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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: of leader for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not

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Speaker 1: even in the stragedyre of normalcy all right here in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the week. One Bill's Live Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. You know, the Monday Night game.

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Speaker 1: It'll just screw up your whole week because it's kind

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Speaker 1: And then it's like, hey it's Monday. No, it's not,

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Speaker 1: It's funny how you try to gauge the days of

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Speaker 1: Feel like, yeah, what does it feel like today? Or

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Speaker 1: how full is my laundry basket? Like how close am

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Speaker 1: the end of the week. You know, the little parameters

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Speaker 1: you use. It's trash night at our house tonight. I

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like you're rummaging around the house clearing out

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Speaker 1: all the cans I got, and I got a long driveway.

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Speaker 1: And that's right, the tasker company got that yet, right

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Speaker 1: and the quote finger task tusk the tasker state where

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Speaker 1: himself with his trusty dog. That's right, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably not big enough, budge. Yeah, he couldn't even take

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Speaker 1: he could pull off, he could pull that's those aren't big.

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Speaker 1: If you can convince him that it's not work, you

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Speaker 1: got a chance. Just you get the old stick hanging

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Speaker 1: over his head with the with the doggie treat dangling

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Speaker 1: you it went to the Saves game last night. I

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Speaker 1: know you did. Showed up a little late. Good for

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Speaker 1: The funny thing that I saw on Twitter Steve was

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Speaker 1: are like, hey, I'm just saying, you know, the Sabers

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Speaker 1: where why are we going there? Man? Why are we

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Speaker 1: doing that? One Buffalo man? Come on, everybody, if whoever's winning,

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Speaker 1: just be happy for him. There's no need to compare

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Speaker 1: and contrast. We're rooting for all of them, So come on, now,

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Speaker 1: I'm totally all the same team. You can do, get petty.

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Speaker 1: You can take what and you know I'm season ticket

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Speaker 1: holder for the Saves. Yes we know this, so you

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Speaker 1: can put and even that even with that investment in

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Speaker 1: the club. Yeah, you can put what I know about

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Speaker 1: hockey into a thimble and still have room for alcohol. Okay, right,

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Speaker 1: so where we go? All I can say is I

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Speaker 1: doing different. I can't tell if they're better players worst players.

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Speaker 1: I can't I don't know any of that stuff. Well,

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Speaker 1: just take the al Davis approach to hockey. Just win baby,

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Speaker 1: there you go. That's all I can All I can

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Speaker 1: say is our guys, they they are in it together.

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Speaker 1: You can tell that they like you, seem to like

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Speaker 1: So you're early at both ends most of the time.

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Speaker 1: where it goes. I'm I'll be as as always. A

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Speaker 1: It hasn't evolved in a in a direction where you'll

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Speaker 1: No good? Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, wait,

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Speaker 1: it's you can't get much worse than blew it. The

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Speaker 1: only way, the only other. If you think about it, though,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna get your arms around and put embraces

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Speaker 1: like there's no other occupation he could have, that's perfect

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Speaker 1: from unless he was like a jazz trumpetist. Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: you go. You know that could have been another the

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Speaker 1: hell of a trumpet player. What was his last name?

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Speaker 1: Blew it? He was great, he can blew it blow

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Speaker 1: yeah right yeah. Maybe he changes or saxophone player or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, maybe he changes his middle

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Speaker 1: name too. I'm not gonna or I've never no way

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Speaker 1: he I've never blew it right something. Wow, that's you

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Speaker 1: may have to get creative with your middle name. It's

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Speaker 1: almost like it's like the comedy routine those guys where

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Speaker 1: they come up with, oh my gosh, key and peel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: key and peel. They can be different, funny, you know,

439
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Speaker 1: because they always named these players, these college players and

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Speaker 1: pro players that have unbelievable names of all time, like

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Speaker 1: that's a special one. They should get him on the

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Speaker 1: next the next iteration of that, because that would be

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Speaker 1: pretty darn entertaining. Want to get to you to you

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Speaker 1: some comments from coach McDermott from his comments yesterday to

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Speaker 1: the media post mortem from the Monday night football game.

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Speaker 1: Bye week plans. The players are going to get some

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Speaker 1: time off here as well as the coaches. You got

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Speaker 1: to get away from football during the bye week for

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So here is coach McDermott outlining the

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Speaker 1: plans for the players and the coaches during the bye week.

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Speaker 1: I never want to lose a game. The reality of

452
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Speaker 1: it is, it's it's hard to go undefeated. Um And

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Speaker 1: you never really want to sit on a bye, sit

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Speaker 1: on a loss, over over and bye, just because of

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Speaker 1: the feeling. You want to get it, get rid of

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Speaker 1: it as as quickly as possible. That said, it does

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Speaker 1: give us a chance to have some truthful conversations and

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Speaker 1: reflect and evaluate while we got the results we got

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Speaker 1: last night and trying to improve our football team going forward.

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Speaker 1: For any competitor, it's hard to it's hard to sleep

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Speaker 1: at night after lost like like that one in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: the one last night, or any loss for that matter,

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Speaker 1: and um, it just it just it just burns inside.

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Speaker 1: And um So, I'm not sure if if if by

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Speaker 1: the by the hours that pass, if it gets easier

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Speaker 1: or harder to be honest with you. Um So, I

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Speaker 1: think I'll figure that out as as the week goes

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Speaker 1: on here. But um yeah, I mean we got to

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Speaker 1: take a hard look at some things. We were too

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Speaker 1: inconsistent overall. Last night and try and get out there

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Speaker 1: and play better football when we get back here. And

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Speaker 1: coach also said the players will be off effective Thursday

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Speaker 1: through Sunday, come back to work Monday. Coaches will be

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Speaker 1: given some time off similar to that as well. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a lot of times some of those coaches stay here

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Speaker 1: and pour over self scouting and yeah, they find things new,

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Speaker 1: Yeah they And you can imagine, um, if you have

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Speaker 1: a job you really love, which all these and I

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Speaker 1: say job, but most of these guys would agree it's

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Speaker 1: coaching is not a career, and it's not a job.

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Speaker 1: It's a lifestyle. And that's what these guys are. It's

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Speaker 1: the lifestyle. And so when you have something you really

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Speaker 1: love to do, when you get time off of it,

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Speaker 1: you want to do what you love so passionate about it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: most of us. You work on the thing, you go

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Speaker 1: out and you go you go play golf, or you

487
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Speaker 1: go hiking, or you go fishing or you would you know,

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Speaker 1: you go boating or skiing or whatever. You know. That's

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Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's their eighteen holes. Yeah. The coaching is

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Speaker 1: being able to sit in your office and pour over

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Speaker 1: film or other teams film or scouting reports or whatever,

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Speaker 1: because that's how you and that's what you enjoy. So

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Speaker 1: um yeah. So while you're right, these guys get Thursday

494
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Speaker 1: to Sunday off, a lot of them will sneak back

495
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Speaker 1: in the time from just put a few hours in

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Speaker 1: just because they got something they want they've got to

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Speaker 1: find out about. You know, we are up against the

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Speaker 1: break here, so we will step side now because coming

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Speaker 1: up next is ESPN NFL insider and fantasy football expert

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Speaker 1: Field Yates, set to join us to give us his

501
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: ultimate fantasy lineup presented by Fan Duels, and we'll also

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Speaker 1: ask him a little bit about Bill's Titans from Monday night,

503
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Speaker 1: what his biggest takeaway was. Stay tuned for that. Feld

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Speaker 1: Yates coming up next here on One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Callid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brows can taster with you.

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Speaker 1: Time now to welcome in ESPN NFL insider, fantasy football expert,

508
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Speaker 1: host of the fantasy focused football podcast It is One,

509
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Speaker 1: Field Yates to present us with his ultimate fantasy lineup

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Speaker 1: presented by FanDuel. Make every moment more. Before we get

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Speaker 1: to that lineup, Field just your post mortem on the

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Speaker 1: Monday night football game between the Bills and Titans, if

513
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Speaker 1: you will. Steve is not concerned after the defeat at

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Speaker 1: the hands of the Titans by the Bills. My only

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Speaker 1: concern coming out of the game was how they were

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Speaker 1: physically beaten at the line of scrimmage on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball. Where do you come down on that

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Speaker 1: as far as the Bills are concerned, Yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: say sort of. Globally, I'm not concerned about the Bills

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Speaker 1: in terms of their viability as a legit contender in

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Speaker 1: the AFC, especially when you look at the schedule coming

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Speaker 1: out of the BIB There's a very good chance this

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Speaker 1: team is standing it at least seven and two after

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Speaker 1: their first nine games of the season. I think Monday

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Speaker 1: was a reminder, though, that we have seen teams take

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Speaker 1: off early and regular season and crews and sort of

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Speaker 1: put themselves in prime spot once the postseason begins to

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Speaker 1: look like a shoe in for at least the conference finals.

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Speaker 1: The AFC this year that feels a bit more balanced

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Speaker 1: than we've seen it in the past few seasons. Kansas

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Speaker 1: City has been to three straight AFC championship games. They're

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Speaker 1: three and three right now. The Bills, as we know,

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Speaker 1: basically just blitzed right through the regular season last year.

