't care. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.600 I just went out and played football. And I love 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.320 Sean mcturmott. So I guess doesn't matter who you talked to, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.000 but there is there is a a something to be said. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.879 I guess for the fact that they have played in 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.000 one four Street game since that happened. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:31.960 Right, And that's one of the benefits of having that 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.080 continuity of those leaders and the guys that have produced 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.159 for a long time in that building is that they 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.000 tend to be those galvanizing forces that can really grather 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.600 the troops. And I've explained this to my show a 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.439 few times, and going back to the Baltimore game, I 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.720 had Charles Davis in the podcast last week and he 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.880 talked about I was like, what's the moon going into 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.680 a game where both teams are coming off big wins 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.440 over Dallas and San Francisco, respectively, how do you match 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.560 that emotional level? And he was like, Travis, the Ravens 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.679 have been here for the last five six years bringing 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.119 these big time games, and for the Dolphins it's not 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.040 entirely new, but it's newer. And that's the same case 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.880 here against this Buffalo bil Ty and like you mentioned, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.600 going for their fourth straight division championship, Miami trying to 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.919 buck them off that for their first and fifteen years. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.040 But going back to the McDermott idea and the more 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.520 I suppose tangible and actually, you know thing that you 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.960 should discuss here is the change in the defense of 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.239 schematics and just the production overall because they went from 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.160 Leslie Fraser to now Sean McDermott back in charge calling 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.400 the defense on his own. What's been the biggest shift 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.119 there going from Fraser to McDermott, especially down the stretch 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.480 here in December, Like you talked about, with all the 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:30.680 good games they've played. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.800 Well, I would say aggressiveness is number one, and that 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.240 can manifest itself in a lot of forms. Right, Aggressiveness 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.480 doesn't have to be blitzing. Everybody thinks about blitzing a 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.879 little more Manda man defense. Those are traditionally very heavy's 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.480 own defense, but they mixed up some maandom Man. They've 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.880 done that just the way they attack, the way they 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.800 use and they've always been a penetrating defense with the 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.560 defensive line, but even this year more so, I think 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.120 they're relying on more penetration up front. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:54.520 Ed Oliver's having an incredible year. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:55.240 You know. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.520 You see Dakwon Jones having a great first few games 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.080 and he gets heard, he comes back, you know, and 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.159 that's why they're lining and t Robernarder he has these 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.280 gouty stats because he's he's got to make plays. He 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.840 has to make plays because they're penetrating on the defensive line. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.240 I think that's a big one. But more than anything, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.280 to me, it's not even the difference from Leslie Fraser 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.480 to Sean McDermott. It's what this defense has had to 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.840 morph into with all the injuries. You go back and 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.960 I know Miami Primate River, Miami has incredible injuries. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:20.280 We get it. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:21.720 So Miami fans understand this. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:21.960 Though. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.680 Week four, they lose Shreavius White against the Dolphins for 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.080 the year. Week five, they lose Matt Mlano. To me, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.680 I mean, he's an All Pro last year, he's playing 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.080 at all Pro level through the first four games. Same 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.720 game they lose Akwon Jones. That's that's an elite player 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.280 at every level. Basically that they lost and for the 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.879 next few weeks it was kind of uneven and the 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.960 Bills and they were trying to figure out and what 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.679 we've seen here is and I think this has been 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.480 a very impressive job by Sean McDermott on the defensive side. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.200 They had to learn kind of where each part fits 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.320 and go through this a little bit. The coaching staff 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.399 had to learn, the players had to learn, and now 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:52.399 we're seeing the fruits of that. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.080 And honestly, Travis. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.800 Maybe the biggest thing was the addition of Rosuell Douglas 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.119 at the trade deadlineup. This guy's unbelievable. I mean, I 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.159 can't believe the Green Bay Packers traded him away for 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.600 a third round pick is what they did. Basically, it's 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.159 and they gave up a third and they got a 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.680 fifth back. Actually the Bills. He was just named DFC 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.639 Defensive Player of the Week this week. This guy breaks 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:16.640 on the ball, gets his hands on balls, mix plays. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.240 It's incredible and that has mitigated the loss of Trevius Wape. 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.520 But it's a loud Sean McDermott also, I think to 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.639 play a little bit differently than he'd had to go 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.040 with Dane Jackson, who's a fine player, but he doesn't 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.959 give you the options a guy like Russell Douglas does. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:29.880 Who's long, He can play man to man, he could 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:31.240 play a little safety, he can do a lot of 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:32.840 different things, and I think that's been a difference too. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.240 I think my reaction when I saw that trade announced was, man, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:37.600 you let the Bills off the hook. They were just 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.119 gonna have to get into their depth and they were 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.200 gonna have to, you know, try to overcome some losses 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.080 that they probably weren't equipped to do so, and you 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.760 go out and give him a player he's probably playing 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:46.960 at a Pro Bowl level. So that's what great teams 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.159 do that I find ways to replace their losses and 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.240 their injuries and all that stuff. And we've seen Miami 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.560 do that as well. So fun matchup coming here on 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.600 Sunday night. I always end these podcasts now the same way. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:58.480 I give you the option to fill in the blank 0:20:58.560 --> 0:20:59.200 after the question. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:20:59.920 It's two full. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.680 The Bills win this game if, then you take over 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.000 and the Dolphins win this game. If and that's yours 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:05.360 as well. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:07.560 I think the Bills win this game if they just 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.719 don't turn the ball over to Miami and give them 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:11.560 extra opportunities. 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:13.360 And we know that Josh Allen can throw interceptions. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.000 We've seen that and people talk about him turnover machine 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:16.959 whatever I mean, I don't care. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:18.479 Josh can throw an interception every game. 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.240 You take that because he leads the NFL in touchdown 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.679 passes and touchdowns, and that's what you get from Josh Allen. Right, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.400 you're gonna get the wild plays. He has not thrown 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.320 multiple interceptions though, since before Joe Brady took over, and 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.160 I think that's important to note, even though he usually 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:32.240 has won a game. But don't turn the ball over. 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.600 That's fumbles too. James Cook has had problems holding out 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.600 of the ball at times. He's fumbled the ball away 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.840 a few times. So I think, don't turn the ball over. 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.399 Maybe one turnover you can withstand. Don't give Miami extra opportunities. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.440 For Miami, I think they got to hit some plays 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:46.920 down the field if they have to, if the Bills 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:48.879 keep them in front of them and force them to 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.960 kind of go eight ten play drives, I don't think 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:53.680 that's a good recipe for Miami in this game. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.160 They're gonna have to be a little risky. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.480 I know they probably won't have geal and waddle, but 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.680 the Bills don't typically give up long passes. But Miami 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.760 might have to hit a couple in this game to 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.080 get over the top of them and force the issue 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:05.479 a little bit. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:07.840 It'd be a lot of fun on Sunday night on 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.560 NBC A twenty kickoff fifteen kickoff rather Dolphins hosting the 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.360 Buffalo Bills at Sal Sports on Social Sal, I appreciate 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.199 your time, man, five fifty wgr up there in Buffalo, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.040 and you have a new podcast that just dropped recently, too, right, 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:20.840 Can you tell us about that. 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.520 Yeah, it's called Sal's House actually, and actually I invite 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:25.879 people in my house and I talked to them and 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:27.320 it doesn't have to be about sports. 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:27.600 I had. 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:29.840 We have a guy here, a couple of guys. Actually 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.080 they call the Buffalo Singing Cops. And there are two 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.959 police officers who've actually been on Ellen and they've been 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:37.480 on different shows and they're singers and they do national 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:38.960 anthem and one of them is good friend of my mo. 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.119 Badgery came over. We talked about his life and career. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:42.639 Those are the kinds of things we like to do, 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.200 but of course lots of football stuff. Eric Wood was on, 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.440 so I appreciate you saying that, and of course it's 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.680 always game day in Buffalo as well myself Matt Bove. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:51.560 That's part of the Odyssey Network that I'm on on 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:53.320 WGR Sports Radio five fifty as well. 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:54.479 Well, keep killing it, man. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:56.200 I appreciate you come on here and doing our show, 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.359 and I would say best of luck Sunday, but that 0:22:58.400 --> 0:22:58.960 would be a lie. 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.280 So hopefully we see you guys maybe again down the 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:02.200 road in the postseason. 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:04.000 Ah, you got it, man, I'll see on Sunday. 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.920 It's so funny doing those podcasts with the opposing beat 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.000 guys who I just think the world of, but the 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.200 team that they cover I don't think the world of. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.320 So it's like this funny balance on those shows. But yeah, 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:15.960 how good is he? I mean, Syal's the best. 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.280 Gives us good information. Also a very nice guy, which 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.240 goes a long way with your boy. 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:21.000 All right. 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:23.639 Before we get to the assistant coach audio on the 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:28.119 third segment of the podcast, a couple of the daily 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.160 listeners really want my attention, So I'm gonna go ahead 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:32.560 and give it to him here because I have a 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.639 couple of reviews from people that have left reviews in 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:38.800 the past, and I remember your names because of this, 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.480 and you just keep updating those reviews with one star. 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:43.600 And what's actually really funny about this one is there's 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:45.679 two stars. So I'm gonna go ahead and read two 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:49.399 of these reviews for you guys, amid other reviews that 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.520 are much nicer than these ones. So I do appreciate 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:55.000 you guys doing that. If you haven't had a chance 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.119 to do so yet, whether it's Apple, Spotify, wherever you 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.600 get your podcasts from, go find review section, leave five 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.160 stars or one star if you want, whatever you want 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:07.000 to do, and just leave a comment in there, because 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.080 those are the algorithms that help the podcast get populated 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:11.240 out to more Dolphins fans. 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:13.640 And so I always say it's a free podcast. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:15.879 I've never once charged in the seven years I've been 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:18.920 doing daily podcasts on the Miami Dolphins, never once charged 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:22.640 a cent for anything. I don't really read your ads 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:26.960 anymore with Locked on Dolphins, but not on here. We 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:29.240 have the mid roles, but I don't read live liners. 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.280 So the one thing I ask is for reviews because 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.720 it helps the podcast get out to more Dolphins fans. 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:38.639 And also I heard this take on the Around the 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.639 NFL podcast Once upon Time from Greg Rosenthal, and I 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:43.560 agree with him that if you leave a one star 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.679 review on a podcast, you're a bad person because it doesn't. 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:47.120 Do you any good. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.800 It's not going to change anything, and ill it does 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:53.120 is potentially affect the livelihood of the person you're rating. 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.080 That's the only outcome from that that you can get. 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:57.960 Which if you want that from someone, I think it 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:00.480 means you're a bad person. So yah, yeah, Just I 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:03.200 want to read these two negative reviews because they made 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.320 me laugh, and I want to give you your attention 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.280 that you're looking for because the first one from Dolphin Ray, 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:08.800 What's up? 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:09.040 Ray? 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:10.600 You do this all the time, Buddy. 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:12.920 We talk about how bad the podcast is, but you 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:16.560 always update your review, which is interesting. I mean, I 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:19.240 hate watch some stuff, but I wouldn't listen to a 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:21.840 podcast every day that I hate. But basically, I got 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.040 a one star review here because I said that Connor 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:27.320 Williams is a good center and he disagreed. So the 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:29.640 bad snap in the Kansas City game because this post 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:32.800 was on November the seventh, because Connor Williams had a 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.240 bad snap in the Kansas City game. The podcast gets 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:37.720 one star, So Dolphin Ray, I see you. I'll look 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:40.000 forward to your update here shortly when you hear this. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.400 The other one that prompted this segment was the one 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:46.280 from l TS five six to two. Is that the 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.440 Suns guy I don't know, the guy that comments on 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.880 both me and Kyle's podcasts and hates on us, which 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:54.720 is pretty funny, But this one was funny. And here's 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:56.639 why it's so funny because I got two stars. But 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:58.600 listen to the review that gave me two stars. That 0:25:58.720 --> 0:25:59.840 sounds like a one star review. 