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Speaker 1: And I do think there's a chance the Bills are

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Speaker 1: still the favorites in the AFC. But I think the

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Speaker 1: depth of the conference stood out to me when I

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Speaker 1: look back at that game on Monday night, and your

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Speaker 1: points are both well taken. You know, Chris the offensive

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Speaker 1: and defensive line that probably burned the tape type game

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Speaker 1: for them, especially going into the bye week. At the

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Speaker 1: same time, it will say that Derrick Henry has made

542
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Speaker 1: basically every defense that's coming to his path looks silly

543
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Speaker 1: for forty one straight games. Now, that was the starting

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Speaker 1: point of his breakouts, which took place against the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: in Week fourteen of twenty and nineteen. So perhaps not

546
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Speaker 1: a major surprise that Tennessee once again ran the football effectively.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any inkling of which are the teams

548
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Speaker 1: like from last year in Indianapolis obviously two and four

549
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Speaker 1: starting to maybe climb out of the hole they dug themselves,

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Speaker 1: although they've got a really tough schedule ahead for the

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Speaker 1: remainder of this regular season. Any teams in either conference

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Speaker 1: that you think maybe off the radar that are going

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Speaker 1: to work their way back into the radar by the

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Speaker 1: end of the season. I think if it's a team

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Speaker 1: at someone in the AFC, and I think the Colts

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Speaker 1: makes some sense as one of those teams. You know.

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Speaker 1: I think that, as you mentioned, Steve, the schedule is

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Speaker 1: difficult going forward. The favor they have is that they

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Speaker 1: play in what might be the weakest division in the

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Speaker 1: NFL right now, Tennessee four and two, and then Colts

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Speaker 1: at two and four, and then Jaguars and Texans both

562
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Speaker 1: at one and five. But I do see some toughness

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Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, no surprise, you guys. Both have plenty of

564
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Speaker 1: exposure to Frank Bryk, and oftentimes teams take on the

565
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Speaker 1: personality of their head coach. He's a pretty resolute, resolute guy.

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Speaker 1: He's been down thirty two points at halftime and come

567
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Speaker 1: back and win. I think that's sort of a mindset

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Speaker 1: he's kept as a coach, and you may only need

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Speaker 1: to win nine or ten games to win that division.

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Speaker 1: A big one for them on Sunday Night if they

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Speaker 1: can get a win over the forty nine ers in

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Speaker 1: prime time. I think the narrative surrounding Indie changes. They

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Speaker 1: wax the Texans is past weekend, should have eaten the

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Speaker 1: Ravens the Monday night before that they can get a

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Speaker 1: win over San Francisco. Who might be saying to ourselves,

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Speaker 1: all right, they're a lot closer than we envisioned. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. Let's jump into the ultimate fantasy lineup for

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Speaker 1: you field here for Week seven. It is a tough

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Speaker 1: week because there's a lot of teams with really high

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Speaker 1: profile fantasy players who are on the buy bills, among

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Speaker 1: them Chargers, Cowboys. You really gotta mine the field a

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Speaker 1: little bit more this week, don't you. Guys. It is

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Speaker 1: unlike any week that I can recall, and I know

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Speaker 1: that we've had six teams on a bye in previous years,

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Speaker 1: but this is a week in which you don't not

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Speaker 1: only have six teams on a bye, but you mentioned it, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I mean some heavy hitters. You multiply that by the

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Speaker 1: fact that there are players that are injured right now,

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Speaker 1: like two Browns running backs. Good luck finding players for

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Speaker 1: your roster, but that's why we're here. As we get

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Speaker 1: into our lineup presented by Fan Duels, I might dive

592
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Speaker 1: right into it right look at some of the remaining players.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to quarterback first, and Aaron Rodgers is priced

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Speaker 1: at seventy nine hundred dollars. If you look through the

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Speaker 1: various quarterbacks that are available this week, the price differential

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Speaker 1: between the top of the market and I think really

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Speaker 1: the middle tier is not nearly as significant as you

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Speaker 1: might think. Rogers hasn't been overwhelmingly great in fantasy this year,

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Speaker 1: and there's a difference between fantasy and real football, of course,

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Speaker 1: but he guess the best matchup you can have right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys saw this Washington football team a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Are completely lifeless on defense for a

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Speaker 1: team that has all sorts of talent and came with

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Speaker 1: all sorts of expectations this year. I'd argue they're the

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Speaker 1: most disappointing team in football based off of what the

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Speaker 1: way we were talking about them coming into the year.

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Speaker 1: But I love Aaron Rodgers. You saw the matchup for him.

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Speaker 1: If you look at just fantasy points allowed to opposing quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: is the best there is so far this season, And

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Speaker 1: when you get down to it, you're write, I think

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Speaker 1: it's surprising that at the beginning of the year this matchup,

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Speaker 1: this is probably a week where you think, well, I

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Speaker 1: probably won't play here Rogers against the Washington defense. They

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Speaker 1: got four first round draft picks, They're going to be

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Speaker 1: a really tough front. That's all changed here week six

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Speaker 1: into the seasons, like they lost fits and they lost

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Speaker 1: all their juju. They really did. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they were reading the press clippings too much or

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Speaker 1: if if you go back and look at their schedule

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Speaker 1: last year, guys, it was kind of like praying on

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Speaker 1: the vulnerable. In terms of quarterbacks, it wasn't a bunch

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Speaker 1: of all stars. There's a bunch of guys that maybe

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Speaker 1: were in over their head as starters or rookies things

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Speaker 1: like that. So that may have contributed to why we

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Speaker 1: viewed them a certain way. But they've been disappointing so far. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about players that've been better than that, and

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Speaker 1: let's talk optimism here, and let's talk about running backs.

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Speaker 1: And I think that JD. McKissick for the Washington football

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Speaker 1: team in that same game could be pretty useful. As

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Speaker 1: we're having this conversation, unclear whether Antonio Gibson will be

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Speaker 1: available on Sunday against the Packers. And mkissock has been

632
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Speaker 1: really good for Washington out of the backfield as a

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Speaker 1: pass catcher, which matters ton fandol scoring where you get

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Speaker 1: one point where every reception never drops passes. You're looking

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Speaker 1: at players that have been a bright spot for Washington offensively.

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00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: There aren't many of them. Kissick is one of them.

637
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: And the backers are figured by nine points in this game.

638
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: If they're up big, you know what's gonna happen. She's

639
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: gonna be JD. McKissick who's gonna be catching the ball

640
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. And then another running back that's

641
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: been hot recently. It is Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor has

642
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 1: been amazing in back to back games. You look great

643
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: on Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens. He looked great

644
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: this past weekend against the Houston Texans. If I'm indy,

645
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: one way that I'm taking care of business on the

646
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: road in San Francisco against the team that's coming off

647
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: to buy is getting the football to my best offensive

648
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: player right now, and that's Jonathan Taylor, who's priced heavily

649
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: at eighty eight hundred dollars, but I think as a

650
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: chance to return investment this week was the way that

651
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: he has been playing Yeah, Taylor's the one guy that

652
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: if I look down the Bills schedule, that's the next

653
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: time I'm worried in the form of like a Derrek

654
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: Henry type. Taylor's probably the next guy on the Bills

655
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: running back list coming up on the schedule. All right, receivers, now,

656
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: let's just rip through all three of these. I was

657
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: curious one of your choices because he made a comment

658
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: to Tennessee media late last week that said he's not

659
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: going to get a full workload of snaps until week ten,

660
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: But yet you still have a J. Brown in your lineup.

661
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: Just explain to us why. Yeah, so AJ Brown's trending

662
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Seven thousand is the salary this week,

663
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: and the matchup is just so so good. I mean again,

664
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: you guys saw that Kansas City secondary just two Sunday

665
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: nights ago, right, The Bills did literally whatever they wanted

666
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: with them. It was embarrassing, really good to Kansas City.

667
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: You have a thunder delay and could that wasn't enough

668
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: time for Kansas City to get back on its feet.

669
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: The Bills just carved them up. And I think the

670
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: Tennessee is capable of doing that as well. You know,

671
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: the Titans have not been prolific through the air this year,

672
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: as both AJ Brown and Julio Jones have dealt with

673
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: injuries against Kansas City, if they play like they did offensively,

674
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the Chiefs here this past week

675
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: in the second half against Washington again, and I think

676
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: the Titans are gonna have to keep up. And Brown

677
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: looked pretty solid on Monday nine. A lot of it

678
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: came in the second half. As a matter of fact,

679
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: I think all but one of his targets came in

680
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: the second half against the Bills. I think there's a

681
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: chance that AJ Brown, who despite the fact that, as

682
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: he noted, Chris is not going to play a hundred

683
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: percent of his snaps until much later in the season

684
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: Week ten, specifically, is what he said. I thought there's

685
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: I still think there's enough value there for a J.