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:01.200 Horrible. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:02.080 It's the title. 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:04.920 He talks too fast, he is too wordy, and he 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:09.280 sounds stupid. Get rid of this guy and get somebody else. 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:12.680 Plus it's a one word sentence. Plus he just talks 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:14.640 guys up, talks up guys. 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:17.040 Like a Homer two of this and that. How's to 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.680 now Travis still elite? Yeah? 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:23.040 He is, man, He's the fucking He's the freaking starting 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:25.600 quarterback in the AFC for the Pro Bowl, voted by 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:27.360 the GMS and the coaches and the players. 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:29.480 You dufuss. 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:33.359 Because he threw two interceptions against the best defense in 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:34.760 the NFL. He's not a good player anymore. 0:26:35.200 --> 0:26:35.639 Got it here? 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:35.880 Man? 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:38.920 These people the hell out of here. All right, let's 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:41.040 go ahead and take our last break right there. I've 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:42.880 got to say there are a lot of really nice 0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:46.000 comments in here as well. Jay Joffy five four seven 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:49.159 a five star review best in depth Analysis, and I 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.880 appreciate that you talk about the great guest, real analytical, 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:53.199 tons of tape breakdowns. 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:55.880 I really appreciate that what we're going for here. Thank 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:57.200 you for that. Fins up ten to ten. 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:00.960 You basically nailed the podcast missions that I produced this 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.680 year for my bosses, talking about in depth analysis but 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:07.720 not getting too far in the weeds and being loose 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:10.120 with it. That's kind of my entire approach here, Hence 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:12.960 all the references and the jokes, because you know, I've 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:14.720 been doing podcasts for a long time now and I'm 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:17.720 a big podcast consumer, and I would venture to guess 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:19.320 that most of you guys out there agree with this. 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.200 The you usen to a podcast for the content. The 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:25.159 content the material brings you in, but what keeps you 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:29.040 is the personality of the podcast host. That's why so 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:32.480 many podcasters fail, because even if they have good material, 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:36.240 you have to entertain Like, you can't do this and 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:41.359 not be entertaining. So that's what we're going for here. Shoot, 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:43.800 I don't know how to pronounce this. Amerzel fins up. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.760 Great pod, Love Travis's attitude and thoughts every week, love it, 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:51.639 wanting more, RBSKI love and drive time. Somebody asked about 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:54.720 a Raykwon Davis replacement next year. I don't want to 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:56.880 go into that because that's an as season podcast. But yeah, 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.159 there's all kinds of really a positive positives in here. 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:01.080 I mean, there's eight hundred five reviews and it's a 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:03.200 four point eight stars out of five. But I just 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:05.760 thought those negative ones were really funny and I wanted 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:06.600 to share them with you guys. 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:08.560 So oh yes, one. 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:11.440 More before I forget anybody out that listens to the 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:15.280 podcast close to the Sarasota Springs area in New York State. 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:18.159 If you are, hit me up on Twitter. I have 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.119 a question for you. I need some help with something 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:22.760 regarding that area of the world. 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:23.600 Hit me up. 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:24.399 That's that. 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:26.680 Let's go ahead and take our last break right here. 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.879 Move on to the third segment, Pick the week eighteen games. 0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:34.479 It's over, guys, No TNF tonight, It's over. Season's over, 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:37.840 like damn comes and goes faster every single year. Pick 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:40.160 the week eighteen games and here from the assistant coaches 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:42.840 all of that. Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:48.000 brought to you by Auto Nation. Final segment here for 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:51.440 the NFL picks of the twenty twenty three season. We'll 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:53.200 do the playoffs as well. Ten and three in the 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:55.040 playoffs last year. Did not pick the playoff games in 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.120 twenty twenty and one apparently, But just looking at my 0:28:57.240 --> 0:29:00.760 overall record here the last three years on the show, 0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:05.960 I need nine wins to match my career high in 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:06.880 pick wins. 0:29:07.160 --> 0:29:08.160 Tend to beat it. 0:29:08.520 --> 0:29:10.000 And how fitting is it that we're going into a 0:29:10.000 --> 0:29:13.480 week where we have like literally fourteen backup quarterbacks playing 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:14.520 in the games on Sunday. 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:15.360 Tough week. 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:17.680 Let's go ahead and cue the music and pick these games. 