686
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: Brown who's and a little bit of a discount because

687
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 1: he played on Monday night and FanDuel is pricing its

688
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: players on Monday before the games. You're getting a little

689
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: bit of that Monday night football discount. Are other two

690
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: wide receivers, by the way, We'll start with Davante Adams,

691
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we really have to justify Davante Adams

692
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: In any given week, he might be the best receiver

693
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: in football. He's certainly in the conversation long with the

694
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: likes of Stefon Diggs and a few others. He's priced

695
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: at nine thousand, which is a lot. Davante Adams leads

696
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: the NFL in receiving yards. He's got just two receiving

697
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: touchdowns so far. The matchup is incredible, though, I just

698
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: sort of gave you the Reggie the Riot act and

699
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: why the you know, the Washington football team defense just

700
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: so bad right now, just so unbelievably underperforming. The secondary

701
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: has not been any better than the front seven. So

702
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: Davante Adam should have a good matchup and then one

703
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: more value play at wide receivers. Marcus Callaway Saints, you

704
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: guys probably recalled during the preseason. He was sort of

705
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: one of those preseason darlings who was catching everything and

706
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: making plays on Monday Night football in that game that

707
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: we saw a national TV well Monday Night of this

708
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: upcoming plays against the Seattle secondary that is spare parts

709
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: right now. They can't cover anybody, you know. They were

710
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: a little better against the Steelers has passed Sunday Night,

711
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: But that might be more about the Steelers and they're

712
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: rather dreadful passing game than it is the Seahawks secondary improving.

713
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: So I think Marcus Callowe has a chance to be

714
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: kind of a get right player who started slow this season,

715
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: but it's starting to show a few signs of life

716
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints went into their bye, and

717
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm starting to sense a pattern with your roster here

718
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: in your ultimate fantasy lineup. You've got also another Ricky

719
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: Seals Jones tight end Washington in that matchup at Green

720
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: Bay at Washington. A lot going on in that game

721
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: for you, no doubt about that. And here's the reason

722
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: why is I think the Green Bay Packers are gonna

723
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: be up big in this game early and since Logan

724
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: Thomas went down due to injury. Ricky Seals Jones played

725
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: all but one snap for the football team's offense all

726
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: but one. That's a remarkable rate for a guy, no

727
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: matter what offense you're in. And it's hard to find

728
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: tight ends. You guys know that in general, it's hard

729
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: to find tight ends. We got players gonna buy. Sorry,

730
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to replace somebody like Dawson Knox.

731
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: We'll see how much time he misses with that hand injury,

732
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: but Ricky Seals Jones has been pretty effective so far.

733
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: The price is fair for a guy that I think

734
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: could see five or seven targets in this game on Sunday.

735
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: And then with your flex player, I'm guessing you're just

736
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: expecting Darryl Williams to see a lot of light boxes

737
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. Yeah, I'm expecting that. I'm expecting him to

738
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: see the opportunities of the goal line again. You know,

739
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: he had two goal line touchdowns this past week, and

740
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: that's some something we saw from Clyde Edwards Laire. But

741
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: twenty one touches for Darryl Williams over sixty rushing yards,

742
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns, some opportunities in the passing game. I

743
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: do think Kansas City can move the ball against Tennessee,

744
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: no surprise there. So I think Daryl Williams is a

745
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be a pretty popular daily fantasy

746
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: play for as long as Clyde Edwards Elaire is out.

747
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: And I think that for flex options, you could do

748
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: a lot worse than our friend darry Williams, and I

749
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 1: might take it right to the defense right to bring

750
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: things home. And that's the New York Giants guys who

751
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: have had so many injuries on offense right now, and

752
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: that part's definitely a mess, and it makes you a

753
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: little bit nervous because you know, if they're playing with

754
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: basically spare parts at all their skilled position players, you

755
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: could have short fields left over for their defense. But

756
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: I do think that this defense has been scrappy once again,

757
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: and that Panther's offense is sputtering right now. I don't

758
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: know if this is nothing more than coincidence, but Sam

759
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: Arnold has thrown seven interceptions this season. Every single one

760
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: of those interceptions has come with Christian McCaffrey off the field.

761
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: Zero interceptions when Christian McCaffrey was on the field alongside

762
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. So maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing, but

763
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: it caught my attention. I think that game could be

764
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: slightly low scoring, and this is a gut check game

765
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: for the New York Giants. If they don't win, that

766
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: game is being played in New York, fans are going

767
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: to be even more furious than they already are. This

768
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: has been a tough stretch for them. Sunday is one

769
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: of their best opportunities to kind of prove they've got

770
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: some real competitive instincts and juice there. Yeah, it's interesting

771
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: because it seems like the Sharks are starting to circle

772
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: GM Dave Gettlman there in New York with the Giants,

773
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: and the other thing that's so peculiar to me with

774
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: respect to Sam Darnold is everybody thought, oh, he's back

775
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: with his running mate Robbie Anderson. They had so much

776
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: success in Carolina. Robbie Anderson has done zero this year.

777
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: I can't figure that one out. Levin targets this past

778
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: week and eleven receiving yards. It's amazing. This is not

779
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: an average Joe player, at least not in the eyes

780
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: of Carolina. This is a player that they thought enough

781
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: of that they signed him to a two year, twenty

782
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: nine point five million dollar extension just before the season began.

783
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: I mean, they were ready to double down on him.

784
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: And you'd think that follow the money usually works. It

785
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: did not work, or has not worked so far in

786
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: this case for Robbie Anderson. I don't have any answer

787
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: for any reason why it hasn't. But as far as

788
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: fantasy is concerned, he'sn't avoid until proven otherwise. Yeah, Yeah,

789
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because this is a really difficult week

790
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: for fantasy players. Minnesota, Buffalo, the Chargers, Dallas, Jacksonville, and

791
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh all on the buy. That really puts it a

792
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: dent in available players and players you can actually put

793
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: on the field. How do you, I mean, how early

794
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: and how late do you wait in the week to

795
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: set these line I guess you wait as long as

796
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: you can and and and obviously, but you know, how

797
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 1: does this affect leagues across across you know, the country

798
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: when they're trying to guys are trying to get an

799
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: edge and all that, and these matchups come out and

800
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: guys that just aren't available guys. Ever, remember that screen

801
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: grab of Frank Beamer a long time for reading a

802
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: tech head coach walking off the field if they're a

803
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: zero zero tie, And it was like Frank Biemer and

804
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: Beamer ball used to be like grinding out, like you know,

805
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: ten six wins all the time. That's it. This weekend's

806
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: going to be like in fantasy, like you're gonna win

807
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 1: a game that in other weeks you'd be the lowest

808
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: scoring team in the league. This week you might be

809
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: the highest scoring team in the league, and honestly, you

810
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: just got to hope for some good fortune and your stars.

811
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: So let's say that you know you have a league

812
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: where you've got Derreck Henry as your running back, or

813
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: you've got the Bante adding to your wide receiver. You

814
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: need you need them to have their typical star level

815
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: games and that's how you're gonna win this Sunday. But

816
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: you're also going to have to accept that you might

817
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: play somebody. It could get you ten points. They could

818
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: get you too. And that's the reality of this weekend.

819
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: I think it'll probably be the most difficult week to

820
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: set lineups throughout the entirety of the regular season. All right, Field, well, listen,

821
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for the time this week. That's Field Yates,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by fan Duel make every moment more

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Speaker 1: with his ultimate fantasy lineup. Steve and I are back

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Speaker 1: in a second here on what Bill's Live presentybody Collie

825
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Speaker 1: to help. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, and now the two

826
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Speaker 1: point conversion. Try to stamped the Josh clips it flips

827
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Speaker 1: it again and I passed to Josh Allen White open.

828
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: They got it. They got it. Josh Allon catches it

829
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: for the two point conversion to pass from Dawson knocks.

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00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: Huge shout out to Dawson. Now was trying to call

831
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: the play off. Um, I was shaking my hands and days,

832
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't don't call it, we can't do it. He

833
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: looked at me and said, I got it. I'll get

834
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Speaker 1: it to you. So, um again, put your body on

835
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: the line like that and and grit through it. That

836
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: was a big time play And uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: got that's off. That's awesome teammate. He's willing to do that,

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841
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Speaker 1: I want to tell you coming up in about ten minutes,

842
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer himself, Thurman Thomas will be joining

843
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: us on the show. I've got as got a couple

844
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: of questions for him regarding the Bill's ability on offense

845
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,959
Speaker 1: to run the ball in the red zone. Numbers aren't

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00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: terrible down there, but I'm just I want to get

847
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on that, since he did an awful lot

848
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Speaker 1: of that during his playing career. So we'll talk to

849
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: Thurm coming up in about ten minutes. We did want

850
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on the tweet sheet, and I

851
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: didn't even reveal what our twitter conversation is today. It

852
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: is a fill in the blank exercise, which you know

853
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: can be fun. So fill in the blank, Bills fans.

854
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: The Bills must blank out of the bye week, so

855
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: you tell us what they need to do there, and

856
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,919
Speaker 1: we'll get to your comments here shortly on the tweet sheet.

857
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: And I think we have some responses already at the

858
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Speaker 1: ready and tweet sheet brought to you as always by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Nick leads us off and says the Bills

861
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: must have a plan for their lines. I doubt there

862
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: is any available player out there at this point who

863
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: can make an immediate difference, So the coaches will have

864
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: to figure out how to make our current lineman play better.

865
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 1: We need better blocking on offense and more quarterback pressure

866
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: on defense, Steve, I gotta tell you, you know, going

867
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: into that game on Monday night, Ryan Taniel was the

868
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: most sack quarterback in football twenty in five games, and

869
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: I think the Bills had one quarterback pressure in the game,

870
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: the hell happened there? I mean, he wasn't getting it

871
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: out fast a ton, He didn't have a lot of

872
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,479
Speaker 1: past attempts more in the second half than the first half.

873
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: At one point he was five for fourteen or something

874
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: like that. So they were doing fine, and it wasn't

875
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: about pressure. Any completion is as good as a sack,

876
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 1: and for a lot of guys all over, the yardage

877
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: helps a lot. But I was not I am not

878
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: totally off board with the offensive line of defensive line,

879
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: how they're doing it right now. They're still very good.

880
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: They still got the number one defense in the league,

881
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: are uh And our offensive line helped this team score

882
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: thirty one points. So you can say what you want

883
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: about the red zone and the last fourth down miss,

884
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: which was you know, was a good play by them.

885
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: They got us on that play, no question. But you know,

886
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: if you score, you're you're talking about double digits that

887
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: the Bills left on the table. And I wouldn't put

888
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: it all on the at the feet of their offensive

889
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: line for them. So they're scoring thirty plus points a

890
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: game when they're playing like from all this that we've

891
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: that you and I've talked about and we've heard they're

892
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: scoring thirty points a game with an offensive line can't

893
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: get it done. Well, they're doing something right, so, you know,

894
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: and I think we are, as you know, evaluators of

895
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: this team and interested parties in this team, and everybody's

896
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: this is the team that we talk about, you know.

897
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: So we're getting to the point now where we're starting

898
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,479
Speaker 1: to I don't want to say nitpick, that's a little

899
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: bit harsh, but you're looking for things to criticize. And

900
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: the problems that the Bills have with their d line, well,

901
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: the problems they have their D line was on Monday

902
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: night were the fact that they played Derrick Henry, who's

903
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: really tough to bring down. The problems that they had

904
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: with their offensive line was that, well they couldn't score

905
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Otherwise we wouldn't be having these conversations.

906
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: This is the same team that I say it again.

907
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: If Josh Allen quarterback sneaks and he doesn't lose his

908
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: footing and go down, if they push that ball into

909
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: the end zone and score, Bills win that game thirty

910
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: eight to thirty four, and none of this comes up.

911
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: None of it. So you think about what we're talking

912
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: about here. You know, for me, if I was going

913
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: to fill in the blank of this, the Bills, it's

914
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: coming out of the by The Bills need to just

915
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: keep on keeping on there. They don't need to panic

916
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: or adjust anything. They just need to keep getting better.

917
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: And they are. They've gotten better every week. Now. It

918
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: didn't show up in a way that you could tangibly

919
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: see it on the scoreboard this last week. But they're

920
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: a good football team. So I'm I'm I'm not down

921
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: on them because they lost this last game, I guess

922
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,359
Speaker 1: is mostly what I'm saying. Yeah, if you boil it down,

923
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm not down on them at all. Certainly I'm disappointing

924
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: the outcome, but you can have times when you play

925
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: good teams where the game is close and it doesn't

926
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: go your way, right and and you know, I know

927
00:48:55,160 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: I was pretty pointed in my assessment of what I

928
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: took out of that game, which was that they can

929
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: beat at the line of scrimmage on both sides of

930
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: the ball. That's not to say they can't come out

931
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: the next week and win at the line of scrimmage

932
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And to be honest,

933
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: I don't expect them to win on both sides of

934
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: the ball at the line of scrimmage every single time out.

935
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: This league is too competitive for just about any team

936
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: to be able to do that on a week by

937
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: week by week by week basis and dominate their opponent.

938
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen in this league anymore. So at

939
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: the same time, it is something they're looking at, and

940
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,479
Speaker 1: I think they should. So Hopefully the extra time off

941
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: and time for the coaching staff to self scout, assess,

942
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: and then implement solutions, I think we'll leave the team

943
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: in a better place. I think their adjustments and their

944
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: evaluation is going to be very different than ours, yours

945
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: and mine and fans and lords. They've got specific things

946
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be wide ranging, deep, far

947
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: reaching foundational adjustments. These are going to be you know,

948
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: these are going to be fixing paint chips, you know.

949
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: I mean, this is we're not talking about that they

950
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: got they got a dented quarter panel on their car.

951
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: You know, this is, this is cleaning the windshield, you know, adjustments.

952
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: And I think they've got enough talent, they got enough guys,

953
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 1: and they got the right things going on, and they're

954
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna play better. They didn't play badly

955
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. They played well. But Tennessee is a good

956
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: football team and they can match the Bills blow for

957
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: blow when they get into a prize fight like that.

958
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: So you know you got a chance. You know, the

959
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: Bills had the ball last, had a chance to win it,

960
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: and that's what you ask for, and you know, couldn't

961
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: get it done, just didn't get it done. And those

962
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: are the kind of plays, those crucial plays are the

963
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: ones that keep you know, teams that are maybe not

964
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: as good as yours in it. Yeah, any Tennessee made

965
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: a lot of those. They need a squeegee, not a

966
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: welding torch, that's what they need to That's a good

967
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: point right there. All right, we have to take a break,

968
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: but coming up next is the Hall of Famer himself,

969
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: One Thurman Thomas will be joining us as we get

970
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: his take on what the Bills could focus on during

971
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: the bye week to make them an even more efficient

972
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: team coming out of the bye as they get set

973
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: to take on the Dolphins after their week off on Halloween.

974
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: How about that. We'll talk to Thurman next here on

975
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,479
Speaker 1: One Bill's line presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's

976
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all over

977
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

978
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're

979
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: not even in the strato beere of normalcy. All right,

980
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: there we are. I'll re number two on a Wednesday,

981
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and please to be

982
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: joined now by Bill's Hall of famers Thurman Thomas, who

983
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,439
Speaker 1: joins us on the line here thurm hand join man.

984
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man, Hey, look, it is great to

985
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: finally have Tasker back in this place right there. And

986
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I mean hell, even with the Bills

987
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: losing on Monday night, the Sabers are three and oh

988
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: so I'm happy. Yeah, I'm kind of with you. We

989
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: talked about that at the top of the show. I was,

990
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: I was at the game last night. It was fun. Man,

991
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: m Yeah, so I'm I'm all about it with you.

992
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm I'm back on the train for the Saves. I

993
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: what Monday night though, we were watching the game and

994
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 1: and I yeah, it was tough to watch the Bills

995
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: lose like that, but man, oh, man going down there

996
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: and playing like they did their often scored thirty one

997
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: points again, thirty points again. They seem to be humming.

998
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: But you know people, you know, whenever you lose a game,

999
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: people tend to overreact, like you gotta change a lot

1000
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: of things. What do you think the Bills need to

1001
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: do coming out of the buy if anything major or what?

1002
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: You know what tweaks? Are you looking at them and say, Okay,

1003
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: do a little better here, do better there? What are

1004
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: your thoughts? Well? I think really the only thing that

1005
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: I would say would be to run to football a

1006
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: little bit better than what they've done. I think I

1007
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: think in the two losses that we've had, they haven't

1008
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: been able to run the football. Four guys have been

1009
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: up there on the line of scrimmage, you know, ten

1010
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: off on our quarterback in the offensive lineman. So I

1011
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: don't think they really need to change that much at all.

1012
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: And I think this is a damn good football team.

1013
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: I still think it's one of the top five six

1014
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: teams in the National Football League. And I can say that,

1015
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: you know what, we're they're on the right track now

1016
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: because Marve Levy always used to say, you know what,

1017
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: when your division first, and I think they're going to

1018
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: do that. But I really don't think the team needs

1019
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,919
Speaker 1: to do anything different besides run the football a little

1020
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: bit better. So how is that manufactured? Therm? Because it's

1021
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: funny you said that because I wrote down run game dependability.

1022
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be something that they can depend

1023
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: on more often. How do you quantify running the ball better?

1024
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: Are you just saying just be more productive at it,

1025
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: more yards per carrying, no matter what defense you're facing

1026
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: every week, or how do you how do you envision that.

1027
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying be more effective at running football and

1028
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: not really relying on Josh altitude, you know, to do that.

1029
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: You know, I know Josh is a great athlete and

1030
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: he does well with the skill set ability, but you

1031
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: know what having that running back behind you and having

1032
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,399
Speaker 1: that offensive line nor that they need to get one

1033
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: yard instead of doing the quarterback sneak and all of

1034
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, obviously something happened with Josh foot and slipped.

1035
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: But I just think having that ability to run the

1036
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,280
Speaker 1: football anytime, it doesn't have to be thirty forty times

1037
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: a game. But I think you have to be concerned

1038
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: with a running game. I think you know what I

1039
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,959
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, who would be a guy that would

1040
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 1: be perfect in this offense right now? And the first

1041
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: thing that came up to mind was with Sean McClay.

1042
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,399
Speaker 1: I mean, imagine him in this offense right now. I

1043
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: think you still have that element of man the run

1044
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: game is thereybody. You also have the element of him

1045
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield and catching balls on a

1046
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: linebacker and doing this thing. One of the things about

1047
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 1: that game on Monday Night also was the fact that

1048
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: Bills went two of five in the red zone when

1049
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: they get down close. They've got more red zone opportunities

1050
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: than anybody in the league. They got twenty nine of

1051
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: them over six games, more than anybody in the league.