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:20.640 And you guys know, we have certain preferences with regards 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:24.960 to what happens on both the first game on Saturday 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.560 and then what happens on Sunday. But just going over 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:31.560 the games and making these picks, I think it's gonna 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:34.040 be either at Kansas City or home for Buffalo in 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:35.240 the wild card round. 0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:37.560 So that's the so bringing truth that let's go ahead 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:39.320 and play the music and pick these games. 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.560 So Saturday, you probably want Pittsburgh to beat Baltimore, even 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:46.080 though there is the best route possible is for Baltimore 0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:48.360 to beat Pittsburgh, which is what I think will happen 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:49.680 in that game. Now, I don't think you get the 0:29:49.720 --> 0:29:51.680 results in the back end and make that kind of 0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:54.800 worth it for Dolphins fans. But I'm picking Baltimore with 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:57.280 Tyler Huntley to beat Mason Rudolph and knock out the 0:29:57.320 --> 0:29:59.760 Pittsburgh Steelers, even though I think they'd be motivated to 0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:01.960 have the Steelers in the playoffs, so maybe they give 0:30:02.000 --> 0:30:04.360 us that grace. But we'll find out come Saturday at 0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:04.880 four thirty. 0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:06.760 The night game a fun one win. 0:30:06.640 --> 0:30:08.920 It in loser goes home, Houston Tech and the Colts. 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:11.719 I'm taking the Texans because even though I love Gardner Minshew, 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:15.720 I love C. J. Stroud much much more. Jacksonville over Tennessee. 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:17.400 I just may find a way to get that win 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.600 and win the division. Of course, if they do not 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:23.120 and Baltimore also wins, now you're talking about a really 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:24.720 good scenario here for your Miami Dolphins. 0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:26.720 But We'll see what happens there. Give me Jacksonville to 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:29.640 win that one. If you get one of these games wrong. 0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:31.240 If Traps gets one of those two games wrong, we're 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:33.800 gonna be in good shake. Detroit over the Vikings. I 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:36.320 think that Dan Campbell wants to play for the win 0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:38.520 no matter what. Give me the Saints over the Falcons 0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:40.840 and the Who Cares Bowl in the NFC South Division race, 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:43.480 the Patriots over the Jets because the Jets never score 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.200 any points on Bill Belichick. The Bucks over the Panthers. 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:49.000 I'll take the Bengals to beat Jeff Driscoll and the Browns. 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:51.120 Man, if the Bengals had just beaten. 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:52.920 The Chiefs last week, we also have that game as 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:56.680 a potential knockout Buffalo situation, but it didn't happen that way. 0:30:56.960 --> 0:30:58.880 Green Bay over Chicago, although I'd. 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:00.680 Really like the way Justin Field and that Bears team 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:03.520 is playing right now. Dallas over Washington to win the 0:31:03.600 --> 0:31:04.160 NFC East. 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:05.320 Want to collapse with the Eagles. 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:08.120 Man, Give me the Broncos over the Raiders and another 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:11.160 Who Cares game. Give me the Eagles over the Giants, 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.000 although they might be resting guys as well, but they 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.280 haven't really announced whether they not are or not yet. 0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:17.520 Give me the Seahawks over the Cardinals in the game 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:19.520 they have to have also have to have the Packers 0:31:19.600 --> 0:31:21.880 lose for them to get in not looking good for Seattle. 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:25.240 The Niners over the Rams because I like Sam Donald 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:27.719 more than I like Carson Wentz. Give me the Chargers 0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:30.640 over the Chiefs, who are playing Blaine Gabbert in that game. 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:33.400 And I'm picking Buffalo over Miami. 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:36.200 I know, I know him, I know I know. 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:39.800 Let's go ahead and stop music and get to some 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.080 sound bites here from the assistant coaches on Thursday, and 0:31:43.200 --> 0:31:45.440 start with Vic Fangio, who was asked about the Bills 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:48.000 offensive line and the continuity in the fact that they 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:53.600 have only basically missed four percent of a starter on 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:54.720 offensive snaps. 0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:56.200 That was said terribly. 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.560 They have five players on their offensive line who have 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:01.080 exceeded a thousand snaps year and they have the fewest 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:03.840 percentage of missnaps by their offensive line. What does that 0:32:03.920 --> 0:32:05.480 continuity do for an offense coach? 0:32:05.760 --> 0:32:10.200 Yeah, it's unusual for that to happen, as witness Tire 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:15.280 locally with our offensive line. And they're good players too, 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:22.080 So when you put continuity with good players, good things happen, 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:25.440 and they pull a lot of their linemen. They do 0:32:25.520 --> 0:32:28.120 a good job scheme in their run game, and I 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.280 think that's attributed to continuity. 