1052
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: But they're only they're down the lower third of the

1053
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: league inefficiency of protectdown. They're like twenty six in the

1054
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: league getting touchdown. Now, they're getting down there a ton,

1055
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: and they're scoring more points than anybody, but they're having

1056
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: a hard time punching it in. Last year, their red

1057
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: zone offense was really good. What do you think the

1058
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: difference is this year year as opposed to last year

1059
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: when it seems like they were a little bit more efficient. Well,

1060
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: that's a good question, Steve, And to be honest with you,

1061
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: I really don't have an answer for that. I don't

1062
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: know what has changed from last year to this year obviously,

1063
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: I mean we still got the same players. I mean,

1064
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: with Sanders being that different person that we have on offense.

1065
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: I really can't tell you a pinpoint, you know what

1066
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: has been the downfall of the Bills this year getting

1067
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. But I do still think

1068
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: when you talk about that, I mean, what have we

1069
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: done down in the red zone? I mean, how is

1070
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: it run the pass down in the red zone? And

1071
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: we've been passing more than we did last year, that

1072
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: we run it more last year, I think you have

1073
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: to look at those numbers and try to figure out,

1074
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: you know what has been difficult for the Bills down

1075
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: in the red zone this year compared to compared to

1076
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, there was something else that happened in

1077
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: that game, Firm, And then I want to get your

1078
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: take on because it seemed me a little bit when

1079
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: they decided on the punt return to try to run

1080
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: a little home run throwback garbage. Um, I don't know,

1081
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: it ticked me off a little bit. I mean, I'm

1082
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 1: glad it didn't work. It was ironic that it was

1083
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: a forward pass, uh that negated it? What was what

1084
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: was your initial reaction when you saw it unfolding? Really, Um,

1085
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: I can't say it on air, but it has to

1086
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: do with Mike Brable being their head coach. Yeah, and

1087
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: I think I'll probably just leave it at that. I mean, look,

1088
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know where he came from, the Patriots,

1089
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: So I'll just leave it at that. But yeah, and

1090
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: you know you were kind of maybe hoping that the

1091
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: announcers would say something, wouldn't say something about it, but

1092
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: eventually did. I mean when you when we played in

1093
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, it's always gonna be brought up right, just

1094
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: like when the comeback with the Hugh to Orleans is

1095
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: always going to be brought up right. To have a

1096
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: guy like that head coach, you know, try to really

1097
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, sticking to us like that. Um. Yeah, Well,

1098
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: I hope the Bill's staff and players remember that if

1099
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: we meet again. Did get a little bit of it

1100
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: back when they ran the Philly Special against on the

1101
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: two point version where they were Dawson. Yeah, and I

1102
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: think that's that's um, just as I mean that was

1103
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: later in the game. But it was kind of the

1104
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: exact same thing, right, I mean, it was it was

1105
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: it was you know, tit for tat right there. And

1106
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: interesting too because I know this After that play, they

1107
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: showed Vrabel on the broadcast and he was not a

1108
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: happy camper um, which which kind of gave Bills fans

1109
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: a little you know, get warmed their hearts a little bit,

1110
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: right right this, Uh, what do you think about you

1111
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:55,919
Speaker 1: know the fact that there's a lot has been said

1112
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: about it because we're and I'm starting to see it.

1113
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: I was wondering why we had these sky judges up

1114
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: in the box these days, and I've heard a lot

1115
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: of people talking show up in the Bulldog we're talking

1116
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: about this, and I was thinking about it myself. We

1117
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: had the conversation briefly here on our show on Tuesday

1118
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: about it, where you know, when Josh Allen jumps over

1119
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: tries to get the third down and he doesn't make it,

1120
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: it brings up this fourth and short at the end

1121
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: of the game where he slips and falls. Right before that,

1122
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: they're doing this with the sky judge. The sky judge

1123
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: is chiming in and we never know. We're here about it,

1124
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: and I think That's the thing that people are finding

1125
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: strange about the new sky judge up in the booth

1126
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: is that they are affecting and aiding the officials and

1127
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: their calls and their spots. It happened a couple of

1128
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: times in the Bills game on this third down try

1129
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: that that Josh Allen jumped in and almost got but

1130
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: didn't quite get, and then it ends up being the

1131
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: fourth down quarterback sneak that the Bills do not convert.

1132
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: Earlier in the game, the exact same thing happened on

1133
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: a different kind of play. It was on the Micah

1134
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: hide pass. Interfer arrants doink off the top of his

1135
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: helmet because Julio Jones sees the ball bang off hides helmet.

1136
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: He tracks the football and catches it in bounds, but

1137
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: the official marked it incomplete out of bounds. The sky

1138
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: judge caught it, corrected them. We never heard anything about it.

1139
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: So instead of the official this walking back to the

1140
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,439
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, they spotted as a completed pass, even

1141
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 1: after it's obvious completely that the official waves it off.

1142
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: He says he was out of bounds. They walked back.

1143
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna get pass interference. There's another penalty. There's like

1144
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: three penalties on this play. They all go away because

1145
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: Julio Jones tracks this ball and drags his foot and

1146
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: that's the right call. It was a completed pass, but

1147
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: nobody knew that it was the sky judge that corrected

1148
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: all of it before any of this happened. And I'm

1149
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: surprised this hasn't dawned on me before. I'm glad they're

1150
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: doing it, I guess, because they are getting it pretty right.

1151
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, it's weird to watch. It is weird.

1152
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: It is weird. And from that whole entire explanation that

1153
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: you just gave, I have no idea what's going on,

1154
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 1: no idea what you think it's bad? Now try watching

1155
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: some baseball right now and these ups in the strike zone.

1156
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: So anyway or another different stufject. Yeah, I can't tell

1157
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: you anything about that, Steve, I you know, first have

1158
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: I heard about it? You know? Unfortunately, you know, we

1159
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: were at a place where we really couldn't hear what's

1160
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: going on with Chris Collin's worth, El Michael, So I

1161
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with that. So you know

1162
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: a lot more better than I do. Yeah, I think

1163
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: you know and coach McDermott actually addressed this in his

1164
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: comments yesterday with the media. He was asked for his

1165
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: thoughts about, you know, the third down play down near

1166
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: the goal line when Josh was initially signaled as a

1167
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: first down and then they said no, it's not a

1168
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: first down, and coach McDermott just wont an explanation, even

1169
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: talked to them after the game to ask how that

1170
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: was how it was reached, you know, the final decision,

1171
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: and the head official, Clip Blakeman, did confirm to him, yes,

1172
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: New York call down said he was short of the

1173
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: line to gain with the football, and that's how it

1174
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: was adjudicated. Coach was fine with it. Even Josh after

1175
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: the game said, in his opinion, they probably got it

1176
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: right in terms of the spot of the football bringing

1177
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: up fourth down after that, and I think coach and

1178
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: any other coach said, you know, even though it didn't

1179
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: go in our favor, if they get it right, I

1180
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: can live with that. And even though you might not

1181
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: like the outcome of the call, it looks like, at

1182
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: least on the surface in the early going here that

1183
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: the sky judge is helping, which I guess is the

1184
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: end game. When it all comes out in the wash, right, Yeah,

1185
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: I think so, I think, you know, I mean, it's NFL.

1186
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: They're going to have different technology, they're going to do

1187
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: different things, and unless you don't know the rule books

1188
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: or you don't know the changes that they've made, you're

1189
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: not going to know any of it, you know. So,

1190
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 1: But I think coach McDermott has been an outstanding coach

1191
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: of years since he's been here, and he's always taking

1192
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: the correct path to do things, to find out information

1193
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: on what officials are thinking and and how a play

1194
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: turned out. So I think you can only be happy

1195
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: with what's going on in the National Football League. Obviously

1196
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: we're not watching every single game, and I'm sure there's

1197
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: more of this going on in other games, but it

1198
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: just so happened that, you know, at this time, you

1199
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:39,439
Speaker 1: know what happened a couple of times in the Bills game.

1200
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: Right with the Bills coming into the bye week. We'll

1201
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: ask you what your plans are for the bye week

1202
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 1: in a minute. But they're coming out of the bye.

1203
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: They got Miami, Jacksonville and the Jets. Coming out of

1204
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: the bye there are four and two, which is exactly

1205
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: where they were a year ago. And except a year

1206
01:03:57,520 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: ago they were coming off a two game losing streak

1207
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, then Tennessee, or Tennessee than Kansas City.

1208
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,479
Speaker 1: Now they're coming off, you know, a loss, four wins

1209
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: and then another loss to Tennessee. What do you think

1210
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: about where they sit right now? They're trailing only the

1211
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens in the standings. Three division leaders have a

1212
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: buy this week. It's the LA Chargers, the Buffalo Bills,

1213
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys. There's six teams on the buy.

1214
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: There's not very many good games out there this week.

1215
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: But where do you think about the Bill season? How

1216
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: it sits? And you know, to me, obviously they've got

1217
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: everything in front of them still with the schedule coming

1218
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: up that they do. Yeah, I mean, I'm just looking

1219
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: at the schedule right there. I mean with the team

1220
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: that we've had, the teams that we're supposed to beat,

1221
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Jets, the Jaguar, and the Colts. You know,

1222
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking for them to do what they did in

1223
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: the after the Pittsburgh game, run off a couple of

1224
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: big threes, pick some shutouts, get back to being dominant.

1225
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: I guess teams that there's that they should be. And

1226
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: those four teams right there, three teams all the Dolphins, Jaguars,

1227
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: and Jets and even the Coats. You know, I think

1228
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 1: personally they should win those games very easily. But obviously

1229
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: in the National Football League things don't go that way.

1230
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm sure glad that the Jacksonville

1231
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 1: Jaguars got that perch went off under their belt, because

1232
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: you don't want to go in Yeah, you don't want

1233
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: to go in there. You know, another away game that

1234
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: can turn out to be disastrous. And Steve, you've been

1235
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: in that situation before where we were heavy favored and

1236
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: it's a dog fight or were the loss, or we

1237
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: end up squeaking out of victory. So you know, I

1238
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: expect them to come out blazing fire man, to get

1239
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: back on track to at least keep up with the

1240
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, because it looks like they're going to be

1241
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: one of the top teams in the FC, the National

1242
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: Football League, and so yeah, hey, I'm looking forward to

1243
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: all those games. But you know another stepping stone is,

1244
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, the Thanksgiving games against the Saints. I mean,

1245
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: if you look at the schedule and look at the

1246
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: teams we played, it should be victories all the way

1247
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: up until that Thanks game, and then we'll see where

1248
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: we're at. Right, As you mentioned, easier said than done.

1249
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: But we know coach mcdermoll is a good guy at

1250
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: course correcting his team when they come up short in

1251
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 1: a game. Because the last time they lost two in

1252
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: a row was last year in that Tennessee Kansas City

1253
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: back to back lost weeks. You know at this time

1254
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: last year, they don't lose too many in a row

1255
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: under him. No, I want to ask you, though, you know,

1256
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: being the hyper competitive guy that you were as a player,

1257
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: when you have a loss like that, what does it

1258
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: do to your mental psyche in terms of, you know,

1259
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: redirecting yourself to the next one, especially when you have

1260
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: to sit on it during a bye week. What are

1261
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: the challenges there to kind of mentally refocus yourself when

1262
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: there's some time in between the last loss and the

1263
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 1: next game. Yeah, I mean, I think if you know,

1264
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: if we're in that situation and we have a tough

1265
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: loss like that, and didn't we have the bikey week

1266
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: coming up? You know what? You know you don't want

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Speaker 1: the bid week. You want to play the following with

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Speaker 1: r and now you have now you have at least

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Speaker 1: what ten days to worry about it, And the only

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Speaker 1: thing that I worry about is that how many points

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Speaker 1: they might put up on the Miami Dolphin. That's the

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Speaker 1: way I would look at it, because I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: through the entire week. You're gonna watch games on television.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna watch what's going on around the league, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna mention, you know, you know the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and who are the top teams in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, And they're gonna say, well, the Bills

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Speaker 1: lost to the Steelers and the Titans, two physical football teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, how are they're going to react to this?

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Speaker 1: And you listen to all that and you come out,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Miami is the next team on the

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Speaker 1: list that you have to play. You do all the

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Speaker 1: things that you have to do as a football player

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01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: to maybe fast forward a lot of things so you

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Speaker 1: won't have to do them later in the year. But hey,

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Speaker 1: you get back to you know, working out, you get

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Speaker 1: back to going over to the stadium, you get back

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01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: over to watching film. You know, as a player, For me,

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01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: I got over very quickly and wasn't a time a

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Speaker 1: lot of times where you know, we were going into

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Speaker 1: the bye week, but any loss, especially the way that

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Speaker 1: they lost like that, Yeah, you're ready to get back

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Speaker 1: on the football field. Yeah. I think also, to think

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Speaker 1: about it, if the Bills would have beaten the Tennessee

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01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 1: Titans going in after you know, stumbling out of the

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Speaker 1: out of the gate, running off five straight victories and

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01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: getting a week off, complacency goes out the window. Now

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01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: you're like, now you're yeah, you gotta work. You feel

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Speaker 1: like you got something to do over the bye week.

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Speaker 1: You can't just you can't just wait for the season

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Speaker 1: to start again. You got work to do. And I

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01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: think that might be a better place to be than

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01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,560
Speaker 1: have run off, you know, five straight victories with a

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Speaker 1: couple of shutouts, scoring forty points on everybody. This may

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01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: be better going forward for the Bills in a bye week,

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01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 1: to make them more productive than skating to a win

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Speaker 1: against a really good team, right exactly. Yeah, you know what,

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01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: we have some injuries that we gotta worry about, you know,

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01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: so a chance to heal up, a chance for Dabo

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Speaker 1: to go back out and make up some plays and

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Speaker 1: do some more things that he wants to do, you know,

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01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 1: I guess our next opponent to Miami Dolphins and look

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01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: at that game film and and go from there. You

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01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: know what, these guys are professionals and uh and like,

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Speaker 1: like we've said on this show tons of times that

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott is not is going to have this team

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: prepared no matter what the situation may be. And I

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 1: think the players understand that. The organiza Hell, I'm a

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01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: former player, and I understand that because I've looked at

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Speaker 1: his body of work over the past four or five years,

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Speaker 1: and that's what he does. He gets our players ready

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01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:35,879
Speaker 1: to go. They're always out there, able to win football

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Speaker 1: games and doing the right thing. So I don't even

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Speaker 1: worry about that because I know coach McDermot would have

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01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 1: those guys you ready. Let me Let me ask you

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Speaker 1: about Davil a little bit more here, though, Thuram, because

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Speaker 1: you you played with, you know, a really good offensive

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01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 1: coordinator and Ted Marcha Broda. But he was smart enough

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01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 1: to realize the high end talent he had at his disposal.

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01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 1: So to my knowledge, the K Gun wasn't about variety

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01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: and complex city. It was about taking advantage of the

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Speaker 1: skill sets of all the elite players that he had

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Speaker 1: at his disposal. It seems like day Ball doesn't mind

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Speaker 1: getting creative. There's a lot of window dressing. I know. Um,

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01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: but I hear players talking about him putting in a

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: new play on Friday Saturday night meeting. He's sticking something

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Speaker 1: else in. Um, what can you say about his creativity.

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01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: He certainly has a lot of faith in his players

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01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,600
Speaker 1: if he's putting a new play in on Saturday at

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01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:33,800
Speaker 1: a meeting the night before the game, right, I absolutely

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01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: love it. I mean, I mean the screenplay that we

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01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 1: put in in the MC championship game against the Dolphins,

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01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 1: that was on Friday or saturady, we didn't put that in.

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Speaker 1: So I love what he's doing. He's he's being creative

1345
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously with Dawson not coming back to

1346
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: you know, he was going to have a play for

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01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: I think that's the way that this guy is. And

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01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 1: he's done a great job with this offense, and he

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: continue used to be creative. I know he's watching a

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01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: lot of film and try to get able to be

1351
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,599
Speaker 1: able to get guys open and get guys of football.

1352
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: And when you have a lot of weapons like this man,

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01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 1: it is fun to enjoy it. And I think he's

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01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: enjoyed now just trying to be a little bit more

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01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: creative than he have in the past couple of years.

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01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: But the athletes that he has now on the offensive

1357
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: side of the ball, it's excited to see. I mean,

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01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: it's I just keep doing it. I would say, just

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01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: keep doing it, man, because like you said, it's not

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01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,679
Speaker 1: on film, and once you get it on film, everybody

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01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,600
Speaker 1: will look for. But love the creativity by David the

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Speaker 1: term last one for me. Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this. You said earlier when we

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Speaker 1: started that he thought the Bills needed to run the

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01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,519
Speaker 1: ball better, maybe not more, but at least better and

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01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: be more efficient in the running game, and just do

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01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: better in the run game would help everything else in

1368
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 1: their office. Give us your evaluation the two running back

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01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: Zach Moss and Devin Singletary. Where how do you think

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01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: those guys are playing? Were they at in their career? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they're playing right where they need to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was. I would think I would hope

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:04,799
Speaker 1: that Devin Singletary would have a little bit more carriage

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Speaker 1: this year. But there I don't know what their percentage

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01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: are out there on the football field. You know, is

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01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: it fifty fifty, is in fifty five forty five? I

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01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: have no idea, but it seems like to me in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks that Zack Mars has been

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of the a lot of the touches

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01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: and a lot of the a lot of the running

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01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,720
Speaker 1: game and passing game. I knew he would had to

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01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: be in there against Tennessee because they were doing a

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01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,560
Speaker 1: lot of blitzing. I know Singletary probably can't do it,

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 1: but when you have a bigger, stronger, more stocker guy,

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01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: you know, like Zack Moss in there and picking up

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01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: blitz so you would want him to be in there.

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Speaker 1: I think it's you know, you're going with two running

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01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,640
Speaker 1: backs obviously in this offense, but I think they can

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01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,519
Speaker 1: I think personally, I think they can be a little

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01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,600
Speaker 1: bit more productive. I really do. I would love to

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01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: see Devin Singletary in the passing game a little bit more.