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:33.120 Also, I'm gonna go ahead and play a common thread 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:36.240 idea here with both coach Frank Smith and Vic Fangio, 0:32:36.360 --> 0:32:39.320 because the two games that you probably as a Dolphins fan, 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:41.520 want to flush out of your memory bank forever are 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:44.720 the Buffalo and Baltimore games and the Titans game as well. 0:32:44.800 --> 0:32:47.880 But just in terms of the overall score differential and 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:51.040 the I guess embarrassing fashion of those games, those two 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:53.680 to me stand out above the rest. Here's coach on 0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:56.080 the difference and the common threads in those two games. 0:32:56.560 --> 0:33:02.480 Yeah, we didn't play well early, you know, and things snowballed, 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:07.040 and it wasn't one area that was letting us down. 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:10.240 It was basically all phases, both run and pass. 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:13.160 And I think when that happens, you know, you get 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:16.480 not back on your heels playing wise, but it makes 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:17.760 you feel that way a little bit. 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:20.720 Think tomorrow I'm going to ask coach McDaniel about the 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:23.000 idea of big games and big moments and how you 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.240 train for those, because I keep thinking about how the 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:28.440 Charles Davis comment last week in Baltimore. This is business 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.480 as usual for them, right, They're used to big games, 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:32.520 and for the Buffalo Bills the last four years, they're 0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:33.960 used to big games as well. This is a young 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:36.479 Dolphins team, and there are players Ron Armsted and Tyreek 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.040 Hill and Jalen Ramsey that have played in those big moments, 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:41.800 but for the most part, the core of your roster 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:44.880 just hasn't had those big games experience, especially at the 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:47.360 quarterback position. That's why I always say that the idea 0:33:47.400 --> 0:33:49.000 of a legacy game for a twenty four to twenty 0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:51.440 five year old quarterback is kind of silly because how 0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:53.600 often do I have to look back at Peyton Manning's 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:55.920 career and realize how tough it was for him to 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:59.400 find deep postseason success, and the same questions were asked 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:02.120 about him shrinked too much in big games. It actually 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:04.440 went back to Tennessee for him, and then he won 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:07.040 a Super Bowl and he was carried by a defense 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:08.719 that yearly because the offense and Ozer six for the 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:11.319 Colts wasn't that good, but the defense got hot when 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:12.960 Bob Sanders came back for the playoff run. 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:13.319 That year. 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:16.040 That's a segment I want to do on tomorrow's podcast. 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:18.600 But I just thought that was an interesting comparison there, 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:21.640 and I'm fascinated by this, by this topic, and so 0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:23.200 that's why I wanted to play these sound bites for 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:24.960 you guys and go ahead and pick it up here 0:34:24.960 --> 0:34:27.800 with coach Frank Smith, who was asked about the shootouts 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:30.040 they've played in this year. The Chargers game in Week one, 0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:32.200 and the offense was more than up for the challenge, 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:34.560 more so than the Chargers offense was. But in the 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:37.520 Buffalo and Baltimore games, you matched points early and then 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:39.480 things got away from you late. And the theme was 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.440 kind of common there, right, pressing offense that turned the 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:45.160 ball over and just no longer could execute in the 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:47.520 same way the Buffalo offense with the Baltimore offense did. 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:50.680 So here's coach Frank Smith two questions the shootout idea 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.719 and the common thread between both Buffalo and Baltimore games. 0:34:53.920 --> 0:34:55.640 Well, it's a good question because I don't think really 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:57.920 you go in with the you can never go in 0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:00.920 with mindset of this is going to be what's necessary. 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:05.480 So it's more of you approach each moment like each 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:07.759 moment is the most important, all right. If you look 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:12.440 at the entirety of a situation, you'll your the natural 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:16.279 human self will take you to too many conclusions and 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:19.719 too many possibilities, and then that leads you to maybe 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:22.400 think you need to do more. But in reality is 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:24.759 you just stay in the moment. You realize you maximize 0:35:24.800 --> 0:35:28.640 this moment, you're so in tune to what is necessary now, 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:33.120 and then stack them so the minute that you start thinking, 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:37.399 you know, like I go back to college, like I'm 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:38.920 getting to sing in a class, and all of a sudden, 0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:40.319 I need to get a on this exam to save 0:35:40.400 --> 0:35:42.120 myself because I don't hear all my dad give them 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:44.200 me hell. And then all of a sudden you start pressing, 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:45.839 you start thinking about things, and all of a sudden 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:48.920 you come out and you get a B minus. You're like, damn, like, 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:53.360 because all of a sudden, you've made a result for yourself. 0:35:54.760 --> 0:35:56.440 As opposed to it's like, no, what do you really 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:56.759 need to do? 