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01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:56,800
Speaker 1: I know he's had some trouble catching the ball over

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, but I just see, you know,

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01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: getting him in the flat instead of just swinging him

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01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 1: out on swing routs and things like that, so you know,

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01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: maybe catch it all. Hitch every now and then downfield. Obviously,

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: Zach is probably the more accomplish a route runner and

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01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: catcher coming out of the backfield, but being coming from

1399
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: Utah who probably threw the ball fifty sixty times a game.

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01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: So I like where these guys are at. But I

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01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:24,520
Speaker 1: think I need to see a little bit more productive

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01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: productivity out of these two guys going forward, just to

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01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: take some pressure off with Josh. Yeah, I would agree

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01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: with that, all right, Thurn listen, thanks very much for

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01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,519
Speaker 1: the time. Enjoy your bye weekend. I'm sure you gonna

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01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 1: be watching other football anyway. What's gonna change there, But

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01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: thanks for the time. We appreciate We'll catch up with

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01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: you soon. Man, good to see you all right. Appreciate it. Guys.

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01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 1: All right, that's their Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas joining

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Speaker 1: us here on the show. There are two notes to

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Speaker 1: pass along from the league. Two veteran players that were

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01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: released by the Houston Texans this week. Pass rusher Whitney

1413
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: Merciless and former Bills return man Andre Roberts, who's with

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01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: the Texans, both were released by that club this week.

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01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 1: Both have found new teams. Whitney Merciless is signing with

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01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers that according to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler,

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01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: he apparently turned down more money elsewhere to join Green

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01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: Bay's defense, So he's obviously bullish on where the Packers

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01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 1: are going in the NFC this year and the team

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01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 1: that's going to sign return man Andre Roberts. The LA

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01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: Charger Steve signing Andre Roberts, probably presumably to serve as

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01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 1: their primary in their special teams unit has been a

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01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: little bit messy here out of the gate out there

1424
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:40,799
Speaker 1: in LA. Their kicker Tristan Viscayano has had multiple kicking issues,

1425
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,679
Speaker 1: their coverage units haven't been great, and their drive starts

1426
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,640
Speaker 1: have not been great. So no surprise to see them

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01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: go scoop up Andre Roberts, Bills fans. No, Andre Roberts

1428
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 1: is a really good return man, and I've said it

1429
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: here at a thousand times. The reason he's so good

1430
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: is because of his elite decision making. Certainly he's got

1431
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: some athletic ability, but he catches the ball rarely doesn't

1432
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 1: turn it over, and he gets every yard he should get.

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01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: He just maximizes the field position for your club in

1434
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: those situations, and that's what you gotta eat most most importantly,

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01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: every time he's out there, you end the play with

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01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, I remember in his entired stint

1437
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, I remember one in a game that

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01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: the Bills won by twenty eight points. He had one

1439
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: turnover in that game. And that's the only in turnover

1440
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: you ever think about, or that I can ever even remember.

1441
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 1: So you end the ball in the play with the

1442
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: ball in your possessions, and you maximize your field position

1443
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: with him. It's an easy decision for a team. Good

1444
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: ad for the Chargers in the AFC West Race. We'll

1445
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: see if it pays dividends for them going forward. Break

1446
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: time for us here when Steve and I come back,

1447
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: we'll get some of your final thoughts on the tweet sheet.

1448
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: As we are asking you coming out of the bye week,

1449
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: the Bills must blank. Let us know what you think

1450
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: at One Bills Live to get on the tweet sheet.

1451
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: We're back with those comments next here on One Bills Live,

1452
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1453
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: we're back here on One Bill's Live. Chris Browns, do

1454
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: you cast you with you on a Wednesday? We want

1455
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: to get back to your thoughts on the tweet sheet

1456
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: where we have been asking you to fill in the

1457
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: blank coming out of the bye week, the bills must

1458
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: be blank, and Jack on the tweet sheet says, evaluate

1459
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: the lines. Morse and the Guards have mostly not been

1460
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: able to open holes for the running game and have

1461
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 1: struggled with better power rushers. Not sure how they fix

1462
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 1: this with what's on the roster, but time to look

1463
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: on D. Starr has helped the run D but maybe

1464
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 1: time for Addison to sit. That's from Jack, JT says,

1465
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: squish the fish. Josh is their daddy. Plus, I know

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01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 1: the bills after losing by an inch, that's going to

1467
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: fuel this team having to wait two weeks. Also, we

1468
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 1: have to convert field goals into touchdowns. Stop settling for three.

1469
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: Need to beat other teams off the line on both sides.

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01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: Salmon arm, here we come. JT is obviously a regular

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01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: listener this, yes, and we appreciate salmon arms. I think

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: we have to come up with a caricature for salmon arms,

1473
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: make him a logo for that for the show. Should

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: be part of the show. I'm gonna start laughing again

1475
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: about a lot of this goes to I don't think

1476
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: they need to don't go so far as to start

1477
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: plugging people out in I mean, they made a lot

1478
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:35,640
Speaker 1: of people raise the robber. I was including you and

1479
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,679
Speaker 1: I about how the fact that they had three defensive

1480
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: linemen out of the rotation on Monday night. We were

1481
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: both surprised by that. Epanessa chiefly right, and usually there's

1482
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: two guys that are at least inactive, and I've seen

1483
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: it and it's been rotating throughout the year. Although Harrison

1484
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: Phillips I think was a little bit of a surprise

1485
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: to be in there. But he's a tackle with a

1486
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 1: big body who you think, Okay, Derrick Henry sense, Yeah,

1487
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,560
Speaker 1: it made sense. M A. Japanezza was the one that

1488
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: we thought, wow with a pass rush, and he's been

1489
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: having a good year. Maybe that was something that I

1490
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: thought I would like to know why. Yeah, but they

1491
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 1: just but Chan mcderma just said, listen, that's we wanted

1492
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: to have some guys we want to look at, and

1493
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: that means not just guys, but also combinations of guys

1494
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 1: in the pass rush and in the run game. It's

1495
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: not just about getting one more guy out there. They

1496
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 1: wanted to see if he could play. They know who

1497
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 1: these guys are, but they don't know who these guys

1498
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 1: are in different mixes in that line. We all know

1499
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: they spend all their time churning those guys through. They've

1500
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: nobody's played more than fifty percent of the snaps, nobody's

1501
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: played less than thirty eight or something like that, So

1502
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: they don't know what it looks like when they mix

1503
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 1: them up certain ways, and they want to find out.

1504
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: And I think that had a little bit to do

1505
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: with it. At least Jay add on the tweet sheet says,

1506
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 1: come out pod and motivated like they did after the

1507
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: bye last year. Can't settle for field goals against good teams.

1508
01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: Let this last fuel than the rest of the season.

1509
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of fans are on that train, Steve,

1510
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: after witnessing what they did last year. The Bills lose

1511
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: at Arizona on a hail Mary pass at the end

1512
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: of the football game, drop a thirty two thirty decision

1513
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,639
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, going to the bye with a gut

1514
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 1: wrenching defeat, and they come out of the bye and

1515
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: they are on a tear. They win their last six

1516
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: regular season games, and in most of those games they

1517
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: win by a wide margin. I mean they just started

1518
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: beating people down. Yeah, I mean it wasn't even a

1519
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: game for most of those six games. It was. It

1520
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: was really amazing last year the way they came out

1521
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: of the bye week, and there's no question it was

1522
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: all it was. It's a different season and they're a

1523
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:45,559
Speaker 1: different team now. But I'll say this, they came out

1524
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: after the bye last year and scored twenty seven, thirty four,

1525
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: twenty six, forty eight, thirty eight, fifty six. I mean

1526
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: they finished that last three games of the season, the

1527
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: last month forty eight, thirty eight and fifty six. That's

1528
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: on top of a thirty four point effort against San Francisco. Yeah,

1529
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:06,640
Speaker 1: they came out with a vengeance last year in the

1530
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: second half of the last third of that season, second

1531
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 1: half of that season, and we'll see if they can

1532
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: do it again. They scored forty four and thirty against

1533
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:18,680
Speaker 1: Seattle and Arizona respectively, and that Arizona was a loss. Yeah,

1534
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: before they even got through the buy, so that was

1535
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: just before the buy. So they were lighting it up,

1536
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 1: but they didn't do it really until you know, the

1537
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,160
Speaker 1: last half of the season. They were scoring. They scored

1538
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: seventeen against Kansas City, eighteen against the Jets, twenty four

1539
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 1: against New England, sixteen against Tennessee. You know. I mean,

1540
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: so they weren't. And they had a nice stretch when

1541
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: they were four and oz thirty one against Miami, thirty

1542
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: five against the Rams, thirty against the Raiders, to go

1543
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:48,000
Speaker 1: four and oh after you know, beating the Jets twenty

1544
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 1: seven seventeen. But there was some stretches in there where

1545
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: they scored sixteen points, seventeen points, eighteen points, twenty four points.