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:58.600 If I want to get that result, I focus on 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:02.200 making sure each moment is at my best and making 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:06.640 sure that I stay now, because it's the result you 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:11.000 seek will come through the process of you know, deliberately 0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:13.480 staying in the now. And I think that's the most 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:15.480 important thing that we try and strive around here is 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.719 just our intent to each day, each moment, and I 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:21.719 think that allows you for in those you bank those 0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.759 reps for the future. If every moment you're playing is 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:30.080 of that intent the highest level of competition. Do you 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:32.359 take that to each day, each moment of what you're doing, 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:34.839 because this run play might not seem like a whole lot, 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:36.160 but then what if we call in a game and 0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:37.040 it got thirty yards? 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:39.840 Did you all play together or something? You know what 0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:42.240 I mean? I think that that is how you approach 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:42.880 those moments. 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.879 And I think that's just something that I know Mike 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:48.239 really strives with all of us and on us on 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:50.000 offense stay in the moment. 0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:52.080 And has the moment at time gotten too big for 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:53.400 your guys here's coach Smith. 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:54.640 I think that got too big. 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.040 It's just like you can't It's easy to sit back 0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:00.840 and like, what's the correlation between the two times and 0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:04.319 try and find the similarities where there's different variables at play, 0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:06.720 Like that was a different point in the season coming 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:09.759 off of you know, a huge win versus Denver, you know, 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:13.720 and then now this week at Baltimore was a different 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.600 set of circumstances where it's like as we go through 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:19.920 the different games and different moments, it's like, you know, 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:22.359 learning form because you know now as we're getting into 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:25.040 this game and hopefully the future is just going to 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:28.600 be now right, staying with that, making sure that all 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:29.960 the things we've learned throughout. 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:32.040 The season we can maximize one at a time. 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:36.120 But yeah, I mean that's the hard part. It's like 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:38.239 you don't know what is going to be expected on 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:41.040 so that you can't forecast it. All you can forecast 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:44.960 is my individual job and being making sure I maximize 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:46.680 it as we go forward in the game. 0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:49.000 Let's go ahead and finish up here with offensive line 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:52.239 coach Butch Berry, who always just commands a great press 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:54.680 conference when we get him. He was asked about the 0:37:54.840 --> 0:37:57.520 commonality between the pressure that Bills put on the Dolphins 0:37:57.560 --> 0:38:00.200 offensive line back in Week four with that four man 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:02.560 rush and what can you do to make sure the 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:03.520 result isn't the same. 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:04.720 Here's coach Barry. 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:08.239 I think that we're in a much better place overall communication. 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:10.680 I think that when you do bring up that it's 0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:14.320 a guy's first time playing center, and I was his 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:18.680 first time starting in a game at that position. There's 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:23.600 naturally some cadence issues to work through with having to 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:26.719 go silent on the road and just overall communication of 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:30.239 everything and making the calls and being the centerpiece and 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:33.719 the voice for the whole unit to work as one. 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:39.040 And so I think that in that situation, based upon everything, 0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:45.759 for him, he battled and he utmost respect and how 0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:47.480 he performed, but he is in a much better place 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:49.799 at this moment in time than then. I would say 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:53.400 that that's one piece to it. Another piece, obviously, is 0:38:53.600 --> 0:38:58.319 when somebody does go down that factors. And I think 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:05.200 that was a game that, you know, overall just kind 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:07.160 of wasn't it. We felt like we were in a 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:09.879 position where we was best suited to throw the ball 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:12.680 more than normal. And so anytime that you're throwing the 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:16.799 ball probably more than you typically anticipate, you increase your 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:18.319 variables and opportunities for. 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:22.440 Them to have what would be viewed as success. 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:25.440 Right, really fun stuff on this edition of the Drive 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:27.440 Time podcast, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:31.000 here tomorrow. Marcel Louis Jack from ESPN has covered both 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:33.719 Buffalo and Miami, so I'll be a fun conversation with him. 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:36.040 You don't want to miss that, But that's my time. 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:40.279 No football tonight, enjoyed watching friggin Netflix. 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