1546
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: You know, they had a stretch in there in the

1547
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: middle of the first half of the season, at the

1548
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: end of the first half of the season where they

1549
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, they're good, but you know, they weren't

1550
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: the same team after that bye. They were humming. I mean,

1551
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,600
Speaker 1: they came out humming. We'll see if they can duplicate

1552
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: that this year. We know too, And I am still

1553
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: fully confident that they're going to be a much better

1554
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: football team a month from now. And I think they're

1555
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: a better football team now than they were a month ago. Well,

1556
01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 1: I think the biggest lesson they took out of the

1557
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:29,679
Speaker 1: Arizona game last year was don't put yourself into position

1558
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: where one play can lose you the football game, right,

1559
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: And the response was, we're not just gonna win, We're

1560
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:40,760
Speaker 1: going to obliterate anyone that is in our path. So

1561
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:43,599
Speaker 1: when we get to, you know, the last four minutes

1562
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 1: of the game, there's not even a question that the

1563
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: thing is in doubt. And as you've often said, they

1564
01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 1: lump people up and Monday night, they got in a

1565
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: place where, you know, it's a one score game at

1566
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: the end, and they have they're facing an offense that

1567
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 1: they can't stop. That's a problem. I think the lesson

1568
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: once again is don't put yourself in a position in

1569
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: a game where you leave yourself in a place where

1570
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 1: you are in a must score situation and not just

1571
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 1: put points on the board to tie. You need a

1572
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: touchdown to win at the end of the game, and

1573
01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: you have to have a play to extend a drive

1574
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: and get in the end zone with time running out

1575
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 1: and at one time out at your disposal. It's not

1576
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: an advantageous situation. So I think the lesson again was

1577
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: reiterated this week, much like it was in Week ten

1578
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 1: last year. Do not put yourself into position where the

1579
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: game is hanging in the balance at the end because

1580
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: you didn't do enough through the course of the first

1581
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: three and a half quarters. So we'll see how well

1582
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: that message is received again this time around. Yeah, And

1583
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that everything happens the same way every year,

1584
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: but certainly it's something that this is a team that's

1585
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: had experience with this. And I'll say this, it has

1586
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: been a steady progression throughout the Sean McDermott regime and

1587
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: through this is what is fifth year of doing this,

1588
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: fourth year, fifth year, fifth season coach. They have made

1589
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: progressive steps both in the coaching staff and on the

1590
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: field about lessons learned. And I think this is another

1591
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: instance where we're gonna get a chance to see perhaps

1592
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: that this is a lesson they've learned and can take

1593
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 1: it to the bank, even though this may be a

1594
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 1: lesson from a year ago. When you get reminded of

1595
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: it the way they did on Monday night, I think

1596
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: they go back and say, hey, wait a minute, and

1597
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: maybe we'll see a resurgence of this offense and this defense,

1598
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: although you know the defense already playing lights out. Yeah,

1599
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: And I think you can argue in a lot of

1600
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: their most recent losses four last year in the regular season,

1601
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 1: one in the postseason last year to this season. A

1602
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,720
Speaker 1: lot of it has been their inability to play at

1603
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: their level best. I know you've made that argument often

1604
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 1: this team is good enough to go a long way,

1605
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: maybe all the way, and where we've seen them stub

1606
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 1: their toe more often than not is when they have

1607
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:17,000
Speaker 1: not played at their optimum level of execution. When they

1608
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: do that, really aren't too many teams they're going to

1609
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: beat this team. And so the bottom line here is

1610
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: it again comes back to their consistency of play, making

1611
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: the right decisions in critical moments and then coming through

1612
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: on those decisions with airtight execution. Now that's not to

1613
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,799
Speaker 1: say they deserve all the blame when they cannot operate

1614
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: at peak efficiency. Sometimes it's because that other team's pretty

1615
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 1: darn good and they keep you from operating at peak efficiency.

1616
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 1: But I think on the whole, this team genuinely believes

1617
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: that it's more about them taking care of their stuff

1618
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: than it is about the opponent, because if they do,

1619
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: they're usually better than the opponent. Yeah, it hasn't always

1620
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: been that way here in Buffalo. I mean, before the

1621
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott eras began, it was always about guys. I

1622
01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 1: hope we match up with these guys and we can

1623
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: take a certain guy out of the field, off the

1624
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, off the scoreboard for them, or we got

1625
01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: to do this. And you know, it was never as

1626
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,320
Speaker 1: much about the Bills as it was about what how

1627
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: good the other team was going to play. That's not

1628
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: the case anymore in Buffalo. If the Bills play their best,

1629
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna win and that and that's the confidence that

1630
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: this club has, I think at this point, and I

1631
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: think other teams kind of feel like that as well.

1632
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: Now they may feel it, you know, a team like

1633
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: Tennessee probably felt like, if we play our game, we're

1634
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 1: gonna beat that team as well. But that's the level

1635
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Bills. It's about them and about

1636
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: executing and doing things right. Um, they've got the guns

1637
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: to do it, and we'll see if if they can

1638
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: get back on track now. And despite having lost last

1639
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: Monday night, it's not like they're really off track to

1640
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 1: begin with. I mean, they got a lot of things

1641
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: doing and they're doing a lot of things well right now.

1642
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 1: They got to remember that as they prepare for them

1643
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 1: Dolphins as well, which may make the simplest answer to

1644
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: who are filling the plank today. Coming out of the bye,

1645
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 1: the Bills must play their best because when they play

1646
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: their best, they're pretty much unbeatable. I mean, they really are.

1647
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,679
Speaker 1: And I understand there are different versions of what playing

1648
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 1: at their best is because the game plans are different

1649
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 1: from week to week, because the opponents are different from

1650
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 1: week to week. I'm not expecting the Bills to come

1651
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: out with the same exact game plan they had in

1652
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:32,120
Speaker 1: Week two for the Dolphins a week from Sunday. They

1653
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: got to change it up. They know that, but that

1654
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that because the plan is different, you don't

1655
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: strive to play at your best every week, and I

1656
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 1: know they are doing that. Every team will time out,

1657
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 1: but sometimes they are extenuating circumstances to keep you from

1658
01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: doing that. Right. So yeah, hopefully coming out of the

1659
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: bye they're humming along and they rip off another long

1660
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: winning streak, much like they did last year. Break time

1661
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 1: for Steve and I. When we come back, we're going

1662
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 1: to survey the week seven landscape. There are some pretty

1663
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:02,960
Speaker 1: high flying offensive teams that are sitting this week out,

1664
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:06,639
Speaker 1: including the Bills. What's the most attractive matchup out there?

1665
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: Steve and I will survey the week seven schedule and

1666
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 1: let you know what we think is a game you

1667
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 1: should try to catch in some way, shape or form.

1668
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,120
Speaker 1: Next here on one Bill's Live, presented by Collide Health,

1669
01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, Steve quickly on this Wednesday,

1670
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: give me the three most intriguing matchups in Week seven. Here,

1671
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 1: NFL schedule the three for you. I will say this,

1672
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 1: I say Bengals at Ravens, good game. I will say

1673
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:47,800
Speaker 1: Jets at Patriots, Chiefs at Titans. I agree with two

1674
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 1: of your three. I do not agree with Jets Patriots,

1675
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: although you know if you're an AFC East team, you're

1676
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 1: going to be looking at them no when you're facing

1677
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 1: them in the near future. I think cold San fran

1678
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 1: is an interesting Sunday night game. I think Indie's starting

1679
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: to pick up some steam here. I think they're gonna

1680
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 1: be a tougher game than maybe San Francisco's bargaining four.

1681
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be a Rockham sock'em physical game,

1682
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 1: So that one appeals to me. But I agree Cincinnati Baltimore.

1683
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: How real is Cincinnati. We'll find out Chiefs Sunday at

1684
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: one pm, and we need that you're probably rooting for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs there. You need for the Tennessee to lose

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01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:21,640
Speaker 1: because you don't have the head to head on them

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01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: in the AFC conference race. You need them to take

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01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: it on the chin. Steve, you and I are getting

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01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of a buye as well. We will

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Speaker 1: not be on tomorrow or Friday. I believe Brayton Wilson

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Speaker 1: will be filling in for us between one and three,

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01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: So thanks to him for taking care of us on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Couple days. I've worked three days in a row, that's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've had a tough go of it here. You know,

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01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: you only had about a month off, so that was tough.

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01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 1: But tell them we can still hear us. That's right.

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01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:51,679
Speaker 1: So if you need your Steve tasker Chris Brown fix,

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Speaker 1: you can listen to episode two of our new podcast,

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Speaker 1: Bills Buy the Numbers, which is available on all of

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Speaker 1: your podcast platform streaming. It's also available on the Bills

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. You want to take a deep dive into

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01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: the red zone efficiency of the Bills, we did that

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01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:11,680
Speaker 1: on this week's episode. How good are the Bills in

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01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: bounce back games? Can Steve come up with answers on

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01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 1: passing yardage? Differential in numbers game, we'll see and we

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01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: ask our one burning question, so be sure to check

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Speaker 1: that out. Bills by the Numbers presented by Fan Duel.

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Speaker 1: It's our new podcast. The next episode drops later this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: so check out your podcast platform, put Bills by the

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Speaker 1: Numbers in your search window, and boom, there's Steve, there's me.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Monday. Monday